Sorry I haven't written on here sooner. Blogger had "issues" and wouldn't let me post.

I'm currently 1/2 way done with the essay (Letter to Job) due this Thursday. I'm quite pleased with it so far. The requirements are only a mininium (sp?) length and it must be addressed to Job. I got to pick my points and wheither I'm writing him as a contemparary (sp?) or a time-traveller. I'm writing it as a contemporary.

Mama is reading Mig-Pilot to the kids right now. She read it to me when I was around 7 or so, and it's always been one of my favorites. I don't like what a ninny he is around ladies, but it's so neat to read his impressions of America. I would highly recommend it. Samuel googled his name, and he speaks for civic and military groups! So now we're looking to see how much he charges.

Man, communism seems so dumb, but if you take humanism as your worldview communism is a logical conclusion. The only problem being that neither conform with reality! And they just keep on determinedly (sp?) trying to make it work by changing the unchangables.

Just a side note, socialism would work if you had perfect people. So is heaven a socialist state? We'll all be perfect, and God will be the dictator.

The fellow didn't show up AGAIN, to do the bricks. We're going to have to call Mr. S. and I think we're going to have to twist Dad's arm to get him to do it.

So was the surprise Presidential visit to Iraq cool or what?! I don't agree with everything Bush does (steel tarrifs, privacy concerns with the Homeland Defense, aid packages to Africa, continued membership in the U.N., just to name a few.) but I'm still a huge fan of his. Especially after Clinton *plugs nose*.

Here's a good thing that Stephen of the RI wrote. It really touched me.

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People tell you "It's not God that moves away from you, it's you that moves away from God."

I'd been frustrated with this statement for a long time... because I would reach points where I was honestly striving to move forward... and God would seem further away than ever. Then I would fall down, He'd pick me up, seem close for a while, and then all of sudden, be far away again.

And then I realized something... I'm just like a baby learning to walk.

I was privileged to be old enough to remember when my siblings started walking. They started out crawling. That was easy for them. They eventually started learning to stand. That was harder, but they learned to pull themselves up with objects around the house. Once standing, Mom and Dad started holding their hands above their heads and walking them down the hall, standing behind them to catch them. That was easy enough, because they'd mastered standing by that point. But then my parents would switch and move around to the front, leaving them with less balance and forcing them to walk more on their own.

But the point that I remember most vividly is the point where my dad would watch them stand, take their hands, walk with them a little way, and then let go and take two steps backwards. I remember seeing the shock on my sisters' faces the first time that happened, and the frustration at falling again and again. So my dad would move a step closer and still let go. This time they would still fall down, but they would fall into his arms. The frustrated look on the face of the baby that thought it was walking before, but couldn't walk all of a sudden will never leave me. And I've been there the past while. I'm ready to wait it out, because I know I'll learn to walk soon... but I have the comfort of knowing that I haven't actually wandered from God.

So if you're frustrated with your life because God seems so far away, no matter how hard you try to get closer to Him, maybe He's teaching you to really WALK.

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