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River Road Loop — 21 April 2007

Wallace and I went out for a saturday ride today.  At the start, I was worried about the ride; however, it ended up great.  I didn’t know how my body would react to a 30+ mile ride (my longest this year so far has been a 8 mile ride to work).

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Today We’re All Hokies

Today we’re all hokies. No, that isn’t true. I’m not a hokie. I never went to Virginia Tech. I didn’t wear maroon or orange today (although I did get to wear jeans to work). Does that mean someone who wore an orange ribbon cares more than me? Would I wear green or white if this had happened at Marshall? Would I wear red or grey if this had happened at THE Ohio State University? Would I wear blue or gold if it had happened at WVU? Nope. I would actually take great pains to not wear those colors. Does that mean I don’t care? Does that mean I’m cruel? This takes me back to the days of Rush Limbaugh’s Deficit Spending Awareness Ribbon. Boy, I wish I had thought of that sooner…I would have wore mine. Actually, I have a dollar in my wallet…I’ll make one.

So, no, I’m not a hokie (what is a hokie anyway. That bird was called a turkey last time I heard). No, I didn’t wear funny colors today. No, I’m not cruel or heartless. Yes, I think it was a horrible thing. Yes, I’ll pray for God to move in a mighty way (comfort the believers through the Holy Spirit and save those who aren’t).

If you click the read more link, you’ll get to see a clip from the Rush Limbaugh show with Rush talking about the ribbons.  The clip would be copyright Rush Limbaugh; however, I believe it’s use here is covered under fair use. 

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Think this is Spam?

This morning, I saw this in my inbox.  I can’t tell if it is a new form of Spam or if someone simply got the to address wrong.  What do you think?

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Hi Aunt Janie!

I would have sent you this email sooner but I am just getting over the
stomach flu! I was pretty sick for about two days. But I’m glad it’s
over with. Anyhow, let’s get this thing started! I am very excited. Here
are the first questions I have:

1. Exactly what services are you dealing with? Food AND beverage (wine).
What are you doing with clients? (really, just the basics of what you’re
doing)

2. Where will you be doing this… initially? your goal place?

3. How many people would you like to ideally be dealing with at a time?
Would you have certain times designated in the week/weekend and people
would just come? Do people have to call first and make appoitments?

4. Have you thought of a name for this new endeavor?

Those are my main ones for now. Anything you want to throw in there
would be great.  Just a general idea of what you would be offering would
be a good start. The next thought I have in mind to ask are what are
your goals? General or specific? Let me know and I’ll try to start
coming up with ideas.  Look forward to hearing from you!

Katie

PS- yes. my email is actually xxxxxxxxxx.   I have no idea why i chose
that as my email at orientation. they told us to do something
professional but I was 17 and had some sort of complex I guess!

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Persecution…In Mexico?

I was surfing today before work when I saw a post on PersecutionBlog.com about persecution in Mexico.  I thought this was rather interesting (Mexico wasn’t on my list of countries I thought of as participating in persecution).  Stacy linked to the Compas Direct article which I went and read.  Here is what I found out:

Juan Mendez Mendez became a Christian in a village outside of this city in Chiapas state on April 7, and two days later local authorities put him in jail – for leaving their religious blend of Roman Catholicism and native custom.

 

A catechist or doctrinal instructor in the “traditionalist Catholic” church in the village of Pasté (pahs-TEH), the 25-year-old Mendez was released on Tuesday (April 10) after spending the night in jail. The previous Easter Sunday, political bosses in the Tzotzil Maya village noticed him missing from a church festival involving what Mendez considered to be idolatrous rites; they summoned him that evening.

 

“They said, ‘What do you mean that you’ve accepted Christ – you mean you don’t believe in our gods [Catholic saints]?’” Mendez told Compass. “And I said, ‘Well, those were just apostles, and now I belong to Christ.’”

Later on, Juan is threated:

The officials threatened to strip him and throw cold water on him in jail, Mendez said. “You know what else we’re going to do?” one of them told the father of three pre-school children. “We’re going to beat you. We’re going to hit you.”

 

Mendez said he replied, “‘You know, if you’re going to beat me, then here I am. Here I am, if you’re going to beat me.’ But another said, ‘No, we’re not going to beat him.’”

 This should serve as a wake-up call to American Christians.  While we aren’t being jailed today for our faith, the day may come (in the not so distant future…it could be tomorrow depending on what laws our government passes) where we too will be faced with persectution.  The time to decide how you will act and what your faith means to you is not then…it is today!

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