It might make you feel better. Don't believe me? How about NFL Defensive Lineman Rosey Grier.



FYI - Grier played with the Giants from 1955 to 1962, during which he led the team to a NFL Championship in 1956 and the Eastern Conference Championship in 1958, 1959, 1961 and 1962. Grier was selected for the Pro Bowl in 1956 and 1960, and was named All-Pro at the defensive tackle position in 1956 and 1958–1962. Grier was traded in 1963 to the Los Angeles Rams. He was part of the "Fearsome Foursome", along with Deacon Jones, Merlin Olsen, and Lamar Lundy,often considered one of the best defensive lines in football history.
(Oh, and he also tackled Robert F. Kennedy's assassin. Now if that don't qualify you for the man card, I don't know what does.)


Still don't believe me AND Rosey Grier? Read the post below. If that won't convince you, nothing will. :gcryingsmiley:

We've all heard most or all of these at one time or another. We may want to go ahead and call them old wives' tales (although I'm sure old husbands have perpetuated them too :-).

Myth #1: You can catch cold (or pneumonia) by being in the cold, especially when wet (or with wet hair).
Colds and pneumonia are caused by viruses, not temperatures or moistures. You have to catch them from someone or from an environment where the virus is lurking (places touched often). Simply being wet and cold will not make you sick. It'll just make you miserable.

Myth #2: There are more suicides over the holiday season.
The truth is that suicides actually hit an all-time low in December. They increase beginning in January but tend to peak in the spring and summer, actually.

Myth #3: Poinsettias can kill kids and pets.
You shouldn't feed your kid a poinsettia, of course, but even if he ate an entire plant, chances are he'd just end up with diarrhea and a really bad taste in his mouth. A little bit of sap from a munched-on leaf by a kid or pet should be safe, even if unsavory. Call the Poison Control Center, but they'll tell you to give 'em a glass of milk or something.

Myth #4: A roaring fire will keep you warm.
This is true only if you're sitting right up next to it. Open chimneys with roaring fires actually make houses colder, because they act like vacuums, sucking up the warm air from your room.

Myth #5: Turkey makes you sleepy.
Tryptophan is supposed to the culprit, but there's just as much tryptophan in the chicken you normally eat as there is most turkeys. Turkey actually only has slightly more tryptophan than pork or cheese. So, basically, you eat it all the time. The sleep-inducing culprit on Thanksgiving Day is usually the increased amount of carbohydrates consumed in one sitting. They release insulin, which makes the otherwise innocuous amount of tryptophan more concentrated, and therefore more potent, in your bloodstream.

(Source: Men's Health)

This is awesome. An actual, working flying car, built by the son of martyred missionary Nate Saint.

Every generation has preachers that rise to the top. Their sermons are listened to (or read) by people far and wide. Other pastors listen too. Every pastor needs a pastor, and some of these influential preachers serve that function. There are many that I am personally so thankful for, both past and present. (I won't list them all here, maybe under comments...)

Now I know that not every influential preacher is good, and not every celebrity pastor even deserves a pulpit, (we all had the same name pop into our heads right there, so I don't need to say his name), but there are many that have been used by God to train, rebuke, encourage, teach and challenge us.

There are many who have helped you and I personally. Thank God for them.

Blog posts have been dedicated to criticizing these guys. (and gal, if you count Joyce Meyers) And some of them deserve it (and I definitely count Joyce Meyers)

But sometimes we forget to be grateful for the gifts God has given us. (Ephesians 4:11-13) I wonder if the John Piper's, Charles Spurgeon's, Rick Warren's, Helmut Thielicke's, Bonhoeffer's, Mark Driscoll's etc...are at least a partial fulfillment of that passage.

I don't know if you'd call them "apostle"-types or what, but in many ways they have become pastors to pastors, and God has blessed their faithfulness by spreading their influence.

Peter Mead says:

I just read an article from Preaching magazine -25 Most Influential Pastors of the Past 25 Years. ...What struck me was how many of these preachers have blessed me in recent years (and I don’t spend much time listing to famous preachers).

