Monday Morning

Well Sunday turned out to be a rather interesting day as we worshipped at Indian Rocks Church where both Bobby and Amy graduated from their high school, then we stayed around the house until 3'ish then headed over to the Salt Rock Grille on the beach to dine with our team leaders and friends with Amway. All of these in attendance were at the huge conference on Clearwater Beach of which we did not attend. We have made some great friends and fellow business partners in this organization that honors GOD as well.

The morning started with warm temps in the upper 60's. Nancy had the a/c on for awhile but as the day worn on I was afraid she was going to want the heat on. This morning it's in the upper 40's, yikes what a change. Well after our usual morning routines and my daily discipline we got ready to leave for worship around 8:45. Speaking of my daily discipline book the author of this book is also a huge Amway leader and we sat at the table with him and his wife at the grille. Skip and Susan Ross are lovely folks and both are motivational speakers traveling the world over as well as very strong CHRIST followers.

The pastor at IR Church delivered a message on political incorrectness and he set the foundation for the next several weeks on why our nation is showing signs of culture shock and why we are seeing such changes on what was once wrong and is now being viewed as acceptable. The basic premise is that society no longer views GOD as truth which in reality allows each person to decide what they think is truth. So of course when you have that philosophy then what ever displeases you can be justified as not being truth. That is why GOD has been taken out of our moral fiber within the culture and replaced with man's perception of the truth. Truth is no longer relevant to those who prescribe to this ideology thus there is no need for GOD'S word or the laws and standards set forth in the Bible. In essence we have become our own GOD and we no longer honor him and his teachings. Many things are now legal but not necessarily true or right such as abortion and gay marriage. We are very interested to hear in the next several weeks of messages on this insidious culture destroying issue(s) of political correctness.

We came back around 11:30 and chilled until 2:30 when we met up with the Botbyl's as they too went to the grille for supper. I watched about half of the frozen football game in Minnesota and they were winning when we headed out and eventually lost the game at the end with a missed kick. I know our friends in Hickory, N.C. were disappointed with that outcome but they can celebrate as they still have the Panthers to root for. I feel they are the team to beat and could "go all the way" to winning the super bowl. It was strange this week end as all home teams lost in the wild card playoff's which is usually the opposite.

Well tonight we see who is the best college team in football when Clemson meets up with Alabama for bragging rights this past season. I like both southern teams and while Clemson is a much smaller school and less nationally recognized in the past for its football program they have a great QB and should win this matchup, oh well I will write about it in the morning. I almost forgot to mention at the grill our son Bobby and his soon to be beautiful inside and out bride Katie were there as they both are Amway IBO's as are we. I dined on Ahi tuna seared slightly with fresh asparagus and I did have my first glass of merlot for the week along with fresh sliced strawberry's with a passion fruit sauce over a scoop of vanilla ice cream for dessert. Dan and I both had that and it was beautiful to look at but the flavor was the talk of the table as we shared spoonfuls. It was a dining experience and when we came out of the grille the temps had fallen several degrees on its way to a cool cloudy evening, LATER