#292: Twelve Days of Christmas

We at the Grey Havens have yet another Christmas Tradition in the making, even if it's only two years old. Starting with Thanksgiving, we watch all the movies we have with anything whatsoever to do with Christmas. That means the fare goes from Die Hard 1 & 2 to Scrooged to Miracle on 34th Street to Leathal Weapon to Ben Hur and Jesus of Nazareth...you know, the Reason for the Season! ;p
This year we started with Jeff Dunham's Christmas Special and have seen Die Hard and Creature Comforts Christmas. For you uninitiated, Creature Comforts is a British clay-mation series that puts animals' actions to voice over interviews "with the great British public." The Christmas one involves a humorous look at "The Twelve Days of Christmas" song which it would appear people like to sing but to which they never know all the words or the order.

I wanted to make sure I had the order and the words right, so I Googled "Twelve Days of Christmas" and came across this website that thoroughly educated me...[http://www.cresourcei. org/cy12days.html]
Today, rather than take the humorous low road I had intended to trek in this post, I'll take the high road (my version of the broad and narrow roads Jesus mentions) and simply post a summary of what the song supposedly represents and let you look up the site for the details.

The Twelve Days of Christmas from Christmas (12/25) to Epiphany (1/6):

1 Partridge in a Pear Tree = Christ
2 Turtle Doves = Old and New Testaments
3 French Hens = Faith, Hope, Love of 1 Corinthians 13
4 Calling Birds = Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
5 Gold Rings = Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
6 Geese Laying = Six Days of Creation
7 Swans Swimming = Seven Holy Spirit Gifts of Romans 12
8 Maids Milking = The Beatitudes of Matthew 5
9 Ladies Dancing = Fruit of the Spirit of Galatians 5
10 Lords Leaping = The Ten Commandments
11 Pipers Piping = The Faithful Apostles
12 Drummers Drumming = Twelve Points of the Apostles' Creed

Got the tune?

#291: If The Feng Shooey Fits

The other night Archangel and I were rocking in our rocking chairs in the Grey Havens, shootin' the breeze about this and that and the subject of Christmas stocking feng shui came up over the positioning of two Christmas stockings on the window sill. Should the toes face the same way? Was it too symmetrical? Was it competitive to have two with toes facing each other? Was it symbolic of a positive relationship of two folks instead of the traditional line-them-up-on-the-mantle-piece of most Christmas traditions? Is NOT having a Christmas Tradition a Christmas tradition among some folks?

Well, I decided to pronounce feng shui ("fung schway") as "feng shooey" to mimic the on-going linguistic dueling between two Chinese Zodiac tigers I know...sometimes it's like watching a one-claw sword fight between Shere Khan of "The Jungle Book" and Tigress of "Kung Fu Panda"... and concluded that, when decorating with Christmas stockings, if the shoeey fits, wear it! ;p
After all...the primary principle of feng shui is to engineer your environment the way you want it!!
Got air and water?

#290: Black Friday

Since today is Black Friday, the day of the fiscal year stores hope to get a jump start on economic prosperity, I suggest you stop by Ruby Tuesday for a Green salad, and then go back to shopping for some Red roses for your Blue lady, if you're a guy...or Opals, Rubies, Sapphires, or Diamonds.

If you drive by a Lutheran church, think "I see a Red door and I want it painted Black" by the Rolling Stones, think about buying some Orange clockworks to keep track of the time in your dysfunctional world, but don't get Blue on Blue as you mingle among a crowd in a Purple Haze. For your musician friends (did you ever notice that dropping the "r" makes "friends" "fiends"?!!), consider an Ebony and Ivory gift from Kurzweil or Steinway (just what does a stein weigh?), and avoid becoming King Crimson's 21st century schizoid man if you join a Blue Oyster Cult!!

If you run out of color-full ideas, just call the Rainbow Coalition for some p.c. thoughts and you might get the Color Purple, Red October, or Pale Rider as your movie-0f-the-day suggestions.
For all you young'uns who have no clue about a lot of the old-head song references...maybe you can check them out on YouTube...WHATEVER!!;p
Got Gold, Frankenstein, and Merry?

