That which God created humankind began attempting to control “In the Beginning”. The story about God’s creation and the gift of “Free Will”. The fruit from “Tree of Knowledge” represents the original sin of humanity to replace God with self.
Climate Change: Simply put – Climate change is God design for the earth as it slowly rotates as on a 24 hour bases while continuously orbiting the Sun.
LBGTQ essentially provides a short list of sins against God’s design for mankind. Male and female he created them. God is creator. Man is creature. Procreation is the greatest gift God gave man. LBGTQ is in itself a war against God’s creation and specifically procreation where the difference of male and female opens the possibility of man to create another human being. Man can imagine many things but cannot recreate himself. The “Q” in LBGTQ is represents the height of humankind’s arrogance seeking to replace God with self.
Hey, this is TC Meuninck a Convention of States Volunteer veteran who has been involved since sometime in 2014. I suspect I have acquired a rocky road reputation among some. I have been dismissed a second time from the COS Georgia Team.
Why was I fired / dismissed.
We all wear tinted glasses – Values Unseen. Let me begin by asking for forgiveness should I trespass on one of your values. And I express thanks to those who will read this letter! And I even thank those who dismissed me. They served as the necessary motivation for me to begin to address the emotions hidden and the root cause of the upset among the people with-in the Convention of States Leadership. Confrontation is not without hardship and misunderstanding. Yet it is confronting misunderstanding that controls the key to opening Truth’s door.
Generation Gap:
There really has always existed a generation gap of understanding and the maturity of human individuals that affects what is taking place below the surface in this nation.
Scripture offers help and hope humans can open a doorway to better understanding. I need a divine miracle as I attempt to explain the complexity of God’s design of humanity. To gain the greatest benefit of this letter, I suggest a minimum of three people from three different generations read and then discuss its contents. Haha what a test! Each generation wears Tinted Glasses – Values Unseen.
In the 1980’s I didn’t have clue what the hidden forces that were driving the upheaval taking place in our nation way back then. My most difficult task is to make an effort to avoid triggering and tripping all over the hidden mine fields of emotions and values buried within each human person. Every human has values set long ago that serve as automatic triggers. Yep, tinted glasses – values unseen. This is a test of maturity for the reader and for myself. Please don’t throw this message away. It may very well be the most valuable and greatest contribution I can make to the Convention of States Project.
In the Beginning:
The starting point was in the beginning. If man had never sinned, we would not know God as loving, just and we would never know him as a merciful God. Oh necessary sin of Adam! Without sin forgiveness and mercy are unnecessary. This does not mean it is better to sin (Rom. 6:1), but it does mean that it is a great mystery of love in which we are get caught up (Rom. 8:28-39).
Attempting to wrap one arms around mystery is perhaps what this nation is all about in the first place. We are all set up. While Jesus was still hanging on the cross before he died he spoke these words. “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” And they cast lots, dividing up His garments among themselves.
Those passages are indeed hard to grasp and explain. They are spiritually woven together into a single threaded garment and that can not be separated. Everyone wears Tinted Glasses – Values Unseen.
In the Beginning tells the Story: There were powerful symbols used to define the original problem. God created man, placed man in a perfect garden where there was a single rule. Do not eat from the Tree of knowledge. Later we hear this snake shows up that played a central role. Yep, Temptation entered the story in the beginning.
Who owns the tree – God or man? Humans throughout history have never escaped the history that took place in the beginning. In 2021 ownership of the tree defines the War taking place in our nation!
Am I really the problem?:
Some might conclude it’s obvious, since I have been fired twice. I must really be a problem person without hope. I expect there exists numerous negative adjectives and perhaps volumes of written snippets, perhaps even my own words without context, used to describe me and perhaps my behavior as a member of the Georgia COS Team. It is highly probable “Team worker” is not one the adjectives used as a positive in regard to me individually. One of my personal characteristics is I don’t give up easily. That is the only explanation why I am spending my valuable time addressing a seemingly hopeless objective. My experience has been many people simply do not share that ability, maturity or wisdom.
If you check my Social Capital record there must be someone in COS who would recognize I have been a worker / supporter even when local / regional leadership was at best indifferent. This letter should be proof I didn’t quit, rather I was ostracized. Unfortunately, much of my time in Georgia was during a very long period of few volunteers due to failed leadership. Extremely few people who know me to stand up for me. That is a hard pill to swallow! Yet it serves as the necessary incentive to dedicate the time to respond with this letter.
What are the Values of the Convention of States?
What is contained in this letter is perhaps far more valuable than all the SC points accumulated in my profile. I am guilty of taking risks. Yep I can dream someone with an open mind and heart might just read what I have written and even respect and reflect upon it?
Seven Years: Scriptural Reference:
Seven years serving is kinda a magic number if one is open to scripture – maybe? I pray someone within the Convention of States leadership will be open and take the time necessary to read and try to digest what I have written. The human condition described within is not simple theory and it has an ancient spiritual nature that is well hidden from the view of those unwilling to take a deep dive into God’s design of humanity from the beginning.
Background and Baggage –> No one Escapes:
So it is with this background and my human baggage, I begin to try and address the Convention of States leadership failure. Hiding within the management design structure of the COS role lives a natural human trap for people, even people willing to work hard to fall into. Yes a designed in trap for Humanities original flaw few can see and many cannot escape.
My experience with a limited number of Convention of States leaders is many have very sensitive ears. I spoke up and encountered rejection! Well to begin with, I acknowledge I am not perfect! And because of who I am and what I have been through the following statement could easily be applied — Who the hell do I think I am?
The Structure Design Flaw Empowers the Original Human Flaw within:
To be clear, it is the organizational structure itself (tinted glasses) that lends a hand to the original human flaw, I seek to address. It stands on the associated original flaw in humanity that trips us all up. It is not and has not been or intended to dress down individual persons. Oh boy is that a hard one to avoid! Many or even most are unaware of how humans get setup for conflict from the beginning.
