• NewsDuJour - Potpourri

    truthy stuff

    When I open up this program, one of the first things I see is: “Write a Post.” And when I first opened this page I did have something to write, rather, something else to write. But as things were loading and I was checking mail and so on, I browsed an article about the wanna-be-president Obama. I’m not sure exactly what caught my eye, but then I went back through and read the article or the transcript of a talk he gave at a Unity breakfast in Selma, Alabama. Now, this post isn’t going to be about him or really…

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    where would I go?

    Whew, what a week, but… O, What a Saviour! I often wonder where I’d be without the LORD. Who would I turn to and where would I go? O to be found in the Hand of the LORD and to be sitting at His feet. What a tremendous blessing we have… freedom to sit at the feet of the LORD, to read His Word and to be freely welcome to bring our petitions, our grief, our sorrows and our hopes to the throne of the living LORD. Living – not a statue, not a concept, not a changing imagination, not…

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    the truthy stuff of global warming

    Our older’s just came in from a late night snowball fight… I was talking on the phone to Kathryn in Uganda (yes, she’s great, thanks for asking!) and she was saying that it really isn’t terribly hot in Jinja.  she was, however, stunned that we have snow here!  It’s morning for her there at the orphanage in Jinja and a beautiful day.  She had just completed the task of clipping the babies’ nails.  Many of those tasks are the sort one might not consider when thinking of the care and feeding of children in an orphanage.  But it is, among…