Ninas Family Missional Life

“ You know, some people say that he talks to the animals. The aborigines call him Jabba-Jahda-Ah-Der-Ahd, which means The Crocodile Who Walks Like a Man .”                                        -Walt in Crocodile Dundee II              Last April I wrote a blog titled, “What’s in a Name?”    It talked about representing the name of Jesus in our walk.    This is not a rehash of that topic.  However it is about names.    If you know me well, there is always a story before the application.  So bear with me while I set up the topic. Mather AFB Training Class             An   aviator call sign   or   callsign   is a   nickname   given to a military pilot, flight officer, and even s...

                   I have been mulling this blog for over a week. You might use the word ruminate if I were a bovine creature or a goat.   The blame lies with my friend Alexa Lowery, a teacher at Destino del Reino in Siguatepeque, Honduras . She maintains a blog at home during the summer and on a mission called Causa di Mi Nombre .   As much as I enjoy reading her blog, it is very spiritually challenging to read her blog because she challenges me to stretch my faith. In her April 18 th blog, “ Teacher, what is peace to you? ” she finished with the challenging question, “What is peace to you?”   Thus I began my journey of rumination and mulling. A heartfelt thanks to Alexa for starting me on my journey. My thoughts start in Joshua 4:1-7.   I have always loved this passage of Scripture. I once heard a pastor preach a sermon entitled “Spiritual Mile Markers” using this passage.   My...

     If you are familiar with NCIS (who isn't), you know about Gibb's Rules.  From whence do they come?    Well, I found this at NCIS Wiki . It was revealed in the last few minutes of the Season 6 episode,  Heartland (episode)  that Gibbs's rules originated from his first wife,  Shannon Gibbs , where she told him at their first meeting that "Everyone needs a code they can live by." The only rule of Shannon's personal code that is quoted is either her first or third: "Never date a lumberjack." Years later, after their wedding, Gibbs began writing his rules down, keeping them in a small tin inside his home which was shown in the Season 7 finale episode,  Rule Fifty-One (episode) . Though he uses it often we almost never see the tin. The knowledge of the rules's origins is left as a mystery to the people that Gibbs works with, though some of them do make concentrated efforts to find out.  Anthony DiNozzo  makes several at...