Sherry Wiesner's Blog – October 2010 Archive (3)

TIPS TO CONSERVE HEAT AND MONEY THIS WINTER....ALSO SHARING MY OWN STORY

By Stacy Johnson | 4 days ago







THIS IS WHAT I DID LAST WINTER....I FOUND ONE OF THOSE LITTLE ELECTRIC FIREPLACES IN FINGERHUT CATALOG, IT WAS $200. I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW GOOD THAT LITTLE HEATER WORKED, SAVED ME, AND PAT LOT OF MONEY...AS WE HAVE TO USE KEROSENE. VERY EXPENSIVE. SO THIS YEAR I FOUND ONE FOR $99. IT IS SMALLER BUT WORKS JUST AS GOOD. HEATS A ROOM. COST ALMOST NOTHING TO RUN IT. IT… Continue

That ruthless invader of all happiness!



(John MacDuff, "Grapes of Eschol")



"Do not let your hearts be troubled. In My Father's house are many mansions! I am going there to prepare a place for you. I will come back and take you to be with Me--that you also may be where I am!" John 14:1-3



The verse speaks of PERMANENCY--they are "mansions." The word in the original is not a tent or temporary shelter--but a durable residence, never to be altered or demolished. "The… Continue

1906 – 1945





When his paternal grandmother was ninety-one years old she walked defiantly through the cordon that brutal stormtroopers had thrown up around Jewish shops. His maternal grandmother, a gifted pianist, had been a pupil of the incomparable Franz Liszt. His mother was the daughter of a world-renowned historian; his father, a physician, was chief of Neurology and Psychiatry at Berlin’s major hospital. All of these currents – courage in the face of terrible danger, rare… Continue