Sunday, July 24, 2011

You treat her like she was born to you.

My family just spent a week at church camp.  Tricia was the program chaplain and I was the worship chaplain.  What this really means is that Tricia led the 42 elementary campers in a daily 45 minute “churchy” lesson and I led one 45 minute Holy Eucharist on Friday, but Tricia actually did the preaching so…well…I didn’t really do much all week.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

When to stop being fruitful and multiplying?

In the 9th chapter of Genesis, God tells Noah and his sons to be fruitful and multiply. Great!  Sounds like a lot of fun, but God didn’t say when to stop being so fruitful.

Monday, July 4, 2011

Pledged Allegiance and Independence

Independence Day has always been celebrated in my house.  When I was a kid we used to pile in a boat at Lake Tenkiller in Oklahoma and drive down to the Dam for the yearly light show.  This was always a good time and I have very fond memories of those outings.  We were not allowed to buy fireworks from the stand, but I do remember once when we got sparklers and those black snake things.  I burnt my hand on a sparkler, but I was not going to tell my mom…I was lucky to get the sparklers that one year and there was no way in hell that I was going to reinforce her insistence of just how dangerous fireworks really were/are.