HANDMAIDENS IS UP
We are finally getting up to speed. The summer issue of  Handmaidens
( http://www.ionanet.com/women/ ) is finally online. It's packed with dozens of articles, poems and stories, including the incredible but true story of how God directed our move to Alabama. See:  Handmaidens -All Around Home  ( http://www.ionanet.com/women/699/home.htm )
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NEW E-MAIL FELLOWSHIP
We've set up a new e-mail fellowship for Christian women. Check it out here:
 Handmaidens -Important Stuff ( http://www.ionanet.com/women/699/extra.htm )
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WE'RE TAKING OFF THE ADS
We will be removing most of the banner ads from the ionanet site. This will take some time, but eventually you will only see ads for Amazon.com,  Christian sites and the carefully screened businesses actually hosted by ionanet. We will pray that God will continue to provide for our web space and bandwidth costs through the generaous and unsolicited gifts of visitors, patrons and clients.
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MORE FREQUENT BULLETINS
We'll be sending more e-bulletins out and including some material in each to brighten or enlighten your day. We welcome your submission of material. Just e-mail iona@... with anything you'd like to contribute. Our first contribution is below. Enjoy.
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Submitted by Patti Crist

PARADOX OF OUR TIMES

We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but  narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less; we buy more, but  enjoy it less.

We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but  less time; we have more degrees, but less common sense; more  knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more  medicine, but less wellness.

We spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too  angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too  seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

We talk too much, love too seldom and lie too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years.

We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble  crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.

We've conquered outer space, but not inner space; we've done larger  things, but not better things; we've cleaned up the air, but polluted  the soul; we've split the atom, but not our prejudice; we write more,  but learn less; plan more, but accomplish less.

We've learned to rush, but not to wait; we have higher incomes; but  lower morals; more food but less appeasement; more acquaintances, but  fewer friends; more effort but less success.

We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more  copies than ever, but have less communication; we've become long on  quantity, but short on quality.

These are the time of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men and  short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.

These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more  leisure and less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.These  are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but  broken homes.

These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway  morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do  everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.

It is a time when there is much in the show window, and nothing in  the stockroom.

Indeed it's all true. Think about it...read it again.
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Blessings upon you!

Iona Hoeppner
ionanet http://ionanet.com
Handmaidens http://ionanet.com/women
Jesus http://ionanet.com/jesus

He who laughs, lasts.
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