G’day folks… Sorry… the brain apparently had a melt-down late in the day… and … I lost my shovel?
Shovel? You were working the polls – not patching the road!
After 12 hours with the polls open… -- helping set up, trying to speed take down & clean up (for two *different* polling place the mechanics of wrapping up the electronic communications just dried up… all I can seem to put together is ‘sorry.’ I’ll have to do better next time. By Thursday perhaps, this complicated election picture will begin to emerge from the fog of battle – or maybe take longer. I saw Karl Rove and Joe Trippe (of all people) exchanging barbs and points late in the evening on FOX NEWS. It wasn’t pretty.
The best I can make of it is everybody tried – some succeeded and some failed – we’re starting a new chapter.
Right now I can’t see how the deleted long-term congressmen in the House and – not as many as had been forecast in the Senate -- are going to have a bitter, biting and divisive December. It won’t be a joyful Christmas season this year in Mudville. But – unless the Lord wills it – neither will it signal the end of the world.
What will it be? Like I say bitterness will be the theme of the Senate and the Executive Branch located at
Even a casual reading of the Holy Scriptures brings us to such a conclusion. My main reference point, I suppose, is the history of our government’s monumental struggle *after* the surrender at Yorktown – when the British retreated, but certainly didn’t like their bitter medicine – but they survived AND we survived, even through the confusing days of the “Articles of Confederation” and the various hostile conflagrations that beset the first century of the newly birthed nation – the LORD brought us through.
HE never runs us through the same “movie” twice. There are new people, new issues, new successes as well as new kinds of failures. Out of the bloody ashes of the “Un-civil” War –
Just within the past week, I read a fairly short article about Christianity and its’ rocky course – the theme sentence and title (as I recall was) ‘Grace Changes Everything.’ The more I think that over and run several historical and Biblical sequences through my years of experience and the grace God has given our family – the more convinced I am it is true!
So – buck up
Trust in HIM all ye people. God bless you.
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
Delayed audio link:
“JUST A MINUTE”
WHAT’S IN THE OFFING NOW?
MizP: JUST A MINUTE: – Mr. Jack – Ahm awful disappointed ‘bout the ‘lection.
Jack: You are Miz Pearl? I’m sorry. What’s so disappointing?
MizP: Jist let Homer tell you.
Jack: Homer?
Homer: We’uns thot thangs was a-gonna git s’much better – an now our balloon is popped….
BB: Yeah, plumb dee-flated Mr. Jack.
Jack: That bad eh Billybob….
MizP: Well ‘course hit punishes Mr. Beelie – b’cause he was a-countin’ on bein’ close ta Mr. DeMint’s crowd.
Jack: I guess I don’t understand.
Homer: See we’s all bin a-countin’ on Mr. Dee Mint bein’ purty successful an …
MizP: An th’ plain truf is we-all was a-hopin’ ta be successful wif him.
BB: Ah don’t thank hit’s rite ta be a- tawkin like this in public – on th’ air…
MizP: Well – where else we gonna tawk ‘bout hit?
Jack: OK … for starters – have you talked to the Lord about it?
BB: You mean… God?
Jack: That’s exactly who I mean – what do you say Miz Pearl?
MizP: Well… Ah … ah DO tawk wif th’ Lawd… but – well He don’t seem ta tawk back.
Jack: Tell you what suppose we get t’gether and explore all this – what we’ve been wanting – and why?
MizP: That-ut souns good ta me. ...
BB: Yeah… I reckon… but hit’s kinda like readin’ tea leaves.
Jack: No I’m talking about reading the Bible together and seeing what the Lord has to say to us through that.
Homer: Well, Ah fer one, am fer hit… Ah never did thank much of Wee-gie boards.
Jack: But see, Homer… at the root of what we’ve been talking of so far is – how is it going to benefit me?
MizP: Yeah… Ah reckon you done put yo finger on hit Mr. Jack.
Jack: See prayer to God isn’t like putting money in a slot machine and hoping something beneficial will result.
MizP: But tha’t mos often how we prays ain’t hit.
BB: You rite… most often.
Homer: Whut kin we do ‘bout hit?
Jack: Oh well,,, between us – let’s start a little weekly study of Timothy.
BB: Timothy who?
MizP: You know Mr. Bill… They’s two books in th New Testamint named fer him.
Homer: Ackshully they was letters th’ ‘Postle Paul wrot to his son in th’ Gospel Timothy.
BB: Yew want us’ns ta read books?
Jack: At least think it over… and we’ll be back next week to see how you’ve done. I’m Jack Buttram.
(END)
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