10:30 pm, 6/24/07 We got a call from our son-in-law, Aaron. He asked us to come get our grandson, Keslar. Aaron and my great-with-child-daughter, Aubrey, were waiting for us to get Kes so that they could go to the hospital to HAVE A BABY!!! Keslar is going to have sibling very soon!
We got another call [...]
Archive for June 2007
And the Beat Goes On
by Doug Cooper : June 25th, 2007 : 0 CommentsMusic Moves…
by Doug Cooper : June 15th, 2007 : 0 CommentsI saw this video on Good Morning American this morning, and was pulled in right away…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0dzZTPWrSM
I’ll never stop being intrigued by the power of music to speak to some deep, hidden parts of our spirits in some mystical way. I don’t know the guy in the video. This is the first time I’ve ever [...]
Doing it for Pete’s Sake
by Doug Cooper : June 14th, 2007 : 2 CommentToday, my oldest son, and third in my series of kids, turns twenty. His name is Pete, and I am proud of him. Before he was born, we decided on the name “Peter” because of his namesake in the Bible. The Bible version of Peter (meaning “rock”) was strong, impulsive, sensitive, [...]
Read The Full Discussion...Integritty
by Doug Cooper : June 13th, 2007 : 2 CommentI seem to have integrity on my mind lately. It peppers my conversation quite a bit. Probably to the point of being a broken record.
Up to recently, integrity has been more of an ethical concept to me than a spiritual one. It’s the thing that every business says they want their employees to have. It’s [...]
Self-Control
by Doug Cooper : June 12th, 2007 : 1 CommentI have some questions as I look around at the way things are. I’m trying to compare what I’m seeing to Jesus’ life and teachings and see how things line up…
Maybe I’m just getting to be an old man. Maybe I’m slowly fading out of the mainstream. Maybe I’m a product of some old school [...]
Porn Starz
by Doug Cooper : June 11th, 2007 : 0 CommentsThere’s an industry that has taken the deepest, most intimate part of the most important relationship and has profaned it. This industry has spent billions of dollars and trillions of creative thoughts to make this intimate relationship a consumer draw. It has changed the focus from mutual devotion to self-gratification. It makes [...]
Read The Full Discussion...Assuming someone cares…
by Doug Cooper : June 7th, 2007 : 0 CommentsBlogging is a little like away-messages and prayer. They are are done with the assumption that someone cares what we’re up to or what we have to say. Okay, to be honest, they are done with a need for someone else to care. We all want to matter in life and we all have a [...]
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