National Teddy Bear Day

Today’s question of the day: who’s your favorite bear? I answered Lots-o-Huggin’ Bear from Toy Story. Also Evan Gattis (below), also known as El Oso Blanco, the White Bear. Others answered Yogi Bear and Smokey Bear, and Fozzie Bear from the Muppets. Bear Bryant. A good answer would be Papa Bear George Halas, or Mike Ditka, the Great Bear. Gentle Ben, with his buddy Clint Howard. Slow day today I guess.

Sunday: left Angelus at 10:10 am and drove straight through back home. Took 4-1/2 hours. Unpacked, did laundry, watched the end of the Falcons game. So many breaks seemed to go Atlanta’s way. Until the end. Falcons gonna Falcon. Not much food at home. Ate a frozen pizza.

Took Winnie on an early AM walk. Started Monday with over 50 emails. Quickly got it down to 15. Team members Eric and Brad are on vacation and Leo wasn’t in until the afternoon, so me and Angie were running the ship. Worked through lunch and left at 425 pm. Stopped by Kroger for another frozen pizza for supper. Got home and walked Winnie. Since I am reading the novel Me Before You, last night I re-watched the movie. Then I flipped over to the Manningcast. Bill Murray was a guest, but it didn’t seem like he stayed on very long.

Matthew went to last night’s Braves game. Afterwards he stopped by to pick up his laundry.

Only Murders in the Building Season Five debuted tonight.

Kirby says Gunner needs to cut loose in games, like Stockton does in practice.

Pitching careers that ended by the 1994-95 strike…

Pitcher            Years   WAR

Goose Gossage...22...41.2...HOF, AS, WS

Bruce Hurst..........15...34.1...AS

Jack Morris...........18..43.5...HOF, WS, AS

Bob Ojeda.............15..24.0...WS

Jeff Reardon.........16..18.6...AS,. WS

Rick Sutcliffe........18..33.9...ROY, CYA, AS,

Bob Welch............17..43.7...CYA, WS, AS

Larry Anderson.....17...13.9..Traded for Bagwell

Charlie Hough.......25...38.4..AS

Jay Howell.............15..15.0...AS, WS

DENISON: author/educator Neil Postman warned in Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, the TV age turned us from active participants in society into passive consumers of sound bites. There is far too much content available for us to consume, we filter it by preconceived biases. We are at the mercy of the content producers. Our post-Christian society has no objective filter to discern truth from falsehood, and rejects the existence of objective truth. Christians can be as secular as their secular friends. According to research by George Barna, half those who attend evangelical churches say there is no absolute moral truth, and believe people can earn salvation through good works. Only 40% believe humans are born into sin and need salvation in Christ. Hollywood normalizes extramarital and same-sex sexual relations. We evaluate political news through our partisan biases. We measure success by cultural popularity rather than biblical obedience. The difference: The Holy Spirit inspired Scripture, and can give us the discernment we need to understand and obey it.