This afternoon we laid to rest my last great aunt. She was three weeks shy of her 102 birthday.
When she was 90, I think, she gave her apartment and moved into a ‘retirement’ center where she became the life of the third floor.
The LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and all your soul so that you will live. The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. Then you will again obey Him and follow all His commands I am giving you today. HSCB
The one difficulty of coming to know Jesus at an early age is holding on to your childhood theology. It is easy to understand the basic concepts of God’s love and actions and our appropriate response. Jesus loves me and died for me. Many of God’s other mysteries like sanctification or propitiation, become words mashed into the easier understood concepts.
Toward the end of the regular football season, I was amused by an article discussing the legacy of players like Tony Roma and Tom Brady. The author asked had we already seen their legacies or were they still begin shaped?
Fifty-one years ago John F. Kennedy asked those powerful words,
"Ask not what your country can do for you, rather ask what can you do for your country."
For those who wonder if our descendants will understand how we were effected by 9-11, we should just think about what Pearl Harbor still means to all of us.
Today one of my oldest (oldest in Lyndie time) friends is being laid to rest and my heart is for today breaking.
Beneath The Texas Sky, the third book in The Lazy M Ranch series
Written by Kasandra Elaine, the writing team of Kassy Paris and Elaine Bonner
Beneath The Texas Sky published by Wild Rose Publishing in 2009,
ISBN 0-9712522-2-X
Redigo’s Choice is book two in The Lazy M Ranch series.
Author: Kasandra Elaine, the writing team of Kassy Paris and Elaine Bonner
Published by: Wild Rose Publishing in 2008 ISBN 1-60154-391-3
First I’m Nobody, the first book in The Lazy M Ranch series
Written by Kasandra Elaine, the writing team of Kassy Paris and Elaine Bonner
That is the question being asked everywhere I’ve turned this week. And it leaves me cold. I know, I have many things to be grateful for. I have had a good life, but it is not quite the life I wanted.
So many memories are tied into the weekend JFK died and was buried.
‘All those times we sang ‘and its goodbye to A&M’
we really didn’t mean it. At least, I don’t think we did...
Cowboys RB 'controversy' has simple solution: give DeMarco the ball
http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/dallas-cowboys/headlines/20111116-george-cowboys-rb-controversy-has-simple-solution-give-demarco-the-ball.ece
Driving towards Amarillo this afternoon, I watched the most amazing sunset. The wide Texas a panorama view. The sunlight was fading into a soft palette of color. Where the sun couldn't reach on the horizon was dark blue, not black. The day's sky was a crystal blue. High in they daylight sky, juxtaposed to the flocks of birds flying low, were several jet streams streaking across the sky. Just as darkness covered my journey deer were grazing on the side of the highway.
I can't recall ever being so aware of twilight. In my hotel room I looked up the dictionary definition of twilight. What I experienced was straight off the page, (screen in this instance,) these beautiful colors at the end of a successful day.
I lost my closest college friend, Dee, this weekend to cancer. Her passing has left me forlorn. We had one of those wonderful friendships that regardless of the time we were away from each other, we were able to connect as if no time had passed.
November 9, 1989 the gates to East Germany were opened allowing free travel and commerce between East and West Germany.
In 2000 on November 8th, Florida began the statewide recount of the 2000 presidential election. We learned ‘chad’ wasn’t just a guy’s name. And we waited patiently for a month to learn who would be our next president. It was all so, well, civilized.
1893 Passage of a referendum made Colorado the first state to grant women the right to vote.
On October 24, 1861 the first transcontinental telegraph message was sent from California to President Abraham Lincoln.
And yet, greater things are still to be done.
I was in fifth grade, not quite 11. My brother was a first grader. It was a time when I knew all the words the adults were saying, yet sensed I was missing something.
