Farewell to Buckeye

Last week our cousin Terry came and got the colt, we call Buckeye. The colt's sire is named Buck Hancock Gray. We are glad that the colt is still in the family. We will enjoy watching him grow into a fine horse under Terry's expert care.

Quotes of the Week 11/09/06

Quotes of the Week

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. Winston Churchill

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear...Hebrews 11:3

Something to think about:

Have you noticed how fearful our news media seems to be here in America? Right now, the focus is on the upcoming elections, but think about some of the reporting in the last few years. Whatever happened to bird flu? A little over a year ago it was poised to decimate the world’s population with a pandemic after it morphed into human to human infection capability. I wonder has it stopped occurring or has the media just lost interest?

We have gone through several phases of fearful forecasts of climate change. Last year after a near record hurricane season, you would have thought that surely most of coastal America would be destroyed this year. We are near the end of the hurricane season, and I think our media was greatly disappointed that we have had no tropical storm catastrophes as of yet.

As I recall, it seems that during some unusually slow news periods, the media dredged up the possibility of an asteroid or comet hitting the earth. One of the networks had a special series depicting the numerous ways that life on earth could be cataclysmically ended.

I have asked myself why the fascination of our news media on such fearful topics? I think one reason is the dissatisfaction of the majority of the media with our present government and administration. Maybe they want to create fear, so that somehow either the present administration could be blamed for the fearful possibilities, or hinted to be unconcerned and unable to protect America from them. I had almost decided that must be the case, and then, out of the blue, maybe the true crux of the issue.

It dawned on me that we may be seeing a natural result of years of secular humanism that has been taught in our schools and colleges, and may form the foundation for the worldview that has been preached and propagated by our media. From Hollywood to New York, movie sets to newsrooms, it may be that the majority of those in power there tend to not believe in a creator designed and controlled universe. From what they tend to report, and how they portray religion, especially the Judeo/Christian type, I think that is probably the case.

When a person has become firmly convinced that there is no God; that our existence here on this planet is just a lucky happenstance of evolution, then it must become a very fearful world indeed. Humanity hangs by a thread. We never know what event may be about to wipe us all out. A comet, an asteroid, global warming, pandemic, anything could happen and eventually will. If mankind controls his destiny and no creator exists as humanism professes, then we must learn to control the forces that threaten our existence. We need a vaccine for every flu, we need to control the weather, we need a defense against rogue meteors, asteroids, and comets. And what are we to do about those pesky solar flares. And what if the sun starts to burn out before we have colonized other solar systems? Its enough to worry a newsperson to death.

Adoption Update 11/02/06

Adoption Update. Today the CCAA (China Center for Adoption Affairs) posted on their website that they have completed matches (matching a child up with a family's dossier) through August 25, 2005 LID (Log In Date). We are pretty excited about this news since it indicates a slight increase in the number of matches made over the past six to twelve months.

For those of you who do not know our LID is December 9, 2005. We were approved to adopt May 7, 2005 and began the process of getting our Dossier ready to send to China. We will share a little more about the process as time goes on. When we were approved the wait time from LID to Match was 6 months. During the past year the wait time from LID to Match has increased to about 14 months. The wait has been hard especially at our age...! Whatever happens we know when the time is right we will be matched up with the little girl the Lord has already chosen for us.

Sorry we cannot post the cute little box from the CCAA website, but we have not yet figured out how to accomplish that. May need to ask one of the grandsons!!!!!!!!!!!