Yearly Archives: 2006

Today Dan Driedger came to present some financial seminars.  Jill and I sat in on the retirement planning.  Very well presented — discipline is a big factor.

Tomorrow we head into two further sessions — one on estates and wills and the other on growing  your money without selling your soul!

Never knew money could be such fun!  I’m not a subscriber to “prosperity gospel”, but I am a subscriber to a God for whom the prosperity of my soul is a primary concern.  I’m “rich in faith and hope and love” as an older but still popular Gaitherish song goes!

We have just had a look at our furnace duct work under our house.  Not a pretty sight.  Next week we will need to get some further advice.

Basically water has rusted out some of the duct work.  There are some options, none of which is without expense and time.

In the midst of all this, I’m pushing myself to trust God.  Seems like a small thing to start with him first.  But in most of life I start with him after the figuring out, the advise seeking and the calculated scenarios.  This time I sense a need to do all of the above, after I first get a personal chat with God.  And that chat is just a little reminder to God that not everything goes right all the time.  I’m trusting him to make this one of those “learning experiences.”  And if God has something further, I guess I want to be open.

So, here is my night prayer.

“God, keep me open.  Don’t let my worries overwhelm me.  Bring joy in the morning and throughout the night!”

Good night!

There is a book I have just started reading.  “Love and Respect” by Emerson Eggerichs.

A little over a year ago, a friend of mine was teaching the principles from this book.  He claimed it to be one of the best approaches to marriage that he had encountered.  He has done counselling for over two decades.  So, I was interested!

I checked out the website.  Some good things there.

But not until this week had I run across the book easily accessible to me.  And at price I was ready to give.

The premise is that men are to love women in marriage — women to respect men.  Then a marriage will function well.

I’m interested to see how this relates to other premises I have heard about well functioning marriages.  Without delving too far into the book, I suspect that when a man loves a women he is providing security for her.  When a woman respects a man, she is giving him power in the relationship. 

I could be a long way off — but then, that’s why I like to read books.  The interaction of my thoughts with those of an author make a book another guest around my table!!

Help me out! 

It’s halloween and time for a scary story!! 

I’ll start a story and let’s see where it goes.

“Into the evening staggered an event of extreme importance. 

The daylight had been shaded with wisps of cirrus clouds and stabs of chilly wind.  Around the grounds of the humble abode, once stately flowers were now withered stubs.

As if to announce the evening’s folly, a piercing yowl arose from the depths of the flatland.  As if brushed by a hawk’s breath, a frightened rabbit skirted around stubble and moldy hay bales.

There in the center of the field arose a frightening . . .”

OK, that’s the start.  Notice the use of adjectives and unusual action verbs!!  Let’s see what develops.