CATCH UP

I took Nancy to her eye doctor in Weatherford Friday and we ate brunch at Ihop after. Saturday I went home to prepare for Sunday School. Sunday a small class looked at the first three chapters of Judges. I pointed out that Judges covers the period between 2200 and 2050BC, about 150 years. The stories tell about the Israelites fighting wars and having periods of peace during which they forgot what God had done for them and followed the sexually oriented local gods where sex was considered part of their worship services.

We looked at the US for the past 150 years that got us back to the year 1860. We had the Civil War and periods of peace, then the major wars WWI and WWII and the periods of peace where we pursued pleasure. At the present time the largest business in the US is pornography on the TV and Internet. And we have again forgotten God. What happens? In the past God punished the Israelites by being conquered by their enemies. The stories may have some interest for us now. In Judges deliverers came to help the people. The class wondered if Glenn Beck's telling us that we need God back in our country is what we need to hear to change from our present path.

In the natural world, my yard is now blooming with blue bonnets in the back yard and gallardia in the front yard with rock daisyies scattered all over every where plus a lot of yellow flowers. I will wait until they seed to mow. I got .65" rain Sunday night. The storm was centered at Admiral so my planting there got watered. Lydia said she didn't get any at Cottonwood. I looked tonight at the storm total today and it was all around me but nothing near.

Nancy and I will head up into Tornado Alley tomorrow and stop in Perry, Ok then Friday go to her son, Ernie's home in Olathe, Ks. The weather forecast looks good for the time we will be there with the bad weather over tomorrow.