The Fish Tank

Well, isn't this fitting. I have a post about our beautiful country right when we go into the time we celebrate the beautiful freedoms we love about our country. We are so extraordinarily lucky. I think most of us would admit that we take our freedoms for granted daily. We have men and women who sacrifice their lives so we may be free to become anything we want to be. We get to worship whenever and wherever we desire. We can eat at any restaurant able to choose from countless varieties of food. We can drive freely from state to state. Men and women mingle without restriction. We can voice our opinions loud and proud. We get to argue and debate and fight for what we believe in our hearts to be right and true. We don't have to wake up everyday in fear of death or violence or that our children may be kidnapped and sold into the sex trade. We are free: free to love, free to hate, free to worship, free to believe, free to deny, free. I think where things get murky is when we ident...

"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." Micah 6:8 Scott walked into the bedroom to grab something before going back out into the front room to watch the end of the baseball game. What does any good wife do at a time like that? Well, she starts a debate with him on the most pressing current pop culture news story because now is as good a time as any. I am good like that. We begin discussing the issue and Scott, being the good debater that he is, kept pushing me to see the other side. I am a stubborn debater and don't succumb to another's points easily. This time, however, he led me to see his side. He used to joke with me about a book he had to read in his master's program called, "How to Change People's Minds," was a book he was reading for me. He's a funny one. Of course the baseball game was over by the time we finished our debate. I f...