Inspiration! 17 months ago

I found this anonymous prayer and I want to share it. I think it will help me when I struggle with how to address asking God to help those around me:
“God of mercy, when I’m sick I often find it hard to pray. So I offer this moment of prayer when I’m well for all those who may now be too weak, too tired or too depressed to pray and to believe at this time in your goodness and mercy. May this be a healing moment for them, as it was for the woman in the Gospel who touched the hem of your garment. Amen.”

Praying with tears in my eyes 18 months ago

I have been very diligent in my efforts to pray each day. I have even done some work in reading the Bible before I pray to clear my mind of the clutters that usually find their way into my conversations with God. But there are people close to me who are hurting – my husband who deals with chronic pain every day – my mother, who is watching her sister slowly die from cancer – my father, who just lost his younger sister to illness. They are all angry at God. Can my prayers bring them peace when they have turned their faces away from Him?

Stress and Taxes

I've put it off about as long as I can. It's time to break out the receipts, the tax software and lots of coffee. It's time to pay Obama - er, I mean the taxes...

I know, I know, we have lots of folks to bail out - There's the banks, and the car companies, and the banks, and those bad mortgages, and the banks, and the failing state governments and oh did I mention the banks?

And it's my patriotic duty and what-not. But come on...

You know I'm just gonna write that check and then Obama's gonna take 90% of it and send it to China with the IOU he must surely send them on a weekly basis, and then he'll keep 5% of it for the next White House party (cause he's gotta take care of his girls!) and then he'll take the other 5% and put a bow on it and stick it back into the mailbox and say "here, look what I got you!"

I never was much of a fan of re-gifting.