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Question & Thought for the last day of September 2016!!!

Question & Thought for the last day of September 2016!!!
See Ya September!
1, Question – Do you start your day with morning Scripture and readings from devotionals? I’d like to share what came to me this morning.
2. Thought – From John Baillie, A Diary of Private Prayer for Day 30/Morning:
Creator Spirit, who broodest everlastingly over the lands and waters of the earth, enduing them with forms and colours which no human skill can copy, give me to-day, I beseech Thee, the mind and heart to rejoice in Thy creation.
Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes:
Forbid that the lure of the market-place should ever entirely steal my heart away from the love of open acres and the green trees:
Forbid that under the low roof of workshop or office or study I should ever forget Thy great overarching sky:
Forbid that when all Thy creatures are greeting the morning with songs and shouts of joy, I alone should wear a dull and sullen face:
Let the energy and vigour which in Thy wisdom Thou has infused into every living thing stir to-day within my being, that I may not be among Thy creatures as a sluggard and a drone:
And above all give me grace to use these beauties of earth without me and this eager stirring of life within me as means whereby my soul may rise from creature to Creator, and from nature to nature’s God.
O Thou whose divine tenderness doth ever outsoar the narrow loves and charities of earth, grant me to-day a kind and gentle heart towards all things that live. Let me not ruthlessly hurt any creature of Thine. Let me take thought also for the welfare of the little children, and of those who are sick, and of the poor; remembering that what I do unto the least of these His brethren I do unto Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen.
From Colossians – Chapter 4 v. 1&5: “Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.” “Live wisely among those who are not believers, and make the most of every opportunity.” (Paul)
Have a great weekend and break. Don’t text and drive. Drink some water and put some sliced lemons and cucumbers in it for flavor as a friend taught me.
rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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Question & Thought for September 29th, 2016!!!

Question & Thought for September 29th, 2016!!!
Good Thursday Morning!
1. Question – Do you trust our government?
2. Thought – In a corrupt country, trust is a rare commodity. That’s America today. Only 19 percent of Americans say they trust the government most of the time, down from 73 percent in 1958 according to the Pew Research Center. Sadly, that is a rational response to the way things are. America is a different country today, and a much nastier one. For politically engaged Republicans, the figure is six percent. That in a nutshell explains the Trump phenomenon and the disintegration of the Republican establishment. If the people don’t trust the government, tinkering with entitlement reform is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. (Imprimis, Sept 2016, Vol. 45, Num 9, by Frank Buckley)
Our government should be entirely and purely secular….So our fathers said: “We shall form a secular government…” The Declaration of Independence…denied the authority of any and all gods….[They] agreed that there should only be one religion…and that was the religion of patriotism. Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. (Robert Ingersoll, a member of the National Liberal League, also he is known as the national evangelist for atheism. [from the Founder’s Bible, by David Barton])
rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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Questions and thought for September 28th, 2016!

Questions and thought for September 28th, 2016!
Good post debate Wednesday morning!
1. Questions – Your assignment is to write a paragraph and explain, after watching the Presidential debate tonight, and determine who if you could vote would you select as the next President of the United States based on the following:
Who has the best plan to fight terror?
Who has the best plan for immigration?
Who would be the best Commander in Chief?
Who would Congress work best for?
Who would you trust to nominate possibly the next 2 or 3 Supreme Court justices?
Who would benefit you and your family most in the next four years?
By 2020 who would improve America more?
Which candidate do you trust?
2. Thought – I will not repeat what 100 students said. But I will……………………………………… Later.
We had a discussion in class about the debate and it was lively. We are also studying the Constitution. We read the Preamble to the United States Constitution today and concluded that the next Presidential debate should begin with both candidates in unison repeating these words:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

 

The students said this ought to be repeated before each debate. I smiled. They said it.
A student wrote: “In all honesty, I hate politics. Watching his debate killed me and watching these two argue for an hour and a half was torture. My answer for all these questions would be none of the above but if I have to answer, I go with…..” (and then this wonderful student argued for a candidate.)
Kindof gave me hope!
rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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Question & Thought for September 27th, 2016!

Question & Thought for September 27th, 2016!
Good Tuesday Morning!
1. Question – Do Mom’s know best?
2. Thought – As bad as I felt, though, my mother felt even worse. Between the day President Bush announced his intention of nominating me to the end of my testimony, she lost more than thirty pounds as a result of stress and worry. A lifelong Democrat who had always admired the Kennedys, she grew increasingly furious with the Democratic senators who were trying to sabotage my nomination.
Leola and I had never before discussed political matters. Daddy had once asked me why I had become a Republican, to which I replied that the Democrats no longer represented the things he’d taught me. But I never asked my mother how she voted, nor did she ask me why I’d chosen to ally myself with a party that so many blacks regarded as racist and evil. Now she could see for herself. Patrick Leahy, Howard Metzenbaum, Joe Biden, Paul Simon, even Teddy Kennedy: all of them were arrayed against me. How dare they treat her son that way. Never before had I seen her as angry as she was in the fall of 1991. All her life she’d assumed the Democrats in Washington were sensible leaders – but now she saw these men as single issue zealots who were unwilling to treat her son fairly. “I ain’t never votin’ fo’ another Democrat long as I can draw breath,” she told me as we walked out of the Senate building on what should of been my final day of testimony, “I’d vote for a dog first.” (Clarence Thomas, My Grandfather’s Son)
“Honesty on questions of race is rare in the United States.” (Michael Novak)
rem – “I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain)
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