my Joy, my Strength, my Hope, this year, dissolve me into salve to hasten the healing of your broken body. help me to teach the soprano to blend with the bass. Lord, some of... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-01 19:32:40
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   my new years resolution is to think about everything i read and hear. impossible, you say? perhaps. but it is better than last year when i resolved to eat everything that stood... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-02 19:22:12
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   my daughter and her friend spent the night last night. good grief. we hadn't slept, and when i looked at the clock, it was seven-thirty this morning. i have heard myself say in... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-04 23:55:30
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i have never had a time when i didn't "sense" God. my youngest memories are full of Him. my great grandpa, whom i am named after, was a preacherman. Mom prayed with me at night. we had... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-07 05:55:34
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   pay attention, campers. i only talk about this rarely, because the cost of the schooling was way too high. the biggest problem with suicide from an outsider's perspective (meaning... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-10 13:54:01
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   i hoped to be a good dad. i prayed to know what to do when it was needed. i took my kids and their friends to the fair each summer and came up with other things to do with them. the... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-12 22:30:13
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   i dare you to have a kitten play on your shoulder for half an hour and feel unloved. i awoke from my sleep in the chair i sleep in because of my neck. there were those tiny velcro... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-13 04:47:23
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i was shopping the other day. avocados, which in the summer were 2 for 3 bucks, are a dollar a piece. i make a dynamite sandwich from avocados that i learned when i worked in health... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-13 08:51:35
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   "He set His face toward Jerusalem." in 40 years of teaching, i have never heard anyone pretend to know when exactly He knew He was going to be ripped apart and stuck on... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-13 21:46:45
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   a friend of mine mentioned to me that the Body of Christ that is represented by his church is in need of maturation. i have an opinion on that. first of all, no... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-14 11:35:03
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God uses me because sometimes other people don't say yes to Him. i am a moron. and i don't just mean that when grandpa made me sundaes and he got to the chocolate syrup i said,... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-14 15:52:38
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God told me at the beginning of my time working with criminals that it was my job to love them. i am not ashamed of my faith. i would tell them. some asked me if i was gay. i am not.... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-14 19:11:46
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gonna be zero around these parts in a day or two. it'll be just like being married again. how come we are zero and the polar ice cap is melting? the earth isn't warming. the glaciers are just... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-16 21:55:47
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you shower downstairs so you don't wake her. she isn't happy and you can't make her. millie down at tee jay's is always so nice sometimes you've got to just tip... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-17 22:06:05
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   this post underlined God's love for women. some horse's patoot decided it scared them, so labeled it bad. i love thoughts.com, but having d**kheads deciding a post about... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-17 22:51:46
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   i went to "random posts" and saw a post from someone dropping F-bombs in capital letters all over my kitchen. no one had made any type of judgemental comment at all. last... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-18 08:30:22
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i have completely lost the ability to write. Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-18 12:32:30
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   i grew up during the cold war. kids were taught to get under their desks in case of attack. because we all know that the finest bomb shelters were being constructed with old... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-18 15:44:16
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enter His gates with thanksgiving, the kingly psalmist said. i have done so for forty years in car and work and bed. my object was to thank "enough" to make it through... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-18 18:56:30
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   the news lady just said, "dangerfully cold weather coming." i know a little about being dangerful i'll tell you right now. we tied an office chair to a chimney by a rope,... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-18 23:22:28
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isn't it cool how someone you have never met can change the way you look at the entire world? it only took getting hit by one car ... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-19 04:53:16
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see, the problem with divorce is that they aren't dead. no, i am not saying i want my exes dead.  i would mourn them like they never left me. what i AM saying is that since they... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-19 10:43:25
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Lord, help us help the children. take me, if You must, and leave the children with food and love and shelter. i don't understand why the haters exist. sure, i get the psychiatric... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-19 11:35:29
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   i just played several of my favorite John Lennon songs on youtube. he sings of peace, friendship, love, and other such horrifying topics. and in the comments, it is said that he now... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-19 16:53:10
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   had an epiphany. apostrophe? hypertrophy? one of those things when the light goes on. one of those. so, like, here's what i figured out. i am a dating service for friendships. i am... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-20 16:07:50
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   don't you get tired approached by every kind of weirdo, sifting through requests that include little to no love for you? don't you get tired going to family reunions and... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-20 23:51:06
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   got another one of those chain mail things saying that if i didn't forward it, i didn't love God. may i say that those are the dumbest things imaginable? only people with computers... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-22 05:17:31
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a woman who goes to a past church has on the prayer-request list that God help her "single-parent" her teen. the wording suggests that parenting a teen is worse than parenting... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-22 22:00:35
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   we were at the home and garden show. i was with the ex who was an album cover. soooo stinking beautiful. on the outside. anyway, we had stopped at some idiotic cafe thing that her... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-23 17:34:34
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   you people are being so played. i was a broker on "black monday" when we used to sit and wonder if the dow would ever hit 5000. traders run the market. there was a... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-23 23:47:16
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   the ad says it "makes you feel just like you are at the game." this is supposed to make me want a TV. i am home because it is below zero. any team i support is in the same... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-25 00:14:39
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   In 1986, Dan Harrison was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-26 12:03:30
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the Apostle said that those you bed take a piece of you when they leave. i thought that meant that i kinda sent some part that i wouldn't grieve. you crushed my heart,... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-26 13:03:55
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Because you've always stood up for me, I'm free to run and play. I hold on to you for dear life, and you hold me steady as a post.... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-26 14:06:11
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   Marsha Wallace from the Newhart show was talking about Suzanne Pleshett and she said, "Many people walk through your life, but very few leave footprints on your heart."... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-26 20:30:04
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(i stink at poetry, but the only way to learn is to do) "just like your dad," they are fond of saying. "coincidence or genetics," i reply. i never knew how... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-28 00:23:19
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"God gave you two ears and one mouth cuz you should listen twice as much as you talk." oh, really? are you sure it wasn't because you would look gross with two... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-28 14:08:05
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God, look what i've done with the brand new heart that You gave me when i bowed to You. i instructed You about what i "should" love i like my choices to be "blessed... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-29 19:22:49
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due to the firm belief that cold weather is a good time to sleep, i expect to be asleep for the next twenty days. nite. Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-29 23:47:55
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   removed because it offended nice people. sorry Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-30 14:07:29
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   hi peeps. i am a hick, a hillbilly, a redneck. i am used to being around rude folks. so being "sensitive" to people's differences isn't a genetic skill on my part. i am... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-30 19:19:40
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wanna know stupid? here is stupid: my second wife slept with a new guy every month of our marriage. but i, the Duke of Dumb, the Knight of Knonsense, still tell kids that... Read More
Posted by: AllThingsBuck on 2008-01-30 19:50:43
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