Susan's Pendulum

I just spent a chunk o' time setting up my 2013 files in the computer for the budget and photos.  If the Mayans are right, I just wasted...

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me, ...   (John 10:27) Pastor pointed out on Sunday:  "I know them."...

In the High Priestly Prayer, Jesus prays, "You gave them to Me,  and they have kept Your word....   For I have given to them the wor...

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's "own," or "real...

"Marilla really did not know how to talk to the child, and her uncomfortable ignorance made her crisp and curt when she did not mean to...

We do not own an electric can opener.  Our can opener is a quiet little hand-crank thing.  Last night I opened a can of tuna.  Athena was d...

Argh!  I'm always using the home passwords at work, and now I'm trying to type work-passwords into the URL of the home computer.  My...

Last Tuesday the knot in my neck and the messed-up shoulder blade were giving me a royal headache -- a headache humongous enough that I (ant...

Paul proposed. Mandy said yes. This is a marvelous thing! When Paul and Mandy were here visiting last month, she left her jacket.  Pa...

Liz posted this picture yesterday of the competition between the fire departments.  For those of you who don't live in small towns, it...

Updates which may bore people who aren't my mom -- Gary has been teaching a class at the Waukesha campus of Concordia--Wisconsin.  Enj...

I think I washed dishes eight times on Tuesday before I asked one of the kids to help. Wednesday looked to be another day full of dishes. ...

We pray that evil be thwarted; we pray for an end to abortion and other murders; we pray that people are safe; we pray that people do not be...

For He has delivered me out of all trouble;  And my eye has seen its desire upon my enemies.  (Psalm 54) The same sort of line shows up i...

Last year, Pastor Bender spoke on Issues Etc about thankfulness, why we are thankful (or not), how the gifts God provides can become idols,...

One of my daughters (a lonnnng way off from menopause) mentioned that she sometimes uses refined salt because of the iodine content.  When s...

He has made His wonderful works to be remembered. (Ps 111) Not only has He done wonderful works. But He also makes sure that we (we wh...

The old dishes were annoying us.  Quite a few had broken.  The bowls didn't stack, and thus hogged too much space in cupboards.  The pla...

And he showed me a pure river of water of life,  clear as crystal,  proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.  In the middle of ...