Put your money where your mouth is!

Yesterday Washington celebrated the inauguration of President Barack Obama, and I do mean celebrated. With an estimated cost of 170 million dollars, President Obamas inauguration was the most expensive in history. 170 MILLION DOLLARS...HELLO! How much does it cost to drill a well in Africa, I believe through Seeds of Hope it is like 1,500 or 1,700 dollars. How many people is this country face foreclouser, granted it is not the responsibility of the government to bail out private citizens only major corporations and banks. Didnt the man get elected with promises of change, and vowes to stimulate the economy? Didnt he say just yesterday in his speech that countries like ours can no longer ignore the poverty of the world? 170 MILLION DOLLARS...RIDICULOUS! I do know that the 170 million dollars did not come directly out of the Presidents pocket, but I do believe that he had a awesome opportunity to take a stand and show the world and the American people that he does intend to bring about change. I believe that he could have said as President of the United States I can not in good conscience accept such gross overspending on account of my inauguration. I believe he could have directed the money to be spent on a more worthy cause. Up to this point President Obama has done a lot of talking, talk talk talk. I think that the cost of the inauguration was a meaningless waste of money. Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore stand in awe of God. Ecclesiastes 5:7 I am not concerned with the color of his skin but the content of his heart.

I will continue to pray for our country. I feel that now more than ever God fearing people need to pray for our country.

Im Not Good at This

From the way that I understand things, a blog is updated on a regular basis. From this understanding I draw the conclusion that inspired the title of this post. Although this is an unfortunate truth, I have resolved to not be a quitter. Now all I have to do is overcome the ever present struggle I have with deciding what I will blog about. New Years resolutions...No. For obvious reasons, I don't want the whole world (ok my one reader) to be waiting for the day when they can hold up a printed copy of this post and say I knew you couldn't do it. I do want to say that this is the first year I am excited about the resolutions I have made. Back to blog. I guess I am going to be lame and leave you with a list...



What I Read in 2008

Forgiven - Karen Kingsbury

Across Five Aprils (homeschool)

Of Mice and Men (I still shake my head in disbelief and wonder why)

Can you Keep a Secret (very funny - some bad language)

Nice Girls Don't Change the World (I have a very huge chance at changing this world)

Jim and Casper go to Church

Alex the Life of a Child (this is not a must read for everyone, it is about a little girl with CF)

The Other Boleyn Girl

Lincoln a photobiography (homeschool - very very good)

The Testament (cant go wrong with Grisham)

90 Minutes in Heaven ( very thankful for this book)

I Became A Christian and all I got was This Lousy T-Shirt (hilarious so so funny)

Blue Like Jazz

The Shack

The Oath (its been months since I read this and I find myself thinking about it often, the longer it marinates the more I like it)

Same Kind of Different as Me (a treasure)

Twilight (I was hooked, but these books don't have staying power, they are very forgettable)

New Moon

Eclipse

Breaking Dawn (best of the series by far, just read this one and the first one and you will be good)

Marley and Me

There is probably one or two that didn't get mentioned, but I think its a good list. Lets see if I can double it in 2009.