Katy’s Weblog
Jesus calls us to be servants – the greatest is the servant of all.
I don’t mind being a servant, if I am the one who volunteers and chooses to be a servant. I determine what I will or will not do.
But I don’t like to be forced to be a servant – when…
I love Psalm 121.
When I first learned to drive, in the pre-GPS, pre-Thomas Guide days (all we had were those maps from AAA, you know, the ones that are impossible to refold), I was taught that if I am lost, look for the mountains – the mountains are north. We lived against the foothills in Pasadena, so if I just head towards the mountains, I will eventually see something familiar near home.
A few of my friends like to run. I don’t understand running.
Why agonize, sweat, suffer aches and pains – for what?? It’s not even fun. It’s not like basketball with the challenge of getting the ball into the basket, or like football where there is fun in strategizing, or volleyball with interaction with your team mates.
Life’s disappointments can wear you down. Rejected for a date, not invited to a friend’s party, didn’t get what you wanted for Christmas – may be relatively minor disappointments and inconsequential in the scheme of things, but still, it can chip away the joy of living.
Our church’s former preaching pastor Mike said that after he became a Christian in the Philipines, he was excited to share his faith, and wrote to all his buddies in New York to tell them about Jesus.
Pastor Mike and I were converted at about the same time. I was in high school, in the…
When I went to college, I attended a junior college near home for one year, then transferred and lived away from home. I didn’t come back home to live until after I got married. My husband and I lived with my parents for one year while saving money to buy our first house. Living with my parents as an adult was difficult, to put it mildly. Honestly, I don’t recommend it.
With empty nest approaching for me, we are down to one child at home. With only 3 of us home now, without grandma or the 2 older kids, we are down 50% of the number of people in our house. I only do laundry once a week; I cook enough rice for 2 meals at one time because it’s hard to cook just 1 cup of rice; things are generally pretty quiet.
Knowing that I like to read mysteries, my sign language teacher told me this book is light reading and entertaining. I think it’s a little too light, and I did not find it very entertaining.
Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled by Dorothy Gilman is one in a series of Mrs. Pollifax novels. This is the first one…
Do you step on the pedal and speed under the railroad crossing gates when the red lights start flashing? I do…
But I won’t anymore.
Yesterday I was driving with my friend when we approached the railroad tracks. There was a car in front of me when the lights started flashing. That car sped past…
I’m taking a sign language class, we meet twice a week, and it’s one of the highlights of my week. There is a great sense of satisfaction when I actually understand what my teacher is signing (if he does it relatively slow).
There is a 70-year-old man in the class. He’s retired, wakes up anytime…