August 2012

Movie Mishap
August 25, 2012 | 0 comments

My daughter and I get together for lunch/dinner and a movie as often as we can.  So much depends on what’s in the theater, and our differing tastes.  The last movie we saw together was “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” which we both loved.  She suggested “Hope Springs” this time, and I jumped at the idea.  Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones are both awesome actors.  Steve Carell?  It’s bound to be a hoot! 

            It didn’t take long to realize this story was definitely not a comedy.  Spoiler alert!  It’s about an unhappy wife longing to put some magic back in her marriage of 31 years and her resistant husband who is grumpy, complaining, vulnerable and afraid to risk what they’ve got, which isn’t much.  There are no major secrets to be uncovered.  No affairs (though a few surprising – cringe-factor fantasies), no...

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Simple Answer to Big Question
August 19, 2012 | 0 comments

I’ve yet to hear any politician give a simple, straight-forward, truthful solution to our current economic problems.  Both sides promise the moon and deliver dust. Everything focuses on what is best for the party rather than what is best for our nation. 

Please take two minutes to watch this:

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EW5IdwltaAc?rel=0

In the words of John F. Kennedy:  “Ask not what your country can do for you.  Ask what you can do for your country.”

Or – better said:  “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and lean not on your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your path straight.”   

God has plenty of advice in the book of Proverbs on how to handle finances – and what to look for in leaders. 

Better to know the truth and prepare for hard times ahead than pretend the government (...

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Church and AA
August 10, 2012 | 0 comments

Having known and loved several alcoholics over the years, I have on occasion attended AA meetings in order to understand and empathize with those suffering.  Although I don’t drink, everything I heard was applicable.  I felt connected. 

Everyone had a place.  Someone ordinary opened the meeting.  A Preamble was read which stated the mission of AA, and someone else read an introduction to how it works giving the core of the AA program.  Everyone is reminded that there is anonymity.  What is said in the meeting stays in the meeting.  There are twelve steps, all of which apply to my life before I was a Christian and what my life is now learning to walk one-day-at-a-time in faith.  A speaker meeting has someone give their testimony on how working the AA program helped them stop drinking.  In other meetings, a topic is chosen and people enter into discussion.  In a “big book” meeting, the focus is on the Alcoholics...

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