Latest Oprah Magazine

I have written to the editorial staff of the Oprah Magazine to be considered a stalker, so I shall make my opinion known here. Much of the magazine this month was focused on hope. One good article was how little things like tapping our finger, interrupting a speaker, or checking our watches can affect other people's confidence in themselves. Most of us don't have the guts to say, "Excuse me, may I have your full attention please?".

Another good read was the What I know for sure page, as it usually is. Oprah spoke on the New Orleans travesty of hurricanes wiping out the city and speaking to survivors living in hell. I recall once reading in another magazine how a mother of a New Orleans victim heard someone in her office say the hurricane was punishing evildoers. How could this person say this woman's daughter, son-in-law, and child lost everything because they were evildoers?, this reader screeched. I just think some people need to learn to think before they speak.

Oprah did make a good point refuting the God creates these natural disasters to punish us. She says babies starve because we let them, not because God willed it. I agree up to a point. Possibly, God is punishing our arrogance with levees made for a category 4 hurricane, not thinking a category 5 hurricane would come along and wipe them out. And forcing us to feel love and compassion for complete strangers we will never see on TV again. Maybe that is what God intended, no one really knows that for sure.

I recall a story where a man reached the gates of heaven to report all the evil he saw in his lifetime. The man asked God why God allowed all this evil to endure, why did God not send someone to help his people. And God said, "I did send somebody, I sent you."
Post later. Bye!