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My Health Care
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Sep 8, 2009 5:03 am
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My health care is very important to me even though I have few serious health problems. I do a lot of preventative activity on my own. This is an enormously impacting subject to so many people and it is indeed a very hot button issue at the moment.
Health care refers to just about everything and anything referring our overall health. It includes medical, dental, hospitals, nursing, surgery, psychologist, optometrist, pharmaceuticals, and laboratories.
The cost of health care is beyond many people. Yet, the cost of the absence of health care is just as expensive to our society. The loss of productivity from unhealthy individuals is too much for us to bear, as well as the financial strain on the Federal Government. Health is one of our most personal and valuable resources. We work most all our lives and when we retire with no substantial health, its not retirement. It is survival.
This week may be the make or break week that will affect our nation for years to come. I am finally into the health care debate. I want health care. I will need health care. I believe in health care. Short of war, this issue may be one of the most important ever.
I will listen very carefully this week to the discussion.
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Life Is Bigger Than The Kennedy's
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Sep 5, 2009 5:32 am
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Power, position, prominence is the usual description of the Kennedy family. I watched the elaborate and long funeral activities of Senator Kennedy. I was moved many times to sheer admiration and gratefulness that his life was such a public sharing. He started out in life with more than a silver spoon in his mouth, but ended up his life in church on his knees in prayer. It is unquestionable that his interest in suffering events in the lives of others was unmatched.
I hate it when people can only see the wrong in other person's lives and so easily skip over the good. There are many lessons to learn from the Senator's life. But one I would like to draw on is to start out of life on our knees in prayer rather than the ending. We inherit much from our parents. Blessed are those of us whose parents were active in Church and had a good basic ethical faith foundation to their life that they were willing and able to share.
Senator Kennedy often said his dad was an inspiration, and his mother was a light. Our personal example will never be out shouted or outshone by our words. Probably our personal example as parents is the strongest influence we have.
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I Want To Change Our Educational System
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Sep 5, 2009 5:17 am
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Maybe you have some ideas on how to improve education? Yes, I certainly do. I believe in a liberal arts education, but not so liberal that it wastes the time and untapped talent of a majority of people.
In High School, the focus was on science. In College, the same focus prevails. Yes, it is true that the sciences advance humanity and win out over oppression. However, there are many other areas for which people have talent but whose value is not recognized as much as science.
In grade school I wish students who are gifted for math and science would be channeled into that area and the majority that is left would be given focus on practical courses to develop their own genius. I believe everyone is a genius in something. It may be undiscovered and go unrewarded, but humanity needs it.
To force everyone to spend many hours and years in subjects they are not suited for is a hugh waste of our human resources.
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The Big Difference Between Christianity & Religion
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Aug 25, 2009 3:33 pm
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Christianity is an exercise in love. Religion is an exercise in rules. The difference is large.
Christianity is an individual personal intimate relationship with Jesus that is an ongoing friendship of trust, but never between equals. Religion can be an impersonal unknown impersonal un relational fact sheet based on mistrust.
Squabbling over detail matters of faith changes Christianity into a religion, puts Jesus back on the cross, and makes us once again sinners unsaved by grace.
If you don't understand this, how sad. This is why people have such a deathly craving for controversy. The days ahead are not rich in fellowship, but dark and isolation. Its out of the ashes of isolation that serial killers of faith are born. Beware.
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Now The Lutherans Have Done It ! Gay Clergy?
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Aug 22, 2009 12:06 am
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Dear God, when will it all end? Gee whiz, bowing to the pressure of many young people, who in the Lutheran Church are openly gay and lesbian, the ELCA, or Evangelical Lutheran Church America, some 4.7 million people, have said homosexual and lesbian members in committed relationships can now be officially clergy. Yes, that is right, Clergy. So what do I think about this?
For one thing, I am very sure that many people will be very hurt. Just as in the Episcopal Church, 2.5 million people, who not too long ago ordained as Bishop, an openly gay man, the result was heart ache by the number. The worldwide Anglican communion almost threw the American branch out. From what I understand, the leaders of the Episcopal Church said in so many words that they do not plan to ever do that again. I am sure that is good for a while, until they have the support to repeat it.
I have said so many times before that the gay and lesbian community is a force to be reckoned with. I didn't ever say I supported this life style, but I don't condemn it either. Jesus said He did not come into the world to condemn it. If Jesus does not, then I am sure I should not. However, it is very clear from God's word, which has not changed for 2000 years, that God sees this lifestyle as not good for people, and therefore He does not approve it.
However, I am convinced that people of this gay orientation are not kidding when they say it is their real orientation, and that they have fought it all their life, and it won't go away. They want therefore to be accepted as members of society in their own right. The trend is to grudgingly accept them as having equal rights under law. Just as gays do not want the morality of straights to be forced on them, I firmly believe gays should not try to force their morality view on straight, or heterosexual people either. The time is coming when we will all, more and more, have to look past our biases and prejudices and give people equal rights under law. This time is on the doorsteps of our society and world now.
In everything, the most important thing is respect for others. WE need to let the Holy Spirit lead and deal with what we humans can not resolve. We need to quit taking the place of God, and deciding for Him what is right and wrong for others. WE need to always remind people of what scripture says, but leave it there and work on our own life. History is replete with examples of people taking things into their own hands and making a big mess, thinking they were doing God's will and being a blessing when in fact they did more harm than good. A prime example of this is the Protestant and Catholic fight which split the Christian Church, creating 30,000 Protestant denominations, and killed thousands and thousands of people. Since when is the Holy Spirit the author of this kind of bloodshed? The tremors of this Church earthquake are still being keenly felt today.
