Stray Noodles

If there is anyone out there who is reading this and has read my posts in the past, you probably noticed that they disappeared.  In a moment that I now wish I could take back for some of my posts, I removed everything.  I had a growing, legitimate concern for the direction the blog was taking, one more of boasting about doings than of encouraging others to follow Christ.  In addition, a dear friend shared a concern about how expressing oneself over the internet may be taken and used.  However, I recently got a very clear picture that this cannot be prevented.  This is now the way most of the world communicates and no matter what, I must not let my voice for the Lord be silenced.  He saved me for a purpose, to be a witness to His miraculous saving grace and bring hope to the lost.  Our world is changing, hostilities are rising, and the end is drawing near.  We all must die one day be it through old age, illness, or violence.  We can't always ...

  "For the next sixty seconds, this station will conduct a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed to tune to one of the broadcast stations in your area."   How many times have we seen that phrase scroll across the bottom of our television screen, either in real life, or a movie? It's comforting to know that we have alarm systems available to us when external forces are at work, but what about when the emergency is internal where nobody sees? Is there an EMS for that too? There is, and this is one example of how it worked for me.   To say that learning to cope with my widowhood has been difficult would be putting it lightly. But the harder task has been getting used to single parenthood; mostly because it was an aspect of my husband's death I never considered, given that my sons are now young men. But now, as I watch them grapple with how to navigate their lives wit...