These big rains we’re having in January have me a bit uneasy, for this is the way 2019 began. Look what the rivers did to us last year with multiple inch rains starting at the beginning of the year. We just don’t need another awful year like last year, water-wise.
This Monday, January 13th, courthouse meeting room 103 was filled with people happily proud to witness the ascendance of their family and friends to the office of Police Juror of Catahoula Parish. Libby Ford, Jackie Paulk, Ben Otwell, Delores McEntyre, and Judy Duhon have stepped down.
All human being have an inate nature to seek revenge for injury whether physical or emotional. We will respond immediately and without giving thought to any harm our reactions may produce. In addition we all have things about which we are sensitive and are too quick to take offense.
Most people have heard of tough love. While it originated in the medical and addiction treatment communities, tough love has become synonymous for any instance where persons with authority are strict and use either punishment or Ostracization to enforce something.
What I want to know is this: how long are we going to have to put up with those communists that have taken over the democrat party? For instance, President Trump gave the order to kill the world’s most infamous terrorist leader, and the communists go crazy.
It may be difficult to imagine what the Persian Empire or the Mullahs of present day Iran might have to do with Catahoula Parish. No doubt, though, you are already resting in the assurance that I am about to tell you.
Matthew 6:19-34
I was skimming through my emails last week as I usually do, when a particular one caught my attention. Being in addiction advocacy, I am a member of several out reach groups. Like myself, these groups join forces with those of us trying to make a difference in the opioid epidemic.
Few men in the young United States in 1800 held a job more dangerous than 19-year-old John Lee Swaney.
He was a post rider who delivered mail between Nashville and Natchez.
