New trend for cereal

Oct

04

2010

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04

2010

My wife departed to Atlanta last Thursday to babysit our grandkids. I stayed behind in order to catch up on a few projects. When I’m a bachelor I do not eat very well. This is because I’m essentially too lazy to cook, and I despise washing dishes with every ounce of my fiber. I also detest eating out. I don’t like the long drive, the long wait for my food and the grueling checkout process, or the taste of restaurant prepared food.

This morning I was very hungry after starving all weekend and decided to have some cereal.

No milk.

I wondered how it would taste with sweet tea.

Not good.

I was just beginning to feel sorry for myself and I remembered a special I watched on 60 Minutes last night about Bill and Melinda Gates, the two richest people in the world. They are currently in the process of giving away their fortune to various worthy causes. The segment detailed the plight of some of the poorest people on the face of the earth in India and elsewhere and the Gate’s foundation’s efforts in helping them.

A few years back our software company was trying to off-shore some programming in India and I visited that country. It was incredible to actually see people in some areas living just as their forefathers had lived thousands of years ago. No running water or electricity, raw sewage running in open ditches in the street, no telephone, no food, no clean water, people riding in carts with wooden wheels on them being pulled by animals, (and in some cases people), mounds of garbage in the streets and rivers, filth, flies, and smog everywhere. While I was there I saw beggars in the street that had leprosy and read in the newspaper about cholera and malaria outbreaks not far from where I was staying.

Hmmm Come to think of it, sweet tea and cereal ain’t half bad.

Be glad for what you have today, in fact get down on your knees and thank God almighty and praise Him for allowing you to live in this great country.

We need to quit whining already, and do something about poverty and help others not as fortunate. It is not the government’s role and we need to get them out of the welfare business and into building a climate friendly to business in order to stimulate job creation.

Nearly 100 verses in the Bible refer to helping the poor. God devoted much of His word to it and obviously it is important to Him that we do this. All Christians should participate in either charitable giving, or if not financially capable, volunteering for an organization that is devoted to such causes.

We should also use our VOTES to elect leaders who help eradicate poverty. Not by creating a “nanny state”, but by creating a strong education system, economy, and free market. The leadership of our once great country is rapidly spending and taxing us into bankruptcy and attempting to create a welfare state. Unfortunately their policies are having the opposite effect and putting more and more people in homeless shelters.

Unlike India we can resolve our problems rather easily by simply voting the bums out in November and holding their replacements accountable. In all candor I must admit that I cannot find anywhere in the Bible that it tells me to vote the bums out, but it sounded like a good idea to me this morning.

Proverbs 29:7
The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.

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