Sunday morning

It's Sunday morning...I'm ready to preach...I'm sitting here with coffee and reading my friend's blogs and feeling more and more guilty that I'm not blogging. I haven't stopped thinking...I've just run out of time it seems to sit down and do this. So...I'll do a little blog this morning because I have to!

Actually, it seems like there is so much to blog about these days that I don't know where to begin. Maybe it's my ADHD kicking in - I can't decide what to do - or is that just because I'm the youngest in my family and can't make decisions? I don't remember. Could it be Alzheimer's? That is a fear of mine actually. Let's move away from that one.

I'm giving my last message on "Mastering Your Money" today. Yes...preaching on money at church - see my earlier blogs. The Bible is just chock full on the idea of money yet the only time it gets mentioned is when the church is in trouble and we're begging people to give. I've tried to approach it from a different perspective. When I started the series, I told everyone we were not in financial difficulties and my heart was just wanting to teach a good series on money so we would have a Kingdom perspective on money.

The elections are coming up. I'll be glad when the ads stop running. How ridiculous. Here in Nebraska we usually have pretty clean elections. Not this year. Things turned nasty early and got worse as time went on. What is disappointing to me is that we have a good bunch of candidates...but they are all Democrats. I hate that. Why did the Republicans let the good candidates lose in the primary? Well, of course they didn't "let" them...the good ones got out spent. I suppose I will have to hold my nose and vote Republican...or not. I'm just not sure what I'm going to do. My usual philosophy on elections is that party trumps person...but this year we have some really terrible persons on the Republican side. Yuck.

Well...time to get the pastor hat on. I promise not to let a month go by before I blog again...maybe...if I remember.

Week from hell

Life seems very stretched these days. I feel like there are nails scratching on a blackboard all over the world. Recent events - three shootings in three schools - leave me numb, tired, scared, mad, disgusted. What is happening? Why is this happening? Who are these men and why are they choosing to take their rage out on innocent school girls?

Is it a plea for recognition? Are they wanting to go down famous for something?

II Timothy 3 warns of difficult times in the last days. Men will be "lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God...."

In a counterpoint to the cowardly killings of the 5 Amish girls, it is now reported that the oldest of the girls requested the coward to kill her first - obviously hoping to save the younger ones. Amazing. Ok, so like the Amish, I need to forgive this guy. But that doesn't change the fact that this was one event inspired by nothing less than absolute evil.

We do live in perilous times.