<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860</id><updated>2011-04-21T12:45:10.004-07:00</updated><category term='Politics'/><title type='text'>WAXING ELOQUENTLY !</title><subtitle type='html'>God sits in the Heavens and does as He pleases,
 no one can stop Him or say what are You doing. 
Bless the Lord O my Soul and all that is within 
me Bless His Holy Name!
                  Hail Sovereign Lord.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>17</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-5463151619040533135</id><published>2008-02-10T15:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-10T15:37:38.053-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'>Have We Been Invaded by the Left?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Sometimes when an enemy wants to defeat it's foe, it plants spies inside the ranks of it's enemies to spy out their liberty and do what ever it can to destroy from within. I wonder how many of these McCain nay-sayers, whose comments are everywhere, are leftist disguised as disgruntle conservatives and are yanking our chains with their rhetoric. After all, what is more important in this election, to go with Ann Coulter, who in my opinion typifies the pundits folly; for the pundit thinks, no, believes he can speak as an authority, which is his folly. So do we follow Ms. Coulter down the drain and vote for a true leftist, either Clinton or Obama, and willingly  turn the cess pool that our country has become into an artesian well of filth?  Or do  we prevent this by voting for the "conservative" who may be somewhat liberal,  but,  never-the-less, way  to the right of his opponents.  Is it better to have all of nothing or some of something? reading the opinion articles and then checking out the comments posted I have come to believe most of these "I'll never vote for McCain" comments are from leftist who are disguised as conservatives and their main purpose is to sow discord. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;As for Dr. Dobson, I know he is a conservative, albeit misguided, and he is acting somewhat hypocritical on this because he sends out a clarion call for Evangelicals to stand up for the unborn, to be proactive with regards to the state of our nation and then says he will sit out the election if McCain is the nominee.  What's up with that?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-5463151619040533135?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/5463151619040533135/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=5463151619040533135&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/5463151619040533135'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/5463151619040533135'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2008/02/have-we-been-invaded-by-left.html' title='Have We Been Invaded by the Left?'/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-8627467577228043125</id><published>2008-02-08T17:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-08T17:59:03.671-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'>What's wrong with this picture?</title><content type='html'>Some conservatives, who think of themselves as ultra conservative, are willing, because of their hatred for John McCain, to give the White House to liberals.  I am no McCain lover, but one thing I know, his rating is 85% conservative and Obama was voted the number one liberal in the country, and Hillery is only slightly to the right of Obama. So what is wrong with this picture? Are we so stupid, or filled with hatred that we can not see the hand writing on the wall? The cess pool that America has become because of liberals, will become an artisian well of filth when they are in control.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-8627467577228043125?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/8627467577228043125/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=8627467577228043125&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/8627467577228043125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/8627467577228043125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2008/02/whats-wrong-with-this-picture.html' title='What&apos;s wrong with this picture?'/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-115419650093374400</id><published>2006-07-29T11:00:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T11:08:20.933-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Is this a Global war or a regional War on Terror</title><content type='html'>If this is indeed a global war on terror, why is Israel fighting on this front alone? I for one think there should be American troops, along with troops from every freedom loving country there helping Israel. Evil needs to be destroyed no matter the cost. Why do we not say as David said (&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;1 Samuel 17:45 "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the LORD will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. 47 All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give all of you into our hand)&lt;/span&gt; The problem is that we have leaders who believe in their human powers to overcome evil. We have scoffers and scorners who mouth words about faith, but know nothing of living faith. God is not impotent, but He will not honor empty faith.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-115419650093374400?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/115419650093374400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=115419650093374400&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/115419650093374400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/115419650093374400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2006/07/is-this-global-war-or-regi_115419650093374400.html' title='Is this a Global war or a regional War on Terror'/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-115401035465952173</id><published>2006-07-27T06:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-27T22:30:58.420-07:00</updated><title type='text'>No Moral Compass</title><content type='html'>Once there was a nation, founded on the principals of Christianity. It grew and prospered and became a mighty land. God blessed it to become the most influential nation in the history of the world. Its military was in a class by its self, its wealth was not equaled by any other nation. 95 % of the technology in use in the world came from the great minds of this nation. Although this nation did not have a state mandated religion, Christianity was the national religion. This nation worshipped the true God, and He honored that worship, blessing it beyond all the nations on the earth. The nation languished in its prosperity, might and influence and while it slept decay crept into its midst. Freedom, the hallmark of this nation permitted the entry of idolatrous religions, freedom permitted sensuality to become the national pastime, freedom allowed marriage to be redefined, and murder in the womb abounded. Things done in secret were now done in the open. Things that were shameful were now touted as the right to choose. What was bad became good and good became bad. The nations is America, our moral compass is broken, we are immersed in a cesspool of depravity. The goats on the left, the sheep on the right; if allowed the goats will trample down all the pasture and the sheep will be found no more. Pray for a great awakening.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-115401035465952173?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/115401035465952173/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=115401035465952173&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/115401035465952173'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/115401035465952173'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2006/07/no-moral-compass.html' title='No Moral Compass'/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-115155673577135305</id><published>2006-06-28T21:38:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-28T21:52:15.773-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where is the America I grew up in? There were problems then, but people worked together to solve the problems. The hate and vitriol of today did not exist. True the nation was rife with prejudice, and difficulties, but we were working to solve those problems and pretty much did that. Religion used to be Christian, Catholic, and Jewish, now we are flooded with many types of religions, the land is polluted with worship of all types. The founders of the country were either Christian or Deist, the Christians wanted to build a nation that honored the God of the Scriptures, the Deist believed the God of the Bible was the true God, but did not believe He had a role in daily life, but together they built the nation allowing for freedom of religion. Was that freedom meant to allow foreign gods in our midst? Or was it freedom to worship in the different denominations, i.e.: Baptist versus Methodist versus Presbyterian, etc? Reading of history suggest those were the differences they tried to eliminate. A review of the history of this nation tells a compelling tale of a nation blessed by God because of its Christian heritage. Equally, as we move away from the God of Scripture, we lose those blessings. The more inclusive we are of foreign religions, the more we see evidence of God abandoning the nation. A study of Scripture will confirm that as Israel abandoned the true God for the foreign gods, Scripture clearly states that rejecting God resulted in the loss of wars, and horrible natural conditions such as plagues, famines and droughts. When Israel returned to the God of Scripture, they were again blessed with victory in battle, and with plenty. It seems plain to me, that we as a nation need to return to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, The God who died for our sins. I pray to God for a great awakening in this century as in the 18th century. It’s been a long time coming, But I pray that God will save this nation soon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-115155673577135305?