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Fairness and Class Warfare

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The use of the word Fairness should require the one who espouses fairness to begin by seeking and articulating the fullness of truth.  This might give me a headache!

Pray that the truth may be revealed!  Use our God given spirit to seek, find and articulate the truth.  It is the truth that comes through openness to prayer while groping in the dark for truth that escapes the human mind, yet offers real hope of being set free and offers the possibility we can reunite a nation divided by lies accepted and unchallenged as truth!

The question of fairness and class warfare should begin with an open mind that seeks the the fullness of the truth.  One should be aware when the speaker addressing fairness may be creating instead a chase through unrelated but real, or perceived bias and injustices which serve to detour the hearers focus from a higher priority issue and lead to reflect upon injury and the woundedness of ones soul and spirit?   Whew — a mouthful – Did I write that?  lets try again – is fairness the real issue or is the word fairness being used as a trigger to move the hearers focus away from a central objective point of an issue to an emotional reaction which serves to create additional blockage to ones ability to remain unbiased and open to the objective logical truth.

Humankind has many internal triggers (buttons) which can cause individuals, groups and even communities of people to become vulnerable to emotional responses to ones grievances real or perceived, to focus internally rather than exercizng intllectual discipline and thus preventing objective analysis of an issue of higher priority which the button pusher hopes to avoid.

Throughout history this is the method of choice teenagers use to upset their parents when they have violated one of the golden rules.  Teenagers will immediately bring up a well known un resolved conflict that exists between their parents!  They learned long ago this unrelated and unresolved conflict works very well to shift and remove the focus of their offense and misbehavior – the primary issue to a long standing parental disagreement.

The next thing the parents know, they are in a heated argument about the unrelated issue while the child has escaped and slipped away almost without notice.  The central person and offense expertly used an adaptive child – little professor behavior strategy within which they achieved stealth conflict avoidance of the central and primary issue leaving their parents to continue the unresolved long standing conflict which most often is totally unrelated to the issue most central to the task at hand!

For example.  Say one has a real and legitimate concern about the rapidly growing national deficit and the out of control spending of the federal government which serves as the driving force!  We are digging a hole faster and faster.  So what are our leaders doing?  Lets talk about the color of the dirt we found in the hole.  If we stopped spending would the debt stop growing?  What does fairness in taxation have to do with out of control spending, especially when 100% taxation will not cover the debt being caused by the spending?

What is the primary issue that threatens to destroy our nation as we know it?  Is it taxation or is it spending?  The debt is the issue that is placing shackles and chains upon the unsuspecting legs of the children and grand children of this nation?

Class warfare is a process of generating a conflict between social and economic classes, between normally between capitalist and proletariat (lowest) classes.  Class warfare can easily be used to avoid the primary question of truth by triggering long standing emotional grievances.  Class warfare can be used as a method or leverage to get the listener to focus on a secondary truth while hiding the primary objective from being truthfully evaluated.

Further class warfare may not necessarily address the central issue of fairness which entails the essence and dignity of the human person.  Human dignity always lies at the foot and core of the answer to resolving the real casual factors rather than addressing the symptoms which simply trigger more conflict.

The right to human dignity originates from the beginning by the creator of life!  A creator who established humankind with free will.  A creator who set up humanity with the reality of free choice.  A creator who placed humanity on this earth to discover the truth knowing humans could only discover the truth through the process of life which necessarily includes suffering and failure.  To remove free choice and the consequences of the choices is to destroy the dignity of the human person and the possibility of redemption and salvation.

Class warfare is a process wherein the human family confronts the character of the human condition which demands dignity of the human person.  Because the human condition is flawed with a natural bias toward what one considers normal, the concepts and understanding of justice, free will, and the consequences of our (sin) fallen nature challenge the human family to follow the path to truth or be consumed by being lead into bondage and slavery by sin and spiritual death.

One must begin by looking at the character of the one using the word fairness.  Do they have a bias or an agenda that has little to do with fairness?  Are they being honest?   What is their sense of justice?

Fairness exists when one is objectively free from bias, dishonesty or injustice.  Being fair is about balancing truth with reality.  Fairness involves the state of the human condition, the dignity of the human person including the community balancing each as being neither excellent nor poor.  Fairness is neither having an advantage nor disadvantage.  The word Fairness never stands alone.  Fairness must be defined using words that require further definition.

