Thursday in Washington

it is thursday and we leave for home tonight. kinda sad, kinda glad. washington is a great place. i could easily get lost in history and time here. good thing i don’t have the time and money.

Today is like a day off. take my group into dc, drop them and return to the hotel. law says i must take 8 hours off and rest before i go pick them up and take them to manassas for dinner. going to stop by iwo jima on the way out.

funny thing i have noticed about washington. yes, i am about to get political here. it seems to me the debate of separation of church is dumb. the national cathedral and the basilica (largest roman catholic church in America) are here. when you look at our founding fathers, they founded this country using christian/biblical guidance. study them and you will find all but 2 or 3 were also leaders in their churches. as i look around at our monuments, the reference to God is written on them in some way. our currency says “in God we trust”. every time I find a penny, i get a reminder that truly in God i trust. our nation’s highest courts open with a prayer as well as the house and the senate. some even (still) have the ten commandments hanging on their walls. either the senate or the house has its own chaplain. when did we and where did we get the idea that God and country were separate. even the boy scouts have a reference (merit badge?) to God and country.

so, what happened? ever listen to the song by carman called “we need god in America again”? cool song, awesome lyrics. we truly do need god in America. anyway, bad weather is coming. the storm does have tornadic activity with heavy rainfall so the trip back tonight might be ugly. at least driving during the day you can see what is coming. at night, you can’t see the clouds or other weather events. may be a good thing after all.

until next time…