Blue Truck, Red State: Christmas 2018

Monday, December 24, 2018

Christmas 2018

Earthrise - photograph of our blue planet taken from lunar orbit by the crew of Apollo 8, December 24, 1968.

Christmas greetings and warm wishes to all my truckbuddies around the world. May the Good Lord bless and keep you all.

4 comments:

Sixpence Notthewiser said...: Happy holidays!; December 25, 2018 at 5:56 AM
Tim said...: And a merry Christmas to you to Russ. Christmas comes but once a year, but the BT keeps on truckin’. :)); December 25, 2018 at 1:09 PM
Davis said...: Blessings on you and your followers these 12 days of Christmas and in the New Year.; December 26, 2018 at 10:02 AM
Russ Manley said...: Appreciate ya, fellas.; December 26, 2018 at 1:15 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