To A Great 2010!

Happy New Year! On this first day of 2010 I am looking forward to the New Year 2010 with genuine excitement and expectation! At 72 I feel great and have already accomplished more in my life than I ever imagined because of God’s grace manifest. I have nothing left to prove and no pressure to do anything but I am anxious to get going in 2010! I am a blessed man and extremely grateful for the life I have and have lived. My only remaining goal is to finish my race strong and run through the tape! It wasn’t always this way for me. I have known the emptiness that comes from following the world’s system of hedonistic materialism. I have set meaningless goals and accomplished them over and again without ever gaining lasting satisfaction or peace through the processs At 30 I...

A Statement of Purpose

My last two posts have been somewhat political and I’m not primarily a political person. I’m a registered Republican only because I have to choose in my state to vote in the primaries and the Republican platform conforms most closely to the only issues that I am sure of my Father’s opinion concerning. He hates abortion, He defines marriage as between one man and one woman, and calls homosexual behavior a sin and not an alternative life style. As far as I know He has never said what the top individual tax rate should be. I care about and prefer small government and low taxes and a strong national defense but I’m not passionate about them. I would easily vote for a pro-life Democrat over a pro-choice Republican. Those are my choices and I will live with them....