It would have been 10 years yesterday

Yesterday was May 26th, 2011. That would have been Gretchen and I's 10th year anniversary if we were still married.
That thought makes me cringe a bit. I can't fathom what kind of mental state I would have been in had I stayed. I was already an emotional wreck, hanging by a thread.
I swung by Gretchen's house to pick up the razor kit to cut Ian's hair. She seemed to be a bit off and I kinda think she was thinking about the day too.
It makes me sad that I hurt her, but I had to for my own personal health.
I hope one day she really understands that.

End of the World

Today is an interesting day. Months ago a religious leader for a radio talk group based out of California predicted that today, May 21st 2011 would be the end of the world...

From my understanding, the apocalypse is time zone based. So there would be a great Earthquake that would start at 6pm in Australia and work its way around the planet. In the meantime, all the faithful would be raptured to Heaven. Pretty crazy, huh?

I have to say that Harold Camping, the man who has miraculously cracked this date from within the Scriptures himself has some balls. I mean, we literally have people selling possessions, emptying bank accounts and quitting jobs in expectation of this date. When this prophecy fails to come true, there's going to be some ANGRY people and it will be his fault.











It's funny how I used to be one of those people. I used to be part of a faith that was always in expectation for the future and setting myself up to fail in the present.
I should have gone to College instead of wasting my time in evangelizing. That decision is definitely hurting me now, now that I want to find a good job. Degrees are important to the real world.

I just found out that there will be an assembly this summer where once again there is a new, revised understanding to the graven image in the book of Daniel. I guess there is new significance to the 10 toes in Daniel's vision. Just makes me facepalm a little bit wondering how I never saw this earlier. Just another carrot thrown out there to keep us baited.

I hope my kids don't make the same mistakes I did and set themselves up for too much failure. Either way, I hope I can bail them out a bit like my father did me.

Thanks Dad.