HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

And here's a verse that popped up in my daily quiet time. "Listen to Me, all Israel who are left; I have created you & cared for you since you were born. I will be your God through all your lifetime, yes, even when your hair is white with age. I made you & I will care for you. I will carry you along & be your Savior." (Is. 46:3-4, The Living Bible)

SOME BIRTHDAY REFLECTIONS

So today is my 69th birthday. Big whoop. Honestly, I'm not sure I ever thought too much about turning 69--almost 70! When I was growing up, people who turned 70 were old, old people. Ancient people. Heck, people who turned 50 were ancient. And now here I am on the cusp of ancient-hood.

> I was born on WED 1/7/53. There have been 25,202 days from the day I was born until today.

> If I've been sleeping 8 hrs daily since birth, I've slept a total of 8,401 days or 23 years. (That's 33% of my life.)

> There's been 853 full moons since I've been born. 

> My first 1 billion seconds happened sometime on SEP 15, 1984.

< Celebrities that share my birthday:  Vincent Gardenia, Charles Addams, C.W. Anderson.

> What happened on Jan. 7? Fire destroyed Jamestown, VA (1608). William Dickson received a patent for motion picture film (1894). A hot air ballon crashed in New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.

> What was I in my past life? I was born somewhere around the territory of Borneo approximately on 575. My profession was librarian, priest, keeper of tribal relics.

> On Jan. 7, 1953, President Harry S. Truman announced that the U.S. had developed a hydrogen bomb.

NOTE:  I gleaned all of these fascinating facts via online research.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

"McDonald's runs out of hash browns." Drudge Report

TRENDING

"SURVEY:  Avg man rates himself 5.9 out of 10 when comes to attractiveness." Drudge Report

REMOTE LEARNING IS BETTER FOR CHILDREN *

* Compliments of the Babylon Bee

> It prepares them for life as adult drones staring at screens for hours.

> It will definitely not lead to a mental health crisis & surging suicides like it did last time.

> Face-to-face interaction sometimes leads to free thinking.

> Slight reduction in wedgies.

> It's easier for the teacher to hide a Bloody Mary in her can of Diet Coke.

> Fewer Chicago kids will get shot on their way to school.

JAN. 6

"9/11 Memorial to be replaced by 'more important' Jan. 6 Memorial." Babylon Bee

"It's been a year since Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock won both U.S. Senate seats from Georgia, giving Democrats slight control of the body. A day later, the U.S. Capitol was invaded by people protesting the certification of the presidential election for now-President Joe Biden. It seems like a decade has passed rather than a year, but then again, we are living in COVID time warp where the passage of time seems both fast and slow at the same time.

"While many Republicans might believe that the election was stolen, the truth is that Republicans could have and should have won both the presidency and the two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia. If our candidates had run overwhelmingly positive campaigns that had given people reasons to get out and vote for them, we could have won by overwhelmingly large margins that would have negated any potential irregularities. Instead, we railed against our opponents, tried to scare people into voting for us and ended up losing by a small margin.

"We focused too much on our opponents and too little on the voters, whose votes we need to win. Unfortunately, I am not sure that we have learned this lesson." Jackie Gingrich Cushman, Townhall 1/6

"Again, I do not believe there was a concerted, planned attempt to overthrow the government, let a terrorist insurrection. As noted by Tucker Carlson on September 23, 2021, after reviewing some of the video footage of the January 6 event: “So it turns out, the vast majority of people inside the Capitol on January 6 were peaceful. They were not insurrectionists. They shouldn’t have been there, they weren’t trying to overthrow the government, that’s a total crock.”

"And there has been no evidence that, in the weeks leading up to January 6, let alone in the months that followed, insurrectionists were working together in significant numbers to overthrow the government.

"But that doesn’t minimize the infamy of that day, nor does it minimize the degree of damage that was done to the evangelical and conservative reputation. So, what took place one year ago was not an insurrection. But it was a day of shame and infamy. Let’s learn our lessons well." Michael Brown, Townhall 1/6