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r and pink toes on the dashboard or this thing about letting a girl play my radio hello again jason aldean and others that s awful nice of you i am saying much of this tongue in cheek but just something i ve noticed oh and one more thing what is it with every other song talking about a girl dancing on your tailgate or on your toolbox i haven t owned a pick up truck in a few years but do you not realize the strain someone dancing on a tailgate can do to the cables holding it let s not forget about the paint job either dancing on my toolbox aww hell no i d be one pissed off mf er get your drunk tan legged ass down that toolbox cost me a thousand dollars and the tools in it twice that much just sayin so all said if today s country music wants to be country then do it right don t be so obvious with your tunes that at times seem manufactured in a cubicle with every intention other than being country if you want to do crossover right see kid rock he s hit every genre and done it very well without a hitch and he s real and not a phony whew i m glad i got that off my chest now i need to finish this sweet tea and gotta go pick up mama from church and bail my buddy out jail and hit the tavern what is heaven like 30 monday sep 2013 posted by jimi971 in uncategorized leave a comment a few weeks ago i had a discussion with my wife and kids the way home from my aunt s memorial service the pastor was incredible and it prompted out conversation a sad moment when someone passes that we love the topic came up in the car what is heaven like my daughter first piped up heaven has a lot of clouds and puppies my son said i think it s the happiest moment in your life multiplied by infinity i think these were both great and wonderful answers i often wonder if each individual experiences their own personal heaven whatever that may be yet i believe that with god it is what it is there is a purpose and structure and things set into motion and all are god s plan i believe that when the doors of heaven swing open for us the immense light and glory of god envelopes us and we then understand everything at least everything that god the father reveals to us at that time here on earth we can only envision heaven based on faith what the bible tells us and what we see hear touch and taste here and our dreams and faith give us great imagination into what may be in the life and world to come in our family discussion i think about what my son said and what my daughter said on what their heaven might be two kids two years apart both answers with such a beautiful innocence right now that is their heaven i suppose as they get older that view may change but hopefully not because that innocence is lost but because innocence is everything in regard to heaven childlike innocence in heaven you will see loved ones from your past and you will recognize them and love them but you will also feel that same love with a total stranger that s what christ wants us to do here on earth but we always fall short i believe that heaven is most certainly free of the slightest pain and worry heaven is free of stress and the heavy weight of worldly things it says in psalm 23 2 he maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters that sounds like heaven on earth doesn t it yet in heaven i believe if i lie down in green pastures i won t have the earthly troubles of mosquitoes as i lie there i won t have the itch of the grass does that make sense in revalation 21 21 it says and the twelve gates were twelve pearls every several gate was of one pearl and the street of the city was pure gold as it were transparent glass so it is said imagine the beauty from that a small part of what john told us about heaven i imagine a constant immense light brighter than the sun not a light that requires sunglasses or a light that makes us squint but rather a light that lets us all know of god s eternal presence around us we sing of his glory in that light for eternity jesus said in luke 18 16 but jesus called them unto him and said suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of god it s the childlike innocence that i spoke of this is how we all want to be here on earth even as an adult we remember the touch and wisdom of our parents our grandparents in heaven as here god s children and we will be humbled in the light of god the father and his son christ the lord free of all earthly worry and concerns and eternally praising the lord our god there may be puppies and clouds or the greatest time of our life multiplied by 100 as my kids said i would be okay with that yet i remember in john 14 2 in my father s house are many mansions if it were not so i would have told you i go to prepare a place for you i would be happy with a one room efficiency apartment if i can just get there thanks jimi 9 11 and a first responder for souls 12 thursday sep 2013 posted by jimi971 in uncategorized leave a comment my 9 11 was no different from many others across the country witnessing and remembering that day it changed all of our lives and the world forever my son was a year old and i remember racing to get home from work to him and my wife i remember when i pulled into our drive and ran to the front door and how i fumbled around with my keys trying to get into the door when i opened the door my wife and son were laying on a baby blanket on the floor watching the news i remember my son lying there kicking his feet and glad to see me i remember the smell of that baby lotion and just hugging him i know it s silly but it was the smell of refuge that little guy gave his dad strength i laid down on the floor with them it was like i found refuge there holding on to this little guy who had no idea what was going on he didn t know that my life and the world i lived in was changed he would never know any different he was at that moment an escape into true innocence and into what really truly matters i remember late that night when my wife and son were long asleep i standing out on my deck having a beer and looking up to the sky we lived in the path of planes that flew from scott air force base and not many away was lambert airport in st louis air traffic was common that night because all aircraft was grounded i remember looking up that this bright star lit night and seeing the silence it was just stars and the heavens i remember thinking that many across our great country were looking to the same sky that earlier that day had brought horror but that night we were looking at the heavens together as a country to the sky as god had made it peace however in my little world and experience on 9 11 there was much more going on people that were actually there brave firefighter policeman and citizens that sacrificed their lives to help sirens coming from all directions dust and smoke debris just complete carnage there were also other first responders first responders of the soul priests and clergy running not away from the carnage but in god s full gear running toward it one man that though i ve not met yet in person is fr george rutler a friend of mine via email he was pastor at the time of church of our saviour just down the street from wtc he ran toward the carnage to save souls provide comfort give absolution to those dying or in fear of dying i find this story incredible a hero this is an article that the national catholic register posted on 9 6 2011 in an interview with this humble priest about 9 11 when