Read about the Averill Woods Neighborhood Association in southwest Lansing (MI) starting a Twitter group to allow real time communication.
In our blog,Southwest Lansing (MI) and my neighborhood, you will find details about the reasons for the formation of the group and how to join it.
This follows two shootings in the neighborhood in the past month and will allow neighbors to stay in touch with each other easily and with the appropriate officials.
In the past month, the Averill Wood's neighborhood on Lansing's southwest side has had two shootings. The second happened last night and was fatal for the 28-year-old victim.
So, this is how the new government-owned General Motors looks. The U.S. Congress is getting ready to pass a law requiring that GM and Chrysler to reopen the dealerships it closed last month.
The Detroit Free Press, in a story today, outlines how the U.S. House has enough sponsors for the bill to pass it when it comes up for a full vote. Three Michigan Republicans have signed on as cosponsors, U.S. Reps. Thad McCotter, Vern Ehlers and Pete Hoekstra.
Hold up your hand if you think the U.S. Congress can do a better job of managing the auto company than private enterprise.
I try to be a good neighbor and I like to give my neighbors room to live their lives without complaining. But that was severely tested this fourth of July and the next night.
Some of our neighbors took a quiet residential street and turned it into all the sights and sounds of a combat zone with what had to be illegal fireworks.
It happened around midnight the first time and around eleven on the second. Both times kids were either nearby or they lit the fireworks themselves.
On the second night, one neighbor lit fireworks that would resemble those from a small community event. This happened in an urban neighborhood and in their backyard with kids around.
The police seemed to ignore it. The streets were filled with smoke that made it look like a battle had been fought there.
Lots of questions need to be answered in my opinion. This is a Flip video shot from my front stoop from the first night.
Anybody have a similar experience?
Heading to the showers, but want to share and I will check out later a political fact checker from the St. Petersburg Times, PolitiFact.Com.
It's almost shower time and then off to the worship service at Christ The King in DeWitt. I'm trying to prepare my heart so I do more than go through the motions of singing, praying and listening.
My attention was poked by today's devotion from Our Daily Bread that draws attention to all the life situations that can suck the hope out of you.
The answer comes from King David's Psalm 103. He's a guy who has gone from having it all to losing it. He did great things and he made decisions that had terrible consequences.
How did he handle it? In Psalm 103, he says in the first half of the 14 verses from the Message version of the Bible:
1-2 O my soul, bless God. From head to toe, I'll bless his holy name!
O my soul, bless God,
don't forget a single blessing!
3-5 He forgives your sins—every one.
He heals your diseases—every one.
He redeems you from hell—saves your life!
He crowns you with love and mercy—a paradise crown.
He wraps you in goodness—beauty eternal.
He renews your youth—you're always young in his presence.
6-18 God makes everything come out right;
he puts victims back on their feet.
I pray that my heart gets the message from this Psalm. I need to praise God this morning and I need to understand why I'm doing it. Psalm 103 lists a lot of reasons.
That seems to be the question after the results of a new study were published showing that nearly 15% of teens thought they would die young, according to a story in the Detroit Free Press.
Study authors say that contradicts the notion that teens engage in risky behavior because they feel invulnerability because of their age. They actually feel fatalistic.
Lots of teens don't see hope for the future. Can that be affected by family? The church? Lack of a father in the family?
Pastor David Maier of Our Savior Lutheran Church on the southwest edge of the Lansing (MI) area blogs and Twitters. He's trying to use these two social media tools to supplement is face-to-face interaction with his parish and to add extended church family through the web.
His church and it's day school are situated in the heart of mid-Michigan, an area that's struggling to repurpose and re-vision itself with its faltering economy. He knows personally the storms that come in life as a lymphoma survivor and as a dad of a teenage son who had brain cancer.
As a babyboomer who was not weaned on a computer, he's trying to thread his way through the challenges of using social media as a way to share his obsession for the hope in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
You are invited to visit him on the web. His Twitter address: bigskymaverick and his blog is Fighting Forward.
Have you tried to imagine what it would be like to go into the visual presence of God?
This morning during my quiet time, I read the devotion from Our Daily Bread based on Isaiah 6:1-8 where the prophet goes into the throne room of the Almighty God.
Can you imagine what that was like? What he saw? Then there's the question that God asked Isaiah. Is he asking me the same question today?
The question:
“Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?”
Will I have the same answer as Isaiah and mean it?
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