A Quiet and Peaceable Life

In all godliness and honesty -- but to what purpose?

“Lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:2-4).

Quiet, peaceable, godly, honest — does that describe the life I’ve chosen for myself?

For what purposes do I want such a life?

Serving the Lord Acceptably
(1 Timothy 2)

Serving the Lord acceptably with prayer and thankfulness.
Gender roles in church. Christian dress and adornment.
How to pray for political leaders.

(PS: Posted via email instead of the Web, so this might not be formatted properly or exquisitely.)

Oregon: Rainbows Around the Sun

Unexpected, rare-to-me beauty around the sun

I took filter-free photos here at home, about two miles east of Hubbard, Oregon. I hope I didn’t ruin anything in my camera (Canon PowerShot S3) with a couple of the shots. If I knew how to operate my camera better, I’m sure I could have snapped some better pictures. I just had it on full auto. (Does that make it an assault camera?) 😯 (No, I didn’t hit anybody with it.)

Are these rainbows? Or rainrings? Or sunrings? Or full sundogs? Or sun halos? Whatever they are, we couldn’t see all of the outer one. It just wasn’t complete from our angle.

These particular photos I took at 1:28, 1:31, 1:32, and 1:32 this afternoon.

inner ring around the sun Read it all

A Cappella Choral Music CDs in World Magazine

The Acclamation Chorale and The Oasis Chorale with Mennonites singing

World magazine, in its current issue, has a sidebar about two a cappella music CDs. What so amazing to me is that these are by Mennonite (or mostly Mennonite) youth (or mostly youth). Also amazing is that these are the kind of Mennonites that practice the Christian woman’s headship covering. Most amazing of all, though, is this: our son Andrew is a tenor in the Acclamation Chorale. That’s just pretty special. 🙂

The Acclamation Chorale in World magazine

Here’s what Arzenio Orteza has to say in his World sidebar: Read it all

Oregonians Bite the Hand That Heals Them

Unless they bit their own hands...

I see this morning that yesterday’s health tax ballot here in Oregon passed handily.

I don’t know if the yea voters did so in a fit of largesse at the public trough. Or if they poked the Yes key (is there such a thing?) out of consistency with their well-practiced personal pocketbook expressions of compassion for the needy.

Whatever the motivator, they approved a pile of new tax dollars for hospitals: Read it all

Above all, love God!

since November 9, 2005