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Fresh homemade crust with butter (special no calories or cholesterol butter for this one special pie), sweet strawberries on sale at Von’s, homemade glaze made with crushed fresh strawberries, no artificial flavors, a dab of real whipped cream (CoolWhip is yucky, not worth the calories).
Yes, we made it with our own hands. And the 4 of us ate it all in one sitting!
I bought stuff at Costco and WinCo simultaneously. How is that possible, you ask?
By “cooperative shopping.” I think we should all do cooperative shopping with a neighbor to save money and gas.
My friend LL lives up the street from me. Via cell phone, we tell each other deals we see while shopping. We can thus comparative shop without running around to all the stores and buy the good deals for each other.
When circumstances do not go the way I want, I am not happy.
When people do not act the way I want them to, I am not happy.
When I can’t get what I want, I am not happy.
When life is not what I hoped it would be, I am not happy.
Another Sherlock Holmes book not by Conan Doyle.
This one is The Seven Percent Solution by Nicholas Meyer.
Holmes’ cocaine addiction is so unpopular. This is the second book I’ve read that talks about Holmes quitting the habit. I agree that we don’t like the idea of our hero as a drug addict.
There is so much in the book of Jonah.
It’s not just about a big fish. That’s probably the least interesting part.
More interesting to me is how God spend so much effort on Jonah!
If God wanted Ninevah to be saved, why didn’t he just send another prophet when Jonah refused to go? There…
Steven Curtis Chapman’s 5-year old daughter was hit by a car and killed on their driveway.
That’s sad.
But what is sadder is the car that hit her was driven by her teenage brother.
How can the brother deal with his guilt even though it was probably not his fault?
Yes, the culture and technology is changing rapidly…but I am not going to get deep and post about that.
I am talking about the weather. Not global warming type of change…I am not going to get deep about that either.
This is what I mean: Last Saturday, we used our pool for the first time this year. It was 80F degrees when we went swimming at 9pm.
This just occurred to me that I find interesting:
While Jesus was being arrested and Peter pulls out his sword, Jesus reprimanded him saying, “Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?” It is clear that the Father’s will for Jesus is to be arrested, and eventually go to the cross. So Jesus did not resist.
The Pevensie children in Narnia had to Do Hard Things.
They fought, they bled, they were chased, they faced huge problems of national proportions, they even had to face near death.
Yet they loved going to Narnia. It was adventure. It was challenging. It was not the usual stuff they do everyday.
With the recent news of so many lost of lives in China, Burma (Myanmar), and here in the U.S., I am echoing the words of Habakkuk:
How long, O Lord, must I call for help,
but you do not listen?
Or cry out to you, “Violence!”
but you do not save?
Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrong?
Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and conflict abounds.
Are you going to do something about this, Lord?