Susan's Pendulum

The pictures of Jenna and Tina and Karen being escorted in didn't come out. Not enough light in the picture. Kinda freaky that Maggie...

If you've seen Everybody Loves Raymond or any number of movies with a stereotypical Jewish (or Polish or Greek or Italian) mother, you ...

The last verse of John's Gospel states: There are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppos...

Our psalm for the week is an ascension psalm, #47. God has gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. Speaking of the Secon...

Acts 1:11 -- "Men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so co...

It's 82&#176. The sheets are drying on the line and smell luscious. I'm wearing a tanktop and wanting to get outside to read a...

Our story today was from 1 Samuel 16. Interestingly, the story starts with God saying that He will provide for Himself a king, just like Ab...

Paul isn't having much luck finding a summer job. Right now, he's thinking about taking a 3-week job at his college, right smack da...

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. ...

Our verse for this week is from Ephesians 2: By grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, ...

The Wisconsin legislature is considering AB 119 and SB 89 . State law mandates school attendance from age 6 to 18. This bill, while not c...

In the parable of the workers in the vineyard, the owner of the vineyard pays the same wages to those who worked all day, to those who worke...

Back when I was wishing for enough stability that I could justify a small cow shed and a family cow, I wanted a jersey. Less milk, about ri...

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away. And every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. (Jo...

When Barb got me started on kombucha, she told me I needed to brew in a bowl with a wide top. She was brewing hers in mixing bowls. I didn...

I love this place ! (The price-tag scares the dickens out of me, but that's another issue.) I can't put my finger on what it is, bu...

Oh, the sermon yesterday was wonderful. At the moment, I can't recall which things actually came out of Pastor's mouth, and which t...

I love violets! This is what I'm looking at as I wash dishes ... ... and hang laundry on the clothesline.

Oh, I seldom fill out those little white postcards that come in the package with appliances and electronics. I guess I always saw them as o...