Rebecca Stark is the author of The Good Portion: Godthe second title in The Good Portion series.

The Good Portion: God explores what Scripture teaches about God in hopes that readers will see his perfection, worth, magnificence, and beauty as they study his triune nature, infinite attributes, and wondrous works. 

                     

Sunday
Aug122007

Over Easy with Bacon and Hashbrowns


You Are Eggs

Traditional and totally grown up, you truly believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
You don’t skimp on nutrition or quality. You’re likely to take the time to make yourself a decent meal each morning.
You’re a great cook, even if you aren’t a showy one. You can make a feast out of simple ingredients.
The food you eat may be basic, but you prefer to think of it as classic.


What Kind of Breakfast Are You?

HT: John Dekker
Sunday
Aug122007

Sunday's Hymn: Reader's Choice

It’s Even So’s turn to pick our Sunday hymn. He gave a list of his favorites that included

  • Great Is Thy Faithfulness
  • (Even So, my namesake) It Is Well With My Soul
  • Amazing Grace
  • When We All Get To Heaven
The first two have already been featured as reader’s choice hymns, so I’m choosing one of the other two. I featured Amazing Grace not too long ago during my John Newton/William Wilberforce/William Cowper phase, so I’m going with the last one on the list.

When We All Get to Heaven

Sing the wondrous love of Jesus,
Sing His mercy and His grace.
In the mansions bright and blessèd
He’ll prepare for us a place.

Refrain

When we all get to Heaven,
What a day of rejoicing that will be!
When we all see Jesus,
We’ll sing and shout the victory!

While we walk the pilgrim pathway,
Clouds will overspread the sky;
But when traveling days are over,
Not a shadow, not a sigh.

Let us then be true and faithful,
Trusting, serving every day;
Just one glimpse of Him in glory
Will the toils of life repay.

Onward to the prize before us!
Soon His beauty we’ll behold;
Soon the pearly gates will open;
We shall tread the streets of gold. 

—-Eliza E. Hewitt (Listen.)

Other hymns, worship songs, etc. posted today:

Have you posted a hymn this Sunday and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list. If you’d like to see your favorite hymn featured as a Reader’s Choice hymn, go here and leave a comment. Just tell me your favorite hymn and a little bit about why you like it and I’ll feature your hymn when your turn comes.
Friday
Aug102007

The Chicken Wins by a Head

P9.gif…with the rabbit on the tail end.

Most of the interesting search queries in this blog’s stats still have something to do with poor old headless Mike. Queries on the subject of potty training come in a close second.

Today, the stats recorded a few queries for “peter rabbit jams and jellies.” Searching back through the other results for that search, I didn’t find any Peter Rabbit jams and jellies, but I did find Peter Rabbit’s Carrot Marmalade.

Peter%20full%20smaller.jpgI also found out, in a Trails.com blurb about Massachusettes’ Briar Patch Conservation Area, that Thornton Burgess created Peter Rabbit.

Bzzzzzzzt! Wrong answer!

Beatrix Potter created Peter Rabbit. Thorton Burgess, inspired by Beatrix Potter’s animal tales, created Peter Cottontail. (A more cynical person might call it shameless copying.)

Here are a few other rabbits in children’s literature:

  • Rabbit, in A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
  • In addition to Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter has Benjamin Bunny, and Peter’s siblings: Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail (with a hyphen).
  • Brer Rabbit in the Uncle Remus stories.
  • The Velveteen Rabbit.
  • Update: Brian adds Barrington Bunny to the list.
  • Candyinsierras reminds us of Margaret Wise Brown’s Runaway Bunny.
  • Update 2: Rose contributes the Snuggle Bunny.
  • Lisa J adds a few: Little Nutbrown Hare from Guess How Much I Love You
  • and Hazel, Fiver, and BigWig from Watership Down.
  • Update 3: We can’t forget The White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, says Missmelliflous.
Can you think of others?