Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
I’m wary of pranks and hoaxes — I don’t want to be gullible, you know.
So I wonder about the legitimacy of this coupon:
But neither do I want to be paranoid, so I figure I’ll test it at the Woodburn 7-11 sometime in the next month.
Meanwhile, maybe you will have an opportunity to test it sooner.
If so, tell us the results here, please.
(As a community service, you know.)
As I mentioned in an earlier post, tonight we had a bishop ordination at our church.
The lot fell to our deacon, who is also one of my best friends.
My Dad formally retired tonight as bishop and turned the reins over to Jake Kropf.
Thank you, Dad.
And you too, Jake.
God bless you both for your service.
Baby a Sign of Hope in Devastated South
| At first, rescuers thought it was a doll. Then it moved.
In a grassy pasture strewn with toys, splintered lumber and bricks tossed by the tornado’s widespread wrath, 11-month old Kyson Stowell was lying face down in the mud, 150 yards from where his home once stood. “It looked like a baby doll,” said David Harmon, a firefighter who had already combed the field once looking for survivors. Then he checked for a pulse. “He was laying there motionless … and he took a breath of air and started crying.” The field had already been combed once for survivors, and finding anyone alive seemed improbable. Hours after the storm, there was devastation everywhere: The body of the boy’s mother was found in the same field . . . . |
If your heart isn’t moved by that, well . . . .
I wonder what the other side of this is:
| Nearly a dozen members of a police SWAT team in western Colorado punched a hole in the front door and invaded a family’s home with guns drawn, demanding that an 11-year-old boy who had had an accidental fall accompany them to the hospital, on the order of Garfield County Magistrate Lain Leoniak.
The boy’s parents and siblings were thrown to the floor at gunpoint and the parents were handcuffed in the weekend assault, and the boy’s father told WND it was all because a paramedic was upset the family preferred to care for their son themselves. Someone, apparently the unidentified paramedic, called police, the sheriff’s office and social services, eventually providing Leoniak with a report that generated the magistrate’s court order to the sheriff’s office for the SWAT team assault on the family’s home in a mobile home development outside of Glenwood Springs, the father, Tom Shiflett, told WND. |
Adopt a Plane – Mission Aviation Fellowship
You can help an MAF airplane bring desperately needed aid and assistance to needy people in remote places. For only $1 a day you can adopt a plane and help open the doors to the Gospel in places you’ll never go.
In the remote regions where MAF serves, daunting geographical barriers isolate people living in remote areas. These barriers prevent access to the Gospel and life-sustaining services, isolate millions. Most languish under spiritual and physical oppression, lacking the most basic resources.
Your caring sponsorship helps to transform lives. When you adopt a plane, you help cover fuel and maintenance costs for MAF planes to continue flying throughout the world. More than 600 Christian and humanitarian organizations as well as thousands of isolated nationals rely on MAF planes everyday.
Last year, the MAF fleet of 53 aircraft executed 37,490 flights, logged more than 3,014,031 miles, transported 111,459 passengers, and delivered 10,240,209 pounds of cargo–all on 1,700 rough, unimproved dirt and grass airstrips, or waterways.
In case you think they’re only after your money, go to their site and order an absolutely free-to-you book. Even if you don’t make any sort of donation.
Or, if you want to save them some money, buy the same book (different cover) by clicking the left image below. 😀
Time magazine is trying to figure it out again. (Actually, I suspect they’ve already chosen.)
But you could vote anyway — here.
| A former Vice President turned green guru? A former First Lady turned First Candidate? How about a fiery Middle East leader, or the brains behind Harry Potter? Take a look at these and other possible contenders, and vote for your pick. |
PS: I didn’t bother voting. 😀
