My Wife Just Came Out Of The Closet

Yeah you wish it means what you are thinking. No, my wife is not gay. Well she is sometimes, but in the classic sense of the word. She has a blog called myownthoughts. Being the poor reader of blogs I sometimes become I missed her short post announcing our marriage and point to my blog….

Good story about the french

I’m surfing for new cooking blogs and found this interesting story about French police men worried about a woman missing her dinner reservation. The French get a lot of bad press here in the US. But we need to remember while the government may be bone headed on a macro level, the French can be…

Rachel Ray

In a total departure from previous posts…. Rachel Ray has like three shows on the Food Network. Since Good Eats always starts early I’ve got TIVO catching the last few minutes of 30 Minutes Meals. I’m something of cooking snob and don’t like easy stuff. I want macho I made it from scratch stuff. So…

Living in Fallujah

While read Searching for God Knows What the author says we are living in the middle a war we don’t fully understand and that we aren’t totally a part of. There is a war going on in heaven and we are caught in the middle. Its like we are living in Fallujah. We’re relatively innocent…

Foster Quote

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people. – A Celebration of Disciple by Richard Foster, page 1

Faith

(Be warned this is going to be very stream of conscious.) What is faith? The standard Bible answer is Hebrews 11, and specifically the first verse: Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. But I got to wondering after my comment if that really…

Commenting for Jesus

Mrs. du Toit has an entry about why she is an atheist. I found it fascinating because she basically says she wants to believe, but can’t. She sees the benefit of being religious, but can’t believe there is a God – take a leap of faith – any more than she can believe in a…

Trip Report

I’m well into the trip before I decided to blog anything. Part of this was because we didn’t have internet access till now. Well we had it for a day in the middle of the trip, but have been with out it for three days at my folks house. The boys are major Internet addicts,…