Righteousness is a word I would use to describe one who attempts to apply a fairness standard.  Righteousness is a quality of God, one who acts in accordance with morality of the law of God and nature and is without sin.

Since humankind has great difficulty remaining free of sin, the process of applying fairness must include factors of justice.  Justice impacts the dignity of the human person and therein requires a balancing of individual rights with responsibilities along with the rights and responsibilities of the whole community.

So what is the objective?  What is the agenda?  Do we know?

For me it is clouded in hyperbola – there exist a stealth objective which can not stand the light of day!

To be continued …..

Wake Up – Pray & Become Active:

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American Liberty Summit April 15, 2011

The Wisdom of our Founding Fathers – Pray that we may find the way to Balance the Corruption and Lust for Power and Control

In 1961, Nikita Khrushchev, the first Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union came to visit the USA and while he was here said, “We will bury you.”  Later, Aug. 24, 1963, in a speech and in Yugoslavia, he said I got into trouble with it.  Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you. 

I couldn’t have known he meant government employee unions!  I could not have fathomed the idea of a Marxist Communist Democratic Party controlling our government.  I could not have imagined being buried under unbelievable debt to Communist Red China. 

Am I sleep walking – did I go to sleep – is this real??? 

It is time for Americans to learn the language “Art Form of Class Warfare”? 

Our federal elected leaders in Washington want to boast they have saved 38 billion dollars.  The truth will is – it’s 373 million.  To put this in perspective, it is equal to a family not spending $4.76 in the next six months.   Oh let us fall down and worship!  We have been scammed by the other party seeking control of the people!

Folks, there is a new class in town.  It was created during our life time while we were asleep living the good life.  This ruling class thinks they can fool the people with magic numbers!

The Republican Party is desperately trying to hide the reality they have been lusting to take power and control from the people.  The Democratic Party has mutated.  It is using class warfare to divide the rich, middle and poor to hide the reality that they want to transform this republic to a Nanny Sate.

Folks the most trust worthy Party in the Nation today according to recent poles of the American people is the Tea Party.

So what do we do??  What do we do????  Is there any hope!!!!

Listen to an old old wise man – His name is Benjamin Franklin as he addressed the Constitutional Congress.  Mr. President:

In this situation of this Assembly groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the Divine Protection. — Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance.

I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.

I therefore beg leave to move — that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business.

In 2011 so many Americans worship at the altar of the American Idol, Dancing with the Stars and Reality TV but have no idea a new ruling class is standing ready at the doorway to take away our freedom and liberty.  Should we hesitate, Death Panels are being panned to extinguish our hope.  

Pray, Seek the Truth, Register with TPP, Study, Get off the couch

I am associated with the Tea Party Patriots (http://teapartypatriots.org http://southatlantateaparty.org, http://midgateapraty.org). 

Tea Party principles are simple -> Seek the Truth of our founding principles – Fiscal Responsibility, Limited government and Free Markets.  The Tea Party Patriots are a leaderless group.  There is no single leader.  

That is because the Tea Party is a Spirit

The Tea Party is built of living stones – What sets the Tea Party apart from every other movement is that is a thirsting, a seeking and a spiritual searching for the truth.  Instinctively we know what the gospel teaches – the Truth will set us free!

This spirit erupted in the guts of millions of regular American people.  Most have never been politically active.  This gut level reaction drove millions of people to question who are we as a nation, who did our founding fathers say we were?  It drove us to ask the most basic question — who we have become?

This spirit of truth is so powerful, the Democratic Party has launched a full scale war room to attack and destroy us – Just ask Senator Chucky Schumer of NY!  The DNC tells me to routinely call the tea party people extremists.  Don’t let the truth get in the way of power Chucky!  Lets claim civility as we call them racist, homophobic and worse.  The Truth is what the Democratic Party fears most and an informed and educated electorate and seeks to divide and discredit us. 

The Republican Party also is beside itself – its leaders want the Tea Party to join it.  They really don’t want to embrace it, but to rule and control it.

Pray, Seek the Truth, Register, Get Educated:

I have long been praying for and looking for a hero!  I am looking for a hero with the courage to boldly speak the truth.  I have looked to my political leaders.  I have looked to my church.  I have cried aloud to my Lord – I need a hero.  Silence seemed the reply until one day I noticed in the silence the energy rumbling in my gut had moved into my head.  From my head it moved to my heart.  In my heart it was mixed with the spirit God planted there.  From within my heart came a fire that leaped out of my heart onto my lips and shouted to my soul – it is you I have called to be a hero.

