| The White House has scrubbed President Obama’s central pledge to the homosexual community from its website – his promise to quash the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
The president unveiled his pro-homosexual agenda on the White House website on Inauguration Day. Under the “Civil Rights” section, he called for the repeal of the act signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996 after an overwhelming bipartisan vote in Congress 342-67 and 85-14. The Defense of Marriage Act provides that federal laws must be interpreted in accord with the traditional definition of marriage as the union of husband and wife. The following is the original language posted on the White House website as Obama took office…. |
“Abortion Is a Blessing”
This is quite the sermon. 😥
Here’s one paragraph, as reported by the UK’s Telegraph
| I want to thank all of you who protect this blessing – who do this work every day: the health care providers, doctors, nurses, technicians, receptionists, who put your lives on the line to care for others you are heroes — in my eyes, you are saints; the escorts and the activists; the lobbyists and the clinic defenders; all of you. You’re engaged in holy work. |
😯
Little Things
Some of the little things we saw on our Mother’s Day “cruise” on Saturday:
It may be mostly green, but I think that’s really pretty.
Spunky little plants!
We saw these little red “warts” on a bunch of different leaves.
Pretty, too — as ants go.
As I recall, these were all taken at Newport’s Yaquina Bay State Park (or is it Yaquina Head State Park?).
Why Do Good?
“Why does God want us to do good works?” asked the preacher yesterday morning.
I had a “new” answer pop into my head. But before that, another photo from the Mother’s Day excursion Ruby and I took the day before Mother’s Day.
Food banks are a great way to do good. And when they have coffee at interstate rest areas, they do even more good! If Hubbard (Oregon) has no food bank, perhaps our congregation (Hopewell Mennonite Church, two miles distant) should start one.
Anyway, may God bless and prosper the Jefferson-Scio-Crabtree Food Bank as well as those who make it work. And thanks for the good coffee!
Now, back to the question: “Why does God want us to do good works?”
And what popped into my head: Because He wants us to have faith!
| “Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone” (James 2:17). |
Mother’s Day Jaunt
Yesterday I took Ruby out to the Oregon Coast. Usually we just go out to Lincoln City. This time we went to Newport via Corvallis so we could go on the route her family would take when she was a Child Yet At Home.
We stopped in at Toledo to visit her Mom’s very active eighty-year-old cousin Wilma. When we got there, we interrupted her work. She was out on her riding mower, mowing a vast expanse of yard.
After that we went on to Newport. One of our stops there was Yaquina Bay State Park:
But before Toledo and before Newport, we were at Philomath. We were past the turning spot before we saw it, so we turned around and went back to it: Southern Pacific Caboose 1160.
Well, folks, this morning I used Paint Shop Pro and two pictures I took on our jaunt to make a simple little Mother’s Day card for Ruby. Here are the two images I used:
(If you click the images, you should see the more complete pictures from which they came.)
That was a really nice 250-mile, 10-hour trip Ruby and I took together. We definitely enjoyed it very much. We didn’t do anything super special for our meals. In Philomath we bought snack wraps at McDonalds. In Newport we bought a foot-long sub at Subway. And in Salem we bought (at McDonalds) fish sandwiches, fries, two pies, a McFlurry, and a milkshake.
Oh, and in Depoe Bay we bought half a pound of salt water taffy.
An Unhappy Beginning
I had finished doing my coffee, loosing the dog, powering up my computers, and reading my Bible. Read it all
Yeah…
…but what was I going to post?
Oh, that’s right! The title was going to be, “I Spit on It!” — but I’m not yet ready to post that one.
An earlier title for an earlier post: Self Living? — it was to be a follow-up to an overheard comment, “Everyone at ____ just lives for themselves.” I didn’t get that one done either.
So I’ll just tell you that I’m off to a slow start today. But I did post a Mexico flower picture and thought over at Panting Hart.
And I did have two cups of mild coffee. And there’s a cup of mint tea a-brewin’.
And I added more words to my email’s anti-spam blacklist, among them these: tips, crazy, pleasure.
See there — a riveting post, just like that! 🙄
Now for that tea….