—Dwight D. Eisenhower, Second Inaugural Address, January 21, 1957

Whereas, it is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

Commute

Just an example of my hour + commute back and forth into work. Every day. For 15 years.

You know, it didn't start out this way. In the beginning my commute was between 5 - 15 minutes one way.

/sigh

When there was no gas...

I took this on the way to work. It's an example of what Atlanta would look like as a third world country - no gas. This lasted for three weeks. It was awful.

People were getting gas at three and four in the morning. During the day people parked their cars at the gas station pumps and any available parking spaces waiting for a tanker truck to bring gas to the station. There was talk of closing schools for part of the week and not selling gas for one day a week. Steve went out twice to gas up his bike and came back on reserve. When I was low on gas, he would ride his bike to a station with gas and call me so I knew were to go and not waste gas trying to find gas.

We get ALL our gas in the Atlanta area from two pipe lines. Both of those pipe lines come from the same place. Both of these pipe lines are at risk every year from hurricanes. Hello! I would get fired if I set something up as rediculous as this.

Glory

Steve and I were sitting on the back porch when Steve looked at the sky and said that this would sure make a good picture. So I ran in and got the camera. I got these shots off just before the sun came away from the cloud.

Well worth the effort I might add.