9/27/2018
Woke up twice this morning and the same song was bouncing around in my head. Another old song I heard while growing up in a Separate Baptist church: “There is going to be a meeting in the air, in the sweet, sweet by and by;
I am going to meet you, meet you over there, in that home beyond the sky.
Such singing you will hear, never heard by mortal ear, twill be glorious I do declare!
And God’s own Son will be the leading One, at that Meeting In The Air!” Guess that must be the SIMH today, huh?!
This song was written in 1925 by May Taylor Roberts. Mostly recorded by Southern Gospel singers. It would be in my top 10 favorites from old church memories. Not too far astray from 1Thess.4:13-18.
Interesting developments going on in several places. From the office of the president comes the great expectation about Israel and the Palestinians settling their ages old dispute: my interest in hearing about this is to see who portrays Pres.Trump as the hero and who portrays him as the antichrist! (He is neither, folks, but he is a deal maker!)
Another development is the likelihood of putting Bill Cosby in prison. Is it just me who wants to know why? or do you think this is stupid? He’s 81, he’s been found guilty, and the law says now we get to pay for his waning years! Stupid, if you ask me. He has resources, house arrest should do it. Do what a prison would do: deprive him of the public, no going away, solitude, yet do it in his own home. Why should the public now be left with the tab? Is he apt to do it again? I doubt it. Hang a scarlet GM (guilty molester) around his old neck!
In sports, my Cubs limped into the playoffs last night, but they need to win 3 of the last 4 to win the division. They just don’t look champion-like! I sure would love to be fooled, but when I make comparisons, they don’t measure up.
(Could be some other sports news, but I haven’t heard anything.) Oh, the Tide could be bringing in a “Title” wave, I hear. Could be dangerous when national announcers forecast how many games before anyone challenges them. Hope the players don’t get wind of it. RTR
Then, of course, the continuing saga of idiocy surrounding the choosing of a Supreme Court justice. The detractors must have read my previous blog about his “teen years” not being important because now they have a complainant from a mere 20 years ago. If it ain’t one thing it’s another: Since Truman declared he would not run for the President’s office in 1952, I have been sideline interested in watching the process of electing people and appointing people at the national level. Had a neighbor who had suffered a stroke, and I used to visit him as a young boy (he had a TV) and we watched whatever came on about politics. He was very vocal (I learned to cuss listening to his opinions about political people. You don’t want to know his opinion of Estes Kefauver!)
Nothing is any better than it was 66 years ago, and everything has gotten worse. How can it be that everything has gotten worse? It is as prophesied. We will not fix it all. Let’s just see if we can keep enough of it fixed and between the white lines until the Lord takes us out for that meeting (see SIMH for today.)
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