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Blog entries by Spinning Compass
What do I want? I'm not sure anymore. But I do know what I do NOT want!
I DO NOT WANT your unwanted kittens or puppies. I am not running an animal rescue. Take them to the pound yourself.
I DO NOT WANT your broken-down lawn mower. I don't have room to store it and I don't have money...
Last night I was watching "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen", a comedy about a rich Yemeni sheik who wants to recreate a Scottish trout stream in the desert. There's some nice scenery and a few good fishing scenes especially at the end but mostly it is just talk, talk, talk.
The plot revolves...
One of my friends at work is exploring New Age thought. She's been fascinated with "auras" and how they work. I let her read my aura the other day and she said that it was "interrupted" in my upper back and shoulder region. Funny, that's the area that my doctor and therapist seem to think are...
Yesterday the pastor at the new church down the street was talking about miracles. Basically it boils down to two things: 1) God does miracles only if He feels that one would advance His plans and 2) the reason we don't see more miracles apart from reason number one is that we need to prepare...
Back in 1975, when I was 18, I started to fall in love (maybe). I'm not sure it was love, it might have been what was then called a "crush." At any rate it never blossomed into full-blown mutual romantic love. It never had a chance. Which is probably for the best, considering that at 18 I...
Today I took a break from my regular church and went to visit the competition down the road. To my surprise they seem to be more open to women in leadership roles (the youth pastor is a woman). However, I did have problems with the general noise level. They are remodeling a store and oh, did...
Last Sunday we had a guest speaker, a missionary to a largely Muslim country. The first part of his talk was naturally about how Christians are persecuted in that country. This was a stepping stone to his bigger theme, how suffering builds character and how God uses the weak to accomplish his...
Even though I had told the Animal Control officer at the time of filing the complaint that follow-up wouldn't be necessary, after what my friend told me they had said, I decided to call them and find out what the heck was going on. At the very least to put my mind at ease that I had done the...
Well, Animal Control came out to my friend's house and investigated. I don't know what they found or what they said but I do know my friend is upset. Look out for the knife in the back.
No, she didn't say anything to me directly or even at first. So I thought, well, maybe they didn't...
Yesterday as I was driving to the Farmer's Market I heard a song come on the radio, one which I'd heard many times (it's an older one). Perhaps it was because my mind was still under the influence of Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" and how it tends to dehumanize everyone, not just...
Recently I finished Betty Friedan's classic, "The Feminine Mystique", which came out nearly 50 years ago and marked the rebirth of the American feminist movement. "The Feminine Mystique" is the name Ms. Friedan gave to the idea that women were not to have a life or mind of their own but were to...
Well, I finally did it. I went and called Animal Control on my friend who is abusing her dogs. This will probably mean the end of my involvement with that church. We shall see. Some might say that it is God testing this church since we have spent a lot of time on the passage in Galatians...
God forgive me. I am about to do something that could be regarded as betrayal by the person I am going to do it to. But I feel I cannot just stand by.
There is a woman in my church that has quite a few dogs--about 9 or 10 to be exact. I am not the only one who thinks that these animals are...
Today we started Chapter 3 of Galatians where Paul really starts ripping into them, claiming that they have abandoned the Gospel after such a good start. Along the way he says something very interesting: "Does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you because you have followed the...
Thirteen is usually considered an unlucky number but perhaps for autistic people living in Southwest Michigan thirteen can be a very lucky number indeed. Because it was on August 13, 2012 that the Great Lakes Center for Autism opened in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The center is the first of its kind...
The other night one of the Bible study members shared some "good news" about her granddaughter. This is the woman that I've written about before, the dear, sweet grandmother who told this same granddaughter that if she wasn't good she was going to Hell. Well, I let that one slide. This one I...
Today I learned something new in church. I learned that actors are hypocrites.
Now for a little context. Pastor was preaching on Paul's letter to the Galatians where Paul says that he opposed Peter to his face because Peter was being a "hypocrite". He was getting along all cozy with the...
We are still working our way through Galatians at church. I haven't been the last three Sundays because I was involved in a play but now it is over and I am back to "ordinary time". That's a term the Catholic church (and other liturgical churches) use to describe the time between major...
I heard on the news today that an Israeli eyeglass manufacturer is making "fuzzy glasses" to sell to Ultra-Orthodox men. The idea is to blur their vision just enough so that they can't see all of us immodest, seductive women out there. God forbid! I guess they were losing the battle over...
Today we had one of our clients come in and give a talk about some promising new compounds that we have worked on for them. For confidential reasons I can't say who it is, what the drugs are or what the disease is, but it is a major disease that affects hundreds of thousands of people...