Daily Journal January 24, 1998, William Thomas Thompson. Bless the Lord, Bless His Holy Name, and Bless Him all day long. It is great to arise this Saturday morning and face another great day smelling the rain and breakfast cooking. To see a new side of the problems that exists. I want to get on that horse and start to ride. A fresh mind can think and a fresh body can work. I zero out all of yesterday to make room for today. I expect to achieve more today than yesterday and do a better job than ever before. I must pray, I must eat in the morning. I must run on my tread mill. I must do the bench press 130 lbs, I must do the upside down machine before I am free and ready to write or paint or feel real life. I have no other habits to shackle me or hinder my free living. Let me thank God and praise his name for the air we breathe, the water we drink although we buy bottled water. The most important thing in the world is to be free, free of sin and its bonds, free of all secrets, free of all habits, free of all hate and revenge, free of all fear. We can be free and productive for ourselves and others. Deliver us Dear Lord from all that binds us, make us free. The rain continues hard and everything is very wet. It is unusually warm here for January. It is Super Bowl eve when Ed McMahan promised to give away the secret 10 million dollars to 50 million suckers that ordered magazines from Publishers Clearing House. I declare gambling as the 24th reason America will fall in our day. I get sick of hearing this fraud on T.V. and seeing the mail for 3 months prior to the Super Bowl. The chances are better for one dollar in the Florida Lottery. We have become a nation of chance. Our Governor is fighting now to end video poker machines in the state of South Carolina. The pro-lottery people cry that it will hurt the economy but he answers that maybe the people will spend that money buying food and clothes. He is so right! So many spend their paycheck and their time playing these hellish machines while their families go hungry and naked without a father or mother. I hope and pray America will be saved but I know we have gone too far from God,we are a bound up nation with many vices Satan has invented to take us down. Dear Lord, Deliver our people. Give us willing hearts to give as a Christian should. Washington is reeling and rocking with the hottest thing since cherry pie with the latest Clinton affair. The entire world looks to the United States for leadership in all things including best morals. Our image is on display. The world expects us in America to tell the truth and set the standards for right living and Godliness. The world demands of America accountability in all things as the leading nation in all the earth. Are we a bunch of hypocrites? Do we show the world one side on television but live a different life in secret. God has no secrets. God has not changed or amended his will for man to live by since creation 6,000 years ago. God never changes! Sex has not changed since God made man and Woman in the Garden. There is no safe sex in secret. There is no secret sex. It takes 2 to do sex and it’s never secret for the rich or the poor, the strong or the weak, the famous or the unknown will all be known. All matters will be shouted from the housetop. This Nation needs repentance from top to bottom, it is sick. This afternoon the Sun came out suddenly after the last hard rain shower and everything looked so beautiful. It is so refreshing. Its daylight again and I race to do all the routine things before the real work hour. I smell a good breakfast cooking. I am so very thankful to God for this day and for being alive. I did not eat heavy last night; I never do because I have learned that my body needs the rest. I learned a long time ago that I could not sleep at night if I eat heavy food like steak late in the day and especially at night. It was said on T.V. this week that lots of people die in their sleep after eating heavy on meats be