Burning Rubber

_{Grabbed a Steak n’Shake double burger and fries on the way from work yesterday. Very good.}

_{Drove straight to church for small group first meeting. I’ve been in a group with Rob, and have known the leader John a few years – he is a Tech grad. Also Ron, who’s been in Sunday School classes with me in the past. He has two college-age kids, and is finishing up his doctorate.} 

_{After group I hustled to a store. Took the same clockwise route I’d taken last week: Lower Roswell to Old Canton to Robinson to Upper Roswell. Of course I got behind several slow cars. Then I was cruising along on Robinson, a road I rarely take. It was dark, and I forgot about a stop sign. There was a car facing me that stopped. I didn’t know if the car might turn left, across my path. I had to slam on my breaks. Burned some rubber.}   

_{The shirt I’d seen had been sold. Bought a pair of black New Balance sneakers for half price. I’d sold a couple of similar black pairs, kinda leaving a hole in my wardrobe for a knockaround black pair of sneakers. I have been doing better. Passed on a white Columbia PFG shirt and a Peyton Manning Colts jersey.} 

_{Was after 9 pm when I got home. C started watching a 2009 Hallmark movie “Loving Leah” about a non-observant Jewish doctor faced with marrying his older brother’s childless wife, due to an ancient Jewish custom. Had a Crossing Delancy New York feel. Didn’t go to bed until almost 11 pm.} Ceil has gotten to where Hallmark is about the only movies she watches. She puts up with Chicago Med and New Amsterdam hospital shows. There was one Hallmark movie she didn’t want to watch because the actress had played a bad role on Chicago Med. Usually I’m on my laptop and hardly pay attention to almost anything on TV anymore.  

_{https://www.hallmarkdrama.com/loving-leah/about-loving-leah#:~:text=Leah%20Lever%20is%20married%20to%20an%20Orthodox%20rabbi%2C,the%20childless%20Leah%20to%20carry%20on%20Benjamin%E2%80%99s%20name .}

_{Didn’t see any of the Braves game but followed it on my phone. Amazing 1-3-6 double play, with Freddie nailing the tying run at third to end the game. A great head’s up play by Freddie and shortstop Dansby, who hustled to third to take the throw and tag out the runner. If the Braves win one of the next three they win the NL East for the third straight year.} 

_{Was going to have to go out for lunch today, but a company brought in box lunches for us today. Turkey & cheese flatbread sandwiches with lettuce & tomato, chips, apples, and a cookie.}

_{Went by Cold Stone Creamery on the way home from work for ice cream, then bleaching the back deck.} 

_{Wednesday night: cut the grass.} 

_{Thursday: Macon trip.}

_{Friday: work from home & visit with our friends from Virginia.}

_{Saturday: college football, clean out the garage.}

_{Sunday: wedding in Newnan.}

_{Monday: small group.}

_{Denison: changing our opinions regarding God and his word changes neither God nor his word. As C. S. Lewis observed, denying the sunrise does not harm the sun.} 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg described and assessed "four great documents" that have changed the world: the Ten Commandments, the Magna Carta, the 1689 Bill of Rights in England, and the Declaration of Independence. She wrote "There can be a happy world and there will be once again, when men create a strong bond towards one another, a bond unbreakable by a studied prejudice or a passing circumstance. Then and only then shall we have a world built on the foundation of the Fatherhood of God and whose structure is the Brotherhood of Man."