The Awesome comeback of the LPGA

Couple of years ago the demise of the ladies professional tour was predicted in the absence of American dominance. No one was drawn to the Asian girls.

Someone decided to take the reality and sell it, as a world tour, as an opportunity to let people know about the talented Asians by using all kinds of interviews and stories to create personalities that people could connect with.

The product was always superb, great golf with swings that real people learn from and copy, and great locations all over the world.

I always enjoy the Dinah Shore and since we spent a wonderful week in the Coachella Valley last summer it means even more. We played the Gary Player course just on the other side of the property.

Go girls, you have rescued your sport, and way to go American golfers for not giving up and fighting back to the top.

Mall Date

To tired to cook, to tired to go to a movie, its a Mall date. There were thousands waiting in line to get a signed photo of one of the Twilight Male stars, crazy.

We always cruze the Barnes and Nobles, the Apple Store, the Bridgestone Gadget Store, the Teriyaki Bowl we share. We bought nothing, we just used the mall for our own enjoyment. Quick, cheap, painless, and part of our life together.

Since I have a new camera, I am revived in my desire to photograph life each day. Even when its the small Canon Elph 300. i love walking the Mall, watching people shop and act funny, and wondering when they will look back at the photo they bought and wonder why they waited in line for two hours for the autograph????

Its Tax Time

Second year in a row Turbo Tax and I are working together to pay all I own and not one cent more. They get a cut of everything I buy, every drop of gas, a million hidden taxes in every living transactions and then they proceed to feed the unmanageable beast with maniacal abandon. Not loving the whole tax thing although glad to be an American.

Another enjoyable day with friends at the Duke.

The most loving people in the world

That's what the folks who attend Westboro Baptist Church believe they are when they picket funerals and events. We love you enough to tell you God Hates You when no one else is, and we love you enough to tell you to repent before God sends you fags and sexual sinners to hell.

As I read that in an article it made me wonder, is that really the Gospel, God hates you but we love you enough to tell you that and give you a chance to turn or burn.

As I read the texts of the gospel message, I see the opposite. God loves sinners enough to die for them while they are trapped in their sin, and He is love and loves us enough to draw us lovingly, seek us persistently, and wait patiently to forgive, indeed the major forgiveness and redemption have been freely given.

The various contrasts of this issue make up the spectrum of evangelicalism. I have added another reality to the gospel I follow...redemptive judgment. Purposeful correction....you know, like a Father might practice to the lost sons and daughters of Adam.

The Westboro folks are delusional about their loving ministry, and we should be loving enough to tell them so, as well as others who have the same message more cleverly marketed.

Trampolines and puppies

Fun with family. It took a couple of years for the kids to get a back yard, but now it adds so much to the enjoyment of their home, and the puppy racing back and forth to jump and nip and fetch.

We are not quite as casual about the trampoline. "It makes me nervous", as the old mom on the TV commercial said about her kids lifestyle with the fat husband silently feeding his face next to her.

A joyful Easter, now to finish the blankety blank Taxes!!!!!!

Spring is springing

We are watching and wondering if this Century Plant will bloom this year.

The Cactus bloom every day and attract the bees.

Golf was poor today but beauty was fresh and free. My Canadian friends playing with us said it was 15degrees in Calgary today.

After Easter

Easter is always an invitation, the door is always open and we always hope to see people desiring the thank God for the message of life beyond the grave. We had a good crowd, my daughters church has 4,000 in two services.

For Laura and I it was also a time of special thankfulness as it marked the Tenth anniversary of our ministry in Sun Lakes. Over five hundred Sundays in the same pulpit. I am grateful to have had the health to keep on sharing my passion for the good news among senior adults.