Exodus 3:14 - God said to Moses, “I am who I am...- Many of us have wondered things about God and came up with our own ideas about him, but we need to be careful that our ideas line up with Biblical teaching. The Bible tells us a lot of things about God but also leaves many things out. Years ago a famous Bible teacher said lets speak where the Bible speaks and be silent where the Bible is silent. We can trust the Bible just as if God himself was speaking to us because that's what he is doing....

The first thing I did to plan the move was to make a comprehensive To Do List below.


ASAP (ongoing)
- Buy boxes – wardrobe, large, medium, small, heavy duty small, mirror, lamp, large electronics, pictures
- Buy lots of packaging tape and moving paper
- Pack everything but a few necessities
- Make final California Dentist appt
- Make final California Doctor appt
- Research apartments
- Research crime at various apartments...

Well, I have found an apartment, been approved, and have a moving date of early April. I am spending hundreds more per month than I had budgeted for "low cost Tennessee", but it is a 5-star apartment, and isn't that why I put off retirement for years and worked so long for? So I could afford what I wanted and not have to compromise again. Hey, you only live once.

What's money for if you can't spend it?

That was easy. OK, not as easy as it sounds.
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I have decided to live near Knoxville.

Key here is that I will be renting an apartment for a few years so apartment availability is essential. The best bedroom community is useless to me and I ruled out several around the state. Had I been looking to buy a home rather than rent an apartment, I might have chosen elsewhere.

There wasn't really a lot of consideration in choosing Knoxville. Lots of shallow, knee-jerk decisions were made. I wanted to be near a reasonably...

Like you, I'm eager to put the snow and ice events of a few weeks ago behind us. Not before, though, your writer found something on YouTube that you won't even catch every year.

Oh, but now that the following is captured, all of us can watch it over and over again until,...........well, until the owner of the YouTube vid decides to remove it, which I hope is the twelfth of Never. That snow that blanketed much of Texas made it into South Texas, but also the...