The Reason for the Silence
Posted by ellen5e in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Family, Life, Personal Experience on 01 31st, 2010 | No Comments
You may have noticed that I haven’t been blogging regularly since the middle of December. That is because I made a conscious decision to step back from many ventures during the Christmas season to focus on the most important areas of my life. I focused more on family and the celebration of what...
The Christmas Gift
The manger stays empty until Christmas Eve.
As economic times are tough, I have had a real challenge of figuring out about what gifts I might be able to afford. There is just no way to be able to do the usual extended family Secret Santa gift exchange this year. The family vehicle needed repairs that...
Procrastination: What’s ‘pro’ about it?
Posted by ellen5e in Christian, Life, Opinion, Personal Experience, Ponderings on 11 11th, 2009 | No Comments
I am developing a plan to get a task done. Or is it that I am beginning to start to plan? The prefix ‘pro’ usually means moving forward, bettering, such as in the word progress. Procrastination: what’s ‘pro’ about it?
Here is a video that someone sent me a link to. This...
Imperfect Perfection
You know what? I am NOT perfect. Surprise! Yet, one of my personal struggles is with the character defect of perfectionism. I could even go so far to say that it is a sin, but I don’t know that I chose so much to act this way as it is a natural bent that has plagued my Type A, constantly pushing...
Fire Burning Love
Posted by ellen5e in Biblical, Christian, Communication, Ministry, New Media, Opinion, Ponderings, Spirit on 02 14th, 2009 | 1 Comment
My friend Gabe voiced his concerns about some of the larger Christian organizations of the nation drawing large crowds with uber-celebrity type people. Also, the idea that maybe too much time was being spent on being a good “leader”. This made me think of a worldly, success-based motivation...
The Lame Lamb
Posted by ellen5e in Animals, Biblical, Christian, Life, Ministry, Nature, Ponderings, Spirit, UBCafe on 02 18th, 2008 | No Comments
I would like to tell you of a shepherding practice that is used when a lamb continues to wander away from the flock. In order for the lamb that keeps wandering away to learn to stay with the flock, the shepherd uses his staff and actually breaks one of legs of the lamb. Then he splints the leg and...