Why I am the way I am

I am a follower of Jesus Christ.

I believe that men and women are responsible for the choices they make.  If those choices lead them to wealth, I'm pleased to permit them to retain that wealth.  If they choose to share that wealth to those who are less fortunate than they are, I am also pleased.  I'm less pleased when men/women make choices that will lead to financial ruin and public humiliation, but they most often make those choices themselves.

I am pleased when our young people choose to serve the Lord and then choose to serve our nation in whatever capacity.  Three of my sons followed in my footsteps and  served as missionaries.  Two of my sons have served or are serving in the military.  One as a Navy Submarine Electronics Tech, and one as an Air Force Combat Electronics Tech.  I am not less pleased with my children who have chosen not to thus serve, however.  I am very pleased that my daughters have presented me with grandchildren.  I'm looking forward to the day when my sons will follow suit so that I will have someone to perpetuate the family name.

I am pleased when our young people seek to become educated.  In my mind education does not end in the colleges and universities, but rather begins with the rather liberal, mind-numbing drivel that is spread there.  The real education comes with learning how that training fits in with the real-life adventure that begins afterward.  The real education comes after the shiny theory is dulled with the scouring, eye-opening experience of life.

I'm pleased whenever a person finally admits that the utopian thought he/she learned in philosophy was just theory, or that the economic theory learned in school was a model that didn't work in reality.  I'm pleased when one of these people is willing to share what they have finally learned with young people in terms they can understand.
 
I'm please to be acquainted with associates that have learned many of the same life lessons that I've learned.

I guess I'm just pretty pleased.