I have posted my draft of the story and message for Sunday, December 9 in a blog.  The message includes two stories: one about Robert Fulgum on appreciating the love directed our way and one whose origin I have lost on our continuous option of making positive choices.  Overall, my message considers reasons to hope, making the choice to hope, and making the choice to make our hopes real.

 Here are my current drafts of my story and message for December 2, 2012

Seeing Hope

I have posted my message for next Sunday. It moves from changes in the life of Samuel through examples of other changes to potential changes in the congregation.

Here is my first draft of the message for Nov 18

Endings and Beginnings:  1 Samuel 1/2 2012/11/18

Here's an interesting take on the theme of Eternal Salvation/Eternal Damnation I came across. Hell IS eternal!" It must be because it guarantees human freedom and human choice. Without choice there is no love. God is Love - eternal Love. We must have the freedom to choose God but also to not choose God or else we're not doing so willingly and not out of Love! Hell guarantees our freedom. This line of thinking leaves the question... "does anyone spend eternity in Hell?" I guess theoretically, maybe.

 Here at WonderCafe I spend my time attempting to figure out what reasoning or lack of reasoning we use when we make choices. 

The politicians, provincial and federal, are gearing up for an election, we are hearing mixed messages. What will we listen to.

It seems to me that this is all overshadowed by bondage and I am attempting to figure out why it things turn out the way they do.

My previous thread, Conflict of Interests, prepared me to start this one.

Visitation dreams are a form of grief, but provide hope and may be the person's spirit coming to comfort us.  What if the resurrection is a symbol of the life beyond death that comes to us in the spirit through dreams?  

Has anyone had a visitation dream?

Hi,

I discoverd this site today and read through a few topics before I decided to register to make this post.  I really value other peoples opinions so long as they do not try to over-ride my own opinion as well.  I would like some advice from all of those moms out there.