Woollywormology?

Saturday is National Grouch Day, a day to be grumpy, ungrateful, and cantankerous, sponsored by students and teachers at Carter Middle School in Clio, Michigan.

And isn't odd they scheduled Grouch Day on Saturday? So the kids can be grumpy at home.

The annual Woolly Worm Festival is Saturday in Banner Elk, North Carolina. Can't you just see all those Banner Elkers out there .. getting ready for the big show .. brushing their woolly worms?

I wonder how you get to be a woolly worm judge?

To Love:

To love requires walking with God, because God is love.

I try to walk with Him, but I'm so easily distracted, many times I can't keep up. Or I wander off.

I search for reasons for my wandering or some special spiritual truth to explain it. Oswald Chambers tells me "spiritual truth is learned by atmosphere, not by intellectual reasoning. God's spirit alters the atmosphere of our way of looking at things."

And things begin to be possible that were never possible before.

Walking with God and learning to love means uniting with Him just as Jesus united Himself with His Father.

It will take a long time, but the more we hang around Him, the more we begin to see it is possible.

Not because we love Him, but because He loves us.

Wow.

To Learn

Take a Shot at Preventing the Flu - It's time for your flu shot to avoid getting very sick this winter.

Mental Wandering

It's hard to relate to this high-tech world when your grandchild says her Tinker Toys need more memory.

Autumn

You know it's going to be a rough autumn when you go out for the paper in the morning and a squirrel throws an acorn at you.

Yes, this is the time of year when we see these squirrelly creatures romping around, shaking their tails all over the place -- but enough about the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders.