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My friend Anne.

There is a lot to say about my friend Anne. I would like you to get to know her. Anne and I became friends when she started working for my dad's car and truck rentals and leasing business. I would look forward to those times of the day, when we would catch a smile and make jokes but I knew Anne long before we worked together. Anne and family grew up with our family and I don't remember a time when they were completely out of our lives. I saw her children grow up, in fact we grew up together. We have found memories of when both our families drove down to Hilton Head Island in South Carolina and the Fraze "Evening all, it Connie's fault became very popular" referring to something private. The reason why I have fond memories of working with Anne despite the fact that our families were life long friends, was because it was in my early 20's that my life had changed as I had become a born again Christian. I never really talked about my faith at work and because An...

Unkempt Hair and the servitude of others.

We all know when it is time for our monthly hair cut, and that time comes sooner than later for most of us. But our souls can be like that person on the street corner, who hasn't had a good wash in along time and is quite content (so he thinks) to be wallowing in his mire as he has returned to the filth that the Saviour Saved him from. I started singing again. It was a bit of a challenge at first, I thought that years of smoking would of ruined my vocal chords, but to my surprise they were just fine. The voice is a little bit like a atrophied muscle that hasn't been used in a long time, and we can forget what it was like being in the presence of an almighty God if we have let our spiritual lives atrophy. However in this case it can and is a little more dangerous. If you are an all and all out sinner, then your requirement is for repentance but disqualifying yourself from that I would assume you might want to be interested in a nice couple of shots of espresso and a friendly t...

The cost of immorality.

I liked to say that Satan was the great moralist, because just what is immorality anyway. There is a buzz in the air and it is speaking, it goes something like this: Do you want to be free? Do you want to have your own way in life? It only comes around once a year. It doesn't have any instructions, in fact if you buy it, it will be yours forever! Come one come all and see the man with no eyes! He's as blind as a bat, yet he can tell the difference from right and wrong! Surely in your darkest dreams you have seen this man. He is in the corners of your living room, he is under your bed. When you turn the lights out he is in your fridge! He has green eyes and no tongue, he is called human being. In your humanness have you ever wondered what God thinks about certain things? Do you see Him as some evasive force, living in the clouds somewhere, but not right next to you? Joan Osborne said "What if God was one of us? Just a slob like one of us, just a stranger on the bus, trying ...

The requium.

There is an old saying, "If you do not have anything good to say, don't say anything at all." I really don't know how wise this saying is, because I would say that 90% of our communication is just that.(Communication) We are people who feel the need to share, we share with one another because we love one another. If we didn't love each other, we wouldn't feel guilty when we hide the truth, because I firmly believe in humanity, and despite our lack of love to one another with some it is hatred for those made in the image of God. For when we have come to hate one another, we have lost the purpose for this existence. Not everyone believes in God, and those who deny his existence, deny their purpose for their creation. Hell was created not to scare people into being good, though it does that. Hell was created because God knew that we would make mistakes, and those mistakes are called sin and sin separates us or removes us from the light of truth, Jesus Himself. He...

The whole story.

How would you like to live in a world where nothing is true, just one crisis after another, like being on a roller coaster that never ends. Welcome to the 21st century. Those of us who are getting older and are approaching our mid-life wonder if anything is going to change in our lives and in this world. Is this the world you dreamt you would live in when you were a kid. It seems that when you approach mid life the stress of other peoples problem lives seem to get in the way of you ever finding your way back to any sense of normalcy, which is where most of us generation Xers are right now. We are fighting for our bread and butter and it seems like with the economic crisis that is rarely talked about anymore is lost forgotten on the younger generation, who still just want to have fun. But those of us who have had our fun just want to live a peaceful life but it seems that life has gotten in the way for most of us and we are so busy supporting that other person that one day at a time...