Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Feed Me Till I Want No More

Feed Me Till I Want No More

Solomon’s words in Scripture
Are strong and powerful in truth.
Sometimes reading it seems like a routine fixture
Until its content unfolds in sleuth.

Proclaiming a wife more precious than jewels
The reader John was a head-turner,
When his sacred reading schooled
His head into his heart, impassioned as a fiery burner.

Many times Scripture infects with stealth,
When unsuspecting readers have no clue
That an approaching truth in spiritual health
Assumes control of what we do.

Praise the Lord for the WORD,
Praise the Lord for His Scriptural readers!
Lord, may your Book never be blurred,
And for our hearts, always be our feeder.

Cwm Rhondda

Monday, September 21, 2015

Early look at a possible DEMOCRATIC PARTY ticket, cabinet & agency heads

A Possible Democratic Ticket
Bernie Sanders – President
George Clooney – Vice President

Cabinet
Hillary – Secretary of State
Obama, B. – Secretary of Defense
Pelosi, N. – Homeland Security
Kagan, E. – Attorney General
Richards, Cecile – Health & Human Services

Geitner, T. – Treasury
Emanuel, R. – Labor
Warren, Eliz. – Interior
Reid, H. – Veterans Administration
Holder, E. – Housing & Urban Development

Durbin, D. – Transportation
Frank, B. – I R S
Axelrod, D. – Education
Stewart, Jon – Justice

Agencies, Bureaus, and newly-created Commissions
Gore, A. – Environmental Protection Agency
Carter, J. - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

Winfrey, O. – Political Correctness Enforcement Commission
Huffington, A. – Progressive Agenda Enforcement Commission
Baquet, D.– Conservative Media Suppression (an FCC unit)
Rice, S. – Women’s Affairs (a Labor Department commission)

Sotomeyer, S. – Minority Affairs (a Labor Department commission

Early Look at a Possible REPUBLICAN PARTY ticket with Cabinet

A Possible Republican Party Ticket
Donald Trump – President
Marco Rubio – Chief of Staff

Carly Fiorina – Vice President
Meg Whitman – Chief of Staff


Cabinet
Bush – Secretary of State
Graham – Defense
Perry – Homeland Security
Christie – Attorney General
Carson – Health & Human Services
Kasich – Treasury
Jindal – Labor
Pataki – Interior
Huckabee – Veterans Administration
Paul – Housing and Urban Development
Santorum – Transportation

I R S – abolished

Education - abolished

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Pathways to Union with Jesus, a new book

Pre-announcement for new book release from Archdeacon Books
Pathways to Union with Jesus
William Wilson, an assisting bishop in the Anglican Diocese of the South of the Anglican Church in North America, has written this book about our day-to-day spiritual life and its necessary disciplines.

The book details practical exercises that believers should use and how “not to overdo it.”
Release date is the first week in November, 2015

An excerpt
With regard to gifts of ministry, the rule for discernment is simple: Listen to the church. Ministry gifts are powers to serve the community of faith given by the Spirit to the individual to build up the church. These gifts will be recognized and encouraged by the church. The church will tell you if you have the gift of teaching, or song, or administration, or liturgical leadership, or spiritual counseling, or healing prayer, etc. There is no need to trumpet your gifts of ministry. The gifts the Spirit gives speak for themselves.

Even if – as sometimes happens – the church fails to recognize and utilize your gifts of ministry, do not become resentful. Accept the humiliation. So doing you will advance in likeness to Christ, whose gifts of ministry the leaders of His people did not recognize. God will open other doors of ministry for you when your church group fails to receive your gifts.


Thursday, September 3, 2015

New Books Preliminary Announcement

The publishing imprint of Woody Norman LLC, Archdeacon Books, will publish two new books in early November, 2015.

KAIROS PRISON MINISTRY is authored by Ken Dawson. Serving in prison ministry for more than twenty-five years, Dawson writes about his ministry and relationships with prison inmates. He also writes about how Kairos Ministry works and its history. A memoir, the book chronicles his own life and the life and death struggle of his youngest son.



THE EVOLUTION OF DECISION MAKING is a book by Jacques L. Austin. A Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor, and a Nationally Certified Counselor, Austin is a therapist, speaker and author. Mr. Austin has extensive experience in working with the 6A (Addicted, Adjudicated, Angry, Abusive, Adult and Adolescent) population. He has been lauded for his ability to connect with people offering a perspective for change that is relational and realistic.



Both books will be available for purchase online beginning November 2, 2015 from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Books-a-Million.


Thursday, August 27, 2015

Today’s Elusive Bagel

Today’s Elusive Bagel

It was mid-morning, shall we say?
When an urge for a plain, toasted bagel
Took on me its sway
As I walked away from my work table.

Into my wheels I drove as if star struck
By a compelling logic
To the closest Starbucks
For a tall java and my bagel-eating project.

“But no,” said the barista
“We’re out of bagels today.”
So back on the 150 I drove eastward,
Heading for the next long-locks Siren on the way.

Upon positioning into a parking space
I was suddenly be-mused
By the store's remodeling at a leisurely pace.
It being closed, I descended into the blues.

One more chance as mid-morning about to close,
Into the Mall trotted I to the caffeinated stand,
An aromatic arabica brew filled my nose,
But there, too, no bagels were on hand.

“Why not,” said I to the polite young server?
“You’re the third store with bagels unoccupied.”
“Didn’t you know,” said the smiling, customer-oriented worker,
“The batches of bagels were compromised?”

Now what to do?
It’s approaching time for lunch.
With so many minutes and miles that I blew,
I’ll go to Panera’s and call it brunch.

Monday, August 24, 2015

Topsy Turvy


Topsy Turvy

It seems our political life
Is out of control.
All this fight and strife
Is getting old.

Is there calm ahead,
Or must we continue to tarry?
What seems like an endless thread
Of bickering is becoming more difficult to carry.

An energetic new face
Could bring hope out of hiding.
Not from the right in this case,
From the left, his time he’s a-Biden.