The Hey You Lady

Hello, everybody. God here. Thought I’d check in with all of you this evening. I’ve been hearing your prayers – all of them – and have been answering them, too. I know some of you don’t quite believe that I’ve been hearing and listening. And there are a few of you who have been praying, with the first words out of your heart are “God, if you’re there …” Surprise! I AM here! I’ve heard the prayers that you’ve memorized since childhood, “God is great, God is good, Thank you, God, for our food.” You’re welcome. It makes me happy that you enjoy it – just do so in moderation, of course. I’ve heard you saying the prayer that my Son taught his followers while he was here on earth: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil For Thine is the kingd...

Not long ago I attended a writer's faire, where I heard a speaker say, "If you write a page a day, at the end of a year you will have a novel."  No, I thought, in my case I would have 365 pages of disconnected drivel.  This is a sampling of my disconnected drivel that came out of the 500 Words challenge.  It happens to be in line with this week's Topical Blogger's subject of "Family Portraits."  Enjoy! Molly likes breakfast time.   Her whole family has breakfast together – Mommy, Daddy, and her brother Bobby.   Her favorite doll Pansy also sits at the breakfast table.   Molly usually has a bowl of Loopiloos with milk for breakfast.   But today was Saturday.   On Saturday, Mommy makes pancakes.   Daddy helps her cut the pancakes so she can eat them easier.   She likes to pour her own syrup, but sometimes needs Daddy to help her.   Molly eats two pancakes.   Pansy does not eat pancakes.   She does not like them. ...

Tragedy.   Disease.   Killer heat waves.   Natural disasters.   Terrorist attacks.   Horrible circumstances.   Chocolate chip cookies without a cold glass of milk.   War.   Sitting through the movie “Creature.”   What do all of these things have in common?   People say they are hell.   While unpleasant things make our lives miserable, even hellish, they themselves are not hell.   We’ve all heard or been taught that when we die we either go to heaven, or to hell.   The difference between heaven and hell, to break it down to the simplest explanation, is this:   heaven is where God is; hell is where God is not. To understand the nature of that, let’s take a look at the nature of God.   Yes, God is the Creator of the universe, knows all, has ultimate control, can do great and marvelous things.   And the purest description of God is found in the apostle John’s first epistle.   God is love. ...

There is a popular hymn that is taught in Sunday school classes all over America.   As I type the words, and as you read them, we can hear young children singing, “Oh, how I love Jesus, because He first loved me!”   Yes, Jesus loves me, and I love Jesus.   Bible verses such as “For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, so that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16), “God demonstrates His own love for us in this:   While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8), and the assurance of pardon in 1John 1:9, the promise of forgiveness and restoration to a right standing with God when we confess our sins (“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us of all unrighteousness”)   do not begin to scratch the surface of why Jesus is worthy of my love.   Nor do they adequately explain why I love Him.   To be honest, I don’t think anything can, but I wi...

I love the autumn months. It’s my favorite time of year, really. Not necessarily because of the change of seasons. In California, there is not much change of season to begin with. It’s not because children are returning to school and all the projects that go with it. And I am not a Halloween fan. Football has its merits, but that’s not what makes the season special. The reason fall is so much fun has much to do with the food factor. Coffee houses are stirring up their Pumpkin Spice Lattes and Cappuccinos, the sweet-spicy fragrance of apple pie will soon fill the air, and the deeper into autumn and closer to the holidays, the more people will try their hand at cookies and candies. (All this is in addition to the annual October 5 National Holiday in celebration of the day I was born!) Believe it or not, I have actually taken to making food to share with others. From my own kitchen. Yes, she-who-burns-soup and sets-toaster-ovens-on-fire has found a flame-free method of ma...