cleaning

We have alot of company coming next week to help celebrate Hilary's upcoming nuptials. So of course there has been a need to clean up the house. Our comfort level of clutter is way higher than a guests....the Pippen hair does not bother us so much either, however others may not like the clinging black and white Dalmation hair. (It does not matter what you wear, it always shows) So our dear sons, James and Daniel are keeping Pippen while we have our house full, especially since my mom and dad will be here...watch that black suit Daniel, don't let Pippen near it! Jim spent three hours cleaning the floors today, they do look great, When I go to clean it seems I get sidetracked by organizing. Any-who..the second law of thermodynamics is in evidence allll over my house. Susan, I won't have it all done by Monday....come prepared.

esl

Well I began some English as a second language training to help newcomers to these English speaking shores cope with conversational English. Our teacher, Mary Jane, was effective and entertaining. I do not know how many people will come to these classes, however, I am looking forward to working with these people. I remember how lost I felt in the Dominican. I knew a little Spanish, however what we learned in school and what I was hearing was very different. I cannot imagine the impact the strong, local southern accent has on these people's understanding. It should be interesting....

just had to post it

Nathan wears Ties

Clinton Meets With Guy With Tie

Gary Jules

I like Gary Jules Music, some songs, Pills, Mad World, One Little Light, Dustcloud and Honeybees, Whichita, and Adalucia.. I would post a link but don't know how yet.

cowardice

Thoughts on being a Christ follower in a culture that praises pursuing truth, but dismisses anyone who claims to have found it... There is a strong desire in most people to be well thought of by ones peers. In non-church, intellectual circles, one way to be dismissed quickly (among many) is to state that you believe Christ is God come in the flesh. Some, who have believed cultural propaganda, tend to lump such a believer with flat earthers or antiscience thought and at best look on you condescendingly as someone who believes in a rather arcane superstition. Sometimes, there is a deeper price to pay than just being intellectually dismissed. In such a hostile atmosphere, it is easy for those who are prone to conflict avoidence, to practice small acts of cowardice. May the Lord give us loving hearts (so that it is through no unkind actions of out own that we are so treated) and may He give us courage, if we are to be dismissed and treated unkindly, because we follow Him. He was not treated very nicely by the educated of His time either.

Happy Birthday Duff

Duff is my third child, hooray for threes, may the world be full of them!