I did not post on the weight loss death match for a couple of days, so when I checked this morning I saw that Brad (Bradley Lemond) Joyce had joined the chart. WELCOME Brad! Lyle is going strong, too. Now all we have to do is get Warren up and going again. I was down 40, but now I am only down 35. I have no excuse. I would really like to be down 52 pounds after a year. That would be a pound a week for a year. The one year anniversary of our chart is on February 1. They have changed the name to “Weight Loss GET HEALTHY Match”, but it just does not have the same ring to it, not to mention the level of intensity, of “Weight Loss DEATH Match”. We are going to have to negotiate this. I say, “Lose weight or die!!!”
It is election day. It is an amazing time to be reading the book of Jeremiah in the bible. I do not know why I did not know that Jeremiah was called to be a prophet as a child. With the election going on, I have thought a lot about what the world will be like for Kelly and Christian. It was good for me to realize that God has a calling for people even in the bad times, probably especially in the bad times. God told Jeremiah that everyone in power would be against him, but to not fear because God would be with him. Another thing I do not know why I did not know was part of the time Jeremiah prophesied occurred during the reign of Josiah, one of the good kings of Judah. He saw the decline of Judah from the prosperity of Josiah’s reign until Judah was carried into captivity during Josiah’s son Zedekiah’s reign. Still Jeremiah remained faithful to his calling. The upshot, as many had previously noted, is that God is in control of all of this. We have had some might good times here in America for a good number of years. The moral and ethical decline has accelerated since the time of my youth. Only God knows what lies ahead.
Nevertheless, I have lots of hope that John and Sarah can pull this thing out. The thing to do is ignore the main stream (or as Rush says, the “drive-by”) media. They lie a lot.
Update: I highly recommend this very timely post from our Cuban friend, Jorge.
November 1, 2004 – Harvest party (photos)
November 1, 2004 – Bebe de Oscar y Diana (Photos)
Jorge
Enjoyed reading your perspective on the election. It is great to be an American where we have the freedom of choice. But we sure live in scary times and we “cubans” who can see through the veil, as we lived through it, are scared. But there is a greater hand controlling all as in Jeremiah’s time. See my blog.
Thanks, Jorge. Your post on the election is great. I am putting a link to it as an update above.