Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this Happen?" (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?" In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings,etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school . The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK. Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK. Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us....*

.just a little something to think about.

Currently Listening Christmas with the Rat Pack By Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. see related

24 Days til Christmas!

its the most wonderfultime of the year*

so. last week kinda sucked. no it did suck. then the weekend came around. went to the basketball games friday. yes that was REAL fun. i sat with ANDRE<and his little brother who is too cute!>. saturday me and cara went to ashlees house to watch the iron bowl. that was a letdown. then we went bowling. real fun but i think i pulled something. OUCH! then sunday i stayed at home. i was bad b/c i didnt go to church. but.........thats ok because me and ANDRE got back together!!!!!!!! so excited. so that was basically my whole weekend. it was pretty wonderful. expecially sunday!

<3
meredith

life is good again

Perfect season? I think NOT

say thank you.

on a sadder note. me and andre broke up yesterday. so if im all sad and depressed and i look like crap for the next few weeks thats why.

-me
ps> i called it i knew this weekend was gonna suck. even though i had fun at ashlees and claires and LSU won, none of that makes up for what happened later