AnthonyFosterPhD

In the past couple of years I have had the delight to make contact with many new friends who are distantly and not so distantly related to us. Just the other day we ran into a cousin I had not seen in at least a dozen years, and we connected via email. We now have contact with a first cousin Earnie had never met till now. Email and the net, again, made this possible. The Facebook friends connections are growing and I have had several occasions where an update on their site registered with me and I find the issues arising at prayer time. One of my best friends just started a substantial blog of his own and I am excited about reading his thoughts there. All in all the social networking phenomenon has begun to touch our lives in a bigger way, and there is no turning back, I think. Not to say that the face-to-face contact it can lead to is replaceable. Some of the greatest memories IN recent memory have come from cousins who drop by to visit or renewed acquaintances when we drop in to see...

In the past couple of years I have had the delight to make contact with many new friends who are distantly and not so distantly related to us. Just the other day we ran into a cousin I had not seen in at least a dozen years, and we connected via email. We now have contact with a first cousin Earnie had never met till now. Email and the net , again made this possible. the Facebook friends connections are growing and I have had several occasions where an update on their site registered with me and I find the issues arising at prayer time. One of my best friends just started a substantial blog of his own and I am excited about reading his thoughts there. All in all the social networking phenomenon has begun to touch our lives and there is no turning back, I think. Not to say that the face to face contact it can lead to is replaceable. Some of the greatest memories IN recent memory have come from cousins who drop by to visit or renewed acquaintances when we drop in to see my grandmother. ...

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I went back and quantified a feeling...I sense that my creative energies these days are consumed with filling out matrices for curriculum design and inputting data for research and solving cognitive problems to the point I fear my brain is getting rewired in the process. I note as evidence of this that my output of music has dried up to a trickle and I have to ask myself if this is die to living in a broken cistern, as it were. Three lyrics this year, and no music to accompany the words. In the past I have been able to track my spiritual well- being by the journalling effect of the songs i write. They are evidence of what is going on internally-

Lord set my heart to singing In this barren wilderness I have so much Lord to praise you for I have so much to confess When I bare my soul to the one who sees With my unpure offering you’re pleased And I’m lifted as I fall on my knees And I sing my song to you Lord set my soul to singing Change the rhythm of my heart’s beat Purify my store of wickedness And remove all the deceit For my weeping eyes I turn to you Give me back my sight and my joy renew When I’m drowning show me what to do Let me sing a song to you. Lord set my mind to singing Bring new order to the strife Let me set my mind on things above Renew my fragmented life In the stillness of the deepening night In the clamor of the morning light In the fever of the daily fight I would sing a song to you Anthony Foster June 27, 2009

It's about the vanity of presuming to be creative of your own accord...

Our former pastor, Fred Winters was honored posthumously at the SBC Convention in Louisville. Cindy and the girls were there to accept the award from Thom Rainer. Our sources tell us that nothing is coming out about the killer- I won't use the silly word "alleged" here- but I am hopeful FBCM will have an interim to lead them through that difficult time when any resolution concerning the killer breaks forth.

Here we are on the third day of Summer and I have seen the light. Or at least the lightening bugs, as we knew them. Some people prefer fireflies, so I will grant you that... I was listening to the evening song of the mockingbirds at the time....quite a reverie...

Here we are in Red and White together...

See the Slideshow here ... We love our flowers and the advent of blooms is an annual celebration- we have a long way to go to get to the stage we had reached at our Illinois home, but we are on the way....

May He keep you close in times of trouble In green pastures may you feed May He be your shepherd when you lose your way And your provision in time of need And may He keep you close to His holy heart For he promised to n’ere forsake So enter in to his perfect rest As in His presence now you wake. May God keep you close as day by day You fight the holy fight May He keep you close to righteousness And give you songs in the deepest night For the closeness that we seek to know Is ours as in Him we hide Till he returns to take us home And he draws us to His side He dwells in us and we in Him So in obedient faith abide May he keep you close in time of blessing In times that draw our hearts away May He do all that a loving Father Would do to keep you from going astray And may he keep you close to one another Bound in the fellowship of peace That comes from living in His light Where the lonely find release Anthony Foster June 21, 2009

It's good enough for me, to a point. As long as it makes me love everybody anyways. I am hoping to further explore my religious heritage on the other side to the degree I am doing now, which takes up way too much time to be healthy right now. Living back in the place where I grew up has been instructive in many ways and as I move into the future and dwell in the present i would seek to know those times as well. Looking to the future, as well as the past will help us better live in the present. May we become better "men of Issachar" (1 Chr 12:32) in the process. They possessed three exceptional and essential qualities. They "understood the times" - they were men of accurate perception and penetrating analysis. We need that today. As a result "They knew what Israel should do" and they had a passion that was driven by this accurate perception... I look forward to what unfolds!

I've been neglecting this blog. After blogging for nigh on seven years, the posts have dwindled here, and for that I am sorry. I hope to make up for it in the future by adding interesting stuff that doesn't take so long and pointing to other resources I enjoy. Case in point, go check out The Future History and see it as this knowledgeable and astute brother delimits some of the mystery about events that are on the horizon.