One of my favorite birds of prey, is the Osprey. I spent three consecutive springs with Osprey families and my cameras. The images today are ones that I have not shared as often as some others. In some cases they are less dramatic but they are part & parcel to their lives.

Looking at yah

Looking away.

Sideways

A bonus with some American White Pelicans

Let us close with an American Kestrel with a mouse.

In the sections below; I write about politics, morality, and truth. They are solely my opinions, based on my personal journey. Your views “and your journey” may be different.

Who are we?

God is always waiting to hear from us, but seldom do we cry out to Him. Most often, only when something is difficult. The rest of the time, He is but a figurehead to us. Something to make many feel good for an hour on a Sunday morning.

The one true triune God, is a twenty four hour a day, three hundred and sixty five days a year God. He’s not reserved for Sundays or one night during the week.

It seems like the natural “human “condition”, maybe with some help from Satan, dictates to each of us, who we are and where we should be. Who we should be with. What group we belong to? It is as much a war,as a decision.

During my life, most of who I was, had more to do selfishly I may say,, with who I wanted to be with and where I wanted to be. Not where and with who, I should be.

Most people were more Godly than I was in those times. At least, so it seemed.

In recent times, I have been associated with, figuratively and to some degree literally, Christians and political conservatives. I am comfortable and happy with those associations.

Sometimes.

In recent months, as the political wars in first the primaries, and soon the general election heat up, and making it clear what you stand for becomes more important, I am not in compete lock step with a majority on my political side, and as usual, nobody on the other side. Zero!

You should know for the purpose of this article, that I did not always care that much about unborn babies. Out of sight out of mind for much of my life, but thankfully , not all of it. Better to kill them, although I did not use those terms back then (abort etc.) than to let them have a miserable life.

Like I should dictate what is and is not a miserable life.

As a young man (boy), if a child might to be forth coming from a women (girl) I was with, an abortion might take the pressure off my all so precious life. Really, what might be inside of her is just some sort of blob. A little blob that that could make things difficult for me. Of course, also for her, although I probably cared more about me.

Any child that would enter this world, would have a miserable life. Better to kill it before it grows, than allow it to have a bad life.

That’s not being selfish.

Is it?

I guess, like many, I set myself up to decide for others, what constituted a good life or a bad one. This one lives, that one dies.

However, killing a child, is killing a child.

In later years I always surmised, by what I heard from political conservatives , that 85 or maybe 90% of my side, were against abortion on demand. I speak not about aborting to save the mother’s life, but I speak about killing the baby in the womb due to the inconvenience of it all. Remember, there are places who will take care of and adopt out or raise unwanted babies.

That is of course, still somewhat inconvenient.

I do understand that politicians need to get elected, and that won’t happen when a high percentage of those who vote for them, are pro abortion if the politician is against it.

Still, life is life, and death is death.

Now, the true Christians, not neccessarily politicians, that I follow, have remained steadfast in their opposition to the “casual practice” of killing the a baby in the womb.

Unfortunately all too often, voting can become simply picking the lesser of two evils. I speak now not about individual politicians or candidates, but about groups or parties.

The politician, cannot always choose the desires or moralities of his/her constituents. It is true, that they have to get elected before they can take part in deciding the rule of law. Still, what they, you and I believe in, still matters.

In some respects, what I am griping about here is my frustration with a world that is without any moral absolutes. Sometimes, either it is or it isn’t. There’s not always, a comfortable way around the dilema. It is either moral, or it isn’t.

It’s not a political game, it is a matter of life or death.

Moving on to other politics.

Who said what’s below?

“When I enter this room, I demand that each of you stands up and says good morning General“, stated the California Attorney General of days gone by. Luckily. she had the previous Attorney General that she could physically pleasure, so she would be ripe and ready when her time for that office came.

The fight goes on to decribe the race and/or ethnicity of our current Vice President who of course, is running for President.

It should not matter.

Nobody. left or right, should give a damn (excuse please) about whether she is black, white, brown or red, or any combination of such. What does she believe, and what will she do, is first and foremost.

It seems to me it’s only Democrats who care about racial preferences, be they pro or con.

Wise thoughts are found below.

“When little people (morally) cast long shadows on your nation, the sun is about to set on that nation”.

Spoken by the late, great Adrian Rogers. Somebody who never changed his mind to suit the circumatances.

There are always decisions for each and every one of us to make. In earlier times in my life, I made bad, immoral, and ultimately selfish decisions. In some ways that is good. It means I know what I speak of today when I refer to such things. There is very little bad that I have not done. I thank the Lord, He was still waiting for me when I finished, and that He loves me as His child.

He waits for you too!

God Bless,
Wayne