Happy Thursday to you! Well, it was in the 40's yesterday and today, so I thought I'd take advantage of the sunny "warm" days and start walking again. I took a break over the winter because I'm not into frostbite much. We northerners really appreciate the spring, summer and fall. If you're not into wintertime activities, you rejoice when the snow starts to melt and cry when the first leaf falls to the ground. Summer is just around the bend...

Food for thought...

I was perusing the newspaper today and read an article about the former Governor of New York being in a heap of legal troubles for what he did. His political life and marriage are probably in ruin. Then I started thinking about how upside down and messed up our society is really getting. Prostitution is illegal, soliciting prostitutes is illegal, but pornography—the very cause of much of our society's debauchery—is not. Porn is legally available at the click of a mouse, on our televisions, in our movies, books and magazines and in our music. The TV ads for Victoria's Secret or Lipstick Jungle are just shy of being porn, and it's all legal. Oh yes...I forgot...It's considered free speech... silly me. It's all a bit inconsistent, wouldn't you say? I don't think the men who founded our country had pornography in mind when they amended the constitution to allow freedom of speech.

If homosexuality is a completely acceptable lifestyle and legal, then why aren't all of the other sexually depraved act acceptable as well, like incest? Where do we, as a society, draw the line between right and wrong? When people's moral compass is "live your own truth" or "If it feels good, do it" or "It's all good" then we get what we've got. A moral mess.

If someone kills a woman who is pregnant and her baby dies as well, that man can be convicted of two murders...yet the courts say abortion—knowingly killing an unborn child— is legal. It makes no sense. If one is illegal, then why not the other. Does the value of a human life depend on whether it's wanted or not? We are all created by God. We are His workmanship, therefore we are valuable to Him and He wants us.

Hopefully, tomorrow's newspaper will bring a shred of good news. All I can do is pray for our nation, pray for our leaders, whoever they are or will be, and say that Jesus (not religion) really IS the answer to our human condition. We praise you God, for Easter!