It is you I have called to seek and speak the truth!   President Obama got it right when he said, “We are who we are waiting for.”  Barack didn’t realize he was speaking to millions of sleep walking Americas whose spirits he awakened.  The sound of the voices of our parents and the spirit of our faith taught in our churches began to ring and crying out from within.  

  • Who are your friends? 
  • Who do they associate with? 
  • What do they beiieve?
  • Want to know the truth Listen more carefully to what people do rather than what they say! 
  • Why can’t he look at us? 
  • Why can’t he escape those prompters? 
  • Is he a talking head arisen in the form of the King of England to fight again the Revolutionary war to restore Lordship over the people of our land? 
  • Is he a talking head resurrected in the spirit of Nikita Khrushchev with a plan to bury our Republic in debt? 

Yes, we in this room are the hope and change we can believe in!   And yes we who can clearly articulate and define the hope and change we seek. 

Each person here was created for this moment in history!  This is a spiritual battle for our soul of our Nation and God doesn’t limit himself to call the qualified.  God qualifies all who answer yes Lord I will go!

Yes you and I – we are called – not the politically elite – God fearing moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas & children.  Called to Restore the truth:

The truths that are self evident, revealed by the laws of nature.  God’s nature entitles that, all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  That our rights come from a higher authority than the president, congress or any government. 

We are called to Remember and recognize;  Government derives their just powers from the consent of the people.  We are the people we are waiting for.

We are called to recognize;  The Right of the people to alter or abolish any form of government which becomes destructive to the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  Yes we are the people we are waiting for.

We are called to Honor as Abraham Lincoln did:  Those who have died for our freedom shall not have died in vain.  That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.  We are the people we are waiting for.

We are called to overcome;  the new ruling class symbolized by Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings of the House Rules Committee who spoke these words.  “There ain’t no rules around here.  We make em up as we go.  We’re trying to accomplish something.”  Bury the nation in debt!

A loving God created each of us and is the source of our hope.  We are a sleeping giant, where hope springs eternal.  We are who we are waiting for!  We are the spirit of renewal of truth.  We were born for this day!  Let us, stand firm in the Truth.  God calls us to Political Activism to seek and confront the truth, to get down on our knees and pray to the creator of all to show the way and give us the courage to save us from ourselves.

Amen!

Standing in the Nations Doorway Communism & Marxism

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When I was a school boy Nikita Khrushchev, The First Secretary of the Soviet Union, came to America and said on our soil the Soviet Union would bury us.  He took off his shoe and pounded on the podium for emphasis.

At the time the Catholic nuns told us, if we would pray the Rosary, we had a promise from the Virgin Mary that we would be saved from Communism.

Later August 24, 2963, Nikita Khrushchev said in a Speech.  I once said, “We will bury you,” and I got into trouble with it.  Of course we will not bury you with a shovel.  Your own working class will bury you.

For the many years since we witnessed the Iron Curtain fall, the Berlin Wall was torn down and Communism crumbled around the world.  The Rosary worked.

Now many years later, we seem to have fallen away from praying the Rosary and today we stand on the threshold of the very words Nikita Khrushchev spoke.

When I was a boy so long ago who would have believed we have a Marxist Democratic Party leading us to the burial grounds for our Republic.  Who would have imagined that this great nation who be buried debt to Red China our arch enemy?  Who would have believed that this nation of the people, by the people and for the people would be usurped by a ruling class of the federal government, by the federal government and for the federal government.

Who do government unions support/  The people who they are hired to serve or the rulers who seek power to control?  Choose wisely!  The language of class warfare is alive and well in 2011.

What can save us??

Prayer mixed with a People willing to pledge allegiance to this Republic, under God and uphold the Constitution of these United States with the same conviction and sacrifice as our founding Fathers.  Leaders who were unafraid to write and sign the Declaration of Independence and pray before each session that led to the creation of the constitution to balance corruption unafraid to pray to the creator of us all.

To be continued ……

Here’s Mud in yer Eye

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4t Sunday of Lent – April 3, 2011

1 Samuel 16: 1b, 6-7, 10-13a, Ephesians 5: 8-14, John 9: 1-41

The readings were long this morning!  Did they put you to sleep?  (singing) Awake O sleeper, and arise from the dead, open your eyes and see the light of Christ. 

