Archive for: May 2005

May 31, 2005

Come Back to the Water

Filed under: Christianity - 31 May 2005

You took something up
From the water.

There’s an old corpse,
Walking around,

You were supposed to leave
Him there in the water,

Leave him there to drown.

Yet you thought it was just water,
No different than a quick dunk for a lark,

And so all the minister
Did …

The Only Juan

Filed under: Baseball - 31 May 2005

Well, Juan Gonzalez has not played for the Cleveland Indians all year until today, the last day of May. And what does Juan do? He gets injured hustling out a ground ball. He’s day to day, so its not …

Broken Child

Filed under: Poetry - 31 May 2005

Daddy loves me,
Mommy loves me,

Hug me, kiss me,
Hold me,

Everybody loves me.

Daddy angry,
Mommy angry,

Yelling, Shouting, Fighting,
Pull me, Rip me,

Grab me, nab me,
Everybody’s angry.

May 30, 2005

Left Behind Again

Filed under: Christianity - 30 May 2005

It is the “Series That Will Not Die”, BP NEWS has an article on Left Behind III. It seems that Cloud Ten Pictures is going to Sony to help make the film. I was struck by how Cloud Ten’s …

Blessed Are the Left Behind

Filed under: Christianity - 30 May 2005

The Baptists tell us,
A lot of Pentecostals,

And other evangelicals, too,
“There’s a great rapture

Coming to bear
He’ll take all of us Christians

Out of here.
A time of tribulation

Is coming soon,
And …

Rehoboth

Filed under: Christianity - 30 May 2005

This fit well with my scripture reading today (Genesis 25 and 26).

Isaac sought water with which to feed his flocks,
Yet the Philistines sought his destruction,

At Esek, Isaac found water,
But the Philistines quarreled …

How to Get a Jump Start

Filed under: General - 30 May 2005

My car died in the Albertsons parking lot and like an idiot I’d forgotten my cell phone and without the cell phone, I can’t use my road side assistance. I wondered who I could run up to to get a …

May 29, 2005

A Moving Proverb

Filed under: General - 29 May 2005

I came up with a proverb/wise saying for moving:

“How many boxes do you need when you move? One more than you have.”

May 28, 2005

The Van

Filed under: General - 28 May 2005

The most petrifying part of moving was the Moving Van. I didn’t rent a moving truck like most folks do. I rented a van from Budget. It had about 320 cubic Feet of storage space in the back, the smallest …

A Moving Experience

Filed under: General - 28 May 2005

We’re moved. First off, I’m no longer a resident of Garden City. We were supposed to close Tuesday, however a processing problem stopped us from signing the paperwork until Wednesday and stopped the sellers from signing until Thursday.

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