Mama Always ~ L.A. Brown, Author

Whenever I see those words, "Mission Impossible,*" I remember Peter Graves and his weekly mission. "If you should accept it," well, that was always a given because he always did. Jim Phelps was always the best at what he did. Which brings me to another mission, impossible...or so it looks on the outside. The Bible is rife with examples of impossible missions, starting with Noah. So...tell me just how impossible it is for a vintner to build a boat? The interesting thing is, up until that time, the earth didn't have rain, so boats weren't needed, much less known. Now, if this isn't impossible enough, Noah was right about 500 years old when God told him to build the Ark, then told him to gather all the animals of the earth...two by two, except the 'clean' animals, of which he was to gather by sevens. He endured the ridicule of the people around him, but he also did what God told him to do. At the end of his work creating the Ark, the animals we

Who are  you? No, really, who do you think you are? Who do people say you are? Are you a parent, grandparent? Blue collar, pink collar, white collar worker? Are you a daughter, a son? Who are you? Better yet, what is your identity? Are you straight, curved, gay, not gay, black, white, republican, democrat, independent, Christian, atheist, deist, Buddhist? Just who are you? Everyone identifies with something, believing that this is who they are, but for those of you who identify as a conservative, a good person, a Christian, just what makes you so? Last month, I attended a funeral. At this funeral I spoke with a couple regarding the person we just said goodbye to, and something they said hit me wrong. I probably should have said something, but I was still so raw with emotion that I didn't trust my words or attitude, so I chose to smile and say nothing. What they said was this: "So and so was a good person , we're sure (this person) is in Heaven now." While I did