My cold (I’m pretty sure by now it’s a cold) is still with me. The sore throat is better, but I’m more stuffed up today. And yet I went in to work, good soldier that I am. Now I’m home and I plan to lie down a bit after I’ve posted this, and before I get to some more Christmas cards.
There are a couple Minnesota connections to that Colorado shootings story. One is that one of the dead at the YWAM facility was a Minnesota native, Tiffany Johnson. Another Minnesotan, Charles Blanch, was wounded in the leg. And of course you’ve heard about Jeanne Assam, the volunteer security guard who shot and stopped the shooter (who will not be dignified by the use of his name in this post), although apparently he took his own life at the end.
According to this report, Assam was fired from the Minneapolis police force in 1997. This information caught my attention right off, since I can think of many possible reasons why a Christian might be fired in the politically correct climate of Minneapolis city politics today. But apparently she was fired for lying about an incident on a bus where she swore at a driver. Sounds more like a pre-conversion incident, though one never knows.
What is certainly true is that right now, on top of the trauma of having been involved in a fatal fire fight, and survivor’s guilt, she is facing public scrutiny directed at a past she may have hoped to have put behind her. So a prayer for her, as well as for the wounded and the families of the victims, would not be out of order.
FYI: In the press conference on Monday, Assam was asked directly how long she had been a Christian. I believe her answer was about three years.
Lars, I hope you aren’t too far under the weather. Not hearing from you tonight makes me suspect you are lain up in bed.
Took a half day off from work yesterday and lay down, and pretty much stayed down the rest of the day. No blogging, not even any Christmas cards. I’m back at work, and I hope I’m a little better today. Cold’s usually run about a week, right?
Have you used Zicam or Cold-Ease? Those are good products for knocking down colds. They say you should take them at the first sign of a cold, but they may help you even now. I’ve used Cold-Ease more often, but both appear to be effective. I don’t trust Airborne, another product, as much as these two.
No, I haven’t. I didn’t go hunting for nostrums (nostra?) until I started getting pretty miserable, and I figured by then it was too late for those things to be worth the money. I should probably give one of them a try.
They are good to have in the house for the next time you start feeling runned down.