"While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, who's hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his bid to be our president.
The old rancher said, "Well, ya know, Obama is a "Post Turtle".
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a "post turtle" was.
The old rancher said, "When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a "post turtle".
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain. "You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, and he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, and you just wonder what kind of idiot put him up there in the first place".
I like that story. I had heard it before, particularly about Jimmy Carter. I just wonder how this presidency will be viewed by future generations. I think that whatever you may think about President Bush, he at least had the courage of his convictions. Remember that there were a lot of people who referred to Abraham Lincoln as Satan and hated him. Now he is regarded as one of the greatest presidents in the history of the U.S. The liberal media hated Ronald Reagan and his policies and when he died even they had to admit that his presidency was one of the most effective in recent history. Food for thought.
We are on the countdown to the end of the school year. I am particularly looking forward to the end of this year. There has been so much turmoil and even though the kids are somewhat immune to it, some of it has to trickle down to them. I think that when we come back in the fall some of the most dissatisfied employees will be gone because of their work ethic. I is popular around here to gripe and gripe and never realize that some of the trials you are facing are of your own making. That is the nature of the sinful world though and with all of the trials that my church has gone through, it happens in the body as well. I see in that situation that God surely did work it out and now there is a vitality and love there that wasn't there before. I believe that our school, even though a secular entity is undergoing the same thing. God is doing some weeding so that the flowers can get the water instead of the weeds.
Till next time...
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