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Saturday Morning Shenanigans

B U G S – The bugs are back in town here in Homestead due to all of the recent heavy rains. You may be thinking to yourself, ‘Hey – Wait a minute. I live in Homestead. It hasn’t rained since March !’  You may also be thinking to yourself, ‘No doubt. I thought the sky was caving in on us yesterday afternoon. My yard turned into a giant lake !  My new patio furniture was thrown by the funnel cloud into the canal !’ There is rain all around us. Some of us have received a lot of it this past week, and some of us are still living in a dust bowl. Pretty soon all of us will get a lot of rain, and the bugs will flock to Homestead on their Summer break. Get ready to be eaten alive by little itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny mouths with glow-in-the-dark green eyes.

G A S – I filled-up my car this morning with not quite 11 gallons of gas at Chevron on Useless-One at Campbell Drive at the remarkable price of $4.059 per gallon. That’s about 15 to 20 cents per gallon higher than every other gas station in the general vicinity of that Chevron, but I am kinda sorta semi-loyal to Chevron, and I really wanted to use my fresh new Chevron-Texaco credit card this morning for the first time. $4.059 may seem outrageous to a majority of whining and complaining Americans, but $4.059 for the equivalent of a gallon of gas anywhere in Europe is known as ‘the good old days of the 1990s’.

J A V A – Speaking of items that we Americans love to spend a lot of money on – Starbucks in Homestead – not to be confused with Starbucks in Florida City – is OPEN for BUSINESS !  OK calm down Travis. The drive-thru is open for business. The inside of the joint is apparently not quite ready for customer utilization, so you’ll just have to wait a little while longer to sit inside for hours on your wireless Apple Mac.

One final item of interest – Many of the mega-stores and restaurants at the first phase of the Homestead Pavilion shopping, dining, and entertainment complex at Campbell Drive and the Turnpike are expected to make their grand openings between the middle of October and the middle of November – just in time for the NASCAR Championship Series at the Homestead-Miami Speedway and of course the Christmas 2008 shopping season.

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God

Bedtime Stories

Acts 17:22-29 (NLT, 2ND Ed.)

22  So Paul, standing before the council, addressed them as follows: “Men of Athens, I notice that you are very religious in every way,

23  for as I was walking along I saw your many shrines. And one of your altars had this inscription on it: ‘To an Unknown God.’ This God, whom you worship without knowing, is the one I’m telling you about.

24  “He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Since He is Lord of Heaven and Earth, He doesn’t live in man-made temples,

25  and human hands can’t serve His needs — for He has no needs. He Himself gives life and breath to everything, and He satisfies every need.

26  From one man He created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall, and He determined their boundaries.

27  “His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward Him and find Him — though He is not far from any one of us.

28  For in Him we live and move and exist. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

29  And since this is true, we shouldn’t think of God as an idol designed by craftsmen from gold or silver or stone.

GREAT words there, and I especially adore the 27TH verse above. It’s all about seeking Him, finding Him, and following Him. He is never unreachable.

In this world you may encounter those who just seem to be as far away as possible from God. That’s the devil at work, but God is so ultimate – so powerful – that He can reach them and pull them away from the throes of evil and darkness. Don’t ever think that you are better than any one of them. Don’t ever think that the light of the day is so far removed from any one of them. Don’t ever think of them as ‘them’, for they are us. We are God’s children. We are brothers and sisters and He is Our Father.

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Philosophy

The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club

Fortune Cookie

Keep it simple. The more you say, the less people remember.’

Agreed.

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Blogging

Friday Night Blogroll Review

The reviews are in, and the consensus states that you absolutely adore the ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’. All of my blogging friends from Homestead to Weston are waiting with baited breath to see which one of their blog entries from this past week are being elevated to ‘elite’ status. Check it out:

Travis wrote a thought-provoking article on ‘Control Vs. Growth’. It’s all about organization and being in control. It made me feel self-conscious. I’m a self-admitted perfectionist – occasionally to the point of being anal-retentive about it. This personality defect of mine (that’s what it is) has been my downfall in life, but fortunately it is slowly fading away as I continue my venture on God’s fantastic journey for me. If you knew me 5 or 10 or 15 or 20 years ago and you compared me then with who I am today then you would totally concur with me. God is now in control of a whole bunch of stuff that I used to have a firm grip on.

In his ‘Hard Boiled Thoughts’ P.J. is complaining about the heat again. How long has he lived aqui en el Sur de Florida ?

Jesse finally got his Florida driver’s license. Welcome to the club !

Kourtney, McKenna, and Blake welcome you to Kelly’s family blog.

Luci states that ‘God Is All We Need’. Father – God bless all of my friends and loved ones in whatever it is that You know they may be needing on this day. May their life be full of your peace, prosperity, and power as they seek to have a closer relationship with you. I pray for this in the loving and caring name of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

Pastor Nathan is preparing for his next manly message series at InDependence Church by watching the MMA late at night. All of the InDependence dudes better be ready at 10:29 AM on Sunday morning !

Take a lovely pictorial tour of Owen’s school at home.