Simple words for a Simple people

 It's 47 (F) outside and our projected high today is in the upper 50s (F).  This is not normal fall weather.  I still have leaves on my gingko tree.  In fact, just about every tree in my yard, or surrounding my house has lots of leaves still hanging from the branches.  Those that fall into the yard, rustle up to nestle as close as possible to the fence.  Tuesday or Wednesday, I'll take the lawn mower to them and mulch them into oblivion. 

Yesterday was rather steady at work.  I hit my measure goal for the week, as well as my sales goal.  Something all of us are noting is that credits are being posted against our sales figures without and reference back to the original sale.  Last week I had a $3500 credit reduce my sale as a return, and this week one of my associates has a $10,000 return charge posted against his total sales without referencing an earlier sale.  

This past Thursday, I had my review.  It was good.  We get reviewed twice a year, rather than once.  Increases are divvied at the end of the fiscal year.  I'm hoping I get another nice increase this year.  Wall Street is happy with the Orange retailer, out stock is at $400 a share.  You can bet we're going to increase our prices to make the stockholders happy.

During that time between Lily and Howie, I found that I was starting to sleep later and later.  With Howie, however, I am not getting up and getting him outside before the crack of dawn.  It's good to be back on my old schedule again.  I'm also taking more and more sunrise pictures.  I took this earlier today.  As I said, there are leaves still on the trees.

And here we are on Sunday, and as I've been doing lately, I'm wondering if Christians have any idea how much damage Donald Trump is doing to their religion.  I doubt it.  You see, understanding what he's doing to their faith would mean they understand their own selfishness.  From what I've read, selfishness is the greatest moral dilemma Christians will never face, rather than acknowledge it, they will simply ask for forgiveness.  Forgiveness nullifies any moral problem.  It is the answer that always washes the slate clean, no matter how horrible the offense.  If you believe you are a Christian, you live a life without accountability since every single evil you do will always be forgiven.  There's a little verse in Mathew which tell you there will only be one sin that will never, ever be forgiven, that of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.  I got into a discussion with a woman on Threads about this two weeks ago and she journeyed into this vast, existential realm as to why I was misreading Mathew 12.  My response that shut her up?  The Bible is written in simple words for simple people.  The simple truth is that this is a big complication for Christianity, and as a result, selfish Christians will never have accountability.