Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
I have finished Panting, my very first ebook.
Presently, it is available only as a downloadable pdf. I anticipate having an Amazon Kindle version ready by the end of the week at the latest.
In the introduction to the book, I include these paragraphs: Read it all
“It seems like people are no longer in control of their own privacy.”
No. Kidding. 🙄
Mr. Zhang sounds shocked. Please. Of course people have lost control of their privacy.
And most don’t care. 😯
Besides, haven’t we known for years that “Google is your friend”? Read it all
So the county (Marion? Clackamas?) is planning to replace our nice, old, unique, historic, bent bridge across the Pudding River, eh?
You know, the one east of Hubbard (Oregon, naturally) on Whiskey Hill Road.
Replacing it is fine and dandy with me…provided they leave it there. 😯
They could restrict access to foot traffic, put picnic tables on it, and so forth. Of course, they would have to put the new bridge a few feet upstream from it. Read it all
A Christian died for his faith in Tunisia. (That’s in Africa, right?)
Was he praying as he died? If so, what would a Christian be praying as a Muslim slices off his head? Read it all
Self-pity is one of several self- things from which I ask God to deliver me.
Strangely enough, though, I don’t remember considering that a thankful spirit sweeps away a “negatively self-focused” spirit. Oh, sure, I’ve known (and even taught!) that gratefulness can lift us out of depression and discouragement. But, somehow, I must have missed what being thankful can do to kill being self-pitying.
Then I read Andrée’s piece Read it all
How spiritually and morally bankrupt is the United States of America? (Substitute your country if you prefer.)
This nation founded on many Christian principles is so deep in moral and spiritual debt that she can never dig out on her own. (Of course, that’s the case with every nation and every soul in every nation.)
But it doesn’t seem that the USA has reached yet the depravity of Sodom: Read it all