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/115155673577135305/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=115155673577135305&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/115155673577135305'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/115155673577135305'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2006/06/what-is-wrong-with-america_115155673577135305.html' title=''/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-114982571258826918</id><published>2006-06-08T21:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-08T21:01:52.600-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Evil Removed</title><content type='html'>Today Al Zarqawi stood before the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.&lt;br /&gt;He discovered that  he faced YHWH and there were no virgins, and no&lt;br /&gt;heaven, only a very hot seat in hell. Today evil incarnate was removed&lt;br /&gt;from the earth. I pray God will deliver Bin Laden and Zawahiri into our&lt;br /&gt;hands next. Glory and praise to the one true God. YHWH!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-114982571258826918?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/114982571258826918/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=114982571258826918&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/114982571258826918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/114982571258826918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2006/06/evil-removed.html' title='Evil Removed'/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-114835314973127122</id><published>2006-05-22T19:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-22T21:57:56.853-07:00</updated><title type='text'>An Open Letter to the President</title><content type='html'>Images from a recent peaceful Muslim demonsration in London&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4732/1042/1600/peaceful%202.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 148px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 172px" height="223" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4732/1042/320/peaceful%202.jpg" width="127" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4732/1042/1600/peaceful%204.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 143px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 172px" height="106" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4732/1042/320/peaceful%204.jpg" width="143" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4732/1042/1600/peaceful%205.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 250px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 172px" height="146" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4732/1042/320/peaceful%205.jpg" width="250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wrote this letter to President Bush several weeks ago and then wondered if I should send it. I waited and decided to pray about it to be certain I should. It still has not been sent to him so I thought I would post it on my blog to see if anyone would read it and respond to it. If I get feed back I will send it on, depending on the response from the public.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Bush,&lt;br /&gt;Like myself, many Evangelical Christians thought you would be outspoken regarding your faith in your 2nd term. We thought this would be a great opportunity for you to lead this nation back to righteousness. Do not think that I speak in human terms of a Theocracy; I speak of a nation of righteous people who think more highly of their neighbors than of themselves. I speak of a nation of people who love and honor God in all their affairs, a nation of people who act righteously bringing the blessings of God on the land rather than His wrath. You are such a burden on my heart, because I see my brothers and sisters in Christ who once supported you turning against you. I see them beginning to wonder about your relationship with our Lord. I see them wondering if they made a mistake in judgment about you. &lt;strong&gt;Proverbs 16:7 says; when a man's ways are pleasing to the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him&lt;/strong&gt;. I have heard you say that you do not pay attention to polls, but perhaps you should. The Republicans in Congress are in rebellion against you, instead of them standing behind you and supporting your agenda they are against everything you attempt to do and openly criticize you. The Democrats are more vicious and hateful than ever. I don’t think in all my years I have seen a presidency in as much chaos as yours. I am reminded of Saul the first king of Israel who disobeyed a direct command from God concerning the Amalekites. It is a long story but you would do well to read it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The LORD Rejects Saul as King 15:1-26&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Samuel said to Saul, "I am the one the LORD sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the LORD. 2 This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.' " 4 So Saul summoned the men and mustered them at Telaim—two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men from Judah. 5 Saul went to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the ravine. 6 Then he said to the Kenites, "Go away, leave the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you along with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites. 7 Then Saul attacked the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, to the east of Egypt. 8 He took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and all his people he totally destroyed with the sword. 9 But Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs—everything that was good. These they were unwilling to destroy completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed. 10 Then the word of the LORD came to Samuel: 11&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt; "I am grieved that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions." &lt;/span&gt;Samuel was troubled, and he cried out to the LORD all that night.&lt;br /&gt;12 Early in the morning Samuel got up and went to meet Saul, but he was told, "Saul has gone to Carmel. There he has set up a monument in his own honor and has turned and gone on down to Gilgal." 13 When Samuel reached him, Saul said, "The LORD bless you! I have carried out the LORD's instructions." 14 But Samuel said, "What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears? What is this lowing of cattle that I hear?" 15 Saul answered, "The soldiers brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but we totally destroyed the rest." 16 "Stop!" Samuel said to Saul. "Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night." "Tell me," Saul replied. 17 Samuel said, "&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Although you were once small in your own eyes, did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? &lt;/span&gt;The LORD anointed you king over Israel. 18 And he sent you on a mission, saying, 'Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites; make war on them until you have wiped them out.' 19 Why did you not obey the LORD ? Why did you pounce on the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the LORD ?" 20 "But I did obey the LORD," Saul said. "I went on the mission the LORD assigned me. I completely destroyed the Amalekites and brought back Agag their king. 21 The soldiers took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was devoted to God, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gilgal." 22 But Samuel replied: "Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD ?&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt; To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king." &lt;/span&gt;24 Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned. I violated the LORD's command and your instructions. I was afraid of the people and so I gave in to them. 25 Now I beg you, forgive my sin and come back with me, so that I may worship the LORD." 26 But Samuel said to him, "I will not go back with you. You have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you as king over Israel!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Has God rejected you as President over this land? Have you failed by not utterly destroying Bin Laden and all who follow him? I have waited, as you preached tolerance, waited to see the moderate Muslims you are so convinced exist. It as been 5 years since 9/11 and the moderate Muslims are still invisible. When polled, 70-80 percent of the Muslim world look upon Bin Laden as a hero, They do not demonstrate against terrorism, but they demonstrate and burn and destroy because of a cartoon. As long as they fail to speak out against terrorism and they continue to protect and hide these evil man as well as their followers, men like Bin Laden, Zarqawi, and Zawahiri, wicked and evil men who need to be captured and punished or destroyed before they destroy more of us how can we believe they are moderate?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where is the strength of your faith, is it just grounded in words only or do you not know that the God of Abraham, Isaac &amp; Jacob is the God we serve, the God who directed the stone from the sling of David the king when he overcame the Philistines? David said it rightly” 2 Sam 17:47 “Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lords, and He will give you into our hands”. Do you not know that the God we serve laid down His life for the elect, and took it up again and is seated on His throne in heaven? Are you not aware that God is not impotent? Honor God, President Bush and He will honor you. &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Do not fear the people, but fear God(no more political correctness, please ).&lt;/span&gt; Will your legacy be that you did not walk with the Lord? You have 2 1/2 years left to serve. Serve God and watch your legacy soar to heights unimaginable. In 2 Chronicles 7:13 -14 God says; If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, and &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Above are some images I think you should see. They are from a “peaceful” demonstration of Muslims in London . As you view these images I pray you will determine to return to the Lord with all your heart. &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do not fear the people, do not worry about consequences from the people of this country or any other it is the LORD our God that you serve, He puts up kings and take them down. Please Him and others will be pleased. Bring righteousness to our land or God may bring judgment on it. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;I still support you and believe you could go down in history as one of the greatest Presidents our country has known; a man who has led this land back to God. If not you might go down in history as the worst President second only to Jimmy Carter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A faithful servant of God&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-114835314973127122?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/114835314973127122/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=114835314973127122&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/114835314973127122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/114835314973127122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2006/05/open-letter-to-president.html' title='An Open Letter to the President'/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-112594104469233013</id><published>2005-09-05T10:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-09-24T22:17:11.916-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Katrina, Accident or not</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;In the wake of the devastation &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;by Katrina, maybe we should &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;stop and reflect on a few things. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Should we ask "why us"? Maybe, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;but no one knows the answer to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;that question. However, the Bible &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;clearly states that God punishes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;nations whom he is displeased with, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;because of their wickedness, with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;horrible weather, diseases, pestilence &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;droughts, and wars. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Now to the secular moralist, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;the rank unbeliever alike, this is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;nonsense. For some of them, God &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;either openly does not exist (the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Atheist), or covertly He does not &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;exist, (the Moralist), or He exist &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;but has no hand in the affairs of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;men (the Deist).Solomon the third&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;King of Israel reigned from 965-925  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;B.C. At the beginning of his reign &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;he prayed thus, "When Your people  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Israel are defeated before an enemy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;because they have sinned against You; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;When there is famine in the land, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;pestilence, or blight or mildew, locust &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;or grasshoppers, (what we call natural &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;disasters) when their enemies besiege &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;them because of sin, hear from Heaven &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;and forgive our sins and restore us. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Solomon knowing that God dealt with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;individuals as well as nations, was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;not only confessing national sins but &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;also seeking pardon for those sins. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;We, indeed are guilty of gross national &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;sins; to name a few Pornography, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Abortion, Unpunished Murders ,  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;(unrequited &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;blood) Adultery, Fornication,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Homosexuality. Now we think those things &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;are just normal ways of life because we have &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;moved so far from an understanding of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Scripture ,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;But God has not changed and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;everything He &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;looks upon as sin worthy &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;of death is still sin &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;worthy of death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jonathan Edwards prior to his death &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;understood the direction the nation was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;taking; away from thinking through life w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;ith a God centered view, to thinking that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;logic, reason and morality were the truest &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;ways of looking at things. He never lived &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;to see it entirely develop, but it indeed has &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;become the norm. Because we are finite &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;creatures, we see through a glass of cloudy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;liquid but God on the other hand, is infinite,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;and sees everything in a complete and crystal &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;clear picture and knows what yesterday's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;actions, will reap, today. So our logic says to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;us that the people suffering from the effects &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Katrina are suffering unjustly. We ask &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;what did &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;they do to deserve this? We feel &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;that this is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;unfair. