For His Service

 http://inhonoroftheking.blogspot.com/2012/03/through-trudys-eyes-her-rescue.html     I first told you about Trudy over a year ago.  She has survived horrific abuse at the hands of people. ..abuse that never would have happened if that person had ANY compassion.  Compassion. Compassion- a feeling of deep sympathy or sorrow for another who is stricken with misfortune, accompanied by the strong desire to alleviate the suffering. I want my children to have compassion and I think an easy way to start is to build a compassion towards those who have no ability to give anything... no ability to help themselves... animals.   I hope that compassion towards animals would easily bloom into compassion towards people, made in God's image.    It amazes me the example of compassion my children have been able to see from people and animals at Save The Horses.  Sweetie is an old mare that guards Trudy, the blind horse, from o...

Memories of us on Folly Beach- Aug. 2012  Boogie Boards Museums  Time with Grandparents Relaxing on the sand..watching the birds (my favorite)  Riding Wave Runners in the Atlantic I am always in awe of His Creation... when I am looking at the waves crashing in..  Nothing in Creation speaks to me as the ocean does... Psalm 19  1  The heavens  declare  the glory of God;      the skies  proclaim the work of his hands. 2  Day after day they pour forth speech;      night after night they display knowledge. 3  There is no speech or language      where their voice is not heard. [ a ] 4  Their voice [ b ]  goes out into all the earth,      their words to the ends of the world.

I have noticed our two largest news outlets in America, CNN and Fox News, have both reported on faith, or the lack of faith, in Japan.  Here is the link to the Fox News article and and excerpt from that article:   http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/18/finding-faith-japans-crisis/ But what of Japan, a country where many consider themselves more secular than sacred? Where do they turn for comfort from the triple threat of earthquake, tsunami and potential nuclear catastrophe? First, it may be deceptive to think of Japan as non-religious, says Dr. Michael Roemer, assistant professor of Religious Studies at Ball State University in Indiana. "In Japan, they don't belong to [congregational] religious organizations like in the U.S. like Churches, Mosques, or Temples." But there is still faith.  Another American academic, Dr. Duncan Williams of the University of California at Berkeley, was in Japan on a train headed to Tokyo’s airport when the quake hit. His train nearly ...