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First, some random blatherings ... I updated my links (yours works now, Mir) and added a few. More to come, when I remember and/or am not distracted.I was up till 3:30 am canning another wave of green beans--so late because I had trouble with one of the canners, but it goes much faster now because … [Read more...] about Jordan and Jenkins

I ran across Tricia Goyer's blog this morning and watched the video she had posted there. The lyrics are so relevant to where I've been the last several days, that I had to share ...Two months is too little.They let him go.They had no sudden healing.To think that providence wouldTake a child from … [Read more...] about Held

Yesterday was the seventh anniversary of the day our sixth baby, Duncan, “flew away home” to Heaven. Oddly enough, his birthday on July 2 hit me harder than yesterday did. I thought it must be that one end of the “anniversary weeks” is more difficult than the other, if that makes sense—but then this … [Read more...] about A Grief Revisited

Yes, the above phrase refers to the common (and mostly American, I should add) interpretation of those Scriptures referring to the Second Coming of Christ, perhaps made most familiar by the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. But I believe it wasn’t LaHaye’s and Jenkins’ writings on … [Read more...] about “Imminent Pre-Millennium Eschatology” and Science Fiction