I'll See You Sunday...
I don't usually pontificate on religious matters here, but I have to speak up about Harold Camping and his followers. AGGGGGGGHHHH! Is it any wonder that skeptics, agnostics and atheists think Christians are idiots? How can any person who accepts the Bible as the Word of God have the intestines to claim he can predict what God Himself says we cannot know? Even the angels of Heaven could not know. So how can Harold Camping know?
Nowhere in the Bible does it say 'this is the hour, go and sell everything and wait for Me here'. No, it says watch and be ready - that means go about your life, but in everything you do ask yourself 'Is this what I'd want Jesus to find me doing?'
Bible lesson endeth.
I find it wonderfully apt, given the above, that my fellow Bean, Susan Wells Bennett, released her latest book this week. It's about a fourteen year old girl who grew up in a sheltered, strict environment so removed from the world that she has no idea what goes on beyond the gates of her property. Her parents have plans for her that would horrify people 'out there', and yet when she has a chance to explore 'out there', she find it just as horrifying. Her choices might make some people uncomfortable, but that's really the theme of the book - just what will we do to stay in our comfort zone? It's called Forsaking the Garden, and it's available in all the usual places, including inknbeans.com
I had intended to take new photographs of my various crochet projects, but I just haven't managed yet. I've got six or seven new ones crossed off the list, and very nearly finished with the project that I thought would take me the whole of the baseball season. Given the way the Dodgers are playing this year, it's probably a good thing the project's nearly complete. I'll try to have pictures up Monday. In the meanwhile, here are a couple of shots I got down at the lake Wednesday. I thought the plane sitting there, nesting on the water like a giant house finch, was cool. I mention house finches because we've a nest of them in our eaves, and the male (his bright red head glistening) has been preening on our garden fence.
That's me, I'm off. See you all next week.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say 'this is the hour, go and sell everything and wait for Me here'. No, it says watch and be ready - that means go about your life, but in everything you do ask yourself 'Is this what I'd want Jesus to find me doing?'
Bible lesson endeth.
I find it wonderfully apt, given the above, that my fellow Bean, Susan Wells Bennett, released her latest book this week. It's about a fourteen year old girl who grew up in a sheltered, strict environment so removed from the world that she has no idea what goes on beyond the gates of her property. Her parents have plans for her that would horrify people 'out there', and yet when she has a chance to explore 'out there', she find it just as horrifying. Her choices might make some people uncomfortable, but that's really the theme of the book - just what will we do to stay in our comfort zone? It's called Forsaking the Garden, and it's available in all the usual places, including inknbeans.com
I had intended to take new photographs of my various crochet projects, but I just haven't managed yet. I've got six or seven new ones crossed off the list, and very nearly finished with the project that I thought would take me the whole of the baseball season. Given the way the Dodgers are playing this year, it's probably a good thing the project's nearly complete. I'll try to have pictures up Monday. In the meanwhile, here are a couple of shots I got down at the lake Wednesday. I thought the plane sitting there, nesting on the water like a giant house finch, was cool. I mention house finches because we've a nest of them in our eaves, and the male (his bright red head glistening) has been preening on our garden fence.
That's me, I'm off. See you all next week.