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We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in 2008. Our children helped us celebrate with an all expense paid all arranged vacation In Hawaii.
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"Where Is God When It Hurts?" is the title of a sermon by Phillip Yancy that he gave at Virginia Tech two weeks after the horrible shooting on the campus. You can read it at http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/june/14.55.html. It is well worth your time.
We all seem to be in a mad dash toward whatever is next.
I believe God is what you and I are actually looking for. We are not just looking for the truth about God, but God himself. We are seeking for his presence and his power. We are on a quest for the ultimate.
We will find God in this way when we find him through our friends. This community of friends I call the church. I believe this always begins with, not the larger body, but one individual. And from this friendship with one, comes appreciation for the entire body—the church.
Become a friend. You will find a community of friends. You will find God.
Old Sam Johnson goes to his doctor complaining of aches and pains all over his body. After a thorough examination, the doctor gives him a clean bill of health. ”Sam, you're in excellent shape for an 85 year old man. But I'm not a magician -- I can't make you any younger,” says the doctor. ”Who asked you to make me younger?” says Sam. “You just make sure I get older!”
All my life I have said about certain situations, “It just shouldn’t be this way.”
Well, guess what. IT is what it is!
I can go on insisting that things ought to be different but they will continue to be what they are.
The greater my surrender to the truth of the moment, the greater will be my peace of mind.
President George Bush and congress should not be trying to push one big bill on immigration. Instead they should have written a series of smaller ones. The first one should have been to close the borders. When that is done, seriously and believably done, then we can relax in the knowledge that the situation is not day by day getting worse.
Those of us who do not buy into this “marvelous” new plan of the President and congress are being insulted as idiots, radicals and racists. None of those words describe me. I’m a realist and just want a common sense approach to a big problem.
Close the border to those who are coming in illegally and then take the next steps to clear up this mess.
