Randal, plain and simple
Randal, plain and simple
Randal
My name is Randal. Missus and I have lived in Brazil since 1984. Key word: Grateful.
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Thanks be to God for these: We arrived safely at home yesterday. Are now catching up on sleep. Old people need lots of sleep. Especially after long international journeys. My to-do list for today was long, but much got done, even with a...
Things to be thankful for today: Improved condition after detox last week--am almost 100% today; Survival of this trip of many weeks and miles and states; Time to be with family and friends, most recently, with DD these last days. ¶ Lord...
Somebody made a post to the idea of using your fine china. (They applied it to stickers that eventually lose their stickiness, if you don't use them.) I replied: There's an old hymn that starts: Earth holds no treasures but perish with...
Was nominated to chime in on this topic by Weylan. Have been going back in history for older tomes. Here they are: Crosshairs, by James Patterson. Nice, quick read for a few hours when you want to check out of reality. Not a high...
Three things, among the many, that I'm grateful to God for: Daughter is better after a bad night; Good rest the last several nights after long and stressful days; Coffee, tea, and other fine beverages to enliven the mind and body. ¶ My...
Have been writing couplets lately, the perfect form for the internet, on an instance of Misskey that Chris has spun up for me. Most are proper five-meter lines and rhyming, or almost so. Some take a spiritual turn, others not. Here's a...
These questions are going around. I got them from Kev Quirk. Do you floss your teeth? Sometimes, but not often enough. Tea, coffee, or water? All three. Almost every day. Footwear preference? Flipflops. When it's cold, flipflops with...
God be thanked: For his mercy and kindness shown in so many ways in my life -- in all of our lives. For health even at this age, for as long as it may last. For the relative ease of travel these days, compared to a hundred or more years...
Spent the morning and first part of the afternoon in the hospital to discover the reason for a problem. Blood work and tomography came back normal. Thankful for that. Doc thought it might be a bacteria. Gave me antibiotics. Typical doc...
It is God who deserves all praise and thanksgiving: for his protection and care; for good food, friends, life, love, and all the enjoyable things of this world; for the most pleasant time last night spent with a few saints talking about...
Gratitude demands expression: For the long view; For the presence of God now; For the depths of divine wisdom. HAIKU Up to, I'm living, Finding in each day meaning To welcome the next. When your pet needs a sun bath:
Thankful am I that: Good things are happening in my children's lives; Not a small amount of writing was accomplished today; Friends are studying with others to show them the Way. ¶ So much evil in the world, but saints can see the good...
God gets credit, we give thanks: For a very fine time last night in a Guarulhos congregation, she speaking, me driving; For mind, logic, reason, and writing ─ and reading; For fast transportation that allows us to move far distances...
God be thanked that: Our hope does not depend upon man; Our faith is based upon the word and promise of God; Our present suffering is but a light and brief burden. ¶ God, help us and save us, for injustice rules and evil prevails. ¶...
Thankful to God today for: a quiet place to work (most of the time), at home, in a converted bedroom and varanda; no lack of ideas for writing projects; the Lord's sovereignty over this world, so I don't have to worry. A simple box for...