Time To Believe

30 Hour Famine and More

This years 30 Hour Famine was the hardest for me. I had a headache from Thursday night at the volleyball game until I ate at 6 PM on Friday in spite of the fact I took Ibuprofen. I think it was the hardest because I was at work for part of the 30 Hour Famine. I enjoyed my meal last night very much to break the fast. Here is a fact that I learned last night at the 30 Hour Famine. Americans spend more than 61 BILLION (that is BILLION with a B not million) on soft drinks every year. I also learned about the LRA Lord's Resistance Army. Here is what Wikipedia says about the LRA. The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),[1] formed in 1987, is a terrorist paramilitary group operating mainly in northern Uganda and parts of Sudan. The group is engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government in what is now one of Africa's longest-running conflicts. It is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself a spirit medium, and apparently wishes to establish a state based on his unique interpretation of the Acholi religious syncretism and Premillennialism. The LRA is accused of widespread human rights violations, including mutilation, torture, rape, the abduction of civilians, the use of child soldiers and a number of massacres.
War violence experienced by abductees.
Witnessed a killing 78%
Tied or locked up 68%
Received a severe beating 63%
Forced to steal or destroy property 58%
Forced to abuse dead bodies 23%
Forced to attack a stranger 22%
Forced to kill a stranger 20%
Forced to kill an opposing soldier in battle 15%
Forced to attack a family member or friend 14%
Forced to kill a family member or friend 8% ( One boy was forced to kill his own mother we learned in last night.)

I watch the news and read a lot of news and had not heard anything about the terrible things going on. Why are we not sending troups to these peoples aid?


In volleyball action we won three games (the set) and then lost three games (the set). I think that this was the first set that we have won this season.

Labels: Church

posted by Michael @ 9:03 AM 1 comments

Sex or Abstinence or Vaccines

I have had this post rolling around in my head for several months now. It started when the vaccine for the HPV came out. I must now remind you that HPV is a STD (sexual transmitted disease) and you can get it without having sex. Skin to skin contact is all that is needed. When the vaccine came out many schools were talking about mandating that it be given to girls as young as nine. I will add now that Texas has mandated it for girls before entering the sixth grade. Now back to the main point. I said that I don’t think that it should be mandated. I said that if abstinence was promoted more we would not need to be vaccinating people for the HPV. I was then told that I was stupid and naive if I thought that kids were going to abstain from sex. I was also told that we should not put that kind of pressure or expect that out of our kids. This came from church going and I think Christians. I recently walked in on two women talking about the HPV vaccine. The one woman was asking the other if she had told her (14 or 15 year old ) daughter about it. These were church going/Christian women. I wanted to say this is a STD she will not be getting it if she does not have sex or doing something with her clothes off. I kept my mouth shut this time and did not say anything because of the last time of being called stupid. But I don’t think I will be able to keep my mouth shut the next time.

posted by Michael @ 3:15 PM 1 comments

Shopping On-line

I have never been a big fan of shopping on-line. However over the past two weeks I have bought two things on-line. I bought a box of checkes. It was a simple process. It came right out of your checking account also which I like. I also bought my U.S. Presidential Dollar (coin) Series albums. I do like looking for items that I would like to buy on-line. I also have payed a few bills on-line when they have not arrived in the mail and it was getting close to the due date.

Do you like to shop On-line? What do you shop for? Post your answers in comments please.

posted by Michael @ 2:47 PM 1 comments