Sunday summary

Click on the top video frame over to the right. Pretty cool, huh?

Do you ever hear someone say something and think, "That was a good one!" I heard a couple of those today. One was in church. The pastor said, "When we worship we have an audience of one." I've often said, "When we worship, God is the audience", but I like his better. More visual, pithy.
I heard another from one of the guys announcing a football game this afternoon. A receiver caught the ball and turned to head down field. Just as he had a head of steam up he got POPPED by a defensive player. "Jacked up!" The safety had the advantage of anticipating the hit, but the poor receiver came to an instant stop - no forward momentum at all - and fell to his back. The announcer quipped, "That will wipe out a couple of childhood memories!"

How do you know if you're adequately hydrated, moderately dehydrated, or in danger of a medical crisis from more severe dehydration? Maybe elite athletes know how to read the signs, but us ordinary folk, well, if it weren't so easy to miss we wouldn't do things like force planes out of mid-air (although I'm still considering hypothesis #2, the flu bug).
So I was thinking, why didn't God give us a way to measure hydration? My first thought was a dipstick, like a car's engine. But that presents several logistical difficulties you can probably anticipate. So then I thought about my motorcycle. BMW's have a sight glass, a round glass lens about an inch in diameter on the lower part of the engine casing. It has a horizontal red line running across the middle. If the oil level is at or slightly above the red line you're good. Below that and it's time to add oil, and if the entire glass shows oil you have too much and need to drain some out (think, anticipiss).
We've already got the ideal location for the lens. Your belly button! It's just sitting there doing nothing but collecting lint. Put a sight glass there, stand in front of any mirror, and you instantly know if it's time for more Diet Coke.
I know what you're thinking. If we made that a sight glass for hydration how would your boss see where he's going.

I finished reading the relevant parts of the Mitchell report. Wow! The suppliers who gave info to Mitchell and his crew had already been interrogated by the Feds and had plea deals in place but not yet recorded. They were told by the Feds that if they said anything to Mitchell that was bogus their plea deals would be canceled and the judge would be urged to give them the max. And the Feds sat in on the interviews with Mitchell. So their testimony certainly has to be presumed to be reliable. And then, in each case, there were photocopies of checks or money orders received as payment.

As we get closer to January 6th the details loom large. It seems presumptuous to say "We are going to start a church." Is this our plan or God's? Do we allow him time to speak, either blessing this with a positive response from people or withholding that blessing as an indication that this isn't his will? However, in order to establish a presence you need a name. In order to have a name you have to register with the AZ Dept. of Corporations. And only after you've done that can you register as a 501c3, eligible for tax-deductible contributions. And both of those steps require officers.
The Apostle Paul had it easy. He didn't have to deal with the government. OK, I suppose you could count the Romans, and they weren't exactly cooperative.

Tomorrow I'll install the shelves I made and painted over the weekend. Sure hope I got my measurements right!