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.

When to stop being fruitful and multiplying?

In the 9^th 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.

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.