Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Here’s something I read this morning in the print edition of the Our Daily Bread devotional:
God remembers us wherever we are. Our concerns are His concerns. Our pain is His pain. Commit your challenges and difficulties to Him. He is the all-seeing God who remembers us as a mother remembers her children, and He waits to meet our needs. — C. P. Hia
But before reading that, I read Genesis 8 and posted my own short devotional over at Panting Hart (where I used to try to write a daily devotional).
Oregon’s Mt. Hood, I mean.
No, not inspired by it or about it. Rather, inspiration “round about” (ie around) it. That is, in photos I have taken and turned into wallpaper for my computer and featured at my devotional blog: Panting Hart.
The day it happened, I was going to blog a bit about the LeBaron-Widmar killings in Chihuahua, Mexico. After all, Benjamin LeBaron and Luis Widmar were identified by the Associated Press as “members of the pacifist Mennonite community in northern Mexico.”
Then I decided not to bother calling attention to the story, even though I’m a Mennonite.
A day or two later I started seeing stories about a couple of Mormons killed in northwest Mexico.
This morning I verified the stories are all about the same murders.
Are Mennonites and Mormons so easy to confuse?
I assume LeBaron and Widmar were Mormons, since a Web search I did turned up more references to them as such rather than Mennonites.
Whatever the case, friends and families are hurting, especially two wives and ten children. May they find lasting solace and peace in God.
Here are three statements by John Coblentz:
The fundamental law of relationships:
We need to spend enjoyable time together.
We cannot build relationship with our children
without spending time with them.
Source: May/June 2009 Deeper Life Ministries Newsletter (reprinted from June 1999 Newsletter)
So he released his latest encyclical:
Pope Benedict on Tuesday called for a “world political authority” to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat.
The pope’s call for a re-think of the way the world economy is run came in new encyclical which touched on a number of social issues but whose main connecting thread was how the current crisis has affected both rich and poor nations.
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The pope said every economic decision has a moral consequence and called for “forms of redistribution” of wealth overseen by governments to help those most affected by crises.
Benedict said “there is an urgent need of a true world political authority” whose task would be “to manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result.”
Such an authority would have to be “regulated by law” and “would need to be universally recognized and to be vested with the effective power to ensure security for all, regard for justice, and respect for rights.”
Global economic political authority? No, thanks!
But it’s coming anyway.
The Bible tells me so (as I recall).
Well, they look pretty on our trees:
And they taste really good in our mouths. (I ate fresh home-grown ones with my coffee and tea this morning.)
But nutritionally and health-wise, what’s so great about them?
Here are three articles I found on the subject:
We had a good cherry crop. I’m thankful.
Oh, and what’s so great about cherries? Well, they “contain significant amounts of melatonin” and they have a “good combination of antioxidants.” Click the links above for the details.
(I wonder if Michael Jackson ate them at all. I imagine they could have done wonders for his mental and physical health issues. Maybe he had an orchard of them at Neverland, eh?)