Christmas brings hope from God
As we Christians rejoice Christmas, it’s good to as soon as once more mirror on the actual that means of this celebration. God, the creator of the universe, reached out to humanity by sending his human consultant, his son, Jesus, regardless of the information that he could be rejected, persecuted and executed.
However via Jesus, God proved His love for humanity, in addition to His energy via Jesus’ resurrection.
In fact, Christians don’t have a monopoly on God’s love. All through historical past non-Christians and Christians alike have skilled God’s love. However Christmas is a tangible reminder that regardless of the struggling and ache on this non permanent sojourn we name Earth, and regardless of our personal imperfections, there may be hope. For God lives and loves — via all who unfold God’s love. Merry Christmas!
Susan Talana Harris Orlando
Deportees left debt behind
You’ll be able to inform how a lot the governor and the president actually care about undocumented immigrants working right here (versus what they are saying), when the businesses that make use of them proceed to overtly do enterprise with out penalty.
An important instance (and only one instance) is a highway constructing firm with fats contracts right here within the Sunshine State. They’ve been hiring undocumented of us for years, and as reported within the Tampa Bay Occasions, just about with out penalty. To make issues worse, the corporate places these staff at increased than regular dangers, with an on the job loss of life charge roughly double the norm. Each the feds and the state promised investigations, however for some unusual cause, these investigations have been quietly closed. On high of that the governor has rewarded this firm with contracts, almost $1.6 billion up to now. Regardless of his fixed diatribes about legislation and order, the brand new sheriff on the state degree, James Uthmeier, sees no issues; nor do his counterparts on the federal degree. One has to surprise what kind of affect is being peddled to take pleasure in such largesse.
Mike Powers Longwood
Going after Trump
The 2 viewpoints on the Dec. 21 opinion web page about Trump Derangement Syndrome clearly present that TDS is actual. Jared Whitley offers quite a few examples of Democrats behaving to spite President Trump, with out even considering of the American folks. Solomon Stevens offers no examples to again up his assertions. He states “a number of Democrats” can’t stand Trump, however I imagine the quantity is far increased, nearer to 100%, simply as within the newspaper that printed the opinion piece.
Stevens backs up his assertions by saying, whether or not we assist Trump or not, we’ve to acknowledge Trump is doing loads of issues fallacious. He doesn’t title one factor Trump is doing fallacious, however we must always take his phrase for it. He simply doesn’t like the truth that TDS is actual, and it impacts each liberal on the market who refuses to deal in details, so there’s no sense in arguing with them as they don’t imagine something a Trump supporter would say. The distinction of opinion is obvious. For my part, the Trump supporter offers details, and the anti-Trump author doesn’t like the thought of being labeled as somebody with TDS, and offers no details. Typical.
William (Invoice) C. Johnson Orlando
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