For the past several years I’ve been really mad at God. I’ve identified with Habakkuk in his first chapter. I see what’s happening with our country. I see the violence overseas. I’m so mad at people for electing a horrible leader in the White House, not once but twice. I see the greed in Washington and the greed in the people. People no longer consider honest hard work honorable. The only thing they work hard for is taking another person’s money. To put it bluntly, evil has taken control of our leadership. Few in Washington push against the evil. It has gotten so bad that Christians are despised and openly reviled in the media. People are crying out for freedom from that Christian religion. Efforts are openly being taken to silence Christians. So, my anger burned against God. Why isn’t he doing anything?
Today my anger has turned to sorrow. I know that we are heading for destruction. Just look at all that is happening around the world. People are racing eagerly to that destruction. Even the Church seems oblivious to the state of the world. They prefer to be safely cocooned in their pews playing the Christian game. I stand at Habakkuk 2:3. I see it coming. I cry with deep sorrow.
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Tossing in my 2 Cents About the World That Touches Me!
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Can I Start the Year Over?
There is a rule if your New Year
starts out crappy the end of it will be fantastic, isn’t there? If that isn’t true I’d like to start the year
over. It’s been bam, bam, bam, just been
one problem after another. My resolution for the New Year was to spend as
little money as possible. Do you think I
jinx myself attempting that?
It started out with the truck. That “check engine” light came on. OK, so a couple of things needed to be repair,
no biggie. Hold it! They were having a difficult time finding the
radiator hose I needed. So I was waiting
a few days while they got the correct part.
That’s when the window on the driver’s side decided to fall. I am so glad that it didn’t break! (God’s Grace!) I’m told window regulators always seem to go
out in winter. I did manage to duck tape
it into place. The repairs are starting
to add up. I got the truck fixed in time
to go to a weekend geocaching event in Paris.
Paris, Arkansas! On my way home
as I was getting into Ozark the truck overheats and dies. Oh yeah, the weather is nasty. It’s raining and cold. Fortunately a friend was following me and saw
I was in trouble helped me get it to a garage and drove me home. (God’s Grace!)
A really great friend! I had
Monday off because I was going with a group of friends to LR for the opening of
the Legislative session. So great to see
the candidates we worked hard for on the floor.
Back to truck story. Another really
great friend loaned me her spare car until I got the truck back. (God’s Grace!) I didn’t get the truck back until Friday because
the garage in Ozark volunteered to drive it up to Fayetteville. NICE! Running
errands on Sat I noticed a burning smell.
I popped the hood and there was coolant splatter all over the
engine. Arrrgh! Back to the garage on Monday to find out what
happen. They didn’t find any leak. I think that the cap wasn’t on tight when the
Ozark guy drove up it and they notice it and fix it. So, no leak but they discover the radiator
they had replaced in April was defective.
Apparently it didn’t cool evenly.
It was still under warranty so it was replaced for free and I just paid
to have it flushed. (God’s Grace!) At this time (knock on wood) I am not having
any problems.
While my truck was doing the first
round of garage visits I notice one of my cats (Tigger) wasn’t eating well and
looked to be losing weight. I was going
to bring him in the week after my geocaching weekend but the truck’s Ozark vacation
delayed the visit. I got him in the day
after my radiator was replaced. Very bad
news. He has kidney disease and
treatment is complicated by his heart murmur.
He spent several days in the hospital where they started to flush his
kidneys. He was sent home with a number
of medications and I am giving him saline IVs every other day. He’s not doing well. He doesn’t want to eat. I’ve bought all those fancy cat foods in
order to tempt him but no go. I puréed
the food and have been force feeding him.
He’s 12 years old and I don’t know if he’s going to make it. I don’t want to give up on him because that
little bugger has cost me plenty and he’d better say around a few more years. (Need God’s Grace!)
In between the truck and the cat I
was ask to run for Secretary of the Washington Country Republican
Committee. I said I would and running
un-opposed I was voted into office. Now
I know why the last Secretary raced up to the podium to 2nd my
nomination. Boy, I have to do a lot of
work. Hopefully it slacks off in a bit
or am I kidding myself?
God has been good. In every circumstance I’ve had help appear
and I just need to keep trusting Him. I’m
praying over Tigger. Hey, He said His
eye is on the sparrow so I know He cares for Tigger. My resolution to spend as little money as
possible has been totally blown for the month.
There are still 11 months of the year to go.
