Navigating Life's Highway
Posted by: kim
Almost five years ago, God birthed The Edge in my mind. I prayerfully tried to follow His leading, committing every aspect of this ministry to Him before it was ever launched. Over the last several months, I have felt God leading me to close The Edge and redirect my energies. The Edge has been His ministry from the beginning. He had a purpose for The Edge and I trust He has fulfilled that purpose. It has been an incredible honor to serve as the vessel through which God has been able to speak and minister. He has blessed me through each of you in ways I cannot begin to articulate; it has been an amazing ride!
This will be the last newsletter. I want to thank and acknowledge the guidance and devotion of our current Board of Directors: Nate Drye (chairman,) Janice Brogden, Justin Faucette, Robert Kinney, and Haven Parrott. They obeyed God’s call and served faithfully alongside me. For them I am truly grateful.
I will keep the website up through June 30th. Please make use of the search tool under the archives, if you like. There are many newsletters on science, history, and current culture. You may like to print out copies of any Edges of interest, perhaps to reference later.
If you’d like to stay in touch, I welcome that! Please email me anytime. I will continue to answer all emails and will always be available to help in any way that I am able.
Please join me in celebrating what God has been able to do through The Edge. He is so good. To Him be all glory! May you never forget to seek God’s strength in standing strong in your faith. And may He bless you always,
Ms. Kim Kinney
An old man was driving down the highway when his cell phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife’s urgent voice warning him, “Fred, I just heard on the news that there’s a car going the wrong way on the Interstate. Please be careful!!!”
“It’s not just one car,” said Fred, “It’s hundreds of ‘em!!!”
Do you ever feel like that? Like you’re zipping down the highway, but you’re continually being bombarded. One thing after another flies at you at top speed. You try dodging the seduction of alcohol. You narrowly escape the power of drugs. The music and media create a strong suction that pulls you in as you brace against the wheel and try to race past. You screech past the illegal parties at an alarming rate, miraculously without getting sideswiped. In the frenzy of the onslaught of cars, you try to steer clear of sexual temptation and the lure of hook-ups. You swerve to avoid colliding with a worldview you know contradicts everything you stand for. You feel like you’re the only one traveling this way…against the “cultural” traffic. It’s so hard and takes every ounce of concentration you can muster!
But wait. Is this highway any different than the highway Jesus traveled when he walked this earth? In appearance, maybe. But the underlying issues haven’t changed. It was all about either being “tolerant” of the temptations of the day or choosing to buck the flow of traffic.
Is there a secret to surviving life’s highway? You bet! Take a moment; slow down; read God’s very words. They will transform you! (As you read, note how little has changed in 2000 years!)
Good advice, but how do we do this? I believe it’s a process…training ourselves to look at life from God’s perspective and focusing on what He values.
The early believers (Acts 2) were a close group of friends who worshipped together, ate together, and had fun together. They helped each other and held one another accountable. It was more than a casual friendship; they were there for the good times and the times when life just plain stunk!
In other words, they were all heading in the same direction TOGETHER down life’s highway. We can’t do it alone!
God made man before woman so as to give him time to think of an answer to her first question.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If at first you DO succeed, try not to look so surprised.
(Corollary for you football fans out there: When you get into the end zone, don’t act like you’ve never been there before.)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings; they did it by killing all those who opposed them.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The bride was escorted down the aisle and when she reached the altar, the groom was standing there with his golf bag and clubs at his side. She said: "What are your golf clubs doing here?"
He looked her innocently, "This isn't going to take all day, is it?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cat’s Motto: No matter what you’ve done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Our hometown baseball team is called the Possums. They get killed on the road. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A newly appointed young clergyperson was contacted by a local funeral director to hold a graveside committal service at a small country cemetery in Iowa. There was to be no funeral, just the committal, because the deceased had no family or friends left in Iowa.
The young pastor started early to the cemetery, but soon lost his way. After making several wrong turns, he finally arrived a half-hour late. The hearse was nowhere in sight, and the workmen were relaxing under a nearby tree, eating their lunch.
The pastor went to the open grave and found that the vault lid was already in place. He took out his book and read the service. As he returned to his car, he overheard one of the workmen say: “Maybe we’d better tell him it’s a septic tank.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Seen on a t-shirt:
Do you sometimes have trouble thinking of a book’s title or author? Stop, You’re Killing Me! is a resource for lovers of mystery, crime, thriller, spy, and suspense books. This website lists over 3300 authors with chronological lists of their titles (over 37,000.) It allows users to search titles by job or location (Now what was the name of that book about the fly fisherman in Vermont?) as well as by time period. The website also suggests authors that might appeal to readers who like a particular author or a certain kind of book. Click HERE.
Looking for a good book this summer? Check out the book list compiled by our readers last summer: Click HERE.
