[Vision2020] An Interesting Study

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of the Letters section of today's (December 11, 2012) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.

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An Interesting Study

I find the Humanist signs on the south side of Moscow an interesting study.

First, the billboards are intentional and targeting in their placement - in your face stuff.

Second, does it agitate? Well for me and my Christian walk, the answer is no. My heart goes out to those behind the billboards. I shed tears for anyone of that mindset. The thing is they don't get it. They think we still live under the rules of the Old Covenant. The Old Covenant was in place to prove none of us, including me, can live by God's rules. We're all sinners. I fail all the time, but live under the New Covenant of Christ, which deems me free. Cut and dried, no works are righteous, no rules are added. Christ's last words were, "It is finished." Sin is paid for - for those who believe. That simple, almost too simple.

If God doesn't exist, then when you see a deer in the glen, watch a flock of geese fly into a beautiful sunset, who does your heart sing to? Yourself because you created it all? Now that is illogical in my viewpoint.

Being both a cancer survivor and a total stroke survivor, I've walked close to death several times. Close enough to know my life can end at any second, at God's will. I see it happening to others my age quite often. I have nothing to do with my time line here on Earth.

But I do know that when my good Lord walks with me out of this world, I will walk into Christ's arms in the next world.

There is no condemnation in the New Covenant. Christ says, "Come unto me, and I will give you peace." How about you?

Wayne Olson
Moscow

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Now for a little heat venting posted as a comment to the letter above . . .

Mr. Olson -
 
During the five weeks my wife was a patient of Sacred Heart's ICU, suffering from life-threatening respiratory problems, and I took residence in the ICU's waiting room 7 days a week/18 hours a day, I placed my faith in more-tangible resources; doctors and critical care nurses. Thank God for medical science and technology (pun intended) and a subsequent 7-week stay at NIACH (Northern Idaho Advanced Care Hospital in Post Falls), consisting of intensive speech, occupational, and physical therapy, I was able to take my wife home to Moscow. In the absence of those tangible resources, my wife would have died almost immediately after the airlift from Gritman.

And concerning those deer and geese you mention . . . think "evolution".

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And a very VERY special thanks to some very VERY special friends here in Moscow who, through constant email contacts and helping hands, kept my mind focused and my thoughts clear.

Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares"
http://www.MoscowCares.com

Tom Hansen, CPL  (Commie Pinko Liberal)
Moscow, Idaho