The Median Sib

Our minister has been preaching a series of sermons on the seven deadly sins.  Today he sent out the following to the church email list.  (h/t to Pastor Tom)

Have you ever told a white lie? You are going to love this especially all of the ladies who bake for church events.

Alice was to bake a cake for the Baptist Church ladies’ group bake sale in Tuscaloosa, but she forgot to do it until the last minute.  She remembered it the morning of the bake sale and after rummaging through cabinets she found an angel food cake mix and quickly made it while drying her hair and dressing and helping her son, Bryan, pack up for Scout camp.

But when Alice took the cake from the oven, the center had dropped flat and the cake was horribly disfigured.  She said, “Oh dear, there’s no time to bake another cake.” This cake was so important to Alice because she did so want to fit in at her new church, and in her new community of new friends.

So being inventive, she looked around the house for something to build up the center of the cake. Alice found it in the bathroom — a roll of toilet paper.  She plunked it in and then covered it with icing. Not only did the finished product look beautiful, it looked perfect!

Before she left the house to drop the cake by the church and head for work, Alice woke her daughter Amanda and gave her some money with specific instructions to be at the bake sale the minute it opened at 9:30 and to buy that cake and bring it home

When the daughter arrived at the sale, she found that the attractive perfect cake had already been sold.  Amanda grabbed her cell phone and called her Mom.

Alice was horrified …she was beside herself.  Everyone would know. What would they think? Oh, my she wailed! She would be ostracized, talked about and ridiculed. All night Alice lay awake in bed thinking about people pointing their fingers at her and talking about her behind her back.  The next day, Alice promised herself that she would try not to think about the cake and she would attended the fancy luncheon/bridal shower at the home of a friend of a friend and try to have a good time. Alice did not really want to attend because the hostess was a snob who more than looked down her nose at the fact that Alice was a single parent and not from the founding families of Tuscaloosa, but having already RSVP’d she could not think of a believable excuse to stay home. The meal was elegant, the company was definitely upper crust old south…and to Alice’s horror, the CAKE in question was presented for
dessert.

Alice felt the blood drain from her body when she saw the cake.  She started out of her chair to rush to tell her hostess all about it, but before she could get to her feet, the Mayor’s wife said, “What a beautiful cake!”

Alice, who was still stunned, sat back in her chair when she heard the hostess (who was a prominent church member) say, Thank you, I baked it myself.”

Alice smiled and thought to herself, “GOD is good.”

Three years ago today my youngest granddaughter, Sunshine, was born.  And Sunshine is certainly an appropriate nickname for her.  PawPaw and I talk about how she looks like a Hummel child — sweet round face and big smile.  She melts my heart when she wraps her arms around me and snuggles up close.

Since I go right past their house on my way to and from work each day, this morning I stopped, tied two balloons on their mailbox with a birthday card attached.  I got a phone call a few minutes later with Sunshine telling me about the balloons.  I sang “Happy Birthday” to her. 

Before having grandchildren, I had no idea how much I would love them.  Of course I knew I would love them, but I had no clue of the intensity of the love and the absolute joy I would feel for them.  Sunshine and her sister, Sweet Stuff, are shining lights in my life.

I have a policy of not putting photos of the grandkids on my blog.  So you’ll have to take my word that she’s an absolutely adorable little girl. 

Happy Birthday, Sunshine.  Grandma Carol loves you!

I just love that the Democrats are calling themselves “progressives.”  It is SO in keeping with their general behavior and thinking.  The only thing they’re progressing towards is socialism and the end of our American culture and heritage. But that doesn’t matter - as long as they sound good.  They seem to be quite fond of putting noble-sounding tags to despicable policies.  Just note: freedon of choice, pacifism, right to privacy, affirmative action.

A popular Democratic and MSM tactic is to keep telling a lie long enough that people will start believing it.  People roll out the words “Bush stole the election from Gore,” “Bush lied,” “Bush is the real terrorist” and “Bush ordered illegal domestic spying” and they believe it because they’ve heard it over and over and over and over in the MSM. Apparently many people believe whatever the MSM and the Democratic talking heads tell them without looking into it and studying it for themselves.

The line about Bush stealing the election from Gore is the funniest to me.  They’re like little children having a tantrum because they didn’t get what they wanted.  The fact that the election was so close makes it an even more bitter pill for them to swallow.  So they have been throwing their tantrum for almost six years now.  OF course the fact that Bush didn’t steal an election has no bearing on this. The facts generally don’t stand in the way of the Democratic crybabies.

How can anyone call the United States and George W. Bush the real terrorists in the world while virtually excusing the Muslim terrorists?  I think they’re afraid.  If they take the terrorists seriously, that means they would have to support the war against them. And that would mean supporting a Republican president.  It would also mean admitting that there are true terrorists in the world who don’t give a rat’s ass how progressive they are or how sympathetic they are to Islam - people who would rather saw off their heads than listen to their socialistic and humanistic drivel.  It’s much easier to blame everything on Bush than to believe something so horrible and inhuman.  If only it weren’t for Bush, all those radical Islamists would love us and there would be peace in the world.  Sure, that’s how it would be.

They talk about “illegal wiretaps” and “domestic spying.”  The manufactured terminology makes it sound ominous.  From what I’ve researched, it seems obvious that the wiretaps that were done are legal.  The calls that were monitored were from known terrorists to known terrorist sympathizers or vice versa.  The legal wiretaps have saved lives.  Apparently, many in the Democratic party are terrorist sympathizers, so it’s no wonder they’re upset about it. Keep talking about the ILLEGAL wiretapping, and people start parroting the sound bites and believing them.

They talk about how Bush “lied” to the nation.  They ignore the fact that virtually all of them agreed with Bush’s conclusions about WMDs.  They have also mostly ignored the evidence that there were WMDs in Iraq - and that Saddam Hussein WAS tied in with Al Quaeda and Osama bin Laden.

It gets tedious to see and read the same drivel over and over every day.

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