(I really don’t want any hateful responses on this post.  I’m not writing this post to debate the issue. I firmly believe marriage is between one man and one woman.)

I asked a friend of mine two questions:
1st Scenario: A couple comes to the church and wants to have their child dedicated.
(This is a ceremony we do for any parents who would like to dedicate their child unto God and to charge the parents and the church to care for this child.)
I then tell my friend that this couple is living together and are not married.
He tells me it would be ok for the church to dedicate the child. After all it’s about the child.
1st question: Would it be ok for the church to dedicate their child in front of the church?

2nd Scenario:  A couple comes to the church and wants to have their child dedicated.
I then tell my friend this is a same sex couple.  
2nd question: Would it be ok for the church to dedicate their child in front of the church?
He tells me it would not be ok for the church to dedicate the child because the parents are gay.

I then asked him if being gay was worse than living together?
He didn’t have an answer.      

What would be your answers?
Is my friend hypocritical?

I had a conversation with a middle school counselor yesterday.  We were talking about how a more majority of kids were getting into trouble verses twenty years ago.  He told me that the schools are trying to get the students to think of their future.  Infant brain development are under attack from the impact of neglect, alcohol and drugs.  It seems more and more children are exposed to those elements.  ADD, ADHD, RAD & ODD are a few of the results.   Autism is happening in children at a rate of 1 in every 60 children. 

How can children of today be helped?  What do they need? 

I’m reading a book that takes place in the 1500′s.  I like any books that Gilbert Morris writes.  In one section of the book it was talking about “laying your honor in the dust.”  Morris always has a character in his books that strive for great honor.  That led me to my question:

What is honor to you?

Collin Powell was on Jay Leno last night.  He said some interesting things.  One being that we can have disagreements with adversaries but we shouldn’t make enemies.  He mentioned Reagan and Tip O’neill.  They could be in disagreement over an issue but then come together and have a meal. They were adversaries but not enemies.  He said that politicians of today should have a spirit of compromise as Reagan did.  

  I gave a thought of the day to a group of people last Tuesday.  If 86,400 dollars was deposted in an account each day, what would you do with it?  The money had to be spent that day.  Any left over would be gone. Each day we get 86,400 seconds.  A few hours after that I was called to the hospital. A very close friend of mine was dying.  I spent several hours at the hospital as he was close to the end.  I sat in silence. I listened as people sang songs he loved. I soaked in bible verses that loved ones were reading.  I remembered with his family the different stories he created.  I didn’t want to leave as I knew I would never experience time like this ever again. 

We have several gradutation parties to go to today.  One last night, three today and one tomorrow.  Fun, Fun, Fun

Do you have any graduation parties to go to?

I’m reading a book that shows the inner working of the human brain. Some things I found interesting:

Touch: By seventeen weeks (in the womb), the infant can feel touch all over the body

except for the back and top of the head, which have feeling by twenty weeks. At just

two months the fetus will kick and jerk if poked, and by the fourth month will make

facial expressions such as frowning, squinting, or grimacing.

An electrician delegated the task of wiring up a circuit as

complex as that of the human brain and capable of soldering

connections at a rate of one per second would take over thirty

million years to complete the job.

I’m fascinated at how we’re wonderfully made.

When I reported on the USS Kitty Hawk in the 1979. I heard stories of racism problems that happened several year previous. I recently found a book that detailed the entire story.  I read the book. I was shocked at what happened on board aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk several years before I got there.  One night in October 1973 a group of African Americans rampaged the ship.  They went throughout the ship destroying and hurting as many people as they could.  It went on for several hours.   The ship’s leadership did not attempt to stop it for fear of making it worse.  There was not a rise up of the 1000′s of majority sailers against this minority group.  The leadership used words to try and talk the leaders down -thus the reason it went on for so long.  Years later one of the leaders of the mob riot said that it wasn’t about race that fueled his rage. He admitted he was suffering grief from his childhood.  Even though there were trials after the incident, no one was convicted.  There was no justice. 

My Grandson, Cody is 3 years old.  He has is own I-Pad and knows how to work it really well.  He knicknamed it his “beenie”.  (Not sure where that came from)  He lets us know when it needs to be plugged in.  My wife babysits him throughout the week.  Last week he got upset because he wanted to watch a certain kids program.  He was convinced he could get it immediately like he could at home.  He didn’t understand that we have cable and couldn’t get a certain program at anytime. 

That caused me to ask this question:

What will technolgy looks like a few years? 
Will everything be immediate?

I believe President Obama made a calculated attempt to get the nations eyes off of the terrible economic condition.  His anouncement came just before the news of a major bank failure.  I can see him using class warfare in order to get reelected and keep America from seeing the truth.  He has no plan on getting the econmy back on track.  He sent his budget through and even the democrates rejected it.   

What is the main issue that this country should focus on?