Monthly Archives: November 2008

    A Saturday Evening Banquet   Can you believe it?  We went out for another meal this week. I will soon be as broad as tall – and I’m 5′ 7-1/2″ tall.  Do people get that broad?     The … Continue reading →

  Don’t be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others —ignoring God!— harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show … Continue reading →

    Eating Out Because of being out of the house – for meals – the last two nights, I’m having to catch up.  Isn’t that a tough situation?     This was the table setting at my sister’s house on Thursday … Continue reading →

  Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, profane talk. Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:31-32 (The Message)  

    Retreat Meeting & Rain     Left to right:  Bunny & Peg O’Hare, Howard & Angie Moses, Alice & Sam Rittenhouse, and Cerwin.  Yoder’s Restaurant was a good place for us to meet for lunch and make preliminary plans for TFC’s … Continue reading →

  Blessed be the Lord, Who bears our burdens and carries us day by day, even the God Who is our salvation! Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Psalm 68:19 (Amplified Bible)  

    Building a Gun Cabinet   Our grandson Jordan needed to choose a graduation project for his senior year of high school, as well as a mentor to work with him.  Mentors can not be parents, so who better to teach him than grandpa. … Continue reading →

  Who can measure the wealth and wisdom and knowledge of God? Who can understand his decisions or explain what he does?  Romans 11:33 (Contemporary English Version)  

    Decisions Not Circumstances       The outcome of your life is a result of your decisions not your circumstances.    

  Friends, this world is not your home, so don’t make yourselves cozy in it. Don’t indulge your ego at the expense of your soul. 1 Peter 2:11 (The Message)