Letters to the Editor 09-13-2006
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Relationship With God - Rooney - Bad Experience - Clarification - Facts & Fights
Relationship With God
Editor, Times-Union:A pastor said, "1. - Pray that you be full of God's Holy Spirit, so full, that there will not be room for any bad to enter." Our bodies are temples of God's Holy Spirit, when we are born again Christians. When not, I think some other spirit will dwell there. I think I am correct there is a vacuum to be filled. 2. - If you will pray, asking God to reveal Himself to us, He will." Please think about that statement often.
I heard a preacher say, "God told me this, etc." I used to kinda wonder, who is he anyway? Recently, I have experienced something that I don't think I had during previous years.
Relationship - What is that like? How can a person have a relationship with God? I speak for myself, may I act as a witness?
1. - When I cannot find something, I pray. I have my spirit ask God, saying something like, "You alone, you can do all things. Please help me find ..." Often then God answers.
2. - What is the secret? I wish to refer you to Jeremiah 29:13. "And ye shall seek me (God), and find Me, when ye shall search for Me, with all, all your heart."
Hear ye, hear ye agnostics, luke warmers and unbelievers. Our creator God is alive. He is real, hallelujah. Amen. If you have not chosen to go all the way with Jesus, you resemble an old man with a large suitcase running down a long hill to a boat dock, to catch a boat. When he gets there, the boat is about six feet away from the dock and men on the boat are closing the door. Result: He missed the boat.
My uncle said something to me during his later days I will never forget: "Don't squander away your life, like I did. I think it sad, after living almost a full life and feel that way about it." So, too, may I suggest, "Don't waste, or squander even one day without having Jesus with you." We have no assurance of another year or day.
Leslie E. Swanson
Winona Lake
Rooney
Editor, Times-Union:Once again Andy Rooney has put his foot in his mouth (T-U, Sept. 7), where it seems to spend a lot of time.
The United States of America is not a democracy. The United States of America is a republic, "and to the republic for which it stands ..."
I should explain the difference in this letter, but I prefer to let those who really care look it up for themselves.
Andy thinks maybe we should make some laws to get rid of the President.
Andy, Andy, Andy - there are laws! The House of Representatives has power to impeach a President, and the Senate, by majority vote, has the power to remove a President.
Remember President Clinton? Impeached by the House - but not removed by the Senate. Still the onus of impeachment lies heavily!
Don Guard
Leesburg
Bad Experience
Editor, Times-Union:I just discovered the hard way that people in the northern states really aren't kind to senior citizens. From a billing office of a health facility, I mistakenly paid the same bill twice because I overlooked the word "duplicate" on the second sheet.
My husband just finished mailing my letter when I discovered my error, so I called the billing department and told her what I had done and that I had made myself copies of both bills with my check also copied on the bottom of each.
She assured me she would see that I would get the payment for the second "duplicate" back and that she would see to it. I involved quite a lot of money to us ($85.44) paid twice!
I believed her since my generation would have "kept her word" and I guess I just didn't want to believe that the world had actually changed that much, but I was very wrong!
What I received in today's mail was what they chose to call a "refund worksheet" sending me a total refund of $14.57.
I guess I was an easy "mark," especially since we lived in the south in Lake Placid, Fla., 20 years and since the small town was people with many senior citizens, we were treated fairly. Our doctor, a "general practitioner" was actually a geriatric family doctor since most of his or her patients were old.
I spent 30 years working as a columnist and printer at several newspapers and I haven't written many letters to the editor since we moved back to Indiana in 2003. I hadn't actually wondered why since I love our home so much and am an avid reader as well as working in shell-craft. Now I find that I want to withdraw from this kind of a northern world into my home with my reading, shellcraft and a husband who treats me like a queen, and that makes shutting out the world I have found up here even more appealing!
Donna R. Butche
North Webster
Clarification
Editor, Times-Union:I would like to clarify my statement regarding the concession stand at Fribley Field that was made at the Warsaw City Council meeting.
We are looking into building this concession stand and one of the steps was to see if the city council would waive the sewage tap-on fee, which they did.
We have not received all the funding and or verbal commitments for this concession stand and until we do we cannot say it is a done deal.
I am sorry for any misunderstanding, and I am truly hoping this dream of a new concession stand becomes a reality.
Carl Sowers
Warsaw
Facts & Fights
Editor, Times-Union:Credible facts, ardent researcher. However, we in the public arena could do without that tit-for-tat between you and Ms. Campbell. It is illustrative of a food fight between two adolescents over the property rights to the last slice of pizza down at the Chucky Cheese.
That said, it would appear, ardent researcher, that you and perhaps others need a little more information about the umma. No, not Uma Thurman. "Wise guys" refer to the umma as the Islamic supernation. While troubles abound in the Middle East and Central Asia, research suggests that these regions are but a fraction of the umma's total land mass. The total land mass includes those poverty-stricken nation states most, but not all of which reside on the African continent.
Pick up a book, ardent researcher, titled, "The Pentagons New Map," by Thomas P.M. Barnett. He presents us with what I believe is the entire map of the umma. Read that book, ardent researcher, and learn why we are at war. Write soon. It's always good to hear from a homeboy, and here's a shout out to those in Mio.
