As I was saying my prayers before going to bed last night I asked God why He was always so kind to me? A child who wasn’t special, a teen and young adult who was ordinary, a wife, mother, career woman and now grandmother who was nothing. But I always had Jesus.

I hope you always have Jesus in your life too. He carries us over some bumpy roads, but we always get there none the worse for wear.

Very interesting information pertaining to the malfunctioning spy satellite which the US will attempt to destroy before it reaches earth:

Giant golf ball deployed. CNN says that “a floating X-band radar has to be modified to track the satellite’s trajectory.” That would be the massive — and massively controversial — Sea-Based X-Band Radar. The $815 million, 28-story, orb-like contraption has the ability, in theory, to tell which way a baseball is spinning — from 3,000 miles away. But it’s also proven to susceptible to the elements and high seas. The thing has been in and out of the repair shop for years.

Update: CNN is reporting that an attempt may be made on Thursday to destroy the satellite.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. Navy will likely attempt to shoot down a faulty spy satellite Thursday, the day after the space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to land, two officials told CNN Monday.

Michael Barone takes a look at the democratic race and breaks down those tricky delegate counts. When it comes to elections he is one of the few who can catch and keep my attention when it comes to number crunching:

With the help of thegreenpapers.com the invaluable Green Papers, I made some calculations in a best-case scenario for Hillary Clinton in the Wisconsin, Ohio, and Texas primaries. I assumed that Clinton won statewide in each case, and that Obama carried only congressional districts (or in Texas, state Senate districts) dominated by upscale white voters and/or black voters. This is an especially optimistic assumption in Wisconsin, where Clinton currently trails Obama by 4 or 5 percent in public polls. The results are as follows: a 44-30 delegate edge in Wisconsin, an 83-58 delegate edge in Ohio, and an 82-41 delegate edge in Texas. Overall this is an 80-delegate advantage, based (again I emphasize) on optimistic assumptions.

This would be enough to erase the current 58-delegate edge Obama has in total delegates according to Real Clear Politics. But not enough to overcome the 137-delegate edge he has among “pledged delegates,” that is, those chosen in caucuses and primaries. And it doesn’t account for the fact that Texas on March 4 will also have caucuses to select another 67 delegates. The Obama campaign has swamped the Clinton campaign in almost all the caucuses and probably has far more in the way of organization in Texas’s 254 counties than the Clinton campaign does.

Much more at the link.

Clever number quiz you can take on line. I tried it twice and both times the answer was correct. A bit of fun for Tuesday.

This evening Frontline will tackle the complex situation which occurred in Haditha.

The upcoming Frontline broadcast of “Rules of Engagement: What Really Happened in Haditha” is a major event. A co-production with Yellow River Productions, it will air February 19th at 9 p.m. ET on PBS. For the first time, television viewers will hear the facts about the incident in Haditha.

Arun Rath is the documentary’s producer, writer, and director. He took some time from a hectic postproduction schedule to talk with Defend Our Marines.

Not Murtha’s version of Haditha

“I am a journalist and tend to follow world news fairly closely, but before starting work on this project all I knew about the Haditha incident was basically the headlines,” Rath told me.

“When I first heard about it I thought it was interesting and counterintuitive. I knew that Marines had more intense training than our other forces, so the idea that so many would suddenly snap under pressure seemed a little strange. But I also knew that horrible things happen in wars, and figured something bad must have happened.

“Once we started to look into the story more deeply, we realized how far off the popular notion of what happened in Haditha was. For instance, the idea that there were no firefights when we know that November 19, 2005 was a day of very intense attacks across the town. We spend some time in our film spelling this out, using an interview with Major (then Captain) Jeffrey Dinsmore, the battalion’s intelligence officer, to help bring that day to life. We were also able to obtain the ScanEagle video from that day. That will be eye-opening for much of our audience.”

If interested, please check your local PBS station for availability.

14But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 19:14 KJV

As I was reading this story the Bible verse quoted above kept going through my head.

A local woman is accused of beating her young grandson so badly he lost consciousness, police said.

According to police, Delores Henderson, 55, was walking down the street, hitting the two-year-old in the stroller and slamming it into the curb.

“People driving in the area of Dixon at this boulevard were witnessing this woman hitting this child,” Barbara Matthews with Cocoa police said.

The incident occurred at the intersection of Fiske and Dixon Boulevard in Cocoa.

Police arrived after being contacted by witnesses. Police said the beatings didn’t stop, even after Henderson dumped the boy out of his stroller and on to the concrete.

“As he drove up, he saw her hitting the child in the head. She was slapping him with her open hand,” Matthews said. “The officer described it as looking like a rag doll. She threw him back in the stroller and started to hit him again.”

An officer was eventually able to wrestle Henderson away from the child. The boy got up after being briefly unconscious.

There are times when you don’t feel like watching your grandchildren because you want to do something else, but you watch them anyway and you love them for all you’re worth.

I’m sure all grandparents feel the same way my husband and I and Sue and her husband feel about our grandchildren: If I knew they were so much fun I would have had them first!

To hear the voice of a little boy trying to sound grown-up, calling to ask for money for the American Heart Association makes my heart melt and, though he doesn’t know it, I would give everything I have to please him.

Not spoil him because we realize they have certain responsibilities, but we spoil them a lot more than we did our own children, even though we make them mind. I can’t tell you how much I love our four grandchildren.

Children are a gift from God. Why in the world would an adult slap a child until he lost consciousness for a few minutes? I was going to say, “And in public”, but I’m glad it was in public because she got reported and the little guy got saved from abuse.

The story doesn’t mention his mother or where he is now, but I can imagine Jesus was in Heaven intervening on that boy’s behalf. Who knows what plans God has for this little innocent?

When the disciples tried to hold back children who had been brought to Jesus to be touched and blessed Jesus got angry and told them to let the children come to Him because such is the Kingdom of Heaven.

He has time for all of us regardless of age and I somehow think He has a special spot in His heart for children.

May this little boy grow up knowing and loving Jesus, and may he be used by the Lord to lead many more people to Him.