This is really an effective medicine. I have been fighting a bug for the last couple of weeks and I really don’t know if I would have been able to make it without it. Moreover, I found that I generally didn’t need a full dose.
However, I can’t say I like the TV ads. I buy the product in despite the stupid ads. My suggestion, if you need the product, ignore the ads and take the meds as I do.
Daily Prompt:
What’s something you believe everyone should know.
Salvation is easy. All you need to do is accept Jesus as your Savior. It is the most important thing a person can know. It is the most important thing a person can do.
I was thirteen at the time. It was nearing the close of a church service at Western Avenue Baptist Church at Buena Park, California. I remember as if it were yesterday. Okay. That’s a stretch. Let’s just say last week ago.
I decided to step out into the isle during the invitation. I decided to accept Jesus as my Savior and make a public confession of it. I knew it would be easy. All I had to do was step out there and walk to the front of the church.
All of a sudden, it felt like my feet were in concrete. I found them very difficult to move. I mean, this was something everyone was going to see me do. Then there was the question. What was I going to tell the preacher when I got up front. I was sure he would expect me to say something.
Finally, in my mind, I said, “Well, here I go, no matter what anyone thinks or does.” I put one foot out and oddly the other just seemed to follow automatically. It was that first step that I found so hard to take. The rest were easy.
In that moment of time, I knew, the Holy Spirit sealed my soul forever. No matter what happened from that time forward, I belonged to God.
It was so easy, but yet it was so hard. The fact is that Jesus did the hard part. He died for me. He spilled His blood for that moment, so that I would never have to experience the second death.
What I should tell everyone, is that it is their option too. They can accept Jesus as their savior as I did. Don’t try to add anything to it. It is impossible. Only Jesus has the power to save. Only Jesus has the authority to save. If you try to rely on anything or anyone else, it won’t work. It displays a false hope, a false faith in that other person or thing. You must put your faith and hope only on Jesus.
The instant you do, the Holy Spirit will seal you and you will be forever God’s child. No one, no thing will ever be able to take you away.
His promise is eternal life. If it can be taken from you, then it is not eternal. If it can be taken, then it is only until it is taken. Conceivably, it could be just 5 or 10 minutes. That cannot be defined as eternal. His promise is eternal and irreversible.
I would suspect more than a few have forgotten a few facts from WWII. An estimated 100 thousand Japanese civilians died in the battle for Okinawa, almost as many as the 110 thousand Japanese soldiers. Of course we all know about the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The loss of life was almost completely civilian.
Germany certainly did not escape our bombs. Berlin and many other cities were bombed so completely that there were few places to live in after the war.
Now, suddenly, it is wrong to kill civilian populations during a purely defensive war.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think the IDF should go around and search out civilians to drop bombs on. However, when the enemy hides amongst the civilians, it can’t be avoided.
Besides, the civilians are not really that guiltless. They voted the Hamas in. Even now, it is estimated that about 70% of the people in the Gaza are in favor of completely killing all Jews…then us here in the US.
Moreover, getting it done and over quickly has always proved to cost less lives than letting it drag on.
For years, I wondered why the dems don’t care about how far we go in debt. Then, just today, I think I might have figured it out. It just might be that they don’t care how far we go into debt.
Now that just might sound like double talk and I suppose that it is in a sense. However, think about it a minute. What if they never plan to honor it.
But they have to. It is part of our faith & credit. If we don’t honor it, our credit will be ruined. However, they can announce to the world that it’s the USA’s credit. You see, we will no longer be the USA, so we don’t need to honor that debt. Good luck on collecting from the former United States of America.
Hence, they will not have to pay back 1 dollar, not 1 penny. I wonder if the Chinese have considered that possibility. Then, on the other hand, if China incorporates the former US into China, it won’t much matter, will it? (Considering China owns most of our debt)
If IDF troups were to withdraw: if the Israeli air force stopped bombing; if the Israelis artillery were quieted, what would you expect from Hamas?
Would they cease the rockets, from the north as well as the south? Would they stop their assaults and killing. Is there any hope that they would return the hostages.
My guess is that they will remain true to their long time goal, to drive all Jews into the sea. That done, they would turn on us. It is what they claim they are devoted to. Maybe we should believe them. I am sure they already have a small army inside the US. We have Old Joe’s border policies to thank for that.
I’m sure our military could stop them. However, two questions come to mind. How much blood would be spilled and would Old Joe actually give the necessary orders?
I wonder if this might be why there is no mention of the US in the Bible.
I am not a prophet but sometimes I can foretell the future. It doesn’t take a special ability from above, just a little observation and reasoning.
My prediction was a simple one. Self-driving cars will not be successful for decades, if not longer. My reasoning was and is very simple. I have no doubt that they will soon have Self-driving cars safer than those driven by humans.
Compared to humans, computers react, effectively instantly. Perhaps, more important, they are not distracted. The nice thing is that the computer controlled car would be able to follow much closer and still be safe.
