Awake, sleeper!

the musings of I. Matilda Rhodes

  • Myth Busters 2: You Can’t Miss What You Never Had

    I don’t actually know the origin of the saying , “You can’t miss what you never had”, but I do know that it’s not completely true. I suspect this saying is very popular with those who are dealing with financial hardship or during times of growth in technological breakthroughs, the price of which are often…

  • Try, try . . . again!

    Well, I’m here again! It’s been almost exactly a year since this blog was started and abandoned. I’m not a techie. This is very difficult for me. I struggle to make the time to work on these posts. I struggle to remember the steps to go through on the hosting site and setting up social…

  • Disobedience: Willful Choice vs. Obedience: Willful Submission

    The LORD has been convicting me lately about obedience. Mainly about this blog. I am not at all computer savvy. I CAN use a computer a little bit but nothing about it is intuitive, except using the QWERTY keyboard that I mastered in the 10th grade. I’d rather not think about how long ago that…

  • Mythbuters 1: There’s NO Party in Hell

    The longer I have been following Christ, the more I have noticed that our culture has effected the beliefs of Christians and non-believers alike in regard to the Scripture and facts. Think about it, how many times have you heard, “Well, the Bible says . . . ” and later find out that the statement…

  • Disobedience Yields Discontent but Obedience Yields Power

    So. I have been disobedient. And I have been discontent. I have no reasons to whine. I live in a “nice” house that needs some updating. All of my adult children are gainfully employed. I have healthy grandchildren. I am in relatively good health and what ails me could be corrected by exercise and diet….

  • Times Change, People Don’t . . . Do They?

    Did your parents ever say that to you? Am I the only one, who heard that explanation for why I couldn’t do something that “everybody else” was doing? “Times change, people don’t” was the reason I couldn’t dress a certain way; the reason I couldn’t go certain places in the company of certain people at…