Random thoughts on intolerance Posted on April 22, 2009 By pamela I’m doing housekeeping today… many things needed sorting and filing, washing and ironing. Teatime brought to mind some thoughts from the past weekend. It’s getting fiercer and fiercer, the slick and sick double standard of those who scream to be tolerated — not just tolerated, but venerated — endorsed —… Read more
On Colbert… Posted on April 19, 2009 By pamela This isn’t a blanket endorsement of Stephen Colbert or The Colbert Nation… but I’m just posting this so that you’ll see the lengths to which some people are going to deceive others or to discredit the Bible. I first saw this at an apologetics conference this weekend during a talk… Read more
Are you a big surprise? Posted on April 17, 2009 By pamela Have you let someone mock you and steal your dream? Our family crowed [sorry, that’s a typo. Our family didn’t crow around the computer — we crowded; c-r-o-w-d-e-d]around the computer to view a YouTube video that was suggested to us. So we waited for the video clip to upload…. When… Read more
Oooops. Posted on April 8, 2009 By pamela “We should not let 2% of the population determine or change the definition of marriage….” RW Back to “…Rwanda……and what the recession is doing to the spiritual climate of our nation…” Read more
About that Sad Day… Posted on January 23, 2009 By pamela Now it will begin to be very clear as to why I wrote the blog entry: one-of-the-saddest-days-in-the-history-of-this-nation. I knew I wasn’t alone in holding that opinion — and I know I’m not alone now. Tens of millions of *innocent* children — unborn babies — have been murdered in this… Read more
A Book and a Movie Posted on January 19, 2009 By pamela I’m thinking about blind acceptance and emperors… the events of the days behind us and before us and a book and a movie come to mind. And I wonder what really matters to people — if it matters that there’s nothing there or if there’ll be a little child standing… Read more
One of the Saddest Days in the History of this Nation Posted on January 17, 2009 By pamela January 20, 2009 will be, no doubt, a day marking the beginning of some of the most significant political decisions this country has ever experienced — and, in my opinion, one of the saddest days in the history of this once great nation. I decided not even to… Read more
signs of the times Posted on January 4, 2009 By pamela Wes and I were browsing articles in our local paper and one article, in particular, really made us shake our heads — a social commentary — sort of a sign of the times regarding what marriage is worth. Although she is relieved to be out of the marriage, if… Read more
(mis)perception — even still, God so loved the world that He gave… Posted on December 26, 2008 By pamela And… isn’t this just the epitome of man’s view of self before God? I’m pretty sure I haven’t been this naughty?!?! And yet… it was for sin and sinful man that God *gave* the greatest gift the world has ever known, the greatest sacrifice ever made and the greatest promise… Read more