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I’m going to confess to something, dear readers. I admit that things in my personal life lately have been more than a little rough.

I’m also going to admit that I’m now greatly ashamed at how I’ve looked more to what I’ve lost instead of to what God has… and what God is still… given me.

The low temperature this morning was 4 degrees Fahrenheit. As of this writing it hasn’t got much warmer. But at least I can say that I am staying warm. That I’ve got food to eat. People who care for me. A career that is beginning to take off beyond my wildest dreams (and that in itself was a huge answered prayer).

I have fretted over things lost and things ruined because of a condition I was born with and too much I let those define the parameters of my happiness when instead I ...

Remember this lady? It’s Shirley Phelps-Roper. It will be a year ago next week that she and her family – the infamous Westboro Baptist Church – visited the TV station that I worked at. This is that “God hates fags church” that does those rabid anti-homosexual protests… most of them quite bizarre and all of them crossing the boundary of good taste. If you missed that report when it was filed last year, mash that link down for some truly disturbing photos along with my account of what happened that night during my close encounter with “the Phelps family”.

Well, Shirley Phelps-Roper has been arrested in Bellevue, Nebraska: charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor after her 8-year old son stomped on an American flag during a soldier’s funeral.

Here’s the story from WMUR: