Blue Truck, Red State: Happy New Year!

Friday, December 31, 2021

Happy New Year!

Another year has passed into history, and who knows what changes and chances the future will bring? Whatever it may hold, let us savor peace and celebrate the joy of living when we can, with those we love. In the scheme of the universe, we are all only here for a little while.

Here's wishing health, wealth, and happiness to all my truckbuddies in the New Year.

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3 comments:

Frank said...: And a Happy New Year to you and M.P. (I'm not even sure the words "Happy New Year" have meaning anymore, but for lack of another phrase...stay well, enjoy); December 31, 2021 at 9:32 AM
Tim said...: Back at ya, Bubba!; January 1, 2022 at 4:20 AM
Russ Manley said...: Appreciate ya, buddies.; January 1, 2022 at 11:53 AM

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