See all 44 US presidents morph from George Washington to Barack Obama in under 4 minutes! Click HERE.
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote the 50,000 word novel, “Gatsby” without any word containing the letter “e.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Alexander Graham Bell made a talking doll that said, “Mama” when he was a young boy in Scotland. He never telephoned his wife or mother. They were both deaf.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The expletive “Holy Toledo” refers to Toledo, Spain, which became a Christian cultural center in 1085.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Until 1859, baseball umpires sat behind home plate – in rocking chairs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The only contemporary words that end with –gry are angry and hungry.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The normal raindrop falls at about 7 miles/hour.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A librocubicularist is someone who reads in bed.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the U.S., more Frisbees are sold each year than baseballs, basketballs, and footballs combined.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
All of Queen Anne’s 17 children died before she did.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Leonardo da Vinci spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa’s lips. He could also write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The University of Alaska stretches across four time zones.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you attempted to count the stars in the galaxy at a rate of one every second, it
would take about 3000 years to count them all. (And that’s just ONE of many, many galaxies!)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The only bone never to have been broken in a ski accident is one located in the middle ear.
As far back as creation, God declared it “not good for man to be alone.” (Genesis 2:18) Scripture is replete with examples that support the value of godly friends that strengthen us along life’s journey. Traveling alone, we’ll likely end up a casualty on life’s highway. (Ecclesiastes 4:12)
What does your closest group of friends look like?
Can you be real with them?
Do they pull you up or push you down?
Do they care about you and pray for you? Can you trust them?
Do they encourage you to get closer to God or distract you so that you are drifting further from God?
Do they try to persuade you into going with the flow of traffic or do they recharge your engine, empowered to better handle the oncoming traffic?
And do they join you on life’s highway so you aren’t the only one bucking the flow of traffic?
Navigating life’s highway with you,
Ms. Kim
www.walkontheedge.org
This will be the last newsletter. I want to thank and acknowledge the guidance and devotion of our current Board of Directors: Nate Drye (chairman,) Janice Brogden, Justin Faucette, Robert Kinney, and Haven Parrott. They obeyed God’s call and served faithfully alongside me. For them I am truly grateful.
I will keep the website up through June 30th. Please make use of the search tool under the archives, if you like. There are many newsletters on science, history, and current culture. You may like to print out copies of any Edges of interest, perhaps to reference later.
If you’d like to stay in touch, I welcome that! Please email me anytime. I will continue to answer all emails and will always be available to help in any way that I am able.
Please join me in celebrating what God has been able to do through The Edge. He is so good. To Him be all glory! May you never forget to seek God’s strength in standing strong in your faith. And may He bless you always,
Ms. Kim Kinney
Navigating Life’s Highway
An old man was driving down the highway when his cell phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife’s urgent voice warning him, “Fred, I just heard on the news that there’s a car going the wrong way on the Interstate. Please be careful!!!”
“It’s not just one car,” said Fred, “It’s hundreds of ‘em!!!”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Do you ever feel like that? Like you’re zipping down the highway, but you’re continually being bombarded. One thing after another flies at you at top speed. You try dodging the seduction of alcohol. You narrowly escape the power of drugs. The music and media create a strong suction that pulls you in as you brace against the wheel and try to race past. You screech past the illegal parties at an alarming rate, miraculously without getting sideswiped. In the frenzy of the onslaught of cars, you try to steer clear of sexual temptation and the lure of hook-ups. You swerve to avoid colliding with a worldview you know contradicts everything you stand for. You feel like you’re the only one traveling this way…against the “cultural” traffic. It’s so hard and takes every ounce of concentration you can muster!
But wait. Is this highway any different than the highway Jesus traveled when he walked this earth? In appearance, maybe. But the underlying issues haven’t changed. It was all about either being “tolerant” of the temptations of the day or choosing to buck the flow of traffic.
Is there a secret to surviving life’s highway? You bet! Take a moment; slow down; read God’s very words. They will transform you! (As you read, note how little has changed in 2000 years!)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~>
“Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that
you fit into it without even thinking.
Instead, fix your attention on God.
You’ll be changed from the inside out…
Unlike the culture around you,
always dragging you down
to its level of immaturity,
God brings the best out of you.”
(Romans 12:2)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“And so I insist … that there be no going along with the crowd, the empty-headed, mindless crowd. They’ve refused for so long to deal with God that they’ve lost touch not only with God, but with reality itself. They can’t think straight anymore. Feeling no pain, they let themselves go in sexual obsession, addicted to every sort of perversion. But that’s no life for you. You learned Christ! … we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything – and I do mean everything – connected with that old way of life has to go. It’s rotten through and through. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life – a God-fashioned life, a life renewed from the inside and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces His character in you.”
(Ephesians 4:17-24)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.”
(Colossians 3:2)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that
you fit into it without even thinking.
Instead, fix your attention on God.