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;But to believe this, is to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;believe that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;God is unjust &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;and unfair. The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Scriptures in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;describing the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;character &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;of   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;God says of Him; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;He is Holy,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;He is just, He&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;is Merciful and Kind, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;God is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Love, Truth, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Longsuffering, Patient &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;and Good.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Not one &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;of His attributes shows &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Him to be &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;unjust&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;and unfair. Feelings of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;injustice and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;being &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;unfairly dealt with are born &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;out of our &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;human emotions because we see, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;limited &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;vision. Our understanding of God &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;should &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;conclude that He not only looks at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;our individual&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;sins and deals with us about &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;them personally, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;but He also looks at the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;national sin and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;sometimes many must &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;suffer the national, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;punishment for national &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;sins. Where God &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;decides to visit that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;punishment is something &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;He only &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;determines. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;So &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;the people of Louisiana,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Mississippi, and Alabama are no more&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;or less &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;sinful than the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;people of other states, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;but God in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;His infinite wisdom chose this &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;place to unleash His &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;wrath against our &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;national ungodliness, perhaps to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;punish &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;or perhaps to warn of coming&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt; judgment or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;perhaps to do both. One thing we do know &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;about &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;God is that He is not whimsical, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;every action has a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;definite purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an effort to understand the proper p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;erspective &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;of all this including the war &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;on terror I Googled, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;number of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;violent crimes in the United Stated &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;randomly picking the year 2002, what &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;I found &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;from my search was astonishing; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;In 2002 - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;11,877,000 violent crimes were&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;committed, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;1 426,000 people died as a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;result of murder; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;16,000 manslaughters; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;95,000 forcible rapes; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;421,000 robberies; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;894,000 aggravated assaults&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;(information &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;gathered from the Census Bureau&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;web site)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Yet the American people have practically&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;abandoned the war on terror, because in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;two years&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;roughly 1900 Americans have &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;died in battle. That&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;is not to downgrade &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;the importance of those deaths.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Rather it &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;should put a different perspective on how &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;we view things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Systematically the liberals have criticized &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;the Bush &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;administration for everything&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;from the problems in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Baghdad to causing&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;the Hurricane. However, our &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;nation is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;no safer than Baghdad. Violent crimes, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;looting, hundreds dying daily, lack of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;water and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;electricity, and the liberals &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;who blame the President &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;for causing &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;all these things and his failure to plan &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;them. And then there is, New Orleans; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;looting,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;crimes, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;death, violent criminals &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;taking anything &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;not nailed &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;down. Lack of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;fresh water, fires, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;no electricity and of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;course the Presidents &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;failure to stop the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;hurricane, the Presidents&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;failure to arrive &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;on the scene earlier, (and do &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;what?) The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Presidents blah blah blah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe the Bible and what it says about &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;man. