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Just Rambling, June 2013

Just Rambling:
This month’s “Just Rambling” is made up of two emails I received. I thought these emails were so good that I felt compelled to pass them on through our publication. The first email is “Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation.”
‘Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, ‘Woe to those who call evil good,’ but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable… We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from sin and Set us free. Amen!’
With the Lord’s help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we once again can be called ‘One nation under God!’ May this be our continual prayer.
The second email is humor from Larry the Cable Guy but unfortunately it’s true!
Everyone concentrates on the problems we’re having in Our Country lately: illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attaching people in Florida… Not me... I concentrate on solutions for the problems… it’s a win-win situation. Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border. Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levees. Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border. Any other problems you would like for me to solve today?
Think about this:
Cows
The Constitution
The Ten Commandments
COWS:
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.
THE CONSTITUTION:
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don’t we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we’re not using it anymore.
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS:
The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this: you cannot post ‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’ ‘Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery’ and ‘Thou Shall Not Lie’ in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians, it creates a hostile work environment.
Also, think about this….if you don’t want to forward this for fear of offending someone—YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
GIT’ER DONE! Van Bennett
Front Cover:
My son-in-law Johnny Roberts, my daughters and granddaughter out for a leisurely horseback ride around the farm on a Sunday afternoon. Pictured from left to right Johnny, Dana, Blair, Velvet Roberts and her daughter, Savanah.