Friday, February 10, 2006KNOWING HE MIGHT GO TO IRAQ, HE CHOSE TO JOIN THE MARINESRobert came to me six months ago, I am going soon to Iraq -- please pray For the salvation of my soul. An excellent mechanic is he, Through a private company -- he would Work on U.S. Army vehicles, you see. A few weeks ago, Robert again came to me, I've truned down the private company's offer, I... Sign in to see full entry.Thursday, February 9, 2006HOW DOES IT MAKE YOU FEEL?Los Angeles Tower the next target of attack. As you probably heard tonight in the evening and /or late news, the 9/11 attack in New York, also included an Los Angeles attack at the same time or a few days later. Our fast response in grounding all airplanes may have averted such an attack, and then... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, February 8, 2006REVISITING HISTORY, INSTEAD OF REVISING IT!Yesterdays funeral of Coretta Scott King was not only an act of honor for her life, but the multi-hour long session became a moment (maybe far too many moments) of time in which we all revisited a very difficult time in our history. I, a young white boy, was there in Birmingham, Alabama when it was... Sign in to see full entry.Tuesday, February 7, 2006MY WIFE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND,And some of you may not either. She was born and raised in Michigan. I was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama in the '50's and 60's. Though young, and not fully understanding or appreciating the civil rights movement in my own backyard, I was an eyewitness to it, and that is why I have been... Sign in to see full entry.A SOUTHERN BOY WATCHES A BLACK FAMILY SAY GRACECoretta King's funeral today reminded me of some of my memories good and bad, pleasant and painful of growing up in the South. One of my fondest memories was of my Father's change of attitude about race. He was a very prejudiced individual till one Sunday we went to an all white Restaurant and in... Sign in to see full entry.Monday, February 6, 2006STUDENTS WINS $10,000, TEACHER RECEIVES $100.00One of my high school students recently won $ 10,000.00 in a poetry contest. Believe it or not, he wrote a poem about scrapping paint off the walls of an Army Barracks, and it won him $ 10,000.00. Recently, I entered a poetry contest, and I won $100.00 for honorable mention. This student graduated... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, February 4, 2006CORETTA KING LYING IN STATEI was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama as a white person. I remember the days when you would walk into a store, and there would be two water fountains, white and colored; segregated bathrooms, and the colored people not allowed to eat in white restaurants. O there is so much more I could tell,... Sign in to see full entry.HUSBAND COACHING SUPER BOWL...While wife and daughter are in Africa caring and ministering to the poor in Africa's Congo region. I hope each of you saw the special on ABC News about Mike Holgrem's wife and daugther who is a great person of faith, and will be in Africa giving cups of cold water in love's name, while her husband... Sign in to see full entry.Thursday, February 2, 2006BUSH GOES COUNTRYI am a new blogger on the Blogit Network; actually, I am not a new blogger, but readywriter55 returning. If you would like to know the story of my return read THE PURPOSE DRIVEN BLOGGER - A Fall Down A Mountain Changes My Life - As many of you know I live in Nashville, Tennessee, and we were... Sign in to see full entry.Tuesday, May 31, 2005HONESTLY, I WAS JUST KIDDINGA few weeks ago, when I suggested that Laura Bush run for President in 2008, I was just kidding. She did do well and made a great ambassador for this country in the Middle East, but I was not serious about her running for President. Now others much more influential are asking her to seriously... Sign in to see full entry. |
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