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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
And so it goes
So your life is all nice and cozy? Good for you! I must say after the Inauguration I have had many new thoughts. Now for you that know me well enough I am not thinking of any thing evil or illegal. I am in support of my President. Yes you heard me say I am in support of my President. Wow! After hearing someone say at Church that they thought our President was the Anti-Christ and that they felt someone would do something really bad about it I had to chime in. Our new President was elected according to the laws of the land. I could go on about how things should have been different but Rush and Sean Hannity can yak about that. (I do not agree with the tactics of Rush and Sean) The democratic process has worked and we have a new President. Some of the things he wants to do are admirable. Some are not. I wish I could say that there was a President who did everything right. One of the things I see today is that we are so quick to judge and hate. We tend to be mistrustful. I see that many things are played out on the internet (which of course if it is on the internet then it must be true) or on the news or even in the mighty newspaper.
I do not want to see our country abandon many of the values that have guided us for so many years. But in reality it is not the government. It is we the people. Many will say we do not have a say anymore. I say we are really in charge. We say when we will spend money and how much. We say when we will travel and how far. We say when we will watch TV and buy the shamwow. We say when we will not buy the latest Brittany news garbage. You get my drift. We the people are in charge of what we do. Now the government is in charge of many things like if we can buy a car that gets better milege. Or if we can buy a house at a better rate since they are buying up all the banks. But they are not in charge of our happiness.
I am in the middle of putting together thoughts then words to an idea about a book. Who in the past has been an inspiration and why? Here is a list of people so far. Jesus Christ, (Duh) Martin Luther, John Wesley, Gahndi, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Newton, Plato, Socrates. My idea is that 200 years from now is that Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Ted Kennedy, J.P. Morgan and the like will not be so influencial. Why? Because they were about money. (OK Ted is about...who knows but I just like putting his name on the list). What are people best remebered for? What do we want to be remebered for? My tombstone or cardboard box will hopefully say that people loved me and I loved them. I had integrity and would not compromise it for money. I had respect because I gave it. I gave of my soul because another needed it. So all in all you get my drift. Now drift is appropriate because I do drift in and out of this process of thinking.
So all is well in our world. The world of my mind where I support my President in that we are subject to our rulers. I will not bad mouth him just because he does not think 100% the way I do. I hope and pray that he is led by integrity and by the Sprit of God as do I wish for all man kind. (except for the guy who keeps calling me and hanging up) Be good humans and go have an ice cream cone dipped in chocolate.
Tim
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I very much liked the way you said this, Tim!! We all need to remember that we have a lot more to do with the way things are than we want to take credit for. I think I WILL go have some ice cream now!
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