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;My opinions are not based on anyone's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;political &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;agenda, no, not even my own. Rather &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;they stand&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;upon the Scriptural descriptions &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;of mans &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;depraved condition. For example, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;we always look &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;at the American people as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;basically a good and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;ompassionate group &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;of people, always going to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;the rescue of those &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;in dire straits, and on the surface &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;that is correct. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;But the question of depravity also &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;plays into &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;what we do in our day-to-day lives,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;not just &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;in what we do in extraordinary times. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Example: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;I have a friend who has a handicap &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;sticker &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;legally obtained, however the conditions &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;she suffers from is not consistent, and for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;most part she seems ok to me. One &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;day we were &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;out and about in my car and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;we made a stop, she &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;offered to let me use &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;her handicap sticker, when I&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;refused she &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;was bewildered and thought it strange, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;until I explained to her that I am not &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;handicapped, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;and I would rather not take &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;a space someone else &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;might really need just &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;to save myself a few steps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We know all the adjectives we use in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;describing &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;our &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;character, compassionate, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;good, kind etc. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;we worship the work of our &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;own hands. But what &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;do the Scriptures say &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;about man, "The heart of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;man is deceitful &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;above all things and desperately&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;wicked, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;who can know it. (Jeremiah 17:9) Or what&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;about this description, "And God saw that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;wickedness of man was great in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;earth and that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;every imagination of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;thoughts of his heart are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;only evil continually". &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;(Genesis 6:5) Jonathan&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Edwards &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;believed &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;that God created the first &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;humans with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;two principals working in them; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;First, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;lower principle, that which we call natural, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;such as, self-love, and natural appetites and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;passions. In addition God implanted principles &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;that were spiritual, holy and divine. So long as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;the higher principle of love to God reigned &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;supreme, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Adam and Eve were perfectly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;happy, Yet God &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;also had given them the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;ability to choose between&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;right and wrong, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;the ability to choose to live life&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;s He &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;prescribed, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;or to disobey Him. When they&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;disobeyed, spurning &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Gods love, God &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;withdrew the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;higher principle from them &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;leaving only the lower&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;nature to rule.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;(excerpted in part from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Jonathan Edwards, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;A Life-George M. Marsden -&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Yale University &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Press) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally the media, whether electronic, or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;print, should hide their faces in shame. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Immediately they set out pointing fingers &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;at the administration. But what about the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Mayor of Louisiana, and the Governor of  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Louisiana, If fingers are to be pointed should &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;they not first be pointed at the local and state levels before the federal level. It amazes me &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;that we scream for less government and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;demand that the federal government not &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;usurp states rights, except when there is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;a disaster, then the federal government &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;becomes the scapegoat for everything the Governor and Mayor failed to do. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Lt. General Honore, the now lead person &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;on the rescue efforts said it succinctly y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;esterday on Fox, when the first responders &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;are themselves victims and the infrastructure &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;is destroyed it is in effect impossible to execute &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;a proper response to the disaster. He &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;suggested that we tamp down the rhetoric &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;of finger pointing and get about the business &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;of rescuing and cleaning up the aftermath of  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;this disaster. &lt;strong&gt;Pray for &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a 21st century &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Great Awakening"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-112594104469233013?