Lorena and I voted a straight Republican ticket this morning. There were lots of people in line in our small, Texas town. I have a good feeling about this election even though we had to hold our noses to vote for some of those RINO’s.
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Lorena and I made our way to the airport from Granbury for a solo trip for the first time since returning to Texas. We have found a route that is much easier in just about every way than the drive from Godley to the airport. On arrival, I got a slack message showing an error.
I listened to a Charlie Kirk video (the famous, recently assassinated leader of a young people’s political organization) where he explained that he was not a Christian Nationalist, but he was a Christian and a Nationalist. I have appreciated a lot of what Charlie Kirk has said about the direction of the country and much of what he said about Christianity and being a Christian, but this video truly gave me pause because it was so objectively wrong. He was in a discussion with an articulate, biblically literate young Christian man who said Christian Nationalism was not something Christ would have supported. Charlie response was to point out a bunch of Old Testament verses that were specifically for the Jewish people or Jews operating in governments that had taken them into captivity. He then said that in Matthew 16:18 where it says, “And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it,” the word church was translated from the Greek word ecclesia which is an assembly of people. The fact that, at one time and place, the Greek nation was ruled by an ecclesia does not argue for what was translated to the word “church” to be what Christian’s aim for in setting up national government. Rather, it is arguing that the church is founded on the revelation that Jesus is “the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” In this context, whether you describe yourself as a Christian Nationalist or a Christian and a Nationalist is a distinction without a difference. I want to clearly point out that I completely avoided the topic of race in all of this.
It is almost as scary to see this movement as it is the movement at the other end of the political spectrum. We live in turbulent and interesting times.
My buddy John drove his son David up to the IFBB National Championships in Pittsburg today from North Carolina. David will compete in the Super Heavyweight division and hopes to earn his pro card this year. John just sent me this great picture of them and I had to put it up to commemorate the event.
Now that we are installed in our apartment for a year or so, I want to make a good plan for getting some things done. Of course, the top item on the list is to get the house built, but we are starting a huge new development effort at Thrive Bioscience that I will be driving, I want to continue my work on GRIME 3, and work on the Mexico houses continues. We also need to spend some time in Mexico with Lorena’s family–which is a true joy. I think I am going to publish some goal dates here to keep myself accountable after I figure out some realistic timelines.
Lorena and I are spending the long, USA 250th anniversary weekend just hanging out together and packing to move to Texas. It is has started off in spectacular way–not so much because we are doing anything out of the ordinary, but because we have been reminded in many very obvious ways that we are blessed by God. And it is not because we are good or deserve anything, but because He is good, loves us. We are going to eat good food, pack some boxes, watch a few videos, and give thanks to God for all He has done for us and our nation.
I emptied all the books from my bookshelf and packed all the other books for the move after throwing away about half of them. Now, the house has been slow to sell, we have a three day weekend coming up and I have nothing to read. I just ordered a couple of novels from ThriftBooks, but they will not arrive here in time for the weekend. Serves me right for not reserving just one or two books for just this kind of a situation.
Lorena took this picture from the screen porch this morning. We saw this last year and are glad to have them back.
Lorena got her desk put together and we set up the little Intel NUC for her on it. She is quite pleased.