Part VI Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

At the end of Alice’s last adventure, she has arrived at a house but doesn’t know whose it is. Now in this adventure she sees a fish livery footman arriving at the door and a frog footman answering the door. Their discourse gives an indication as to whom the house belongs to as the fish footman announces an invitation for the duchess to come play croquet with the queen. Alice wants to go inside but doesn’t know how and as the frog isn’t much help, Alice simply opens the door and goes in. There she finds the duchess nursing a baby and a cook hurling pots, pans and plates while making a highly peppered soup that causes the poor baby to howl and sneeze. The duchess is shaking the baby violently while singing a lullaby about the pepper and eventually tosses the baby to Alice to nurse while she gets ready to play croquet. Alice finds this baby rather queer shaped and sees that it is turning into a pig. She wants nothing more to do with the pig. (Would you, if someone’s behavior turns pig-like?) The pig grunts violently, she sets it down and then watches it trot off into the woods.
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Jettison; but what

January 20, 2009- President Barack Obama made some startling picturesque remarks in his inaugurate speech.
“For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus – and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.”

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Clothing vs Clothing

Most of us spend a considerable amount of time, money and attention on our clothes. But there are some clothes we may not have thought much about. Several years ago, I met Ruth Catalano, a teacher, prophet, and missionary to the American Indians, Sallisaw,Oklahoma. ‘Sister Ruth’ while visiting in Virginia and NC spoke on II Corinthians 5:1-4 and I had the privilege of hearing it. She spoke about clothing, ‘a clothing upon’ as the King James version says, that has an eternal value to us.

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From inaugurate prayer ’09

of Rev. Joseph Lowery, an 87 year old civil rights pioneer:
Rev. ended his prayer with, “Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around – when yellow will be mellow – when the red man can get ahead, man – and when white will embrace what is right.”

What does this mean?

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‘Lessons I Learned in The Light’

I have been reading a birthday present that Sara had given me, entitled, ‘Lessons I Learned in The Light’ by Jennifer Rothschild. Author Rothschild has been blind since age 15 but her in-SIGHT is tremendous. She is really NOT in the dark as she has relied on Jesus, literally, for her SIGHT and LIGHT.
One of many revelations that she has shared in her book, that really spoke to me, concerns an incident where she unilaterally made a decision to get rid of a piece of equipment in her home that really belonged to her husband, without his knowledge or permission, because she wanted it OUT!! She later tells us that it was good that she got rid of that piece of equipment, not because of the extra storage room it freed up, but because she discovered what a truth it exposed about herself
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Inauguration Prayer

Almighty God, creator and sustainer of all things, we praise you and honor your name.

We thank you that you have allowed us to live in a nation of peaceable government. That we have a quiet change of officers. We ask you for the continuance of this process.

As we change officials of the nation, we ask you to continually bless President Bush, his wife, Laura, and family as they humbly step aside and return to citizen life. We ask for their health, of soul and body as they transition to another phase of life.

We pray for President-elect Obama, his wife and children as they step into new roles. we pray for their protection from evil in all forms.
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Unbelief is a Parody to me

It seems it takes faith to have non-faith? As one parades around words and actions of unbelief parody begins to lead the parade. Why you might ask? How could this be? I believe it is an exercise in self-parody. I recently read portions of “Welcome to Your Brain” by Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt. They gave an interesting thought on mental aptitude:

Q. “Why can’t you tickle yourself?”

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