Happy Columbus Day
Hola! I hope you’re having an amazing Columbus Day. You can read why we celebrate this explorer/adventurer here.
I have recently returned from the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta and here was my schedule for the weekend:
Friday, 5:30 pm – Catalyst Conference ends. Begin drive home of 1100 miles.
Saturday, 12:00 pm – Arrive home from long drive with Steve, Al, Billy, and Steve Bramlett.
Saturday, 1:00 pm – After unpacking and chatting with Carie for a bit, I began preparing for a 6:00 pm wedding I was officiating.
Saturday, 2:00 pm – Began searching for my message for Sunday morning @ Fellowship. It was nowhere to be found on my computer. So I wrote down a few thoughts I had and prayed a lot.
Saturday, 4:00 pm – began to prepare for the wedding (ironing clothes, polishing shoes, etc…)
Saturday, 4:30 pm – Nap time.
Saturday, 5:15 pm – wake up and finish dressing.
Saturday, 5:20 pm – drive to the wedding.
Saturday, 6:00 pm – Wedding time!
Saturday, 10:00 pm – Leaving the wedding reception.
Saturday, 10:30 pm – Sweet sleep. I was about to drop.
Sunday, 4:14 am – Wakie, wakie, eggs and bacie! And immediately begin preparing for Sunday morning @ Fellowship.
Sunday, 10:30 am – Sunday Morning @ Fellowship!
Sunday, 1:30 pm – Drive to Malta, NY to celebrate Tina’s Birthday
Sunday, 4:30 pm – Party with Carie, Jessica, Tom, Tina, Ray, Joanna, Steve, Amy, and several others.
Sunday, 8:00 pm – Watched The Patriots get their world rocked.
Sunday, 12:00 am – Finally get to go to bed!
It’s been such a crazy last several days. I love it! And today is relax day, enjoying my wife and a few friends in New York! Tomorrow I have a great idea I’ll be blogging about. At least to me it’s a great idea. You can judge for yourself.
What are you doing to celebrate Christipher?
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I am working, since my company doesn’t give me the day off.
Chris didn’t discover Germany, so I also must work. But the other day I listened to the Adventures In Odyssey episode where Lawrence goes in the Imagination Station and visits Columbus. I think that counts.
That counts as what? Listening to Adventures in Odyssey is equivelant to getting a day off work?
Also, Marty doesn’t have today off cause it is Columbus Day, he has it off cause it’s a Monday.
I am reading everyone’s blog while the kids and neighborhood kids build forts and “secret places” in the backyard. Boy, I miss childhood some days….but the sounds of them outside playing…enjoying God’s creation…is pure joy to a mother’s heart! So thankful we were blessed with a beautiful day off! Joel had to work..poor fellow.
took off 1/2 the day, came home…watched the Sabres and Islanders hockey game…
oops! also meant to say with my son, Cooper…he and I try to catch as many Sabres games as we can…
OK… let’s see…
“as a fierce supporter of slavery, Columbus ultimately refused to baptize the native people of Hispanolia, since Catholic law forbade the enslavement of Christians.”
“According to testimony of 23 witnesses during his trial, Columbus regularly used barbaric acts of torture to govern Hispaniola.”
“Columbus and his men instituted a policy in Hispaniola which has been referred to by numerous historians as genocide. The native Taino people of the island were systematically enslaved and murdered. Hundreds were rounded up and shipped to Europe to be sold; many died en route. For the rest of the population, Columbus demanded that all Taino under his control should bring the Spaniards gold. Those that didn’t were to have their hands cut off. Since there was, in fact, little gold to be had, the Taino fled, and the Spaniards hunted them down and killed them. The Taino tried to mount a resistance, but the Spanish weaponry was superior, and European diseases ravaged their population. In despair, the Taino engaged in mass suicide, even killing their own children to save them from the Spaniards. Within two years, half of what may have been 250,000 Taino were dead. The remainder were taken as slaves and set to work on plantations, where the mortality rate was very high. By 1550, 60 years after Columbus landed, only a few hundred Taino were left on their island. In another hundred years, perhaps only a handful remained.”
Thanks for a really great read, Marty! Now I have a better understanding why some Native Americans consider this a day of mourning!
Mr. Holman, I underestimated you!
If Uneasy Rider hadn’t cut and pasted your link I would have missed it. I assumed the link was to the same information they’ve been telling third graders for centuries.
A side note:
Does anybody ever stop to think about the racism implied in the statement Columbus discovered America?
The Native Americans had managed to find the continent quite nicely with out his help!
The only sense the statement makes is if the Native Americans somehow don’t count as real people.
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Darren and Mike, your bantering sometimes makes this blog worth every second on its own.
Ian – I’m sorry you didnt have off, but then again, you probably did something unbelievable. Some sort of research that I could have never done! So congrats to you for your hard work! You’re a good man.
Kim – Thanks for sharing what you did. I could almost see You and the girls in my minds eye playing in the grass and the leaves on that beautiful fall day in Massachusetts.
UR – Thank you for being the one person (at least admittedly) to see my silent irony.
Jeff – As usual your thoughts are excellent. Thanks for them and always for inspiring thought into me. By the way, I appreciated your thoughts on my message on Sunday as well.
I had the chance to be at Catalyst again this year (my 4th time) and was challenged and encouraged as always. It’s always so encouraging being around other leaders and seeing what God is doing in His church around the world.
What session impacted you personally the most?
Brad,
I gotta tell you that my favorite most impactful session was Craig Groeschels “It” session. It was amazing. This was my 5th Catalyst!
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