Susan's Pendulum

God gives daily bread. Whatever we have is from Him. Whatever we have is what He has decided is good for us. Because of our sinful flesh, we...

I got stuck having to fill (I mean, FILL) the tank with ethanol-laced gasoline. After driving on it for a few days and topping off the tank...

Nancy told this at Bible class this week, and I thought it was a crack-up. Do you know how to adjust your dishwasher to use it for snow remo...

Till this morning, whenever I've prayed this psalm I hear the music of "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past" going through my mind....

Maggie went next door to play with the neighbor kids. The grandma sent her home with meat scraps for our cats. The kids and I looked at th...

Maybe the rule should be that the people in charge of washing purificators should be the women who wear red lipstick at the altar rail. It r...

We watched this movie tonight. Overall it was pretty good. Basic plot is two white kids (one raised in Africa, one there against his will ...

A pastor vows at his ordination never to reveal the sins confessed to him. Luther says that a pastor is to "make his ears a tomb"...

When a person -- with much pain and grievous letting go -- clears out her bookshelves, then what is to become of the books? Some can be sol...

A local resort is offering their pool to the rec district for swimming lessons. One of the rules they set up is "No shoes in the pool ...

People tell me that the Roman Catholic Church no longer teaches salvation by works alongside their teaching of God's grace in Christ to ...

Stir up Your power, O Lord, and come that by Your protection we may be rescued from the threatening perils of our sins and saved by Your mig...

The first rule of being frugal on the grocery bill is to eat the food that's fresh. You don't open a can of peaches if there's ...

Dry weather and chapped hands. Carrying newspaper bundled with sharp-edged plastic cord. Eczema and other allergic rashes. As if I didn'...

My friend Karin posted an article on her blog from the Secular Homeschool Magazine ($7 per issue, which is $28 for a one-year subscriptio...

Bigfoot has no shoes. He has some flipflops I bought for $45. (That's what happens to shoe prices when your cute little child grows up...

Because we don't have distribution hymns, during communion distribution yesterday I was praying through several of the hymns in the Adve...

There were three local stations that I could patronize that sold real, non-ethanol gas. Two of them switched over to the corn-stuff in the ...

Yesterday I had started the grain soaking for my bread. And then I forgot. Shoot -- I didn't want to leave the grain soaking overnigh...

Did you know that if you wear sandals and cotton socks outdoors in 2-3" of snow, that your socks will get snowy? And when they get sno...