Whether or not I like children often depends on how much I like their parents. And I'm realizing that attitude also matters to God.
No Kidding
Author: oliveswan
Blood Transfusion
When it comes to redemption by blood, it's all about quality over quantity.
15 Years Later
In 1998, Reader's Digest published an article "This Man Wants You Dead" and featured Osama bin Laden. As a very young teen, it frightened me to think of someone so filled with hatred he wanted people dead that he didn't even know. Then I forgot about him until being woken up on a Tuesday morning … Continue reading 15 Years Later
The Ties that Bind
This is a cringeworthy saying and worthy of all expulsion that the Christian life is meant to be lived in community. Olive Revised Version.
Making a 180
All that time I could have been falling in love... In my defense, I didn't know I would like Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart." I always seemed to hear the beginning "turn around"part. Weird. If I recognized it while scanning my radio stations, I would hurriedly move along to the next station preset. Recently, I was … Continue reading Making a 180
Here Slums the Bride
A mini-rant about a major problem. How about we stop pointing fingers at one part of the body, and hold out a helping hand to the other.
Herculean Labors
People watch the Olympics for two sports: swimming (how many medals can we conceivably give Michael Phelps before is neck breaks), and gymnastics - because there's nothing more exciting to a sedentary society than undersized teenagers doing flips and twirls on equipment the rest of us would fall off of immediately. Recently, someone tweeted a … Continue reading Herculean Labors
Fruit from the Olive Tree 