#289: Headbanger Christmas

Psalm 100 COMMANDS us to "make a joyful noise unto the Lord!!" Well, for those of you who have heard Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Christmas Attic" or "The Lost Christmas Eve" albums, you'll appreciate and understand the title of today's excerpt. For those of you who are damned near bored out of your skull by your current Christian walk...look to the Lord and ALL He is as well as all He's done for you (which should be enough to stir you up)...and then maybe put on some adrenalin pumping music to be obedient to Psalm 100...if you own any.

For those of you lucky enough to be within sound of Stonewalled Charismatic Presbyterian Church here in the bowels of The Big House at Camp Cornelius, stop on by the basement and join in the Thanksgiving Services that will be held periodically throughout this "day the Lord has made!!"

That's it for now...rejoice in the Lord always...again I will say, rejoice!

#288: God Caused The Real Holocaust

There, I've published it at last. The only thing is, The Holocaust was not just on the Jews during WWII where 6 million of them were exterminated. The Real Holocaust was the period from 1914-1945 where 15 million died during WWI, 40-100 million died in 1919 from the Spanish Flu Pandemic, and another 55 million died during WWII, including the 6 million Jews. "I will cause them to perish from the sword, famine, and pestilence" is the recurring phrase against ALL nations in the Book of Jeremiah as well as other prophets, if you need to look it up. One website among many with some documented stats is[ http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1 .htm# WW1].

The reason God Caused The Real Holocaust was that He was fed up with ALL the "Christian" nations of Europe and the Americas (which they never were in the first place...only pagan nations greatly influenced by the damn pushy Christians who got power in His Providence)...with their bare faced hypocrisy of man-worship, as well as with the outright atheist Communists in Russia, the Asian non-Christian nations, and on the Jews of the world for rejecting the Messiah He had sent in the first century Anno Domini (which title should be one tip-off of the reality). The above cited website also gives details for the over-all killing of the 20th Century, if you're interested...we ALL truly are Barbarians!! I choose to limit The Real Holocaust to the 31-year period to draw parallels to the Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648 because I've found out that the Thirty Years' War was supposedly the last religious war in history...yeah, right!

The Real Holocaust actually continues on into the Twenty-first Century in the results of world wide abortion. One email I got recently cited the Alan Guttmacher Institute's figures that about 1 BILLION babies have been killed in the last 20 years world-wide. Let's see, if we figure our current population of six billion, that's 16.6% of the human race killed by moms around the world. Think of all the wage earners we could have had to help support us in our old age if euthanasia doesn't gain popularity around the world.

So what's my point? Given that the Bible pretty clearly predicts things are going to continue to get worse before Christ returns, and given that Christians have been praying for that event, I'd say we'd better blame THEM for the mess we're in...especially in light of the fact that a large number of us are not being the salt and light we're called to be by the Great Commission. Heck, persecution worked during the Roman Empire to cause The Church to grow, so why not now?
Got One World Order?

#287: Assassination Day Ponderings

Forty-five years ago on this very day, I was playing volley ball in Morrison Elementary School's yard when we were herded into the gym by our teacher. We then found out that President John F. Kennedy had been shot not too long before that particular time. I vaguely remember several of the girls doing a lot of weeping and wailing. Can't say I was overly affected...hey, I was 12 and "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them." It just occurred to me as I was thinking about that day...it must have been moderately warm for a bunch of 12-year-olds to be outside in late November, 1963 playing volley ball for gym class...unlike the 25 degrees we're experiencing at the moment with a high of 33 coming, according to Yahoo Weather.

Well, I just learned yesterday that Hillary Rodham Clinton apparently is going to be our next Secretary of State, arguably the de facto second most powerful position in our government even though it is fourth in line of Presidential Succession behind the VP, Speaker of the House, and President Pro Tempore of the Senate (usually the senior member of the majority party). So, for you folks keeping track of such things, if President Barracks Obomber gets offed, the order of succession is Joe Biden-time, Nancy Italian-American Cali Girl Pelosi, Robert Byrdman of Alcatraz, and then Hillarity Clintonista. Since it would be politically incorrect to suggest any animosity among this group of political stars in our governmental heaven, I simple ask the question...
Got Night of the Long Knives?

