There are two lessons to be learned from this video:

1. Humans were not created to walk on wheels.
2. Never walk backwards without looking!!!!

Video Link!

I spent the weekend in Panama City Beach, FL and while there, they had double red flags up because of the waves.  Due to hurricane Ike being in the gulf, we had some pretty big waves.  Some people however, did not mind the waves and went in the water anyways (myself included; until I was called out by a lifeguard on a fourwheeler).  There was a kid who was dragged out to sea and caught in the rip-currents.  Two bystander jumped in to rescue him but while swimming back, one of them got sucked back out to sea again and could not make it to shore.

There were people screaming for help from the beach and from our building! You can see pictures of the rescue here! The following is a video of these events:

As you might already know, our non-profit organization Refuge of Love has 2 international branches in India. The following is an email I just received from Inida.  There is a lot of persecution for christians still today, its not a joke, people are dying as you read this message:

Dear praying friends,

Orissa State has continued to bleed and burn  for the past eleven days.  Thousands of innocent people have fallen prey to diabolic insanity.
Since independence (1947 Aug 15), this is the first time such a massacre has been let loose on Christians.
“It is a national shame”, said Mr Man Mohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India.

1. Thousands of Christians (the number could be 50,000) have fled to the thick forests for protection.  They are managing without food, water, or shelter in the heavy monsoon.  These forests are also home for wild animals like tigers, bears and elephants.

2. Hundreds of houses have been burnt after looting whatever could be looted.

3  No one knows exactly how many are dead.

4  Christians have been killed and their bodies been thrown into fire and evidence has been destroyed, the exact count is not known, over a hundred have died.

5  The State Government is hand in glove with the radicals and has not done anything to stop them.

6. The media is biased or hushed up. There are a lot of lies propagated.

7. Business establishments and shops were systematically destroyed.

8. Christians have been forced to bow before idols, and have been compelled to reconvert to Hinduism.  Those who have refused to have been brutally attacked and killed.

9. Leaflets have been distributed urging Hindus to kill Christians. Their slogan is, “Become Hindu or else face death. India is for Hindus”.

These are a few stories that have reached us:
Mrs Kamalini Naik’s husband  was asked to become a Hindu otherwise the fanatics threatened to kill his mother. Seeing his mother under their grip, Mr Naik denounced his faith. Then they called his wife who was 7 months pregnant. She strongly stood for her faith in Christ & they immediately cut her and her 18th month old son in pieces in front of her husband and the other Christians.

A Pastor was asked to become a Hindu, but he  refused and declared his faith in Christ. His two hands were chopped off and he was given a  second chance to deny his Lord. He refused right away and his two legs were cut off.  His body was then thrown into the fire!

“There were those who, under torture, refused to give in and go free, preferring something better: resurrection.  Others braved abuse and whips, and yes, chains and dungeons.  We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered in cold blood, stories of vagrants wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless- the world didn’t deserve them!- making their way as best they could on the cruel edges of the world”
The Message, Heb.11:36-40.

“What could you do?” . You could write to the Prime Minister and the President of India. Those living abroad, please write to the Indian Embassy or High commission or make a protest rally to let the world know such barbaric, savage things are happening in our civilised society & that too in democratic free India.

Please keep praying that there will be the divine intervention of God and these will come to a stop.

With a heavy heart,
Divakaran

Blog readers, here is some contact information you can use should you choose to email or write to anyone in India about this situation. We need prayer, but they also need to know the world is finding out about what’s happening and we are not pleased with it.
Smt. Pratibha Patil
Hon’ble President of India
Rashtrapati Bhavan
New Delhi, 110001

Email: presidentofindia@rb.nic.in
(O) Tel: +91-11-23017290
(O) Fax: +91-11-23017824

Dr. Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India
Room No. 152,
South Block,
New Delhi, 110001

(O) Tel : +91-11-23012312
(O) Fax: +91-11-23016857

Shri Navin Patnaik
Chief Minister of Orissa
Naveen Nivas,
Aerodrome Road,
P.O.-Bhubaneswar,
District-Khurda,
Pin-751001 (Orissa)

(O) Tel: +91-0674-2531100, 2535100, 2531500
(O) Fax: +91-0674-2400100
(R) Tel: +91-0674-2590299, 2591099,2590844,2591100,2590833
Email:cmo@ori.nic.in

I am so blessed to be able to get up every morning and know that I have the privilege of making a difference in someone’s life! I have to say that I love my new job. The change has been huge, the students are so different, and the environment and working atmosphere is great! Despite the small challenges I feel supported by my boss and administrators like never before as a teacher!

The students have begun to open up and talk to me, ask for advice, and I see God’s favor already over my life.  I am blessed to be a Raider, I am blessed to have my Father’s favor, I am blessed to get up every morning and make a difference…. not to mention get paid for it too! ; )

If your answer was fear of snakes, then you guessed right!! I took two people I love a lot (my mom & brother) and showed them a video I had posted on my blog a while back. You can see the video here so that you know why they react the way they do.

Anyways, here is their reaction to the video, enjoy!!! ( I sure did!! )

My wife and I got tired of being at the house and decided to go explore the damage done to Tallahassee by tropical storm Fay, here is what we found: (you can click on any pic to make it bigger)

Our local news station WCTV decided to post on their site some of my pictures which I sent to them.  You can see them here!