I would encourage you to read the article and give thanks for these and other well-known preachers who have faithfully sought to serve God through their ministries. It is easy to critique the famous, but actually it must be hard to be in their positions, perhaps facing some unique stresses that most of us don’t face.

Perhaps the list might suggest some names that you haven’t heard before, leading you to trawl the web for a sermon by E.K.Bailey, or W.A.Criswell, or Fred Craddock. Or someone who doesn’t fit in your theological or ecclesiological comfort zone . . . anyone from Adrian Rogers, to Bill Hybels, to William Willimon, to Stephen Olford, to Warren Wiersbe, to Rick Warren, to Jack Hayford, to Tim Keller, etc. Have you observed Andy Stanley preach?

Maybe this kind of list has a handful of preachers that you have really been blessed by over the years – stop and give thanks for them. I’m delighted to see Haddon Robinson on there, I know many who would give thanks for the influence of John Piper in their lives, I have friends who have been so blessed by John Stott, and other friends who have faithfully tuned in to Chuck Swindoll, and of course, there are numerous people I know who would count Billy Graham as the preacher God used to reach them with the gospel.

The Preaching Magazine List can be found after the jump.

Who would you add?

Read the rest of this entry . . .

A fantastic quote, from Piper:

The first great incentive to use your gift is that thereby you are caught up into the great redemptive work of the Spirit in this age. You have your gift from the Spirit; you use it in the power of the Spirit; and therefore, the fruit you produce is the life of the Spirit. You are not left to yourself and your own sufficiency. The first thrilling incentive to find your gift and use it is that in using it you find yourself borne along by the Spirit. You feel great that you are at the center of God's will; you know his wind is at your back; you know his angel is running before you; you finally know what you are made for, and you exult in the grace of God to include you as a minister of the new covenant.

I love that - "caught up into the great redemptive work of the Spirit in this age."

It's been asked in this space before: do you know what your spiritual gifts are? Are you currently using them?

I'd love to know - answer in the comments.

It's big and it's bad.

The Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as Angola and "The Farm") is a prison in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Corrections. The prison is the largest maximum security prison in the United States[citation needed] with 5,000 inmates and 1,800 staff members. It is located on an 18,000 acre property that was previously the Angola and other plantations owned by Isaac Franklin. Angola is surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River.

The worst of the worst are incarcerated there. 90% of the current inmates will die there, because of life sentences or because they are on death row.

And apparently half of them have come to Christ. The warden is a Christian. And there has been a real turnaround in the population. They have their own radio station and annual rodeo.

In the 1990s, Angola partnered with the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary to offer prisoners the chance to earn accredited bachelor's degrees in ministry.

John Piper went and preached there.

This prison has only murderers, rapists, armed robbers and habitual felons. The average sentence is 88 years, and 90 percent of the inmates will die there. Nevertheless, there is a wonderful move of God going on among the prisoners.

Here's the q & A with the inmates.


These guys know their Bibles and want to learn more. Piper preached against the prosperity gospel when he was there.

Not everyone is complimentary about what is going on there, however.

An inmate’s fate at Angola depends upon how he measures up to the warden’s standards, which are rooted firmly in his personal religious dogma. Cain believes that there is only one path toward rehabilitation, and it runs through Christian redemption. (According to Herman Wallace, Cain has at least once offered to release him from solitary if he renounced his political beliefs and accepted Jesus Christ as his savior.)

“The warden says it takes good food, good medicine, good prayin’ and good playin’ to have a good prison,” an assistant warden told Truthout in 2008, “Angola has all these.” To make sure there is ample opportunity for “good prayin’,” Cain has raised funds to construct 18 Christian chapels on the prison’s grounds. (One of several recent corruption charges against Cain involved shaking down a contractor for a donation to the prison chapel fund.)

Likewise, inmates at Angola can gain access to higher education only by embracing Cain’s brand of Christianity. According to the prison’s own web site, while Angola offers literacy and GED classes and technical training in things like auto mechanics, horticulture, and welding, the only college degree program it offers is in Christian Ministry from the New Orleans Baptist Seminary. Only a few hundred prisoners are admitted to his program.

