In
1952
President Truman
established one day a year as a
“National Day of Prayer.”
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In
1988
President Reagan
designated the
First Thursday in May of each year as
the National Day of Prayer.
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In June
2007
(then)
Presidential
Candidate Barack Obama
declared that the USA
“Was no longer a
Christian nation.” ———————————————————————
This year
President Obama
canceled the
21st annual National Day
of Prayer ceremony
at the White
House under the ruse
Of “not wanting to offend anyone”
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BUT… on September 25, 2009
from 4 AM until 7 PM,
a National Day of Prayer
FOR THE MUSLIM RELIGION
was Held on Capitol Hill,
Beside the White House.
There were over 50,000 Muslims
in D.C. that day.
HE PRAYS WITH THE MUSLIMS!
I guess it Doesn’t matter
if ”Christians”
Are offended by this event -
We obviously
Don’t count as
“anyone” Anymore.
The direction this country is headed
should strike fear in the heart of every Christian,
especially knowing that the
Muslim religion believes that if Christians cannot be
converted, they should be annihilated.
Just because it’s been awhile…here’s what is going on in our lives these days:
Matt just started doing P90X. I’m impressed with his dedication to it. He even bought stretcher band things from Amazon so he can do the weight exercises without having a whole weight set in our small apartment. Unfortunately, one of the bands ripped in half the other day while he was working out. I guess he’s just that amazingly strong. No stretch band stands a chance against those biceps. Or triceps. Or abs. Or whatever he uses to pull them.
I watch Matt doing P90X. I don’t do P90X. Enough said.
For my exercising, I do physical therapy exercises, which are mild, gentle, strengthening, and achievable! In fact, my physical therapist tells me, “Don’t do it to the point of pain! When it hurts, stop.” That is my kind of mentality for working out. I’m doing physical therapy for my shoulder, which some of you may have had the privilege of hearing. When I rotate my left shoulder, there is this loud popping sound that happens. It doesn’t hurt too much, but it sounds gross and feels kind of uncomfortable. My doctor said it is the beginnings of rotator cuff tendinitis, and since my insurance covers it, I’m seeing a physical therapist every week to strengthen the left shoulder muscles. I can definitely feel a big difference in strength between my right and left shoulders, and as I do the exercises for my left shoulder, it is improving my strength. It’s not totally there yet, and I still have the popping sound, but it’s making a difference, and I love to see difference-making when I exercise.
We went to New York City last week to see friends, family, and for a couple of work meetings. Saw lots of great people and had a fun, albeit hectic time. At the end of the trip, we took the bus down to Baltimore and stayed at David’s house for a couple of days, which was much more relaxing because he took over on navigating us around and I didn’t have to worry about getting lost. It was good to see everyone and get away for awhile, but I’m glad to be back sleeping in the same place every night and knowing where everything is.
While we were gone, PS developed two interesting problems. She got fleas (apparently this is the worst year for fleas in 20 years, just like it has been for mosquitoes). We’ve been putting a natural topical solution on her each month to kill fleas and ticks, but it’s not strong enough to handle the intensity of the flea season this year. We took her to the vet and they gave us a stronger thing that kills all of the life cycles of the flea and some spray for our apartment. We applied the medicine and spray and seem to have killed all the fleas…but PS probably is allergic to their saliva because her stomach is really red and itchy still, even though the fleas have been dead for almost a week now. She also has an eye infection of some kind. The vet said it is either from a bacteria/virus infection and will go away now that we’re giving her medicine for it or it is from some condition that causes dry eye. If it’s the dry eye problem, we’ll have to give her eye drops for the rest of her life. So we’re applying the medicine and waiting to see what happens. We’re a day into her treatment for that and so far no strong signs of improvement. She is quite pathetic with this eye problem since she can’t fully open her eyes. She walks around squinting at us because it hurts her to open her eyes all the way. And we thought she was good at being desperate-looking before…we even let her sleep in bed with us last night because we feel so bad for her. If I didn’t know better, I would think she was faking it to get special treatment, haha. But after the vet put some numbing stuff in her eyes yesterday to give her an eye test, she was opening her eyes all the way and running around like normal. Then when the numbing stuff wore off, she was back to being sad, lethargic and squinty again. So I can tell she really is in pain. But I’m sure she’s enjoying the special treatment too.
Another thing occupying quite a bit of our time is work. It’s still crazy, but at least we have some help now. We hired several new people, and I no longer have to do things like blog. So hopefully that will give me some incentive to do personal blogging. Now that we’re freed up a little bit from minor things at work, we have more pressure to do things like meet our financial goals. That’s a little more stressful than just trying to maintain and get little things done, but we’ve both had more stressful jobs before…just have to remember that it could definitely be worse.
The final thing occupying a lot of our time is church stuff. I don’t know if I mentioned it on our blog yet, but I joined the choir at our church earlier this year. It’s been a really great experience, but definitely gives me a lot more of a “schedule” at church. The good things that come along with that are that I’m forced to get to know lots of people instead of just the cursory acquaintanceship that usually happens when you’re not involved in anything at church and it forces me to actually go to church, even when I’m busy or tired. But the bad thing is, of course, feeling like I’m always “doing” something at church. Still, I’d say the pros outweigh the cons, and I’m really growing a lot spiritually, especially during our rehearsals. That’s one thing I really enjoy about the choir – it reminds me a lot of Gospel Choir at Wheaton. The rehearsals are actually better times of worship and spiritual growth than concerts, or in our case, Sunday mornings leading worship. While I do choir, Matt goes to our young adults group and holds down the fort there. We’re also looking forward to a new small group season this fall and deepening some relationships there.
Well, that’s it for now. I’ve got to start getting our apartment cleaned up and organized since we’ve been busy non-stop upon our return from the East Coast. The mess is starting to get to me.
Question (because it’s always good to end a blog post with an interaction of some kind):
What is your favorite fall activity?
And because it’s also good to have media in a blog post, here is a video of PS with her eye squinting:
