(So now you can see how the Barthel girls pass the time waiting for Papa Fred to get home from  work on a Friday night.)  

Have you heard about this ministry? The Praise Factory It’s late, so I’m not going to  poke around too much more tonight. But I’m definitely going to bookmark this site and return!  

Seriously. When have you had a 1 in 15 chance of winning something worth either $99 or $59? Now you do! (Because only 15 people have signed up for our current WIN FREE STUFF GIVEAWAY.) To sweeten the pot a bit and tempt the last NINE PEOPLE I need to follow this blog (“Considerable Grace”) on Facebook (in order to have enough “followers” to have my feed pulled every hour), I’m adding in this OPTION: If your name is drawn this Sunday (Aug 23) and you win the prize, you can CHOOSE either my video series (“Living the Gospel in Relationships”) OR The Peacemaker Small Group Study. I know that…

Just a quick note to let you know that we’re home and the doctor wasn’t too concerned—but he (and the nurse who removed the blood soaked bandages) both agreed that it was wise for us to have gone in. It really was incredible how much blood there was—apparently there must be an unhappy vein in there. Oh, and if you don’t yet follow me on FaceBook and you have no idea what I’m talking about, this was the post Fred & I put up from the E.R. a couple of hours ago: “It’s 10:00PM and we’re at the Emergency Room. My “should just be three tiny little steri-strips over 1/4…