This is what I'm Thankful for...

2008 has been quite a year! I have so many things to be thankful for. While it is impossible to recall everything, let alone list everything...I'm gonna list a few by month.

**WARNING: THIS MAY BE LONG!!**

January: I'm grateful to know that my Grandma McCorkle, went to be with the Lord. I'm thankful for her help and wisdom which I employed countless times. Even though I miss her, there is no greater celebration than to know that she is now with the Lord and living without sickness or physical limitations. I am going to live my life so I have the opportunity to see and talk with her again.

February: Thankful for the opportunity to work with Chris and her team on the Easter project. While this was a VERY busy and stressful time in our home…I’m thankful I was able to participate! This has always been a fun time to work with my best friend John. John, thanks for your friendship and your loyalty to me in spite of me failing you as a friend at times.

March: While eating dinner with Logan on a Wednesday evening on our way to Bible study…my supervisor Jim Fohrman…called to ask if I’d be interested in a higher position (Project Manager). Duh! Actually, the way God worked it out was quite amazing. I am grateful to my Dad, Jim F, Steve F, and the Dunlaps for this great opportunity!

April: Logan becomes a Ten-ager!! Thank God for a great and healthy kid! I’m proud of you Logan!

May: Ella Star Clara McCorkle! Born on the 15th…has been a lot of fun for Uncle Ralph, Aunt Chris and Cousin Logster! We try to steal her from Cameron and Alyssa whenever we can!! I’m thankful that I can share in the joy of a baby…and still be able to send her home with her mom and dad!! Hehe!

June: Thank God for his help in achieving my first $500K sales month!! How exciting!! I’m also thankful to the people who have helped me at Centimark. An extra special thanks to: Cameron, Gavin, Jim, Lucy, Brianna, Sammy, and Victor. I value your assistance and input.

July: God Bless America. In spite of all of it’s quirks, the United States in still the greatest nation in the world. I’m thankful that I am an American! Thank God for freedom!

August: On the very last day of August, Chris and I celebrated 11 years of marriage! Like all married couples, we are still learning about ourselves, and each other. I will always be grateful to God for putting such a wonderful woman in my life. I love you Christina. You are the sunshine of my life!

September: My Dad has always been someone that I have admired. Thank you Dad for all of your help and insight when I needed it most. I love you Dad. Oh yeah…Dad turned 50 too!! Judy and Aunt Debbie did a good job on the surprise party! I love you guys.

October: October is known as Clergy Appreciation month. This year more than ever, I am grateful for my Pastor. More than just being thankful for Pastor Wilmoth…I’m thankful for the revelation of submission and obedience to my pastor and the Word of God. Thank you Pastor for being a great man and putting up with my antics!

November: Thank you Jesus for hearing my prayers! On the 30th of this month my step dad, Harry, will be baptized in the wonderful name of Jesus! My Mom and Harry have been faithful to the house of God since the first week of the year. I have been praying for them for at least 7 years! Thank you Jesus! I love you Mom and Harry.

December: Can’t wait to see!!

There are several people I am thankful for. I’m glad that God has put these people in my life:

All of my extended family, my Grandma Grace who is a great woman of God, Grandma Lucy and Grandpa Basilio, my favorite mother-in-law Mary, Judy McCorkle..I don’t know how you can put up with all of my Dad’s traveling, my baby sister Summer, and my kid brother Cameron and Alyssa, Uncle Wayne and Aunt Debbie, the Wilmoth family, Eric and Rose, Justin and Bekka, Casey and Joni, Bonnie and Matt, Leonard and Crystal, Lorraine, David Candelaria, Andy Wong, Jason and Brenda, the Karen White family, Barbara, Sis Barrington, the entire Hope Center Family.

WoW!

Whew....what a week!

You know what I mean?

More interesting thoughts to come...

Second Posting of the Day...

'Why Believe in a God? Just be Good' Ads Set to Run Next Week Through Christmas On D.C. Buses

WASHINGTON, D.C. — You better watch out. There is a new combatant in the Christmas wars.

Ads proclaiming, "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake," will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week and running through December. The American Humanist Association unveiled the provocative $40,000 holiday ad campaign Tuesday.

In lifting lyrics from "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," the Washington-based group is wading into what has become a perennial debate over commercialism, religion in the public square and the meaning of Christmas.

"We are trying to reach our audience, and sometimes in order to reach an audience, everybody has to hear you," said Fred Edwords, spokesman for the humanist group. "Our reason for doing it during the holidays is there are an awful lot of agnostics, atheists and other types of non-theists who feel a little alone during the holidays because of its association with traditional religion."

To that end, the ads and posters will include a link to a Web site that will seek to connect and organize like-minded thinkers in the D.C. area, Edwords said.

Edwords said the purpose isn't to argue that God doesn't exist or change minds about a deity, although "we are trying to plant a seed of rational thought and critical thinking and questioning in people's minds."

The group defines humanism as "a progressive philosophy of life that, without theism, affirms our responsibility to lead ethical lives of value to self and humanity."

Last month, the British Humanist Association caused a ruckus announcing a similar campaign on London buses with the message: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."

In Washington, the humanists' campaign comes as conservative Christian groups gear up their efforts to keep Christ in Christmas. In the past five years, groups such as the American Family Association and the Catholic League have criticized or threatened boycotts of retailers who use generic "holiday" greetings.

In mid-October, the American Family Association started selling buttons that say "It's OK to say Merry Christmas." The humanists' entry into the marketplace of ideas did not impress AFA president Tim Wildmon.

"It's a stupid ad," he said. "How do we define 'good' if we don't believe in God? God in his word, the Bible, tells us what's good and bad and right and wrong. If we are each ourselves defining what's good, it's going to be a crazy world."

Also on Tuesday, the Orlando, Fla.-based Liberty Counsel, a conservative Christian legal group, launched its sixth annual "Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign." Liberty Counsel has intervened in disputes over nativity scenes and government bans on Christmas decorations, among other things.

"It's the ultimate grinch to say there is no God at a time when millions of people around the world celebrate the birth of Christ," said Mathew Staver, the group's chairman and dean of the Liberty University School of Law. "Certainly, they have the right to believe what they want but this is insulting."

Best-selling books by authors such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have fueled interest in "the new atheism" — a more in-your-face argument against God's existence.

Yet few Americans describe themselves as atheist or agnostic; a Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life poll from earlier this year found 92 percent of Americans believe in God.

There was no debate at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority over whether to take the ad. Spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said the agency accepts ads that aren't obscene or pornographic.

FOUND ON FOXNEWS.COM

I Hate When That Happens!

Man's coffin kills wife on way to cemetery

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Police say a woman has died on the way to a cemetery when a traffic accident hurled her husband's coffin against the back of her neck.

Police said 67-year-old Marciana Silva Barcelos was in the front passenger seat of the hearse when the accident occurred Monday in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Barcelos died instantly.

Her 76-year-old husband, Josi Silveira Coimbra, died Sunday of a heart attack while dancing at a party.

Presidential Obamanation

Well, time to take your wallets out and give more to the government. Welcome to the next 4 years!

Regardless of the outcome of today's election...it's always in our best interest to continue forward. So...join me and many others, let's get back to work so we can be sure there is enough money to support all the lazy people who don't work!

I'm not bitter or anything.