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I was laying in bed this morning, an Nicole brought me my coffee! It will be awhile until I can enjoy a cup of coffee in bed. Tomorrow our two week Christmas vacation is over,and the kids go back to school. I need to get up with Nicole at 6:30 am tomorrow morning. Nicole had listened to the news on the radio. She said they are predicting 2007 will be the hottest year ever recorded. They expect the extreme heat in Paris that they have had the past two summers. Thousands of people (mostly old people) died alone in their apartments from the heat over the past two years. This isolation is a curse of "modern" society. Germans also have a negative birth rate. 40% of all Germans say they want no children at all. What so many of them fail to think about is no children means no one to check on them when they are old. They spend all their time and money on themselves...but they are looking at a lonely isolated future were there is no one to claim their body when they die alone. The only ones having kids in Europe are the Muslims. What will Europe look like in 50 years if the Christians stop having children, and the Muslims keep having 6 kids? What a crazy world we live in! Millions of children are left alone (orphans) due to aids. They have nothing, and know one to educate them, feed them, or love them. At the same time, the western world is having no children,and selfishly spending every dime upon themselves! Sorry this post is so negative...it is just what I am thinking about today. Children (even kids that need to get up early in the morning) are a blessing from God. Some times I feel very alone in this belief!


"Look what you've done!! I'm melting, melting."

"Ohhhhh, what a world, what a world"!

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