Susan's Pendulum

The lettuces planted on April 5 took three weeks to germinate and come up.  They are now a whoppin' 1/4" tall.  This past Saturday ...

Grabbed off Facebook: What's so great about living in Switzerland? Hmmm. I guess the flag is a big plus.

When Jesus died, He "yielded up" His Spirit (Matt 27) . In the Lord's Prayer (Matt 6) , we pray, "forgive us" our ...

Nanna got her hands on the Matthias. This is just such a happy picture. Beautiful mama.  And that couldn't possibly be a yaw...

Judas went to the priests with his sin: "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood."  Hey, "you see to it," buster.  Not...

Zoe (and Alia) -- April 3 Zoe was showing me how she can put her hand by her chin in a certain ponderous pose: "Dis is what finking...

Last weekend during the services, we kept hearing God call us "My people."  The reproaches on Friday: "Oh, My people!" ...

    Stolen from Polly's FB page

I cannot scold myself into not being weak. But that doesn't stop me from trying.  Dumb me. It's so hard to know when you're ...

Savings Mr Banks was one we'd intended to see in [gasp!] the theatre .  Like other people.  But we never made it.  So we watched it on ...

Another groaner from Tyler: John really liked Emmaline.  He asked her to accompany him to the prom.  Emmaline accepted.  John was delight...

The beatitudes end with "Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake....

Holy Week: church, job, sleep, and working on the bridesmaid dress.  That was about it. After making adjustments to the pattern and cuttin...

Another bad pun from my co-worker -- but read it out loud because I'm not sure this is a joke that can be communicated in writing: ...

"Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect" (Matthew 5) .  Yikey-schnikey!  If you're like me, you can't help but h...

My co-worker Tyler was telling some jokes today at lunch.  At their Easter dinner, his family got going on a run of Bad Joke Telling.  Here...

But a rotating fan gathers LOST of dust! I learned something about dust one day in confirmation class.  (That was not the pastor's p...

Extra services. Pastors have many sermons to prepare. Some pastors have services to write too.  In congregations that don't use the l...

In a few years, Joey will grow to be 16.  Imagine his dad gives him the car keys.  Joey takes the car and drives stupidly and wraps the car ...

If anyone confesses Me before men, him also I will confess before My Father who is in heaven. But if anyone denies Me before men, him also...