A disciple of Christ must keep the faith and profess it, confidently bearing witness to it, and spreading it: “All must be prepared to confess Christ before men and to follow him along the way of the Cross, expecting human persecutions which the Church never lacks.  One must have their eyes open!

How do we do that?  Time to get some mud in yer eye.  One day at the ATL airport, the passengers had been delayed and were waiting for the pilots to show up for their flight so they could depart.  The pilot and co-pilot finally show up.  Both appear to be blind as they walk past the passengers; the pilot is using a white cane, the co-pilot with a guide dog.  Both have their eyes covered with sunglasses.  

The passengers board the aircraft with some anxiety.  The engines start, and the airplane taxi’s out to the runway with some jerkiness adding anxiety and uneasiness.  They look at each other and whispering begins.

The plane finally begins accelerating rapidly, and the people sitting in the window seats recognize they have passed the normal lift off point and begin to panic.  Some passengers begin praying aloud.  As the plane gets closer and closer to the end of the runway their voices become more hysterical.

With less than twenty feet of runway left, there is a sudden change in the pitch of the shouts as everyone screams.  At that very second, the plane lifts off and is airborne.   

Up in the cockpit, the co-pilot breathes a sigh of relief and says to the pilot: “You know, one of these days the passengers aren’t going to scream, and we won’t know when to lift off!”

The scripture readings today are long.  There is a reason they are so long.  Today scripture is trying to teach us about the length and extended degree humanity will go to attribute culpability which can lead to spiritual blindness.  Oh we may have perfect 20-20 eye eyesight, but spiritually we can be as blind as a bat.  Somebody just has to be at fault for every problem. 

Look at how hard the people in this gospel worked to identify the culpable one.  At the on set the disciples questioned Jesus about who was at fault.  Once healed the people began to question healed blind man’s neighbors, then the Pharisees were brought in, then they all went back to the healed blind man, still his word wasn’t good enough so they rounded up the blind mans parents.  His parents were afraid and sent every one back to their blind son.  Then the Pharisees confronted the blind man again and being unhappy with his response had him thrown out.  After Jesus hears the story he confronts the Pharisee in us all.  He consoles the bind man after the Pharisees had him thrown out!  Back and forth, back and forth they went until — I am Out of breath!

One could analyze this story and draw an analogy that the people in this story were so bound and determined they would stomp through a puddle again and again to until it became a mud hole simply to satisfy human natures desire to attribute fault. We humans are sure someone is at fault, yet at the same time complain about why the water in the mud puddle we are stomping through has become so awfully muddy!  We humans will continue to make the mess worse and worse until like the passengers in plane everyone is ready to scream!

Yet in all of this mess there is hope!  In salvation history, the Lord God and in this case Jesus takes the mud we humans create through our misguided nature and turns it into light.  Jesus came to teach us that those who can not see might seeand those who see might become blind.  The lesson is clear we the people are going to go blind walking back and forth through the mud puddles of life until we open our stubborn hearts and minds to the healing light the spirit of Jesus offers us in the middle of the mud puddle.

We don’t have to look far.  Cosnider our families, our relationships with friends, community isses and yes even our national politicians as they purposely misuse the English language to vilianize their opponernt in an effort to lay blame on someone toher than the ones who created the mess in the first place.  The truth is to be avoided because the hidden within the truth is the light of Christ from which no one can hide!   

How long had the man in our Gospel had been blind?  From birth, but was that twenty years or fifty years?  He could have thought of himself as a born loser.  When he was healed he could have very well said, “Twenty wasted years … fifty years … almost my whole life.”  

He could have gone about the town trying to shame those who had given him nothing, during those years of begging and scrounging.  He could have demanded he be compensated for his suffering.  But no! Instead he worshiped and gave praise to Jesus, and went about giving thanks for the gift of sight and the hope of a new life.  He was filled with gratitude and focused on the rebirth of the possibilities for the future in spite of all the people who were caught up and still stomping in the mud puddle.

The Gospel story reminds us that it is Jesus who ignites dreams, kindles the light of hope, and opens eyes of the blind.  If we want to clear the muddy puddles in our family, with friends and even solve our states and nation’s muddled up mess’s, we must turn to Jesus Christ with open hearts and eyes.   

