It was my turn today to lead the prayers at our Saturday service. As I was contemplating what to write for the prayers, I started thinking about the Chilean miners who were rescued this past week. There has been a great deal of congratulations and “pats on the back” given to the people who worked […]
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I just saw a recipe on CBSNews.com for German Chocolate Cake. But it really wasn’t German Chocolate Cake. German Chocolate Cake is made with a certain type of chocolate called German chocolate. Named not for the country but for the person who created the chocolate whose name was Sam German. It has a very distinctive […] I have a new obsession in life. I have discovered the joy of wearing rings. Yes, rings. Rings on my fingers, not on my toes (yet). There was a time that I didn’t bother with make-up, jewelry and fixing my hair. Get up in the morning, shower, dry my hair […] I am making Senate Bean Soup (navy bean soup) for the lunch tomorrow at church. I decided to get some prep work done today so I would have less work tomorrow. The recipe calls for 2 1/2 cups of mashed potatoes to thicken the soup. Since I am tripling the batch, I had to make […] As you probably have already heard, since it has been covered on the news for the past few days, today would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. Actually, it IS his 70th birthday. Just because he isn’t here to enjoy it, doesn’t mean everyone else can’t celebrate the day that 70 years […] This morning there was a story on the Today Show about a student at Duke University who ranked her sexual exploits while in college. Why is this news? After all, a lot of people do this sort of ranking. The movie “Ten” is based on the fact that people can be rated 1 to 10 […] One of the most difficult things we are ever called upon to do is to forgive someone. Actually, it is easy when the person who has wronged you sincerely says they are sorry and feels bad about what they did. Then we can be quick to forgive them and to let go of the hurt […] Here are some thoughts for the third day of October: – My tooth for which I had the multi-appointment root canal this past summer broke Thursday night. I was eating a piece of bread during dinner, bit down and heard a loud CRUNCH. My first thought was there was something hard in the bread but […] |
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