[Note: This was my very first "Wind Vane" story the day (on March 1, after two weeks of blogging back in February 2005) I changed the name of my blog from "Meandering Footprints" to "Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles (thus the first comment from then following). It is from my would be book, so [...]
Y'all - I have been a Christian my whole life, baptized by immersion as a repentant believer when I was 12 and must share with you that I have had a deep and joyful renewal of my faith in the past couple of weeks that astounds me.Where did this come from and how did it [...]
How many of you have ever seen the movie Elmer Gantry?Tom and I watched it a couple of nights ago, again, and it is one of the most powerful and fascinating movies about religion, religious fervor and the ministry I've ever seen, and I've seen it several times. But it had been a long while [...]
My dear blogging friend, architect TCS, commented on yesterday's post (about picking out and buying things to go in our house we're building) this morning and reminded me once again that "ugly is always cheaper." I wish I could remember when he first commented about that because it was a hilarious comment and oh so [...]
It's still three weeks till Christmas but never too early to get into the proper frame of mind for the holiday season. In my case, that may be a hopeless cause, what with no Christmas music yet and all. But hey - I'm a trooper, I can still come around.Several of you have volunteered to [...]
There's just one problem with the Finding Direction Fan Club being the Wind Chimes (congratulations, again, Nancy Jayne) and that is - how on earth do you call the club members to order? I've got visions of them chiming away and blowing with every whim of the wind rather than providing direction for those less [...]
Posted in Families, Friends, Historical, Humor, Movies; Music, Philosophical, Popcorn, Reflections, Tom & Me, Uncategorized, Wind Vane Stories on November 25th, 2006 7 Comments »
I'm sick. But we've had a great holiday weekend anyway. I think I'll live. Our friends from Texas said when they got here and found out I had a cold, "You should have called us and told us not to come. You should have let us know because we told you if you got sick [...]
The October 23, 2006 issue of Newsweek had an interesting article in its Science section titled "How to Read a Face." The page long article was about the emerging field of social neuroscience which is based on the idea that human brains are "wired to connect."I found it fascinating and apropos to Christianity and the [...]
The friend I was telling you about with whom I've had the discussions about whether one can indeed be a "closet" Christian exemplifies Christ's teachings about how we should live more than any other person I've ever known. Yet I long had serious doubts about the "autheniticity," if you will, of this person's actions in [...]
I'm back to not one, but two exclamation points here in my heading this morning, so aren't y'all impressed with yourselves? You should be. I had 11 comments left to my "blahs" post with very encouraging words and lots of positive thoughts and ideas for a rapid recovery.It all worked. Today is a two exclamation [...]