Nothing much has been happening. Its been a pretty boring week thus far. I did get in contact again with some friends in high school. People I was close with but lost touch. I'm really excited about that. Hopefully it will last this time.
I received this e-mail today and I really like it. I would post it to My Space, but I can't figure out how. So I figured I would post it here, especially since I haven't posted in a couple of days.
The following was written by Ben Stein.
Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessionsfrom my beating
heart: I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessicaare. I see them on the cover
of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I
often ask the checkers at the groc ery stores. They never know who Nick and
Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who
they are and why they have broken up? Why are theyso important?
I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is either, and I do notcare at all about Tom
Cruise's wife. Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked
if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are.If
this is what it means to be no longer young , it's not so bad.
Next confession:I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors wasJewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against.
That's what they are: Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "MerryChristmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a gh etto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebratingthis happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at allthat there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine
with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew,and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. Ihave no idea where the concept came from that Americais an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the
Constitution,and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the ideacome from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are
wondering where Nick and Jessica camefrom and where the America we knew went
to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another fora laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke;it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the EarlyShow and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this Happen?" (regarding Katrina)Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightfulresponse. She said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"
In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.
Then someone said you better not read the Bible inschool the Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank ourchildren when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what
he's talking about. And we said OK.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have noconscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace. Are you laughing?
