Tax Day!
April 20th, 2009

Blog April 16, 2009

Tax Day – USA! If you say it that way, paying your income taxes doesn’t seem so bad. Who am I kidding? No one wants to pay taxes at the end of the year. If you owed taxes to Uncle Sam, I hope you paid them; I’d hate to have to visit you in a federal prison. If you got back some money, tell yourself how smart you are to have loaned the government your money for a year, interest free!

Speaking of taxes, did you get invited to the Tea Party at Ross’s Landing on April 15? I got the invitation but was a no-show. I don’t think they really served tea or dumped any tea bags into the river. The participants were part of a nation-wide protest against the government’s spending of trillions of dollars. I have no idea what a trillion dollars is; how would I know what to protest?

Something else I can’t understand- if I wanted to travel around the perimeter of the universe, and could travel at the speed of 186,000 miles per second, it would take me 500 billion years to complete the journey.

Math is not my strong suit, but my best friend is a math teacher. Science isn’t my strong suit either, but my brother teaches science. My strong suit is probably God. I suddenly feel awkward. Even though I’m a seminary graduate, study my Bible daily, and have 60 years of “life experience,” I have done little more than scratch the underside of God’s toe nails. Here I am, still looking up, trying to discover, comprehend, and “know” God, my so-called strong suit. That’s okay. God became flesh, dwelt among my ancestors, that I might know Him. Awesome!

One of these days, I might start complaining about my taxes and have a tea party. One of these days, I might challenge the government’s spending trillions of dollars, but first I think I’ll make a list of God’s awesome attributes. Then, I’ll catalog His blessings. Who knows, if I live to be 500 billion years old, I might finish my lists and have some time to complain about politics or the world. In the meantime, I think it would “sweet” to reveal God to those who don’t fully understand Him. I’m already flesh; how can I show others what God is like? Uh oh! Looks like I have another humongous list. I should have seen that coming.

Catch you later; I’m going to crawl back under one of God’s toe nails and hopefully make some new friends and make someone else’s day a little brighter. Then, I’ll check off a couple of things on my list.

Posted by Bill Owens

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