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Blog entries by Spinning Compass
This morning I returned to the little storefront church to hear my friend preach. You could tell he was a bit nervous, this being his first time, but I think he did a good job. Much better than I would in the same situation. I was expecting him to preach on Acts, since that was where I left...
One of the things that many of us have problems with is being singled out. It seems we are never singled out for anything good; it is always something bad, like reprimands. To this day I inwardly cringe when someone (especially a supervisor) says, "I want to talk with you a moment."
Yet...
Every morning when I log on at work I like to check the Weather Channel to find out what is going on. This morning when I logged on it was showing the first close-up photographs ever taken of the planet Mercury. I wanted to call over to my co-workers, "come here, you need to see this," but of...
In my previous blog I wrote about Cornelius the Roman Centurion who appears in chapter 10 of the Book of Acts. I'm really having fun with this guy so bear with me.
The big deal about Cornelius joining the church was that he was a Gentile and the others were all Jewish. That meant that they...
Last Sunday I did something I don't normally do. I went to church. It was a small storefront evangelical church that opened up a few years back, and I had heard that one of my co-workers was going to be preaching there. It turned out he wasn't scheduled to preach that Sunday, but I stayed...
Third grade marked a turning point in my life. Although I had had some difficulties in school prior to third grade, it was in third grade that my life took a dramatic turn for the worst.
Even from infancy there were signs that marked me as being somewhat different. Most babies are bubbly and...
Back when I was a teenager I got involved with a "home church" Bible study that everyone called "Ralph's Fellowship." I met them when they came to talk to my Catholic high school. It was in the 1970's and the Jesus Movement was sweeping the US, so I suppose that's why they were invited to...
Some time ago, being horse-obsessed, I rented the movie "Moondance Alexander." For those of you who haven't seen it, it is about a lonely teen who comes in contact with a horse who turns out to be good at jumping. Moondance's mother is a hippie who barely ekes out a living selling artwork...
You ought to write a book! Has anyone ever said that to you? Chances are, if they have, they have no idea of what goes into writing a book.
I have had people tell me that many a time. So one day I wrote a book (actually it took 10 years). That was the easy part. Where is that book today...
I have been reading a remarkable book by Malcolm Gladwell called "Outliers", which examines why some people succeed and others do not. There's been a lot of garbage written on the subject, mostly along the lines of "I made it, so can you." This book isn't like this. For anyone wanting to know...
Recently I bought the movie "Secretariat". I was a teenager when the big red horse made his stunning triumph in the Triple Crown races back in 1973. At that time I was obsessed with horse racing and horses in general. You might blame it on reading too many "Black Stallion" novels, but...
Back in the Seventies there was a song by Kenny Rogers called "The Gambler." The chorus went something like this, "You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run . . ." That song used to irritate me every time I heard it. What kind of...
Last spring I was looking at the bulletin board outside my favorite coffeehouse when I saw that the community theater was going to put on a production of Hair and was looking for people to audition. Since I missed the "Age of Aquarius" by only a few years (by the time I had the means to run off...
I see a very challenging future ahead for those of us with ASD's. For whatever reason, ASD's are on the increase. This is already putting a strain on our school systems as they strive to accommodate us. I grew up in the bad old days when there wasn't a whole lot of accommodation and the...