God’s work is ORDER AND PEACE, The Evil One’s work is DISARRAY AND CONFUSION... Explained clearly and in ONE WORD: GOD=CREATION...SATAN=DESTRUCTION...YET... We don’t live in a DUALISTIC WORLD...Good vs Evil...God vs Satan...NO...ALL Creation BELONGS TO GOD and JESUS IS KING OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERS
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11/27/2015
THOUGHTS OF THANKSGIVING which should be dominating our minds these days have been overshadowed by PRAYERS FOR FAMILIES OF PARIS MASSACRE VICTIMS, how to handle SYRIAN IMMIGRANTS, whether to and where to DROP BOMBS ON ISIS TERRORISTS and other ‘TOPSY TURVY’ SERIOUS LIFE ISSUES... It dawned on me
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11/19/2015
NONE OF US HAVE IT ALL TOGETHER.......BUT TOGETHER WE HAVE IT ALL...!!! Those words of an unknown author, first heard by me at a Prayer Meeting over 30 years ago, kept resounding in my ear, as I lay immobile during one of my biennial GOUT FLARE-UPS this week...!!! It was a sober reminder of HOW F
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11/12/2015
I’m a sucker for a GREAT CELEBRATION...SO... When it comes to Holidays like THANKSGIVING DAY, CHRISTMAS, EASTER, VETERANS DAY, MEMORIAL DAY, INDEPENDENCE DAY, and LABOR DAY...I’M ALL IN...!!! In fact...I vote we make them SEASONAL CELEBRATIONS rather than JUST FOR ONE DAY...!!! IF THANKSGIVING IS
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11/05/2015
I’m sure most are familiar with the adage: ‘I CAN’T SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES’...WELL... According to ‘URBAN DICTIONARY’, this means ‘that if you look at things one at a time, you might not realize that a branch of separate "trees" go together to make a "forest"...FURTHER... ‘When you are too
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10/29/2015
I know very little about GENETICS, ART, MUSIC, and IMAGINATION...These seem to be LEFT BRAIN QUALITIES...AND THE ONLY THING I DO ‘LEFT’ HANDED IS BAT AND GOLF...!!! If I try to ‘FORCE’ my imagination to work, it’s like starting an old pull rope lawn mower...It never starts on the FIRST PULL, and
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10/23/2015
Tomorrow, my son Joshua turns 21...One of those ‘SPECIAL’ birthdays...AND SO... Thinking of ways to commemorate this event... My wife and I considered many possibilities from simply presenting him with a modest monetary gift to having a full blown ‘FAMILY REGALIA’... JOSH, however, is not a SPLAS
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10/16/2015
I don’t believe in COINCIDENCES...They occur too often to be ACCIDENTAL...INDEED...Sometimes ‘COINCIDENCES’ DEFY ALL ODDS...I believe that COINCIDENCES ARE ‘GOD’S INTERSECTIONS’...!!! LIFE IS A JOURNEY...HOPEFULLY A JOYFUL AND FULFILLING ONE...!!! When on a trip, every intersection is an opportun
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10/09/2015
Over the lintel of OUR FAMILY ROOM DOOR to our screened-in three season room is a LONG NARROW PLAQUE that reads: WE WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT...THAT SCRIPTURE PASSAGE FROM 2 CORINTHIANS 5:7 is sandwiched by the preceding verse which reads: SO WE ARE ALWAYS OF GOOD COURAGE...AND the passage i
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10/02/2015
Without getting too political, but attempting to sum up POPE FRANCIS’ MESSAGE BEFORE CONGRESS YESTERDAY, a clear HOMERUN WAS HIT...DRAWING UPON THE LIVES OF FOUR AMERICANS OF FAITH...ABRAHAM LINCOLN, MARTIN LUTHER KING, DOROTHY DAY, and THOMAS MERTON, the POPE CLEVERLY CRAFTED HIS MESSAGE WHILE W
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09/24/2015