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed lawsuits challenging some of Angola’s policies as constitutional violations of the prisoners’ freedom of religion; in one statement, the ACLU remarked: “Cain’s job is to be Warden of Angola, not the Chaplain of Angola.” But even some Christians would find Burl Cain’s vision of both human and divine justice unsavory.

A glowing 2008 article in the Baptist Press praised Cain for ”govern[ing] the massive prison on the Mississippi River delta with an iron fist and an even stronger love for Jesus.” The iron fist includes Cain’s determination to keep certain “dangerous” prisoners in permanent lockdown, a condition that many have denouced as torture. Cain also presides over the state’s executions. The Baptist Press article noted Cain’s special dedication to delivering souls from the death chamber into the hands of Christ. When he supervised his first execution as warden, Cain said, “I didn’t share Jesus” with the condemned man, and as he received the lethal injection, “I felt him go to hell as I held his hand.” As Cain tells it, “I decided that night I would never again put someone to death without telling him about his soul and about Jesus.”

At first Jesus looked like a failed hero. Many people believed that he was “The Chosen One”, the Christ, who would be Israel’s hero and savior. He rode into Jerusalem, and received not just a king’s welcome, but a welcome worthy only of Israel’s savior. “Hosanna to the Son of David!” the people cried. What they meant was, “Save us, Messiah that we have waited for!” They had been waiting for centuries for someone to come and rescue them from poverty, persecution and enslavement to a foreign pagan power. Could this really be the one who will lead them in victory over their enemies and restore Israel to its former glory?

Less than a week later, Jesus is crucified, just like the many failed messiah’s before him. Jesus wasn’t the first (or the last) to claim that he was the one that we’ve been waiting for. Try to imagine their sadness and disappointment when Jesus was executed as a common rebel.

But Jesus was not a failed hero. The cross was not an accident. It was not even a tragically beautiful ending to a man who came to teach peace and love, as many have portrayed him. It was exactly the end he planned on. Like many of us, people wanted to be rescued from excessive taxes, injustice and the immorality of government. But those aren't our real problems.

Think about it. Imagine the perfect politician and the perfect Government. Every law you think should be on the books is there exactly as you think it ought to be. Every Government agency is run properly. Every politician is honest. And your political ideology reigns in every policy, foreign and domestic. Every politician does what they are supposed to do...

In such a world, you still suffer the consequences of sin. People still get sick. People still commit crimes. People still sin. You still sin. And you still die. In fact, the reason the above political scenario is impossible is because of sin and its consequences.

Do you see the brilliance of what Jesus did? By dying and rising from the dead, Jesus took care of the real enemies first. The death of the only truly innocent man defeated sin. And the resurrection of that same man defeated death.

Sin and death are the biggest enemies. And because he did what he said he would do, we can believe him when he says he’ll take care of the smaller enemies too. It's like this, if I see a guy juggle six flaming swords, he doesn't need to prove that he can juggle three silk scarves. Jesus took care of the giants. Everything else is like squashing bugs.

There's another reason why what he did was so brilliant. What if Jesus had come and ruled and set up his kingship? Would the people have been satisfied? Probably. I think they would have been like some of the rabbits in Richard Adams' brilliant book "Watership Down." Our heroes, rabbits looking for a safe home, find a warren full of fat and happy rabbits. The place is paradise. Then it turns out that the reason food shows up every day, and there are no predators, is because the farmer feeds them and protects them, so that every few days, he can have fresh rabbit for dinner. The rabbits who live there don't talk about it. Because all their creature comforts are met, they choose to live with death.

Would we be the same way if we got everything we thought we wanted?

Jesus defeated your real enemies already. Because he did that, he'll take care of the rest like an elephant stomping on lego men.

"’Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.’ He said to me: ‘It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son’” (Revelation 21:3-4, 6-7).

Finally, someone understood that.

Two News Teams dug out a little girl in Haiti.

He is the only Australian TV cameraman ever to win the Gold Walkley for journalism but when Richard Moran heard the soft, desperate cry of a baby girl beneath the rubble in Haiti, he put down his camera and started to dig.

"He was up to his waist, lifting out pieces of concrete," says Nine Network reporter Robert Penfold, who was with him.

"And then, out of the ruins came this little girl, and I will never forget it. She did not cry. She looked astonished, almost as if she was seeing the world for the first time".

