Thursday the women at First Trinity tried to teach me to knit so that I could make a prayer shawl just like the rest of them. Does my brain not think like this? Why is it so difficult…

Adding things to my life is so much easier as it may be with you.

It sounds stiff like we have to obey these laws to the "T”. (Where did that expression come from?)

Imagine before 1882. In that year the first commercial power station, located on Pearl Street in lower Manhattan, went into operation providing light and power to customers in a one square mile area. This is when the electric age began. 

(Turn out all lights)

My emotions surface during that moment, and I become overwhelmed with God’s presence.

I believe I fell in love with the “church” on Epiphany.

Children born this year 2011 will never know…

We “settle” a lot in life. It may not be the perfect car, job, house, or whatever but we know that realistically nothing is perfect so we make decisions on what we can deal with and what we need or want the most and then decide which one we can settle for. That’s not a bad thing.

There is also a sharp contrast in our emotions this Christmas among people. What emotions are you feeling? There are a lot of contrasting emotions.

Simple is best. The Bible even says so in Proverbs 13: 7 - “A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life."

When you go into a restaurant do you prefer a table or a booth? I always ask for a table. At a table my feet always touch the floor. A problem for short people in some booths.

Labels are sticky. Labels cause problems. Labels cannot be removed easily if at all. Labels damage.

God is doing a new thing in me - like it or not. As those close to me know, when new things are presented to me and new things begin, I generally gripe about them and try to get away from them.

I watched The Great Food Truck Race about taco trucks. I couldn’t believe it!

Lately I am consumed by the pain and the hard times children have to go through.

The other day I traveled on the Megabus from Indianapolis to Chicago. The more I travel, the more I notice things in people’s ears.

This week I found the box I have been looking for. It was taped shut about 20 years ago. I am not much of a saver or keeper of things. Generally, if I don’t use something in a year, it goes to someone who actually will use it. That doesn’t pertain to items like the ones in the box, though.

In the back window was a large umbrella sitting on top of a Bible. I thought this was pretty meaningful. The umbrella helps them avoid the rain of water. Their Bible helps the avoid the reign of evil.

The book by Barbara Brown Taylor “An Altar in the World” has really given me a lot of food for thought. Most recently I have been thinking about the words sensuality and sexuality because of chapter four called “The Practice of Walking on the Earth: Groundedness."

What are the Top 10 things you cannot live without?