My beloved blog readers, I have not forgotten you! Time, however, stands still for no one. So when I realized I haven't written since July, I felt it is time to let you know what is on my mind. BUT here's the deal, so much has been on my mind since July, if I wrote it all, we'd be here for a while. And since we all got things to do, I will do my best to keep it short and sweet. (Hee Hee, we'll see how that goes...)
Well tomorrow is October 31! Happy Halloween to all you who celebrate! See I can say it and I don't even celebrate Halloween whereas, hearing/saying "Merry Christmas" causes some non -Christian folks to suffer a nervous breakdown. It's sad really. I mean, personally I don't find Halloweeners threatening to my lifestyle yet, for some reason, my Christianity is a threat to the others! Wonder why? Hmmmmmmmm! Well, the truth can be scary if you aren't ready for it (or if you can't HANDLE THE TRUTH per Jack Nichalson).
Anyway, I even sat here and watched "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown". Not b/c of Halloween but b/c it reminded me of a happier, simpler time. Halloween was about dressing up and getting candy but like everything we do, we take simple stuff and turn it into something ugly. Just like Snoopy dressed up as a WWII flying ace and in his mind, he was in WWII fighting. His little dog house was a fighter jet and he was in battle against the Red Baron! But we all know, little Snoopy was just a dog in a red scarf sitting on his doghouse. Laugh at Snoopy all you want, we are no different b/c the stuff we do is way more bizarre than anything in Snoopy's imagination and far scarier than anything associated with Halloween. How so? Glad you asked cause you know I will tell ya...
What could be scarier than Halloween?
For one, animals becoming more important than people! Okay, I am going to say this and I am done. I absolutely think Mike Vick could have found other ventures besides dog fighting to invest his money such as education, heck he could have sent me the money to support my academic pursuits. Is dog abuse wrong? Uh, yeah. But here are my thoughts, has he committed the most horrible crime ever known to man? Uh noooooo! Have you ever seen the movie "Amistad". It only showed a mere glimpse at the horrors and abuse Africans suffered during the slave trade. But Sherry, you went back too far. That isn't happening today. Oh no? Hmmm. Let's ride to Logan County, West VA and ask the 20 something year old woman who was sexually abused, tortured, and beaten. Besides being sexually assaulted, she was stabbed four times in the left leg and cut on her ankles. Both of her eyes were black and blue. Her captors also forced her to eat rat and dog feces and drink from the toilet. The woman also was choked with a cable cord and her hair cut off. And guess what, this happened only a few weeks ago. Did you hear about it? Did it make national news? Where you bombarded with the details of this story? While I bet you can tell me how many dogs Michael Vick killed, did you know this young woman was tortured for about a week, yes a week, by 6 assailants. Now you tell me, where is the outpour of rage on behalf of this young woman like there was for the dogs?
Ok. I better move away from the dogs, cause messing with the dogs will get me in big trouble. After all dogs are quasi-human. So let's talk fish. We have this awful drought in the south. No water for anything! Crops dying, grass dying, rivers and lake drying up! We all know droughts are not a good thing. A drought kills and destroys because water promotes life, right? YES! Life for the fish - the mussels and the sturgeons but for people - fa-get about it! See these fish are endangered so the Army Corps of Engineers drains Lake Lanier in GA of 3 billion gallons of water from the dam to protect the fish. So let me see, it is okay to dry the people out and save the fish which we will eventually go fishing and eat but we won't have any water to wash the fish down, not to mention, without the water, we'll die but the fish will go on. I am a bit confused. Okay the drought isn't that bad yet but you get my point.
What is scarier than Halloween?
Reality Television! Now it is not just the fact Flav-or FLAAAAV got a show or the fact, that a woman who looks like a man in drag, "I Love New York" herself has a show where guys actually want to date her. Ladies, if you haven't found Mr. Right, you are probably are going at it wrong. You have to look like a man dressed like a woman and be extremely ghetto! Being cute, feminine, and intelligient obviously doesn't cut it anymore. Oh but it gets scarier...There is this new show where this chick is trying to find love but the catch is she is choosing among men and women! Obviously being the opposite sex doesn't cut it anymore either. Or how about, this show about the life of the Playboy bunnies who live in Hugh Hefners playboy mansion. And they don't actually do anything exciting or say anything intelligent so why is this a show? I am sure you can figure this out on your own. I have often told my schoolmates that a reality show about getting a PHD would make for great tv. Talk about drama!
What's scarier than Halloween?
George H.allo W.een Bush. Is he not scaier than any ghoul or goblin you have ever seen? No medical insurance for the babies but let's fund the war IRAQ with $136 billion dollars. I am just so over this war. Even the GIs don't even know why they are there nor do they want to be there. Sure the 2 or 3 they interview on the news say "Oh yes, I am behind my Commander and Chief" but I bet they don't speak for all the soldiers. If you know anything about statistics, the sample size does not produce statistically sound evidence to accept the null hypothesis. (Oops, I thought I was in class). So who's left to fight future wars, if we let the kids die?
What's scarier than Halloween?
Taking (or attempting to take) God out of everything. Actually this isn't as scary as it is laughable.
Isaiah 29: 16 You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "He did not make me"? Can the pot say of the potter, "He knows nothing"?
Exactly who do we think we are? If we really had if going on like we think we do, then why is the world so jacked up? Seems to me that the further we get from God the worse off we become. I mean honestly, everytime we legislate anti-biblical legislature, we create more problems. Don't believe me, watch the news. Whether you are a believer or not, you can't deny it.
But the Potter knows his little broken and backwards pots and if the pots know His Word, all we have done to discredit Him only just proves His Word to be true: Romans 1: 21-31 says:
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Okay, if that don't scare you, then nothing will! To willfully turn from God and risk becoming every type of evil that would cause Freddie Gruger to run and hide! But this ain't Elm Street, people, and the nightmare is only beginning. Nope this ain't some B-rated horror flick! That's the Word of God! Oh yes my friends, a godless society is the true Halloween. And like the movie GroundHog Day, where Bill Murray lives the same day over and over, if we continue like we are, we will live October 31 over and over until Jesus comes!