The hitch has not one thing to do with the cars or computers. It’s the law and the legal system. I saw today that Tesla was sued by a Tesla owner. The driver tried to claim that Tesla was at fault for an accident, but Tesla was found not at fault.
Let’s look at the possibilities. As it turned out, Tesla was out the cost of providing a defense, even though they were not at fault. For one case, that’s not much. When the number of cars increases, then so will the costs of lawyers.
At some point Tesla, and others, will need to buy insurance to pay for settling the thousands of suits. It will have to happen. Every day, I see these Morgan and Morgan commercials. I suspect they are already exploring the possibility of settling the first million dollar law suit.
My guess is, after a few of those, guilty or not, those Self-driving vehicles will become to fade from view.
There are but two things that will allow their return. Either perfect computers and/or a revision of the laws. Regardless, I really believe the revision of our law is in order.
No one group of people has beneted from the tort laws than the lawyers. Considering that it is mostly lawyers that write the laws, I don’t expect any change in the next decade or two.
So, Self-driving cars will have to wait for perfect computers. When that happens, there will be many disappointed lawyers.
Still, there will be accidents. Then, lawyers will converge to get their share of contingency money.
Not 1 trick-or-treater. That’s a first. Since we moved in in 1977, we have always had a few come by.
It reminded me of the old days. I was 5 the 1st year I remember. We were out till midnight and we collected our share of all kings of goodies. It did make me wonder why we didn’t have Halloween once a week, or at least one time each month. I certainly would not have complained at every other night.
When I moved out to Southern California, it was really neat. It was warm and some folks left their lights on till 2. I’d come home with a pillow case half full of all sorts of stuff.
Well, this year, it got cold, almost freezing. As near as I can tell, that was what stopped the crowds this year. Maybe there have been previous Halloweens that have been colder. I don’t know. However, this one sure stopped everything, cold, if you’ll excuse the pun.
However, it does seem to me that all the experts say we are all getting warmer. Well, just maybe they can explain that to all the trick-or-treaters.
Well, as for me, they would have had to tie me down when I was a kid. If I could walk to school in the snow, and I did, then I could go in search of candy in a near freeze.
Oh, and by the way, this will likely make all those who bought Reese’s peanut butter cups very happy. I mean, as the commercial says, it makes much more for us.
Prompt for 3 wishes
This one is tough. That is to say, I know what I would like but I don’t think any genie, even in fantasy could grant my wish.
Maybe I should back up a line or two in my explanation. Let’s look at Salomon, the king who had the wisdom to ask for wisdom. I can’t really disagree with his request, but if I were asked by God what I want, I would not hesitate, I would like to be able to heal people.
It is a vein request to be sure in that I know it would never be granted. I really know better. However, I would give up every worldly possession to be able to bring healing to the child with cystic fibrosis. I saw two of my brothers die from cancer. I certainly wish I could have done something about that. Then there are those with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
There are two hitches to the request. First, and most important, God is not genie. I fear I might even be a little disrespectful in making the comparison. Secondly, I already asked, a bunch of times. I don’t think He is willing to grant this request.
However, the prompt was there. I figured I might as well be honest about it, in a round about way. I can kind of see why. In a matter of days, can you imagine the line that would form at my front door? I’d guess there would be a number of reporters there, besides those who wanted to be healed.
As a side note: Some might have noticed I had to insert the prompt into the post the last few times. In the past, it was automatically inserted. Just figured I’d explain if anyone was wondering.
Just got a circular today encouraging me to vote for Brandon Presley for governor of Mississippi. Disregarding the content, the circular demonstrated one of my pet peeves in the world of politics. The mail was postmarked Little Rock, Arkansas.
Now, my question is, just why is someone in Arkansas trying to tell me how to vote in Mississippi.
Granted, it just might be a quirk. I mean Presley might not even know about the mailer or the organization that mailed it. Then again, that sort of falls in the area of plausible deniability. Moreover, if asked directly, he might deny the mailer. However, I am sure he would not deny the message.
Strange how that works. He gets the benefits without the liability.
Finally, I have a difficult time believing any of the literature. The dems do have a habit of twisting the truth. If Presley is truly the honest upstanding candidate he claims to be, why oh why would he ever want to be associated with a party that lies, steals and permits so much killing?
I turned the news on this morning. Strange as it seems, I do like to see what is going on around me in this world. Then, of all things, I was treated to 30 minutes about Matthew Perry, 10 minutes of weather and 10 minutes sports… that was slipped in between all the many commercials. And incidentally, somehow they did manage to have a few minutes of news.
As difficult as it may be to believe, Matthew Perry was not a head of state or even the head of a major business. I can’t think of one really important thing he did. He was an actor, a person who pretended to be someone else.
I never saw him before all the “news” about him. …sorry, not impressed. Be that as it may, I don’t think any actor deserves that much attention.
I suspect that it is but one reason our nation is having problems as we do. It would seem our media has decided to report just about anything but the news, especially when they feel they have something else more “important” to report on. It is keeping the public ignorant of current events.
I’m not sure which is worse…no news or twisted news. At this point, I am convinced it’s all we can expect.
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