For Myself as much as anyone.............

Our opinions, like our salvation, must be worked out with fear and trembling.
- Peter van Inwagen

Wordless Days

O.K. here is another one I blundered across. Wordless Days. No words, just pictures and some of them are simply outstanding. I enjoy a good picture book as much as I do a good novel (isn't that where photo albums originated?) Give it a peek, I think you will find some of her pictures lovely, and the blog is most aptly titled.

Fall Days

Fall is here, and with all the mowing I've been doing I am very aware of the changes in nature. We don't get the wonderful color of the mapels in this part of the world, but we do have some of our own color. (Can you believe I didn't eat one of these beauties)
The Neighbors apple tree.....

Heavy with apples.......


Some color in our back yard




The taaalll bluestem

Vote Smart

O.K. you know how I am always telling you to "do your homework" on who you are going to vote for? (Sorry, years of being a homeschooling mom) Here is the link to the website with the candidates voting records. Just click on the title of this blog, Vote Smart, and it will take you there. You can pull up the issue you are most interested in how they voted.
You will receive a grade, but there will be no test:)

A Joke

Thank you Queen Latifah!

A finicky diner asks her waiter, "How do you prepare your chicken?"
The waiter says, "Nothing special, miss. We just tell them straight they're going to die."

I'm sorry, but THAT is funny :)

You can't legislate morality....or something like that

There is a big discussion going on in the city of Emporia right now about banning smoking in public places. Everyone has thier side, and opinion, but I did find one friend of ours, a woman who grew up in Romanina during the overthrow of Ceauşescu, interesting. She knows what it is to live in a Communist country and be controlled by the govt. She has a daughter that her father has only seen one time, be cause she hasn't been back to Romania since the baby was born 4 years ago, and her father isn't permitted to come to the United States because he still works, her mother is considered retired thus can come and visit.
Our friend stated the other night at a dinner she was attending that she didn't feel they should ban smoking in public places. Now at a dinner table of Conservative Christions when she said it you could have heard a pin drop. Needless to say, she was encouraged to explain her statement. She continued, "That's how it happens. First they take your right to smoke in public places, then they take your guns." You really couldn't argue with her logic, she had seen it happen first hand. She has a valid point, but lets take that to the abortion issue (ooo Hot topic!) First they take your rights of what you do to your own body, and then they take your guns. Isn't that what the abortion advocates would say?
I always like to travel back in time, so lets take a little trip. What if they controlled your choice to get pregnant in the first place (like China), that would do away with the NEED for abortion. Just like if they banned cigaretts all together no one would smoke, then the issue of smoking in public places would be mute wouldn't it? How far can we take this?
We as Christians tell people that God is a gentleman, and will not force you to love him. It is a choice. Maybe you don't think you can compare God's love to wanting a cigarette, or having an abortion but believe me with the thinking out there now a days, there are people that do.
You know what they say. You can't legislate morality......or something like that.