Blue Truck, Red State: Waitin' for the Weekend

Saturday, June 1, 2024

Waitin' for the Weekend

June is here - the beach is open!

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2 comments:

Frank said...: There may have been three weeks one summer when I could get away with wearing a speedo.; June 2, 2024 at 7:58 AM
Russ Manley said...: Once upon a time, I had a summer romance that was spent largely driving to the coast and lying out on the sands with a cooler full of illicit beer. I was fool enough then to display my ungainly body in a speedo all summer, and even got noticed a bit by other guys - but that was long ago and far away now. Ah, sweet memories of youth!

Got brown as a nut, though.; June 2, 2024 at 6:20 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