thehereandafter

“Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you.” Joshua 3:5 Get ready to let out a loud AMEN! The story I am going to recount was in the national news media (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX) the Tuesday following Easter Sunday. It is a true event and another opportunity God has taken to show us his power so that we may believe that Jesus is Lord, the Son of God and that we have life in his name! Hallelujah! A mother in Argentina went into labor with her 5 th child three month early. Upon the baby’s birth, it was a girl, the hospital staff told the family it was a stillbirth. Later that day the mother and father visited the morgue where their baby had been kept in refrigeration for the last 12 hours. They asked to see their baby as the mother was naturally distraught and wanted to see her baby before the funeral. As they opened the casket the mother said her baby was covered in a white sheet and there was frost but the mother said she heard her baby cry, and &q

As most of you know my daughter, Amanda, is engaged. She is working on getting their affairs in order before getting married. We have been looking at houses for them to live in after they are married. She found this one, older house that she fell in love with. It makes me smile thinking about it…young love is full of possibilities, full of dreams, full of hope! First, let me tell you a little of my first thoughts…the street and neighborhood the house is in is fine (my son and daughter in law lives a couple streets over). But this house is located near the fringe of where it looks like it goes downhill. You know what I mean…there are a row of houses where the yards are manicured and neat and clean and then that seems to fade into the houses and yards that look unkempt and messy. And this yard needs a lot of work. It has, as they call it “good bones” but has been left for so long that it is out of control. It is unique; it has a concrete circle with a flower bed in the middle in the c

For the last month there has been lots of discussion about how early the season is changing.   All of the country has had a mild winter and in most parts of the country we seemingly pasted over spring and jumped right into summer. The national media reported records were broken all over the country with record heat for spring,   everywhere the topic of conversation was the pollen count due to early blooming of everything, and even the cherry blossoms in our Nation’s Capitol were blooming way ahead of time..OMG! Everywhere and everyone have been discussing the crazy weather and the problems it has the potential to cause. I have heard worries about there not being enough cold weather to kill the bugs so the crops are going to be eaten up, the summer is going to be too long and hot and the cost will be drought, there was not enough cold weather and it was not long enough for the cycle of natural freeze then budding to produce fruit…these are just some of the worries. There has been a