Every human created structure is subject to unknowingly being set up with the potential to create human conflict and failure: Yes it does! And some COS leaders get my criticism easily confused with the Vision of COS, i.e. Michael Farris or Mark Meckler.
I was one of the first people to begin posting on the first Team Party web page Mark Meckler setup years ago. That is when I first was really beginning to struggle with the question what is the upset? A vision is not an organization structure. Organizational structures are the definitions / limits of roles, teams, the who and how to manage them etc. A vision is rather a hoped for destination, a goal or even a dreaming the structure is setup to achieve. A vision seeks to address the tint in ones glasses.
Self Governance Assures Human Conflict:
Oh My!!! The definition of Self-governance in and of itself assures and creates potential conflict between people who actively participate. Our founders struggled themselves and butted heads often. We so easily forget that reality. It wasn’t until they began to pray the miracle of the 5000 year leap happened.
The local COS leaders people I have spoken with have not able to follow the message I have and am attempting to deliver, but rather trip over what I can only guess is a perceived personal attack or a challenging voice they are unable or unwilling to grasp or understand. Heck to be sure I am not perfect. Oh so many before me have tried to explain the why’s of human nature! Please do not stop here!
Further the reader should know I am tired and worn from working so long almost alone and the recent rejection I have encountered. Equally I am worn out for personal family health issues. Being frustrated by local COS leadership in and of itself creates intrinsic human road blocks. I acknowledge when I am tired, I am particularly capable of short circuiting my own message delivery. At times my words serve as a hook to others emotions which can cause others to over ride their won ability to use logic.
So Here, we go – How easily do we get pissed Off?
Let us begin! Does COS really believe in self governance? Why then does it have a system that it created to work as Command and Control of Roles? Where is the balancing mechanism as the framers created to balance humans natures weakness to fall into corruption, power and control — human natures desire to rule? The tree – the tree!!! There is no room in self governance for a ruler – yet the way the structure is set up and applied – probably not so much on purpose, (My way or the highway – is not a Team!) I hope this rings a lot of bells. The Three branches were chosen as a method to balance corruption. Corruption human natures original desire to rule, seek power and control require a balancing mechanism.
There is no room for me in the Georgia COS Team! Much of my most recent time with COS there were a very limited number of volunteers. I took ownership for multiple roles. Finally followed by a surge that created a natural tripping situation that has lead to the idea of staying in your lane.
Almost in the blink of an eye the one I trained is demanding a conference call with the leader. Obvious to me immediately is the idea of a Team is in trouble! Seems that the ownership I took and the roles I had were just a facade by my leader. Not your turf! Not once but twice this same leader participated in the door being closed! I am SOL – Balancing – where is it for me to go?? I must be crazy for I am still trying to communicate. But maybe it’s not just for me – could it be possible I am speaking for all those who silently left long ago and those yet to do the same?
What does it take to get a person to take the Deep Dive
Scripture: In the beginning – in the perfect Garden the first of humans sought power, control, and knowledge hidden symbolically in the tree in the garden. The key word here is hidden / unseen / a deep dive is required to discover it. Well in today’s world it has been surfaced and we can all describe it using many terms without making the association to our human condition. Deep State, WOKE, One Party Rules, Socialism, Communism and on and on.
To think it does not exist within COS Leadership is to be Naive:
The structure of roles I am referring to can be described as a military command and control. In the military the people who lead and serve – FIRST are first sent to school where one could say the person is broken down and rebuilt to understand the how, why and when it is necessary to lead.
Such a process is simply not practical with volunteers who show up with tinted glasses and values that are hidden even from themselves. Who knows the background each person has? It simply set up a tripping stone for many. Volunteers come with all sorts of hidden expectations. COS U can not uncover these expectations. Relationship building is where the secret is hidden path to uncover them. And that is no easy task for humans. Command and Control can easily drive a wedge of silence. How unusual it is for one to speak words the leader doesn’t want to hear. Everyone can get offended! And many are simply unaware of the impact of the original flaw.
“I am a good person” most people say & no deeper thought is undertaken!
How do I get someone in COS Leadership to listen??? So far I must conclude I am a total object failure. I am not writing this to get anyone fired or removed from a role. I recognize the original flaw that exists is in every human and exists in me. My track record should suggest I am not afraid to work and I am not afraid to speak up. Am I a fool to persist??
So who is going to shut me up and shut me out next?
Isn’t that what our founding fathers confronted in themselves – human nature’s original flaw? They were an extraordinary group of people with a very broad knowledge unparalleled in history. They instinctively recognized the original spiritual flaw in humanity to fall into corruption we call power and control. How did they overcome it?
Oh my Prayer! The necessary reflection needed to reveal the tint! Dare I say it? Can you bare with me — I am a trouble maker – bad boy! Explosive is I!
Human values hiding in tinted glasses can not be easily seen. They are more like mines hidden in a field and you don’t discover them until you step on one and get a reaction. At that moment the strong human emotions react ones ability to think logically evaporates.
Who was Jesus?
Forgive me. The Story of Jesus Christ comes to mind. The good and gentle Jesus who wouldn’t hurt a flea – right? He told us he came to testify to the the Truth. Oh my, the people of his day where so happy with him they had to find a way to shut him up! We should know the story.
Then from the cross he spoke these words “forgive them Father they know not what they do. With those words Jesus takes us on a trip back to the very beginning hoping we the living might revisit the symbolism of the tree.
Forgiveness is where the secret answer is buried! We are watching a spiritual war take place between in our nation – the “WOKE” and the “AWAKE” – only after the emotional upheaval runs it’s course – is forgiveness – the answer to finding where unity lives. Dare I say this? Not everyone will find it!
I am seeking to open ears so they can hear more than the words, but the spirit hidden within every human – we call it the image of God – ones soul!
The Valley of Tears:
I must admit I could not have written this the letter as a young man or even when I was 50. If you can bare with me, My life’s journey has taken me through ten years of ministry to people with HIV/AIDS in the 1990’s. It was the period we simply did not know how the disease was spread. We now know, needles and annul intercourse were the two primary methods of transmission.