Steven Frantz
Warsaw
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Relationship With God
Editor, Times-Union:A pastor said, "1. - Pray that you be full of God's Holy Spirit, so full, that there will not be room for any bad to enter." Our bodies are temples of God's Holy Spirit, when we are born again Christians. When not, I think some other spirit will dwell there. I think I am correct there is a vacuum to be filled. 2. - If you will pray, asking God to reveal Himself to us, He will." Please think about that statement often.
I heard a preacher say, "God told me this, etc." I used to kinda wonder, who is he anyway? Recently, I have experienced something that I don't think I had during previous years.
Relationship - What is that like? How can a person have a relationship with God? I speak for myself, may I act as a witness?
1. - When I cannot find something, I pray. I have my spirit ask God, saying something like, "You alone, you can do all things. Please help me find ..." Often then God answers.
2. - What is the secret? I wish to refer you to Jeremiah 29:13. "And ye shall seek me (God), and find Me, when ye shall search for Me, with all, all your heart."
Hear ye, hear ye agnostics, luke warmers and unbelievers. Our creator God is alive. He is real, hallelujah. Amen. If you have not chosen to go all the way with Jesus, you resemble an old man with a large suitcase running down a long hill to a boat dock, to catch a boat. When he gets there, the boat is about six feet away from the dock and men on the boat are closing the door. Result: He missed the boat.
My uncle said something to me during his later days I will never forget: "Don't squander away your life, like I did. I think it sad, after living almost a full life and feel that way about it." So, too, may I suggest, "Don't waste, or squander even one day without having Jesus with you." We have no assurance of another year or day.
Leslie E. Swanson
Winona Lake
Rooney
Editor, Times-Union:Once again Andy Rooney has put his foot in his mouth (T-U, Sept. 7), where it seems to spend a lot of time.
The United States of America is not a democracy. The United States of America is a republic, "and to the republic for which it stands ..."
I should explain the difference in this letter, but I prefer to let those who really care look it up for themselves.
Andy thinks maybe we should make some laws to get rid of the President.
Andy, Andy, Andy - there are laws! The House of Representatives has power to impeach a President, and the Senate, by majority vote, has the power to remove a President.
Remember President Clinton? Impeached by the House - but not removed by the Senate. Still the onus of impeachment lies heavily!
Don Guard
Leesburg
Bad Experience
Editor, Times-Union:I just discovered the hard way that people in the northern states really aren't kind to senior citizens. From a billing office of a health facility, I mistakenly paid the same bill twice because I overlooked the word "duplicate" on the second sheet.
My husband just finished mailing my letter when I discovered my error, so I called the billing department and told her what I had done and that I had made myself copies of both bills with my check also copied on the bottom of each.
She assured me she would see that I would get the payment for the second "duplicate" back and that she would see to it. I involved quite a lot of money to us ($85.44) paid twice!
I believed her since my generation would have "kept her word" and I guess I just didn't want to believe that the world had actually changed that much, but I was very wrong!
What I received in today's mail was what they chose to call a "refund worksheet" sending me a total refund of $14.57.
I guess I was an easy "mark," especially since we lived in the south in Lake Placid, Fla., 20 years and since the small town was people with many senior citizens, we were treated fairly. Our doctor, a "general practitioner" was actually a geriatric family doctor since most of his or her patients were old.
I spent 30 years working as a columnist and printer at several newspapers and I haven't written many letters to the editor since we moved back to Indiana in 2003. I hadn't actually wondered why since I love our home so much and am an avid reader as well as working in shell-craft. Now I find that I want to withdraw from this kind of a northern world into my home with my reading, shellcraft and a husband who treats me like a queen, and that makes shutting out the world I have found up here even more appealing!
Donna R. Butche
North Webster
Clarification
Editor, Times-Union:I would like to clarify my statement regarding the concession stand at Fribley Field that was made at the Warsaw City Council meeting.
We are looking into building this concession stand and one of the steps was to see if the city council would waive the sewage tap-on fee, which they did.
We have not received all the funding and or verbal commitments for this concession stand and until we do we cannot say it is a done deal.
I am sorry for any misunderstanding, and I am truly hoping this dream of a new concession stand becomes a reality.
Carl Sowers
Warsaw
Facts & Fights
Editor, Times-Union:Credible facts, ardent researcher. However, we in the public arena could do without that tit-for-tat between you and Ms. Campbell. It is illustrative of a food fight between two adolescents over the property rights to the last slice of pizza down at the Chucky Cheese.
That said, it would appear, ardent researcher, that you and perhaps others need a little more information about the umma. No, not Uma Thurman. "Wise guys" refer to the umma as the Islamic supernation. While troubles abound in the Middle East and Central Asia, research suggests that these regions are but a fraction of the umma's total land mass. The total land mass includes those poverty-stricken nation states most, but not all of which reside on the African continent.
Pick up a book, ardent researcher, titled, "The Pentagons New Map," by Thomas P.M. Barnett. He presents us with what I believe is the entire map of the umma. Read that book, ardent researcher, and learn why we are at war. Write soon. It's always good to hear from a homeboy, and here's a shout out to those in Mio.
Steven Frantz
Warsaw
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