Passing and Becoming of Age!

As I sat in Eastview Church of Christ in Americus Georgia at the Funeral of my Uncle Walter Burks-my mind was a taken back as I looked around and observed my siblings, cousins and other of how we had become of age! No more the old folks said this or that! We had become those old folks that we would refer about when we were younger! As listen to some of them I reflected back to days pass I could still catch in each voice a trace each of their childhood days still in them even though we all were old senior citizens now. I said all of that to say this! Life is very short and we have to make the best of it while we have the opportunities that God afford each of us. Because in the words of many Old Deacons down on their knees delivering prayer: We are all graveyard children! We know not the day or time or hour but that day will eventually come. We must try to be ready when that Old Deaf Angel comes a calling. My Uncle's Going Home Service was not a sad one because he lived to age 97! How could you be sad about someone that lived such a full life? Many would say he lived passed God's promise and lived part of someone else time.

I want to say to all our young people to please make the best of the time that God is giving you? Please do not waste one minute of it? Life is too important! And to short! You have so many more opportunities than we had when we were young! So do make excuses for not making it to next level in life! Some of us Old Senior Citizens are still having to rescue many of you and that is sad! You need to get up off your butts and get to work?

I want to close with one of my favorites Psalms! Psalms 121!

A Song of degrees.
1I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.I will…: or, Shall I lift up mine eyes to the hills? whence should my help come?
2My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
8The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

The 10 differences between Trump and Obama after his first year in office

Posted 3 months ago by Ryan Butcher in news

President-elect Donald Trump and US President Barack Obama GETTY

The ever-wise Joni Mitchell once said:

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone?

And it's a question most of the United States of America is probably asking itself - especially following the news that President Donald Trump's approval rating was just 35 percentage points, which is the lowest held by any modern President in December of his first year in office.

The former reality TV star dismissed the data as "fake polls", of course, despite coming from credible pollsters Gallup.

But in contrast, President Obama's approval rating at the same point in Presidency was 15 points higher at 50 percent.

So, seeing as we're in the market for comparing and contrasting Trump and Obama's first years, here are nine other differences between the 44th and 45th Presidents of the United States.

Video added by David Laster!

1. Inauguration.

Sean Spicer may have claimed that Trump drew "the largest crowd to ever witness an inauguration, period," but all you need is a working pair of eyes to realize that this wasn't true, with Obama's crowd dwarfing that of Trump's.

Final estimates had Trump's at somewhere around 600,000, whereas Obama's in his first term totaled as many as 1.8 million.

Plus, Obama had Beyoncé whereas Trump had, um, Toby Keith.

2. Approval rating after first 100 days.

It's not just this month that Obama has out-polled Trump when it comes to approval ratings.

After the first 100 days in his first term, Obama's approval rating soared at 65 - the highest since Ronald Regan - whereas Trump scored a meager 41 - the lowest of any modern President.

3. The Women's Marches.

On 21 January, Trump was faced with millions of people protesting him around the world in The Women's Marches, in which people stood up for women's rights, LGBT+ rights, workers' rights, freedom of religion, immigration and healthcare in the wake of Trump being sworn in.

Obama was not subjected to marches on the grounds of civil liberties.

4. Golf.

During his eight years as President, Obama played golf 306 times - which led to Trump hounding him relentlessly on Twitter, which should come as no surprise.

But Trump is actually on track to smash Obama's record in just one term.

As of 12 December, Trump was confirmed to have visited a golf course 79 times.

Admittedly, he may not have played a full 18 holes each time, but he was confirmed to have at least his "some balls" on 37 of these visits.

At the same point in his Presidency, Obama had played golf a confirmed 24 times.

The Wall Street Journal also found that Trump spent one-third of his first year in office at one of his own properties, including Mar-a-Lago, his luxury club in Florida where he spent at least 40 days, along with his gold course in Bedminster, where he spent nearly another 40 days.

5. "Getting stuff done".

Trump has claimed to be "getting stuff done" at a record speed in his Presidency - and despite having minimal major legislative victories, he's certainly giving the impression of doing something.

In his first 100 days, Trump signed 29 laws compared to Obama's 14 - although Trumps came in at a total of 133 pages, compared with Obama's 1,602.

In the same time frame, Trump signed 30 executive orders, including two travel bans, while Obama signed 19 executive orders, which included no travel bans.

Obama visited nine countries during his first 100 days, whereas Trump didn't visit any.

He did get invited to the UK for a state visit in 2018, but the less said about that the better.

6. Unemployment.

Again, after his first 100 days, the United States' unemployment rate was at 4.5 percent, and it looks set to finish the year at around a similar mark, whereas the rate after Obama's first 100 days was at 8.7 percent.

( Many still believes that this is an Obama economy the Trump inherited!) https://www.factcheck.org/2017/01/what-president-trump-inherits/ Additional information added by David Laster!

But, in the interest of fairness, we should probably take into account that Obama had just inherited the worst economic crisis since The Great Depression.

7. Most liked on Twitter.

This is one that must really hurt.

Despite Trump's obvious fondness for Twitter, Obama had two of the top ten most liked tweets in 2017, whereas Trump didn't get anywhere near the top ten.

In fact, Obama's response to the Charlottesville riots was the most-liked tweet of the year with 4.6 million favorites.

Turns out people prefer messages of hope and togetherness rather than comments that inch the world closer and closer to nuclear war.

8. Admiration.

Another Gallup poll in December revealed that Obama was the man Americans admired the most in 2017, with 17 percent of those surveyed picking the 44th President, compared to 14 percent who picked Trump.

And on top of that, former First Lady Michelle Obama was number two in the list of women Americans admired the most with seven percent, behind Hillary Clinton with nine percent.

First Lady Melania managed to scrape into the top ten with one percent.

9. Thanksgiving.

Here's where you can really tell the difference between the two men and the kind of legacies they'll leave as President.

For his first Thanksgiving as the Commander in Chief, Trump spent it surrounded by family and crystal champagne glasses for a feast at Mar-a-Lago.

Obama, on the other hand, spent his with Michelle and their daughters serving food to those in need.

Here's hoping that by 2020 we'll be able to add another difference to this list - that Obama was a two-term President, and Trump managed only one.

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