This ministry took me to the place I call my discomfort zone. I would even say I had to be tricked by the Lord to start this journey. It took place in the bowels of Atlanta where few ventured. For ten years I listened to what I would describe as the cry’s coming from the depths of the speakers soul. So many young people were fast forwarded to mid life crises and facing death. Mostly, younger men, homosexuals and drug users.
Abruptly around the year 200, this ministry disappeared. I watched people with AIDS get up off their death beds shortly after they started taking the AIDS cocktail. After which the people in crises became stealth again. Yet the incidence of AIDS / HIV has not diminished the least.
One Flesh – Unity Broken -> Cry’s of the Soul heard in Prison
Well the good Lord wasn’t done with me and I was tricked into going into prison for one reason only to discover over time the Lord sent me there to teach me another. I had to be taught because I was slow of learning and hard of heart. You might just hear that description of me today.
For the next ten years, I listened to the cry’s that come from the souls of men incarcerated. Upon entering the prison I walked through a room full of young men – juveniles – kids (70-80 of them). This experience prompted me to begin asking lots of questions to the old inmates about what was going on with these young men.
Simply put, these young men were described as being mad as hell and bouncing off walls! Who are they mad at was my question? The answer for me was 50% expected and the other 50% ya gotta be kidding me. #1 Dad and unexpected was #2 Mom.
Forgive me again. This took me back to the story “in the Beginning” and the concept of one flesh! This spiritual one flesh concept is not simple to digest but young people’s spirit get it! Somehow the soul of young people without the guidance of a unified one flesh understand something is amiss and has failed them.
Discipline = Love:
When Dad and Mom are together / unified discipline works. More discipline communicates the hard to grasp word love! Do you love me enough to stop me is a cry coming from deep down in the souls of young people in the USA. In 2021 young people across this nation are (burning, looting, beating people up) screaming the same message and the answer so far is? “NO”. Same kids – just some are incarcerated, some released and some just out on the streets!
Race or the color of ones skin has no bearing on this cry! This spiritual “one Flesh” design simply has escaped modern man’s intellect or attention all the while the kids are acting it out.
The One Flesh is MIA and is under siege in a spiritual war taking place below the surface of everything! Please open your ears! The cause of the upset was just described.
Woke or Awake?
The “WOKE” folks want to fix the problem by destroying the family! Man seeks to recreate God’s design with man’s design which will only make things worse.
Gosh, I really do hope someone in leadership in the Convention of States can hear the spirit of voice crying out from within American kids today – the future America. There exists a multitude of colors and tints the seer can not see.
Come back to me with all your heart requires a trip through the desert! Do we still believe in the freedom of religion which exists every hour of every day?
My Hope:
My hope is the Convention of States Leadership can find the courage and wisdom to look in the mirror of Truth so COS doesn’t fall into exactly the same trap we are trying fix!
Another Voice – A Secular Voice:
More to consider: A secular teaching nails the subject: and our founders had to understand it because they had a set of broad / rare experience knew it had to be addressed.
Morris Massey is a behavior scientist and taught at Colorado University. I encountered his teaching in a Video titled “What you are is Where you were when” after the Air Traffic Strike of 1981.
In my words it address’s the stealth method human values get set in concrete – if you will the built in reason in God’s design a generational conflict is assured. Woke versus Awake 2021.
Before the Air Traffic Strike strike of 1981, I heard and observed leader and after leader say, I have addressed it, it is taken care of, I have it covered. From the lowest level to highest level – I worked in the busiest ATC Facilities in the world. The people who worked there were indeed dedicated and very sharp individuals, yet we all got caught. I can not forget. It dramatically impacted and changed my life, especially the next 20 years.
I spoke these words to a COS Leader and I got fired. Who the hell I am?
For the most part the American public was not fully aware of what the primary objective of the Air Traffic strike in 1981 was really all about.
Power and Control:
It should ring loud in our 2021 ears. PATCO the controllers Union had affiliated with the AFL/CIO. The AFL/CIO hosted meetings for controllers families prior to calling the strike date so as to prepare families for the political war. It was done so well some controllers and even wives were persuaded (essentially what’s the News Media & social Media doing today?).
The stealth objective of the strike was about power and control. This should strike a raw nerve in the leadership of COS. The AFL / CIO had control of trucks / ground transportation and the shipping industry. Now if only the AFL / CIO had control of the aviation system they could shut down the whole country.
Luckily for America, Ronald Reagan was president. He did not fire them as everyone thinks! Instead, Regan used their oath such that they fired themselves to prevent the question from being decided in the court system.
A Question is neither positive or negative:
When a COS leader tells me regarding a volunteer’s activity, I have addressed it, I have handled it, it has been taken care of it – I listen with perhaps unique ears! Any question or skepticism on my part is viewed as a betrayal, lack of support and a gross violation of trust. I am indeed a pain – how dare I question! Yep I got fired again! Yes I did – and I ask who has ears and is COS leadership Open? But I doubt that was the only reason.
I got into trouble because Team requires Team building! During the recent surge of people in Georgia not a single discussion took place regarding how to build a Team. Instead creating lanes where one shall not trespass was the focus. Lanes don’t create a Team. I suspect this letter is way outside any lane the structure of COS has set up. Writing this letter is way outside any role I have seen. Just who the hell do I think I am writing this letter? Get back in your lane!
Human Stinky Pride:
Who ever the reader is. I thank you for hanging in here with me this far.
This is not easy stuff, human stinky pride lies below the surface and like values is so very hard to see – including within me! I persist against a stealth woke invasion that seeks to divides our nation. It didn’t begin yesterday. And it lies hidden within human’s if COS can be honest.
How can I know this? Listen to Morris Massey who created a video “You are who you were when“. A very long time ago I had my children watch this video.
He is an unusual teacher. Speaks at three times the normal rate in an hour video. He has hit the nail of the human journey to truth on the head!
