And where are they happy?

They’re happy in England. They’re happy in France. They’re happy in
Italy. They’re happy in Germany. They’re happy in Sweden. They’re
happy in the USA. They’re happy in Norway. They’re happy in every
country that is not Muslim. And who do they blame? Not Islam. Not
their leadership. Not themselves.

THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN.

H/T 45 Govt

I think I also understand that the support for 11 million illegal aliens arriving here from Mexico without English, legality, or education is not fueled by tribal and ethnic chauvinism. I know that to suggest that extending immigration consideration to a new cadre of 11 million Koreans, Chinese, Africans, and Europeans with graduate degrees and capital would be racist to the core. The former group from Oaxaca is diverse, the latter from almost everywhere illiberal. I have seen those demonstrating for amnesty deprecate the U.S and its flag while championing Mexico, and I think I am supposed to understand that screaming at the country you wish to stay in, while singing praises for the country you do not makes perfect non-sense, in Humpty-Dumpty word fashion. And I know I am not supposed to say that, much less explain why millions flee here from a temperate and fertile south and not from an Arctic north.

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Churches Helping Churches

Churches Helping Churches (CHC) is working with CRASH Japan to establish a base camp near Sendai to distribute relief supplies to the community. They are appealing to their church network to take a special offering for Japan on the weekend of March 26–27. (A video will be available on their site for those who wish to show it in their services.)

Food for the Hungry

Food for the Hungry (FH) is working with local partners on the ground in northern Japan to initiate relief responses, including provision of medical care, canned bread, rice and water to survivors. Currently, the response is based in Sendai, a coastal city in northeastern Miyagi. FH’s focus is strengthening local churches to be conduits for relief services.

OMF International

OMF workers will help relief efforts in the Sendai region providing whatever assistance they are able to give to the people in the area. OMF will also be supporting the work of other Christian agencies in Japan that are reaching out to help those affected by the earthquake and tsunami. They have created the Sendai Earthquake Relief Fund to channel funds for this effort.

Samaritan’s Purse

Samaritan’s Purse is already on the ground distributing aid in the coastal areas around Sendai. In the US, they are organizing a 747 cargo jet to airlift about 90 tons of emergency relief such as blankets, hygiene supplies, heavy-duty plastic shelter materials, and water filtration systems. The plane is scheduled to depart for Japan today, March 18.

World Vision

World Vision is distributing relief supplies to thousands of people devastated by the earthquake and tsunami. An emergency response team is on the ground in hard hit areas, providing water, blankets, and other urgently needed supplies to survivors. Ongoing efforts will focus on the unique needs of children, who are the most impacted.

The God who is truly scary is not the wrathful God of the Bible, but the god of the judgmentless gospel, who closes his eyes to the evil of this world, shrugs his shoulders, and ignores it in the name of “love.” What kind of “love” is this? A god who is never angered at sin and who lets evil go by unpunished is not worthy of worship.

The problem isn’t that the judgmentless God is too loving; it’s that he’s not loving enough.

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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own’, or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life – the life God is sending one day by day: what one calls one’s ‘real life’ is a phantom of one’s own imagination.”

from a 1943 letter from C.S. Lewis, included in Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C.S. Lewis

From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Winter 2010

Mothers and fathers used to bring up children: now they parent. Critics used to review plays: now they critique them. Athletes podium, executives flipchart, and almost everybody Googles. Watch out—you’ve been verbed.

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1886: With her trademark elegance and ambiguity, Emily Dickinson says, “I must go in, the fog is rising.”

1900: The great playwright Oscar Wilde (full name: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde) is dying in a garishly decorated hotel room. With his last measure of strength, he turns to a companion and says, “Either this wallpaper goes-or I do.”

1906: After his nurse notes that he seems to be feeling much better, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen replies, “On the contrary,” and dies.

1923: Pancho Villa is assassinated in Parral, Mexico. “Don’t let it end like this,” he says in parting. “Tell them I said something.”

1955: The poet Paul Claudel dies just after uttering the memorable question, “Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?”