Christian fantasy literature, and commentary on assorted subjects
It was a typical spring day here in New Jersey. Overcast, rainy and not too warm.
Had to nip out to the store, but other than that I spent a very quiet day, going over a lot of Lee’s posts, deciding what to select. Many memories there–some good and some not so good. But most of the not so good ones were very funny. Gallows humor and hyperbole were two of his strong points.
There’s still a ton of stuff to be taken care of here, but there is no rush.
Apropos of nothing, I have been having a real yearning for stuffed cabbage. It’s a bit of work to make, but I think I will do it anyway. Maybe tomorrow or the next day.
I got another doctor bill for Lee today, and when I went online to pay it, the system wouldn’t let me. When I called their information number, I was told to just write a check. So much for their lah-di-dah, cutting-edge, automated billing system.
Well, that about covers it for today.
See you tomorrow.
God bless everybody.
Patty
From June 1, 2014
I don’t like to address contentious issues on the Sabbath day. (And if your sabbath is Saturday instead of Sunday, that’s not an issue for me.)
For one thing, it’s a way for me to remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy, as God has commanded. For another, I’m up to my eyeballs in abominable news all week, and I need a rest. It’s not that I’m lazy or cowardly, and want to hide from the battle. Josephus records that even Judah the Maccabee avoided battle on the Sabbath, except when the enemy literally forced it on him.
By keeping the Sabbath, we proclaim the Lord’s sovereignty over all things, and His sufficiency for all things.
But what about church? I don’t attend a church. Some would say I was un-churched, but I don’t see it that way.
No–it’s just that the church that I belong to is not in a building. It consists of a large group of fellow Christians, most of them on the Internet, who share a devotion to Jesus Christ Our Lord. We “meet” here, within the social media, in a chat room full of Christians on a popular game site, and even on our respective forum pages on an international chess players’ site. We meet every day of the week, not just on Sunday. We can’t sing hymns together, but we have some mighty good discussions. Many of them also attend a church: but the local church in which I was raised has gone over to the dark side, and I don’t trust any of the others. My old church has a sign outside that says “A Welcoming and Affirming Congregation.” I am sure I don’t want to find out exactly what it is that they’re affirming.
The burning issues can wait until tomorrow. For now, I think I’ll go back outside and enjoy more of this beautiful, cool, sunny spring day that the Lord has made.
From June 5, 2016
There’s something very poignant, don’t you think, about the image of a little teddy bear getting washed out to sea. I know, this video’s a set-up all the way: but it’s very nicely filmed, and the music is sweet and relaxing. And in the end, the octopus doesn’t try to eat the teddy bear–a wise move.
What is it with this guy? He keeps showing us octopus videos.
No ulterior motive–I just like looking at God’s stuff. The octopus is an intelligent animal, but they haven’t yet found a way to make him stupid and corrupt.
They are absolutely adorable. Wish this was longer.
From March 10, 2017
Science is always right about everything. Stephen Hawking is a prominent man of Science. Therefore Stephen Hawking is always right about everything. Or so the liberal logic goes.
Having jettisoned his belief in God, Hawking has climbed aboard the Doom & Gloom Express. First he says we’re all gonna die unless we colonize other planets. Global Warming gonna kill us. Then he says there might be aliens who’ll wipe us out. Or else Artificial Intelligence (created by blockheads) will do it.
This week, during a visit to India, he opined that we’re all gonna die unless we get a world government, which will prevent war and rein in “our aggressive instincts,” which are “hard-wired into our genes by Darwinian evolution,” blah-blah-blah ( http://zeenews.india.com/science/stephen-hawking-issues-warning-says-only-world-government-can-save-humanity-from-destruction_1984947.html ).
Why do scientists seem to know so very, very little about anything outside their special field of science?
World government–because everybody knows that the more power you give your rulers, the more wisely, humanely, and responsibly they will use it!
That’s their belief in a nutshell. And if you believe it, too–well, you need to get out more.
From February 18, 2013
In recent years, more and more Australians have been seeing big black cats prowling around the countryside. Many amateur videos of these creatures have been posted on the Internet. Thing is, big cats are not native to Australia.
The cats are usually identified as black panthers–that is, leopards born black. That’s what a black panther is. Theories abound. They escaped from zoos or circuses. Men released them from U.S. warships during WWII. People are getting scared: supposedly the cats have killed cattle, horses, sheep, and other large prey. So far the Australian state and federal governments have declined to take any action.
There are a few problems with the leopard theory. 1) Leopards habitually stash their prey in trees instead of trying to eat it all at once. These Australian cats never haul their kill into a tree. 2) Black leopards are rare, but all the Australian cats seen so far are black. How come no one has seen any ordinary leopards? 3) Leopards in Africa and Asia get used to living near human habitation and often attack people. The Australian cats haven’t attacked anyone… yet. 4) A few of the witnesses, including some who managed to film a cat, have said they thought there was something not quite right about it. I have seen some of those videos online, and I concur: especially from a distance, there seems to be something funny about these cats, especially the head. 5) Very oddly indeed, no one has yet shot or trapped one of these cats. That would certainly settle the controversy, if we had an actual specimen to examine. People are always bagging leopards, but not one of these mystery cats has yet been killed or captured.
I wonder, just wonder, if they’re not leopards at all–or not even cats.
Could Thylacoleo be making a comeback? Thylacoleo, the “marsupial lion,” a nasty-looking, cat-like predator, supposedly went extinct during prehistoric times.
But did it? Did it really? I can’t help wondering.
Today I had a few errands to run.
The new government of this borough has really succeeded in making the traffic here unbearable. It’s a small town with far too many cars. They just keep packing people in. Lee had run into the new mayor a few years ago, and he (the mayor) was thrilled that the town was packed . He said “On Sunday you could have rolled a bowling ball down Main Street” to which Lee replied “That’s the way we liked it.” My honey sure was no diplomat.
I only needed to go to the bank, Whole Foods, and the Post Office.
It took me forever.
It also got blazingly hot here–very unseasonable. They said it was 85, but it felt a lot hotter. And of course, as soon as you leave the car to go into someplace,the car heats right up again.
I did put up that interview with Rudy Giuliani because I really like him. He was a marvelous mayor, who loves that town and his lungs are now very compromised because of all the time he spent at Ground Zero.
I remember another incident about that time. A group of political figures were assembled somewhere in New York. Everyone was in shock over the attack, and Ed Koch was in tears. Hillary Clinton actually said “Ed, why are you crying?” Democrat or not, Ed Koch loved New York City. And Hillary showed what a dunderhead she was.
It is now time for me to start my supper and go back to watching ER which I had never seen before.
See you tomorrow.
God bless everybody.
Patty