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Safe Place with Ruth Graham

I have had another blog site which I have enjoyed – it is more personal. But for some unknown reason the address for it does not work. It is the same blog host as this one and I am doing nothing different than I have hundreds of times. Arrgh! So I shall begin to use this…

A book that recently came my way is Indivisible by James Robison and Jay W. Richards. It is a good read. The have “put the  hay down where the cows can get it”. With all the many voices clamoring to be heard theirs is a clarion call to understand our roots and look to the…

I don’t know about you but I am so tired of the trashy, inelegant public discourse. It’s not limited to Republicans or Democrats; liberals or conservatives – they just happen to be the noisiest right now. I was listening to the radio in my car yesterday as I had to go to Charlottesville. The words…

Well, the long anticipated prize show is over. All the oscars have been awarded to well-deserving people. I have yet to see The Artist but did get to see The Help and Iron Lady. In my book, they were both very entertaining. I read The Help first and I wondered if anyone outside the Southern culture…

When you are alone at Valentine’s it’s the pits! The day after Christmas the stores begin hawking Valentine cards, candy, decorations…Everything is about romance and couples. Even the Animal Planet is about couples. Maybe you’d like to go to a movie that night – but sitting in the theatre by yourself just screams, “She’s alone!”…

I have been off line for several days. It’s sort of nice to have to do things the “old fashioned” way. It’s hard to remember a time when we didn’t have the Internet and e-mail. Last time we talked about making resolutions. How’s it going? Have you been able to keep them? Have some fallen…

Well, it’s that time of year…time to make resolutions. New Years’ resolutions are famous for breaking them. We have this notion that if we make resolutions we will loose weight, exercise, stop drinking, slow down, volunteer, spend less… if only making a resolution were that easy. No one is watching to see if we follow…

  Does your house look like this? The carols are playing on the stereo. There is a blazing fire on the hearth – with extra split logs neatly stacked nearby. Snow is gently falling outside. All the Christmas cards and packages have been addressed and mailed early. The smell of cookies baking – not burning…

I have been blogging about transparency. As we approach Christmas, and we read the all too familiar Christmas story what strikes me is that it is full of transparency. Mary was pregnant out of wedlock – a situation that could have meant a sentence of death by stoning. But she trusted God and didn’t hide the…

Politics is on everyone’s mind. By November 2012 we will be sick of it. The election process seems to drag on from election to election with no break. I don’t know about you, but Herman Cain seemed to be an authentic sort of guy. Refreshing in  a sea of “spin”. Of course we still don’t…
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