Posted by: andyouinvitedmein on: October 31, 2009
Our daughter got married this month. What a wonderful time we had with family and friends. How richly we were blessed. The ceremony was beautiful and the reception was festive…thanks to our many friends who helped put it together. People came from all over the US to help us celebrate this occasion. It was also [...]
Posted by: andyouinvitedmein on: September 15, 2009
I wanted to add this little bit of personal information. I’m part of that group of 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 5 boys who are molested. There were no books in those days to help ease the pain, since it happened when I was a youth and now I’m 55. I was the [...]
Posted by: andyouinvitedmein on: August 29, 2009
“…a good and decent man who saw wrong
and tried to right it, saw suffering
and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.”
Ted Kennedy speaking at the funeral of his brother
This week we lost Ted Kennedy. I’m a conservative, but many times I’ve felt he was a little too liberal. When all was [...]
Posted by: andyouinvitedmein on: July 8, 2009
Hasn’t the news been full of deaths lately? Some expected, some a shock, and most untimely. We just returned from a family reunion in Houston. It was great! We left with our souls over-flowing with love, both given and gotten. So how does this all weave together—other than the fact we were on our way [...]
Posted by: andyouinvitedmein on: November 10, 2008
I read in the newspaper about conservative churches being picketed by gay groups. I already knew that $73 million was spent on this election on the gay marriage issue. Thought: WWJD with that much money? That’s a lot of warm meals for hungry people poured down the proverbial toilet. We didn’t have that on the [...]
Posted by: andyouinvitedmein on: September 6, 2008
Read a review of my book by American Library Association executive council member, Diane Chen. This is from her blog on the School Library Journal: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/830000283/post/700031070.html
Posted by: andyouinvitedmein on: July 22, 2008
…are the words to a popular Christian song. We sang it at CFO. As we sang I started thinking about grace being enough. You know it’s great to have grace extended to us, and (at those times) grace IS enough for us. Grace was and is all about the work that Jesus did on the cross. Yet in [...]
Posted by: andyouinvitedmein on: July 3, 2008
In the late 1970’s I read about a camp—Camp Farthest Out or CFO—where people go to rest with their families and get re-connected to God. I think it was in a book that referenced Jimmy Carter’s sister, Ruth Carter Stapleton. I just remember thinking how I’d love to find this camp. Then in 1982 a [...]
Posted by: andyouinvitedmein on: June 24, 2008
In the summer I teach government. At the urging of a student I watched the movie Bobby. It was a such an inspiring film; hearing RFK say good things about our country. As a class we had previously watched a documentary about Watergate–and when Bobby died we got Nixon. At the end of the Bobby there is audio [...]
Posted by: andyouinvitedmein on: June 6, 2008
This is probably part one of a series of thoughts on the heart.
I’ve always been conservative, and keep more of a conservative leash on myself than most people would realize. On the other hand, in the last few years I’ve tried to listen to people on the outside to understand what they’re hearing from us. [...]
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