A couple of years ago about the time the cherry blossoms bloomed in our nation’s capital I visited that great City. I was in Washington with several people from my hometown visiting our Congressional delegation on an annual visit that gave us a chance to get out of town for what we called a good reason.
This was not my first visit to our beautiful Capital but one I enjoyed more than any other. We arrived on a beautiful Saturday afternoon and enjoyed a great dinner in some unknown and unpublicized restaurant recommended by a friendly cab driver. As several of our group returned to our hotel I was given the choice of going to Baltimore the next day to visit ‘Oriole Park’ and watch the ‘Orioles’ or going to one of many famous Churches in the Washington area. My good friends Trudy Grisham and Wally Terry started the tradition several years before of visiting churches with distinguished histories. Over time they had seen some great churches in the process. Another good friend Wade Weaver, our friendly Budweiser distributor, was leading the Baltimore trip to see first hand the new ‘Camden Yards’ ballpark and to take in the Orioles playing the Braves in an early afternoon game that would have gotten us back into Washington before our first reception. What a choice for an ole country boy smitten with a love of both history and baseball. To my surprise I decided very quickly to tag along with Trudy and Wally to whatever church they chose.
I guess I surprised myself when I chose the church trip over the baseball trek to the venue where Cal Ripken Jr. ruled during the twi-light of his career. Trudy and Wally chose Christ Church in Alexandria, Va, and what a choice it was. During the taxi ride to Alexandria, my travel buddies educated me about where we were headed. I learned that this was the Church of none other than George and Martha Washington and the Robert E. Lee family. As we drew near we laughed about the possibility of sitting in old George and Martha’s pew and being treated like visiting dignitaries.
As soon as we walked into the vestibule of this beautiful historic church we were met by the nicest lady imaginable, who immediately recognized us as visitors and ask if we would like to sit in President Washington’s box. Trudy, being the southern charm machine she is, responded as if we were dignitaries and graciously accepted the offer while Wally and I tried to regain our composure. We actually sat for the entire service where George and Martha Washington worshiped so many years ago. Inside this historic box and on the pew which faced the pulpit, was an engraved plate that identified the position inside this same box where President and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill had sat for worship during World War II.
Across the aisle and two rows back a pew was engraved with a similar plate identified Robert E. Lee’s pew, with others spread throughout the Church commemorating numerous other national leaders who worshiped in this wonderful old place for over two hundred years.
Later in the day my two experienced guides took me to another old and beautiful church back in town and near the White House, where every President from Washington to George W. Bush worshipped and even had their personalized kneeling cushion for the time they spent on their knees talking with the God and asking for his guidance in governing our great country.
I was jolted back to that day recently by events surrounding this year’s presidential campaign. Some of these candidates would have us believe they represent the first presidential contender to ever know or need God. History will tell us every President we ever had has relied on God for his guidance and help in good times and bad. Neither party nor candidate has a corner on God, they will all humbly bow before him to save this great nation and to lead it through the good times and bad. Republicans did not bring God to Washington D.C., he’s always been there and always will be, so long as we remain ‘one nation under God’.
Friday, February 29, 2008
"The Secret"
2/29/08
Life is about to get a lot better for this ole fat boy and as far as I’m concerned it’s about time. I just watched the ‘Oprah’ show where Oprah and the guest talk about the ‘Secret’ for an hour. From what I was able to understand the ‘Secret’ is really something. I was so impressed that I ordered a DVD, I’ve watched another Oprah show featuring the ‘Secret’ and I’ve learned the keys to putting the ‘Secret’ to work for me so that I can have all I ever wanted.
If you are just now hearing about the ‘Secret’, I want to streamline the necessary step to reach the stage I am about to enter and enjoy. First you’ve got to figure out what it is you want, a person has to know definitely what it is they want. Next you have write it down and be able to talk about everything to another person. After you decide what it is you want, you make a ‘vision board’ where you put several pictures of everything you want. If you don’t have a camera or can’t do a board then make a list of what will make you happy. When you get the ‘vision board’ with pictures or the list, you look at them several times a day and repeat out loud the thing you want. Every time visualizing yourself with everything on the board or list. Once you begin to do this, the universe will hear and feel you and will begin to return these wishes to you. Now I’m not sure who the universe uses to do the returning to you or how they even figure out what it is you want and whether or not it will even work in your life. The people I’ve seen pretty much wanted stuff they could use, like money, cars and fame. I am not sure what would happen if you wanted something really crazy but I’m not going to push it, I’m just asking for money and easy things that an older guy in Alabama might want.
