Archive for June, 2004
30 June 2004 | 09:30 AM
A Day of Preparation
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Day’s Verse:
For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 Cor. 5:1
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…Hopefully our tent will not be destroyed on this trip, anyway!
Zoe and I are off to Lake Annette Thursday for my first backpacking [...]
28 June 2004 | 06:25 PM
I Ask You
Did blogging catch on so well because people like thinking in short paragraphs? Because people like to fit the world into clever or valuable links summarized in a few words? Because people feel they are heard by putting their briefly-outlined lives on the internet?
- KF -
28 June 2004 | 12:17 PM
Fresher than a Just-Picked Strawberry
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Day’s Verse:
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart is the spirit broken.
Prov. 15:13
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A blog worth reading – Mrs. Sundberg.
It’s funny, you know, that for years I yearned for summer. Now it’s a time of dry heat — try 100 degrees in the sun, if the Fergusons’ thermometer is to [...]
27 June 2004 | 08:44 AM
A Garrison Keillor Type of Weekend
Saturday we joined thousands of over-the-hill couples in the afternoon sun at Marymoor park listening to Garrison Keillor talk us through a wonderful Prairie Home Companion. It contained all the best parts of his shows – Guy Noir, private eye; Lives of the Cowboys with Dusty and Lefty; and the sound effects man who does [...]
25 June 2004 | 10:27 AM
UW-ing It
Once upon a time… just kidding; I wouldn’t start a blog that way! I’m actually at the UW right now, in the Mary Gates building (I think) watching over 30 8th and 9th graders. They’re finishing their last day of a bioengineering camp that Mom helped put together and run. I got recruited to keep [...]
22 June 2004 | 09:21 AM
Empty Nesting
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Day’s Verse:
He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2 Cor 12:9
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Yesterday, checking on the baby birdie progress, I startled the remaining to birds. They had grown adult [...]
19 June 2004 | 01:38 PM
My Summer Out of Water One Fish’s Lament Upon Finding Itself Out of Its Creek
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Day’s Verse:
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 1:22
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Everything is so quiet in the summer. No hurrying to catch the shuttle, no smiling at strangers I see every day, no waving at the nameless WPI employee who hauls trash cans in a red pickup truck. No long hours at Clark [...]
17 June 2004 | 11:34 AM
In Three Days Nothing New Happened
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Day’s Verse:
A man’s heart plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps. The lot is cast in the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
Prov. 16:9, 33
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Yes, the title sums up everything. Read no further than here if you wanted an update on my life. Oh, but we played six or more [...]
14 June 2004 | 10:24 AM
There’s A Fake Tree Growing in the Hall Corner
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Day’s Verse:
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
James 1:2-4
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Here I offer a picture I took of the baby sparrows (?) that hatched in one of Deborah’s hanging flower pots. [...]
10 June 2004 | 04:07 PM
What must the world look like through the eyes of a sparrow? Try to imagine for a moment, the habitat of a house and its surrounding yard as if you were the sparrow nesting in the hanging flower pot.
- KF -
