True Love

Some enchanted evening
When you find your true love,
When you feel her call you
Across a crowded room,

Who can explain it?
Who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons,
Wise men never try

Some enchanted evening

when you find your true love,
When you feel her call you
across a crowded room,

Then fly to her side,
And make her your own
Or all through your life you
May dream all alone.

Once you have found her
never let her go.

Once you have found her,

Never let her go!

A Father's Love Letter to You

Here is a message of encouragement if you are stressed or weary.

Vive la difference

We had a few guests over at our house spending the weekend and because one of them was hearing impaired, we used subtitles on our movies. Since there were five women and just one lonely man...he had to endure our pick which was Little Women.






The next night he got even by voting on Gladiator.
Now I happen to love both movies so I had no problem with the pick. Maybe it was the novelty of watching a movie with subtitles that helped me notice something that had eluded me before...no, it wasn't the storyline or the obvious differences between a "chick flick" and a "man's movie:" one filled with relationships while the other full of blood and guts-- it was something else.



It was the dialog!!! This is where the realm of masculinity and femininity can clearly be seen, or rather should I say heard? Here's the challenge...watch both movies with subtitles and you'll see the contrast. What do I say?
Vive la difference!

Breaking Free

Faith is a fight most of the times and everything true will be tested. I see the struggle like a metamorphosis...the transformation happens in the darkness and hardness of a crystalis. Part of the struggle is the aloneness of it all--will we ever get out? Why all this pain and constriction...will we ever be free? We wait and wonder and struggle yet we can no more escape the process than a butterfly for it is who we are and what we are fashioned for.







I remember hearing a woman speak on the radio who was describing a butterfly breaking free from it's cystalis. As she saw the thing struggle she decided to help it by tearing the sides of the capsule only to find that when the butterfly emerge it was deformed and soon died. The struggle and fight to get out of its prison was the thing that transformed it.




How often have I aborted the affect of change in my own life because I was tired of the process? I cry out, "God get me out of here!" When all the time He is saying, "I'm answering your prayer to make you whole." I doubt Him because it doesn't seem like the way to transformation, in fact it feels like the opposite is happening. Free me sooner, make the process painless and the very life I crave to live is unattainable. That's why faith is a fight to me and I don't think I'm the only one who sees it that way...







"That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don't look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gave on things that cannot be seen for the things we see ow will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever." 2 Cor. 4:16-18 New Living Translation.

Words to Live By

H e will make your righteousness shine like the dawn
A s for me and my house we will serve the Lord
P erfect love case out all fear
P eace I give you
Y ou surround me with songs of deliverance

N ever will I leave you; never will I forsake you
E arnestly will I seek You
W ait on the Lord and be of good courage

Y ou have made known to me the path of life
E vening and morning, I cry out to You
A part from You I have no goodness
R estore to me the joy of Your salvation

Hurrah for the Hobbit!

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After months of bitter legal wrangling,

Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema and

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Studios Inc have agreed to

make two movies based on the book

"The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien.

(Alas, Peter no longer looks like a hobbit!)

In a statement Tuesday, the companies said Jackson, the director of the smash hit "Lord of the Rings" movies, and producer Fran Walsh will executive produce both a "Hobbit" movie and a sequel, but Jackson was not named as the director.
"We don't have a director yet," said a New Line spokeswoman.
The movies will be made simultaneously starting in 2009, and a tentative release date has been set for 2010 for the first film and 2011 for the second.
MGM and New Line, a unit of Time Warner Inc, will co-finance the films, with New Line distributing them in the United States and MGM internationally.
MGM is a closely held company owned by several private equity firms and media divisions of Sony Corp and Comcast Corp.
Science fiction fantasy "The Hobbit" tells of a world inhabited by wizards, dwarfs, elves and little people called hobbits, who include the central character, Bilbo Baggins.
"The Hobbit" preceded Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" books, which were made into smash hit movies by New Line, starting with 2001's "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring."
Combined with two sequels -- "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" -- the three took in roughly $3 billion at global box offices.
The final movie, "Return of the King," won Oscars for best movie and best director for Jackson. But the director later sued New Line, claiming the studio had improperly accounted for the movie's profits and owed Jackson money.
That suit has now been settled, allowing movies based on "The Hobbit" to go into development, with Jackson attached and with MGM, which owned film rights to "The Hobbit," as part of the team.
"I'm very pleased that we've been able to put our differences behind us, so that we may begin a new chapter with our old friends at New Line," Jackson said in a statement.
(Reporting by Bob Tourtellotte; editing by Gerald E. McCormick)

Historical Revisionism

The following is an email I received and had a good
laugh! I did an edit and cut out the political comments
because this is not a political blog. My comments are 
in green.

The two most important events in all of history were
the invention of Beer (why is beer capitalized?) and
the invention of the wheel.
The wheel was invented to get man to the Beer. 
(Ah, I thought that's why the car was invented!)
These inventions were the foundation of
modern civilization.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain,
and that was the beginning of agriculture.
(Is beer the motive of all mankind's advancement?)
Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum
can were invented yet, so while our early
humans were sitting around waiting for them to
be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery.
That's how villages were formed. (My God! beer
is the foundation of all society!)

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to
B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer.
(alas, men have not changed in thousands of years!) 

Simple People

I’m one of those simple people…
I actually like paintings that represent the real thing.

I like books that clear up some questions instead of adding to them.
We can be so artistic no one understands us.

We can be so clever that we are all alone.
We can have the praise of the elite and miss the heart of humanity.