We Salute You

I had my first experience with "human remains" at the airport today. They told us about it in training, how sometimes soldiers who died overseas are shipped home, and you must be very careful about keeping the wooden boxes right side up in the belly of the plane. They also have to be the first thing off the plane, and you have to be very respectful. Its rather erie, if you think about it.

Today, as Bill was closing up the cargo nets after James and I had brought the last two gate checks (2 guitars) down from the jet bridge, I saw a large convoy of police cars coming towards us down the VSR. There were two Expeditions with flashing lights in front followed by a hearse, a large gray van with soldiers inside (I saw the insignias on their sleeves through the tinted windows) and four more police SUVS. James stopped and saluted as they drove by, and I did the same. We're not military, either of us, but it just felt right.

The convoy proceeded down to one of the gates American Airlines uses, and waited for a while. I don't think their plane came in before ours pushed back, but I'm pretty sure I saluted an empty hearse. But, at the time, it felt like the reverent thing to do, standing there in my baggy snowpants and my bright orange vest.

I wonder how we'd react if such a convoy greeted one of our planes. Would the usually irreverent baggage handlers among us snap out of it? Some of us are ex-military. Either way, I'm sure such proceedings would give us a delay. Would we be able to "turn it and burn it" like usual afterward? Would the ops people understand? 

Facepalm

I'm talking to a friend who is currently getting a Master's Degree at Luther Seminary in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

This week, she "learned" that, "apparently there are many gods, Yahweh being one of them, which are all expression of the ancient god El."

She tells me:

"One student in my small group told me that hieroglyphics definitively prove the existence of other gods and that the gods exist in a tiered system of which the Christian God just happens to be the most important.

I asked her if she has ever professed the Nicene Creed."

Pretty witty, you say, right?

Wait till you hear what the gal's response was!

"She wanted to know what the Nicene Creed had to do with it. *facepalm!"

To echo the sentiments of the old Professor in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools."

" You worship God in your way and I'll worship Him in His."

-Rev. Know-It-All

"homosexualist"

Will someone please tell LifeSiteNews that "homosexualist" isn't a word?

So what is this saying? Perhaps that people aren't born gay? And if they aren't born gay, we've just entered into the dangerous world of choice. And if that is the case, then what basis can you argue for gay marriage upon?

Religious Referee

Fathers Day, Part II

"When a man can put aside his plans in order that another may thrive and prosper, then he exercises true fatherhood."


-Fr. Tom Carzon, OMV

I find it mildly amusing...

...that prominently displayed in the newspaper machine in front of the King Soopers i just left was a Safeway ad claiming "we have the lowest prices!"