So let us recapture and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ to all those we meet.  By saying “Here’s mud in your eye.”

The Blind depending on Hearing

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One day at the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International airport, the passengers have been delayed waiting for the pilots to show up for their flight so they can get underway.  The pilot and co-pilot finally appear.  Both appear to be blind as they walk past the passengers; the pilot is using a white cane, the co-pilot has a guide dog.  Both have their eyes covered with sunglasses.  

 The passengers board the aircraft with some anxiety.  The engines start, and as the airplane taxi’s out to the runway the pasengers experince some jerkyness adding he anxiety and uneasiness.  They look at each other and whisper among them begins.

The plane finally begins accelerating rapidly, and the people sitting in the window seats begin to panick.  Some passengers begin praying aloud.  As the plane gets closer and closer to the end of the runway their voices become more hysterical.

With less than twenty feet of runway left, there is a sudden change in the pitch of the shouts as everyone screams.  At that very second, the plane lifts off and is airborne.  

Up in the cockpit, the co-pilot breathes a sigh of relief and says to the pilot: “You know, one of these days the passengers aren’t going to scream, and we won’t know when to take off!”

Coming “Here’s Mud in Yer Eye!” and the “Spirit” of the Tea Party Rvealed

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Coming soon!  4th Sunday of Lent Already?  The gospel of Jn 9:1-41 or 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38. 

Night is coming when no one can work.
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
When he had said this, he spat on the ground
and made clay with the saliva,
and smeared the clay on his eyes,

I gotta get to work – Oh Holy Spirit – the idove what you have in mind for your people??

To be followed by a Tax day Tea Party Event – April 15, 2011 – the Spirit starts in the gut, makes it’s way to the brain, sinks down into the heart where it lites a fire that leaps up through the lips!

Cloudy Day – ?? Kinetic War ??

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Today is a cloudy day in so many ways!  The current United States administrations policy on Libya makes the day even more cloudy.  “Ambiguous” is certainly an appropriate word to describe this new no policy.

Kinetic Wart – make no mistake – words designed to justify ambiguity – anything without clear concise meaning!  Where are you Sister David, English composition, clear concise sentence???.

Muammar Gadafi of Libya is certainly a tyrant and worse a destructive human being and a leader willing to persecute his own people.   He is in urgent need of a significant emotional event which offers to the best opportunity for him to evaluate his moral compass and change his ways.

With this new policy this nation appears to be embarking upon a sliding scale criteria list that resides only in the executive branch of governments judgement and assessment based upon a moving scale of criteria and using words with limitless meaning to avoid actually being held  accountable?

We must begin asking ourselves — Is this a Republic or do we still believe in the principle of a balance of power?

Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us.

St. Joseph pray for us.

All Holy men and women pray for us!

Aren’t the people (whose consent is required) the last hope to restore the balance of power?

To be continued …..

Awesume – a word – Reserved for God

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2nd Sunday of Lent March 20, 2011

Jesus took Peter, James and John his brother and led them up on a high mountain by themselves.  This is the traditional place of an encounter with God himself.  And he was transfigured before them; his face shinning like the sun and his clothes became as white as light reflecting the image of Jesus in His glory and divinity.  It was an awesume sight to behold!  

Matthew was writing to a Jewish audience who wanted to remain faithful to Judaism and they wanted to know if becoming a disciple of Jesus was being faithful?  And behold, in this Transfiguration story Jesus is shown conversing with Moses and Elijah.  Jesus is both the fulfillment of the Law of Moses and the promised one of the Prophets as symbolized by Elijah.

 In this story Peter is beside himself and wants to capture this vision and stay in this moment.  In his customary exuberance Peter suggests he make three tents.  Before he could finish this thought, a bright cloud overshadowed them and from the cloud came a voice that said.  This is my beloved son, listen to him.

 Yep, this is Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the promised one who came to save us from ourselves!  Most of us know this beautiful story well.  So well in fact we might gloss over the story and not see images competing to displace the truth?   We might miss How did they get up the mountain?

 Young people, children did you listen to the story?  How does this story compete with the newest DVD, iPad, think pad, Hi Definition 3 D, hi tech video devices you have at home or you see on TV?

