Amanda’s Random Rantings

Currency markets have been jumpy lately with the dollar’s value taking some big hits. The latest talk has been that the US economy is slowing, the housing market is tanking and the US may slip into recession. Bad news for the dollar? You bet–but not for the reasons you might think. Currency traders aren’t worried about the US being in a recession, as this discusses they are worried that a recession would create pressure for rate cuts to help the situation. As always, capital is foremost interested in inflation–if they could be sure the Fed would keep interest rates up when the US economy slid down the tubes the dollar might be riding high right now.

The difference is not in the outward issues of which words are said; the difference is in the heart. To pray for men to see comes from a heart that see men as an audience to impress. To pray in ways that are intended to manipulate God comes from a heart that sees God as an audience to impress. But this prayer is not meant to impress God or man.

    Whether we engage in it or not, we are all almost daily witnesses to road rage and the related foolishness that comes from it. Signal lights too long, someone cutting into one’s lane too close, a sudden bad decision, an ill-advised attempt to gain an advantage in traffic—these are all very common motivators to strong feeling.

Warning to locals:

• I saw a girl worker at Culvers Frozen Custard on Research Forest leave the bathroom without washing her hands.
• I saw a dude at Double Daves Pizzeria sneeze into the pizza, not once, not twice but three times. Mr. Snot did not wash his hands the third time. Figured, “What the, Hey…”

Scott and Amy Farmer, missionaries here at the International House of Prayer, just had a beautiful little baby girl, Olivia Anne. The are asking for our prayers - Olivia’s heart has not formed fully.

Dom Denis Chambault was translated to glory on May 3, 1963. As Superior of d’Alleray Priory in Paris, Dom Denis (formerly “Lucien”) cared for all the souls who came seeking advice or his charismatic gifts. (He was for the last 17 years of his life.) In addition to maintaining the traditional Benedictine life and hours, he served the ancient Roman rite Liturgy of St. Gregory (the so-called “Tridentine Mass”). His devotion and reputation attracted a following throughout the French capital, and he remains today an uncanonized saint.