Well, welcome to the porch, it does seem as if there’s no relief insight for these temperatures. I don’t know about where you live but here where I’m at on the plateau close to Nashville. We’re still looking at 90s or better during the next couple of weeks. The evening time is really about the only time that we can enjoy the porch as hot as it is out there, the humidity is also very very rough. But we can put aside the weather and find plenty of other things to be concerned about. Israel is still fighting for her existence. The Gaza Strip is a mess. The Palestinian people still suffer from lack of food and medical care and are constantly caught in the crossfire between Israel and Iran, and many honest innocent people are dying. We were reminded just the other day about the four college students that were brutally killed not too long ago, about two years ago to be exact. The perpetrator worked a plea deal and admitted to the killings in exchange for life in prison and not the death penalty. If you took time to read a little bit about it, particularly when the families had an opportunity to address what it happened to their loved ones and could face the perpetrator of such horror, it was an emotional time for all involved in that court. But when all things are said and done, four, people are still dead, and the grief is still there. It’s always been my opinion that regardless of all the well meaning things people will say to you like “I know it’s difficult but in time you’ll get over it”,  well, I don’t believe that and I don’t believe the hurt or the pain ever go away. I simply think that we just learned to tolerate it. Our country today is a little better off than it was six months ago, but anyway you wanna look at it, our government is still a mess. We are going through what I call a find, show, and tell period within our government. The goal seems to be to destroy, discredit, and even in some cases just do away with certain people and their opinions. Within politics today, it’s turned into a process of slash and burn, what the more educated call a scorched earth policy.Now we don’t normally here on the porch get ourselves involved in politics, it’s usually a losing situation. We like to ponder how things are going and what we think might work or might not work or sometimes just plain don’t pay any attention to any of it. But it does seem like that the Democrats are taking the path of a little spoiled kid that can’t get their way so they scream they holler, they roll the floor, they wave their arms, and then the disturbing pattern  now within politics on both side sides of the aisle by the way, if they can’t say anything intelligent, they just simply turn to the pinnacle of insults,  the F...word so that’s part of their playbook, the best they have for of their lack of a solution to the problem.

Here is the Ponder for this evening… . When a reason is no longer present at the table, our discourse becomes one of chaos. For us, ordinary folks, there’s only one way to go, in the opinion of those of us on the porch tonight. You will find it in the Bible in God’s word.

Philippians 4:8… and now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy appraise.

Ponder That!

Kurt