Just finished a good book: “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World”, by pastor John Mark Comer, who dialed back from preaching 7 sermons every Sunday at a growing church out West. He looked at the unhurried life of Jesus, with more commands to abide and be than to do.
Monday: left work at 510 pm. Arrived home and helped load our old couch on Lee’s trailer. Lee moseyed out first, taking the curving Bishop Lake Road toward his house. Young Carlson and I caught up with him, and we passed a sports car that had just crashed into the bushes, with a smashed windshield and crumbled roof. Looked like its occupants were okay.
Carlson mentioned that (1) we were blessed to have not gone ahead of Lee’s pickup, as we might have been involved in the crash, and (2) that East Cobb teenagers challenge each other to see who can make the “Bishop Lake Run” the fastest. Bishop Lake Road is a beautiful, scenic, curvey, and hilly two lane around a small lake, with quaint lake houses with docks and pontoon boats. I love taking this relaxing drive home from Johnson Ferry Road, instead of the highly trafficked Upper Roswell Road, but man now I need to be all the more careful.
We got the couch unloaded and placed in Lee’s house. Drove the helpers home. Had some work issues to deal with. Ate supper. It was after 8 pm, and I was worn out. Helped with the dishes and crashed on the couch.
Tuesday: up early to run at the gym. Really got to train hard for the Peachtree Road Race. Currently down to 15 emails after starting the day with over 50, but I have a lot of complicated orders to catch up on.
Tuesday afternoon I looked up and it was pouring down rain. A real gusher. And I had my windows cracked, and had parked at the far end of the parking lot. Great. I sprinted the 100 yards through the downpour to my car and hopped inside. Decided to drive as close to the door as possible, then waited but the rain never let up. Grabbed a t-shirt to wear. I was cold and shivering from being wet. It didn’t seem to rain in East Cobb.
Trust the science: scientists are pointing to studies showing that covid vaccines fueled the rise in over three million more deaths than normal.
Weird roadside attractions in every state. Georgia's is NOT the Big Chicken. Not the big smiling peanut in Plains.
KEN GRIFFEY Jr [SABR Bio] was the first teenage position player for the Seattle Mariners. He debuted 03-Apr-1989 at age 19. 18-year-old Alex Rodriguez debuted in 1994. He finished third in the 1989 ROY voting behind pitchers Greg Olsen & Tom Gordon. Only Sammy Sosa has homered in more different ballparks. Griffey has gone deep in 44 major league venues. Sosa did 45. Griffey would have hit fifty home runs one year, but a game he had homered in was rained out. In 1996, Griffey ended w/49 HR. Rainout occurred 06-Sep. Story here.
DENISON: activists pursue a four-fold strategy: normalize unbiblical behavior, legalize it, stigmatize those who oppose their agenda, and criminalize opposition.
DENISON: young Americans are the least religiously affiliated generation in history. Many are being taught a revisionist view of American history that makes our country a colonizing oppressor whose founders sought to preserve and advance their personal and financial interests rather than the people they served (sounds likes the politicians of today). In the opinion of Harvard scholar Harvey Mansfield, the “progressives” who propagate this view have a “loathing for their country, a real dislike of America.” It is naïve for evangelicals to assume our children will adopt our biblical worldview simply because we do. They live in a secularized culture that “does not accept the things of God” (1 Cor 2:14) because “the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ” (2 Cor 4:4).
Pride Month: How America changed its mind on gay marriage (denisonforum.org)
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