Mothers-in-Law Write the Darnedest Things

Here's a cool parable from my mother-in-law.  I don't know her source, so no plagiarism is intended. 

Three men were walking on a wall, 

Feeling, Faith, and Fact.  

When Feeling took an awful fall, 

And Faith was taken back, 

So close was Faith to Feeling, 

He stumbled and fell too.  

But Fact remained, 

And pulled Faith back, 

And Faith brought Feeling too."

A Thought for the Day

Ponder this thought by a great American poet...

"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."

Bill Cosby

The Unexpecteds

Our presuppositions about life and what's coming next are often taken too seriously, kind of like using a road atlas.  You assume that it's absolutely correct and that it contains all that there is to know about every bend in the road.  However, it's not until you're driving down that road - off of the paper - that you actually discover that hidden, unmarked scenic overlook or that surprisingly delicious greasy spoon or that detour that actually takes you down the higher road.

When we come to those "unexpecteds" in our lives, we're surprised.  We're baffled at how we couldn't see them coming through the fog of our expectations.  We think that we have the perfect route figured out.  But the God "who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think" isn't surprised.  And those peace-yielding surprises confound our own wisdom and point our hearts to Him in praise - in awe of his timing and in wonder of his ways.

New Year, New Blog

I wish that I had something brilliant to write for my first post on my new blog.  But I don't.  Sorry.  Oh yeah - I can feel the readership skyrocketing.

So, I'll just start off by saying that I'm starting this new blog so that people can make comments on the things that are said, because I'm egotistical like that and need all that praise and stuff for the great things that I'm writing.

If you'd like to access my old blog for some reason, just click here.