Here is a link where it is possible to obtain / watch this video and others he created. Cost to view Video (year 100 plays = $425, week 30 plays $295)
Morris’s observation is the human person’s values are set during the period a child is roughly 9-11 years old. By the time a child is 11 years old they are wearing “Tinted Glasses – Values Unseen”! Then we become adults who look at the world through the eyes of an eleven year old and are unaware of it.
What does it take for a human to revisit their own values set? Morris Massey – values can only be reviewed if a significant emotional event takes place. An upset so significant it sends the person on a deep dive search into one’s own soul for the cause of the upset = values!
When are Values Set Again?
Between the ages of 9 and 11. The Schools dummy – the Schools, are operating mostly outside the influence of parents. Change children’s values at a young age. I still remember Bill Ayers. The effort to change young peoples values started while I was a still a young man. How many people have woken up to the reality a war has been underway in the class room for ages. Add to this mix, rapid deterioration of the family unit, parents who are either separated, divorced or so focused on a career no one is paying attention to the values American children are unconsciously choosing.
Significant Emotional Events are assured in the years to come. School Boards control this most critical thinking part of future generations.
I have been fired – I created a significant Emotional Event:
My way of describing values is they are like putting on a pair of tinted glasses through which one views the world and using that tint to judge what is normal and right.
This is such a powerful reality. In prison young men are mad as hell at their parents who were supposed to be teaching and disciplining them during the ages of 9-11. Parents who have been largely MIA during this critical period 9-11 and many for years after. This one flesh impact is largely ignored in 2021! Are we surprised we have such an upheaval in the whole world today? Are we surprised that even people who mostly agree still encounter a conflict of how they see the world? Should are we prepared for the future? It is going to get far worse before it begins to get better?
We should not be! But largely many modern America leaders especially political ones don’t seem to have a clue! Or worse maybe some do and they are using it against us.
The objective of the tempter is for man to take ownership of the tree.
Gosh I hope someone can follow me!
When I question or criticize a leader I am deemed a betrayer, not a team player, and get out of my lane – I own the lane. Am I surprised I have been fired / dismissed / removed from association with COS? No I am not! Is that how I want it? No it is not!
If some writes I am offended shouldn’t we conclude they were? Wouldn’t it be better if we understood somehow we tripped over a value. And is one a betrayer if they have questions?
At this point what options do I have? Write this Letter! I continue to take risks to open individual doors closed. Currently, I am powerless. I have no authority to cause anyone to listen. I can’t help or assist in fixing a problem when I am judged a betrayer! Just how does one open the door of one whose emotions that have been hooked and another has chosen to close the door.
Twice now, I have been successful at getting the door shut on me. I am on the outside – who cares?
Do COS Volunteer Leaders have the ability to accept criticism?
Not so much in my experience! Is there a role for someone like me COS? Perhaps not?
We are in the midst of a surge of new people signing the COS Petition and volunteering! Why??? What was the cause???? Can the reader be honest???? Was it COS Leadership????
Or was it the Significant Emotional Event the far left Democratic party folks created? Morris Massey nailed it!
If one can watch his video to the end, he provides the basic building block solution! Love which is largely misunderstood in our nation. Discipline is love!
Just how to discipline is the trick hidden from the view of most. Part of the answer is hidden in The principle of Three: Leadership roles need a balance of a minimum of 3 to balance human weakness if sufficient volunteers exist. Balance the hidden values and human natures tendency toward original sin we call power and control.
A 5 Thousand Year Leap for humanity:
An unusual group of humans from many nations were thrown together in a new land. This group of people had acquired an assortment of knowledge of history and governance few people in history had mastered. They were living in the midst of a significant emotional event. The essential necessary incentive to take the deep dive occurred which ultimately created a new form system of self governance.
Fast forward, they managed to articulate timeless principles upon which this nation’s foundation was set to serve it’s people. Humanity throughout history can not escape the history that took place in the beginning. The new form of government recognized this reality and created a system to balance human nature’s flaw.
Am I finished:
The current leaders for Georgia – are not open and are unable to listen to me! Their values have been hooked and only great maturity and wisdom can change that. I would encourage being cautious at this moment. At this time, I see no role in Georgia for me without the support of someone outside the three people working in Georgia. The reader is the first person with potential to discern what I have written and what future if any might exist for me.
Is this letter complete? Not at all! It’s just the best I can do at the moment. It’s intent is to open minds and create an awareness COS cannot operate as our current political system does, as political correctness and parties do, or as unaware humans do. A greater understanding of how self governance works within the human condition.
Can the reader look at the COS structure and recognize the flaws of the human condition do not have an adequate – balancing of corruption design? A method to balance human natures willingness to unconsciously drift into the command and control flaw sought and found.
It can be found in the process (never ending process) to build Team relationships of people with an emphasis on being open, aware, having ears to hear and aware of the original flaw. It is at great risk when individual people are unwilling and unable to listen and who seek to run the show! Stay in your lane can exclude the spirit of Team!
I am Guilty:
Now I am locked out of the Team! Who can I talk to? And just why should I persist?
The surge / the recent out pouring of interest in the Convention of States Project was not triggered by Convention of States Leadership – rather it was triggered by a Significant Emotional Event caused by those whose VALUES do not share in the spirit of Freedom and Liberty.
Please let that reality sink in! Thankfully, many volunteers had prepared the Convention of States Project beforehand to provide a channel that outpouring of energy and emotions could flow into a logical plan. Please tray and grasp – the driving force is emotions and energy. We must convert it to Logical Team Building!
Hidden Values Violated- Red Flag Missed:
I created an emotional upset for at least three people. How do I know? I trained one person, assigned them every role I had, and empowered them. Then one day they stopped communicating with me long before I created the most recent upset. We were in equal roles. A Team work concept was not the objective when people stop talking. That was a RED FLAG missed by my leaders. I understand the idea of empowering people. Turn them lose. But what at what expense to Team work and unity? It was replaced with stay in your lane. That’s just not a Team. Forgive me for my candor but that is just another victim of the original flaw.
