Paid blogging

My entries here have slowed due to schedule changes with children and pondering where to go with my writing – specifically how to get paid for blogging.
This all comes at the same time I’m wondering and learning what God wants from me and what He might have me write.
What follows is what I’ve come up [...]

Thanks Be to God

I’d like to thank everyone who puts up with my comments at their blogs, my friends, employer and God for all the blessings they send my way.
 
So I will.
 
Thanks, all you bloggers over there at the blogroll to the left.
 
Thanks Jim http://lordibelievehelpmyunbelief.blogspot.com/ and Marcus http://www.goodwordediting.com/ for your common sense, wisdom and responding to e-mails sent through other [...]

Politics, Anger at God and Children’s Boredom

This blog entry will cover topics such as being angry at God, trying to decide who to back for president and spending a few vacation days with my children.
The presidential political process gets my goat every four years as I observe it and then try to cast an informed vote.
When I try to bring God into it and guess [...]

Update to the last post on Romanian children

The children I wrote about in the last blog entry http://samwrites2.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/for-two-children-i-dont-know-and-yet-care-about/ (no – not my children, but two who are as dear to God) have had a reprieve as the court hearing written about has been delayed until July 16.
The prayer and praise e-mail sent out read:
“Delays are a very common in the Romanian court system, [...]

For two children I don’t know and yet care about

I’m writing this because there are two children in Romania who will have their day in court today, June 16.
Normally I wouldn’t be aware.  
Someone – and God – made me care.
This is partly how:
A person who I worship God with spoke with an orphanage director in Romania.  
On our e-mailed prayer request list the news reads:
“There are two four-year-old [...]

Testing Technorati

I’m testing technorati by inserting code here.
<a href=”http://technorati.com/claim/4shxr97j3a” rel=”me”>Technorati Profile</a>
So let’s see if this works.
This is important because I’m trying to figure out how to get everyone on the internet to read the posts I’m writing at Associated Content and Blogcritics.org. Both sites have assured me I’ll make lots of money.
Currently, the stuff I’m writing [...]

Around my bloghood with They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants puzzles my children, frequently keeps me entertained and sends e-mails to me.
I’ve worn out their album “Flood” and I’m on the band’s e-mailing list.
So I thought it was extra-special cool to find Marcus over at Good Word Editing featuring one of the band’s videos in his post on a devotional about [...]

Compelling testimony link

Just have to share this testimony read here http://johnshoreland.com/2008/06/09/one-womans-conversion-experience-while-driving/ at John Shore’s blog.
I certainly identify with this lady’s prayer.
The advice given her reminds me of the book “Practicing the Presence of God” by Brother Lawrence.
Such a beautiful story of God’s amazing grace.

Train, Train, take me on out of this town…

That’s how it went – the song by Blackfoot in the late 1970s with the killer blues harp.
And I could play the intro.
So naturally it was one of the first concerts I remember attending.
Jim sparked this entry with his blog entry here http://lordibelievehelpmyunbelief.blogspot.com/2008/06/who-have-you-seen-live.html
Of course, a friend says “Sam, how could you forget seeing the Grand [...]

Grace Car Care Q & A

Today’s blog entry focuses on a question asked by Jim from http://lordibelievehelpmyunbelief.blogspot.com/ not long ago about car care help offered through the body of believers I worship with.
Jim wanted details about the help and how it might work in his locality.
John responded…
“Hi Sam,
Just getting to your email, hope it’s not too late to use in your blog. [...]