Our Japanese neighbors are going home. They lived next door to us for the last 4 years. We didn’t hear much from them. They were a very quiet family, a mother, a father, a son and a daughter. All were very accomplished and thrived here in America. When my husband told me they were leaving, he commented that they would miss all this open space here in Arizona. I told him that “home” always calls to us. No matter how…..
If you studied economics, you know about the TANSTAAFL theory. It you didn’t study economics, you know this instinctively. TANSTAAFL: There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Somebody is paying. If someone is receiving food stamps, they are not free. The government does not “make” money. It does not “earn” money. It takes money away from someone to give it to someone else. Someone is paying taxes. And, if someone is receiving something for “free,” they are paying…..
In “Choosing Life,” I told you that I was an only child. When I married George, I got a whole new family. Instantly I had a mom and two sisters-in-law and a brother-in-law. My brother-in-law’s wife was my third sister-in-law. I’ll call her Madge. Madge was a fourth generation Californian, and a feisty one at that. If there was one thing that Madge had, it was opinions. And she held them strongly. Most of her opinions revolved around the sad…..
I have always been allergic to roses. Then lilies. Then perfume. When it got to the point that I was coughing 24/7, I went for help. I have COPD with Bronchial Asthma. I never smoked, but I was born with asthma and my father smoked. The coughing was not only keeping me from sleeping, but it was painful. It was like being hit by a Hindu bed of nails in the front of my chest and then, a second later,…..
In “Choosing Life,” I told you that my first husband was a violent man. It started with a slap across the face that knocked me down. It went on to a punch aimed at my one year old who wouldn’t sit down in the back seat of the car: his first black eye. Then when my son was three and a half, he walked in front of the TV during a football game. My soon to be ex punched him,…..
In “Choosing LIfe,” I told you that I was in my twenties when I began to believe that Jesus was real. It took another twenty years to believe that the devil was real. The best tactic an enemy can use against us is to convince us that he doesn’t even exist. When I realized that the devil exists and is wrecking havoc in the world, a lot of things started to make perfect sense. Evil exists, and it does real…..
I like to write, that’s why I wrote “Choosing Life.” Words are the tools of my trade. Words are powerful. Remember, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” “In the beginning was the Word.” At the Great While Throne Judgment, we will have to answer for “every idle word.” That indicates that words, and their meanings, are very important to God as well as to us. The Politically Correct crowd love to change the meaning of words. We can’t call…..
In “Choosing Life,” I told you about my dysfunctional family. Both my mother and my father were damaged people. They disowned me in 1975. In 1980, my father left my mother for a woman younger than me. My mother had been a diabetic since 1943. so my father left a very sick woman. He drained her bank accounts. I re-established contact with her when I learned that my father left. In 1987, her kidneys failed. I brought her into my…..
When I was a baby, I was “Christened.” Only my mother and I were there. So, when I accepted Christ as my “Savior,” I didn’t want to be baptized. After all, I had been “Christened,” and that was enough for me. However, as I progressed further and further in my Christian life, I became more and more uncomfortable with that position. In “Choosing Life” I described a time in my life when I struggled to get free from spiritual bondage. …..
In “Choosing Life,” I told you that I was a single parent raising two boys. When I bought our house, I bought it because it had three bedrooms and the garage had been converted into a pool room complete with a pool table. I didn’t even look at the kitchen. I don’t cook. The boys would bring their friends over to play pool. I would sit in the family room, with the door to the pool room open. I had…..
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