Mornin', everybody ! Happy Thursday !
LOL. That one's a keeper for sure.
Great layout, Aqua. You're gettin' really good at this. It'll certainly carry a lot of weight going into salary negotiations with Billie.
Welcome back, JH2. I've been in a funk - now I know why. No "two cents" for two weeks.
Mornin', everybody ! Happy Thursday !
Read: Hebrews 11:8-10
By faith [Abraham] dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country. —Hebrews 11:9
Bible In One Year: Genesis 20-22; Matthew 6:19-34
Now that I'm getting closer to the end of life's journey, I'm thinking more like a transient. I suppose it's natural. Abraham first described himself as "a foreigner and a visitor" when he was buying a burial plot for Sarah (Genesis 23:4). Time and death make you think about such things.
Most elderly believers say the same thing: There's no home for us this side of heaven. Like Pilgrim in Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, once we've caught sight of the Celestial City we can never be content with anything less. Like Abraham, we look for a city whose builder is God (Hebrews 11:10).
In Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings, as Frodo and the other hobbits set out on their great adventure, they sing, "Home is behind, the world ahead." But for Christians, it's the other way around: The world is behind; our home is ahead.
There are no valleys of weeping there, for "God will wipe away every tear from [our] eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away" (Revelation 21:4). That promise makes the present journey easier to endure.
Put another way, it's the hope of going home that keeps me going. I can hardly wait to get there! —David Roper
Gotta hand it to ya, John, for limiting your essays to just two cents' worth, considering the depths of the Democratic Gene Pool.
After you swish aside the scummy film and see all the way down to these bottom feeders, exactly what is your criteria for selection for material?!!
The press is overlooking all kinds of descriptive phrases that come to conservative minds, peering into the murky waters - why, with these candidates, they should be shouting about the "Cate Gates"!!!:
- Equivocate Gate
- Obfuscate Gate
- Fabricate Gate and
- Prevaricate Gate
Cutting my eye teeth on the American Legends of Burma Shave signs on the highways and byways, I see all along the Cyber Highways of America the Campaign Slogans of the Dem IwannabePresident Wannabeeez...
Dean: Love Thy Terrorists and turn the other cheek. I plan to appoint Mark Geragos to defend Saddam Hussein, there being no WMD's to present at his court trial.
(by the way - his jury will be comprised of nothing but the best of the Hollywood Peace At No Cost Set)
Kerry: I propose a meat loaf for every family, complete with a bottle of catsup, not unlike the blood I almost had to spill when I SERVED IN VIETNAM.
Clark: WHAT Quagmire in Bosnia? I left it totally rebuilt and neighbors loving neighbors with my leadership, despite what the other Generals had to say about me.
Edwards: Vote For Me and receive free of charge my Top Ten List of Firms to Successfully Sue in Frivolous Lawsuits...
Kucinich: When I become President of The Universe, I shall appoint E.T. to replace Kofi Anan at the U.N., and Mary Poppins as Surgeon General of the UNunited States of Ohoho.
Coming in the Home Stretch here, JH, with The Showdown about to take Center Stage for the Nine Stooges.
All those voters' minds are a terrible thing to fill with sawdust...sighing...
Love ya and whatcha do, JH...
I'm late getting here and I can't stay, but better late than never, huh?
As always, I thoroughly enjoyed your Two Cents, John. Love your humor and insight. :-)
I need to finish getting tomorrow's post ready, so must go. I will see you all bright and early in the morning.
(((((((((JH2)))))))))))
