Forgiveness and Grace

A man who just lost his entire family is praying for someone else not to suffer.

"I don't have any hard feelings," Dong Yun Yoon, 37, told reporters near the rubble where his home once stood. "I know he did everything he could."

"Please pray for him not to suffer from this accident," Dong Yun Yoon said. "I know he is one of our treasured for the country."

Dong Yun Yoon, who left Korea in 1989 and became a U.S. citizen, wondered aloud how he would persevere after losing his family.

"Please tell me how to do it," he said, surrounded by his pastor, sister, brother and church members. "I don't know what to do."

Jeff, is that really you?!

One of my favorite bloggers, pastor Jeff, put up a new post today; his first in over three months. Welcome back, Jeff!

A (Sad?) Realization

I've come to a realization and I'm not exactly sure what to make of it yet. I think I'm beginning to care less about how much people perceive I care about them. I don't know if I'm making any sense by saying it that way but it's the only way I can think to say it at this point.

I guess I just want to be honest in everything I say to people. I used to want to be very politically correct and diplomatic but I think that's changing in me and I'm not sure why or when that transformation started taking place.

This transformation is especially obvious in the emails I've been writing to people lately. I'm so busy with the tasks I have to do at work such that email has really become something that I spend way too much time on. People ask questions that I think they really should be able to figure out the answer to, if they just think about it for a little bit. But it seems like they don't think about it before asking me and then I have to move away from what I'm doing and answer this question (that I think is a stupid question to ask in the first place). It's not that I don't want to be helpful. I just want people to think for themselves more than it seems like they want to.

Am I making any sense here? Somebody tell me what's going on? Am I becoming a cranky old man? I really want people to know that I care about them and I want to help them solve their problems but I don't want to beat around the bush either.

I'll have the Obama plate with a side of sarcastic onion please

Good news for disgruntled Republicans!

If you think that America is going to hell in a handbasket now that Barak Obama is your president, think again.