I have jury duty here in Monroe next week. So, I’m preparing myself in case I need to use one of these Dave Letterman’s past Top 10 zingers:
- I can tell if people are guilty by looking at them.
- If a police officer told me I was a bug, I would believe him.
- Is it murder if I haven’t been caught?
- My religion prohibits me from sitting near other people.
- Would I have to bathe?
- Can each of my personalities vote in deliberations?
- Laws are for sissies.
- I’m allergic to justice.
- I’m deaf. (Answer questions thereafter by cupping hand and shouting “What?”)
- A pit bull named [defendant's first name] just killed my baby.
- I get dizzy if I try to weigh evidence.
- An eye for an eye? I say we take his head for an eye! (Point at defendant).
Well, I wouldn’t use all of them, but there are a few.
of how we Christians get all up in arms over the policies and happenings of the current administration. We act as if the election of Barack Obama has sent this country into a tailspin that we’ll never recover from. We puff our chests up and forget those eight years of big government with George W. Bush. We make claims that the end is near and that this is a “sign of the times.”
We Christians show our lack of faith by some of the untempered responses we have to the current administration. It’s not that we don’t have reason for concern with Barack Obama, it is that there is a panic or unrest among professing Christians that doesn’t help our witness to the world. Who do we serve? Is he a puny and whiny God? No! We serve the Triune God that works His purposes out in the world as He sees fit and in the best way for us. As Christians we should realize that leaders and nations come and go. We shouldn’t put our faith in government when we like the leadership or when we don’t like the leadership.
To get all riled up over Barack Obama and to fret and worry about this, even if we don’t admit that that is what we are doing, is a sin that we must repent of quickly. We Christians need to focus on doing what we are called to do: to be faithful and world-changing all-the-while remembering that God will work out all things to our good. We don’t have time to worry and think too much on all the things that can and might happen because of the Democrats or Barack Obama. We must be faithful to our callings and work in the here and now. There is always a place and time for dissent and protest of policies when we disagree with our government. But that must be done while ever remembering that we serve a God who created all things and holds all things together. Accidental or unaware, we must stop putting faith in government and forgetting who places men and women in power and removes them. Let us again be reminded that, “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God” (Psalm 20:7)
Yes, that is what lower tier schools in my state and others do when they go play the likes of Texas, Florida, LSU, USC and other Top 10 Division I schools. We prepare ourselves to get whooped and get a handsome check of half a million dollars or more just to get waxed. Of course there are exceptions, but those prove the rule.
To Louisiana Tech’s credit, under its current football coach and athletic director, Derek Dooley, he’s tried to cut down on the number of these games per season. Yes, you may get a million or more, but you also get losses in the win/loss column. You then have losing seasons and you don’t get to put an asterisk next to your record at the end of the year that says, “well, we played 3 Top 10 schools this year.” You already are “competing” with the major conference schools. It is a precarious situation. Go to a bowl game and play smaller beatable schools or play the big schools and start with 3 losses before conference play. I understand that it ain’t easy to fund these programs. I do like that LA Tech’s current football program is trying to limit themselves to playing these big schools and when they play them trying to play teams that aren’t ranked #1 and #2 in the country.
I also liked how they played Mississippi State last year even if they would have lost to them. That is a good size SEC school to play, maybe even Auburn or Vanderbilt and Kentucky.
Since, I was at Tech, we played Florida, Tennessee, Miami(FL) 2 times, LSU 2x, California then ranked #2, and others that I’m forgetting. The better approach from this arm chair quarterback is to not try to fund the program on losses, but maybe have 1 of those games and try to build winning seasons that foster regional recruiting and sponsorship.
Yesterday, Solomon, my youngest son received hearing aids. He is almost a year old. It was so exciting to see him look around with sensory curiosity and overload of all these new sounds. He looked around the room constantly looking for the first confirmation of who/what was making the new sound he was hearing. Then, last night I was holding him and playing for him some cinematic movie scores and other songs for him to hear. It was fun to watch him pause his squirmy ways to take in a fuller sound than he’s heard to date.
How often do you get to watch people hear? I wouldn’t have traded that moment for anything else. It was a lot of fun and Sarah and I both are so happy with and for him. In those few moments I wasn’t hearing with my ear, I was watching him hear in new ways. Thanks for hearing aids and technologies that help our bodies.
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