I have come to the conclusion that there is a critical mass level on facebook. With too few people whom you have friended you will not tend to spend any time on the site because there is too little to read about and too few people who read your posts. At a certain point, and I don’t know where that is (I think it is different for everyone) you will have the right amount of “friends” and be very free with your posts. Then you reach a certain tipping point. You become “friends” with people on facebook that you really are not friends with. You have people who not only do not share your religious-political-social mores but will be just fine in telling you how you are stupid in your thoughts and opinions on such things. Nothing wrong with that per se, differing viewpoints are good and will either persuade you to change your thoughts or get you to think them through enough to be firm in believing them. but it will reach a point where you will be uncomfortable with the things people say. When this happens you have reached a certain level where you will be forced to do one of two things. You either edit who can see things that you post, or you cease to be as open and honest about what you think and believe. You may not have reached this point and it may be a lot higher for some people than for others, but keep adding people as “friends” and you will. Personally I have been just fine with ignoring several people who have sent me “friend” requests because they are not really my friends but merely people I am ever so faintly acquainted with. But that is just my opinion and I am sure someone will disagree with it and tell me about it.

I saw the police car, or rather it’s blur, fly past my house yesterday while I was home for lunch. Lights and siren whaling. I thought, “Hmm he’s in a hurry. Must be a bad wreck.” A little over an hour later I returned to work and something was wrong. There were a lot of people in the office. I asked what the party was and received scowls. Only a few minutes earlier One of our employees had answered the phone and was called away by the State Police. You see her sister and brother-in-law, had been murdered only half a mile from my house. I called my wife at this point as she would be heading home from her job, and I told her to lock the doors and load the pistol. When she later left for her other job which would only take an hour and a half, she wisely took our teen-age girls with her. Last night I slept with the loaded pistol on my beside table. When I woke this morning I looked and saw that I had laid it on top of my bible. “Hmm.” I thought to myself “We sure aren’t Obama people are we?”

Yesterday the family and I watched a documentary on the Apollo moon trips and the significance of having human beings stand on another heavenly body. The one person they could not get to be interviewed was Neil Armstrong. He is perhaps one of the top 10 most famous people of all time and he does not like publicity. He lives quietly and does not want the status of Hero, or Legend or anything. Amazing.
When Apollo 11 came back they had a parade with 2 million people there to cheer on those brave, crazy men who went a quarter million miles away for the first time and actually stood on what is for most of us, a disc in the sky.
He seems pretty humble for a person who had mankind united for a time saying “We did it!” I just don’t think we have heroes like this any more. There don’t seem to be any 2 million people ticker tape parades anymore.
There was one thing about the film which struck me. One of the people who went to the moon, Charlie Duke, became a Christian after he returned and in the documentary he said: “My walk on the Moon lasted three days and it was a great adventure, but my walk with God lasts forever.”

Well working three more hours a day definitely takes its toll on the free time. Yes, I was working about 4 1/2 hours a week for my 3rd job that I am not now, but that isn’t much. I hardly ever do anything on FaceBook any longer, but I think that is a plus. I did find out today from my boss that the position I got promoted to is at a higher rate of pay, he just doesn’t know how much higher and is clarifying that with the regional manager. Today during my 2 hour break between morning shift and afternoon shift I went to the Hospital to visit the mother of a church member so I pretty much only had time to eat during that break, I like to get a nice 20 minute nap in to keep me going through the day. Tonight I have a meeting at the church which I anticipate will take about 1 1/2 hours or so and I am not really looking forward to it, it could be a bit… stressful. We are having the nominating committee for Elders and Deacons etc. for the next year. I hope people keep their emotions and personal issues in check or even leave them at the door… me included.

The last day of Revival is tonight. The Campbells have been up since Saturday and will be leaving early tomorrow morning. Anyone in the area who is reading this is welcome to come to the church tonight at 7 for the last one. Attendance has been pretty good. Every night has gone over the number I set in my mind as the minimum (Monday was only 1 over though). The address is 29301 Lynn Street, New Carlisle Indiana 46552 (little white church in the country). Come on out and hear a great sermon and praise the Lord in song.

Not, it would seem in Dearborn Michigan (yeah, a few short hours drive from me). Unless of course your are the Muslim thug squad. But if you are a Christian simply trying to ask some questions at a booth that says “Got questions? we have answers.” then your freedoms don’t exist. Neither by the way, do laws about assault. Watch the video.