We spent the Holidays in Manila, where we could spoil ourselves in 5-Star luxury at a lower price. We had been to Manila before and wanted to stay at the Diamond Hotel, but they were fully booked. On another trip, the Embassy put us in the Hyatt, but it had moved to the City of Dreams. We […]
We humans don’t do “unlimited” very well. We use the word a lot, but don’t really understand it. We need our limits because of our limited minds and our own mortality. We just can’t wrap our brains around words like never-ending, forever and eternity. One example is outer space. It just boggles our
I am off today to celebrate the US Holiday “Memorial Day.” Because we are living in Beijing, China, there are few visible signs of the significance this day holds, other than the flag at half-staff at the US Embassy. The definition of a “memorial” is “something designed to preserve the memory of a person, event,
We are celebrating Memorial Day in the US (May) and the birthdays of several friends. Celebrating our friend’s birthdays is easy to understand, especially if they are good people. What if the person isn’t “good” and is wasting the life they were given? Celebrating Memorial Day is different, because we are honoring the sacrifice
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Unbelievable details of the tragic shooting in California were still coming out, when front page headlines proclaimed, “GOD Isn’t Fixing This.” The author even criticized people for praying about the situation. I understand these were misguided attempts to promote more stringent gun controls, but their vain words showed a disregard for the power of GOD.
