I see ghosts sometimes.
I see ghosts sometimes.
As I walk around Liberty, especially amongst the students, I see things. I hear things.
Sometimes I hear a laugh, I see a shape, a fleeting glimpse.
Then a rush of memories flood my mind. Times long gone, conversations from another time, all rush in without hesitation. They dance around me, warm me, and suddenly I’m transported through time and space and for a brief second I am once again . . . a kid, a teenager, I’m a thousand things all at once.
I start to turn, to shout “s’ up” and images, sounds, smells, feelings, thoughts all crash into the back of my mind. For the briefest of moments I am left all alone in time.
But it is a brief second, maybe two.
A small smile crosses my mind. The illusion, the memory is gone, stored in back into the conscious collections of Neurons and proteins from which it emerged awaiting the next trigger.
I switch my laptop from one hand to another; I scan the crowd for the source of the memory. Then oddly I say a small prayer for those around me, that they will have friends as I have, memories as I have.
Its then that the wonderful gift I have hits me and I realize how lucky and fortunate I am in this all too brief life.
Now I know what He meant when he said “I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,” Phil. 1:3
I arrive at my class and the ghosts retreat and await their next surprise and all is well with me.
Watch the video and decide for yourself.
It is all I can ask.
People we must do what is right.
. . . From the Rooftops!!
I just read this and we must do something. We cant just passively be polictically correct any longer. We must have a call to action, we must respond. This is a Holy War.
A woman was killed in Kabul, and I quote “Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, claimed responsibility for the slaying, saying the woman was killed because she was spreading Christianity.”
Recently I was having a chat with what seemed like a rational guy about The Right to Keep and Bear Arms (english grammar snobs, I capitalized it because I think its important.) He declared that Christians are legally insane. Even named the pathological problem. I know this mode of thought has been around awhile, but when do we draw a line and say “It stops here, we can retreat no further?” I have always heard that if Christians were persecuted we would stand up and fight, that it would be like squeezing a handful of sand. My question is “When do we say enough is enough?”
Do we wait till our country has fallen into socialism? Do we wait till we have to register our churches, or worse? How long before we have our children taken away because we dared teach them in our home and from the Bible. When will we have our fill, where is the line?
I submit, It is our country the last great haven for Christians around the world. We need to start fighting and voting, and just plain ol gettin mad. Lets start standing up for what we believe. We must stand from the Rooftops (albeit virtually) and shout “Jesus Christ hates sin, gave His own life for Sinners, I must do no less. This is our town, our country, and Jesus lives here because He lives in me. The love of Jesus Christ is what you folk need, its the only thing that can truly save this planet.”
I am pasting the contents of the article here just in case it goes away.
Taliban kill Christian aid worker in Afghanistan By AMIR SHAH – 53 minutes ago
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban gunmen on a motorbike killed a Christian aid worker in the Afghan capital on Monday, and the militant group said it had targeted the woman because she was proselytizing.
The woman, a British national, worked with handicapped Afghans and was killed in the western part of Kabul as she was walking alone around 8 a.m., police said. Najib Samsoor, a district police chief, originally said the woman was from South Africa, but the British government later said she was British.
The gunmen shot the victim in the body and leg with a pistol, said Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary. Officials did not release her name.
Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, claimed responsibility for the slaying, saying the woman was killed because she was spreading Christianity.
“This woman came to Afghanistan to teach Christianity to people of Afghanistan,” Mujahid told the Associated Press. “Our (leaders) issued a decree to kill this woman. This morning our people killed her in Kabul.”
The woman’s organization — SERVE, Serving Emergency Relief and Vocational Enterprises — describes itself as a Christian charity registered in Britain. The group’s Web page says the charity has been working with Afghan refugees since 1980 in Pakistan.
“SERVE Afghanistan’s purpose is to express God’s love and bring hope by serving the people of Afghanistan, especially the needy, as we seek to address personal, social and environmental needs,” SERVE’s Web page says.
Afghanistan is a conservative Islamic nation and has little tolerance for outside religious interference. Proselytizing is prohibited by law, and other Christian missionaries or charities have faced severe hostilities.
Last summer a group of 23 South Korean aid workers from a church group were taken hostage in southern Afghanistan. Two were killed and the rest were released.
In 2001, eight international aid workers, including two Americans, were imprisoned and charged with preaching Christianity. The eight were freed by Afghan mujahedeen fighters attacking the Taliban after the U.S.-led invasion.
In 2006, an Afghan man who converted from Islam to Christianity was sentenced to death by an Afghan court. Following an international outcry Afghan authorities declared the man insane and he was granted asylum in Italy, where he now lives.
Monday’s attack adds to a growing sense of insecurity in Kabul. The capital is now blanketed in police checkpoints. Embassies, military bases and the U.N. are erecting cement wall barriers to guard against suicide bombings.
Kidnappings targeting wealthy Afghans have long been a problem in Kabul, but attacks against Westerners in the city and surrounding provinces have also increased recently. In mid-August, Taliban militants killed three women working for the U.S. aid group International Rescue Committee while they were driving in Logar, a province south of Kabul.
Meanwhile, assault helicopters dropped NATO troops into Jalrez district of Wardak province on Thursday, leading to a two-day battle involving airstrikes in which more than 20 militants were killed, the military alliance said in a statement Monday.
Wardak province, just 40 miles west of Kabul, has become an insurgent stronghold on the doorsteps of the capital.
Militants have expanded their traditional bases in the country’s south and east — on the border with Pakistan — and have gained territory in the provinces surrounding Kabul, a worrying development for Afghan and NATO troops.
Those advances are part of the reason that top U.S. military officials have warned that the international mission to defeat the Taliban is in peril, and why NATO generals have called for a sharp increase in the number of troops here.
Some 65,000 international troops now operate in Afghanistan, including around 32,000 Americans.
You get what you pay for.
You know, Years ago when Arnold was running for Governor of California I told my class, If he is elected they deserve it. If he is not elected they deserve that too. So now I ask, if we (all of america) elect Obama, or NOT elect him, well do we get what we deserve?
Wildfire Weekend
My favorite Phd Comics strips.
From the three strips above you get a glimpse of some of the humor of PhD comics. I have been a big fan for several years now and have oddly found them motivating while going through my studies. This set in particular. A few years ago I was even thinking of dropping out, or not finishing, but now Im glad that it was worth it. What did these comics do for me? They made me realize Im not the only one that feels this way. So head over to www.phdcomics.com I promise it will be worth it!
FireProof
What do you guys think? I really would like to know.
So move to Canada if you dont want to raise your children here.
\"I dont want that future for my children\" - Obama