…so is Nick Queen. Only difference is when I talk about it, I get hardly any feedback.

I need some love too people!

Anyway.

I was saying.

This depression thing. It is going round in the ’sphere you know.

What is it with bloggers and depression?

Is it that we are typically a little more melancholy than the population?

Or perhaps we are a just a tad more introspective?

Or maybe all of us just have had bad childhood experiences.

Or something.

Yeah.

Something.

And if I don’t get anymore feedback (comments, hint, hint) I am going to kill myself. I promise ya!

My blog-friends, Ben and his wife, Ann are running a marriage renewal/restoration weekend. Have a look at the information and plan to go or send it to someone you know who may be of benefit.

By the way, before you brush it aside too quickly and think that you don’t need it, let me share a short story from my experience.

Quite a number of years ago, my wife and I heard about a Marriage Encounter weekend at church and we signed up immediately to go. We were new to that church and found out that the church actually organizes the retreat regularly. That week, we were invited to a couple’s house for fellowship. During our convesation, the topic of the Marriage Encounter weekend came up.

“We signed up. Are you guys going?” we asked.

“No.” The husband replied. “We don’t need it.” Read the rest of this entry »

I happened upon this eloquent post regarding the gay marriage debate over at In the Agora.

Here is a choice quote:

I’m gonna let a little secret out. When you charge that those of us who push for gay marriage are just trying to “legitimize” gay relationships….you’re right. Guilty as charged. I absolutely want to legitimize those relationships. I want to put them on equal legal footing and, yes, equal moral footing with straight relationships. I want people and society as a whole to view those relationships no differently than they view any other relationship because that is an important step toward allowing gay people the same dignity that the rest of us take for granted and never have to think about. Because maybe when that happens, when it becomes so common that it’s just a matter of routine, no one will ever again have to arrange a funeral for someone they barely know because their family disowned them. And maybe when that happens, we’ll have less of those funerals happen as a result of the self-loathing that your perpetual messages of indignity instill in those you think are different from you.

I agree wholeheartedly but most of you already know that. Read the rest of this entry »