I don’t know how much truth there is in this story as a whole, but these words really make you think about God and questioning him and why he does stuff and what we have chosen as a world and the consequences it has….worth a read..

In light of the many perversions and jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke, it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her, ‘How could  God let something like this happen?’ (Regarding the attacks on September 11^th).

Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.  She said,

‘I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?

In the light of recent events . . . terrorist attacks, school shootings, etc, I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools. And we said OK.

Then someone said, ‘You’d better not read the Bible in school . .  . the Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal and love your neighbour as yourself’. And we said OK.

The, Dr Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about. And we said OK.

Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave. The school administrators said no faculty member in this school better touch a student when they misbehave because we don’t want any bad publicity, and we surely don’t want to be sued (there is a big difference between disciplining, touching, beating, smacking, humiliating, kicking etc). And we said OK.

Then someone said, ‘Let our daughters have abortions if they want and they won’t even have to tell their parents.’ And we said OK.

The some wise school board member said, ‘Since boys will be boys and they are going to do it anyway, let’s give our sons all the condoms they want so they can have all the fun they desire and we won’t have to tell their parents they got them at school’. And we said OK.

Then some of our top elected officials said, ‘It doesn’t matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs’. Agreeing with them, we said it doesn’t matter to me what anyone, including the President, does in private as long as I have a job and the economy is good’. And we said OK.

Then someone said, ‘Let’s print magazines with pictures of nude women and call it wholesome, down-to-earth appreciation for the beauty of the female body.’ And we said OK.

And then someone else took that appreciation a step further and published pictures of nude children and then further again by making them available on the Internet. They are entitled to free speech. And we said OK.

Then the entertainment industry said, ‘Let us make TV shows and movies that promote profanity, violence and illicit sex. Let’s record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide and satanic themes. We said, ‘It’s just entertainment, it has no adverse effect, nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead.’

Now we are asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with ‘We reap what we sow’.

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspaper say, but question what the Bible says.
Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through email and they spread like wildfire but when you are sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.
Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar, obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.’

Are we laughing now?’

Be challenged by this all   Grae

APHORISM: A SHORT, POINTED SENTENCE EXPRESSING A WISE, CLEVER OBSERVATION;  A GENERAL TRUTH OR ADAGE

1.  The nicest thing about the future is it always starts tomorrow.

2.  Money will buy a fine dog but only kindness will make him wag his tail.

3.  If you don’t have a sense of humor, you probably don’t have any sense at all.

4.  Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs.

5.  A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you’re in deep water.

6.  How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?

7.  Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

8.  Why is it that, at class reunions, you feel younger than everyone else looks?

9.  Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.

10.  No one has more driving ambition than the boy who anxiously awaits his 16th birthday.

11.  There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.

12.  There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4AM :  It could be a right number.

13.  No one ever says “It’s only a game” when their team’s winning.

14.  I’ve reached the age where the happy hour is a nap.

15.  Be careful reading the fine print. There’s no way you’re going to like it.

16.  The trouble with bucket seats is not everybody has the same size bucket.

17.  Do you realize in about 40 years we’ll have millions of old ladies running around with tattoos? (And rap music will be the Golden Oldies!)

18. Money can’t buy happiness – but somehow it’s more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes than in a Kia.

19. After 70 if you don’t wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead.

Several men are in the locker room of a golf club. A mobile phone on a bench rings and a man engages the hands free speaker function and begins to talk. Everyone else in the room stops to listen.

MAN: ‘Hello’

WOMAN: ‘Honey, it’s me. Are you at the club?’

MAN: ‘Yes’

WOMAN: ‘I am at the shops now and found this beautiful leather coat. It’s only £1,000. Is it OK if I buy it?’

MAN: ‘Sure, go ahead if you like it that much.’

WOMAN: ‘I also stopped by the Lexus dealership and saw the new Models. I saw one I really liked.’

MAN: ‘How much?’

WOMAN: ‘ £ 90,000′

MAN: ‘OK, but for that price I want it with all the options.’

WOMAN: ‘Great! Oh, and one more thing…the house I wanted last year is back on the market. They’re asking £ 950,000′

MAN: ‘Well, then go ahead and give them an offer of £ 900,000. They will probably take it. If not, we can go the extra 50 thousand if it’s really a pretty good price.’

WOMAN: ‘OK. I’ll see you later! I love you so much!’

MAN: ‘Bye! I love you, too.’

The man hangs up. The other men in the locker room are staring at him in astonishment, mouths agape.

