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As Boompa Sees It: April 2008
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As Boompa Sees It. Sunday, April 20, 2008. Pump My Own Gas? Very few of you reading this blog are old enough to remember when pumping gas was a mystery- something done only by professionals. I was probably in high school or college before I pumped my own gas. Attendants filled your tank, wiped your windshield, checked your oil, radiator and even the air in your tires before taking your money. Our music came on vinyl discs and we played it in the order the record producers wanted us to hear it. Boompa is ...
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As Boompa Sees It: Me? Pump My Own Gas?
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As Boompa Sees It. Sunday, April 20, 2008. Pump My Own Gas? Very few of you reading this blog are old enough to remember when pumping gas was a mystery- something done only by professionals. I was probably in high school or college before I pumped my own gas. Attendants filled your tank, wiped your windshield, checked your oil, radiator and even the air in your tires before taking your money. Our music came on vinyl discs and we played it in the order the record producers wanted us to hear it. Boompa is ...
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As Boompa Sees It: Impending Explosions
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As Boompa Sees It. Friday, March 14, 2008. The explosion rocked our house. We knew something nearby had just blown up. It turned out to be a house less than half a mile down the road. The fire engines raced to the scene, battling the resulting inferno for nearly 90 minutes but by then it was too little, too late. There was nothing they could do to save the hollow shell that had once been a house. As Chrstians, we always want everything to look nice from the street. In real estate they call it "curb a...
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As Boompa Sees It: A Few Reflections on Reflections
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As Boompa Sees It. Friday, February 22, 2008. A Few Reflections on Reflections. The Bible tells us that we respond to God because "He first loved us." In other words, we reflect the radiant love that He bestowed upon us- even while we were yet sinners, the Bible adds. While we were in open rebellion, denying God's very existence or shaking our angry fist in His face- He still loved us with a relentless, reckless love that illuminated our own face in glorious reflection. Wives were created to be responder...
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As Boompa Sees It: Fresh picked blueberries...
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As Boompa Sees It. Sunday, February 10, 2008. You ought to have seen what I saw on my way. To the village, through Mortenson's pasture today:. Blueberries as big as the end of your thumb,. Real sky-blue, and heavy, and ready to drum. In the cavernous pail of the first one to come! And all ripe together, not some of them green. And some of them ripe! You ought to have seen! Thus begins Robert Frost's poem. No, a fresh blueberry, as Frost observed, is as big as your thumb and heavy. Through prayer, through...
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As Boompa Sees It: February 2008
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As Boompa Sees It. Friday, February 22, 2008. A Few Reflections on Reflections. The Bible tells us that we respond to God because "He first loved us." In other words, we reflect the radiant love that He bestowed upon us- even while we were yet sinners, the Bible adds. While we were in open rebellion, denying God's very existence or shaking our angry fist in His face- He still loved us with a relentless, reckless love that illuminated our own face in glorious reflection. Wives were created to be responder...
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As Boompa Sees It: Purpose or pleasure?
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As Boompa Sees It. Sunday, February 17, 2008. I see them all the time around Lake Michigan; huge, beautiful, insanely expensive yachts sitting quietly with their sails furled- the owners sipping margaritas and catching a few rays. Maybe they were inspired by Jimmy Buffet- the voice of all things pleasurable from cheeseburgers in paradise to wasting away in margaritaville. At least that's the way Boompa sees it. Wow, Steve, this may be my favorite entry so far! And I've liked quite a few of them! Subscrib...
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As Boompa Sees It: If Only I Could Get My Father's Attention
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As Boompa Sees It. Monday, March 31, 2008. If Only I Could Get My Father's Attention. New babies are amazing, aren't they? There's absolutely nothing they can do to help themselves or to try to impress us. And yet as a new parent or grandparent we love them so much it almost makes our heart ache sometimes. I think that's how it is between us and the Lord, don't you? So then why are we always so busy; busy trying to get His attention, earn His affection, win His favor? March 31, 2008 at 9:02 AM. Steve, I ...
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As Boompa Sees It: Who Knew?
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As Boompa Sees It. Thursday, March 6, 2008. Although I take almost all of the photos on this blog, I didn't take this one. I feel like I'm old enough to have been around in July of 1888 when this photograph of 8-year-old Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan was taken- but I don't remember ever having been in Brewster, MA so it couldn't have been me, right? But it struck me as an interesting reminder of how little we know about the future, and how much the Lord knows. Duh! None of us knows the end o...