Confusing local viewers, however, was that both Nine and its rival, Seven, were saying they helped bring the little girl out, and the footage seen around the world was indeed of Seven's Mike Amor, standing above the hole in the ground.

He reaches forward to take the dusty little girl, pours water over her head to clear away dust, and then gives her something to drink.

Nine doesn't have that footage, and its team was yesterday feeling a bit of the kick in the guts that good journalists get when rivals have exclusive footage of something so marvellous but, as Amor himself said: "That moment, it was beyond news.

"The focus of everybody on that hill was the little girl, and as any of us will tell you, it was Deiby who went into that hole, and dug, and dug, until he got that little girl out. He's the hero."

Deiby Celestino is the Nine Network's fixer (interpreter, and sometime security guy).

He had gone "up the hill" (meaning, to an area outside Port-au-Prince, where many homes were destroyed) with the Nine team, because Save the Children promised to make an Australian aid worker available for interviews. Seven was there, too. While they were waiting, locals told them they could hear a baby crying under the rubble. "We walked perhaps 3m across this hillside of completely collapsed homes," says Penfold. "We had to walk over sheets of tin, and then climb up over concrete, and then jump down, on to another slab of concrete, to where four men were standing, pointing, and you could hear crying, from somewhere underneath."

Moran, who won the highest award for journalism, the Gold Walkley, in 2003 for his coverage of the Canberra bushfires, put his camera with a microphone attached into a cavity, and Penfold said: "It was gut-wrenching. "There were slabs of concrete all around, and we couldn't see what we could do, and at the same time, we couldn't walk away."

He said Deiby, "who is this short, wiry, muscly guy", said "I think I can get in there" and down he went. Mr Celestino told The Australian: "I could hear her . . . I had to keep going." He called out in Creole "Come to me?" and then, out of the darkness, the 18-month-old's face emerged.

Of seeing the toddler emerge from the rubble, Amor said: "I haven't seen anything so remarkable since the birth of my own child. "The emotion for all of us has been incredible."

If I understood correctly, two rival newsteams teamed up momentarily to help rescue this girl. But only one got footage, the other cared more about the girl.

When it says that the camera was put into a cavity, does that mean they pointed it so they could see down there where the girl was, not for the purpose of getting news footage, but for the purpose of trying to rescue the girl? That's how I understood it. Channel Nine used its camera to find the girl, and Channel Seven used its camera to capture the whole event while men from both teams helped to rescue her. Am I understanding the event correctly?

This morning my two year old got out of bed and came to see me, blurry eyed and still in his P.J's. "Good Morning", I said. "How did you sleep last night?"

"With my eyes closed," he said immediately.

Well, there you go. Can't argue with that. :-) But he wasn't joking. That was his honest answer and that's how he understood the question.

Children are concrete thinkers. They have difficulty with the abstract. Expressions and figures of speech are so often lost on them. Many an amusing moment when I do children's sermons on Sunday Mornings comes when a child answers a questions with a concrete or literal answer.

I wish I had started a journal of all the times my kids interpreted something I said literally. So many of those email jokes people send around with kids saying cute things to their Sunday School teachers are just kids understanding what grown-ups say literally. We laugh. But that's how they think. I always try to remind myself of that when talking to kids. But I didn't see this one coming.

I think our kids should be laughing at us. Do we realize how silly we sound?

What examples do you have of your kids answering you or understanding you literally? (Please don't paste one of those email joke things. I want to hear about your kids.:)

Or give me examples of silly things we grown ups say, if taken literally. (Like "I got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.")

Yesterday driving home I passed by a yard where a girl who looked to be about 6 was wrestling in the yard with a playful dog who looked to weigh about 80 pounds. It was one of the best things that graced my eyes on an overcast day.

Philip Melancthon once said to his friend Martin Luther, "Today, Martin, you and I will discuss God's governance of the universe," to which Luther replied, "No, Philip. Today you and I are going fishing, and we'll leave the governance of the universe to God."

I am glad God leaves to us the business of such things as playing with dogs, fishing, skipping rocks, flying kites, watching sunrises, watching sports, swimming in the ocean, drinking beer, making love to our spouses, and making people laugh.

