60's POP ROCK for ya. Great group.    Lord, all the different sounds through the ages – your creativity is unmatchable. Thank you for it all. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.  

                                        Say what you will about Tom Cruise as a person, but as an actor in the Mission Impossible films, he's terrific. I confess there are certain actors I cannot ignore as far as their political…

Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you;    he rises to show you compassion.  For the Lord is a God of justice.    Blessed are all who wait for him!   Isaiah30:18 (NIV) 

               Five things I love about eastern Washington . . . (I live in western Washington southeast of Seattle)  The various terrain – from lava-like rock structured hills that look like giant sleeping elephants to lush hay fields  The wonderful smells of those hay fields, of sage brush in…

(Originally posted on 01/19/2011 as "The Ambiguous Average") Ambiguous: 1.Susceptible to multiple interpretation 2.Doubtful or uncertain Synonyms: equivocal, obscure, obtuse, vague, cryptic, enigmatic Average: (Discarding the mathematical definitions) Typical, usual Synonyms: medium, mediocre, fair, middling, indifferent, run-of-the-mill, so-so, tolerable Most of us remember how to establish an “average” when presented with several numbers. We recognize…

  Ah, so lovely. Wow, who wouldn't want to stroll through this beautiful forest . . .    God, you show yourself through beauty, unlimited. Thank you for it all. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

      Oh yeah. You can blame it all on him. When we were young . . . very young.   Lord, growing older has its benefits. Hopefully we gain your wisdom from all those foolish youthful years. Help us to be the ones you designed us to be. In the Name of Jesus,…

                                            Don't Leave Me by James Scott Bell is the exciting, intense story of a big brother (Charles "Chuck" Samson) and his younger adult autistic/savant brother Stan (think of the older film Rain Man)…

     Indignant because Jesus healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue ruler said to the people, "There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath."      The Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from…

                    Five of the best authors at doing dialogue both external and internal (in no particular order or genre):   Sibella Giorello James Scott Bell Becky Wade Robert Liparulo Vince Flynn/Kyle Mills  (And I do like my characters' dialogue[s] if I do say so myself. I…