Faith Underway

    Thanksgiving and the Donald Duck Principle             We have entered into another Holiday season. Today is Thanksgiving Day, and we are rapidly moving toward Christmas. In this current COVID world, we are desperately moving toward normalcy, but as we see in the media and other sources, that reality seems to be a wish more than a reality. The past two years have been very difficult for most, and some will find it difficult to be in a spirit of thanksgiving.             We observe our world through a lens. That lens is dictated most often through our circumstances, status, or what reality appears to be. What I want people to read is simply that hope has not died yet. The author of Lamentations writes, “Remember my affliction and my homelessness, the wormwood and the poison. I continually remember them and have become depressed.   Yet I call this to mind,...

  2021 Day 2 Top Ten Demons and Stuff             It was September when I checked into my new command. I instantly moved from a quiet existence as a supervisor in the corrosion shop and a one week on one week off Covid-19 schedule. I entered into the hectic life of a squadron heading on cruise. A cruise in the military sense is certainly not like a Carnival or Disney cruise. It is long months of hard, monotonous work in high heat places.             When a squadron goes on cruise or deployment, it enters a training phase before they can leave. This training cycle can include much travel and many long working days. One thing that helps is if a person listens closely, they can hear some hilarious stuff. For this cruise, I have begun taking down funny statements that I hear and making spiritual applications. This blog being a Christian blog, I must edit the phrases for l...

  Isaiah 43:1–3               Here we are, day one of 2021. Many people have left 2020 overwhelmed, sad, and defeated. If we survey the coming year, we see reports of new strains of viruses, political upheaval. We are facing new and uncharted places. I would charge you, oh reader, to not lose hope. The Word says in Isaiah, Now this is what the Lord says the one who created you, Jacob, and the one who formed you, Israel "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are mine. 2  When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and the rivers will not overwhelm you, When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, and the flame will not burn you. 3  For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, and your Savior. I have given Egypt as a ransom for you, Cush and Seba in your place. [1]     I was reading the daily bread entry for today, and th...