God's too Busy

A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed athei st and a member of the ACLU.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in, he looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, 'God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes..' The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop.

Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, 'Here I am God. I'm still waiting.' It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him, knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold..

The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other students were shocked, stunned, and sat there looking on in silence. The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked, 'What the heck is the matter with you? Why did you do that?' The Marine calmly replied, 'God was too busy today protecting American soldiers and Marines who are protecting your right to say stupid S*&# and act like an A$$ so, He sent me.'

LOL! Thanks Monica for that!

-DB

Really?

I don't even know where to begin. Last night history was made. We live in downtown charleston, sc and we were awoken last night at 2 am with a fireworks show. Usually we would be really excited about that kind of thing, but not at 2 am and especially not when it wakes up my kids.

I admit I have had to read my own last blog post, many, many times over. My own "anger" is a tricky little sucker and sometimes hard to keep calm. Anyone that knows me knows that I, like everyone else, have opinions. I just like to say them outloud. I try to make it so it doesn't offend people, but I am not perfect so sometimes I'm sure they do. The Lord is working on that with me every day.

I know there is a purpose for everything under the sun, and I know there is a purpose with Obama being our next President. What it is, I do not know yet, and may never know. I am just really worried about some things that may come into play, and frankly, it really scares me. I hope and pray that congress is on the ethical and moral side of these issues for the next 4 years.

I think why I am so defensive of my Republican party is the fact that I have served, and I know all too well how we are to look at our Commander in Chief. Next to God, I am supposed to look at this person for leadership, and a million other things. I am to salute him, stand at attention, and say, "yes, mr. president, no, mr. president. yes sir, no sir." When I served in the United States Marine Corps, (while I never met any presidents) I did meet some very important people, and just knowing where they stood on many things, I could say with pride, those above words. The military and this nation have alot of my heart, and I worry about them like I worry about my own family. I am so proud to be an American. I know first hand the sacrifice that is made when they sign up to selflessly serve our country. I just hope that our President elect feels the same way.