kingdom travelin'

One who is entering a new chapter in life should look forward and not backward, looking at each turn of the page with gladness for what is to come without regret of what is no longer.

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Well at about 00:35 this morning U2 finally came on and did a song. I am not in possession of EVERY U2 song yet, but my guess is that this song was from the new album – which I’m going to buy today – and that is why – because of the context of Letterman’s stage and unfamiliarity with the message of the song (which is really important to me) I was less than wowed by the performance. I don’t know why they were stuck on the tail of the show like that, but it could have been better… I think Bono thought so too… I felt that he was trying to get the Letterman crowd into the song, but had only limited success… and Letterman at the end acted like he didn’t know what to do with the band… too much Letterman – too little U2 I guess.

I love snow.. it began last night and the good news! The TV said “Covenant School – CLOSED!… then this morning it was still snowing!

as the snow covers the ground I am reminded “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow”…

I measured just about 5 inches on the back porch. And then the snow stopped and the sun came out to reveal the beauty of the snow coved neighborhood!

Now I have to uncover the Volvo and get ready to drive Sweet Anna to work!

is what I have sought and have pretty much enjoyed. There was some frozen precip yesterday and one channel is calling for 6-12 inches of snow tonight, which actually means 1-3 inches. This is because the weather forecasting business is a ratings racket. The local weather is just about the ONLY thing a local TV station can use to boost ratings and therefore advertising revenue. So, what can we do? Learn to read a weather map and don’t let them scare you or get your hopes up (for those of us that are in or work in a school). Back to the quiet weekend.

I noticed something this afternoon. When I have a really busy week as I am currently finishing. A week in which I am so busy getting this and that done and going from this meeting and commitment to another, there is little time for reading, for thinking about that which isn’t  So I guess that means that this week has been filled with the urgent as opposed to the important, which is not good. And thus, when the time comes to sign on and post something there isn’t much there that isn’t just urgent. Think about that phrase “just urgent”. It’s like saying it’s just a scratch or its just a draft, don’t worry… get it? it’s justurgent… I think we need to fill our lives on the important, that which lasts, that which has eternal fruit, that which is the fodder of ideas and contemplation… not that which cries out as