day Six Babet fondles Pitlochry Dundee
Rainy at Atholl Palace and we discover Brenna's next job, Chocolatier! tay river ship at Dundee The oil industry
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Day 4 Colloden Battlefield Sheepdogs Cairngorm
Couldn't figure out Robb heritage. there is not much of a wool market and highland cattle are useless, he keeps one as a pet. shopping in Cairngorm
Day 2 on Loch Lomond
Rob Roys Cave and the Macfarlands on the shores of Loch Lomond. Willie serves the hot chocolate on the cruise. Sleeping at Glencoe at Ballachulish Hotel, which has been here a long time and has a creaky yet distinct suspended staircase.
"Know ye that ye must..." - Mormon's Final Words
The prophet and war captain Mormon of the Nephite nation was the national archivist, divinely-inspired compiler and commentator of what we have now as the Book of Mormon. He specifically saw our day and gave his advice to us through the lens of his people's historic and religious records. It is not just a story of the Nephites and Lamanites, their bitter brethren - it is more a guidebook to our times and how God deals with people and their behaviors. Chapter Seven of his personal record is the "final words" that this historian gives, mostly to his surviving people, but also to we "Gentiles" which will be brought to God's set-aside land of the Americas. Mormon speaks to all the descendants of Lehi, of which he was also one. Everything he promises for his own people is also promised to all of us as we make covenants with the Lord. Mormon 7 :10 And ye will also know that ye are a remnant of the seed of Jacob; therefore ye are numbered among the people of the fi...
You were Not Sent to Earth to Test How Much God Loves You
"Jesus loves us all unconditionally..." From the way so many people behave (beyond spoken rationalizations), they think that they are doing Jesus some great favor in letting him be around them. "Can I bring you your slippers?" "Would you like a softer pillow?" To these questions from the Christ-ish figure which most people demand, a spitting in the face is what those same people give as a first answer, and then say: "You are not offering me enough to be acceptable as my Savior. My Jesus would do everything so I don't have to do, well, anything!" From all the talk, you would think that one of our purposes in life is to judge whether this Jesus character fulfils our grandest desires at zero cost to us. In holy writ, it reads the other way around: The Lord is judging us to see if we are fit to be one of his people - if we offer him our "broken hearts" and our "contrite spirits". Overly-self-compassionate Jesus-demanders ...