Has anyone watched the commercial where a young handsome man walks up to some kind of iPad HD hi tech video devise and upon grasping it, is transformed into a some kind of imaginative semi alive zoom vehicle with shinning eyes that floats and maneuvers above the surface.  Inside we see the man using interactive voice and touch slew screen communications to activate optional adventure voyages into the dream world of cyber space traveling far beyond the planet earth and moon.  Click, click, slew and zoom we are high on the imaginary mountain top!  Unrerality becomes sought after as real!       

 Is that how we image Jesus and his disciples got up that mountain? 

 Grand parents and old folks, whoever you are!  Now it’s your turn.  From the Book of Genesis we hear the Lord say to Abram.  Go forth from the land of your kinfolk to a land I will show you.  Trust me – come on trust me says the Lord! 

Do we realize Abram was 75 years old when the Lord told him to uproot himself and go.  Look around and see if you can find someone here who is 75 years old!  Old folks at 75 are you ready to be uprooted and make the most significant trip of your life?  At 75 Abram met God’s minimu age requierment to enter into the spiritual trust zone created by God for those willing to travel into forever.  

Listen – what are the rewards for actually doing what the Lord asks?  I will make you a great nation, I will bless you, make your name great, bless those who bless you, curse those who curse you and all shall find blessing in you!

All together — Bless me father for I am a sinner and yet I am ready for this trip into salvation forever land!

 Why would I draw these pictures for the young and the old?  Grand parents or parents do you have any ideas? 

 We are living in a world where our young are tempted daily to enter into the world of the unreal, the newest reality idol and latest cyber imagery cloud and in doing so we replace real flesh and blood people with non-living images.  Do not allow yourself or your children to be taken hostage by the image of that which can not live, love or respond and can lead one to an early spiritual death! 

 The transiguratyion story is about accepting a really real Jesus Christ as our savior by opneing ones soul and Listening to Him!

 Mom’s and dad’s teach your children to listen to him by showing them you take time to listen!  Turn off the radio, the TV, the computer, the cell phone and every other electronic device.   It is in the silence one can finnaly encountered the really real spirit of the one who created all things!

 We know the truth from scripture!  We are made of the earth brought to life by the breath of God.  It is through the flesh and blood journey, the valley of tears and the trip up the mountain that leads us to the encounter with the living breathing spirit of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only one who can save us. 

It is the encounter and the discovery of the beauty of God’s creation which wakes up our spirit.  It is the living who possess the real potential to return love according to the design of God.   

Trust in Jesus Christ the one who is always fully present and is speaking to us in our day and our time.  Take time to Listen to Him!

How to Find Home

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Good morning HTLG&M and whoever stops by.

Humidity 100%, heat factor will exceed 100 degrees. Find a cool place to rest your soul.

A racing pigeon is gregarious by nature.  This means pigeon prefer to stay in a group or flock.  Simultaneously Homing pigeons also have a God given drive to return to it’s home and nest.  This instinctive  drive is part of it’s DNA buried in the essence of the pigeon.  A homing pigeon will literally give it’s life to return home.  But at some point to find home, the pigeon must also confront it’s instinct to stay in a group for safety purposes and break away on it’s own if it is to survive.

A successful homing pigeon eventually must be willing to overcome it’s earthly instinct fly to stay in a flock and go it alone which is against nature.

Back in ancient times (the promised land and the Roman Empire), observant humans of the day were keenly aware of the battle for survival and the dangers of mother natures elements.  Water, food and shelter were a first and foremost priority.  Making a trip into the wilderness and new lands in the search for food put ones life on the line.  Keeping in touch with the home folks, family and the local community provided a safety net.

Ancient man recognized the natural instinct a homing pigeon to return home for love of nest and home.  A natural survival partnership was formed and the homing pigeon entered the service of humanity as the first long distance communications system.  This service greatly facilitated the conquests of the Roman Empire.

The idove’s (the spirit of the homing pigeon) DNA serves as the critical life and death magnetic force that calls it home.  Each human being is created in the image of God and as such carries this same DNA.  An instinct, ability, drive and force that calls one to return home.

And amazingly we humans know where home is!  This home is a spiritual place unlike any place on earth.  One who discovers this home encounters joy, peace, fulfillment, and a realization they have found the treasure all humanity seeks and is searching for.

Every human searches and seeks to find the meaning of life and the purpose for which they were born and created.  Not surprisingly, this treasure is buried within the DNA located deep within the soul by the design of the creator.  On this earthly journey to find this treasure, one must apply similar principles to those the homing pigeon / idove must confront.

