Life's twists and turns

Wow, it's been a long time since I last posted. True to my prediction, Obama has turned out to be THE worst president in the last 100 years (maybe longer). He endorses all the things that a real Christian (he claims to be one, but his actions show that he lies) would be against. He is for abortion and more abortion, he is for gay marriage, at this point in time he has done away with 'don't ask, don't tell' in the military and has ended the federal government's 'DOMA' - defense of marriage act which defined marriage as between one man and one woman. He continues to want "equal" everything - so doesn't matter if you study your brains out, if you work long hours to make a better life for you and yours - nope, he wants to take more and more of your money as tax money and give it to the low-lifes who DON'T want to study in school, who DON'T want to work long hours. THAT is what Obama considers fair; all it really does is show how out-of-touch with reality the man is - purely delusional. Enough for rants about our whacked out president.

I've been in Houston now for two years; that means I'm two years older. Something 'strange' has happened in those two years, I'm starting to look older, even to myself. My energy, drives and ability (physical) have only slightly diminished (in my opinion) but people now perceive me as older, and typically they give me credit for experience (some of which I deserve, some of which I do.

Houston is MUCH different than Oregon, I've been living in a place, an area where there is a high population of blacks. In Oregon, I typically didn't interact with blacks, I was raised in a way that I just tried to treat them like everyone else until the point in time that they showed me that they needed/wanted to be treated differently (like if they tried to shine me on). In Houston, the blacks down here seem to WANT to be treated differently. They talk different, they are loud and to be honest a bit stupid, they don't really want to interact with whites all that much and seem much happier just staying with and socializing with other blacks. I know this sounds racist, but it's just my observation - I'm not saying that they need to stay there, I'm just saying that if that is the way that they want to be, then they need to understand that indeed they will be looked at differently.

God - my understanding, my relationship, my fellowship with Him, well, I'm working on it. I see and understand more and more how much I didn't understand and still don't understand (boy that seems like I just said something and took it back). The idea that His ways are not our ways is more and more apparent. The fact that we ARE NOT suppose to question his laws but are to just follow them is more and more apparent. The fact that so many people miss what it's all about is more and more apparent. The fact that so many, many, many people are and will end up in HELL is more and more apparent. Speaking of which, if you can get a copy of "23 minutes in Hell" - get it and read it, THEN decide that you still know better that God and that YOU won't end up in HELL - not worth the gamble, not worth the gamble.

One final note, we had to put my wife's dog down the other day. She had had him for 15 years, I lived with him for the last 6 years. Like any other dog there were good things and bad, but in the end you do miss him. We had 'gotten' a replacement dog about two years ago, he'll do, but he certainly isn't the old pooch. It's hard to watch and old companion pass away (we had him put down, his hearing was weak, his eyesight was bad to the point of walking into walls, he was in some kind of pain that made him whine almost constantly even when laying on a soft foam mattress). I will miss Marco, happy he is out of his misery.

I will try to post more often.