Toadpoles

This week little teensy-weensy-tiny toads are sunning themselves on the edges of the fish pond. There are still numerous toadpoles in the water, waiting to lose their little tails, seeking the sun and morphing.

One mystery. Only one little fish is in the pond. What happened to the others?  Our beautiful big fish are GONE!

I'm so sad! I guess there might be a coon who found our pond and decided a midnight snack was just the thing for him.

I'm going to buy a few more 13¢ goldfish today. I need to have those little mosquito larvae eaters in my pond.

Yes, the joke on Minnesota is that the mosquito is the state bird.

They have been really bad this year, with all this rain.

Yesterday Cherie and I found a lovely park on the Mississippi. The water had clearly been way over the current bank recently---muddy banks all along the edge. Water was flowing swiftly in the middle of the current, but Cherie dipped her toes in by the boat landing, and saw clear water, minnows, and sandy bottom. She said it was warm.

Few people were enjoying the beautiful day. It was one of those memorable Minnesota summer days!

We brave the bitter winters to enjoy these perfect summers!

Alas, the mosquitoes can't take that away from us.

I have had wedding preparations on my mind, reunions, birthdays, camp-outs, and military operations. My two boys are in officer's training this week. Because there are 6,000 cadets I strongly doubt they will link up with each other, but you never know!

One is coming home next week.

We're getting ready for our Chinese guests who are coming soon. We have a boyfriend/girlfriend combo this time, so that changes the guest arrangements! My wonderful husband is busy laying the floor in the downstairs bedroom. Hope it's ready in time!

Life buzzes along.  That reminds me: our bees are doing GREAT!

I made banana cake last night, but today I'm making cherry pie. Our little cherry trees had some fruit on them this year. The birds got it all. So thankful to my mother-in-law for cherries from her trees! We're enjoying them tonight with roast chicken from her, as well! A summer feast.

                                   Off to a wedding recently.

Ray Does it Again!

http://www.evolutionvsgod.com/

 

Please take a look at this trailer.

We downloaded the movie yesterday, and it's just as powerful as the "180 Movie" Ray Comfort put out before. It's coming out on YOUTUBE in August, so you can wait for it. I wanted to give Ray a little financial support, so I was happy to buy the download yesterday.

I have always believed that this issue is pivotal for this age.

The older generation just went along with whatever the seminaries and scientists were "preaching" at the time. Trying to synthesize science with what the Bible says proved to be too difficult.

Instead of holding fast to Scripture (which is truth) the last generation avoided Genesis, avoided the whole science/creation/evolution issue, and tried to move on.

I can't blame them. I thought my grandma (who held to the Biblical account) was old-fashioned and not "with the program."

How wrong I was.

It's good to come late to the game, rather than not at all.

I love science, and I see the hand of God written all over it. It's the most beautiful thing. Good scientists acknowledge that there are still mysteries out there.

But everything we know is backed up by the Word of God, or it can't be true.

Sorry.

This is a watershed thing.

Convergence

We had an unexpected trip to a Dairy Queen last weekend.

We picked up a young friend at the bus about an hour from here, and since she hadn't eaten we stopped at the DQ which is located right by the DQ headquarters here in Minnesota.

As we entered the restaurant we noticed a marquee welcoming a "convergence" convention.

We really were clueless about what that could mean, but we soon became aware of an interesting group of people---all dressed in indescribable costumes (?) with dark eyes----eating their treats.

My husband did a quick search on his phone to see what "convergence" was all about.

It's a sci-fi/fantasy group.

Wow. These people were interesting!

My young friend, who had just been to the nation's capitol on her trip said, "I didn't see anything like this on my whole trip east!"

Interesting, and I felt that we were the distinctly Un-normal people in that place. A strange realization.

Changes.

Give Me Jesus (lyrics)

Dr. Francis Collins of Human Genome Project--Faith Statement

I Wish My Own Family Would Read This

http://www.raptureready.com/rap15.html

It is sad when your own (extended) family has already drunk the Kool-Aide of Post-Modernism regarding the church, but just hoping for a CHANCE that they will be awakened, I'm posting this article.

We try. We preach. We hope. We pray.

We wait.

Warning

I don't want to take away from my last post, earlier this morning.  My eldest is off on training for several weeks and had to get to the airport very early.

I decided to log in some writing time with these early hours.

It's been a non-stop schedule for this family over the past month, and through it all I've been hearing rumblings in the prophecy community that need to be made known generally.

For a fact I realize that most believers have little interest in prophecy, and when I chat about end-time events with them they seem uninformed.

Perhaps spending so much time in Revelation and now Jude has made me hyper-sensitive, but here are the new ideas we need to consider.

Satan is moving in for the kill. Demons are beginning to manifest themselves, but naturally they don't appear as demons-----they are "extra-terrestrials."

Why would Satan be truthful about this? His nature is to deceive.

This article sums up some of the weird that is alluded to in Jude. It isn't scary to us, because WE know the God of the Bible, and that He has this all under His control. Time must end. Those of us who know Christ Jesus must cling to Him until His return for us.

LGBT

A new race? Sounds like the days of Noah, the Nephilim, and pure evil.

The first time God destroyed evil it was a flood. The next time it will be fire.