Breaking the Law
July 26, 2024 by admin
Filed under Life Topics
Last year in our small town a friend of mine got a police citation for shooting small fireworks in her driveway on July 4th. She was mortified and upset. She had no idea that she wasn’t allowed to light sparklers and other small fireworks.
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Our Vanishing Heritage
By Ed Crumley
A Youtube video of Jay Leno interviewing people on the street came attached to an email sent to me by a friend. Jay asked them simple questions that anyone with a 4th or 5th grade education should know. Questions like: “Name two of the Founding Fathers. In what country would you find the Panama Canal?”, and “Who was the first man on the moon?” The answers were astonishing: “Founding fathers of what?”; “I have no clue,” and “Louis Armstrong?” The audience got good laughs out of all of the interviews, but a more thoughtful look at those answers should bring sadness or even fear to the hearts of viewers.
Who Is She?
By Kathi Macias
One of my rudest awakenings came as a result of meeting Rosey Grier, famous for being one of the bodyguards who captured Sirhan Sirhan immediately after Senator Robert Kennedy was shot, as well as having been one of the “Fearsome Foursome” football greats—the only one, so far as I know, who also enjoyed doing needlepoint.
A Mighty Fortress
I stood in awe, the enormity, and beauty overwhelming me. Then I heard the statistics—the nave is ten stories high, the center tower is as tall as a thirty-story building, the heaviest stone is 5.5 tons, and it is only one of 762 elaborately hand-carved stones in Washington DC’s National Cathedral. As I stood there I dreamed about seeing the five other, even larger, cathedrals of the world, and I wondered how the first temple built by Solomon in Jerusalem might have looked. How it must have inspired God’s people to sing praises to God, as this place was now influencing me.
No Thornless Roses
July 22, 2024 by admin
Filed under Personal Growth
No one ever said being a Christian would guarantee us a bed of thornless roses. This week proved that point for me. How can so much heartache befall a people at one time without their hearts bursting from the pain? I could list several things that have afflicted us as a church family over the past two months, but I'll just mention the most recent—a close friend in church passed away quickly from ovarian cancer and septicemia. She was just 50 years old.
