All posts by Ryan

If God Could Blog from Heaven

If God were a blogger in heaven and blogged his point of view
Do you think we’d see the folly of the many things we do?

He may blog of similar issues that Earth’s leaders do debate
Of rights and fights and freedoms and the union of our state

With loving words and a special font I’m sure he’d teach us how
Though the nature of the flesh is such that we often stand when we should bow

Would his domain receive a PageRank that pushed a 9 or 10?
Or would we link to other websites like Homestar and CNN?

And in our favorites and cookies would we find foremost God’s Blog
Or would those files be resigned to archives on unused server logs?

Truthfully, The Man doth speak and his words are found today
And a blog is neat, but not requisite, to hear them and obey

So bookmark now this techie’s thought of the need for God to blog
And when you think that God’s not real don’t check your server log

Just find a time to be alone, to listen and be still
And in those quiet moments you will feel your Father’s will

His love is there. His peace is real. No earthly good can ‘er replace
The power and the beauty of God’s Word to Human Race

by R. Arthur Mendenhall

Reflections on the Power of Thought

by Ryan Mendenhall

Almost childlike I instinctively reach for a book.
I take it and the thought of possessing it sooooths me…

“MINE!”

comes the voice of that energy.
I want, I need and soon I have
a bright, shinny book, with only mild thought of price.

They contain answers.
They are my medicine.
In them I find respite and in them I can stop the pain of personal experience.

I know this and just the thought, not even the reading of it, calms me when I hunger.

On my shelf now.

Mine.

The book is my medicine.

The Moon Shall Be As Blood

Thursday, November 20, 2003
Are we creeping slowing and carefully ever so close to nations such as Sodom, Gamorrah, and ancient Greece? Perhaps history will have to repeat itself yet again for a people to learn that there ARE principles that stand thoughout time that have very real consequences in human suffering, misery and destruction.The Federal Marriage Amendment Is Hopeless: “THE MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME COURT has legalized same-sex marriage for the first time in this country. Most suspect the U.S. Supreme Court will throw a blanket of federal constitutional protection around this precedent.”
posted by King Arthur # 10:04 PM

And the moon shall be red like blood…CNN.com – Lunar eclipse to turn moon red – Nov. 8, 2003: “In ancient times, the phenomenon was believed caused by some unseen monster bloodying the moon, an omen of disaster. ”
posted by King Arthur # 5:25 PM