Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
Musings
Psalm 91:11
“For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways…”
Close Calls
We all have close calls, those times when we know we have come face to face with eternity. Our heart rate skyrockets and adrenalin kicks in to reaction quickly. Sometimes we look back and wonder how we survived our childhood, considering the dangerous risks we took just for the fun of it. Sometimes we look …
Jill Churchill
There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Mom’s Night Out
I have learned through experience not to trust movie critics. If I listen and go to a movie that receives their thumbs up and rave reviews, I inevitably come home wanting to take a shower and kicking myself for wasting $10 on a ticket. So – when I hear critics hate a movie, especially if …
Mouse Tales
My father-in-law called me “Mouse Protector” or “MP” for short. Why? Because I sprang the traps he set up to catch a mouse that ventured into the family fruit bowl and took a tiny bite out of an apple. The poor mouse had to eat, too, didn’t he? Dad Bill gave me mouse gifts for …
Psalm 10:17-18
“Lord, you know the hopes of the helpless. Surely You will listen to their cries and comfort them. You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed, so people can no longer terrify them.”
Boko Haram
A month ago, Boko Haram terrorists stormed a secondary school in the village of Chibok near the Cameroon border and kidnapped over 200 girls. Other attacks and kidnappings have gone on since then in the village of Warabe in the Borno state of north-eastern Nigeria as well as other places in the country. Boko Haram’s …
Noah the Movie
Check out the new Noah movie by Living Waters. It’s on YouTube – the Noah movie Ray Comfort. Or www.NoahtheMovie.com. The truth is always more exciting than anything Hollywood can produce.
Sailing Around the Horn
Rick’s grandfather sailed around the Horn on a windjammer in 1905. It was the roughest year in recorded history, and took the crew 90 days to accomplish the task. The mast broke, sails ripped, and they had to make numerous slips into the coast to make repairs before trying again. Grandpa went to sea at …