Monthly Archives: July 2008

Your mercies are new every morning

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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