All the people I worked with have talent and are dedicated. I have two objectives. To try and lay out the hard to see problem below the surface and try to minimize the harm to the people who have chosen to remove me. I have no doubts the Convention of States people I have encountered are dedicated, hard working people who seek to do the right thing.
A New Leader was thrown into the fray:
Yes a brand new leader was thrown into the fray! This created a significant emotional event for him as well – he stepped into the middle of a mess that needed to be addressed and he got his value system hooked as well.
I do not seek the removal of any of the people who are so upset with me? Every effort should be made to keep them engaged.
So why the heck am I writing this response? Well it is the only path to achieving unity of purpose. There is no short cut. This nation and the world are at War! We are in a spiritual War. It started in the very beginning and continues. It is buried in God’s design for human’s and vastly complicated by modern man sub coming to the temptation to take ownership of the tree. The spirit of God’s design is not easy to find in the first place. Unity gets trampled upon and an effort to understand God’ design referred to as one flesh tossed aside.
What a Mess! Summary of Observations:
The Convention of States Leadership I have dealt is very sensitive and easily offended. More subject to emotional reactions than logical ones. Candor from me is not encouraged.
If we, not sure I can include me, are going to address and succeed at restoring self governance, we can not behave or become like the people who oppose us. We can not encourage people who seek to rule. We must find the courage and wisdom to reach out beyond ourselves – yep – if you can’t talk to me – I am not the problem.
COS must be willing and able to take the steps necessary to follow through with creating a significant em0tional event for itself that will cause people to look in the mirror of truth. It is the necessary path to review one values and open to door to the possibility to conversion.
Convention of States needs a Mirror:
I imagine, I have may have stretched the reader far beyond their comfort level? Welcome to my world of entering a room full of HIV/AIDS people not knowing how it was spread, and entering a prison hearing the doors slam as you walk in. And in both cases listening for months the cries coming from deep within the souls of people searching for answers.
Yes America is searching for her soul! Who are we? Who have we become? Is there hope for us? Are we willing to take the necessary deep dive into generational value gaps largely created by ignorance and years of silence? So many people left the Georgia COS Team without speaking up! Now you have one unafraid to speak up and I have been dismissed!
At the moment I am a COS supporting dead man walking, locked out, yet still working / writing, and wondering if anyone cares or has ears?
Thank you to anyone who has taken the time to reading all the way to the end! Lastly forgive me the many trespass’s inherent in my human weakness and associated human flaws!
God Bless you! I hope somehow I may have helped you understand you too wear a pair of tinted glasses. Not sure at all the Convention of States Leadership can find a role for someone like me who is not afraid to question!!!
Went to the dump in Crawford County this week. The man in the truck next to me had a trailer loaded with broken cement blocks and lumber all mixed together. The dump attendant advised him he could not dump the cement material at this dump. So he began to slow process of pulling the old lumber out of the bricks and throwing them into the proper container.
Promise Keepers / Fathers / Men
I recalled attending the Promise Keepers gathering in Atlanta in 1995. It was an event that called men to be men of God and Fathers to their families. Men of all races attended that event in 1995 and it was extraordinary to listen to these men sing. The term Father as no color, rather it is a title for men who lead. I will never forget. Missing in today’s woke culture is the role of a Father to his family with an understanding of how the family was created to be in the beginning.
Family Building Blocks:
It is the building blocks of civilization, society, community and the church. Not much talk about the role of Father or Family in the woke culture. So what does one do? When I dumped my load, I put on my gloves and when over and helped my neighbor pull lumber out of the pile of mixed broken cement blocks and lumber. He told I didn’t have to help. He had all day and wasn’t in a hurry. Yes I herd what he had to say and continued to pull lumber out and throw into the dumpster. Took another 30-40 minutes and we got it done.
He had another trip to another dump to drop off the cement blocks.
So why am I writing? Something struck home in 1995, and I want you to know we as a have lost our way! This is America, brothers and sisters are we. We can all do a little something to demonstrate we are family. Father is being dismissed in our culture today!
Father and Discipline:
Our young people are mad as hell about it. I see it in prison and on television in young people rioting. Where is Dad? What happened to discipline? We no longer have time to discipline or reach out to our neighbor. We have become isolated into our magic technology kingdom – a magnet that disconnects people from each other.
So I did what a Father should do. I did what Promise Keepers taught. This was my brother and I took time to help him with his load. Our so called very recent modern woke folks suggest because I am white I am a racist. That’s just plain BS! The word racism is itself being abused beyond belief rendering it’s definition ambiguous. The attendant at the dump was an old black man, the man with the loaded trailer was a black man and I am white! Not a word of race was spoken. I just helped – simple!
Please I ask, help me show the people of this nation the load of manure that is being propagated by so called pundits with a stealth agenda to divide this red blooded American people are full of ____. No explanation is required – just act like a father / brother / sister / family and lend a hand!
“In the beginning” where words understood by people in Jesus day! “In the beginning” was the story of God’s creation – the story of man, a garden and a tree! There is this “being” called a snake in the beginning. Yes there were spiritual beings we call angels in the beginning!
Angels / Procreation
Seems when these angels fully understood God’s plan to give procreative power to humans a war broke out in heaven! Envy and jealous leaped out of the pages In the Beginning! The War against God’s design began way back “in the beginning” and rages on into our modern world. Again who really owns that Tree? Knowledge hmmmm!
Fallen Angel / Snake / Jealousy / Envy / Original Sin / Temptation
The Original sin – what was it again? Fer sure the first War (angelic) is still going on? Trickery sits on ones shoulder whispering in ones ear! No such thing as sin today! We can be whatever we want to be – no limits! Truth – Oh yes there was that guy who came to earth and told us he came to testify to the Truth – he used the words in the beginning and the people of his day knew exactly what he was talking about. Envy and jealousy took care of him too! Shut up! Procreation – one flesh – male and female provide the tissue and God provides the spirit – again ponder just how does that one flesh concept thing work? Babies and children? Gifts to be thrown away? Get them while they are in God’s designed place of creation before they escape. Oh shucks some of them survive. Every child has a spirit and it appears the spirit picks up on the conflict when the one flesh concept is MIA.
