tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16872826953770123012009-06-21T10:29:36.901-04:00Northern BeliefsThoughts on GOD and life... With a heavy tilt to the Spiritual side of life..Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-52705554461758743032009-06-21T10:29:00.001-04:002009-06-21T10:29:36.908-04:00Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. Ronald Reagan40th president of US (1911 - 2004)Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-24813898130255503372009-06-05T21:09:00.001-04:002009-06-05T21:10:18.790-04:00Yard saleHaving a yard sale tomorrow starting at 9:00 Am986 kenduskeag ave Bangor maineKevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-49073388257933253622009-05-31T06:20:00.001-04:002009-05-31T06:20:31.906-04:00We are in the new house! what a mess! but we had a mallard duck pair walk across our yard! how cool is that!Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-57044744957330563772009-05-28T11:29:00.001-04:002009-05-28T11:29:43.831-04:00Having a great day! i guess this is just like twitter now! hmmm is that good or bad! thought for the day! do you have any joy in the journey?Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-52587340385374422492009-05-27T07:05:00.003-04:002009-05-27T07:20:47.771-04:00mephibosheth gets to eat?So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king's table; and was lame on both his feet." 2Samuel 9:13—Morning and EveningI've always loved this story... it shows GODS grace and Mercy!Mephibosheth (always wanted to name one of my kids this. Cindi wouldn't let me! don't know why?) was the lame son of Jonathon.. who was dropped as they were fleeing the city.. through no Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-10794539684368918722009-05-26T07:01:00.001-04:002009-05-26T07:01:01.446-04:00First post with sms seems pretty cool. i know im behind the timesKevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-50024672185379859102009-05-23T07:23:00.004-04:002009-05-23T07:38:42.956-04:00How would Jesus Communicate todayhere is a question for you... If Jesus were on this earth today... what would he use for a platform?in other words... what kind of of communication do you think that he would have..would he facebook? Twitter? blackberry, email, youtube, vlog,blog? or something else?Personally.. I'm not sure... but I think that he would still have to have the face to face contact with people.. I'm not sure if Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-60527210944498737842009-05-20T20:36:00.001-04:002009-05-20T20:37:29.260-04:00tuning pianosHas it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-9205697538422292042009-05-18T07:26:00.003-04:002009-05-18T07:47:29.731-04:00Greetings... pondering today the fact that what I know to do I can't always do.. at least in the natural and that bugs me... you see I'm struggling today, and lately, with Faith... Faith that what God Says he will do, he will do and that I can completely trust him in all things. It used to be easy to trust.. life was pretty good. but as life gets more difficult I have to lean on him more and Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-21702285352131479072009-05-11T22:35:00.002-04:002009-05-11T22:40:33.029-04:00Abortion is HOLY work??????ABORTION IS A HOLY WORK SAYS ANGLICAN PRIESTAbortion is a blessing and abortionists are doing holy work, says Anglican priest [Excerpts]The new Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massacusetts, has given a sermon describing abortions as a "blessing" for the women who undergo them. The Rev Katherine Hancock Ragsdale also thinks that the people who run abortion clinics are "heroes" Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-75687926737025504582009-05-10T06:49:00.001-04:002009-05-10T06:50:46.512-04:00Happy mothers day!Happy Mothers Day!consider this as you think on today..Jim Behme is thinking... The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. What an amazing thing - Happy Mother's Daywisdom...Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-588511864060460392009-05-09T07:55:00.004-04:002009-05-09T08:15:27.042-04:00food for thought?? or thought of food...I had a friend talk to me last night about a new diet that they were undertaking..they called it a biblical diet.. all fruits and veggies.. no meats/eggs/ poultry just fruits and veggies..Oh yeah... and no coffee.. I don't understand that at all but....so I asked why no meats and the such... and they said that in the bible they didn't eat meat..HMMMM.. my radar went up....I then asked well... ifKevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-89539578539223459472009-05-08T05:53:00.003-04:002009-05-08T06:02:19.276-04:00is the Church relevant? and should it be?Should the church be relevant?The Most ProgressiveI once concluded a tour of several Christian colleges where I had various conversations of a similar ilk. In discussing the church and the relevance of many contemporary expressions of it, I realized on reflection that for many people, words like “history” meant something the individual may have become aware of in just the last two or three weeks.