The treasure is always present and can be unlocked by one who is open to the truth.  In our flesh, we are like the homing pigeon when it comes to the journey we travel to discover our true purpose and home.  When a homing pigeon is released far from home it must first confront it’s earthly instincts and eventually be willing to break away from the flock that is unwilling to leave the release point to embark upon the journey to home.

A homing pigeon at first circles the immediate area of release.  This is a multi purpose maneuver.  It instinctively knows there is safety in numbers and it knows it will take some time to enable it’s god given homing instinct to kick in so it is reluctant by nature to leave the flock.  Simultaneously while flying in circles it searches the sky for predators.

Safety is it’s first and foremost concern.  As the homing pigeons fly’s, it is aware of the direction and intensity of the wind.  A homing pigeon will seek to fly at an altitude most conducive to providing the necessary uplift to obtain the most efficient flight conditions yet will change direction, speed and altitude to avoid a predator.

As the homing pigeon circles it’s homing device (white wattle shaped in form of a heart) located in front of it’s nose is automatically sensing the magnetic pull of the earth.   Ever heard the statement – the truth is right in front of your nose!  The homing pigeon is a really real example of that reality.

As the homing pigeon circles it is satisfying many natural concerns, safety with friends, safety in numbers, a kind a real peer pressure to stay with the group with many eyes ever on the lookout for predators and the all the while listening to the magnetic field of the earth listening to the DNA buried deep within — head for home – head for home.

As the homing pigeons circles the DNA engages   and begins to gain strength, it then stops circling and begins to weave in left and then right in flowing curves  which serve to enable it’s homing instinct to lock on to the magnetic field that ultimately calls and it trust will pull it home.

The ideacon’s behavior description of this early maneuver of the homing pigeon was described by my youth group as the ideacons dance.  And a dance it is!

Once locked on the homing pigeon begins the race home in earnest.  It will leave the flock and accelerate its pace as it locks unto the pull from home.  A homing pigeon ultimately points it’s nose toward home and the route home becomes more direct.

Along the way, like us, the homing pigeon encounters many distractions. Predators of many sorts are all along the route and the homing pigeon must be ever vigilant.  A deviation off course to avoid the predator is common.  The homing pigeon will change altitudes or swing away from danger.  A homing pigeon is constantly assessing flying conditions and looking out for predators.

All the while it it is depending upon that buried DNA that pulls it home.  A homing pigeons nature is similar to teenagers.  Teenagers and young people are gregarious.  They travel in groups and dress alike so they will be different.  Did I write that – oh yes cause it’s the truth!  Ironically they all look the same but that’s to miss the point that they want to discover the person buried within whose is like no other.

It is the natural pressure and instinct to dress alike to be different so they can discover who they are.  Many of mother natures instincts are calling deep from within their bodies even though their hormones are changing them by the day.  Their bodies know what they want, but the child hidden within hasn’t a clue – not yet!  How to cope with this God designed pressure is where the spirit / idove comes into play.

The pressure within is mounting and they do not know what to do or exactly what to search for.  They fear leaving the flock while they staunchly insist they are independent, but in truth they are afraid to stand alone.  The truth is they already know what they need to know 0 they just don’t know they know.  It is buried in their DNA just like the idove.

The ten commandments come from the truth reveled by natural law called mother nature.  It is only a secret to those who close their minds and spirits.

They just don’t know, that they already know the way home, the route to the freedom and independence they long for, the meaning of life and the purpose for which they were born.

Like the homing pigeon, at some point they have to be willing to recognize the predators that live and thrive in peer pressure.  Every body is doing it, alcohol, drugs and sex.  I don’t let my old man and woman tell me what to do!

The dangers peer pressure exerts are many and seek to hold one captive to group think.  Like the homing pigeon one must be willing to recognize the danger by listening to the voice crying out from within.  Head for home!  Head for Home!  Don’t be afraid you know the way!  Trust the DNA buried in your soul!

Trust is necessary – the magnetic filed of the truth will pull you home.  You are free if you are willing to leave the flock of friends and follow the spirit of natures truth which will carry you home.

This drive to come home can overcome blindness and deafness.  Not by sight or sound but by the spirit says the Lord (2 Corinthians 5: 7).

