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a time to mourn and a time to dance

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There is a time   for everything,      and a season for every activity under the heavens The most interesting and unusual passage in all of the Old Testament (original testament) was in the book of Ecclesiastes when King Solomon proclaims, It is better to go the house of mourning than the house of feasting.  Ecc 7:2.      Funeral etiquette was explained to me by a grief counselor in the great state of York that is New.  People want your sympathy and compassion but they also want to celebrate someone's life that has just passed.  They want to talk about that person so asking questions like what was their favorite type of music and did they like sports are not bad questions.  It allows the grievers to open up about who their loved one was as a person.  I thought that was sage advice and I did apply it when I had the unfortunate honor of attending a funeral for my thirty something co worker who I very much respected bu...

Shield Of God

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               When I was young I had a number of ambitions.   I wanted to eventually get married and have children.   I have a beautiful family that I’m very proud of.   I wanted to become an electrical engineer.   I currently work as an embedded software engineer so I achieved that as well.   As an aside, I am convinced that all of our jobs represent some form of godliness.   If you work as a police officer, you know that God is our guardian.   If you work as a firefighter you know that Jesus rescues us from the fires of hell.   As a man who works as a software engineer I know that God is the programmer of life.   One of my other ambitions was to be a writer.   I always loved to write and by write I mean type because I have awful handwriting. Several years ago I wrote a book and sent it to a bunch of publishers.   Not one of them requested the full manuscript.   I took a writ...