Oh, yeah, yesterday I heard Glenn Beck talking with Jonah Goldberg, author of Liberal Fascism, who shows parallels in American Liberalism with Hitler and Mussolini in their rise to power and philosophies of government. Goldberg thinks America's not rooted in violence enough to become another Nazi (that stands for National Socialism!!) Germany, but Beck thinks it might be. Let me point out that the first Presidential assassination attempt in America was against Andrew Jackson on January 30, 1835...that would be 163 years ago. Let me note, too, that the "USofA" was begun with the American Revolution...8 years of armed warfare.
We've fought the War of 1812, the Seminole Wars, the War of Texas Independence, the Mexican American War, the Bleeding Kansas "war," the Civil War (check out God Caused the Civil War by yours truly through Inter-Library Loan at Westminster Seminary), the Indian Wars of the 1870s, the Spanish American War, WWI, WWII, the Korean War, the Viet Nam War, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, and the Iraqi-American War.

Seems to me we have enough history. Got Barbarians?

#286: Abstract Random Thoughts

I'm taking some off time and checking This Day in History. [http://www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi]
It says that Andrew Jackson was admitted to the bar on this day in 1787...would that be as a lawyer or alcoholic-prior-to-conversion?!! Did he have to set everyone up with a round?! Did they lower the bar to let him in or raise it BECAUSE he entered?!
In 1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times...was this before or after Foster's Beer was first brewed? (Before...Foster's came on the scene in the early 1970s.) My next question is WHY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In 1871 Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter...wasn't it bright enough? Did it have 30% less smoke? Why not "cigar igniter"...of course, you could only use it after dark...it would be an ig-dayer while the sun was up.
In 1933 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service...SERIOUSLY, NOW...why not simply spell his name Bullet so they got the point?!! And the "W.C."? EVERYBODY knows that's a British "water closet" found in one's "inner room!!" ;p
In 1990 Signing of Declaration of "End of Cold war" in Paris...FINALLY the REAL reason for Global Warming is discovered and revealed to all who want to know!!

Just think...sometime in the waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay distant future, some fool might include this post as something that happened Today in History!
Got Scary?

#285: The Universe Has Gas

Billions of years ago, it would appear, according to some twisted minds...ok, MY twisted mind... the Big Bang was a precursor to the beans-eating-scene in Mel Brooks' movie "Blazing Saddles." It seems that there's a galaxy not too far from here...a relative term, of course...that is "pumping out new stars faster than any neighborhood galaxies." (Would that be Mister BUCK Rogers' Neighborhood for you oldhead sci-fiers?!!)
In any event, it would appear this galaxy is further off than wiz-bang astronomers figgered AND it's among a group of 10 galaxies that, according to the article [http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20081120/sc_space/mysteryofrapidstarbirthsolved; _ylt=Alk7194W8 Ma2HADhDafqVG7
QOrg F] is doing some unusual stuff. "Gravitational interactions among the group's galaxies may be compressing gas in NGC 1569 (the culprit galaxy) and be igniting the star-birthing frenzy." You just have to be careful with that compressed gas stuff...ask Martin Luther with his saurkraut induced conditions!!

Well, to quote Malcolm Reynolds of "Firefly"..."My sky's getting awfully crowded!!" It still "declares the glory of God" for those of us providentially graced to be in on the realization of it all thanks to our election, lo, these many moons ago! So for all those Alliance types who refuse to see God in the universe, I say to us Browncoat Believers like Jayne Cobb of "Firefly" did..."LET'S MOON 'EM!! ;p
No power in the 'Verse can stop me?!!

#284: Billy Goat Black Hole

My buddy, Anonymousman, finagled a Billy Goat Leaf Vacuum outta the purse string pullers, using the valid argument that we'd save LOTS of time/money from the way I've been gathering leaves over the course of dang near a quarter century. The thing is really cool in that it grinds up the leaves into a medium fine mulch, so A-man's been dumping them down back beyond The Edge (my normal place of metaphysical hanging-out).

This afternoon it warmed up a bit to a whopping 35 degrees, so I grabbed a pitch fork and moved the large, high pile down into the massive depression we have over The Edge and was engulfed for about an hour in a large amount of natural steam coming off the pile that had gotten wet and began the natural fermentation process God engineered lo these many millenia ago. So if you see a black hole opening up in the southeast Pennsyltucky region on your national radars and the Global Warmists start freaking out...just blame me! By the way, the smell coming off the heap was GREAT!!!
Got au naturelle?

