Beneath the Wraps

   Normally I try to stay clear of politics, but with government shut down  , it has been on my mind.  My post is meant to be on our reactions and not what is currently taking place (or not taking place) at the white house.           Roland is an avid follower on Sunday Morning on CBS.  Following Sunday Morning is "Face the Nation" though the station generally gets changed to another before  Face the Nation  comes on.  This program was on this morning when Jenna and I planted ourselves on the couch and looked up to see Margaret Brennan ask questions to Secretary of State,  Michael Richard Pompeo , who for the most part seemed robotic with his answer - or somebody's answers anyway.   Jenna and I laughed as he obviously read the answers and showed no facial emotion whatsoever - actually there were a few times where he smiled.   Jenna and I suspect he had lost his place on the screen and was...

            Funny how since giving the lesson on "Divine Design" to the RS sisters almost a month ago, that I have been noticing more parallels and "divine design" examples in so many lives that I hear about.  Last week  Jenna and I watched this story on Sunday Morning - a program that Roland has on almost every Sunday I have known him.                He was in the kitchen making breakfast for Jenna and me when the Steven Hartman shared his piece about an unlikely friendship between Ben Taylor from Ogden, Utah and Joel Willie from Liberia.   Joel was in need of money and has been using facebook to connect with strangers to invest in a business.   Ben Taylor accepted his friendship that he might keep Joel so busy that he wouldn't have time to scam anyone else.   Joel's interest was in an electronics outfit located in New Jersey, but Ben had googled the address...