Blue Truck, Red State: Waitin' for the Weekend

Friday, December 22, 2017

Waitin' for the Weekend

6 comments:

Tim said...: Well Russ, if #4 had needed both hands......but as it is, #3 wins hands down...or up....or all over! ;P

PS, loved M.P.’s decorations the other day. On a scale of 1 to 10, he’s an 11. :)); December 22, 2017 at 4:38 PM
Russ Manley said...: I rushed to get #3 on the midnight sleigh to you, I do hope he gets down your chimney at the appointed time.

M.P. says thanks for the compliment. He really is rah-ther at that sort of thing.; December 23, 2017 at 1:46 AM
Frank said...: Where does the time go...I've missed several of your "weekends" and midweek posts as well, even though you're on my dashboard. I would like to give #3 a massage, if that's ok with him.; December 23, 2017 at 8:56 AM
Russ Manley said...: I'm sure #3 will appreciate a soothing massage after Tim gets through with him.; December 23, 2017 at 9:20 PM
Davis said...: What generosity of spirit you friends have as #1 is surely waiting for my plaintive call!
Happy Holidays to all at the Blue Truck!; December 24, 2017 at 2:36 PM
Russ Manley said...: The same to you, Davis, and to all my truckbuddies.; December 24, 2017 at 6:31 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