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My old shopping haunt, Redner's in Columbia, is now a Musser's Market. It is much cleaner place now with better food, more help, but less of that biker ambiance that I had come to love about Redner's. Lina didn't like going there because it was kind of icky like a man's bathroom. The old Musser's in Columbia is now a bargain food outlet. It is truly a food chain here. A store moving out, a store moving up, and a store moving in...the ecosystem of food retail. The proprietors of this new bargain food outlet are these two really awesome Indian ladies. One is older and one is younger. Actually, I am not sure who owns the place officially. I think it is a family venture that the ladies work at while their husbands work other jobs to probably keep the store afloat until it is self-sustaining. Fortunately, rent-wise, it is hardly Park Ave, NYC. I stopped by a week or two ago to see what the deal with the new place was...from the outside, there is no indication that i...

Matthew 11:17 "And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. " Lina and I watched the film "Once" last night. It had been on our Queue for months languishing like a child in line for one the new roller coaster's at Hershey Park. I moved it up and had it sent after I read a glowing posting about it from my friend in film Todd Klick. He has a highly attuned cinematic sense. IF he likes something, it should follow that I should too. I will not give away the story...I really abhor when people do this...it is like whispering to someone what their Christmas gift is going to be. If the film stinks, then I am glad to know this ahead of time. No use of eating garbage if someone else of good taste tells me to not take the lid off a particularly stenchy flick. If the film is tasty, then let me eat it. It is OK to commend it but then back off. The only work where I am glad to know both the story and the endi...

John 6:9 "There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?" The feeding of the 5,000 is the only miracle of Jesus mentioned in all four Gospels before the resurrection. I have to conclude that God has purposes for such. Rather than do an exhaustive treatise on this verse, I think it wise to focus on the main point: God can do a lot with a little. When He is in something, God brings to bear a multiplicity than transcends human understanding. Start where you are with what you have. Sweep your own front stoop and then keep sweeping once you set your own affairs in order. Pray in faith that God will prosper the work of your hands. Find a small cause and make a big difference. "Do not despise the day of small beginnings." More is at work than just you alone. If your cause is just, true, and loving, God will prosper it in His own way. Be like the lad in this story who was willing to hand over what he had to Jesu...