Blue Truck, Red State: Breakout

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Breakout

Sometimes you just need to get away from it all. You fellas take care, see you down the road.

14 comments:

DeepBlue said...: Thank you and I wish you well.

It gonna be my turn soon! ;)
Hugs
Jon; October 2, 2011 at 8:34 PM
Sebastian said...: Russ, hope you are ok. Getting away can be good. God bless. Sebastian; October 2, 2011 at 9:32 PM
Stan said...: Take care Russ. Hurry back now, ya hear?; October 3, 2011 at 12:49 PM
Ruffy said...: Hang in there and take care.; October 3, 2011 at 6:48 PM
David said...: Enjoy your break mister!; October 3, 2011 at 7:27 PM
Russ Manley said...: Thanks guys.; October 4, 2011 at 2:21 AM
Theaterdog said...: Okay, I am waiting to see what this means, but the quite hours of my mornings around here won't be the same without this 'Safe place' I visit before entering waking up to the real world.
Really; October 4, 2011 at 11:23 PM
Frank said...: Yeah, I can relate to that.; October 5, 2011 at 8:04 PM
MommieDammit said...: Enjoy your decompression, Russ. You have my full sympathies - even old drag queen battle-axes like yours truly must eventually reach the point where we throw our feather boas in the air and say "fuck it!"; October 10, 2011 at 12:46 PM
Russ Manley said...: Appreciate ya, buddies.; October 12, 2011 at 6:36 PM
Frank said...: Just checking in on ya.; October 19, 2011 at 6:22 PM
"Sir" said...: Enjoy the break.; October 24, 2011 at 3:27 AM
Davis said...: Checking in to say I miss your excellent posts and thoughts.; November 4, 2011 at 12:00 PM
Russ Manley said...: Thanks fellas.; November 8, 2011 at 2:49 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu