Posted on 12/30/2004 1:28:19 PM PST by Tanniker Smith
Jack can't help. He's in jail still. Michigan doesn't like Jack very much....nor his attorney buddy Geoffrey.
Atlas Shrugged
Enemies Foreign and Domestic
Unintended Consequences
Sum of All Fears (BOOK, not movie I didn't see with that joker Affleck)
The Bear and the Dragon
Executive Orders
I liked the internal politics stuff that went on in those three of Clancy's books.
Enemies Foreign and Domestic had a good message, and was all too real when it came to some ambitious politicians and mid level bureaucrats(particulary the latter).
Unintended Consequences is the ultimate PO the feds book.
I like ponies. ; )
That's when I first experienced it, too! God called so many people to prayer in 2000. I knew I wasn't the only one. It's nice to meet another!
I was called on February 1, 2000 - I'll never forget it. I would have to stop whatever I was doing and just listen to the prayers that were going through me. I would go to sleep praying and wake up still in prayer. I remember being in a PTO meeting and all of the sudden everything around me became background noise and I was drawn into an incredibly specific prayer. It was the most incredible thing that I have ever experienced - the most humbling, also. That was when I became a prayer warrior (who is also a mom - hence, warriormom).
Time to revisit him. I had to read him in high school and while I made it through "Starship Troopers", I only got this far through SiaSL: "John Valentine Smith was born on Mars."
TS
I'm not thrilled with his later work (other than "Friday"). His short fiction is quite wonderful too. Try to locate his collection of Future History stories in "The Past Through Tomorrow". For a collection of short fiction and essays, see "Expanded Universe". All-in-all some really good stuff.
I wish I could say that I heard a call to pray before the election in 2000. We prayed, but sporatically. It was only after the Florida hang-up that the Lord seemed to say that He was holding the election in the balance primarily to see if His people cared enough to pray. That's when we determined to get serious. But it wasn't our determination which got us through that month of daily prayer. It was like we were carried along by His will. We dared NOT pray. It became as important as breathing. And God has been gracious to keep us praying over the past four years; and we don't have any sense that He's released us from that ministry. Which gives us all great confidence that God intends to do some mighty works in and through our nation. But it won't be released except through prayer.
This has been a good year for finishing books. My metier is to start 'em, and pick away at several simultaneously. Anyway, thanks for this ping.
Why do you say Plato is too "lefty?"
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From what I remember it seemed somewhat Utopian... but thats a vague memory.
Its good for gaining an understanding of the "Socratic" method of teaching. I'm not sure its utopian, but it is very theoretical.
It's okay that you weren't called to pray until the mess in Florida - what's important is that you answered WHEN you were called. Obedience is the high calling of God!
God has also been gracious in allowing me to pray over the past almost 5 years. There have been times when I've not been impressed to pray and I've asked Him why. He's assured me that those are simply times of rest in the midst of the battle. Once you've been drawn into that kind of intimacy with the Creator of Heaven and Earth, you don't want to live a moment without it.
It sounds as though 1 Samuel 12:23 is true for both of us, "As for me, for be it for me that I should sin against the Lord by failing to pray for you."
I believe that God does intend to do some mighty works in and through our nation and He has allowed some of us to be on the "inside track" with Him. I find that I look at everything that is happening in the world in light of His mighty plan. The battle ahead of us is fierce - fortunately, the war is already won.
For from Him and through him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen Romans 11:36
I suspect you've learned, too, that prayer is the activity of the Holy Spirit. While we've prayed for the President, our nation, its leders, our society, our troops, and for God to be pleased to use our nation as one instrument of His work in the world, and we've seen Him answer prayers, the real blessing has been to be in His presence and to hear Him speak. It wasn't until we started this ministry of prayer that we came to understand that prayer is waiting upon Him to reveal His thoughts and His heart, so that we might speak what we saw and heard back to Him. It's been an amazing thing to be discipled by the Holy Spirit Himself in this.
I'm thankful The Lord blessed us with a mind like his.
Flags of our Fathers was pretty good, too.
Written by a son of the Iwo Jima flag raising, I think. Read it a couple years ago.
I enjoyed Mere Christianity on reread so much that I decided to send a copy to several units...Afghanistan and Iraq, along with other books this past year.
Starship Troopers was camp the way they did it. And I may be one of the few people who enjoyed the movie. I even rented the sequel but it was kinda bad.
The movie based on The Puppet Masters was terrible. They left out all the really fun stuff.
I saw a preview for a movie of another Heinlein book...can't remember which one... Do you know?
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