(08-15-2020, 12:04 PM)Ed Hurst Wrote: No more "cash on the barrelhead." My beloved just handed me some cash to carry in my wallet (I tend not to use ATMs). After a moment's thought, I realized there are darn few places I can spend it. Most self-checkouts don't take or give cash, and most stores where I shop won't return loose change around here. It's getting surreal.
Yeah, I know. I'm still using cash. According to Federal law, the dollar is legal tender, good for all transactions. Sometimes, when I'm in a big box store, I have to ask an associate "which one of these damn machines takes cash?" I don't wear the mask and that usually gets employees moving by itself. In our Governor's edicts, there are exemptions which, I believe, are there as a light coating of legality so, that they can claim "it's not a mandate". I can claim the exemption without giving a reason other than "I can't wear masks". If I'm ever asked why I will say "they make me smother". "Smothering" is a genuine Southern ailment recognized by all within our culture and instantly stirs up the real bless your heart compassion, not the snarky bless your heart as used by New South idiots.
We are in a life or death struggle to preserve and protect our remaining liberties not, that they are sacred in themselves but because; freedom of assembly, freedom from Government interference in religion and the freedom to secure those rights by force of arms are tools that enable us to spread our message and therefore are worth defending. Losing those rights will not stop the spread of God's message, it just means doing it from inside the Gulag. I'm gonna stop before I take a fall down the rabbit hole.
The important thing is, over on the Radix Fidem blog this morning, I read a message that gave me back my hope. I had grown weary of trying to reach people in the church, in fact I've come to the conclusion that, Evangelicals are out of reach which, is too bad because I know some who would be great additions but, I realize that, that was my ego. With "heatherns" it's easier because they are not drenched in Churchthink. They talk about Political Correctness but, Evangelical Correctness is even more restrictive. Heatherns don't care when I fall into white trash cussing. I try to be creative but, I will never be the master that my wife's uncle Byron was, he was a trucker and could curse with great creative eloquence. Enough, another rabbit hole.
I know the heart led way is true but, I also know that the heart is not pure and everything I get from mine must be rigorously vetted, it is no sin to doubt or ask God for verification. I have been certain that "person A" is someone that God has placed in my path and then seen eyes cloud over at the mention of Scripture. It was a bummer but, then I realized that they were "training tools". The ability to sense what's in another person's heart is not a "power" it's a tool when, it comes down to it I have a little knowledge that the schlubs next to me don't and that's it. I do believe I mustn't grow weary at failure, some day I will come across someone who gets it and just needs a little guidance like, I have received from y'all.
I should be working right now but, the kitchen was closed because one of the second shift 20somethings tested positive for BS19 virus and I can't return until I'm tested. The bad news is, it's actually quite difficult to schedule a test through CVS as required by my employer so, my wife is using her connections to try to get one faster. I could write an entire post on connections which, I prefer to call "associations" mmm...perhaps I will and y'all can critique it so that I can hone my writing (lack of) skills.
The good news is that barter is the new dollar, I made an agreement with a fellow to help me clear the crap from behind my house and then to be my 3rd arm while erecting my building in exchange for my old CRV. The boy's Mama needs a small SUV and I can't help but like a fellow who does right by his Mama. On the surface he doesn't seem to have a lot of potential but, neither did I. Boy, oh boy, I am the absolute worst, y'all only know the tip of how utterly depraved I am but, still, I'm here. "Human perception need not apply".
God's ways are inscrutable to mere humans. His ways do not add up, to human intellect they are arbitrary and without reason. Brother Ed, thank you for "The Driving Assurance"
Totally unrelated
Politicians Creed " As not, what your country can do for you, ask what can you do for me"
Sorry for all the quotation marks.