Bonus points if anyone knows which TV show is quoted in the blog title.

A while back I started a blogring called "I Love Being Married" - because I do. Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that I'm absolutely mad about my awesome wife. And it's not because we're excitable newlyweds. We've been married 23 years next month. I just haven't gotten over the amazement that she chose me. (As for her ... well, she got the bad end of the deal. )

So what's the answer? Do women like being married more than men or is it something else?

Kaitie and I played our guitars for in front of about 300 people today at a funeral. It went pretty well with one exception. We had to walk on to the stage (at Grace Church if you're local) and then put our guitar straps around our necks. My strap had slipped off so I was reattaching that when I smacked the live mic with my guitar. That was bad enough, but then Kaitie smacked the same mic about 5 seconds later.

So quite the auspicious (I am so ashamed ) inauspicious start to our public guitar careers!

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. --Galatians 6:7

"Sin, I repeat, in addition to anything else it may be, is always an act
of wrong judgment. To commit a sin a man must for the moment believe
that things are different from what they really are; he must confound
values; he must see the moral universe out of focus; he must accept a
lie as truth and see truth as a lie; he must ignore the signs on the
highway and drive with his eyes shut; he must act as if he had no soul,
and was not accountable for his moral choices.

"Sin is never a thing to be proud of. No act is wise that ignores remote
consequences, and sin always does. Sin sees only today, or at most
tomorrow; never the day after tomorrow, next month or next year. Death
and judgment are pushed aside as if they did not exist and the sinner
becomes for the time a practical atheist who by his act denies not only
the existence of God but the concept of life after death....

"The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the
serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt
altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin
is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the
greater the fool." (Italics mine)

AW Tozer, from Man: The Dwelling Place of God, pp. 47-48

I need to read this quote more often.

This is pretty awesome. My nephew sent this link out after the election.

Not many things are touching enough to make me tear up, but this did.

http://www.zefrank.com/from52to48withlove/.

Be sure to check it out. There are more pages on the bottom so be sure to check them all.

I'm going to let you in on an email conversation that my family recently had. Since my siblings and I own our own domain, we have a couple email lists set up so we can easily contact the whole family (I'm one of seven siblings, plus lots of our own kids, so this helps).

We got to discussing for whom we were voting in this election on Tuesday. Here is my first reply:

One of my sibs disagreed that abstaining is a legitimate use of your vote. Here is my reply to that:

So what do you think? Who's right? Is abstaining legitimate or is it a waste of a vote?

And do me a favor --- recommend this post so we can get a lot of people in on the discussion. Thanks!