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WHAT WILL I SAY?

WHAT WILL I SAY? So here we are, once again. Welcome back. Sorry for the little break in blogition. Not my fault…yeah right. How many times have we told either ourselves or others this same excuse? Hmph. If not my fault, then whose? Truth is, priorities shifted for a while… Anyway, here we are once again, you, amazing, beautiful, wonderful you, and me, just one little, rough tool still in need of sharpening from the Master Toolmaker in Heaven. Today, I want to share with you all, something that happened to me in church a few weeks ago. It was both awesome and terrifying at the same time.   It was Communion, and we were to walk to the Altar to receive it. There I was, slowly walking, not really thinking, until I got stopped at the head of the queue as there was no space at the Altar for anymore; I had to wait until the people there had received and left. Then, it began.   I looked at the Altar before me, and I was struck by how large it seemed. The top seemed to str...

OF FROZEN PHONES AND THE (LIFE) MANUAL

OF FROZEN PHONES AND THE (LIFE) MANUAL Fire in the skies, My heart beats, Ever longing, For…   What? Oh, this? You just caught me trying out my hand at poetry. Still beats me how people think my writing is poetic, but then, I can’t shoot myself in the foot, can I? I surely cannot, thank you Sir. So yes, you are looking at the next big thing. The stage is set! The lights are on! The invitations have all been sent out.   Focus, Raymond. Focus.   Thank you, oh voice of reason. So…what was I-   Aha! Got it.   A few weeks back, something happened (doesn’t something always happen?) to my phone (argh!) Raise your hands if you are tech savvy! Everyone? Wow… What about the days of the Nokia 3310s? The phones that had torchlights and green-and-black screens? Those days when the Sagem camera phone was the biggest deal on earth?   Simpler days. Nowadays, everything is taking a selfie of you. You pick up a potato, and it takes a picture of you...