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/112594104469233013/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=112594104469233013&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/112594104469233013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/112594104469233013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2005/09/katrina-accident-or-not.html' title='Katrina, Accident or not'/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-111544589165211335</id><published>2005-05-06T22:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-05-06T23:04:51.663-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What is Music</title><content type='html'>Jonathan Edwards said this about music."The best, most beautiful,&lt;br /&gt;and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord&lt;br /&gt;of mind to each other, is by music. When I would form in my mind&lt;br /&gt;an idea of a society in the highest degree happy, I think of them as&lt;br /&gt;expressing their love, their joy, and the inward concord and harmony&lt;br /&gt;and spiritual beauty of their souls by sweetly singing to each other"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click on the song titles under links to hear me sing praise to our&lt;br /&gt;Benevolent Great Father, Our Savior, His Son, Jesus Christ, and&lt;br /&gt;our Teacher and  Sanctifier, The Holy Spirit.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-111544589165211335?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/111544589165211335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=111544589165211335&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111544589165211335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111544589165211335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2005/05/what-is-music.html' title='What is Music'/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-111509488602648989</id><published>2005-05-02T21:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-05-02T21:40:08.093-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Defining our Roots</title><content type='html'>America in the Beginning&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FAITH UNDER FIRE Air Force cracks down on Christian&lt;br /&gt;'coercion'Academy tells cadets not to use Bible quotes, sharing&lt;br /&gt;faith may be intolerant. That was a headline from Worldnetdaily,&lt;br /&gt;November 21, 2004. This is a thumbnail sketch of what the&lt;br /&gt;article is about; “Officials at the Colorado Springs military college&lt;br /&gt;have instituted a new training program, Respecting the Spiritual&lt;br /&gt;Values of People, to teach the cadets, 90% of whom are from&lt;br /&gt;Protestant or Catholic backgrounds, tolerance toward non-&lt;br /&gt;Christians “&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did we stray so far away from our roots&lt;/strong&gt;? Constantly&lt;br /&gt;we hear the left say; the right wing evangelicals are taking our&lt;br /&gt;country to the far right we have to get back to our roots. History&lt;br /&gt;tells me what our roots really are. America was settled by the&lt;br /&gt;Puritans and the Pilgrims. The Puritans were people who believed&lt;br /&gt;that religious authority was grounded in the Bible. Puritans wanted&lt;br /&gt;to remain within the Church of England but wanted to purify it,&lt;br /&gt;hence the name Puritans. The Pilgrims on the other hand broke&lt;br /&gt;with the Church of England because they believed it was corrupt&lt;br /&gt;beyond repair. The Church of England was a state church. All&lt;br /&gt;people were forced to worship in the state church. The Pilgrims&lt;br /&gt;felt the only way to experience religious freedom was to completely&lt;br /&gt;separate from the church. Escaping religious persecution in 1608,&lt;br /&gt;they fled to Holland. After 12 very difficult years they returned to&lt;br /&gt;England and 102 of them set sail for America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to an article identified as ww.nd.edu/ ~rbarger/&lt;br /&gt;www7/puritans.html), by 1640 there were 17,800 Puritans living&lt;br /&gt;in the New England area where they first settled, by 1700 there&lt;br /&gt;were 106,000 Puritans living in America. Government was exercised&lt;br /&gt;by the clergy, for they were generally the educated people in the&lt;br /&gt;community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men like Jonathan Edwards, Solomon Stoddard, Abraham Pierson&lt;br /&gt;(who founded Yale University in 1701; he was the first Rector of Yale).&lt;br /&gt;Godly Men like George Washington and John Adams. In other words,&lt;br /&gt;our founding fathers for the most part were men who had genuine&lt;br /&gt;and deeply held beliefs in God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To those on the left I ask …which roots do you speak of? If you look&lt;br /&gt;back to recent history, 40 years ago there were only Christian&lt;br /&gt;Churches (on every corner) and Jewish Synagogues. Shall we go&lt;br /&gt;back to that period in our history?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-111509488602648989?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/111509488602648989/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=111509488602648989&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111509488602648989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111509488602648989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2005/05/defining-our-roots.html' title='Defining our Roots'/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-111474523771107387</id><published>2005-04-28T20:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-04-28T21:05:55.966-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Personal Social Security Accounts</title><content type='html'>I wonder how many people have taken a close look at&lt;br /&gt;how much they have invested in Social Security. The&lt;br /&gt;problem is, once invested there is often no return.&lt;br /&gt;Take me for an example; I have invested roughly&lt;br /&gt;$84,000.00 in Social Security since I started working...&lt;br /&gt;Let’s assume I live until just before retirement, and&lt;br /&gt;then die just months before I am due to start receiving&lt;br /&gt;Social Security benefits. &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The money I have invested &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;up to that point goes back into the general fund&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That bugs me; that is $84,000.00 that I cannot leave&lt;br /&gt;to my daughter and my grandchildren.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder how many people understand that the $84,000.00&lt;br /&gt;really is not in a bank in DC. The government has already&lt;br /&gt;spent that investment to help, along with two other people,&lt;br /&gt;to retire someone I do not know nor ever will. I would much&lt;br /&gt;rather have put that money in an account that bears my name&lt;br /&gt;which I could leave to my family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I say to anyone opposed to personal accounts;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffcc00;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;ARE YOU CRAZY?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-111474523771107387?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/111474523771107387/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=111474523771107387&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111474523771107387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111474523771107387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2005/04/personal-social-security-accounts.html' title='Personal Social Security Accounts'/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-111457471957968090</id><published>2005-04-26T21:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-04-27T18:45:22.560-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/237/5435/640/DSCN0499.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/237/5435/200/DSCN0499.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had the privilege of going to the 2005 Presidential Inauguration. Here I am in DC beneath the Hart Senate building. That's Andy Jackson backing me up. Too cold for a California Girl.  If you've never taken the Congressional Tour, and you get a chance to take the tour do so. There is so much history in those halls and rooms.  What a great gift from God America is! &lt;a href="http://www.hello.com/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Hello" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbh.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-111457471957968090?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/111457471957968090/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=111457471957968090&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111457471957968090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111457471957968090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2005/04/i-had-privilege-of-going-to-2005.html' title=''/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-111453120340736615</id><published>2005-04-26T07:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-04-26T13:45:54.706-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Prayer for Tom Delay &amp; John Bolton</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In 2002 I watched the beginning of a very &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;subtle&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; plan hatched&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;by the Democrats to destroy the President’s popularity. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Little &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;by little they chipped away at his approval ratings through &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the use of rumor and innuendo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We live in a very fickle society; we are easily carried away by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;any wind, as debris on the ocean is carried away by the tide. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;So, the popularity of the President began to decline, slowly, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;bit by bit. Although they lost the election, and lost power &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;both in the house and in the senate, they continue with their &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;smear campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because the Democrats have no plans or solutions, it appears &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;the only plan they can come up with is to defame as many on the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;right as possible in hopes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;that the American people will throw &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;those on the right out of office. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Democrats are banking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;on the fickleness of the &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;public to regain &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the power they &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;so desperately desire&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the moment the obvious targets are Tom Delay and John Bolton. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I hear many people say, both on the left and on the right, "our thoughts &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;and prayers are with you". I say lets not just mouth those words to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;impress, but let us &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;truly pray for our leaders as God has commanded. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Following is a prayer &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;for Tom Delay and John Bolton; adapted from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Psalm 35 when David &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;prayed for vindication:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plead their cause, O Lord, with those who strive with&lt;br /&gt;(Tom Delay and John Bolton); Fight against those who &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;fight against them. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Take hold of shield and buckler and stand &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;up for their help. Let &lt;em&gt;those on the&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;left&lt;/em&gt; be put to shame and &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;brought to dishonor who seek to destroy the reputations &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of these two men. Let them be turned back and brought to &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;confusion who plot &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;their hurt. Let them be like chaff before &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the wind, let their way be dark and slippery&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; and let the Angel &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of the Lord chase them. For without cause they have hidden &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;their nets for Tom and for John in a pit, which they have dug &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;without cause for their &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lives. Let destruction come upon them &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;unexpectedly, and let the net they have &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hidden catch them: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Into the very destruction, let those plotting against these &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;men fall. Psalm 35:1-8 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-111453120340736615?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/111453120340736615/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=111453120340736615&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111453120340736615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111453120340736615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2005/04/prayer-for-tom-delay-john-bolton.html' title='A Prayer for Tom Delay &amp; John Bolton'/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-111457021163210638</id><published>2005-04-24T19:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-04-28T15:18:40.293-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/237/5435/640/apples%20&amp;%20wine%20copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; WIDTH: 204px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid; HEIGHT: 202px" height="226" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/237/5435/320/apples%20%26%20wine%20copy.jpg" width="221" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Color Pencil rendering done while I was recovering&lt;br /&gt;from Quadruple By-Pass surgery Thanksgiving week&lt;br /&gt;1992.  Bless the Lord O my soul and all that is&lt;br /&gt;within bless His Holy Name.  Bless the Lord O my&lt;br /&gt;soul and forget none of His benefits; Who pardons&lt;br /&gt;all my iniquities; &lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;Who Heals all my diseases&lt;/span&gt;; Who&lt;br /&gt;has redeemed my soul from destruction and crowns&lt;br /&gt;me with loving kindness and tender mercies; He&lt;br /&gt;satisfies my mouth with good things so that my youth&lt;br /&gt;is renewed like the eagles”.  Bless the Lord O my soul.&lt;br /&gt;Psalm 103:1-5. &lt;a href="http://www.hello.com/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 23px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; HEIGHT: 20px" height="20" alt="Posted by Hello" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbh.gif" width="18" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-111457021163210638?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/111457021163210638/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=111457021163210638&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111457021163210638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111457021163210638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2005/04/color-pencil-rendering-done-while-i.html' title=''/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-111432609712836877</id><published>2005-04-23T23:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-04-26T21:42:17.110-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Thoughts on Abortion and  Social Security</title><content type='html'>It only takes simple mathematics to figure the loss&lt;br /&gt;of social security contributions caused by the&lt;br /&gt;death of 44 million babies aborted in&lt;br /&gt;this country since 1973 as sited in the North&lt;br /&gt;Carolina Reported Abortion Statistics. According&lt;br /&gt;to the National Center for Policy Analysis, “People&lt;br /&gt;are having fewer children. For each generation&lt;br /&gt;to be the same size as the one before (the&lt;br /&gt;replacement rate), women must have 2.1&lt;br /&gt;children. In 1940, the fertility rate was 2.23.&lt;br /&gt;Today, the rate is 2.07 and by 2050 it is&lt;br /&gt;expected to trend downward to 1.95.&lt;br /&gt;The result has been dramatic. In 1940,&lt;br /&gt;there were 42 workers per retiree. Today&lt;br /&gt;the ratio is 3-to-1; by 2050 it will be 2-to-1.&lt;br /&gt;The burden on each individual worker will&lt;br /&gt;increase substantially and we will no longer&lt;br /&gt;be able to keep our promises to retirees at&lt;br /&gt;current payroll tax levels”.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Let’s do the math; 44 million abortions averages&lt;br /&gt;out to approximately 1,375,000 people per year&lt;br /&gt;who were never added as Social Security&lt;br /&gt;contributors. 1,375,000 children whose lives&lt;br /&gt;have been ended each year for 32 years and the&lt;br /&gt;oldest of those casualty’s of the holocaust called&lt;br /&gt;abortion would now be 32 years old, well into the&lt;br /&gt;Social Security retirement contribution system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If those children had been permitted to live,&lt;br /&gt;those born in 1972 would have started&lt;br /&gt;contributing to SS in 1991. Between 1991 and&lt;br /&gt;2005, the nation lost approximately 19,250,000&lt;br /&gt;people who would have become eligible to&lt;br /&gt;contribute to the Social Security program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems to me the SS program is already&lt;br /&gt;broken. If you factor in the 44 million babies&lt;br /&gt;who perished between 1973 and 2005, along&lt;br /&gt;with non-aborted infant mortality rates, birth&lt;br /&gt;control, longevity of retirees, (who now live on&lt;br /&gt;average 10 years longer than people lived&lt;br /&gt;100 years ago), congressional misappropriation&lt;br /&gt;of Social Security funds for pet projects, and&lt;br /&gt;probably other data not known to this blogger,&lt;br /&gt;this problem seems seriously out of control,&lt;br /&gt;should we continue to put this off for another&lt;br /&gt;year, or should we deal with the problem now?