Posted by Wauchula Woman on 1/20/2008, 8:51 pm, in reply to "Re: Oh, that's wonderful!"
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the tank right now, no doubt about it. Rhonda, has your husband tried looking for a State job? Like with the State of Florida, they have a website and you have to apply online and they got every kind of job you can imagine. It's just a thought. I wish I was a millionaire, I'd just sit down and send you the money myself. Unfortunately, my finances are in the worst shape they've ever been in, nearly in my entire life, that's thanks to that no account niece of mine. I could kick myself for throwing all that money away on her. I just have to believe that the Lord won't let that money be wasted in vain, that some how or other I made some kind of influence in her life that though it may not show up now, reaps fruit later.
Yeah our county is overrun with illegal immigrants. I went to get my prescription the other day and the first three people in line in front of me were illegals who could not speak English...and they were picking up prescriptions and the girl hands them their prescriptions and doesn't charge them anything....they get everything free....then when I get up there, she says "That'll be $34.00" I said "Are you applying my insurance?" She says, "Oh, yes ma'am without insurance it'd be $148.00." So the illegal immigrants pick up two or three prescriptions each, for free and I have to pay for mine. Then I follow them outside and one of them is getting into an expensive Lincoln Navigator. I'm driving a beat up piece of crap Nissan Sentra. What's wrong with this picture?
Ohhhh, don't even get me started on that subject. I feel like I'm the only one in town that has to pay for anything....it's the same way at Walmart or the grocery store. They have these WIC cards (Women, Infants & Children), they are like food stamps only it's like a credit card. And if they buy something that isn't covered on the WIC card, they'll open up their billfold and pull out a $50 or $100 bill to pay for what they are buying. It's happened too many times for me to count.
I tell you, I don't know what's going to wind up happening with this country. We'll take care of everybody and their dog if they are from another country, but we don't take care of our own citizens, even after we pay taxes our entire lives. If I were to need a handout, they'd laugh me right out of the place. My taxes are so high now that I can barely afford them every year, yet we get nothing in return for what we are paying....the road out in front of my house has just about turned into a pig trail it's so old and pitted. And when we got wiped out by Hurricane Charley in 2004, they didn't send so much as a county truck out to see if we were dead or alive.
So all we citizens have got, really, is God to depend on. Maybe that's a good thing, I don't know.
Our Sunday School lesson was about this today...God and Life's Injustices...something like that, was the title of the lesson. God rights all wrongs.
Anyway, I continue to pray for both you and CHAT. CHAT, I don't know what to think about that Osteen guy. There's a big controversy about him, some say he doesn't talk about Jesus enough, that he's not Christ centered, that he's more of a self-help guru or something. I've seen him a couple times and I did notice he wasn't talking much about Jesus. But you know, I'm a bit more open minded than a lot of real strict Christians. It could be that the Lord is using him to get through to people who need a softer, sort of a back door approach to religion. Personally, I like my own preachers to be hell-fire & brimstone and jump for Jesus, I loved my Assembly of God church. My husband, being formerly Catholic, likes a more gentle, teacher-type approach. Because of the differences in the two of us, we chose the Baptist church, it was a way that my husband and I "met in the middle" religion wise. I haven't regretted it...though I miss the healing services and especially miss being able to stand and clap or raise my hands during the singing part of the service. I think it's so rude to sit, while singing praises to the Lord...rude to the Lord. I have had to tone it down because we went Baptist. But, I'm happy to let it go, just to have a husband going to church with me all the time, is a blessing.
At any rate, I don't watch much TV, except for American Idol. I spend so much time in church anymore, that I don't watch it on TV like I used to. We've really got involved with the church so we are there just about everytime the doors are opened. I never thought I'd enjoy Sunday School or Wednesday night service like I do. But now that I live in a small town (versus when I lived in DFW in Texas) it's just so different. Every thing social revolves around the church, so it's easy to get caught up in it all and we've made a whole lot of friends there. It's fun. I never thought church could be that much fun.
Take Care,
WW
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