osama bin laden and al qaeda carried out the 9 11 attacks 10 years ago this week america responded with a war on terrorism father george rutler and many other priests were at the first battle father rutler a well known speaker and author who is a pastor in new york city knew that when soldiers are about to go into battle it s possible for a priest to grant general conditional absolution he saw firefighters and police officers headed into the towering infernos in lower manhattan in a desperate attempt to save as many people as they could and he responded to their requests for general absolution the register this week is recalling the terrorist attacks of sept 11 2001 each day we are featuring the recollections of an individual catholic who was there we invite your own reflections and recollections in the comment boxes father rutler host of ewtn s christ in the city remembers every moment of that day it s printed in one s mind i have kind of a total recall he had just been named pastor of the church of our saviour on park avenue but was still at his former church of st agnes by grand central terminal the weather was ethereally beautiful he recalled of that late summer tuesday in new york the temperature was mild a bright blue sky such contradiction to all the smoke and the horror he heard a plane that seemed to be flying right over his head and wondered why such a large plane was flying so low then he heard the sound from downtown as soon as he heard that sound he literally ran the distance to lower manhattan saw the building on fire and went into st peter s church looking for the holy oils the church which is just a block away from the trade center was empty but he said the impact of the crash had been so great that file cabinets were pushed from the walls and everything was coated with white dust franciscan father mychal judge chaplain to the fire department of new york was in one of the twin towers ministering to the injured when an object fell on him killing him fireman carried his body into st peter s church the firemen in shock came in with the priest s body father rutler recalled he was the first officially recorded death they put his body in front of the altar it was very moving there is a picture of the crucifixion over the altar i remember blood coming down the altar steps i shall always remember that scene scenes of horror next he saw a policeman sitting on the steps of the church weeping that reduced everything to a human scale he said i knew everything was bad but at that time i didn t know the scale of it firemen were lining up to go into the building asking for absolution he continued i was giving general absolution they were going into a battlefield one always has these mental images of the firemen going up these staircases and the people coming down the catechism of the catholic church 1483 explains that in the case of grave necessity a general absolution is the recourse grave necessity of this sort can arise when there is imminent danger of death without sufficient time for the priest or priests to hear each penitent s confession it states referring to canon 961 of the code of canon law the faithful must have contrition and the intention of individually confessing in due time each of the grave sins which cannot then be confessed it was almost like being on a hollywood stage set because it was so surrealistic father rutler recalled it was hard to believe what you were seeing was really happening in the smoke twisted metal girders it looked like one of those world war i films a definite battle scene early in the day i was standing there and emergency personnel brought a stretcher by and an arm was hanging down the person was dead after the priest s body that was the first causality i saw he said that the most horrible thing was seeing people jumping from the upper floors of the twin towers apparently desperate to escape the heat and flames individual encounters were just as unforgettable father rutler remembers a young fellow in a fedex uniform approaching him father i just got married and my wife is in the building up there do you think she s okay i said i ll say a prayer and she ll be alright as i said that the building came down i remember his frozen face signs of hope in 10 years he has never been able to go back to ground zero although he does keep in touch with many firemen ever since 9 11 the bonds have been closer he s been made an honorary fireman or chaplain of some fire departments including the department houston texas new yorkers are always great in crisis when going well at each other s throats but in crisis they bond together he reflected as a result of sept 11 new yorkers have been able to come together with a certain empathy when you live in the city you can easily isolate yourself from people and get priorities wrong about getting and spending but sept 11 reminded people of their mortality in our culture we just assume old people die but it was very radical to have so many funerals after sept 11 for so many young people all in their 20s 30s that gave lot of people the awareness of human fragility and people became somewhat more serious after that father rutler finds a big difference between this attack and a catastrophe for instance people killed in accidents or natural calamities this was the consequence of willful evil totally unnecessary and gratuitous that s what made it more horrible it may have made people more serious in their consideration of evil how many spiritual fathers have said the devil s greatest deceit is to persuade us he doesn t exist and trying to explain the motivation of people apart from the cooperation with evil doesn t work in a culture that has been purely utilitarian and falsely optimistic the denial of evil softened people spiritually and made them naïve there s a difference between innocence and naivete just as there s a difference between hope and optimism we talk about naivete and cynicism but on sept 11 you saw real heroism in that sense it was a great moment certainly it was a very life changing moment in the history of our country and in the city new york we say is the center of the world but we realized civilization is very fragile this sept 17 will be the 10th anniversary of father rutler s installation as pastor of our saviour that day will also see the 400th wedding since he s become pastor amid the chaos of 9 11 he remembers couples about to be married there asking if they should cancel the wedding transportation was difficult people were afraid to come to new york father rutler s directive i was saying more than ever we need weddings as a sign of real hope register staff writer joseph pronechen writes from trumbull connecticut god bless america and our heroes jimi our vacations with the real griswold s 04 sunday aug 2013 posted by jimi971 in uncategorized leave a comment it s been a long time since i posted a blog but this subject was just too hard to pass up we recently vacationed as we do each year with my in laws my in laws are also our next door neighbors many would say what the hell are you thinking jimi no my in laws are essentially my best friends i just turned 44 years old a few days ago and they ve known me since i was barely 18 i married their daughter when i was 20 so that said i must tell you some stories about our vacation adventures because as far as i m concerned when it comes to vacation they are the griswold s and i have to be honest me and my family can fall into that c...