Some things go together. For instance, consider these sayings: You could have knocked me over with a feather. These hemorrhoids are a real pain. He’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. I can read him like the back of my hand. It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack. Unfortunately, some things don’t go together. Take, for instance, these misguided comments: You could have knocked me over with a fender. These hemorrhoids are a real pain in the neck. He’s a wolf in cheap clothing. I can read him like the back of my book. It’s like looking for a needle in a hayride. Some things go together and some things don’t. Sometimes, the connection is obvious. Sometimes, it isn’t. Take last week’s core strength, for instance: “We are called to grow.” Now, as core strengths go, it is rather straightforward and uncontroversial. If there was any doubt, 2 Peter

I think we would all agree that the emu, Australia’s unofficial national bird, is a national treasure. Yes, they cannot fly, but they are the second-largest bird in the world and are either adorably ugly or weirdly cute. However, Australians have not always been fond of the emu and with good reason. Emus can be quite the pest. Free-roaming herds of emus have been known to invade farms, eat any and everything they can find and trample the rest into the dirt. And in the 1930’s, this was a real problem. To meet a country-wide food shortage, the government subsidized hundreds of new farms along the western coast. The smell of fresh crops must have lofted to the interior of the country because the next thing anyone knew, 20,000 emus had decided to pack up all their belongings, leave the inland regions and journey west. For them, the smell of