Category Archives: warAnd mostly I’m sick of guns!!
I have a 12 yo son. Lately (as in for the past year) it seems as though the only game he and his friends can play is war of some form or another. They play it on video games. They play it with nerf guns. They play it with air [...]
I have three blood uncles. Two on my father’s side and one on my mother’s. That’s two brothers to my dad and one brother to my mom. All three served in the military. Two (my dad’s brothers) served in World War II. Interestingly, all of my uncles (by blood or marriage) served in the military. [...]
LightHusband loves gadgets. He especially loves electronic gadgets.
I may have mentioned that I lost the battle over the large screen television. Did I mention that? He got a lovely bonus this year. I lost the battle. When we got the television, we got a new gadget to go with it. [...]
I’ve had another theory about war and killing knocking around in my head for a number of years now about the difference between the army of empire/invasion and the army of defense. Take a look at the following images that I’ve taken from around the web (I’ve given credit for them) and I’ll explain [...]
I don’t understand the taking of life. Honestly, I don’t get it. I become nauseated when I have to squish a spider or an insect … unless it’s a mosquito; mosquito’s get no quarter. I’ve been wrestling with this lately. Here’s how it’s been moshing around in my brain.
We watched Braveheart together for the first [...]
So why should any of us care what happens in Kenya, or any of the African nations? Or the Middle East? Or Asia? Or anywhere but our little neighborhood for that matter? What does it matter to us? Why do I care? Why is it important for someone who follows Jesus to care what happens in the lives of people half-way around the world? When the truth of Love has been extinguished, fighting and war breaks out. No one can love their neighbor when hope has left the building.
I wrote about Kenya the other day. I was a little passionate and perhaps obscure. I’ve had time to sort out my understanding, my knowledge and my senses. I have no direct connection with the unfolding violence and mayhem there, but I find it strangely compelling nonetheless.
I wrote this statement: “Africa [...]
When our beds are burning?
I’ve been reading the reports out of Kenya with increasing agony and sense of shame. I read the latest and wept inside. People were burned inside a church. They had fled for sanctuary to a church and it was burned. There is something about the idea of [...]
Way back when … when was it now?
Oh yeah, back when I still had hope and faith in the political system of this country. That would be about 4 years ago. Maybe a little longer ago. It was back when Howard Dean’s campaign for president was gathering steam and before the powers [...]
I don’t like drawing those much. But sometimes ya jus’ gotta. I did that today with my son. He asked me a question and I felt my stomach flop over in revulsion. So I drew a line. I made a boundary and set a new tradition.
He’s not happy with it. But I suspect he will [...]
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