My Ramblings

1 Kings 19v19-21 So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him. Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. “Let me kiss my father and…

John 11v35 “Jesus wept.” One noun, one verb…that’s it. It’s been bothering me for a short while, why Jesus would weep. Most of us know the backdrop to this story. Mary, Martha and Lazarus lived together. Lazarus died four days earlier, and not only were Mary and Martha devastated at the loss of their brother,…

John my neighbor and I were chatting the other day. He is 93 and enjoys a game of golf with his buddies. He was telling me how his eyesight is failing, and the DMV won’t renew his license so he can no longer drive, let alone see where he is going most of the time….

I often marvel at the technology that is available at our fingertips and the freedom we have today to share information across a multitude of platforms. It was in 1995 that I sat in my office with an internet technician hooking up my computer to the “internet” via a “dial-up” modem. At the time I had no…

Remember back in the day the teacher would assign a topic and then we would have to write an essay and hopefully get good marks when we turned the paper in? I am glad those days are over, and today prefer to be organic – if it means something to me I will share it,…

Never quite understood how authors could not possess the ability to write “anything” even when they didn’t feel like it – and that there is such a thing as writers’ block. I have come into one of those places recently where I can sit and stare at the screen and not have anything cross my…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmknOKkaPEI] “For nearly an hour, he lay on the ground as passers-by turned their heads to look at him, gawk or pause and walk off. One lifted his body to reveal blood on the sidewalk. By the time emergency workers arrived, he was dead.” Courtesy Associated Press. Captured on surveillance camera, this week in New York,…

Have you ever taken a moment to read through your insurance policy to establish what is and isn’t covered? I think most of us don’t bother reading the fine print until you actually need to seek treatment and there you soon discover what you will be paying for and what your carrier “might” cover when…

When the news first hit the airwaves concerning a massive earthquake in Haiti, little attention was given to the severity. There have been rumblings here and there, but who would have thought that 10 short miles below the surface of Port-au-Prince a massive 7.0 earthquake was to ravage the city, and bring devastation beyond comprehension?…