God is good and so is life.

But you can help save a life with just $4.

Mosaic is raising funds for their new mosquito net campaign. They are trying to purchase 3,000 nets for women and children in Uganda.

You can support them by going here. Mailing address is on the site, or you can give online.

One great distinctive about Mosaic is that they have 0% overhead. 100% of your donation goes directly to help those in need. (Their administrative costs are paid for by an independent donor.)

Element has designated 20% of our budget to Mosaic for the past year, and we have found them to be a great organization doing wonderful, tangible ministry to the "least of these" in Africa.

Breaking new Champ video. From Cryptomundo:

There is breaking news from Vermont of new footage of an alleged lake monster (”Champ”?) from Lake Champlain.

This appears to be a developing story in the state . . .

More on Champ.

I was just looking for Easter Poems for our Easter Bulletin and I found a picture of C.S. Lewis' wife's grave. The engraving has a mini-poem. Here it is:

"Here the whole world (stars, water, air
And field, and forest as they were
Reflected in a single mind)
Like cast off clothes was left behind
In ashes, yet with hope that she,
Re-born from holy poverty,
In lenten lands, hereafter may
Resume them on her Easter Day."

How awesome is that! What he's saying, is that Easter makes a difference. For those of us who are in Christ, just as Jesus had his "Easter day", his Resurrection day, so will we.

And the reference to "Lenten lands" (the same as Douglas Greshem's autobiography) is, if I understand it right a reference to the fact that "Lent" is the days of preparation up until Easter. So living here on earth was for Joy, as it is all Christians, the days of preparation for her very own Easter Day...

Because Christ did it first!

Lent means "40" and is a reference to the 40 years Moses spent in the wilderness preparing to lead his people from slavery, and the 40 years Israel spent in the wilderness preparing for the Promised Land, and the 40 days Jesus spent preparing for his ministry.

So if this earthly life of ours are our "Lenten Lands" then we are in the wilderness preparing for exodus from slavery, preparing for the Promised Land, preparing for ministry(service) in heaven...and preparing for our own Easter Day!

We are preparing for our Resurrection day. We will each have one, because Christ had one too. That's part of the joy of Easter. Because Jesus walked out of his grave, alive, more alive than ever before, gloriously victorious over death, so will you, because he went first.

The first "Easter" guaranteed that there will be many more...one for every Christian.

I think that's awesome.

Perhaps you Lewis scholars can elaborate on the meaning of this poem more for me....like what does "holy poverty mean? And to whose mind is he referring in the first two lines? Joy's or God's? I love the way he rhymes this whole thing.

AND I'm still looking for a good Easter verse, so please put any suggestions in comments. Who knows, maybe it'll show up in our church bulletin. :)

The apostle Paul said,

“To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel…” (I Corinthians 9:22-23).

What does that mean? Here’s a recent news story that I think illustrates it. Fireman dresses like Spiderman to save boy.

A Thai fireman turned superhero when he dressed up as comic-book character Spider-Man to coax a frightened eight-year-old from a balcony, police said Tuesday. "I told him Spider-Man is here to rescue you, no monsters are going to attack you and I told him to walk slowly towards me as running could be dangerous," Somchai told local television. The young boy immediately stood up and walked into his rescuer's arms, police said.

Pardon the analogy, but isn’t that a lot like what God did? He took on human form, something we were familiar with, so that he could rescue us and take us to God. Jesus was the ultimate missionary. He came to live with us and be like us so that we might be saved. And now we carry on his mission. Paul became like the gentiles to win the gentiles. Our missionaries today become like Africans, or South Americans or even tattooed bikers, so that they might save people. You and I are charged with that same task. How do we do that? How do we become like them in order to save them? We go where they are, like Paul did. He went to the Synagogues, he went to Mars Hill, he went to the marketplace. Wherever people were, Paul went. And wherever he went, he communicated in a language people could understand. To tentmakers, he talked like a fellow tentmaker. To ordinary people, he spoke like an ordinary person. To Jews, he spoke as a Pharisee. To Greeks, he spoke as an educated Roman citizen. It was always the same message, but made understandable for the hearers.