#283: I Love Bein' Me

Yep...that's another Bobism to add to the list and I can see Archangel raising two handfuls of slender fingers to indicate how many times she's heard me say that; especially lately! And when you think about it..."it" being the fact that we are to love the Lord wholeheartedly and our neighbor as ourselves as the two parts of the Greatest Commandments...you can't love your neighbor properly without loving yourself first!

Granted, you're a royal pain in the whahzoo most of the time, but if you've been regenerated in Christ, you've got His mind (1 Corinthians 2:15)...and His Spirit lives within you and is acting out part of your life (Galatians 2:20)...and Christ loves you as much as His Father loves Him (John 15:9), so you've got more than sufficient grace to work out your salvation into all the nooks and crannies of your Thomas's English Muffin of a life if you ASK Him to help you do it. Oh, yeah... you've also got Christ's perfect righteousness imputed to you because of Him, so quitcher damn whinging and get on with being in practice what you already are in position!

Got questions? Email me.

#282: REALLY Recession Proof Jobs

Well, I was just looking up the weather on Yahoo to see if we might get our first measurable snow today and came across a sidebar in the politics section about "Recession Proof" jobs...education, accounting/auditing, health care, I.T., and security. It seems to me they've left off a few in the "death care" category...mortician (for those who care to be The Boss) and cemetery worker (the trade in which I engaged during my college summers in the early 70's).

In fact, when I was doing some research on The Black Death a few years ago as a follow up book to God Caused the Civil War, I came across a quote (can't find it now, Danggit!) that said the plague came to London, started at Westminster, and there were not enough sextons to bury the dead...guess the family had job security then, Eh?!! I just located a quote from a site that gives the Historical Sources of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year that mentions the same thing.

I also came across a book review, The Great Plague by A. Lloyd Moote and Dorothy C. Moote. Think what they had to say were Moote Points?

One last thought...howcome pictures of The Grim Reaper appear that he's smiling with that classic Death's Head Grin? Think he knows something we don't? Oh, yeah...if he's the grim reaper, why's he got a grin? Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, Horatio!!
Got ring around the rosie?

#281: Canadian Questions

Here's the Canadian maple tree we've got at Camp Cornelius. Notice how the top half of the tree is leafless and the bottom full. While I was walking into the Library a question arose in my mind...since it's a Canadian maple, if I drop a hockey puck at the bottom of the tree, will all the remaining leaves suddenly all drop down in a frenzy to get to the puck?!!
Will they be elbowing each other in the corner? Do Maple leaves have elbows, considering "the leaves of the trees will clap their hands?!!" When something proves funny to the tree, does it give off Maple laughs instead of leaves? Remember, you Lord of the Rings fans, it was the elves that got the trees talking to each other, Eh?!
Got Baruurum?

#280: November 15th Thoughts

Yessirree, Bob...20,819 days ago I shuffled onto this mortal coil...supposedly after ONE incredible labor pain and shouting from the start, not needing my little tushy slapped!! (Those of you who know my reputation for noise here at Camp Cornelius will have NO problem swallowing this piece of oral history passed on electronically.) ;p

Well, back in 1917 Oswald Chambers died on this day from complications of an emergency appendectomy performed several days earlier. His stenographer wife, Gertrude, was responsible for turning her notes on his talks into the 34 books that eventually were published in his name. Today's entry in My Utmost for His Highest has an excellent thought:
"When you do have to give advice to another, God will advise through you with the direct understanding of His Spirit; your part is to be so rightly related to God that His discernment comes through you all the time for the blessing of another soul."

Danggit, as Elfson would say, I wish I would have said that! I guess the closest I get to it is when I try to encourage folks with the thought that, if God can speak to Balaam through a donkey, He can certainly use any one of us!!

Speaking of that, last week Archangel and I were discussing her one term paper on Deuteronomy 6:4-7, "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up." Well, it dawned on me for the first time in the 28 years I've been discussing Scripture that The Shema (as this passage is known) is The Great Commission of the Old Testament!!