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ironically, it seems none of the Senators or&lt;br /&gt;Congressmen talk about this data or factor it&lt;br /&gt;into the reasons for the insolvency of Social&lt;br /&gt;Security. But it is time to be a great nation&lt;br /&gt;and act in integrity. Put the political prancing&lt;br /&gt;aside and be about solving the Social Security&lt;br /&gt;problems facing us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Let us love our children and cherish them as the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;future of this great land.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;Children are a heritage from the Lord, The&lt;br /&gt;fruit of the womb is a reward. &lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Psalm 127:3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-111432609712836877?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/111432609712836877/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=111432609712836877&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111432609712836877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111432609712836877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2005/04/thoughts-on-abortion-and-social.html' title='Thoughts on Abortion and  Social Security'/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-111456994275909095</id><published>2005-04-23T19:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-04-26T21:30:43.876-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/237/5435/640/Dsc00005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; MARGIN: 2px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/237/5435/320/Dsc00005.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first painting done with acrylics&lt;br /&gt;God is so amazing He gave me a&lt;br /&gt;love for art. &lt;a href="http://www.hello.com/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt="Posted by Hello" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbh.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-111456994275909095?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/111456994275909095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=111456994275909095&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111456994275909095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111456994275909095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2005/04/my-first-painting-done-with-acrylics.html' title=''/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12347860.post-111420695862352160</id><published>2005-04-22T14:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-04-23T06:50:19.583-07:00</updated><title type='text'>An open letter to the U.S. Senate</title><content type='html'>We live in troubled times in our nation, we experience troubles&lt;br /&gt;brought on by ineffective legislators who parade in front of TV&lt;br /&gt;cameras, when they should be about the nations business.&lt;br /&gt;Legislators who are more concerned about their next&lt;br /&gt;appearance on the next talk show than they are about the&lt;br /&gt;nation’s welfare and the peoples business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The President has chosen people to serve on the courts who&lt;br /&gt;will, hopefully, not legislate from the bench, but will dispense&lt;br /&gt;justice. A few preening peacocks have decided they are more&lt;br /&gt;powerful than the Executive branch of the government so they&lt;br /&gt;refuse to allow an up or down vote on the President's choices&lt;br /&gt;as called for in the constitution. Peacocks who strut about&lt;br /&gt;spouting lies and spreading innuendo, who think nothing of&lt;br /&gt;smearing decent, God fearing, persons of integrity, chosen&lt;br /&gt;to serve the people, by the twice elected leader of this nation.&lt;br /&gt;This they do because of their hatred and bitterness toward&lt;br /&gt;the President and an inordinate desire for power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How did we stray so far from our roots? Our nation&lt;br /&gt;was founded by godly Puritan men and women who believed&lt;br /&gt;there was an eternal plan for this land. A providential plan&lt;br /&gt;for greatness for this land that God brought them to. The&lt;br /&gt;founders had lofty and noble plans for this country, they&lt;br /&gt;were men who's faith in God directed their decisions in&lt;br /&gt;designing the legacy we now enjoy. The legacy of being a part&lt;br /&gt;of the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history&lt;br /&gt;of the world. Where are the lofty ideals and noble plans today?&lt;br /&gt;They are not to be found, rather what we see and hear are&lt;br /&gt;gutter snipes, yapping and snapping across the aisles of congress.&lt;br /&gt;We see the left carping and complaining and accusing by&lt;br /&gt;innuendo, in the meantime they have no plans or solutions&lt;br /&gt;to the problems we face. Then there are the Republicans,&lt;br /&gt;the elected majority cowering and trembling as though they&lt;br /&gt;were a minority. Is there no one among you who will&lt;br /&gt;stand and deliver for the people who put you in office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The left defends their right to filibuster as though it were a&lt;br /&gt;noble thing. A filibuster by definition is: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;An obstructionist &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;tactic &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;used to delay legislative action.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Senators&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;enough is enough&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Either you must be about the peoples&lt;br /&gt;business or we will replace as many of you as possible in&lt;br /&gt;2006. &lt;em&gt;I have determined not to make another political &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;contribution until I see some solutions to some &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;of the &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;problems facing us&lt;/em&gt;. A solution to end judicial tyranny, a&lt;br /&gt;solution to the problem of sexual predators in our&lt;br /&gt;neighborhoods who kill our children, a solution&lt;br /&gt;to dwindling social security benefits, a solution to the&lt;br /&gt;murder of the unborn for the sake of convenience,&lt;br /&gt;murder justified by re-defining it as "choice", and a&lt;br /&gt;solution to bring an end to the limitless appeals process,&lt;br /&gt;disguised as compassion, for those convicted of violent&lt;br /&gt;crimes . In short Senators, be about the peoples business&lt;br /&gt;or face expulsion in 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I urge my fellow Americans to withhold political contributions&lt;br /&gt;from every fence sitter, and every obstructionist who fails to&lt;br /&gt;do what both God and the people require of them:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;You shall appoint judges and officers in your gates &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;(courts), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;which the Lord your God gives you, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;they shall judge the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;people with just judgment. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;You shall not pervert justice; you &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;shall not show &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;partiality nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;the eyes of the wise and twist the words of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;righteous. You &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;shall follow what is altogether &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;just that you may live and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;inherit the land &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;which the Lord your God has given you&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Deuteronomy 16:18-20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12347860-111420695862352160?l=waxingeloquently.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/feeds/111420695862352160/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12347860&amp;postID=111420695862352160&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111420695862352160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12347860/posts/default/111420695862352160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://waxingeloquently.blogspot.com/2005/04/open-letter-to-us-senate.html' title='An open letter to the U.S. Senate'/><author><name>jackyeowe</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
