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This is one is to be filed under the "for what it's worth" category.Wading through the shallow water on NBC's 'Today' showASSOCIATED PRESS2:12 p.m. October 14, 2005NEW YORK – If Michelle Kosinski's canoe had sprung a leak on NBC's"Today" show Friday, she didn't have much to worry about.In one of television's inadvertently funny moments, the NBC Newscorrespondent was paddling in a canoe during a live report about flooding inWayne, N.J. While she talked, two men walked between her and the camera – makingit apparent that the water where she was floating was barelyankle-deep.Matt Lauer struggled to keep a straight face, joking about the "holy men"who were walking on water. "Have you run aground yet?" Katie Couricasked."Why walk when you can ride?" Kosinski replied.Later, an NBC News spokeswoman explained that Kosinski had been riding indeeper water near an overflowing river down the street, but there were concernsthat the current was too…

This morning as I was watching the news, there came an update regarding a murder that happened near where we used to live in the Bay Area (read story). It involved a 16-year-old suspect who beat a woman to death, carved satanic symbols on her back, and then used her shower to clean himself up. The story was so gruesome it even appeared to impact one of the reporters -- which is no small feat these days.The other story involved a mother who threw her three small children into the Bay because the voices in her head told to. A passerby saw what happened and called 911; the San Francisco Fire Department was there within four minutes. The children were no where to be found. Later two bodies were recovered and they are still searching for the third child.We live in a dark, fallen world. The San Francisco area is…

Our youngest daughter, Hope, decided to come down sick this past Tuesday night and I had to rearrange my Wednesday schedule to stay at home with her. All I can say is ... whew, it wore me out. By mid-afternoon she was feeling much better and we began the marathon Uno sessions. That typically means we play until she wins.On another note, I've rediscovered apples. I can remember eating apples as a child and I've enjoyed apple pies since then. But I haven't been one to sit down and eat an apple. Until today. To go along with my meat and cheese lunch, I decided to have an apple, too. It was nice. I may have to do that more often.

I was just thinking ... if my parents were still alive, I'd be spending much of my time trying to explain technology to them. Anyway ...We now have LifePoint's weekend messages available as podcasts. You can listen to the mp3's at http://lifepointcast.blogspot.com by clicking on the title of the message. Or, if you prefer the podcast you can subscribe using this link. For those of you using an aggregator like iTunes, simply past http://feeds.feedburner.com/LifepointPodcast into the box under Advanced/Subscribe to Podcast. This will allow you to be automatically updated.We'll try to have them up by Tuesday afternoon each week. Of course, you don't get the smell of the coffee but it's the next best thing.

I've decided to take a break from preparing my message for the end of this month and blog a bit. It's all because of a book title: "The Violin Explained." No, I haven't grown soft and decided to take up the violin -- though I might just to spite you.It's the title of a book a lady is reading on the couch at Twiggs. The title made me want to look around and see what everyone else was doing (especially since I'm probably the only one writing a sermon). There's an elderly lady doing her crossword puzzle; most days she brings a book but today must be puzzle day. Another lady is working through a textbook of some kind. I'm not curious enough to be nosey. The guy in shades with his iPod is hiding behind a laptop screen. A middle-aged man with the only pressed shirt in the place…