True Security

Do you feel unsettled, as if things were slipping through your fingers? Unsteady on your feet because your world is turning upside down? You may not know what your future holds...but I know the One who wants to hold your future and your life.

"I will never leave you or forsake you." Jos. 1:5b The word for leave is rapah: the basic idea of relaxing the hands, loosing one's grip. The Lord will never abandon you, turn His back on you or relax the hold He has on your life.


"But Zion says, 'The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me...

"See, I have engraved you on the palm of my hands; your walls are ever before me." (Isa. 49;14, 16)




Jesus put it this way..."I give them eternal life and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me, for my Father have given them to me and he is more powerful than anyone else. No one can snatch them from the Father's hand. The Father and I are one." (Jn. 10:28-30 New Living Translation)

The Tale of Two Men

One evening at the turn of the 19th century, a British Member of Parliament was hurrying through rain and fog in the Scottish countryside to deliver an important speech when his carriage ran off the road. With its wheels caught axle-deep in mud, the carriage simply could not be moved, even when the politician, though dressed in typically aristocratic attire, left the carriage to lend a hand.

Fortunately, a young Scottish farm boy happened to pass with a team of horses and volunteered to help. With a great deal of effort, the carriage was finally pulled free and returned to the road. When the boy steadfastly refused to accept compensation for his help (or for his soiled clothes), the Englishman asked him about his plans for the future. "I want to be a doctor," the lad replied. So impressed was the gentleman that he promptly offered to help and, thanks to his generosity, the young man attended university.

More than fifty years later, Winston Churchill became dangerously ill with pneumonia in Morocco. His life was saved by a new wonder drug, penicillin, which had been discovered several years before by a Scottish-born physician named Sir Alexander Fleming.

Fleming, of course, was the farm boy who had helped the Member of Parliament on that rainy night in Scotland half a century before. And the Member of Parliament? He was none other than Winston Churchill's father, Randolph!

Dummy Up!

A young ventriloquist is touring the clubs and one night he's doing a show in a small town in Arkansas. With his dummy on his knee, he starts going through his usual dumb blonde jokes when a blonde in the 4th row stands on her chair and starts shouting: "I've heard enough of your stupid blonde jokes. What makes you think you can stereotype women that way?”






What does the color of a person's hair have to do with her worth as a human being? It's guys like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in the community and from reaching our full potential as a person. Because you and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against not only blondes, but women in general, and all in the name of humor!"

The embarrassed ventriloquist begins to apologize, and the blonde yells, "You stay out of this, Mister! I'm talking to that little Knucklehead on your knee."

A Hobbit And A Maid

There she stood in armor…a maid
Defending her king, her face was grave.
No longer called Derhelm but Éowyn.
Hair no longer bound but blowing in the wind.

Alone she stood like a pillar of light
Against the Nazgûl with all her might.
Pity stirred in Merry…
his courage awoke.
The Shire would come to her
aid with a stroke.

No man could kill him, the saying was true
Yet a Hobbit and a maid his power overthrew.
The living undead, now dead would be
The witch-king departed…
Middle-earth freed.

A Novel Idea

My good friend Melanie has yet again tagged me with a great Meme. Here are the rules:

1. Pick up the nearest book of at least 123 pages.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

From Longfellow's Evaneline (I am blessed to have an original 1900 copy)

A youth, light-hearted and content,
I wander through the world;
here, Arab-like, is pitched my tent
and straight again is furled.

Yet oft I dream, that once a wife
close in my heart was locked,
and in the sweet repose of life
a blessed child rocked.

I wake! Away that dream, away!
Too long did it remain.

A Dinosaur

"Wow, I never met anyone..." he said with genuine wonder.
I shivered, but not with delight.
"Well now you have," I cut him off.
"Are you for real?"
"Yes, I know I'm rare but there are actually people out there like me."
"I'm going to tell everyone about you!" he boasted as if making a great discovery.
"Please don't," I whispered under my breath.
"You're the first person I know who doesn't own a cell phone!"

I'm not catholic but at that moment I wanted to make a confession to the telecommunication gods.

1. In two years, I lost my blasted cell phone three times.
2. In the two miserable years I did own one, I used it a total of 2 dozen times.
3. I only know how to turn it on, dial, talk and turn it off and every time it rang I wanted to throw it against the wall.
4. I have no idea how to save people's numbers on it.
5. I always forget to turn it off when I'm at the movies.
6. I drive badly enough without the darn thing going off when I'm at the wheel.

Yes, I have committed six deadly sins but in order to be free I have done more than renounce them, I have gotten rid of the temptation altogether. Just call me a dinosaur!

Oh Baby!

Here's a moment of pure, unadulterated laughter.
Press play and I dare you not to laugh!