Created in the Image: / The Spirit within knows:
Can children actually have an uncanny ability to detect and sense what so called intellectual can not!
Man now Contends for Ownership of the Tree:
Man that snake sure can deceive! And we earthly creatures want to call highly educated and sophisticated man – man who now contends man owns the tree – and has declared there is now no sin – we can and should modify boy to girl and girl to boy before puberty (God’s plan) because man is now so smart – yea let’s destroy the gift of procreation for them before God’s plan kicks in = puberty . More for me cause I am the tree! Which voice is modern man listening to?
Forgiveness: the most difficult thing for humans to do! If we can forgive the most grievous offenses we have indeed stepped to new level! Riot’s, burning, looting, injury and yes death! Lord Have Mercy! Well isn’t that why we say those words? We need God’s help to do it!
Anger can be seen around the nation! What can I possibly do? Our nation is broken and bent on all sorts of agenda’s! Punishment for sins because of the color of ones skin! Yikes! No one asks today where are mom and dad of all these young people of every skin color! Where does this anger originate?
Babies aren’t angry! They need to be nurtured, held, hugged, feed spiritually and physically! There really is Truth! Parents are the first teachers and best teachers of their children! When did we forget? Yes we have!
Whose is teaching modern day kids? I walk through a room of angry young juveniles (kids) when I visit prison. The old inmates tell me why they are so angry! And the old inmates don’t want them in their dorms because someone may get killed!
Why is it we do not have leaders who have eyes to see and ears to hear the cries coming from so many young people and the courage to speak? Why isn’t the issue of father and mother the highest issue in our modern day hi tech world?
No rather our political and Silly Con leaders want to BAN Father, Mother, Wife, Husband, Boy, Girl as outlawed words on capital hill!!!!
Its’ a War against God’s Design:
Does anyone remember the Story of Adam and Eve in Garden? The first teachers and the best teachers assassinated in the land of the free and the brave!
And we wonder why our young folks are angry. Our political leaders want to kill the influence of mom and dad. Whose going to walk into the anger being played out in the streets? Won’t be a governor, or mayor, or council person! The building block for civilization is the family = mom, dad, mother, father, male, female, marriage the original source of boys and girls
And where is greatest treasure hidden in our modern hi tech world? Yep!!! Grandparents, Granny, Grand Pa, papa, meme, every family has a favorite title! You know – granny and grandpa you are our most most MVP’s!
Taught 6th graders today – Class on the 10 Commandments: When I was in sixth I was too! The nun who taught was my most unfavorite teacher! Somehow she managed to teach me about “rationalization” and the “ End Justifies the means”.
Boy oh boy did I dislike that old nun!!!
About 10 years ago I began to realize just how well I had been taught in ancient times!!!! She long ago passed away and I didn’t care. But now I better understand how grace works!
It reaches across time and gives you an embrace you would have avoided at ALL costs way back when! We are watching unfold in our time! Truth turned upside down by people who think they are smarter than that old old nun!!!
Anger – Young People??
We are told Rioters are peaceful as they burn and loot because it’s owed to them – somebody did something sometime logic!! 8 year or younger old kids can decide gender – what oh what happened to God’s design – a stressful nature driven puberty magical maturing period that last a lot longer than most think! Yep man can replace God and nature using just man’s brain! Rationalization at it’s finest!
Naw these kids are not human and have no soul we can abort them! The End (a broken mother and a murdered father can’t hurt us!).
In Prison so many Angry Young Men:
Come with me to prison and I will introduce you to angry young men! They don’t know it but they already know – life is not sacred – they will not be allowed to protect their children – they are a father destroyed twice! The girls won’t be upset – nothing to it!
Tell me again – who are those peaceful protestors who are looting, burning and confronting anyone with authority!
Oh yea – least I forget – someone murdered the father some where some time! Yep those are kids just the same kids I visit in prison and look how they use freedom!
Rationalization hmmm!
The End Justifies the means! Hmmm!
Great Teachers are Hard to Find
Dam, I had a great teacher in the sixth grade when I lacked the ability to know how God’s grace works! Critical thinking comes with the examination of conscientious in contrast to following the Ten Commandments.
Yep, I pray for her nowto the only one who can occupy all time at the drop of a hat and tell her thanks I was just a kid and you were to me just an old lady I didn’t care for, who somehow managed to penetrate my soul!
Have we have lost the ability to talk and listen to one another. It is a break down of the spiritual family! We have surrendered and become obtuse and ours brains unable to consider the really real beyond ourselves! Selfie dominates family – individual pleasure cancels community!
The Best Teachers:
The primary teacher of Truth is failing due to a lack of courage to proclaim Gospel principles- the Good News is really really hard and provides a mirror the pleasure world rejects! Happy talk is not the Gospel! Reading a sermon that puts young people to sleep while explaining to the old folks what they already know misses the mark! Technocratic preaching about perfection misses the mark when Christ came to lead the sinner to walk while still imperfect to begin learning to listen and speak about the hope hidden in the good news to the younger generation! In the Beginning who was the building block of humanity?
Hurt – Necessary Stumbling to Open Ones Mind:
Conversion is a journey that takes years while one stumbles all over themselves often for years. One of the road blocks to the human heart is the serious lack of understanding life is sacred – yes the unborn can be detected crying out in the intense anger coming from young people abandoned by family and community and in our modern society. Does my life matter is the cry! The young people’s spirit long ago detected respect for life is a facade! The spirits of the black men whose lives have been snuffed out are crying out adding to the long standing sustained cry no one hears!
