MEETING MYSELF COMING BACK

It has been a busy week. I helped Nancy through the week until Friday. Her son John came in from Oklahoma late Thursday night and Friday morning he took her to her eye doctor appointment in Weatherford. I took the opportunity to go home. I picked up the week's mail and had too much to read. I got dinged by the State because I apparently failed to file my business tax form. I owed nothing but got fined $110 for not filing. I thought I filed but couldn't find my receipt when I looked. Also my Internet satellite dish is weathered and didn't work. I spent most of the afternoon with a tech rep in Bangladesh testing the system and he finally agreed to send a technician. Friday night it worked fine. Saturday morning Mark and I looked at my dish and the lens cap that is plastic had a crack in it and looks really old. The technician called and said I needed to buy an upgrade that would replace all of the hardware on the dish and the modem that was last worked on in 2007. I got that scheduled for next Friday afternoon.

Saturday was clean out the Halsell House day for the new "tenants" if they show up Monday. I haven't heard from them. While Mark and Kathy moved their stuff to their storage building, I mowed the yard inside the fence with the Deere and mowed the outside with the Ford tractor. That took till after 11 and we went to CP to meet Ike and Sue at Subway for lunch. Mark and Kathy did a little more work at the HH and left about 2:30 so I got a nap until 4.

I was able to use my phone connection for a slow Internet to check email and do a little business. Friday night I attended the first lecture on creation/evolution sponsored by the Church of Christ in Rising Star. Dr. Brad Harrub had heard about the Stanford Research Institute paper that hypothesized that the speed of light is slowing down and was a lot faster in the past. I found my copies of the paper plus the second paper that they published that used their theory to argue that the times of the Bible could be correlated with their theory. I took copies of both papers to him Saturday night when he gave back-to-back lectures on evolution and fossils. He visited Mount St. Helens on the 30th anniversary of the eruption. Dr. Steve Austin is using it as a laboratory to show how catastrophic geology can produce grand canyons, coal and other artifacts that have been attributed to millions of years in the past. Using St. Helens he postulated that the Grand Canyon was not cut out by the Colorado river but by an equally catastrophic event like St. Helens in the matter of days. He showed photo slides of several artifacts made by humans that have been found in existing coal seams that according to evolutionary geology were attributed to the Carboniferous age millions of years before man evolved. He pounded all of the evolutionary "science" with many examples that posit a young earth age. He gave me a copy of his book. He is one of the publishers of a magazine dedicated to supporting a Biblical approach to education. When I got home I read my SS lesson and remembered that I hadn't written my newspaper column. I had to take it upstairs to use the phone Internet connection and finished at 11:11 p.m.

This morning my SS class completed Judges and are looking forward to Ruth because they didn't like the horrible stories of the last chapters of Judges. In addition to the battles with thousands of men killed we read of another homosexual attack on a traveler where women were offered to the men of the city in place of the man they wanted. This time one of the women died from the all night abuse and the man cut her body up to send a portion to each of the tribes of Israel to encourage them to take revenge on the city that attacked him. It was a bad story and the theme throughout was that there was no king over Israel and every man did as he pleased.

Church had a sermon on Christ resurrecting a young man of a widow when no one asked him to do so. He just took pity on the woman who lost her only son. We had a baby baptism, communion and then this afternoon the funeral for one of my SS members, Becky Odom. I drove to Granbury where Vicky has been taking care of Nancy. She made supper for us and I am getting fat.

I am trying to get a statement ready to support my resolution that will be voted on by the Annual Conference sometime this week. I have been asked to be there to speak in defense because the Church and Society committee recommended against it. I plan to show up Wednesday but knowing the AC they may have voted on it Tuesday. Because I am not a lay member this year I won't be in continual attendance. Nancy's granddaughter will stay with her Wednesday to let me try to make part of the meeting. We will see.