Cell Phones Are Evil

Unplug people! Geez! We all have ADD!  Bishop Terry was right; cell phones are evil. I'll say it again:  The Desert Fathers had it right.

Called?

Things are changing. I can see it.  The folks might be moving away again. Chandra will be off to school in under a year.  This frees me up for change.  I don't know why God called me to St. Paul's--and I do believe that He called me there.  I can't see rhyme nor reason as they say.  With the Church and I on diverging paths (they say they want diversity, but in reality they want only people who think like they do), and all the lip service paid to tolerance, it will become increasingly difficult to stay in a Church that doesn't really want me.  Oh, sure, whey want me in the pew; but, they want me far from the reins of power.  Where now LORD?

Sailor at Heart

I think that I was born with the soul of a sailor.

Hard to See the Dark Side is?

They say the greatest trick The Devil ever pulled off was to convince the world he doesn't exist.  Similarly, I wonder if true evil (the spiritual evil that leads to our evil acts) becomes harder to see the more evil we become.

Sub Hunter

One Sunday after Church, Cindy and I went out for lunch to a fish place.  As we were getting up to leave, an old guy (late 80s I'm thinking) said, "Excuse me, what's that button," referring to my Bishop's award.  I told him what it was, that I didn't deserve it but they gave it to me anyway.  He said that he thought it was an anchor and that I might be a sailor, to which I replied that I wished I was.  His wife said at this point that her husband was in the navy in the UK.  I replied, "You were in the Royal Navy then!"  I asked him when and he said '43 'till the end of the war.  I then asked him what ship, and he named a destroyer, said he was stationed in the Indian Ocean.  I foolishly said that I didn't know that we--allied forces--operated in the Indian Ocean (which I much later realized that I did know).  He explained that they were hunting subs.  I asked him if they had a carrier--which must have irked a destroyer sailor from the lower deck--to which he replied that they did.  All this happened as the waitress was impatiently waiting to get by to give somebody their bill or something.  The last thing I said before I turned and walked away was, "Thank you for your service!"  He looked genuinely shocked.  I hope I made his day.  God bless our veterans.

Bias

I really hate how social media censors opinions that aren't politically correct or don't fit with their left leaning agenda; it's not just the media and the education system that have a left leaning bias. 

Equality?

Do we want equality, or special rights for certain people?