No problems

Let bring in the lottery, it will pay for education. Lets have a day to vote to fix our roads, Our taxes are higher because more money is needed for the roads. Lets give tax breaks to the big companies to help our economy.  Let's listen to everything a politician says, it has to be the truth.  We can't have a line item veto because it gives too much power to the president.  We need to spend money abroad to keep communist away. Obama care will cost the country too much money.  We can borrow from SSI for what ever we want and then claim SSI is broke.  We want workers to work for minimum wage, but don't give them money for food, or health care so that they are able to work. The government is running out of money, so let give aid to every other country in the world. Since we are running out of money, lets cut social programs for our own people. Building a bridge to Canada will bring in more money for workers. These are excerpts from our media in just the last year, and yet they want more money with their strings attached. There are good programs out there, but there are more bad ones.  More money for roads, bad idea.  How would big business like it if their truck had to drive thru the pot holes. I am just tired of voting and not being heard. The big business that hire the college grad without paying a dime for their education.  Wake up people, the system doesn't work.

Medicine

medical science. Over the years we have benefited from an aggressive medical care.  We have cured measle, mumps, rubela, polio,, and many more but have not cured the common cold.  We have made the insurance companies very rich, The prescription company have more money then I could count. Insurance companies can also dictate what the medical field can do or not do. When you talk to a doctor, they claim to know a small portion of the medicine as there is so much knowledge to obtain.
Why would someone want to cure cancer?  Too much money would be lost. If something happens to you and you ask the doctor what it is, he or she will most likely say one of these thing. 1) Nothing is showing up, it is all in your head so visit a psychiatrist.  It could be one of many things but we are not sure of which one.  You are a hypochondriac so get over it.Take the stress out of your life and you will get all better. There is a name for everything, rls, loose vaginal mesh, way too much weight, too old, too young.Then you have the hundreds of psychological terms. PTS, borderline personality, duel personality,  With all these great cures for all these problems you will get all better by the time the money runs out.  Many people die or live in misery because they ran out of money or insurance. People have lost their homes and cars because they couldn't afford insurance.What is the answer? Money, money and more money.  For those out their who know what I am talking about, you have gone through this.  You have watched your parents, children, and friends pass away because they dont have the money.  My heart disease, my wife's medical problems, have drained our retirement so we live day to day.  We are helped by social program and Disabilities(SDI)  I love to complain about this because I am in pain every day, can't hardly walk, and have big gaps in my memories.  I thank God every day for life, for grand children, and for those who profit from it. This is my only life and there are no do overs.

Opps, missed church today.  To be more precise I don't have a church.  How can you miss something you never had.  It was taken away, and now no longer exist. I guess you could say that it died.  It was killed with hopes of a resurrection in about a year.  I won't be called Westwood, it won't have the same people.I visit other churches, but this is the one we chose over 20 years ago. My grand children were baptized here., I played the organ and piano here.  I directed and sang in it's choir.  I served as an elder and watch many a minister come and go. This building served many a baptism, marriage, sunday school and vacation bible school.  For years we had a basketball on Monday night.  We also played gold and softball under the name Westwood.  Many funerals were held here, young and old.  We opened to the community with a bonfire on Halloween, and served breakfast before the Roosevelt Park parade. We were part of the community and yet we were closed because we were not part of the community. Reasons abound for the real reason in a decline in it;s membership.  The wrong pastors drove many away, and yet it was the people and many other reasons.  In a medical terms we were dying of a virus.  We had all the money to throw at it, but no cure was found.  With much money stored up, we died.   A cure was never searched for, a miracle didn't happen, and yet about 70 remained faithful. We tried everything, guitars, singers, hands raised to heaven, and pastors we thought would turn things around. Who failed? Our pastors, congregation, music leaders, and much more. Gossip, special groups, and failure to greet the people who came looking for a church They were looking for a show, and we were trying to give that to them.  We moved the pulpit around,  closed off the balcony, had baptisms at the lake, and many of us sat back and watched. We kept digging deeper and deeper. The harder we tried, the worse things became.  Don't open your bible, or don't open you hymnals because everything you needed was projected on a screen.  Many of us laughed when 10 minutes late was referred to as Westwood Time. How could we have failed.  We forgot to keep it simple. The pulpit became a podium, and the church service our entertainment on Sunday Mornings.  We gave up 1 hour a week of our time to worship God and perform the show.  We searched for God in our music. our sermons, and our coffee time. Our search for God was considered on how well we performed.  Now the building sits vacant, the parking lot empty, and voids of the laughters that filled this building, and told to find another church. And now we search for another church that might have those show stoppers we failed to achieve. I belive what we were searching for was alway there.  I believe we were searching for God on our terms.  Sundays were never the Sabbath, the day to keep holy. It became 1 hour of the week we had to honor.  We worshiped the day, we worshiped the book called a Bible, we worshiped the communion, we worshiped the baptism, and we worshiped what we had done.  We forgot the 10 commandments and the apostle creed, basics in our church.  We failed to dress in our finest clothes in place we wore what we felt comfortable in..
Many things we did right were done by people who have passed on.  We made our excuses because these people have left.  I would one of the first to say that I had a part in the demise of Westwood Reformed church, Westwood Church, or Lighthouse Church. Besides myself, there were many others who failed our Lord.  I am not actively looking for a church building for Sundays.  I need to look for a place where I can give of my best for the master.  There was an old saying, " you can put a dress on a pig, put on makeup, you can teach it to dance, and you can give it a name, but it is still a pig. I, myself want to become a better christian  and just once a week we give to God is so far less then he has given  me,  Before I look for a church to fill the slot, I need to take a long look at myself. What can I bring to worship our Lord.  When I find that, my search for a building will start.

Friday Morning and 70 degrees outside.  Birds chirping, dogs barking, lawns be cut.  Yes, afresh new day