it's just what i think

About a week ago I finished Helen Fielding's Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination. I was somewhat disappointed with this read. For the length of the book there was too much content. Fielding easily could have expanded any number of the ideas, which she introduced.

• Terrorism
• Sudan
• Drug Smuggling
• Political Cover ups
• Al-Qaeda
• Takfiri

Or even expanded the relationships that were introduced. Instead, although somewhat amusing, it touched slightly on all of the topics without resolve.

This book would be appropriate for the person who wants a 306 pg. quick read without much substance. For a vacation, perhaps. The author, a journalist and novelist, lives in London and that is apparent in her verbiage. On occasion the word choices tripped me up until I resolved them to an English slang.

Next read: William Paul Youngs The Shack. Why?? Last week I heard this book discussed in 3 different circles with comments like:

• "It is sweeping the Nation"
• "You mean you haven't heard of it?"
• and... "Hey what did you think of ..."

I love book discussions so I thought I'd pick it up. On the cover it is exclaimed to be the '#1 New York Times Bestseller' with over 2 million copies in print. I don't really care about all that. Countless times I've found that I tend to like the movies that got 2 thumbs down or books that don't always make, well... anyone's list. So, I'll begin this with just a little more anticipation than some good conversation.

Care to join me?

the word game

Are you still unsure? How about this:



Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia."
Pope Benedict XVI



This is so unthinkable yet this is who Obama is. His words, not mine. This is sickening, repulsive, immoral. My stomach turns at the sheer thought.

Words For Life

John 17

...20,21. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,

that all of them may be one,

Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.

May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

22. I have given them the glory that you gave me,

that they may be one as we are one: 23.I in them and you in me.

They they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you have sent me and

have loved them even as you have loved me.

24. Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory,

the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

NIV

Wise words from the Psalms

Psalm 25: 4-7

4.Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths;

5. guide me in your truth and teach me,

for you are God my Savior,

and my hope is in you all day long.

6. Remember, O Lord, your great mercy and love,

for they are from of old.

7. Remember not the sins of my youth and

my rebellious ways;

according to you love remember me,

for you are good, O Lord.

NIV

May our paths be guided by the Lord and our hearts be open to follow it. May we appreciate the mercy and love our God has available to us and may we turn from wrongdoings to courageously press forward on the path He has set before us. amen

Wise words from the Psalms

Psalm 24

'1.The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it,

the world, and all who live in it;

2. for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.

3.Who may ascend the hill of the Lord?

Who may stand in his holy place?

4.He who had clean hands and a pure heart,

who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false.

5.He will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from God his Savior.

6.Such is the generation of those who seek him,

who seek your face, O God of Jacob. Selah'

NIV