I know that I am behind, technology-wise (and in many other areas too!), but J.T. and I just toured the world on Google earth and it is the coolest thing that I have ever seen. If you haven’t gone there, you have GOT to do the Grand Canyon thing! Try it! Also, does anyone have any great web-sites that they have found and want to share???
By the way, no, this isn’t how we spend our time at the church, and yes, I do work (sometimes).
I was reading a blog on Jips Journal (I wish that I could link this, but I still can’t do it. I know, Dolan has told me several times how to do it, but I still can’t get it right! Anyway, try to visit there if you can, there are some great things there!) and it got me to thinking about people in general and I was wondering, does anyone feel like people are changing (for the worse I mean)? I watch my youth struggling with different problems and is seems that most of them have something in common: kids just being downright mean! Am I remembering wrong or did the kids that your grew up with at least have some loyalty? I know, we could be pretty mean to each other, but from the things that I am hearing from other parents, kids don’t really know what friendship means anymore. The concept of sacrificing for a friend, or standing with them, or standing up for them is almost foreign to them, unless it is to hurt another youth. I know that youth have much more potential and they can certainly worship much better than I could when I was growing up, so I am not saying that everything is wrong with them, but this just seems to stand out to me. Am I wrong? Is my view slanted? I would love to hear what other adults think. And one more question . . . Are adults following suit?
Alright, its not a front porch unless you get into a political discussion sooooo . . .
I am struggling right now with the illegal immigrant debate. On the one hand I am trying to see the side of love and grace and amnesty. On the other I am having a hard time getting around the word “illegal.” I know that these people want a better life, but doesn’t the fact that they are breaking the law have to count for something? The only thing that keeps us from chaos is our laws and our adherence to them. If we can start choosing which laws we will abide by and which we won’t, then we are going down a very slippery slope that I’m not sure we want to go down. If we do, I don’t think we can ever go back up again. If it is a bad law, we change it, but we enforce it until it is changed. I don’t particularly like the tax system as it is now, and it would help give my family a better life if I chose to ignore it, but it is the law (hopefully it will be changed and done better in the future) and I must abide by it.
I could very well be wrong on this issue. Please comment.
I’m sorry I haven’t sat down on the porch for a while. I have sat out in the yard listening, but haven’t come up to contribute lately.
I just want to say from the outset that I have realized that I am one of those people that HATE change! Elizabeth is fixing to (boy am I Southern!) graduate, our family dynamics may be changing drastically (don’t worry, Karon and I are fine), and several other things are in the works and I DON’T LIKE CHANGE! Is that part of the allure of heaven, that things that you love won’t go out of your life, or change? I think about the people that have gone out of my life and it really makes me sad. They haven’t died, they are just “out of my life” for lack of a better description. Some have moved, I have moved, circumstances have changed, etc. I’m thankful for the people that have come in, but I don’t like it when people go out. Maybe that is why I spoke of the “new country” earlier. It would be great for everyone to make our own country and no one could move away (does that sound a little like communist Russia?). Oh well, I guess I’m just feeling a lot of emotions and I need to let it out. I DON’T LIKE CHANGE! (Have I said that already?) Well, now I’m sounding like Deanna so . . .