Do Delegates Normally Respond?

Delegate Elliott:

You are my delegate for Legislative district 4B.  I live in Emmitsburg, and I sent you a letter earlier this year, (April), complaining about the need to provide our social security number just to get a fishing license.  I never received a response.

I was also wondering if you voted for the following bills, and why:
HB 489 which made state and local employees to the protected class, more than regular people?
HB 653, where the General Assembly voted to allow Charles County code enforcers to both find code violations and arrange to have the violations fixed?

Awaiting your response at hargadon4ltg@gmail.com or cell phone 410-245-7857.

Thank you.



Sincerely,



Mike Hargadon

The Christ Goat

Personal revelation is an interesting topic for most Christians.  It often marks decisive times in our walk with the Lord.  It usually does not involve visions or mystical occurrences.  Sometimes Our Lord uses his creation, that we might understand our relation to each other, and to God. 

He recently clarified His salvific nature through a goat.  My friends, the goats, have consistently got a bad rap.  If its not some preacher doing an exegesis on the Final Judgement, with those dastardly goats being separated from those well behaved sheep, then it’s a negative term like “scape goat”.  One of the most incriminating references is the concept of, “Judas Goat”.  The Judas goat is an animal that is used to lead other livestock up the shoot to the slaughter house.  As the Judas  goat approaches the door to the killing room, it is diverted to be used again, as the other animals enter their slaughter.

But, you never hear about the goat that saves other goats?  You never hear about the goat that loves so much, that it melts wrath?  You never hear about the “Christ Goat”?

Five months ago, I invited a big, red, Boer buck goat to spend 6 weeks with my does.  He was a perfect gentleman, and evidently did his job, as was evident in the increasing width of the expectant moms.  As luck would have it, they all gave birth within 24 hours, and two of them in the same large stall area, while I was at work.  A problem arose when two of the resulting five kids, were not welcome to feed on either mother doe.

The widest of the moms-to-be, only wanted to nurse one cute little buck, even though the two does that she evidently cast-off, had to be from her.  She resisted her other two as if they were stealing nutrition away from her only kid.  I tried bottle feeding.  I tried distracting her with sweet feed.  She wanted no contact with these two cute does. 

Finally, I discovered that if I tied her off, and allowed her only son to preoccupy her affection and attention, the two wayward girls were able to slip in, and feast on her bounty.  This little light buck brought out such love, that his mom’s wrath had no outlet.  I pray that we all might approach the Father, in the presence of His Son.  That we might feast on His grace and eternal life, as His son has facilitated our acceptance.