thehereandafter

The other day I came across an hour long program on TV highlighting Arnold Palmer and "Arnie's Army". It was quite interesting and being a "Master's Tournament" fan I really enjoy it. Over the next few days that word "Army" seemed to stay in my brain. Several times it popped out at me like it was a neon sign...Ollie's Army, United States Army, Army of Tourist, Army of Photographers.  I figured God was prompting me so I took a few minutes to pray, look through my bible and browse my study notes.   Angels really do exist and the meaning of the word angel comes the Greek word and Hebrew word meaning "messenger".  They really do exist , who are heavenly bodies not bound by human constraints. They exist for the sole purpose of praising God and carrying out his will; to do the will of God, "to be His messengers, guides, providers, protectors, deliverers, encourages, as a means of answering prayers, caring for us at the moment of d...

We, at the Barnes' Casa de Villa (our house), play a not so fun game. Our daughter, Amanda, takes her clear plastic appliances out of her mouth and then lays it down somewhere.  Then we all have to run around and find it. This is a generational problem my mama handed down. I remember as a child, living in Taiwan, and making mad dashes back to the Officer's Club to retrieve Mama's retainer rolled up in a napkin. The game then was to find it before it got thrown away. Amanda has an upper and lower appliance which she is to wear 23 hours a day to prepare for her upcoming surgery. The hitch is that she cannot eat with them in so therefore they are taken out several times a day even if she is just taking a bite or two of something. At least we have never lost them in a restaurant in a rolled up napkin! Yesterday though she was walking around asking if any of us had seen her appliances. We told her we hadn't and would look around. She opened the refrigerator and guess what...