Happy New Year, all!!

I dunno, Elmer. What if in 2007, you finally killed Bugs Bunny and made a nice rabbit stew; Willy Coyote caught the Road Runner, and Tom caught Jerry?: that last possibility sends chills down my spine. Or Lucy finally held the football and let Charlie Brown kick it? The world loves a loser, because we are all familiar with losing.
It all goes back to Don Quixote, I think.

Watch Night was wonderful. With a strong message. It was December 31st, 1862 at midnight, when slavery was abolished in this country.
Our Pastor read a text from the old Testament remembering when the Hebrews were in slavery, waiting to be released, and then brought it up to the present, talking about how all of us are at risk of being enslaved to something. Some are in slavery to drugs or alchohol, some to sexual immorality, some to gambling, or even materialism. The other part of the scriptural reading which I didn't remember is that when Pharaoh told Moses that he could deliver the Hebrews out of slavery, he said that before he would allow it, Moses had to bless him. Blessing our enemies frees us from another kind of slavery... being linked by hatred to them. Our Pastor encouraged everyone to search their hearts for anyone we hold a grudge against, or consider our enemies and to bless them. Hatred, unforgiveness and bitterness are all enslaving. In honesty, I don't think that I have any enemies. I've had one or two in my life... people who were actively trying to destroy me. For a lifetime, that's not bad. But, the message was a good one. Love breaks shackles.

Jerry