Susan's Pendulum

"The mystery of lawlessness" was in the reading recently from 2 Thessalonians 2.  It seemed an odd phrase. So how does it comp...

Wooden knitting needles. The sound and feel is just luscious in comparison to metal ones. Happy!

After Paul talks about the falling away of many in the church, he says, " God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sancti...

Good brakes. I did NOT hit the deer tonight.  And the guy behind me reacted quickly enough that he didn't hit me. I'm sure I l...

This is the weirdest picture, ... but how do you show a picture of somebody not using a hymnal?? It makes me happy to see people singin...

A letter. A real letter! A few days before Jane started her blogging of HappyThings , Elva wrote me a letter.  I can't even descri...

How can a simple fried egg be SO good?! Egg.  From a happy chicken.  Cooked in a cast-iron skillet.  With a touch of sea salt and black ...

Thesis: No one can be happy and contented in his life's work unless he is doing it to serve someone else (and not himself). No matte...

"Your neighbor is the man who needs you." Wow. That's a quote from Elbert Green Hubbard , a man who differed from me philos...

Conversation recently among a group of [unchurched] 20-somethings: "I don't think I'd ever want a family.  It would be fun to ...

Isn't it cool?  In Luke's version of the Transfiguration (chapter 9) , Jesus is talking with Moses and Elijah about "His dece...

I knew God changed Abram's name to Abraham. I knew God instituted the sacrament of circumcision for His people.  (In the new testament...

It takes so much energy to tend to an illness or a wound.  When I burned my arm recently, it took longer to get dressed in the morning becau...

... Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood ...  (Romans 3) So, that "propitiation" is another word for ...

Luke 15: a lost sheep, a lost coin, a lost son. Did you ever wonder why the middle story is about a woman who lost something?  (Well, bes...

On NPR today, the reporter was interviewing someone who does fact-checking.  The topic?  Obamacare.  The distress?  People's health plan...

Pictures taken by our friend Rachel .  (By the way, if anybody around here needs high school graduation pictures, Rachel is superb...

Our reverse-osmosis filter had not been working.  For eight weeks, I was buying jugs of water every time I had reason to be in town.  The ...

Turning into this driveway. Sometimes after work, I head to church instead of heading home.  Maybe there's class.  Maybe there's...

While doing kitchen work today, I was listening to Issues Etc on the topic of infant communion.  The guest said some good stuff.  But one b...