Entries for June 4, 2009

I just finished a very heart touching book called "Strange Tales" by John Ashworth. It's a collection of personal memoirs in which he shares his experience ministering to destitute people in the mid 1800s.

Words are inadequate to describe how touched I was by it. I used a lot of kleenex. If you want a good dose of what it is like to minister to the destitute, this is it.

I was quite moved with it that here's my detailed review of the book.

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Hualem

God's Kingdom is not of words, but of power.

Healing is a process. Joyce Meyer said she became depressed at times when she felt she should not talk, or say more than the bare miminum....I become depressed too when I feel I have to monitor myself always. Journaling is about not monitor myself always...I have thoughts, they have to go somewhere and for so long I have stuffed them, just habit really. I don't want to talk people's ears off, but I do want to add anything I can or have to...

JanuaryMoon

Well put, President Obama.

I acknowledge the difficulties you have in achieving your objectives, such as diverse ideologies, poor or even malicious understanding of reason, and a diversity of personal objectives, but, President Obama, if your reasoning is consistent, then there is much that we can agree upon and that needs to be accomplished.

fated

Artificial birth control usage is a sin. It is a grave sin. Sex is meant to be open to life and also pleasureful but artificial contraception makes sex into an unnatural thing: a thing which is not open to life. Read on for more information about why birth control usage is a grave sin:

(Gen 1:28 RSV) And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air...

Ave Maria