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-68457818733087386392009-03-19T07:56:00.001-04:002009-03-19T07:56:56.720-04:00thoughts for the quiet hourMarch 19thTheir eyes were holden. Luke 24:16. Their eyes were opened. Luke 24:31.There is much precious significance in this. The Lord is often present in our lives in things that we do not dream possess any significance. We are asking God about something which needs His mighty working, and the very instrument by which He is to work is by our side, perhaps for weeks and months and years all Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-16889670863649194482009-03-01T19:45:00.001-05:002009-03-01T19:45:57.971-05:00can we serve Christ ALONE???Wesley's motive never eludes us. In his early manhood, after being greatly affected by Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living and Dying and the Imitatio Christi, and by Law's Serious Call and Christian Perfection, he met "a serious man" who said to him, "Sir, you wish to serve God and go to heaven. Remember you cannot serve Him alone. You must therefore find companions or make them. The Bible knows nothing Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-76211531631878931152009-02-26T18:27:00.001-05:002009-02-26T18:27:26.462-05:00Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. Gen. 32:1.It is in the path where God has bade us walk that we shall find the angels around us. We may meet them, indeed, on paths of our own choosing, but it will be the sort of angel that Balaam met, with a sword in his hand, mighty and beautiful, but wrathful too; and we had better not front him! But the friendly helpers, the emissaries of Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-11702756559539875322009-02-23T10:25:00.004-05:002009-02-23T10:36:41.381-05:00life happensHaven't been on much.. at least here.. we have the house for sale and are slowly moving everything over to the new house.. Not a whole lot of fun with the winter that we are having... that being said we are ready to get over to the new house...the house in Hampden, Maine is up for sale through ERA Dawson in Bangor Maine. Barbara Houston is our realtor and the asking price is $99,900 ( 3 bedroom Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-44782850953975309312009-01-17T07:43:00.004-05:002009-01-17T07:50:07.464-05:00House for saleWell our house is for sale. We listed it yesterday..I haven't looked to see if it is on the web yet or not but... I'm sure it is getting close to that.so if you need/ want a house please call Barbara Houston at Era Dawson in Bangor, Maine and ask about the three bedroom she has listed in Hampden, Maine.While I'm sorta sad to see this place go.. I'm ready to move to where I can garden again and Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-84692948753667193162009-01-14T06:37:00.003-05:002009-01-14T06:52:28.905-05:00changes.....and so it goes.. Life changes.. we have received a opportunity to purchase a home in a neighboring town.. with a greater amount of land and better potential to put our "dream" home on the land. so we are in the process of putting our house up for sale so that we can take advantage of the offer. Life is good.God prepares us for interesting things.. and he does it in ways that we don't always Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-62242473135053702452009-01-12T07:00:00.002-05:002009-01-12T07:06:19.480-05:00things change...options change.with the new year comes new opportunities and challenges..I hate winter.. at least right now I do.. It's cold and dark and I don't want to be where it is cold and dark...someday I will leave this place... and I will go to a better place..one where the streets are gold the Son nver goes down and I will have a mansion of my own.oh for the day that happens...Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-65297527002007267742009-01-06T07:50:00.002-05:002009-01-06T07:55:22.641-05:00time to start anew..It is the first of the year and it is time to renew..begin again. remember the old things that worked and do them again..it is also time to start a new tradition.. a new Habit(good ones). a new pattern.wht is the goal that you have set for this year..What do you want to do that you didn't do last year?now is the time to start..Read everyday.. watch less tv. spend more time with the kids..My Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-1471730487956938952008-12-31T07:52:00.005-05:002008-12-31T07:56:16.906-05:00selling AvonLetting the blogging world know that We are now selling Avon..available over the web athttp://cvalley.avonrepresentative.com/check it out and see if their is anything you like...you can even have it shipped directly to your door... so if you are far away and can't/don't know of a place to get your Avon... try us out...right now they have a free shipping offer going on..so again if you need Avon..Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-82207651350984548112008-12-30T08:59:00.003-05:002008-12-30T09:13:57.301-05:00cruisingwell we are looking at going on a cruise this year.we are looking at carnival and royal Caribbean and a few others..we are looking for a cruise that is not all a bunch of party hardy drunks.. but that has a place that we can have a good time..this will also be our first cruise...what would you suggest...we are looking at the Caribbean at this time..a short cruise? a long cruise?which cruise Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-20176470570537434912008-12-28T20:09:00.002-05:002008-12-28T20:24:45.240-05:00A new year is upon us.....just think in a few days a new year will be upon us.. A fresh start.. a say we can say.. I will do this from now on.. and this year I will succeed at it..so what are you going to do this year that you haven't done??or what things are you going to change...My wife and I were talking and we have been in the same area for 3 years almost 4.. it's a record for us.. we both are getting a little itchy..Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687282695377012301.post-30779916631251293532008-12-25T05:33:00.002-05:002008-12-25T05:45:36.699-05:00Merry Christmas!and so this is the account of Jesus birth... The reason that we have the celebration that we do...Luke 2:1-16And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.([And] this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06327042970331695538noreply@blogger.com0