Monday, January 07, 2013
My New Year's Resolution
In 2013 I will absolutely spend as little money as possible. I will only spend money on needs instead of wants. This is a resolution that I have never had to make before. Thanks Obama! For the past 2 years I've done some spending restrictions but nothing like this. With the re-election of Pres Obama I really don't see the economy going well at all. Working in the medical field is also a bit of a worry because of the effects of Obama-Care. My bosses really don't know how much Obama-Care is going to affect them but they are anticipating being paid less. With so much uncertainty there really is no option but to prepare for the worst. The next 4 years is definitely the time to be the ant rather than the grasshopper.
I Hate Colds
I have been suffering for the past two weeks with this cold. After forcing myself to lie on the couch and watching TV this weekend I have reduced it to an irritating cough. Buy stock in throat lozenges! It sure would be nice if parents would keep their sick kids at home instead of leaving them with the poor childcare volunteers at church.
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Fiscal Cliff, What a Circus
Having watched the GOP leadership the past year I had scant
hope that they would get some solid spending cuts. I’m so disappointed that they didn’t get any
cuts. Apparently the GOP leadership is
totally incompetent.
Since they mishandled this “Fiscal Cliff” so badly I really
don’t expect much headway on America’s real problem; spending. I believe a big part of the problem is that
the GOP leadership isn’t much interested in the getting the debt under
control. It seems they enjoy spending
our money as much as Obama does. I get
the feeling that they are more concerned with keeping their power rather than keeping
to the unpopular GOP principles.
While I hope to be surprise in a couple of months I fully
expect America’s debt to continue to spiral out of control. I really don’t expect Moody’s downgrading
threat to make any difference. Frankly I
don’t know what it’s going to take to make Washington and the American people
to take this seriously. I’m certainly
open to any ideas to get our GOP leaders to make the hard decisions and to effectively
communicate just how dire our situation is to the American people.
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
2012. What a Difficult Year
I have never been so happy to see a year end. You might think I’m not happy with the year is because Pres Obama won. Well, that would only be one part of it. I was wishing the year would end quickly by April. I guess it was just a year in which I had tons of stuff crammed into it.
The year started hectic. I volunteer to be Pres of the Washington County Republican Women and we started off with a bang and just kept going. It was definitely a lot more work and time than I had anticipated. I’m always busy at work. A good thing I suppose. A co-worker was having family problems which required her to drastically cut her hours. In fact she was out several months. The resulting review of our staffing led to a new hire. By September I had a fully functioning staff but I didn’t get caught up on the work until the end of December.
Lots of meetings, fundraisers, working for candidates, getting all my continuing education in by December and just all of the stuff that needs to be done, I’m just plain worn out. Anyway, I said no to a number of requests and I hope in this new year to work on several projects that I didn’t get around to in 2012. One of them is this blog. I hope I can get back to writing in it regularly.
The year started hectic. I volunteer to be Pres of the Washington County Republican Women and we started off with a bang and just kept going. It was definitely a lot more work and time than I had anticipated. I’m always busy at work. A good thing I suppose. A co-worker was having family problems which required her to drastically cut her hours. In fact she was out several months. The resulting review of our staffing led to a new hire. By September I had a fully functioning staff but I didn’t get caught up on the work until the end of December.
Lots of meetings, fundraisers, working for candidates, getting all my continuing education in by December and just all of the stuff that needs to be done, I’m just plain worn out. Anyway, I said no to a number of requests and I hope in this new year to work on several projects that I didn’t get around to in 2012. One of them is this blog. I hope I can get back to writing in it regularly.
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Fayetteville, It was so cold ....
my garage door froze to the floor. I've never had that happen before. Of course it's never gotten to a minus 5 degrees either! I was late to work because I had to pry the door out of the ice. Hey, I've made to work every day this week so I'm entitled to come in late. I guess snow melted off the truck and traveled under the door where it froze. Tomorrow morning is projected to be below zero again so I placed some kitty litter under the door in the hope that it won't freeze to the floor. Fingers are crossed!
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Springdale vs Fayettnam
A few weeks ago I was talking with a member of the Springdale Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Springdale City Council. They were discussing how they were going to bring in more business'and the growth potential of the city. The City Council member mentioned that they were reviewing the City's ordinances to see if any would be considered business unfriendly. I suggested that once they had completed their review and revised the ordinances that they send a copy of them to the Fayetteville City Council. They laughed and said that Fayetteville's anti-business attitude is really great for Springdale. They were projecting that Springdale will have great growth potential while Fayetteville will shoot itself in the foot.
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