When you think about a problem over and over in your mind, that's called worry.

When you think about God's Word over and over in your mind, that's meditation.

If you know how to worry, you already know how to meditate!

While On a recent trip to Glacier National Park I came across this article written by an unknown person in Tioga, ND. Sound familiar?

”Classical Version: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.  Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.  The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.

 Bet you never thought about it that way before – but you will now!

The Silent generation, people born before 1946.

 The Baby Boomers, people born between 1946 and 1959.

 Generation X, people born between 1960 and 1979.

  Generation Y, people born between 1980 and 1995.


Why do we call the last one-generation Y?  I did not know, but a caricaturist explains it eloquently below...Learned something new!

Grace Chung Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, and Donald W. Washington, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, today announced the indictment of Jeremiah Munsen, 18, on federal hate crime and conspiracy charges for his role in threatening and intimidating marchers who participated in a civil rights rally in Jena, Louisiana, by displaying two hangman's nooses from the back of a pickup truck.

The indictment alleges that on Sept. 20, 2007, Munsen, along with another individual, conspired to threaten and intimidate the African-American marchers because they were exercising a federally protected right to travel between states. According to the indictment, Munsen and his co-conspirator fashioned two nooses out of extension cords while discussing the Ku Klux Klan and the civil rights rally in Jena. Munsen and his co-conspirator then attached the nooses to a truck and traveled to Alexandria (near Jena, Louisiana) where they repeatedly drove slowly past a group of marchers gathered at a bus depot waiting for buses that would return them to Tennessee. In addition to the civil rights conspiracy charge, the indictment also charges the defendants with a federal hate crime.

"This indictment accuses the defendant of conduct that constitutes a federal civil rights conspiracy violation and a federal hate crime," U.S. Attorney Donald W. Washington said. "It is a violation of federal law to intimidate, oppress, injure or threaten people because their race and because those people are exercising and enjoying rights guaranteed and protected by the laws and Constitution of the United States. Our civil rights laws protect the civil rights of all Americans, and they remind us that we are all members of one particular race - the human race."

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Alexandria Police Department investigated this case, which is being prosecuted jointly by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The charges set forth in an indictment are merely accusations and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

This information was obtained from the FBI web page.

Once again, our country experienced another tragic school shooting. Although criticism has begun over this shooting do not forget attacks like these cannot be prevented by security devices and programs. In Red Lake, Minnesota the security guard was the first person killed.

One of the biggest contributing factors to school shootings is the failure to identify the warning signs or to take the signs (even obvious ones) seriously. Because of governmental educational efforts, several attacks have been foiled by people who have recognized and reported the warning signs to authorities. Of course in some cases, the signs have been as blatant as students sharing their plans for an attack in advance with their friends or warning other students not to go to school on a certain day.

Historically, incidents of school shootings tend to initiate similar attacks so that three or four major incidents occur within a few weeks of one another. Therefore it would be prudent for school security directors, local school boards, parents and students to review or establish emergency plans.

The open nature of schools and universities makes preventing attacks extremely difficult though a student body, faculty and staff that know the warning signs can be a vital line of defense. Once an attack begins, proper communications and well-designed contingency plans can minimize the casualty count.

Does your child’s school have a plan?