First, it’s an interesting linguistic error. I’m guessing this individual pronounces Jews with an s sound at the end instead of a z sound. Actually, I’m 99% sure he does.
Secondly, it’s getting really old, this hatred of Israel; several thousand years old, in fact. And what does the Bible have to say about it?
Genesis 12:1-3 Now [...]
Archive for December, 2008
30 Dec
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry
29 Dec
not me
I recently started teaching Sunday School, and not because I’m so adequate or spiritual. There was a need, I was asked, and here we are.
Thus began some intense humbling. Pastor suggested I start a series on the attributes of God for my seven year olds. OK, I thought, sounds good to me! What better to [...]
27 Dec
Weather Transplant
My version of “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” is pretty much the same as the original, except for the following phrase:
Please don’t have snow or mistletoe/Just a view of the Great Rift Valley
So of course I was dreaming of a green Christmas . . .
But this is Wisconsin. There was about a foot of snow [...]
16 Dec
The World is Dirt
I know, it is literally dirt, but I’m obviously talking in a more figurative sense here.
It’s like when you drive down a dusty road in the back of a pick-up truck and the dirt and grime fly into every crack and wrinkle of your skin and hair and your mouth is just caked and dried [...]
15 Dec
Warming up on a cold Wisconsin day; a how-to guide
After spending 45 minutes outside in below zero windchills (Why? That’s a long story that involves a clumsy grip due to thick gloves, a slippery bus pass, a sudden gust of wind just as the bus came, and . . . well, you get the picture – I missed it while retrieving the pass, had [...]
11 Dec
stunning
Sometimes I get shocked again by the fact that I am one whom Jesus loves. I hear it all the time, but sometimes there’s that stop-dead-in-my-tracks moment when it comes at me from a new angle (and considering the fact that it is an infinite love, there’ll be forever new angles). In that moment I [...]
10 Dec
Family foto fun all across the world
Just for fun, my mom sent this picture of my brother Noah in Kenya to us Morrison kids on this side, and asked us to “please submit a caption for this picture”. Here were the results:
Luka: This is a very rare sight indeed, the Pajero allowing a human to get this close.
Me: Just a split second too [...]
9 Dec
The true meaning of . . . Target?
Last night I was watching that good ol’ Charlie Brown Christmas special. The no-frills animation and barely-acting vocal talent is classic. I’m always amazed that I get chills when the Linus comes on the stage and proclaims the portion from Luke 2 on the birth of our Savior. No music, no drama, just an understated [...]
8 Dec
“unscrupulous”? are you kidding me?
After work today, I was browsing the books at my school’s library when I spotted the Nancy Drew series. Like many girls growing up in yesteryear, I’d done my share of perusing that young “sleuth’s” adventures. Feeling a bit nostalgic, I picked one of the oldies (i.e. the originals, not that modern day garbage) off [...]
5 Dec
that’s one way to think about it
“I’m gonna die, you’re gonna die, and it’s gonna be sweet, dawg!”
That’s what my friend Brian said (or rather, exuberantly declared) while we were on our way to church,and I know that out of context, it seems . . . odd. But we were discussing the inevitability of death and how we believers can talk [...]
4 Dec
There’s a book I’ve known about
for as long as I can remember. It’s been long out of print and the only reason I know it is because of my Grandpa’s nickname for me. All my life he’s called me Katrina van Ost after the title character in the 1934 novel, Katrina van Ost and the Silver Rose. I know little [...]
3 Dec
This being Wednesday,
I took a nap. I like to take a nap when I get home from work on this day because it keeps me alert for church at night. I knew I was dead tired when I was startled from my deep sleep by my alarm an hour and half into lala-land. Only 12 days of [...]
2 Dec
contentment with . . . calamities?
2 Corinthians 12: 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a calamity is “an event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster”.
I haven’t had much experence with calamities. But I [...]
1 Dec
back again
I took the month of November off from blogging, if only because the rest of my life was so “on”. That, and the juices had run dry. Or something.
Anyway . . .
It snowed today. It seems like the weather in Milwaukee switches to winter on 1 December, as if it’s saying, “Oh, it’s December? That [...]
