This Just In - When lightening strikes

Ted Kennedy

is it terribly astonishing?

On his way back to Hyannis from a commencement address at a local Western Massachusetts College today, Mr. Kennedy's plane was forced to make an emergency landing at a New Haven, Connecticut airport, due to a lightening strike. For more detailed information check CBS-TV3 WSHM.

As it will be Mother's Day (Yet another Hallmark moment) soon, a special thanks to the good Senator from Massachusetts for his support of child sexual predators (He, along with the upstanding Senator from Nevada, Reid, did their best to block the national sexual offenders registry.) as well as the practice of "a women's right to choose" or the death of yet another child. A bit radical?

Perhaps, perhaps not.

Is there truly a "wrath of God"? I believe that is between the believer and his or her believed. As a Christian/lapsed or perhaps disillusioned Catholic, I feel strongly that yes, Christ does send us personal messages, if we care to listen. Also, all God's moral decrees are readily available in print, in any language for that matter, so, there is no excuse for the defense of death or evil. Yet, above it all, He is a Merciful God, therefore a sinner would face no earthly punishment.

As a mother of a daughter who is my everything, I look to reason from a child for guidance. Would that all adults took that route? When discussing what was to happen to the souls of the 9/11 hi-jackers, my daughter reasoned as the young men we're cruelly duped and deceived by a religion that was clearly anti-Christ, He would forgive them if they were sorry for what they had done. I thought long and hard and realized that she had a good point - - I could find no gospel that did not spare the life of a sinner who was truly sorrowful for the pain and suffering he (or she) had caused.

Does it not then follow, that when all "liberals" are painted as anti-American's, while all Republican's members of the "KKK", that, just perhaps, Satan is afoot? Name-calling and finger pointing and reveling in someone's pain and suffering over politics is as delusional as hi-jacking a plane and flying it into a building, or believing that lightening would strike a plane simply because it carried one sinner. In these examples, someone has essentially brainwashed (as in cult) someone else into believing that a group of persons fits neatly into any one category. Not all Muslims are terrorists, not all Democrats are raging lunatics (ok, Howard Dean and that ilk are a bit off the ledge) nor are all Republicans wearing white hooded robes, carrying crosses and invading foreign countries in the name of oil.

At least let us hope not.

As a mother, a rather conservative mother, I am grateful for my child and her viewpoints. Those strong opinions keep me in check, a reality check so to speak.
Mothers, (and fathers) be grateful for the day and take the time to listen to the reason of your children. It can be eye opening.