Random Thoughts

One of my grown nieces swears she can't cook and has taken the last couple of years to posting photos on Face Book of her burnt grilled cheese sandwiches. What worries me is not that Tanya shows burnt grilled cheese pics but that I have started to see people's faces in them. When she posts one that looks like the Last Supper I guess it will be time for one of us to get professional help.

Speaking of posting food photos on Face Book I have a cousin who would everyday show us what she had for breakfast that morning. Apart from always including a mixture of healthy and tasty cuisine, some of which came from her garden the presentations were always so beautiful that they almost looked like works of art. If Gretel had prints made of these for sale perhaps the local art gallery would not soon be closing.

Inspired by Gretel I wanted to snap a shot of a can of Dr. Pepper and a bag of Doritos with the tag - Bob's lunch today, UMMM! I feared however that Gretel would see it and take it wrong so the shot was never taken.

Speaking of cousins I grew up with one male and six female cousins. I do have two brothers and two sisters but one brother is five years older so we never played together. Cousin Benny was several years younger, the same age as my other brother and those two boys would pair off when families got together.

That left me with the little women. Did we play football or baseball, chase each other with sticks and pound our fists into one another shoulders. NO. Were we cowboys fighting Indians or generals over our miniature soldiers. Not a chance.

I do remember summer tea parties under the grape arbor, making up and preforming plays for our parents and other fun guy stuff like closing our eyes and pretending that we were in a fairy castle being chased by chipmunks and rabbits. Scary!

Now as adults my girl cousins are very close. Even though they are spread out all over the country they have been getting together lately to spend quality girl cousin time. The last time they happened to stay at my sister's home in Oak Park. I'm not sure if brother-in-law Ed is scared of chipmunks but I'm sure he managed.

When The Towers Fall Down

When The Towers Fall Down

On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be streams running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall down.  Isaiah 30:25

Who will fight your battles
tear the towers down
give you rivers from the hilltops
fountains in the ground

make the moon shine extra bright
even magnify the sun
hear the anguished midnight cry
show you He's the one

Your eyes will see the Teacher
who whispers from behind
this is the way go left or right
the territories mine

and you will scatter unclean things
tell them to be gone
so much for silver, gold or jewels
they couldn't buy your song

Instead He'll give you rain and seed
for planting in the ground
which He will grow and magnify
with blessings all around

On high He longs to show compassion
but cares for justice too
He surely will be sweet and gracious
if longing comes from you

So when the things that are most trusted
go burning up in fire
and His anger shakes the very ground
everything that you desire

All the gods are merely rubble
your armies have run away
cloudburst, downpour, hailstorms
and yet you're still OK

There will be gladness in the heart
and parties in the night
praise God the towers are torn down
and you don't have to fight