When you read the entire Bible, the more you read, the more you get a feel for the character of the most important Person there is ...of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

When you listen to a song, or even a speech ...emotions stir, and that's the purpose of the song or speech.

Yet, we don't always know what emotions are stirring ...and if the speech is misquoted, or the song rewrote, it can take on much different meaning.

In 1965, I was ten years old ...and this was a time among many Civil Rights protests.  Some people were gaining ground ...and the some does not always represent the sum.

People are always struggling somewhere, and often struggling helps develop character ...but, never do I say that the struggles that some people had to go through would in any way be that which is viewed as good to developing character.  The character that should be focused on is those who viciously take advantage of others ...which is different than today's version of being taken advantage of by the likes of big banks and businesses.

In 1965, Otis Redding wrote the song Respect ...and as the song was rewritten, or sung by others with a different flare, it can be seen to mean many different things.

All you want, you got it ...

All you need, you got it ...

I'm about to give you all my money ...

You can do me wrong, while I'm gone ...

All I'm askin' is for a little respect when I get home ...

Got to have it ...

Give it, ...

Give it ...

(Now, that can mean any number of things, to anyone's interpretation ...from a simple working man's plea for appreciation for his hard days work, to a mobsters empire building.  Yet, I do not at all look at it as the latter.)

Many things have changed, while sadly some things have not changed for some.  Yet, in a general sense, it seems the majority of people used to strive for survival ...while today, so many people strive for excitement.

Survival used to mean planting, cultivating, harvesting, cooking, doing the dishes, doing laundry by hand ...but now, we turn on our labor saving devices, and go to the TV as a turn on, as only one of our vices. And us husbands often don't cultivate what we should, so the wives find their only exercise ...as shopping.  Who would argue that the exercise program works too?  It's a remarkable reduction program, reducing savings in just minutes.

Don't get me wrong, shopping is necessary ...yet, so is budgeting, and the biggest enemy of a budget is a credit card. 

(Let me note here, that my wife has a job ...and she gets most of her exercise with that and walking two dogs which she also owns and pays preventative doctoring for.  She also does not have a credit card, so our budget does not pose a problem, nor is it threatened in that way.  I wish our federal government would do as well ...but, do not think of electing her for office because I prefer her at home, and she does also.  The children certainly do, and I think the dogs feel the same way ...though I don't know what political affiliation they are.  But, if they believe in a huge national debt ...everything will probably eventually go to the dogs.)