2002-10-10 - 10:04 a.m.

More of the same!

Another great day! It was almost worth losing my happy thoughts for a few days just to appreciate life. Spent some delightful time on the computer visiting cyber friends and foes. Then sis j called to wish me birthday greetings. Thank You so much for helping me make up to her for the years I did not treat her well. I wish I could go up there soon, take her down to the public library, get her an e-mail home and help her get started on the computer. Her boy lives in Alaska along with her only grand. He sends me pictures and forwards interesting things and I know she would have a ball on the web. Maybe next summer.

Spent a nice day sleeping well. 800 got d after school and they went deer hunting up in the hills for the afternoon. Today 800 has gone to have a Bible study in the care center, the first time in a long while. I am so pleased. His shaking bothers him in public, and he worried that it might bother the residents but has overcome that. I know it will go well, no one can share Your Word like 800, especially to the elderly.

Two good nights at work, and tonight we will run Macs, always a challenge.

On a sad reflectful note, our local pornography case has come to trial and been to sentencing. I feel so sorrowful for the young man. He is in his early 30's, married with small children, active in his prominent church cult and has torn his whole life into shreds. His sentence is for life with no parole for 30 years and he still has to face Federal charges. I cannot excuse what he did, taking pictures of children, even his own and selling them on the Internet for $7-$10 thousand a month income, but I don't think there would have been such an uproar in another part of the country. In fact, the judge said that he wants to send a message loud and clear to others that this area will not tolerate such behaviour and I applaud that, but 30 years in our prison system will have destroyed this person far more that any destruction he did. Father,You can touch his life, change his heart and keep him in this time, and I pray that You will.

Pornography is such an insidious evil. I couldn't help wondering how many of his prosecutors have also been entangled in its snares. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know it? It is easy to cast stones while concealing secrets. That is the one thing I do not like about the web. It is all available and is a temptation to many. As i have traveled on my journeys, I have come across bad places, and while I do not deliberately go there,sometimes one gets dumped somewhere and has to make a quick exit.

Right now I am getting unsolicited e-mail with horrible language that is impossible not to see even while deleting or blocking. I shudder to think of youngsters or weak ones seeing such things. I have tried a filter before and that has its own drawbacks, but the time may come when that is the only solution. I am in favor of restricting the Internet in some ways. Even grocery stores have to do certain things with certain magazines. While some may have freedom to explore whatever they want to, that material should be enclosed within boundaries.

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