Fourth Sunday of Epiphany
25
Jan
Nutrition-A major problem with the elderly is eating right. While many do not feel that nutrition is an important among the elderly, it is really an important ministry to the one who receives the meals. Elderly women who are used to cooking for someone may not feel much like fixing meals just for themselves. Arthritis and other ailments may also make cooking difficult. Many widowed men are used to their wives cooking and not used to cooking for themselves. In addition, many elderly do not feel much like eating alone and may skip meals resulting in malnutrition that leads to poor health. Home delivered meals provide a daily nutritious meal for them. In addition, the delivery provides a daily check on them to make sure they are alright which is important because they may not have anyone to check on them otherwise. It also provides a friendly visit. While those delivering the meals usually can’t stop for long, a cheerful greeting is very welcome to someone who rarely sees anyone. Sit-down meals are provided at many Senior centers and some provide transportation to those within a limited distance but many live too far from a Senior Center to get to the meals. Churches may offer luncheons to Seniors who live nearby or provide transportation to Senior Centers. Home delivered meals are available through many Senior Centers but the elderly may live too far from the center to get them. Individuals who drop by with a prepared meal occasionally and stay to share it are appreciated. Several elderly living close to each other may get together and eat together. I once visited an elderly woman who lived on the second floor of an apartment building. Three other elderly ladies lived on her floor. One of the women had previously had a big family and was used to cooking for them but they had all moved away and none of them lived nearby. She got the other ladies together and told them that if each contributed a portion of the cost of groceries, she would cook for them all and they could eat together. The women agreed and it benefited them all. A mother of young children can occasionally invite an elderly neighbor over to share lunch while the kids take their nap, allowing her much needed fellowship as well as the Senior.
Sanctity of Life-A-1-B
25
Jan
Laws of every State in the U.S. requires parental notification and permission before minors can receive any medication or medical treatment, except in cases where injuries are life threatening, abortion providers feel they are above the law. Your child’s school can not give your child an aspirin or pierce a student’s ears without parental permission, yet they routinely give students birth control pills and even transport them to clinics for abortions without notifying the parents, let alone getting their permission. In spite of the fact that it is illegal to have sex with a minor and anyone aware of such are required to report it to child protection agencies, school personnel often assist children in getting abortions and abortion clinics routinely perform abortions on minors without notifying parents or child protection agencies as required by law. Some States have been able to push through laws that specifically requires parental notification before a child can get an abortion but abortion providers have managed to get exceptions in some States where a judge can approve for a parental bypass when he feels the girl is in danger if parents are notified. While that sounds good, they then line up judges who will approve such applications without investigating the circumstances or interviewing the girl. Those judges rubber stamp the applications basically bypassing parental notification laws. Republicans have continually tried to push through parental notification and intervention laws which would explicitly require parental notification and intervention before a child can have an abortion, and would provide strong penalties for abortion providers who perform abortions on minors without parental consent and on anyone assisting a girl to get an abortion without notifying the parents. Write your Congressman today and urge them to pass a law to protect young girls from being railroaded into having an abortion.
Sanctity of Life-A-1-A
25
Jan
Overturning Roe vs Wade was not the end but only a shift in the fight. Planned Parenthood is pushing laws to allow unlimited abortions. They are hiding their involvement by funneling funds through other organizations and disguising their true intensions. In Ohio they pushed through a Constitutional amendment that would nullify Ohio’s laws to restrict abortion after the baby was able to survive outside the womb. They pushed it on the pretense it would protect women whose health was threatened to gain sympathy, though the Ohio law already included that, but included a phrase that would allow an abortion if the doctors felt the women’s mental health was in danger, which gives them an excuse to perform abortions up to the time of birth, since every unwanted pregnancy is stressful to the mother. They also included a phrase that would not allow anyone to interfere with someone seeking an abortion. That means girls of any age could get abortions and their parents could not interfere with them getting it. Girls only 10 years old could get an abortion and their parents could not prevent it. That is a recipe for disaster. That means a rapist or sex trafficker could get a girl pregnant and then take her for an abortion to cover it up. There are already numerous instances where rapists and sex traffickers are taking girls to get abortions and the girls are going through repeated abortions because Planned Parenthood has not notified the parents or child protective services. Sex with underage girls is illegal in all 50 States and laws require child protective services be notified when girls request an abortion. However, Planned Parenthood and other abortionists openly ignore the law. They tell the girl to list her age as eighteen or over so they can avoid the requirements of the law, even though it is easy to tell that most ten year olds are not over eighteen years old. That is a deliberate act to get around the law. Abortionists would still be guilty of failing to notify child protective services, even if they repeal the laws about notifying parents. The law protects children from sexual exploitation and the child is a person protected by the Constitution and State laws.
