This Week-end At Our Home….and some Sunday Evening Thoughts

Saturday the kids and I worked all afternoon peeling apples and making 8 pies. Then we made a large pot of applesauce. It was fun to take our free apples and turn them into food for the winter.
Dw has been spending his days moving between the chair and the couch….trying to get comfortable. He is still on oxygen, as he just can’t keep his level up. The pain seems to be the worst today.

We have been broadcasting our second service as a live feed on the internet so this morning Dw was able to watch from the couch. During announcements I had our congregation yell “Hi Dw” to him…it was sweet and he was tickled.
Yesterday our dear friends came for dinner (which they brought) just so they could hang out with us….very, very fun and lots of laughs. Lori, Lucy Lu and her family were supposed to bring dessert, but were no-shows! Just cause they live 15 hours away, they think they have an excuse to not show? Whatever girlfriend….
Kimmy and JadynMartin…
Today we had a steady flow of friends coming over to check on Dw and visit for a bit…many have brought food and that is just so helpful. I forgot how time consuming having someone recouping from a major surgery is, especially when he cannot lift anything or bend and is dizzy much of the time and on oxygen and in much pain. (whew) Having some meals that are ready to serve has been such a blessing to us – Thank you dear friends – You guys so totally rock!!
Dw is not a complainer at all, infact the first day home he wanted to sit outside before he came in the house. He loves to sit and watch the mountains and often says, “I love looking at the mountains, cause they never move.” Well after his surgery he said, “Ya know how I say the mountains never move? Today they’re moving.” LOL (Okay Buddy, come in the house and lay down – ummm NOW!!)
And lastly, I’ve had some thoughts that are mulling around in my noggin….It’s only two days until the elections and my heart continues to pray and plead for our nation. This morning Dw was watching some TV preachers as I got ready to take the kids and go to church.
I watched a bit of it and there was a young man on one of the shows who was in a suit and singing a hymn and I just started to cry. Tears were just dripping and dripping. It reminded me of the Baptist church I went to as a young girl. My home life was extremely painful and that church was such a respite from all the pain. That young man in the suit reminded me of my growing up days and somehow I guess I felt almost like I was grieving. Grieving that 2008 is filled with flagrant immorality and evil is paraded down Main Street.
Dw was telling me this morning about being out front amongst the Pro-Obama protestors as we stood in line waiting to go inside the McCain rally. While standing there he said there was a family walking towards the rally. They were heading over to take their place in the long line. The entire family was all dressed up. They looked like they were in their “Sunday-go-to-meetin” clothes. My guess (and it is only a guess) is that they are conservatives who honor a person worthy of respect (like a Presidential candidate) who would happen upon our sweet little city. They show their honor and respect by dressing up in their Sunday best for such a special occasion. Dw said he heard the protestors making fun of this family because they were dressed up.

This morning this family in their dress-up way of honoring someone of great regard was on my mind as I listened to the old hymn. Where has the America of old gone? Where have the ideas of dressing up to show honor disappeared to? How have the innocence of days of old vanished?
I wonder if I am the only one who feels this way – grieving for the old fashioned virtues of innocence, honoring, deep respect, modesty and graciousness while praying like crazy that Almighty God extends His mercy and grace to our nation one more time…..
This morning with tears just drippin away, I went upstairs to get dressed and in our bedroom I found the Christian Radio station playing yet another old hymn which made me cry even more.

2 thoughts on “This Week-end At Our Home….and some Sunday Evening Thoughts

  1. No, you are not alone. My heart is heavy tonight as we await the results tomorrow. My prayers have switched to asking God for Mercy as our nation certainly does not deserve it.

    You mentioned the precious family that arrived all dressed in a show of respect for McCain and how Obama protesters/ followers were making fun of them. I hope you don’t mind, but I want to share the following post with you. It comes from a Hillary Clinton supporter that obtained a paid position for Mr. Barack Obamas campain. She writes the following…
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    Here is the text/ post from http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com #18 on Oct. 27
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    Ok, I want to clear my conscious a little. Hopefully you could make a blog post to help some fellow clinton supporters out.

