She said "Yes" January 29, 2011 !
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
"Need You Now"
So thankful God heard my cries for help and blessed me above and beyond what I asked for - my beautiful Valerie Geis Horosz , the best job I've ever had, a beautiful step daughter, three incredible children and incredible son-in-law, and the most beautiful grand daughter on the earth !
"How many times have you heard me cry out
"God please take this"?
How many times have you given me strength to
Just keep breathing?
Oh I need you
God, I need you now."
"God please take this"?
How many times have you given me strength to
Just keep breathing?
Oh I need you
God, I need you now."
Plumb "Need You Now"
Monday, January 27, 2020
Nine Years Ago Today January 27, 2011
Nine years ago today I boarded Southwest flight 2562 from Columbus OH to Tampa FL to meet a woman who I had met through Christian Mingle. We would spend an average of 3 to 4 hours on the phone talking to each other and it was safe to say we knew quite a bit about each other. I had been down this road before as I had crisscrossed the United States (I was an A list member on Southwest). But something felt very different this time. I felt a sense of joy and peace that was indescribable. When I saw her walking from her car I dropped to my knees and said "Thank you Jesus" ! At 7:08 PM I met Valerie - my soul mate, best friend, and love of my life 
Pictures that she had sent did not do her justice - she was truly drop dead gorgeous. The next evening I got to meet my beautiful step daughter Jessica. Two days latter I got to meet most of her wonderful family including Val's incredible and awesome parents Dave & Janice Masters. Her mom told me that I had only begun to tap that heart of gold of Val's. 15 days latter we were married. I thank God for her every minute of every day. Thank you for continuing to make me the most blessed man on this earth ! Love you beyond words
Pictures that she had sent did not do her justice - she was truly drop dead gorgeous. The next evening I got to meet my beautiful step daughter Jessica. Two days latter I got to meet most of her wonderful family including Val's incredible and awesome parents Dave & Janice Masters. Her mom told me that I had only begun to tap that heart of gold of Val's. 15 days latter we were married. I thank God for her every minute of every day. Thank you for continuing to make me the most blessed man on this earth ! Love you beyond words
Saturday, January 25, 2020
“A Time For Choosing” by Ronald Reagan
This is From Ronald Reagan’s Speech “A Time for Choosing” delivered on 27 October 1964 - one of the greatest speeches ever given.
Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender.
If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, then eventually we have to face the final demand “the ultimatum.” And what then?
When Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we are retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically.
He believes this because from our side he has heard voices pleading for peace at any price or better Red than dead, or as one commentator put it, he would rather live on his knees than die on his feet.
And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don’t speak for the rest of us. You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin just in the face of this enemy?
Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard round the world?
The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn’t die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it’s a simple answer after all.
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies. There is a price we will not pay. There is a point beyond which they must not advance.
Winston Churchill said that the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits not animals. And he said, “There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness."
"Let’s set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace and you can have it in the next second, “surrender.”
Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender.
If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, then eventually we have to face the final demand “the ultimatum.” And what then?
When Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we are retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically.
He believes this because from our side he has heard voices pleading for peace at any price or better Red than dead, or as one commentator put it, he would rather live on his knees than die on his feet.
The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn’t die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it’s a simple answer after all.
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies. There is a price we will not pay. There is a point beyond which they must not advance.
Winston Churchill said that the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits not animals. And he said, “There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness."
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