"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt." — attributed to Abraham Lincoln, (This attribution is highly debated with scholars very divided regarding its origin.)

Welcome one and all to today's place holder. That means you can read this while you are waiting to do something important. It is Thursday, January 30, 2014, and I do bid you a hearty welcome. One of the ways you find out how little some folks know is to read some of the questions they put forth on Facebook. From the rising of the sun until the end of the day these folks are asking about everything. I mean everything. Public and private. Everything. It makes you wonder what would have happened to them had they been trying to make it in life without a sounding board like Facebook to figure out how to change a light bulb. I am aware that the Bible does say that one has not because they ask not, however, these folks have taken that admonition to the extreme. And, the things folks admit to can really floor you. One young lady couldn't get her truck doors open during the freeze up. She poured hot water but to no avail. She waited. Came back and poured more hot water. Still no luck. She finally figured out her problem. The doors were locked. I think I would have kept that one to myself. I really do.

The jokes about our local government's over reaction in view of the weather event have saturated the airwaves, social media, and other forms of discussion. Most of it has been good-natured and in some instances, perhaps deserved. No one is more thankful than I that we did not have the huge ice event that could have occurred. I believe when we look at the total chaos that has befallen our friends and neighbors over in the Atlanta area, perhaps some overkill here can be forgiven. Children stranded on school buses for 12 plus straight hours is an unmitigated disaster no matter how elected officials try to spin it. They did almost no preventative sanding before the event and when they began, folks were already stranded with no where to go. I will be surprised if every elected official that had anything at all to do with what happened there ends up keeping their job. Meanwhile, we can continue our joking but also be thankful that we avoided that same challenge and that we were most likely very much more prepared had it occurred. That's my cold weather analysis, at least as it stands at this moment.

Our Sunday morning Bible study class continues to work our way through The Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. As the end of this world as we know it nears, I believe the Bible clearly shows how that things are going to get tough for those who try to live by and stand up for biblical truth. That's not a fairytale Henny Penny 'sky is falling' type of projection. Look around folks. Last week the governor of one of our largest states pretty much made it clear that people who take their faith seriously in standing against policies they believe to go against God's clear teaching, well, they are not welcome in his liberal thinking state. Sure, they later attempted to spin what was said, but it is true the enemy is working overtime to isolate and marginalize all people of faith, while at the same time staying busy in indoctrinating our children through education and media to buy into the trashy hedonism that defines society today. That's not my opinion. That's in the Book and we would all do well to take heed. May God help us as a nation to wake up is my prayer. Amen.   ....More later.