What I feel at the moment is that gays should worship God in their own Church's, and let time go by before they try to become active members of heterosexual Church's. Too drastic a change will just bring much damage to the Church as did the ordination of a gay clergyman to be Bishop, or this latest move by the Lutheran Church. The point I am making is that gays are not now or ever going away. They are increasing, and more open than ever. We can not sweep them under the rug, or get them back into their closets anymore. They are out in the open and being more vocal than ever. Let respect therefore rule in the Church. I feel gays should respect the feeling of heterosexuals, as much as they want heterosexuals to respect their feelings about being gay. Its a difficult time for everyone.
So what will happen? Not much good will happen. Progress is most always made in blood and tears. Much damage will be done, and some people may be hurt beyond repair and lost. Still, I say, let respect prevail all around. Its the only way we can keep the damage to a minimum.
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A More Excellent Drug
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Aug 21, 2009 3:37 pm
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A drug is defined as a substance for altering the body. Jesus said the world is hurting deeply because we need to be reconnect to our mainline source of the drug of life. He says we feel pain in mind and body because of our disconnect from our life source.
The human race is desperate to be reconnected. Positions of power, abundance of possessions, and extravagant physical pleasures are ways as a human race tries to reconnect to life. To find our source, He said to look inside and we will find God. His Spiritual infusion is the connection we need, and that which was lost.
Jesus said that it is through trust in Him that this connection is reestablished. The high we need is not the variety of drugs of this world, but the endless drug supply of God Himself. Look inside and find what we need. Then to increase our supply, we are told to live it out through love of God, and people including ourself.
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Woodstock 40 Years Ago Today,
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Aug 15, 2009 2:08 pm
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It was 40 years ago today, August 15, 1969 that a gathering of near half million people met to redefine their generation. To the chagrin of newspaper editors, the focus was largely peace and love for three days of music. The dogmatic years of rigid role play and stilted formulas did not work well enough. New wine in new wine sacks was needed. Our universe is not fully reducible to equations, but is more non Euclidean than physicists like to admit, but are now grudgingly admitting. Space is actually a fabric, and can be bent. Time in a mysterious way is part of space.
43 miles southwest of Woodstock, N.Y. is a town known as Bethel. Outside this town on Max Yasgur's dairy farm of 600 acres, this defining event occurred for three days. It is still remembered, commemorated, and the lessons are still being learned. Sure the rag-tag hippies were there, and it rained, and there was mud. But, a more serious, more prevalent theme was in play. Peace and love were the longing, and hope of a new generation.
The world has rocked and rolled in more ways than music since then. But, still the longing for peace and love is ever alive. Christianity has been better defined since, and as a result of Woodstock. Why do we not recognize the signs of the times under our nose said Jesus? More important that the weather signs are the spiritual signs, and they are just as evident.
The birth pangs of exploration of space are evident. World wide communication is a phenomenon now for only the second time in human history. The call for a protective, managing world government is loud and clear. Terrorists are their own worst enemy as they will by default usher in this defining event. The 30,000 Christian denominations are talking to the Christian Catholic church. The Bible is everywhere around the world, and is reaching into the languages of people.
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Body-Spirit -Holy Spirit
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Aug 15, 2009 2:47 am
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My body without my spirit dies, so says scripture. My spirit without the Holy Spirit dies, so says scripture. Thus, according to Jesus, to live again in my spirit, I must be born again. Once alive in spirit I must walk in the light as He is in the light. The summary of this says Jesus is to love.
The truth in these revelations of the Bible regarding life explain why there is so much heartache and discord in the world.
They also explain why as Christians we are the light of the world.
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Typhoon Markot Brings Rain Of Tears
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Aug 15, 2009 1:12 am
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A typhoon to the south asian pacific ocean is a hurricane to us in the USA. This one, Markot, to hit south Taiwan is the worst in over 50 years dumping more than 6 feet of rain. It caused ghastly damage. One woman in her 20's lost 17 members of her family, including parents, brother, aunt, and others. Over 500 have died so far. Thousands have been stranded. Property damage is extensive. People were buried alive in mud slides. Holding each other tightly, crying villagers lit sticks of incense at the service to honor their loved ones who perished.
This story is repeated around the world again and again. People have tried to make sense out of these events in view of a loving God who cares and is all powerful. When people climb a mountain together, for safety they are tied to each other. If one falls, the rest can hold on and keep them from crashing below. Something like this I believe happened to the human race when we slipped and fell from grace. Once we were in harmony with our Sovereign. The bonds of affection held when we fell and were not completely broken. Otherwise our fall would have been final and catastrophic. I feel these recurring disasters are a frightful reminder that we are dangling in free space between a Sovereign God who has not completely let us go, and total disaster below.
Blame Him as we will, but it could have and can be much worse.
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I want 230 miles per gallon
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Aug 12, 2009 4:41 am
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General Motors just announced their new chevrolet Volt will in the city get 230 miles per gallon. This will be electric use for the first 40 miles. But so what, as most commuters, approximately 8 out of 10, drive less than that a day. The cost of this electricity will be less than 3 cents a mile or $2.75 for a 100 miles. Wow, how things can change.
Efficiency is a Christian virtue. It actually pays to go quality. People buy expensive suits and shoes, but they make them last long time.
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