That’s our challenge today. How can we take the same, life-saving, unchanging, hope-filled message of the Gospel, and communicate it in a way that the lost people in your neighborhood will understand it? You can do that. Obviously, you don’t need to dress like Spider-Man. But you are housewives, business leaders, medical professionals, teachers, bankers, grandparents, soccer parents, students and neighbors. You are a person other people trust and will listen to, and you speak their language. And I don’t mean English. You understand and can communicate in a way that a fellow mom, or banker or student or neighbor would understand. God has given you the opportunity to be a missionary. Look around. Where has God placed you? How can you communicate the Gospel to those people that God has placed you in the midst of, in a way that won’t scare them or confuse them, but rather will lead them right into the arms of Jesus?

If you have any stories about how God has used you to make the Gospel understandable to someone else, will you share them under comments?

. . . getting an email from a former student who you ministered to over fifteen years ago, and hearing that he is walking with the Lord, doing Kingdom work, and happily married, and being thanked by that student for the small part you played in his life.

That just happened to me. I've been pretty discouraged about the students that were in my care, or who I had an influence on, more recently, many of whom (not all, but many) appear to have discarded their walk with Jesus pretty effortlessly.

This gives me some hope. And a whole boatload of encouragement.

Riffing, kind of, off this post by Andrew:

If you're a believer, could you tell us in the comments thread how you came to faith in Christ? Did it happen all in a moment? Was it a process? How did God save you? As far as you know, have you always been a Christian?

Do you remember what it felt like to not be a believer? What drew you towards faith? Has your Christian life seen a good, steady growth in faith and love toward God since you were redeemed, or have you experienced fits and starts, slippings, fallings, and restorings?

What's your story? We'd love to hear it - feel free to expound at length in the comments. Thanks!

(You can read the other posts in this series by clicking here).

Are there any scripture passages at the moment that are specifically impacting your life, offering you much-needed encouragement, or challenging you? I'd love to hear about them - feel free to quote them in the comments thread and tell us a little bit about why these passages are rocking your face off (ok, I couldn't think of another action verb to use here that said it just the way I wanted to say it).

I'll start.

(You can read the other posts in this series by clicking here).

Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them . . . - Romans 12:6

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace - 1 Peter 4:10

Every follower of Jesus has been granted at least one spiritual gift, and sometimes (often?) more than one. Places in the New Testament where the spiritual gifts are listed and discussed include Romans 12, Ephesians 4, and 1 Corinthians 12-14, as well as other places in the Bible.

If you're a believer, do you know what your spiritual gifts are? Are you using them?

Let us know in the comments. Note: It will be real tempting for commenters to be overly modest here, or to downplay things so as not to appear conceited. I'm pretty good myself in the self-deprecation gig. But try to avoid that. Spiritual gifts are gifts. If you have been granted a spiritual gift, I'm sure God is developing it in you for his purpose. Tell me something good.

(other posts in the "Tell Me Something Good" series can be found by clicking here).

Have you ever experienced unexpected kindness from a stranger? If you have, tell us about it in the comments.

This one is a bit tougher than my other "Tell Me Something Good" posts (#1 and #2), but I'm hoping to hear some good stories.

I've got a good example, from this 2005 post recounting our Hurricane Rita evacuation adventure.

Just then we heard the voice of an angel. "Do you need help?" It was a local Brenham girl, who's name I never got. She had walked up to Andrew and Kyle. "Can I help you?"

I walked over. "Yes, please. Is there any gas in this town?"

"Yes. I just got some. There's a line, though."

I could have hugged her. Our angel led us through backstreets in Brenham to a gas station that had two lines of cars leading to it. It was on its last thousand gallons, but we got our gas. And that's when I knew we were going to make it to San Antonio.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. - Philippians 4:8

Is there anything good going on in your church? Are you blessed when you're there? Do you hear from God when you're there? Is it doing good things in your community, or in the wider world? Are you growing because you attend? Are you in a place of service there, and is that a joy? Have you made genuine friendships there? Are you active in Christian community?

If so, I'd love to hear about it. Leave your good news in the comments.

(This is a follow-up to the previous Tell Me Something Good post.)