Author: Garnetjewel
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Do you ever see wild animals?-Writing Prompt
Well I do live out in the country. The deer in the area have a modem of different reactions they like to get out of me. Sometimes they like to freak me out completely without any warning. Like a flurry not seen until they pass me trying not to have a heart attack from the…
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20 Years Ago…
As I drove into the Wal-Mart parking lot this morning lots of thoughts hit me. There have been numerous times I thought I lived in that store. Now I tend to stay in the car. When I am in the store for longer than 30 minutes I can feel the pressure of the cement floor…
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Day #5
The topic today is the Temple. The angle she mentioned from a woman needing to purify herself by paying for the offering of 2 turtledoves and pigeons. Childbirth was different in many ways and simpler compared to the hospital settings nowadays. Oral history was a tradition for the Jews and the verse in Genesis 3:15…
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Do you have a favorite place you have visited?-Writing Prompt
Growing up we went on lots of neat trips together. Even as the whole Alsman Family we went to Missouri and stayed at Sikeston, St. Louis, and visited Cape Girardeau. Those were cherished family moments over the years. Then as I became a teenager my brothers and I went on a trip with Grandma and…
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Suffragist
Women fought hard to gain their vote and be given the same rights as the men in their lives had. The Feminism movement seems to have disintegrated as well. They only care about ‘my body my right’ when it comes to killing babies, but not when it comes to men forcibly taking away the word,…
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My Home State Losing Moral Authority
Unfortunately life is not done in a petri dish. I want to believe my fellow Hoosiers are good morally calibrated people, experience has taught us even the reddest state or conservative state is not immune to dumb decision making from lawmakers or even our Education department. Recently before Thanksgiving a headline came out regarding an…
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Share five things you’re good at.-Writing Prompt
This sounds a lot like boasting and God doesn’t like those who proudly boast for vanity. Whether I am good at them or not they are things I enjoy doing for the love of serving others by God’s loving command. Love one another as I have loved you. My skills or ratings are in the…
Jewells of Thought 