Now for what goes on my vision board and list. I figured for someone who has been out of touch with the universe for as long as I have it might be better for me to have both a list and a board. They tell you to be very specific when you make up your list of wishes and wants. I thought about my first choice and decided to go with a picture of Oprah herself to be the first picture on my board and name on my list. It is not important how you do it so long as you know what it means. I am using a picture of Oprah to represent the money I want the universe to give me. I always think of money when I see a picture of Oprah and there are always plenty of pictures of her around to use. I read somewhere years ago that she made over $100,000,000 a year and that is reason enough for me to always think of money when I see her picture.
Next up on my ‘vision board’ is a picture of Carrie Underwood. Don’t jump to any conclusions here. I am not a pervert that fantasizes about pretty young girls. My reason for using Ms. Underwood is that if everything I heard on the Oprah show is true, the universe will make my wife begin to look more like the picture on my ‘vision board’. It would be o.k. with me if she just started to favor Carrie Underwood a little.
For my wife’s sake I would also put pictures of Matthew McConaughey and Peyton Manning on my ‘board’ and list. She thinks the two of them are really hot and I figure if the universe could make her look like Carrie Underwood, then it could give me a little touch-up and make me more like Matthew and Peyton.
With Oprah’s money, a wife that looks like Carrie Underwood, a new set of abs and a full head of hair, there is just nothing left I need. This stuff is great; I can’t for the life of me figure out why nobody ever discovered it before. To be sure I didn’t miss anything I think I’ll order all three of those books they advertised on the show that explained everything. After all, they know the ‘Secret’ and don’t even need the $39.99 I sent each one of them; they’re just in it to help people.
You don’t think all three of them have my picture on their ‘vision board’ with a caption that simply says ‘Sucker’, do you?
Life is about to get a lot better for this ole fat boy and as far as I’m concerned it’s about time. I just watched the ‘Oprah’ show where Oprah and the guest talk about the ‘Secret’ for an hour. From what I was able to understand the ‘Secret’ is really something. I was so impressed that I ordered a DVD, I’ve watched another Oprah show featuring the ‘Secret’ and I’ve learned the keys to putting the ‘Secret’ to work for me so that I can have all I ever wanted.
If you are just now hearing about the ‘Secret’, I want to streamline the necessary step to reach the stage I am about to enter and enjoy. First you’ve got to figure out what it is you want, a person has to know definitely what it is they want. Next you have write it down and be able to talk about everything to another person. After you decide what it is you want, you make a ‘vision board’ where you put several pictures of everything you want. If you don’t have a camera or can’t do a board then make a list of what will make you happy. When you get the ‘vision board’ with pictures or the list, you look at them several times a day and repeat out loud the thing you want. Every time visualizing yourself with everything on the board or list. Once you begin to do this, the universe will hear and feel you and will begin to return these wishes to you. Now I’m not sure who the universe uses to do the returning to you or how they even figure out what it is you want and whether or not it will even work in your life. The people I’ve seen pretty much wanted stuff they could use, like money, cars and fame. I am not sure what would happen if you wanted something really crazy but I’m not going to push it, I’m just asking for money and easy things that an older guy in Alabama might want.
Now for what goes on my vision board and list. I figured for someone who has been out of touch with the universe for as long as I have it might be better for me to have both a list and a board. They tell you to be very specific when you make up your list of wishes and wants. I thought about my first choice and decided to go with a picture of Oprah herself to be the first picture on my board and name on my list. It is not important how you do it so long as you know what it means. I am using a picture of Oprah to represent the money I want the universe to give me. I always think of money when I see a picture of Oprah and there are always plenty of pictures of her around to use. I read somewhere years ago that she made over $100,000,000 a year and that is reason enough for me to always think of money when I see her picture.
Next up on my ‘vision board’ is a picture of Carrie Underwood. Don’t jump to any conclusions here. I am not a pervert that fantasizes about pretty young girls. My reason for using Ms. Underwood is that if everything I heard on the Oprah show is true, the universe will make my wife begin to look more like the picture on my ‘vision board’. It would be o.k. with me if she just started to favor Carrie Underwood a little.
For my wife’s sake I would also put pictures of Matthew McConaughey and Peyton Manning on my ‘board’ and list. She thinks the two of them are really hot and I figure if the universe could make her look like Carrie Underwood, then it could give me a little touch-up and make me more like Matthew and Peyton.
With Oprah’s money, a wife that looks like Carrie Underwood, a new set of abs and a full head of hair, there is just nothing left I need. This stuff is great; I can’t for the life of me figure out why nobody ever discovered it before. To be sure I didn’t miss anything I think I’ll order all three of those books they advertised on the show that explained everything. After all, they know the ‘Secret’ and don’t even need the $39.99 I sent each one of them; they’re just in it to help people.
You don’t think all three of them have my picture on their ‘vision board’ with a caption that simply says ‘Sucker’, do you?
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