Humor me please...

And you thought you had the greatest, smartest, funniest, and most beautiful grandchildren in the world? NOT!! I am blessed to have them. I don't think I do...I know I do! Everytime I see them they have learned something new and exciting. Now that they live a hour from us and we don't get to see them each day....I am amazed everytime I do get to see them as to how they have changed. Maybe they are a small bit taller, weigh a few ounces heavier, their hair is a few inches longer...fact of the matter is...they are changing so quickly. Tripp is all boy and Makinley is all little girl....they compliment each other. It reminds me how it must have been with my mom raising my baby sister and I so many years ago. I have a faint memory of my Grandfather Sheneman taking me out on his porch one night and showing me the full moon. I couldn't have been much older than Tripp is now. Unfortunately, he died when I was only a few years old so I never got to know him and this is the only real memory I have of him. I know he loved me and I can only imagine how he must have felt when I was born....a Sheneman male to carry on his legacy.
Granddad...I hope I've made you as proud of me as I am of my grandchildren.

DECEIVED!!

It's official in my book. The nation has been deceived...duped if you will. We took God out of everything...including many churches. Now, we face a future where He will be removed from everything else. It's just a matter of time and time in this case...is not infinite. We'll wake up in the not too distant future and Big Brother will be camped out on our front porch. Don't laugh...it's happening right before our eyes, but the problem is.....America has been blinded and you know what......it's already been written! Read The Book! Read the end of The Book! Read it before you aren't allowed to read it anymore. The times we are living in should not surprise the believer. We are challenged to live "ready" because we know He will return like a thief in the night. No man knows the day or the hour, but we can be prepared to meet Him. Are you prepared? Are you ready? To choose not to choose is to choose!! We should be ashamed that we have not stood up and our voices heard. We have allowed the liberals...the left...to have their way and it is on the verge of getting so much worse. We have forgotten so many lessons You sought to teach us. How soon the nation has forgotten 9/11. Thank you President Bush for your efforts to protect us since that fateful day. We should all be eternally grateful to you for our safety and that of our families. Thanks to all the brave military men and women protecting me and mine day in and day out.

Lord, how soon? Come quickly! You destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for so much less!

Amazing!!!

I'm not sure there is anything else that I can hear about the Presidential election that will surprise me. Last night, we were listening to the news and they were interviewing some 18 year old kid that had voted "73" times in Ohio already for OBAMA because of the efforts of ACORN. Of course, this is just one more affiliation that Darth Barack has in his past that the main stream media elects to sweep under the carpet. Let's see...Ayers, Wright, Farakan, Resco!! Am I the only one that sees this guy as the liberal radical that he obviously is?? I am convinced the vast majority of Americans are spiritually blinded. There is no way...at least in my mind....that a born again believer is not looking towards the eastern sky everyday waiting for the trumpet to sound. If we aren't on a fast track to the end times...then I am Popeye. Is anybody really listening to this rhetoric? Has anybody really looked at his history? Heck, I am not savvy when it comes to politics, but I am intelligent enough to do my own research and homework. I was talking to a work colleague the other day and I mentioned all the brave men and women that had died in Iraq and Afghanistan protecting our freedoms and he told me in no uncertain terms, "they didn't die for my freedom." I was incredulous. What? "They didn't die for my freedom because they are fighting a illegal war that the American people didn't approve."
WHAT? Are you crazy?
I pray the day never comes that a terrorist bomb doesn't blow up in the school yard where his children play.
Therein lies the problem!! People are uninformed and thus, IGNORANT!!!
Get off the couch and vote! get off the couch and encourage others to vote! MOST IMPORTANTLY...get off the couch and GET ON YOUR KNESS AND PRAY THAT GOD GIVES US ONE MORE CHANCE TO GET IT RIGHT!

TORNADO!!

And you think tornados are only a problem in the midwest?? This is a photograph of the tornado that touched down in downtown Atlanta a few months ago around the Georgia Dome, CNN Center and Phillips Arena

Stay the course....

If you are like me and thousands of other Americans, you hear conversations each day about the state of our country. There is no doubt it is having a hiccup right now, but.....it is still the greatest country on the face of the earth. The way I look at it.....it's as much our fault as it is anyone's in Washington. Afterall, we are the ones that put them there....at least a small number of us when you look at the total registered voting populace. The American people are the ones that gobbled up the easy mortgages when they knew within that they would never be able to afford the new house, the new car, all the latest bells and whistles. Of course, there was GREED! Deep down....that word creeps within each of us because we are individualists! It is all about ME...not WE! As far as the Presidential election goes.....I will vote my conscience and convictions and as far as I am concerned the choice is easy. I can't even fathom the thought of Obama in the White House. When I really stop and think about that possibility it would suggest to me that many across our land have become deceived. Who is the author of lies and deception? Enough said!
Now, as far as Wall Street goes....I have taken a hit like many have. However, I am staying put and I'm not changing a thing. In fact, it is a awesome time to buy. I only wish I was 25 again like Trey because if I was, I would be figuring out a way to buy, buy, buy. Even though I'm not 25 and am anticipating retiring sooner than later, I believe that American ingenuity will prevail and we will see the economy come back. It is the history of the market. We shouldn't get in the market for the short term...ever!
Bottom line is...none of this caught God by surprise! Like the song says, "when I don't know where to go, I run to the throne."