Lookit this: Matthew 28:18-20, "And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, 'All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.'" If you check out the Greek, you find that the "go" is NOT the primary verb, but should be translated "while you're going"...making it parallel to the "when you..." part of The Shema. And, obviously, then, making disciples IS the primary verb (calling) for ALL Chrisitians wherever we are on the continuum from Mom-booting-us-out to Grim Reaper-collecting-us!!

Well, I'm getting choked up by the music from Lord of the Rings where they've just left Moria without Gandalf. He did have a piece of good advice to Frodo while they were inside, however. Regardless of the times, "all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Got someone in mind to disciple?

#279: Mr. Lists

Mr. Lists was the name one of my former employees gave me many years ago based on his observation of my concrete/sequential lifestyle. FYI...he left my employ of his own volition due to the fact that he did NOT have maintenance man karma!! (Law enforcement seemed to be his heart's desire at the time...guess he had a yen for doughnut feng shui?!!) ;p

Well, I've just been checking back over the last 18 years at how much snow plowing I've done here in the Philly area in my continuing quest to know more and to blow a hole in the Global Warming Balloon the Loons propagate. (This information quest has been a slight tangent to posting items in my Projects File as Physicalplantman, by the way.) Here's the list as I have it:

1990-2, 1991-4, 1992-2, 1993-5, 1994-12, 1995-6, 1996-6 1997-5, 1998-1, 1999-5,
2000-5, 2001-4, 2002-0, 2003-10, 2004-8, 2005-13, 2006-9, 2007-9, 2008 so far-4 (two months to go).

Do you notice that the second decade generally equaled or exceeded the previous one in need to plow snow?!! This year has four times as many with more to come, I suppose, before the end of December, based on woolly bear caterpillar coloration I've observed and the fact that different parts of the USofA are getting hit with snow already this season.
Got snow shovel?

#278: Geese and Such Like

This morning I noticed that a new red towel graced the rack at the Grey Havens' Inner Room, along with some green towels on the back of the door. Well, being ME, I thought... "Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat, please put a penny in the old man's hat. If you haven't got a penny a ha'penny will do, if you haven't got a ha'penny, well, God Bless You!" For you young'uns, this was a ditty from years gone by that probably dates back to the nineteenth century in merry old England.

Soooo...then it was Hoban Washburne's line from "Firefly" that intruded next: "About six months before I met you [that would be his now-wife, Zoe], I was on a moon where the chief pastime was juggling geese...baby geese...goslings!!"

Now it's "his goose is cooked." Well, it obviously means "all hope is gone," but where'd the phrase originate? Can't seem to find it. Well, now, let's hear it for research and time to myself. Seems one site [http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/10-5-2001-5067.asp] addressing traditional Irish wedding stuff notes that the couple cooks a goose at her place before the wedding and call it "Aitin' the gander" in his honor...hence, "his goose is cooked." ;p

Well, there it is. (Thank you, Emperor Joseph from "Amadeus.")

#277: Armistice

Today in 1918, as family history had it, Pop Murray was on a train to Dough Boy boot camp and was told to "get off" because the Armistice for World War I had been signed. The hand grenade casing on my office desk is a family heirloom from his days working at a malleable fittings foundry that retooled to make grenade casings and shell casings.

In any event, what WAS Christian Presbyterian President Woodrow Wilson thinking when he described the conflagration that took 40 million lives in 4 years as a "war to end all war?!!" He was raised as a Bible believing Christian and certainly could discern that there will NEVER be peace until the Lord returns, and then peace will only be for His Elect unto salvation. Those who spend eternity in Hell will have NO peace...EVER!!

Oh, by the way, the Lord struck down somewhere between 40-100 million the next year with the Spanish Flu Pandemic. The stats are so widely variant because of the miserable way statistics were kept around the world "back in the day" but the resultant death rate knocked out a larger portion of humanity proportionately with pestilence than with "the sword" of WWI.

Wikipedia further states that WWII killed off 70 million people as the deadliest conflict in human history. Gee, 40 + 70 (an average) + 70 = 180 million in 30 years. From '73 to today Mom's have killed 1 billion babies through abortion worldwide. Don't think we're gonna seen an Armistice between God and us for some time as a species, given His proscriptions against sin in the Bible. Guess we'll have to settle for individual peace treaties signed with the Blood of the Lamb and applied to us in His time and way.
Got yours?

