The text of my last ten Facebook Posts.

This is the texts of my last ten Facebook Status posts, now listed in the proper order that they were meant to be. I know that this will make me a lot of enemies, but I needed to say it.
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Although I stand for the basic freedoms for which this country stands, there is a trend that has come to disturb me deeply about this land. It deals with one of the basic forces which has founded this country, and that is Greed. Prove to me that putting more money and power into the hands of the Private Sector will not go into the hands of the wealthy owners which control it.

There needs to be a reform in the way that we spend our tax dollars-and I say WE, very intentionally, because I am as guilty as anyone else of how it is spent. We need to stop thinking about what is best for me, but rather what is best for all of us, rich and poor, of all races and creeds, philosophies and ideals, not just ME. If we don't like it, we need to roll up our sleeves and change it.

For instrance, if we do not like how things are done in the schools, how many of us take the time to go to our knees and pray in repentrance for the situation, and then support the teachers and others who are stuck with it through no fault of their own.We spend our time yelling about how bad things are, but we do not seek the help of the One who can change the situation, and we forget His Mandate to care for the poor and the needy among us who are trying to make ends meet in an honest fashion but have been cursed with Unemployment and poverty. This needs to change.

We need to care for our neighbors, even though we do not act like they do, or think like they do, or if we do not like what they are doing. Jesus died for them just as much as He died for the bodies that fill the pews of our churches; but whaat are we doing to reach them? What am i doing to reach them?  I have had a chance in the last few years to fight for the Unborn and the poor, and I have had more than a few opportunities to taste poverty myself. I have endured the snubs and the treatment that a lot of them have experienced firsthand.

Capitalism is great, Capitalism is wonderful if you have the Capital to make it work, BUT NOT ON A PLASTIC CARD!!! Our Credit Cards have kept a lot of us living at a place where we should not be. We ALL need to learn how to live within our means, and that inclides the US as a whole, but we cannot continue to lie to ouselves or to the world as to our state. We need to seek God, just as they did in 1776, for what HIS Unbiased Will is for this nation (and we naturally tend to put our biases on what God wants for this nation), irregardless of what it will cost our little group, and to look at the bigger picture. We need to look at what this is going to cost us and our children and grandchildren. We need to think of all of this in light of what it will cost them.

Jeff Lilley once said, that "the only reason that we think that the United States is the greatest nation on earth is that we live there" (Hume Lake Spring Singles' Conference, March 1999). I tend to agree with him. I appreciate this land, and I have dear friends and my Children who are serving this land in her Armed Forces.and are serving their families right now as Chaplains and Missionaries.

With all of that said, I am humbled to be an American, and not ashamed of it. But I can never be a member of the Tea Party or support what it stands, and I will never, EVER be a Redneck.

A Very Big Trial

I have now had my CPAP Machine for eighty days, and things are beginning to improve slightly. I am getting used to it, and I am now beginning to get more recognizable dreams in my REM sleep periods. However, the Alpha Waves are still there, and I will not be able to have the problem addressed by Dr. Munoz until at least the end of August. And in all of this, my sleep patterns are still the same-Get up between 8-10 am, fall asleep around 5pm for 1-5 minutes, be totally exhausted  until about 11pm, when my strength totally returns and stays at a high level until at least 2am., but usually till 3, or later....

So here is where it stands as of now, And on top of all this, I received a letter on Saturday from the DMV telling me that they are going toi hold a heating on my fitness to drive because of my Sleep Apnea and I have been summoned to appear before them on Friday at 11:15am. I was asked to fill out some forms and to have Dr, Munoz fill some forms out, as well. I knew that something would happen, but I had no idea that it would be this severe. Dr. Munoz told me that he would have to report my Sleep Apnea problem to the DMV, and that I would not be able to drive without using my CPAP machine, which was reasonable.What I did NOT hear nor understand was that he was actually telling me was that I should not be driving at all, and when he saw me in March, he was surprised that I was still driving,

Now I understand the spirit behind his actions and why he was doing it. What HE did not-and may still not understand-is the intent behind my actions. You see, I have a life that I need to live, and it would be practically impossible for me to do the things that I need to do if I was restricted from driving. Bakersfield has a terrible public transportation system which, unlike Portland, caters to a primary set of clients and does little to cater to anyone who does nopt live in that loop. For me to take a bus, ANY bus, I would have to walk at least one-half mile to the nearest bus stop and hope that i could be there in time to catch the one bus, that only runs once per hour and leaves at Twenty-five minutes past the hour. (The only reason that I feel that the bus gets up here at all is that it is close to the High School-for a long time, it did not come this far up).

I lost a lot of this because of problems which my system had in saving this. But I am no longer in Portland, and losing my Driver's License for me would be like someone taking a meat cleaver and  cutting off my legs. I am nervous about it and scared. Please pray for me.