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| The Pajama Diaries by Terri Libenson |
Anyway, I filled out the form, and a couple minutes later Briana called me. We went through the steps, I had LastPass generate a new password, and got into the site.
While I was waiting for an email from the company and then a text to my phone, she and I chatted. Her entire office of 250 people are working from home. She told me that she went to Target for some groceries and was upset to see a herd of teenagers (my word, not hers) milling about. They had no place else to go, nothing to do, and were bored, and so risking their health and the health of everyone they come in contact with, they were violating shelter-in-place orders.
Their actions reminded me of a character in the James Bond film, “Golden Eye,” who repeatedly said, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXW02XmBGQw “I am invincible!”
And I thought of Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne who said he wouldn’t close the doors of his Tampa, Florida, megachurch until the End Times begin. The police weren’t willing to wait that long, and on March 30th arrested him, Sheriff Chad Chronister calling it “a wreckless disregard for human life.” An action by law enforcement that I heartily applaud!
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Pastor Howard-Browne told his people if they didn’t have faith to stay home. The good Reverend is selective in his use of Scripture (like a lot of folks). He ignored Paul’s letter to the Romans, chapter 13, verses 1 and 2: “Everyone must submit to governing authorities. For all authority comes from God, and those in positions of authority have been placed there by God. So anyone who rebels against authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and they will be punished.”
Then on Wednesday, in the cruelest, most hair-brained, irresponsible April Fool’s joke of all, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a statewide stay-at-home order that has a glaring hole in it that allows churches or other religious gathering places (what is the governor’s definition of a “religious gathering place”?) to continue to hold in-person religious services regardless of the number of people in attendance and without regard to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention social distancing guidelines.
Pastor Howard-Browne is guilty of practicing presumption, not faith, and Governor DeSantis is guilty of wreckless disregard for human life. Did neither of them follow the story of the pandemic in Italy, how virtually everyone ignored shelter-in-place orders for at least two weeks, and how the nation became an epicenter for corona virus?
👉 Someone shared the following bit with me. I don’t know the source, but I applaud it’s message.
I trust God, and I wear my seat belt.
I trust God, and I wear a motorcycle helmet.
I trust God, and there are enough life jackets in my boat for everyone on board.
I trust God, and I use oven mitts with really hot dishes.
I trust God, and I lock my house at night.
I trust God, and I have smoke detectors in my house.
I trust God, and I take my prescribed medicines.
I trust God, and I will follow the best guidelines to share the task of flattening the curve.
Acting with caution and wisdom does not indicate a lack of trust in God.
👉 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths” (Proverbs 3:5-6).
And stay home when those in authority over you direct that course of action.
👉 In other news, on April 3, 1860, the first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously departed St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. Ten days later, on April 13, the westbound rider and mail packet completed the approximately 1,800-mile journey and arrived in Sacramento, beating the eastbound packet’s arrival in St. Joseph by two days and setting a new standard for speedy mail delivery.
In case you are interested, it cost $5 to send a one-half ounce letter by Pony Express. Adjusted for inflation, that’s $144.16 today. In Great Britain today it’s $1.15. In Russia it’s $2.40. In Japan it’s 84 yen or 75 cents. Complain about the Post Office all you want, 55 cents for a first class letter is a bargain.
👉 One more. You gotta love CNN’s sloppiness. Read both scroller lines.
TTFN
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Good one! Thanks for the references to oven mitts and life jackets. I liked it.
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