"spiritual growth which we think is mandatory in the development of the sufficiency economy philosophy"

Tuesday was election day, so I voted at the fire hall. Voting here in the USA now takes place on touchscreen machines. It's hard to explain exactly why, but these damn machines make voting hard. It takes my father about 3x as long to vote as it does me. I was looking over some letters sent from an elementary school class that had received a visit from a fireman while I was waiting for him to finish voting. Something that impressed me was how neat the printing was on all of the papers. I get a kick out of kids so had to read every one. One girl was very specific about every point the fireman made so had to go to the back of the page. Everything was very neat until she wrote: "I love yins!" which sprawled across the back of the paper.

You have an idea of where I live, and thus something about me. I guess it's the rough edges, or being a bumpkin or something like that. It seems to me that RicHARD makes a point which goes something like not confusing low socio-economic class as a measure of a person's wholesomeness.

I think that spiritual development is necessary, but don't really have much of an idea about religion. I was raised in the Episcopal church. I don't always remember things very accurately. What I remember in the catechism question: What is prayer? The answer was responding to God's presence in thought word and deed.

Nowadays I'm not sure what to think about God. I'm inclined to think that believing in God isn't very important, and generally say when asked that I don't believe in God. But on the other hand the scientific atheists seem to be missing ideas which I find too significant to leave out. It's that quest to include the essential which I relate to spiritual growth. Prayer even without belief is important.

I will pray for you--for us.

Love,

John