Susan's Pendulum

Customers began coming in to the bank, asking if we'd heard the news.  We hadn't.  All through the afternoon, it seemed that people ...

It would be cool if Pastor Esget were more a friend than a friendly acquaintance to me.  I have thoroughly enjoyed the brief times I've...

Gary has been teaching a college class for the local satellite of Concordia University.  It's been quite the challenge time-wise.  It...

The Israelites kept wandering from the Lord. They certainly deserved His punishment. They deserved to be abandoned by Him. But what does...

Pastor commented recently in Bible class about how Daniel and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego served the Bad Guy.  They were faithful Jews/...

In Luke 3, in the story of John's preaching and baptizing, we hear three times that different groups of people come and ask him, "...

At the end of the story about John the Baptist preaching repentance, we hear that Herod had been rebuked by John for the shenanigans with He...

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...