For years Modern man has lacked the ability and worse the will to listen with spiritual ears! Selfie self rules as we have long been sacrificing the unborn, broken families, created orphan after orphan of divorce, and surrendered to pleasure and profit that wastes the potential of our young as they fry their brains with marijuana and other drugs as the wealthy prosper! We are human not God! We are eating our own young and sacrificing many on the selfie altar.
Smart Phone Technology Replaces the Soul:
A phone has replaced God and humans! Our politicians have failed us especially those who have attained and sustained the highest level of selfie self rule for ages and ages!Corruption to maintain power is destructive! Even many Church leaders have failed us as well as they focus on obtaining a higher stipend and building play and entertainment mansions while compromising the meaning of the cross!
One Flesh the Building Block of Civilization:
The building block of civilization, a nation and the church are all built from the same rock as in the beginning! One flesh, the best and most effective teachers = marriage –> father + mother, male + female have been aborted at the altar of the new Selfie god which is unable to procreate any new life.
Who I ask – above all – should be leading humanity back to the only Truth that can set humanity Free and restore the sacredness of life while opening the door simultaneously to release Hope from the chains and darkness of the modern culture of death that has wrapped it’s arms around the world?
Prayer – the Door Opener:
St. Joseph foster father pray for us! Mary mother of God open our ears! Holy Spirit send us courage to penetrate the hardness of our human heart! Jesus son of God help us understand we know not what we do! Help us do what you did! Forgive as you forgave – We indeed are a stiff necked people!
The Journey to Freedom – confronting Man’s Nature:
From Holy Week to Pentecost in Georgia and across the world. This is a great time to reflect upon the journey of a single man who clearly understood the difference between freedom and slavery. He knew well the nature of man to be tempted and willingly fall into the depths of corruption. He understood the stubbornness of the human heart and man’s willingness to cover, hide and protect corruption from being exposed to the light of day.
This single man knew full well the full cost of freedom and that human’s in every age and generation would be confronted and tested with this same truth . The unanswered question has from the beginning been the same. What will humans of this day do with the creative spirit within? Will they submit to untruth, resort to lies and cover themselves with sophisticated words of deception? Who among them will have the courage to choose to expose carefully selected deceptive words that conceal and hide the corruption hidden in layers of sweet sounding lies? A voice calls out from within – the truth will set you free!
Foundation of the American Dream:
This nation is facing the greatest crises in our history. For from within we are being challenged to define and defend the original values and principles upon which this nation was founded? Will we allow ourselves to be deceived or will we stand tall and begin to face the truth? So many claim to be a leader, yet so many choose to compromise the very founding principles and values that made this nation great and have turned to answers long ago rejected by our founders!
Freedom to Choose – A Path to Slavery through Corruption or Truth:
So what are we to do? Perhaps more to the point – What are you going to do? Submit and bow to the loudest voices, political correctness or muster the courage to examine the truth of who this nation was created to be in the beginning!
Are we, the modern day American, willing to embark upon the same journey our founding fathers traveled? Will we confront the enemy that lives within? Will we have the courage to pray again as they prayed or will we resort to butting heads and submit to some form of human god?
The Cost! Are We willing to Pay?
Our history is not hidden, it is paved with blood, tears, failures and the death of so many heroes willing to pay the greatest price so that we the people, the next generation can keep alive the eternal hope of freedom, liberty and the right to discover where happiness is hidden.
Will you Put on Some Old Shoes?
Who will join me on this new journey to rediscover and recapture the spirit, vision and the light handed to this nation for all the world to see – Hope lives in the hearts of a people willing to join the one whose breath passed over a people at odds and at each others throat until they sought the spirit concealed in the Declaration of Independence?
A Convention of States is the founding process that enabled this nation to make a leap of 5000 years where the self governed people were to be served by the government and government people longed to return home to be among the people. Hummm! That man I spoke about. He was a King but didn’t act like a earthly king, he wanted to help us find the way Home and was willing to pay the full price for all.
I have put on my traveling shoes to begin the journey to recapture the spirit that birthed this nation, will you join me?
Anyone care to help me reflect upon and try to solve a message hidden in a messenger? A few days ago a white pigeon showed up at my back door. It was wondering around near the steps pecking at the grass, greens and the ground. It was pecking at plants and the ground obvious to me the bird was searching for something to sustain it’s life!
A Pure White Pigeon – a Dove – a Messenger with a Hidden Message:
The arrival of this bird created for me a thirst for answers as I found myself being pulled into deeper and deeper reflection. These are not ordinary times are they? And this was no ordinary bird. In fact it was a white homing pigeon. And just why did this bird choose come to my house of all the homes in my neighborhood to stop? There are at least fifty plus homes just in my local neighborhood and many others in the local city area.
Why My House?
Let me help you a little and explain my what caught my interest and curiosity. I am an unusual man of sorts. I have raised and raced homing pigeons from the time I was boy all the way to the 1950’s. But not only that, but I am rapidly approaching my 25th anniversary as an ordained Catholic Deacon. Perhaps one can begin to detect that I may see things in both a spiritual and physical perspective light that many folks wouldn’t necessarily have a clue exist. And I must admit that I have been reflecting more than a little upon this chance arrival and even this may an understatement.
Discern – Write it down – Reflect:
Fact is something is pestering me to write this down and ask for help! I wonder if there is anyone out there with who is willing to take the time to join me in reflecting and discerning the message hidden in this unexpected arrival? And then — is there someone brave and with the courage to take a risk and share the message this reflection triggered?
I already knew what I needed to know but didn’t know it:
Like the rest of you living life, teaches many lessons and often one can not digest at the time they are first learned. What I will share has been learned and taught through nature and in numerous spiritual reflections. In 2011 I discovered I had already been taught as a kid what I need to know, but I just couldn’t connect the dots to know, I already knew what I needed to know – I just didn’t know I already knew it!