You’ll be changed from the inside out…
Unlike the culture around you,
always dragging you down
to its level of immaturity,
God brings the best out of you.”
(Romans 12:2)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“And so I insist … that there be no going along with the crowd, the empty-headed, mindless crowd. They’ve refused for so long to deal with God that they’ve lost touch not only with God, but with reality itself. They can’t think straight anymore. Feeling no pain, they let themselves go in sexual obsession, addicted to every sort of perversion. But that’s no life for you. You learned Christ! … we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything – and I do mean everything – connected with that old way of life has to go. It’s rotten through and through. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life – a God-fashioned life, a life renewed from the inside and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces His character in you.”
(Ephesians 4:17-24)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.”
(Colossians 3:2)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Good advice, but how do we do this? I believe it’s a process…training ourselves to look at life from God’s perspective and focusing on what He values.
The early believers (Acts 2) were a close group of friends who worshipped together, ate together, and had fun together. They helped each other and held one another accountable. It was more than a casual friendship; they were there for the good times and the times when life just plain stunk!
In other words, they were all heading in the same direction TOGETHER down life’s highway. We can’t do it alone!
Humor
(Extra long this week, since it’s our last)
God made man before woman so as to give him time to think of an answer to her first question.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If at first you DO succeed, try not to look so surprised.
(Corollary for you football fans out there: When you get into the end zone, don’t act like you’ve never been there before.)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings; they did it by killing all those who opposed them.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The bride was escorted down the aisle and when she reached the altar, the groom was standing there with his golf bag and clubs at his side. She said: "What are your golf clubs doing here?"
He looked her innocently, "This isn't going to take all day, is it?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cat’s Motto: No matter what you’ve done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Our hometown baseball team is called the Possums. They get killed on the road. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A newly appointed young clergyperson was contacted by a local funeral director to hold a graveside committal service at a small country cemetery in Iowa. There was to be no funeral, just the committal, because the deceased had no family or friends left in Iowa.
The young pastor started early to the cemetery, but soon lost his way. After making several wrong turns, he finally arrived a half-hour late. The hearse was nowhere in sight, and the workmen were relaxing under a nearby tree, eating their lunch.
The pastor went to the open grave and found that the vault lid was already in place. He took out his book and read the service. As he returned to his car, he overheard one of the workmen say: “Maybe we’d better tell him it’s a septic tank.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Seen on a t-shirt:
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Do you sometimes have trouble thinking of a book’s title or author? Stop, You’re Killing Me! is a resource for lovers of mystery, crime, thriller, spy, and suspense books. This website lists over 3300 authors with chronological lists of their titles (over 37,000.) It allows users to search titles by job or location (Now what was the name of that book about the fly fisherman in Vermont?) as well as by time period. The website also suggests authors that might appeal to readers who like a particular author or a certain kind of book. Click HERE.
Looking for a good book this summer? Check out the book list compiled by our readers last summer: Click HERE.
See all 44 US presidents morph from George Washington to Barack Obama in under 4 minutes! Click HERE.
Fun Tidbits
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote the 50,000 word novel, “Gatsby” without any word containing the letter “e.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Alexander Graham Bell made a talking doll that said, “Mama” when he was a young boy in Scotland. He never telephoned his wife or mother. They were both deaf.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The expletive “Holy Toledo” refers to Toledo, Spain, which became a Christian cultural center in 1085.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Until 1859, baseball umpires sat behind home plate – in rocking chairs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The only contemporary words that end with –gry are angry and hungry.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The normal raindrop falls at about 7 miles/hour.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A librocubicularist is someone who reads in bed.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the U.S., more Frisbees are sold each year than baseballs, basketballs, and footballs combined.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
All of Queen Anne’s 17 children died before she did.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Leonardo da Vinci spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa’s lips. He could also write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The University of Alaska stretches across four time zones.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you attempted to count the stars in the galaxy at a rate of one every second, it
would take about 3000 years to count them all. (And that’s just ONE of many, many galaxies!)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The only bone never to have been broken in a ski accident is one located in the middle ear.
Closing Thoughts
As far back as creation, God declared it “not good for man to be alone.” (Genesis 2:18) Scripture is replete with examples that support the value of godly friends that strengthen us along life’s journey. Traveling alone, we’ll likely end up a casualty on life’s highway. (Ecclesiastes 4:12)
What does your closest group of friends look like?
Can you be real with them?
Do they pull you up or push you down?
Do they care about you and pray for you? Can you trust them?
Do they encourage you to get closer to God or distract you so that you are drifting further from God?
Do they try to persuade you into going with the flow of traffic or do they recharge your engine, empowered to better handle the oncoming traffic?
And do they join you on life’s highway so you aren’t the only one bucking the flow of traffic?
Navigating life’s highway with you,
Ms. Kim
www.walkontheedge.org