Monday Moanin'

Bob Talbert was a writer for the Detroit News back when I was a kid and delivered papers. He used to write a column on Monday mornings, called "Monday Moanin". In it he would just write random lines about random things. Kind of like a week of Facebook posts in one column (except this was decades before Facebook). It was typically the only thing in the paper that I would read besides the sports section.


Here is my first installment of out of my mind on a Monday Moanin'. (with all respect to Mr. Talbert)

• I have been amazed each time this past week that I have read that Danica Patrick is a role model for young women. The type of amazed where you shake your head in disbelief as to what you just read or saw. 
   
    
• It's not really about gun control it's about the taking away of our rights. This is when people say well they aren't taking away the rights to own guns, just the really bad ones. I then say when did our government become our judge? Who are they to say what is a good gun and what is a bad gun. At that point I note, once a portion of one right is taken the away the seal has been broken and more and more rights or even portions of rights can then be taken away much easier, with less and less of a fight. 
   
    
• Overhead an elderly lady standing in a check out line describing what her health care has become. She called it "euthanasia".  I hung my head and thought about how much that has to be a burden to her. How she might be feeling too old to be relevant, and that her government agrees so they are getting rid of her and her type slowly. Then I thought about my parents.......................
   
    
• Question your government, or your government will act without question.
   
   
• My favorite tweet of this past weeks was: Don't go to church, BE the church.

• Too many churches are like clubs, if you don't fit the profile you don't belong. Thank God EVERONE belongs in Jesus' church.
  
   
• Watching Mike Murdoch is like watching a train wreck. It is SO bad, yet I can't seem to stop watching. I wonder if the audience is paid to set there and look like they believe the stuff.
  
   
• Is there anything more wonderful than young people doing things for God? Is there a faith that is any more pure than that of a young person. (reminds me of Jesus saying that we all need to be as children to enter the kingdom of God).
  
   
• Isn't it ironic that once the major companies bought up all the christian record companies that christian music became so much more main stream, and widely accepted?
  
   
• Does anyone write protest songs anymore?
  
   
• Does anyone protest anymore? Or do we all just call talk shows and complain?
  
   
• Have you ever pondered the thought of Jesus as a boy? Did he play ball? Did little girls flirt with him? Did he skip rocks across the river? Did he climb trees? God became human, Jesus didn't go from the manger to 30 years old over night. The bible doesn't talk alot about it, but Jesus spent time as a little boy. Isn't that an amazing thing to think about? Listen to Rich Mullins' song Boy Like Me, Man Like You.
  
   
• Can you imagine Jesus having the scriptures read to him as a boy? The same scriptures that he helped to write. Wonder what he thought?
  
   
• Why is the devil red? Why are angels usually babies? Why does Jesus look like a white guy with long hair. Why does Jesus have a piece of cloth around his mid section in pictures of the crucifixion? Western images that block out reality.
  
   
• And I leave you with this: ACTS 14:8 (NIV)  In Lystra there sat a man who was lame. He had been that way from birth and had never walked. ⁹ He listened to Paul as he was speaking. Paul looked directly at him, saw that he had faith to be healed ¹⁰ and called out, “Stand up on your feet!” At that, the man jumped up and began to walk.   {That man had faith, I want to have faith like that}.