#276: Happy Birthday, Marty and Marine Corps

Yessiree, Bob...today in 1483 Martin Luther got his little tushy smacked by some Kraut physician to begin a life that led to The Reformation and an overturning of the world for centuries to come. Nice work, Momma Luther and Herr Doktor!! I'll drink to that with some knockwurst (did little Marty get "knocked for the wurst" that day?!) ;P

The Marine Corps...OOORAH, OOORAH...came into being on this day in 1775. Notice that it existed before the Declaration of Independence was signed and The USofA was declared free and clear of nasty old England! (Oh, the proper pronunciation of "USofA" sounds like "Mustapha" (a good Islamic name) or "YouSapha"..."Sapha" being a local dialectical pronunciation of Suffer...in these editorial blurbs that may or may not change anything. If you can't figger out why, click on the url for my gmail and ask.)

Well, the work day needs to start. I've got trees to cut and firewood to create. It's gonna be a long, cold winter this year...probably brought about by Global Warming and wooly bear caterpillars' habits of coloration.

#275: Hornswoggled

Yep, we've been hornswoggled by Christian groups who don't want to see that the Lord is working out His will in answer to the prayers of millions of Christians worldwide. Oh, for those who don't recognize that circa 1829 word, it means "to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax."

How many of you have prayed "Thy Kingdom come on earth..." over the last decades? Well, in case you've misread or not read the Bible here of late, the one world government and anti-Christ NECESSARILY precede Christ's return. I've just gotten "we-gotta-change-things" emails from several para-church organizations...you know, the ones doing the work the Church should be about...who want me to financially support them AND get my knickers in a twist about the awful events upcoming.

One wants money so it can argue against various evils on the docket of the Supreme Court. One points out that President-elect Obama will be completely supportive of abortion not only here in the USofA, but with American taxpayer monies to be sent around the world to U.N. sponsored countries killing off their babies. Oh, the Alan Guttmacher Institute apparently has calculated that 1 BILLION babies have been aborted worldwide in the last 20 years. For you stats buffs, that means 16% of the human race has been killed by Moms and Their Helpers.

A third email let me know that Barracks Obomber will be doing everything in his power to get the United States cooperating with the One World Government Movement. Well, I'm reading through Jeremiah these days and Chapter 29 at breakfast this morning seems providentially placed along side of these emails. Seems to me we Christians should be praying, "Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War, Father!!"

My advice to anyone reading this is to hunker down and get ready for the storm that seems to be upon us after centuries of God cutting us a break as a nation and as a world.
Well, that's my humble opinion...presupposing I can even have one, that is.

#274: Donkeys

There once was a prophet named Balaam who talked to a female donkey in Numbers 22 when he caved to pressure to curse God's people for profit. This profitless prophet, though he could not see the Angel of the Lord (Jesus in a pre-incarnate state), didn't consider it extra-ordinary to be talking to his donkey.

Jesus, the True Messiah, rode into Jerusalem on the first Palm Sunday, not on a full-size donkey, but on a donkey sub-compact, according to Zechariah 9:9 and the Gospel accounts recording it.

Should it surprise anyone that America's new Messiah should be head of the Talking Donkey Party?!!

Just thought I'd ask.

#273: Givers and Takers

There are two types of people in the world, Givers and Takers.
Givers share of their time, money, resources, and lives with just about anyone.
Takers ingratiate themselves with Givers and get whatever they can until they're found out. They move through the world relieving Givers of whatever is available and irritate the living daylights out of some of us when the light bulb brightens over our thick skulls.

A friend agrees pretty much except he feels there is one Giver...then Sharers of that which has been given to them, and then Takers. He also has the audacity to remind me of what I already know about being called to certain tasks in this life as a Sharer. Sometimes, knowing Scripture and being reminded of it sucks.

Just thought I'd share that. Got perseverance?

#272: 10pm

Aint usually in front of the computer this time of night. Thinking about going Facebook Walkabout; which, if you're Australian is understandable but probably against the rules announcing it. If you're "other" you don't know what the hoohah I mean, and that doesn't really matter either.
Started watching the Lord of the Rings Trilogy for the 34th time...maybe I do need parents.
At this rate, what do you care what I say?
Got matilda?