The Sign and symbol of the bird. So what is it? It is white pigeon. It has wings and has the freedom to fly away. And it is a symbol of a dove spoken about in the stories of scripture from almost the beginning. Hidden to many are the symbols of scripture in the creation of the bird itself. Noah’s ark, angles with wings appearing such as Gabriel, Rapheal, and Michael. The spirit of God descending like a dove upon Jesus as he came out of the Jordan river.
Multiple Secrets –> Hidden in the Symbol yet easily available for deeper inspection:
Long ago I knew a Pigeon has ten primary flight pins (feathers) that serve to propel it through the air and with the velocity to escape it’s enemies gifted with stealth techniques. Could these feathers represent the ten commandments if kept can save one from an enemy stealthy hidden in the consequences?
Power of 12 – Hidden Message:
These birds have twelve tail feathers. Takes just a little more than a casual look to learn this fact. Hum – the number twelve – twelve months, twelve tribes, and yes the twelve apostles the leaders of the church a very rich symbol. And one who studies flight knows the tail feathers have a purpose. They serve as a rudder that guides. Combine the realty of the dynamics of flight, make possible unbelievable maneuvers which enhance the birds ability ability to escape it’s enemies.
Oil – Anointing – Hidden Message:
Yes, there is more! The bird has an oil gland at the base of it’s tail. Almost everyone has seen a bird preening but do you know how important that is? The birds uses it’s beak to rub the oil gland and thereby is able to spread a thin layer of oil all over it’s feathers. This reality offers another opportunity for an in-depth reflection. The bird is preparing for survival, a real kind of War – like the the oil of salvation, the oil of the early Christian catechumen’s who used oil to cover themselves before entering the coliseum in preparation for the fight of their life.
This oil also provides some degree of water proofing and more importantly enhances the bird’s ability to slip through the air most efficiently again enhancing it’s ability to escape it’s enemy.
Hang in There:
Hang with me a while longer. The bird has a white wattle on it’s nose or beak. It is in the shape of a heart. The color of the wattle immediately communicates the health of the bird. When a bird is healthy the color of the wattle is egg white – no yellow shade – the color of a fertilized egg. Nature – God’s creation is amazing!
The Heart of the Matter – Hidden Message – Search for Home – The Promised Land:
Scientist theorize the wattle is the primary organ the bird uses navigate and find it’s way home. I can testify that almost anywhere you take the a homing pigeon it will find home. It just needs a little practice while growing up. Homing pigeons in fact have a rich history of being willing to sacrifice their life to find home and they mate for life! They have been used in many past wars to communicate critical information upon which troops lives depended.
Now that I have taken you back to the 1950’s lets start from the beginning!
Messengers with Wings:
In scripture Angles appeared to many and they served as messengers with wings and came in the form of a dove. Why again did this bird show up at my back door? Of all the homes in the neighborhood it came to my back door. My back door happens to be the doorway through which many pets who are not our pets arrived and took up residence.
I am also the only ordained preacher in the neighborhood who also currently raises and races homing pigeons. Could this bird have known I was the most likely to recognize it’s need and it’s message?
Have I presented sufficient details that someone will be willing to embark upon a reflection journey to discover the message hidden in this story?
Use it or Lose it – Message Hidden:
I was easily able to pick the bird up though is was capable of flying away. Could this be a message I was chosen and trusted to care for the birds life?
I could now inspect the bird more closely having developed skilled hands at detecting the health of the bird almost instantly. I forgot to mention a healthy homing pigeons breast feels like one of those small footballs we boys used on the play grounds in the 1950’s. It has a supple feeling – not hard – but firm. Funny a healthy homing pigeon in your hand feels like a football you could throw and it would fly!
Well, this bird breast had suffered atrophy. Atrophy is what happens when one stops using a muscle or has overused the muscle without sufficient nourishment and rest. One just becomes weaker. A sure sign the bird was in trouble and needed some tender loving care! The flight feathers were in good shape and all ten were there.
Oh Oh, there were four tail feathers missing! Four of Twelve were missing! How to interpret the mystery. I have been involved in racing pigeons over 60 years! It is a sure sign the bird has been attacked by it’s enemy who seeks to take it’s life! A hawk during an attack will extend it’s claws and often only gets the tails feathers which then become detached from the bird saving it’s life!
Confusion here! Four tail feathers are MIA! Four of Twelve is a third. What message does this communicate about the Twelve? The Hawk got them? Yet the bird survived without them! The voice in my head says please pay attention! Where are the twelve today? Where is the Hawk? Are 1/3 of the Bishops MIA?
One is Black as in Sin – Hidden Message:
The next finding was a little more disconcerting. Oh Oh! Of the eight tail feathers remaining one was about half black. The only feather on the bird with black was a tail feather. This sign is perhaps more difficult to discern. Could this be a which do you want first message? The Good news or the Bad?
I must confess, even I have been challenged with some black markings from time to time. Sin can not be denied even in the church! And the Good News is still the Good News. The one who was sent came for the sinner so the sinner would come to understand the message that the sender treasured the sinner so much the sender was freely willing to sacrifice the greatest treasure.
Now that was what I learned in Catholic grade school in the 1950’s. A run on sentence!! Oh my!
So again why did this bird show up at my house??? Does anyone have a clue?
Who am I? I was called to follow a man who came to testify to the truth and people didn’t like the way he preached. I was called to follow a man named Steven who served at tables and the next thing you hear he is out in the street preaching and the people liked his preaching so much they stoned him to death!
“No more sermons from the deacon” = “Shut Up”. Did this bird come to my house so I would stop talking and be quite?
And just what about you? Why does it appear my church is in hiding? Why are we afraid?
I took the bird to my pigeon loft. It is located on 220 acres! I go to care for that bird every day! Every day the wind whisper’s in my ears God’s creative genius and that everyone of us was created in the image of God with a creative nature to adapt and change even as the war rages around us!
And you Say?
What message is that white bird bugging me to speak? What has happened to the tail feathers that are supposed to guide and show us how to use the creative gifts of imagination, truth, sacrifice, courage while the muscle of the bird has suffered atrophy?