He turns and asks: ‘Anyone know who this phone belongs to?’

So the last practice session for Singapore, news that Mclaren rebuilt Hamilton’s car onto a brand new chassis over night and got 3 hours sleep while also working majorly on Kovi’s car too is interesting but Ham has been very quick so far in  session. As I write he is fastest on the track with about 10mins left.

No crashes so I guess the dust that apparently is such a problem is reducing as more cars go out on track although Kimi wasn’t far of going into the barrier where Romaen Grosjean crashed yesterday.

The circuit does look incredible at night with the bright lights illuminating the track!

The end of this session we are really seeing the traffic problems that they are likely to have during Qualifying…could produce some interesting results for the grid position.

It is very strange to be watching this on TV rather than being there like last year…atmosphere isn’t as good at home but I do seem to know more of what is going on thanks to the telly!

Jenson Button seems to be struggling with the pressure…grumbling yet again about the car … it is like last season all over again hehe…sorry I am not a Button fan!

So end of P3 then the fastest 5 drivers were:

• Lewis Hamilton (M)
• Vettel  (RB)
• Rosberg (W)
• Kovalainen (M)
• Kubicia (B)

That puts Vettel in all three practice sessions in the top 5!

So dealing with Dell orders has got in the way of me enjoying P2 as much as I would have liked…but there we go! I uess it is a work day after all.

Webbers Crash looked rather impressive even though I was watching it on silent!

So the top 5 in Second Free Practice

• Vettel
• Alonso
• Kovalainen
• Heidfeld
• Button

Not that these sessions are necessarily a good indicator over all as we don’t know the fuel loads they are running or if they are running tests on upgrade packages!  Bring on P3 and Qualifying tomorrow

If you know me you will know how much of a fan I am of both Formula 1 and the amazing country of Singapore!

So, me being me am going to cover the F1 on here..just because I can

So First practice session is going well, ironically the only crash (so far) was the Renault number 2 car (driven by Grosjean) crashed on the same corner into the same wall that Piquet crashed into last year that has been part of the recent controversy!

Other than that it is a fairly normal first session, people getting used to the track again or for the first time and there are some changes to get used to as well.

Brawn and Mclaren setting the times mainly with Red Bull not far behind.

I almost feel homesick watching the Singapore race, recognising so many places I know or have been!

Check out the main SingaporeF1 site for full details!

Coming back soon with Practice 2 News and Woffle

Top 5 in P1-

• Barrichello
• Button
• Webber
• Alonso
• Vettel

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The latest two reviews by Michael Barrett at the time of writing are The Time Travellers Wife – possibly the shortest review I have ever seen Michael write, and The Ugly Truth which I thought was a bit of a harsh review … but leave a comment and let Mikey know what you think!

After the summer break Formula 1 is back and compared to last year Valencia was a far more entertaining race this year!

This was the race Michael Schumaccer possibly would race in but was prevented due to a neck injury, now that would have been great to see! The 7 time world champion racing with the likes of Lewis Hamilton.

So the race … Lewis led from te start with Heikki running in second until the first round of pit stops where Reubens Barrichello got ahead and was around 3.5-4 seconds off Lewis when Lewis pitted the second and final time…it should have been a easy pit but somehow the team were there ready but the tyres were still in the garage! Kinda a big mistake in my opinion!!!!!

Martin Witmarsh after the race said they were off the pace and that is why they didn’t win, but if Hamilton’s pit had gone more smoothly I can’t see why he wouldn’t have won it!

Guess we all make mistakes but I think that someone at Mclaren needs a reminder of how important tyres are to a racing car

Bring on next week … Belgium I think!

Last week I helped at the local kids holiday club run by Splash (for Schools and Communities) and it was brilliant! I haven’t helped for about 4 years and it was good to be back.

Hard work and all that but very rewarding. It was fantastic to see how hungry kids are to know about God! I was leading the oldest group with someone called Rachel and in our group times we had some really deep discussions with questions that I would struggle to answer an adult on, let alone 11 year olds!

Our discussions about the bible story for that morning sparked talk on all different aspects of the Bible, Christianity and my faith as a whole, it was really challenging but awesome to have the opportunity to think about and have a go at answering the questions! I can’t say I got the answer across perfectly every time but hopefully I gave them something to think about!

Some examples of questions we got asked

• What is hell like?  (direct and to the point don’t you think!)
• Will my family go to heaven if I am a Christian and they aren’t?

Bring on next year!