What I MEANT was,
“Pull over on to the shoulder of
THE ROAD!

We’re headed on vacation for a week to the Black Hills of South Dakota.  A couple allows us to use their cabin and we love it. 

I’ve been thinking about vision lately, so this cartoon goes right along with it.  I’m a strong believer in looking towards the future with a view of getting there.  I personnally do not want to wander aimlessly.  In my Children’s Ministry I’m going for 30 new children this fall.  We have several things we want to do to accomplish that.  We’re going to have a Wet Wednesday, a McDonald’s Sunday and a Carnival.  I’m excited.

I went to a new church in Collridge Nebraska last night to speak about Children’s Ministry.  I enjoyed it.  On my way back I stopped by to see my Grandmother.  She will be 95 years old.  I had to chuckle because I was asking her about the drought of the 1930′s.  When I did she said, “Oh, you remember that?”  I told her I remembered reading about it. 
This is our present bridge:

This is what the bridge will look like when it’s done:

They are beginning to build it right now.

Here are some bridge construction pictures:
 

From the Nebraska side

Your outlook on life determines your where you are going.
If you could quit your job and do anything, what would it be? 

When Jim Baker went to the Federal Prison in MN, I was working at a Federal Prison.  I remember many inmates that were with Jim Baker and then transferred to Yankton.  One particular inmate was a Jewish man.  He had told me that he and Jim were roommates.  The inmate told me that Jim had changed his life for the good.  “He was a great man” the inmate told me.   

I watched the Larry King show last night and they replayed the interview that Larry had with Jim and Tammy.  It was a wonderful display of Christian love.  Jim had totally released Tammy and her decision to get a divorce.  They also replayed the last interview of Tammy.  She seemed excited; She was happy. 

Saturn holds a tiny secret

Small moon, big questions: Enceladus, photographed with Saturn’s rings, is only 318 miles wide but was captured blasting watery material 270 miles into space.
Icy chasms on one of Saturn’s most humble moons, hidden amid its glorious rings, have overtaken the sands of Mars and the stratosphere of Venus as the most intriguing potential hiding place for alien life in our solar system.

Enceladus, a shining ball of ice hugging Saturn’s rings, was first caught in the act of spewing a watery geyser from its south pole two years ago by the international Cassini mission. Water, life’s most crucial ingredient, was blasting 270 miles into space, actually hitting the orbiting spacecraft, from cracks on the frozen moon dubbed “tiger stripes.”

Astronomers and astrobiologists, who are always looking for signs of life far from Earth, were caught by surprise — and they remain so, unable to explain how such a small celestial body (only 318 miles wide at its equator ) can pump out so much water.

“Nobody has figured it out,” says Andrew Dombard of Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. “Enceladus has jumped to the top of astrobiologists’ list for a mission.”

We live across the street from an field.  The circus uses it as a staging ground – all their semi’s are parked there.  Well my kids had a lot of fun last night watching the animals being loaded.  One of the circus workers gave them a special showing.  He had the elephant pick him up.  They thought it was the greatest thing being able to watch and talk to the circus workers. 

Goodbye Tammy Faye

Barbara Morgan
I’m looking forward to the Endeavour blasting off in mid August.  Morgan was the back-up to teacher-in-space Christa McAuliffe who died when Challenger blew apart 73 seconds into lift-off in 1986.  I’ll never forget the excitement of a teacher going up in the shuttle.  I imagined Christa’s class watching the blast off of Challenger and the horror that followed.  I remember in 1986 the announcer stating:  “Something very wrong has happened.”  -then silence.   I see Barbara Morgan as a way of healing America of that terrible tragedy.  Barbara will be the 1st teacher to go in the shuttle, but I’m sure she would of rather been the second.