It is a new day, and a glorious one at that. The sun is shining brightly from a soft blue sky. Yesterday, with all it’s joys and sorrows, has faded away. Today is as an unopened gift, an unwritten page. What will we make of it? It is easy to look back at Yesterday, see…
Archive | July, 2008
Tsunami and Theodicy
A well-thought-out piece on suffering in light of the many natural disasters recently occurring around the world: Tsunami and Theodicy by David Hart. Christians often find it hard to adopt the spiritual idiom of the New Testament — to think in terms, that is, of a cosmic struggle between good and evil, of Christ’s triumph…
Pizza and Tea Cups
Antique FireKing tea cups. Sourdough pizza (with olive oil and garden-fresh veggies). And the dearest of friends to sweeten the mix. Natalie came to visit our farm a few weeks ago. It was truly a delightful time with my sissy. Long talks, laughter, and some tears. True friendship is as precious as it is rare….
if at first you don’t succeed…
If at first you don’t succeed, eat a banana split. At least that was my motto Wednesday night. Merritt was going to be out late baling hay, and I knew I had to figure out what I’d done to the drop-down menus on ylcf.org. Misplaced javascript is worse than a misplaced modifier. God created the…
Man needs difficulties
Quotations from a treasure of a book I discovered… You know as well as I there’s more…there’s always one more scene no matter. – Archibald McLeish In the last resort it is highly improbably that there could ever be a therapy which gets rid of all difficulties. Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health….
A Reason for Writing – Part Two of Two
A few days later, with great embarrassment, I told my mom that I’d started writing entries for these online friends to read. She told me it was called blogging. I told her no, it couldn’t be blogging. Blogs were written by important people and were about current events or politics. This wasn’t a blog. Couldn’t…
broadening our horizons
Our culture doesn’t look upon a woman staying at home as “broadening her horizons.” But G.K. Chesterton does: Women were not kept at home in order to keep them narrow; on the contrary, they were kept at home in order to keep them broad. He explains that a homemaker is not expected to excel at…
A Reason for Writing – Part One of Two
When I was in second or third grade, my parents chose a penmanship curriculum called A Reason for Writing. It was supposed to be a great curriculum… combining the learning of good penmanship with a bit of fun and creativity. At the end of each week, I would pull one of the pre-decorated and lined…
