I just finished an awesome book! MONSTER by Frank Peretti. I used to read his works all the time, but you know, stuff happens and then there is the small fact that this book came 6 years after his last one (which I read, Thanks Manda! Hehe) and I'm reading it 2 years after that. Hehe. Well, it was really thought inspiring and I read the interview with the auther at the end of it and was a little disapointed to see that he is now planning a '9-11' inspired book to go with the Darkness series. Yes, I know 'we will never forget' and crap, but has anyone stopped to think we, as a nation, may have got the wrong message? It took me a long time of soul searching before I got anywhere near this and if you know anything about me I'm a very out spoken person who thinks stuff through and tells it likes I sees it and I piss a lot of people off with my ideas, but here are my thoughts anyways and I firmly believe this so here goes: As I reread the account of the tower of babel and thought about what it means to us today. And as I thought of an old paster of mine recounting many gloomsday stories of Y2K it really fell into place for me. Yes, our nation is a naughty nation. We have abondoned God, we have saught to make ourselfs better to unite against him... and what is the unifing unit in this story? Money, so doesn't it seem only correct to assume that money is where God would choose to punish us? Look at us? Ever since that day we have been whining like little kids that lost their allowance. We saught a scapegoat and chose to start a war over it... and God let us have that little bit of fun, the damage is already done. Take a walk in the stores, or better yet, drive by a friggin gas station. Doesn't anyone stop to think that if we really were still one nation under God, he would have protected us from attack in the first place? Our own towers of babel have come down and even the Christian community doesn't even see it.

Okay, so enough with the rant, I gotta run because my lil Patsy has decided not to take a nap today and to bother anyone within earshot with her complainings. Grrrr, if only I was the only person here right now. Oh well.