Fellowship with Christ

Every cloudy day holds the promise of sunshine.  But the sun does not always break through.  Mild depression occurs when we go for several days without sunshine.  If the sun is hidden for too long, SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) occurs.  Don’t you just love those psychological terms?  In a spiritual sense, some people are sad, not SAD, because they have not experienced love, friendship, acceptance, and other social “sunshine,” in a long period, and sometimes never.   Why am I bringing this up?  Last night, while researching I came across a website titled, “The Faces of Suicide" (the pics for this blog did not come from that site).  I stopped researching to look at each face.  The pain in their eyes, in spite of some smiling faces, was evident.  I could see the disparate longing for love and acceptance in some of them.  Additionally, some of the faces seemed to be etched with the resignation that they were too ugly, to...

A few years ago, the EPA decided that lead-based paint was a terrible hazard (never scientifically proven).  Therefore, disturbing paint, (e.g. replacing windows) inside a house built before 1978 required the contractor to follow a number of bizarre rules.  One had to attend class, become certified, and apply for a license to work such a job.  Records of had to be kept and faxed to the EPA monthly.  Several agencies, including the EPA and OSHA snooped about trying to catch offenders.   The fine for infracting the rules was $37,000 per day per incident.  That’s not all, but enough to reveal how insanely obsessed with protecting citizens the government has become. Consider all the regulations imposing penalties for infractions.  We’re fined $25 dollars for not wearing a seatbelt.  Spill coffee on our leg and a host of regulations are initiated to insure we are not burned the next time (Never mind that everyone hates tepid coffee). ...