Rain Rain go Away

 It has been raining here lately. If I am not mistaken I kind of sense that winter is nearby.  Not sure I have met anybody that says I love these Michigan winters. I know people who are spring lovers, same for summer and fall, but never winter.  Of recent I have been listening  a little to the campaigns.  About the only way I fit in is that I think I could maybe write some of those Saturday Night Live spoofs.  So I think right now, how did I get the job I have instead of something like that. Not sure I will ever have the answer but I do find the campaigns for election range someplace between the comical and the hysterical   Wish it could be something else but I am not a big enough player is the game to change this all that much. So it is  It seems to me that recent days have been dominated somewhat by the rain.  Oh yeh, the Tigers are winning, the campaigns are winding to election day, preachers are still preaching, teachers are still teaching, but with all of this we are headed to winter in our state that is not always so good. It is what it is.


Been attending a somewhat interesting class at the church lately about the topic of heaven. It has been little while since I have thought about this all that much but some of the comments from the people in the class have been making me think a little.    On the topic of heaven, which is good to think about in the winter, I have some thoughts.  I believe at one time people kind of had thoughts about floating around for lots of years on a cloud with a harp. As time has past I think many people want to think of this more.  A few of people have found a way to make some money on the topic of heaven.  They reach and publish conclusions that we go here and there for a thousand years of so and then after Jesus comes back for the second time we go someplace else.  I suspect that the outcome will perhaps be someplace outside of what people are able to perceive.  This given, I am prone to not think about it all that much.  It will be what it will be.  One of the class members commented that it would be a place without sin.  I even thought about this.  That night I woke up and thought "there is nothing like a little sinnin once in a while".  With this thought I conclude this paragraph before I get myself in trouble.

Either way it is kind of an interesting topic.  Are you the same as me?  Do you open the paper and see the obit's and find more people around your age in these things?   Oh well maybe this is just me. In any case it does bring some reason for thought.  Have you ever had this thought?  Some things seem like they just happened yesterday and when you think more it seems like eons ago.  It seems like yesterday I was driving my bike to a little league game that I was going to play in. When I think again it seems like it happened in another century.  (Hey, come to think of it, it did.)  Enough of this.  For now,  I am just glad that some have figured our what is going to happen in heaven.  I suspect that they like the element of surprise because I think that is what they will get.

I find amazing the idea of churches.  Overall, I think they are good places.  When you think of it though the pastors of these places have the task of explaining God.  It seems to me that it is a truth that God resides in an arena  that falls beyond the mind of most of us. The attempts to lay a mind on these issues  have somewhat of a futile nature.   I have spent more than a little time trying to figure out which God I want.  Is it the one who deals the swift and mighty sword to the opposition.. Might I prefer the Ward Cleaver in the sky, who rewards His children when they are nice and reprimands them when they are naughty. Or might I prefer the something else.  I gotta tell ya that I have not figured this out.  When I do I will post it.  You can be sure.

I think it might be right to say that as long as we hang around here we are not going to have all these answers.  All I know for sure right now is that it has been raining a lot, the trees have some nice colors, the snow will be falling soon, and life around here is improving a little on the health front. A few adventures, but nothing we cannot handle.  I guess that is about all I know right now.  No definitive answers, plenty of questions, and the daily task of dealing as best I can with what faces me now.

Stan the Man