Voting-I-A-C
25
Jan
Democrats have been pressing to remove any requirements to require ID’s of people voting and the Obama Administration even filed lawsuits to force States to drop their voter ID laws saying that it discriminates against poor people. However, those who don’t drive can get State ID’s and they have to have ID’s whether they want to get welfare or to get a job so there is no reason for them not to have one. The only reason to try to vote without an ID is if you are an illegal alien or are trying to vote multiple times at different locations under different names. That also explains why the President has been so reluctant to shut our southern border. The more illegal aliens in the U.S., the more they can register illegally and get to vote. Of course, we could always compromise and allow people to vote without an ID if they allow themselves to be fingerprinted to allow the voter registration workers to verify they aren’t trying to vote twice and provide verification of residence and citizenship to verify that they are eligible to vote.
Voting-I-L-A
25
Jan
One of the main questions today is if our elections are safe. While Democrats claim that there is no evidence of fraud, repeated instances have been uncovered and numerous people convicted. However, the media has censored any instances of widespread fraud by Democrats while exploiting minor instances where Republicans were involved. For instance a mailman caught with several bags of ballots was hardly mentioned but a person taking several ballots from a nursing home to the election office was blown all out of proportion. While Democrats have spearheaded efforts to loosen voter laws and open the doors to fraud, unscrupulous Republican candidates have not been above exploiting those possibilities. America used to have the safest election system in the world. You had to go to the election board, present picture ID, and register to vote at least 30 days before the election so they could send your confirmation to your address to verify you lived there. Then you had to appear in person at a voting poll in your neighborhood, present a picture ID to a Republican and a Democrat election worker from your neighborhood, before you could vote. Since then, Democrats have sought to tear down those protections by allowing registration a wide variety of ways, allowing voting by mail and computer where there is no personal verification, and allowing you to vote anywhere so you can vote in multiple places without being recognized. Those open a wide variety of opportunities for fraud by both Republicans and Democrats, jeopardizing the safety of the ballot box. Americans need to press for returning to more stringent laws to protect their vote.
Third Sunday of Epiphany-Jan 21
21
Jan
Chores-As the elderly get older, they are can no longer do many of the things that they used to do. Relatively simple things like mowing the lawn, shoveling snow, and similar chores may become too difficult. Many do not have money to hire the work done and it is often difficult finding someone to do the work even if they could afford to pay someone. Christian neighbors can easily do the work when they mow their own lawn or shovel their own walk. Children can learn the value of money by charging small fees to do the work and it would cost the elderly far less than if they hired a professional company to do the work.
Voting-I-AX
21
Jan
Even though liberals say the Republicans pose a great threat to democracy, with no proof of any kind, they continue to show their contempt for democracy. Democrat politicians are urging Democrat voters to switch their affiliation to Republican in the primary and vote for the worst candidate so the Democrats can be guaranteed of winning the next election. They don’t care anything about the will of the people, all they care about is winning so they can impose their will on the people. That doesn’t sound like democracy to me, that sounds like the working of a party that is trying to overthrow a democracy and establish a dictatorship. They are seeking to corrupt elections, discourage candidates from running against them by physical threats and legal harassment, and blackening the reputation of their opponents through frivolous accusations and investigations so voters won’t vote for them. Once in power, they pass legislation that goes against the wishes of a majority of voters They demonstrate open contempt for democracy and the will of the people. We need to elect people who will respect the Constitution, the rule of law, and the will of the people. If voters don’t pay attention to who they are voting for, the day will come when we will be like China and Russia and a wide variety of banana republics who hold elections but the one chosen by the party always wins.
Marriage-E
17
Jan
The institutionalizing of marriage protects the partners from infidelity by the other. If a member of a couple who are not married finds another partner, they can simply leave and take up with their new partner. If the couple is married, they must divorce their current partner or they may be charged with adultery. Prior to the changes of the 1970’s, divorce was hard to get. It was only allowed in cases of abuse or desertion and adultery was a serious matter with stiff penalties so the wife was protected. Today, society often turns a blind eye to adultery and there are very few penalties for adultery. In addition, divorce has become so easy, one partner can end the marriage fairly easily. By allowing easy divorce, we are not protecting women who usually end up shouldering the heaviest burden of child care in the event of divorce or desertion.
Marriage-D
17
Jan
One important factor is that marriage normally provides a safe, secure sexual outlet. If someone doesn’t have one, they are more likely to seek alternatives, such as pornography, prostitution, incest, and short-term sexual relationships. Our society is overrun with rapes and child molestation because people do not belong to healthy marriages that provide a safe sexual outlet. Fathers turn to their daughters for what their wife won’t provide, and mothers turn to their sons. Loners seduce or force themselves on strangers, both adults and children. Many then kill their victims to cover up their crime. In addition, many children growing up today without clear sexual rolls are confused about their sexual identity and turn to others of their own sex for the satisfaction that they should be getting from normal sexual relations. Many seek Gay and Lesbian relationships because they can not develop normal sexual relationships.