    I work for a campaign and can’t wait for this week to be over.

    I was doing it for a job. I was not a fan of any candidate but over time grew to love HRC.

    The internal campaign idea is to twist, distort, humiliate and finally dispirit you.

    We pay people and organize people to go to all the online sites and “play the part of a clinton or mccain supporter who just switched our support for obama”

    We do this to stifle your motivation and to destroy your confidence.
    We did this the whole primary and it worked.

    Sprinkle in mass vote confusion and it becomes bewildering. Most people lose patience and just give up on their support of a candidate and decide to just block out tv, news, websites, etc.

    This surprisingly has had a huge suppressing movement and vote turnout issues.

    Next, we infiltrate all the blogs and all the youtube videos and overwhelm the voting, the comments, etc. All to continue this appearance of overwhelming world support.
    People makes posts to the effect that the world has “gone mad”
    Thats the intention. To make you feel stressed and crazy and feel like the world is ending.

    We have also had quite a hand in skewing many many polls, some we couldn’t control as much as we would have liked. But many we have spoiled over. Just enough to make real clear politics look scarey to a mccain supporter. Its worked, alough the goal was to appear 13-15 points ahead.
    see, the results have been working. People tend to support a winner, go with the flow, become “sheeple”

    The polls are roughly 3-5 points in favor of Barack. Thats due to our inflation of the polls and pulling in the sheeple.

    Our donors, are the same people who finance the MSM. Their interests are tied, Barack then tends to come across as teflon. Nothing sticks. And trust, there were meetings with Fox news. The goal was to blunt them as much as possible. Watch Bill Oreilly he has become much more diplomatic and “fair and balanced” and soft. Its because he wants to retain the #1 spot on cable news and to do that he has to have access to the Obama campaign and we worked hard at stringing him a long and keeping him soft for an interview swap. It worked and now he is anticipating more access. So he is playing it still soft.
    This is why nothing sticks.

    The operation is massive, the goal is to paint a picture that is that of a winner, regardless of the results.

    There is no true inauguration draft or true grant park construction going on. There will be a party, but we are boasting beyond the truth to make it seem like the election is wrapped up.

    Our goal is to continue to make you lose your moral. We worked hard at persuasion and paying off and timing and playing the right political numbers to get key republican endorsements to make it seem even more like it was over and the world was coming to an end for you all.

    There is a huge staff of people working around the clock, watching every site, blogs, etc. We flood these sites. We have had a goal to overwhelm.
    The truth is here. I could go on and on, but you get the picture.

    I am saying this because I know HRC was better for the country, and now realize this. I was too late by the time I connected to her. To me Barack was just a cool young dude that seemed like a star. I didn’t know him or his policies, but now I understand more than I care to and I realize his interests are more for him, and the DNC and all working like puppets with dean. I always thought a president wanted the better good for the country. The end result I see is everyone dependent on the government, this means more and more people voting for the DNC. This means the future is forever altered. I don’t see this as america, so I am now supporting John Mccain.

    Sarah Palin is a huge threat, and our campaign has feared her like you can’t imagine. If it seems unfair how she has been treated, well its because she has had a team working round the clock to make her look like a fool.
    this is a big conspiracy and I am so shocked that its not realized.

    We released a little blurb the other day that the Obama campaign was already working on reelection and now putting our efforts towards 2012. This was to make it seem like it was above us to continue caring about 2008. Trust me, its a lie. David is very smart, but its a sticky ugly not very truthful kind of intelligence.
    Its not over yet, but I think the machine is working. And its a hill to climb.

    I will be quitting my post on nov 5th and my vote will be for John Mccain. Fortunately, my position has been a marketing position and I don’t feel I had any part of anything I would feel guilty for. But I look forward to getting out of this as the negativity and environment upsets me.
    I wish you all well, and goodluck.
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