Nellie was the best thing about Little House on the Prairie, The Musical. And it was fun to see Melissa Gilbert live. But, as I suspected, it was . . . eh . . . okay. I mean, really, how do you turn Little House into a musical? I am still asking that question, and, you know, I just saw it. The best part of the whole evening, really, was eating a turkey and Swiss sandwich in the lounge beforehand, since we arrived 1.5 hours before show time. And it was nice to see children in the audience. I believe in good, clean, fun, pure entertainment, and this musical met that criteria.

It is desperately late, so here is a quickie. Once I had a friend who was unsure of her husband's direction for their lives. I offered, Just get in his wake and follow. She loved that image, she told me, because ideas in the form of visuals really resonate with her. And this boat and wake thing worked for her because as Christians, we both believe husbands are the head of the home, and she has a nice Christian husband. She saw following in his wake as exactly what a Christian wife would do, it all fell into place for her.

Since then, I've realized images speak to me, too. So, when I recently read a Carolyn Hax column, I jumped up and down over a visual she described, which really wasn't anything new, but hit me as new. A 35 year old woman was angry/frustrated/bitter over the modern dating scene. Carolyn told her to take all those unprofitable emotions and shovel them onto a dump truck. Can't you just see the dump truck driving off with all that garbage? JOY! I've struggled with forgiveness, but somehow, heaving it onto a truck that drives off into the blue yonder, never to return, makes it seem achievable. If we forget to shovel ALL the hate onto the truck, well, I supposed we can send for another truck as necessary. Good riddance!

And really, isn't this what God does for us? He casts our sins into the uttermost parts of the sea and as far away as the east is from the west. He remembers them no more. Glorious thought, let's think about it.

Good-Bye Garbage,
KEM