Inside the Minds of Valerie and Mike (and Anna)
For quite a while lately, church has failed to move me. I have been going through the motions, hoping that something might eventually speak to me, to inspire me, to challenge me, to ... something. As I move to reclaim my life now that it no longer is a slave to a killer commute, I have made... Continue Reading →
As I sit here in the shade this June day, exhausted from laboring in the heat, watching the silent white clouds drifting across a clean blue sky, feeling the relief of a gentle breeze, I look over at you and see you again for the first time in many years. And I ask myself, "How... Continue Reading →
Sermon given at CTS Lutheran Church 6/12/16 based on the Gospel reading Luke 7:36-8:3 [editor's note: this sermon was written and presented by Anna.] It’s no secret that women in the Bible are mistreated. Many are unnamed and thought of as property. They belong to either their father or their husband. Even today, we hear... Continue Reading →
I for one, was seriously anticipating the theatre release of the 2015 version of The Little Prince when in the week it was to debut, the movie was completely dropped from the lineup. Then it was scooped up by a streaming or some other online service. BUMMER. I really wanted to see this version on... Continue Reading →
Back in early March I wrote about bread baking. About how the most simple recipe calls for 4 very basic and humble ingredients. Yet with care, proper handling, and patience, those basic ingredients turn into something wonderful...a pile of sticky goop turns into something golden...into love. You can read the original post here. I've baked many... Continue Reading →
199. Boys are usually loyal friends to each other, and thus friendliness comes almost naturally to a boy. It is the one duty that he understands. 200. A man who has no friends is the man who gives out no friendship. 201. Friendship is like a boomerang: you give out your friendship to another chap and... Continue Reading →
196. Lord Kitchener said to the Boy Scouts: "There is one thought I would like to impress upon you all: once a Scout, always a Scout". By this he meant that when you are grown up you must still carry out what you learned as a Scout, and especially that you will go on being... Continue Reading →
194. A boy does not really get the full value of Scout training until he is a First Class Scout. 195. A Guide who is content to sit down and be a Second Class Guide is only a third-class girl. Footsteps of the founder: the Baden-Powell quotations book Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell –... Continue Reading →
191. Play fair yourself and insist on fair play in others. 192. Notoriety is not the same thing as Fame. 193. First Aid is an important and difficult subject - difficult inasmuch as it requires great care and precision, exactitude, and common sense (all unnatural attributes of the ordinary boy!) Footsteps of the founder: the Baden-Powell quotations... Continue Reading →
183. Our training is largely by example. 184. What the Scoutmaster does his boys will do. The Scoutmaster is reflected in his Scouts. 185. There is no teaching to compare with example. 186. There is no doubt whatever that in the boys' eyes it is what a man does that counts and not so much what he... Continue Reading →
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