So this is not only the first video blog post I’ve made in… well a VERY long time. It’s also the absolutely FIRST blog post that I’ve made about now-President Donald Trump ever!
To be fair though, it’s not about Trump himself. It’s about what I’ve seen waaaaay too much of in the way of hatred toward the guy. It’s not warranted and it’s not worth it. Anyhoo, roll the clip!
God does not work on our time. God works on His own time and it’s more than a little silly to demand otherwise from Him....
Here’s something that I’ve been wondering about for awhile now (actually going on three years). Maybe it’s time to let others ponder it too…
We’re told in Genesis 5:1 that “When Adam had lived 130 years…” (as the New International Version words it) that he gave birth to his son Seth. This is the first time in scripture that we are told that a person had lived a certain number of years. A few verses later it says that Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.
But are those the years total that Adam lived… or only the years following the Fall, and the entrance of sin into the world?
Because compared to the other antedeluvians, who were born after the Fall, Adam had a fairly equal lifespan. But if the 930 years is the total amount of time that Adam lived, from his creation until death, then Adam ...
How old am I? Heh-heh, well, I’m not quite halfway to 70. Not yet anyway.
But it’s funny: in the past two weeks I have been mistaken for a college kid twice and a high school student once! Lord only knows how much longer that will last.
I wrote here last year about why I don’t like having a birthday, and it has nothing to do with “getting older” at all. That’s still something that time hasn’t fully shaken off of me. For some people, birthdays are already a reminder of one’s mortality and to have one like that is harsh enough to rock you for a lifetime. So I still don’t care very much for birthdays.
But as Lisa told me this morning: “It beats the alternative, doesn’t it?”
Suddenly, it didn’t seem so bad 🙂 Gotta love having a wife like that.
Lots of people my age ...
It was a good day today! In short…
– We visited my parents.
– We had lunch at Salsarita’s (great new taco/Mexican restaurant) in Grensboro.
– We bought a new computer: one perfect for high-definition video editing.
– We went to the Greensboro Historical Museum (and my friend Johnny Yow told me about this last night so I gotta credit him for passing along the word) to see North Carolina’s original copy of the Bill of Rights. It had been in North Carolna’s possession until 1865 when it was stolen by a Union soldier (darned Yankees!). It was out of the state all this time until 2003 when some dude tried to sell it for millions, before it was taken in a sting operation. It was one of only 14 original copies made, along with the one at the National Archives and the ones belonging to the 12 other original ...
Just some musings to close out this past week on:
...– Andrew Speaker might have spread a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis among thousands of people during his plane trips across Europe and into America. That’s one guy carrying TB who got caught. Has anyone noticed all the stories coming out lately about cases of TB breaking out in the southwestern states?
– Speaking of the border situation, I’ve heard from people in Mexico during the past few days: the situation there is much, much worse than anything we are reading in the “mainstream” news. “Civil war” and “revolution” could be used interchangeably among the reports that have come here.
– Also about the border situation: President Bush dares to claim that those of us who want the border secured are unpatriotic and un-American. I dare say that President Bush is a traitor for letting our border be overrun. I’ll hazard