Muffy Toe

in no particular order...

1. CTK's VBS.
Things aren't watered down for these kids. It's not all "God loves you" and "tell your friends." They learn the most significant stories and the hard words. The themes for the five days? Creation, the Fall, God's Covenant, Salvation, Glorification.

2. Texas
A complete exposition on this point would fill volumes. I only want to mention my most recent reason. While in DC I learned that each state has submitted two statues to the US Capitol, of a famous man or woman from that state. Of all 100 statues, Texas submitted the only statue of a person holding a firearm. So proud.


3. The Office, UK
Enough said.


4. Wrath of God
[this is long, but so awesome]
Diocletian was a Roman Emperor that claimed he had "extinguished" Christianity. But actually at that time Christianity was growing stronger than ever, and eventually "triumphed over Caesar's thrown..."
"Of thirty Roman emperors, governors of provinces and others in high office, who distinguish themselves by their zeal and bitterness in persecuting the early Christians, one became speedily deranged after some atrocious cruelty, one was slain by his own son, one became blind, the eyes of one started out of his head, one was drowned, one was strangled, one died in a miserable captivity, one fell dead in a manner that will not bear recital, one died of so loathsome a disease that several of his physicians were put to death because they could not abide the stench that filled his room, two committed suicide, a third attempted it but had to call for help to finish the work, five were assassinated by their own people or servants, five others died the most miserable and excrutiating deaths, several of them having an untold complication of diseases, and eight were killed in battle, or being taken prisoners."
-William Plumer (1867)

Makes me smile.