Terms of Endearment won best picture. The Soviet Union announced wanting to boycott the Olympics. The official name of the Turkish city Urfa is changed into Şanlıurfa.
And this car is made:
No wonder George Orwell warned us about 1984. I thought that this car only existed in the realms of the Thunderdome, but it drove past me this morning.
I wonder how this Mustang is welcomed at Ford family reunions. The one that passed me this morning was green, if that works in its favor.
Did you know that you can go from mummified toad to living toad after adding a lot of water? I learned that this morning. Yep. I was greeted by mummified toad. What a way to enter the library.
Even more disturbing – my wife rented the Jonas Brothers concert movie. Let’s just say that it’s not as good as the Hannah Montana movie…because I wasn’t sick enough to begin with. Somewhere in the Valley, the Sith were attacking and I was watching karking Mmmbop.
Sunday night we rented 17 Again…and it actually wasn’t bad. Well worth the dollar. My more brun meldir will appreciate that the nerd in the story looks like a nerd, grows up to be successful and still a nerd, and finds a woman (Jan from The Office (who also was Billy Ray Cyrus’ love interest in Hannah Montana)) that is fluent in Tengwar.
I would like to say that facial hair leads to a deeper spirituality, but we all know what goatees lead to.
I’m reading through George Muller’s journals right now (I know, I feel like a busy-body) and his attitude of prayer blows me away. It’s like when my wife and I helped out in Honduras. Friend Ships is an organization that smuggles (they probably wouldn’t appreciate my use of the term) food, Bibles, and other supplies to places where the need is greatest. Picture blockade runners sneaking into China and Russia, past the government to secret locations of people. That kind of awesome. But they started it all without really marketing/pushing for donations. They put up places where you can donate, but that’s not their focus.
Back to Muller – he was the guy who started up five orphanages without asking for any donations and never went into debt. It was always at the last minute when the food/supplies would be provided. The journal entry that I read this morning dealt with a husband and wife who woke up one morning thinking, “You know what? I think this guy needs a table” and donating most of their furniture to Muller’s orphanage – and Muller hadn’t mentioned the need. Whether it seems simple or not, I’m still always encouraged when I see people give out of love instead of being guilted into things. Think about the complaints people have against televangelists – the focus on money is one of the biggest complaints. Now imagine if we all had Muller’s attitude. Easier said than done, right?
Other thoughts shifting around in my brain this morning…
I put my sarcastic book on hold. I want to do it justice in its mockery of cliches without becoming cliche itself. It’s like Luke and the Dark Side of the Force, really.
I did start a different endeavor, though. A narrative in haikus is all I will say in this non-secure communication.
My friend is a chaplain in the military and needs some resources as he counsels soldiers.
Here's what the soldiers are asking for.
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Chaplain (CPT) Vincent Garcia
Battalion Chaplain
40th Expeditionary Signal Battalion
APO AE 09342
