Got this from Twitpix … it’s a photo from Chile.

The scene on the left is the TOP layer of an overpass. These people made out better than the ones below. The lesson here is not that God is randomly smacking people around, but that he told us this time was coming.

It’s here.

He also told us some other things about this time and they will show up, too.

Are you ready? Are you even getting ready?

The next photo is from Haiti. It’s a tent city wedged in among a mix of wrecked and still-standing buildings. Soon there will be pics from Japan … and then? Who knows? Maybe Portland, Oregon, Manhattan, New York or an Aleutian Island. The issue really isn’t ‘where’ these things happen, but the pattern of them.

There were over 280 quakes this week.

– Bill

In his new book, In Search of Self-Governance, Scott Rasmussen observes that the American people are “united in the belief that our political system is broken, most politicians are corrupt, and neither major political party has the answers.” He adds that there is a “growing disdain for the unholy alliance between the largest corporations and our government… Some of us are ready to give up; some of us are ready to scream a little louder. But all of us believe we can do better.”

Click here to read on, my friend.

Humility among men, it seems, is generally most highly valued among those of modest accomplishment.

But is this idea scripturally sound? Click here to read on, my friend.

Just a reminder that “Quote Friday” got its proper attention at its due time every week this month. The most recent quote posted is below. You might want to slip on over to the full page to see the rest.

February 26:

Death had to take him in his sleep, for if he was awake there’d have been a fight. – Woodrow Wilson, speaking of Teddy Roosevelt

Where I come from, geographically and morally, we still speak of a man has “standing up on his hind legs” … a reference to the rearing up that a stallion will do when entering conflict. To embrace conflict as a matter of common course is, undeniably, wrong. But so is avoiding conflict when it should be engaged in. And yes, there are times when conflict should be entered into.

Click here to read on, my friend.

Look at the final comment on the linked page. Christian love is universal. Anything less is something else.

While the world holds its breath for Clintons’ stents and worries about whether it will rain instead of snow for the winter Olympics in Vancouver, a true heroine passed away on Monday.

She was a quiet sort of woman. All she did that was exceptional was hand the Nazi’s a daily defeat. What she did took extraordinary courage.

Miep Gies would have been 101 next month. You probably don’t know her by name, but she and four other co-conspirators hid Otto Frank and his family from the Nazi’s.

Two of those co-conspirators were identified and captured by the Nazi’s.

You might not remember Otto Frank and that’s okay; he survived the war.

But perhaps you’ve heard of his daughter, Anne.

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Woman-Who-Hid-Anne-Frank-from-Nazis-Dies-at-100-81220562.html

Tax time has come around again but, contrary to reports both published and whispered, the IRS is not after your soul.

This year, as every year, many young folk are faced with filing their income taxes for the very first time. Some will get no help from others in their family. This post is addressed to those individuals, but the rest of us could probably profit from reading it, too.

Click here to read on, my friend.

This is a personal blog. So, with your permission, I’d like to take a moment to get personal with you.

Click here to read on, my friend.

  There is something about the Super Bowl … something other than the hassle of getting through store checkout lines this past week … that grinds me.

In this supposedly Christian nation, every year millions of people go nuts over a violent game played in body armor by absolutely huge men who make their stupendous livings by knocking other men down. There seem to be extra points points awarded for tackling the smallest guy on the field. Well, technically, they go for the smallest guy in a player uniform – brownie points are lost for tackling the guys in the striped shirts.

Some are of the opinion that the game is not violent. But this quote “"It’s an interesting theoretical question, but I don’t think anybody would consider playing NFL football without a helmet,"* would seem to argue otherwise.

Click here to read on, my friend.

And now it is gone. Its purpose was to replace naughty words with asterisks … but, finding no naughty words, it seems to have amused itself by deleting the entire body of some recent comments.

Actually, the mess-up is probably the result of updating the version of Wordpress but continuing to use the older version of the plugin. In either case, comments seem to be working now.

If you posted a comment and the body of it disappeared, please feel free to re-post. I’ve dealt with the plugin, but the body of your comments appear to have evaporated and I can’t recover them. — Bill