Musings on Spiritual Matters

Today was a wonderful day on the campaign trail. We ate a waffle, not as good as I expected, and headed to the city of New Orleans. I drove by there once on the way to Texas but never stopped because it was late and I was on a trip. Since I was so close to the big city, I wanted to see the place myself. As we were driving there, it was amazing at the amount of buildings that still were in disrepair. The city was truly destroyed. It was hard to imagine that all those buildings were under water. We did not stay for a long time, but we did hit the French Quarters. It was beautiful. It was a very historic place. We went into the St. Louis Basilica, which was an extremely old congregation of the Catholic church. It was interesting to walk into with the statues and scenery. We ate at Jimmy Buffet’s place, I had a po-boy and hot onion rings. The food was great. On the way back, we walked on Bourbon Street for about two blocks. I heard of this street, but always thought that it was more of a tourist trap of a few bars and resturantes. I was wrong. It is really a nasty place of all types of perversions. I felt dirty walking on the street. But then I got thinking about Jesus going into the house of sinners. This must have been how the religious people felt about the sinnerful people in His day. These people must have seemed nasty and dirty. No wonder they felt Jesus was wrong in eating with them. This was no place for religious folk. I learned a valuable lesson about the Lord and myself today. It is truly hard to reach out to truly sinnerful people. Us religious people just do not like it. It really makes us feel uncomfortable. Just admit it. Another interesting lesson was about the huge church building in the middle of the French Quarters. Here was this big church, and here was this culture of sin. The point of christianity is not to build a big church building and have no real influence on the community around us. It was a great day on the campaign trail. We stayed at the building for hours after the preaching just to sing and fellowship. It is really a blessing to be down here. Ray is doing great. Poncho was in the good books for picking a great place to eat. The women are super to be around. It is great to be with the in-laws all by myself. They are truly family, my family.

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