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What’s going to happen to the Red Carpet Inn? The white concrete structure has been more of a white elephant than anything else for more than a decade. Its fate may soon be decided.

Growing up as kids in Oklahoma, my pals and I gloried in dumb jokes: “Why did the dimwit hit himself on the head with a hammer? Because it felt so good when he stopped.” But here in Kansas, we dimwits don’t stop. We keep on whacking our hospitals, our poor people and ourselves — all just to block Medicaid expansion while robbing ourselves of a chance to be decently Christian.

The debt ceiling debate in Washington seems distant from average Kansans, but it affects your finances more than you think. The debt ceiling is the limit on the amount of money the federal government can borrow.

To say that the last eighteen months have been challenging would be a drastic understatement. There has been the pandemic with deaths, sickness, quarantines, masking, social distancing, and other safety protocols resulting. Pandemic related job losses, shutdowns, closures, reduced production, delayed deliveries, etc. have led to economic issues and lifestyle adjustments. And the chaos and uncertainly got even worse with protests and rioting over contested elections and racial tensions. Yes, these are certainly “challenging” times we live in! And they remind us of some important truths. They’ve always been true, but recent (and current) events reaffirm them.

As with life, all things change. Someone once said, the only thing certain in life is change. We had been the senior pastor of our first church for 4 yrs and at that time we were only the second longest pastor that this 50 yr old church had had.