Speaking in Tongues - a Prayer Unanswered, or a Gift Bestowed

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I have asked for the gift of tongues twice in my life. Once in high school, when our little Baptist youth group was teaching about it, and once in college.

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The other highschoolers loved me - I had grown up with them.  They weren't trying to prove something to me, and they wouldn't have ( Read more... )

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My little Double Miracle

I have struggled along with the Car From Hell the past few years. It's the third “Post Divorce Special”, as I call it, that I have driven since the divorce 13 years ago. I had the rattletrap about 7 years. It's a '96 Mercury Villager minivan that even God Himself was struggling to keep running and in one piece towards the ( Read more... )

 DECK OF CARDS
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>     "The Deck of Cards" is a story about a soldier in the North African Campaign during World War II. After heavy fighting, the men returned to camp. The next day being Sunday, the Chaplain had set up church service. The men were asked to take out their Bibles or Prayer Books. The Chaplain noticed one soldier looking at a deck of ( Read more... )

It's truly a Star-Spangled Day today !!

Seems a fitting time for me to post my favorite fourth stanza of our National Anthem.  This last verse has the most meaning of all of them !

O! Thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation.

Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power ( Read more... )

The World's a Better Place Today !!  
May 1, 2011

It was announced today that Osama bin Laden is DEAD !!  
And better than just dead, WE killed him !  Whoo Hoo !!!

This prayer was going around Facebook within an hour of the President's announcement:
May 1st prayer...
Now I lay me down to sleep.  One less terrorist this world does keep.  With all my ( Read more... )

God's Violence - OT

I've been mulling about in my admittedly feeble brain, the Old Testament historical accounts of the numerous wars the Israelites engaged in before reaching the Promised Land.   Like many other people, I've never been very comfortable with what seemed like excessive violence, and complete genocide, and more horrified to read about ( Read more... )

You know it’s been far too long when…

(Note: Some parts for musicians only.  Boring to everyone else.  Actually, annoying to musicians, too. But further in, there are some funny parts - if you think I’m ever funny.)

I’ve been stagnating in musicianship for far too long. You know it’s been “forever” when you finally pick up the guitar and find your ( Read more... )

I'm a Basket Case, and Fiercely Proud Of It !

You've heard the old phrase, “Don't put all your eggs in one basket.”    Well, along the way, I knew I was doing it wrong, I knew I was supposed to have another....a separate identity from my “two baskets”.  But in their early years, there was no time for anything else except fulfilling the needs of ( Read more... )

God - and Bathrooms

What is it about bathrooms that makes God seem so close?  
 Are you thinking EW !!?
I never knew about God's affinity for bathrooms until I was in high school and my grandfather died. (No, not in the bathroom.)  I had volunteered to stay over with my Grandma for a couple of days afterwards. I really loved my Grandparents, and ( Read more... )