A homing pigeon can be blinded and it’s hearing impaired without impacting it’s ability to find home.  It my not be able to land on the home loft but it will within close proximity of it’s home loft.  A homing pigeon does not return home by recognizing the structure of the terrain on earth.  It finds home by trusting in the magnetic pull of the spirit buried within it’s DNA.

Know that God loves you!!!

To be continued ….

Marriage February 2011

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I love you HTLG&M.

I pray you will see me as a father figure one day and know I will always love you!

Throughout ancient history and even into modern times the father figure has been held in high and even perhaps highest esteem. God the Father was, has been and should always be considered sacred.

Most of us know today, God is spirit and as such God is also mother and balanced the books by giving the church the title of mother.

A humorous note: My belief on why the Catholic Church only has men in the clergy. If God had allowed women in the clergy, he knew it would be almost impossible to get men into church. Men need to think they know whats best and the fact is most of the time the women do all the work anyway.

In my opinion, men have a far greater struggle sharing their spirituality than women and that’s by God’s design. So to get men into church and openly share their spirituality, God had to apply some creative wisdom and trickery to make them think they were in charge.

Men can stand on their own two feet without a woman – think about it – show me a clergyman who came into this world without a mother, who always will hold her son up.

Humanity eventually favored the father title because of the importance of the eldest Son’s right to inheritance. Not only the cultural reality of the time but the prophetic story of the father and the son to come. The Messiah, the anointed promised one, the Suffering Servant.

Therefore, no one should be surprised in the war between the flesh and the spirit, the Father figure had to be attacked and destroyed. The father figure is the supreme being of judgment and the flesh wants no part of judgement. So the flesh must seek to destroy the father and in doing so destroys God and God’s judgement.

The flesh wants no part of right or wrong. The flesh wants only to please itself – selfishness. Never mind that that in destroying the father, one destroys everything associated with the father figure. Nothing is sacred to the flesh, the family, the church, and the culture of freedom must be convinced to take a trip into a self centered utopia.

Never mind that on this trip mothers become widows, children become orphans and single parent families and blended families create mass confusion the best and brightest behavior scientist can not unravel. The complexity factors in a blended family goes through the roof. Multiple mothers and fathers and grand fathers and grand mothers and in-laws and out laws.

So many are working against the success of the relationships. And who the heck is my daddy and does God really love me become legitimate questions for a child lost in the tangle of unintended consequences!

Look at the catholic Church – the Pope – the Holy father is under attack and priests called fathers are under attack. Not to make like of the seriousness of the failure of Catholic Bishops and their legal advisers but when compared to society there are far far more married pedophiles. But the war on the spirit is not interested in the truth.

How much evidence does one need to see that this war is unfolding before our eyes in 2010? Does anyone remember the days of the 1950’s when the most popular show was “Father Knows Best”? How far have we fallen in a short few years? In 2010 there is not a single TV show that depicts a father figure in an honorable role and one who the family turns to for leadership?

Does anyone really think that is an accident? Holliwood is the land of the where the lust of the flesh is satisfied silly! I wonder if anyone is paying attention to the “Law of Unintended Consequences”? In the 1960’s our nation began the battle to remove prayer from the schools and to make abortion legal. See how far we have come in a short period of time.

Put on your spiritual thinking cap. Divorce is now over 50% which is very misleading – why you ask – did we remove prayer from schools – well not exactly – but many went along for the ride and it has shown up in the spilt up / divorce rate because marriage was removed from it’s original scriptural base – a trinity of man, woman and God.

Remove God and the vast majority of people begin to live together before marriage and when the real breakup figure is calculated the spit up rate is over 85%. Lock God out and whose left – a human trying to replace God? Has anyone noticed 50% of the children being born today are to a single unmarried woman.

Statistics suggest the children born to single mothers suffer are far likely to drop out of school, get involved in drugs, crime and end up in jail. We have more and more young men standing on street corners mad as hell and not knowing why. The spirit that lives within those young men why they are angry but our culture doesn’t teach them how to get in touch with their inborn spirit.

The stories of ancient scripture tell humanity has cried from the beginning of time I want to know who my daddy is! Those angry young men want to know whose is my daddy? Why doesn’t my daddy love me? Where is my daddy? Why doesn’t my daddy come visit with me?

Remember the basics – God created them male and female and it was good. He made them to become one flesh. He so they would be united, one body and soul united to God himself – a trinity of persons in one.

Tell me – is it so really difficult to understand why there is so much division and polarization in our nation today. The sacred one flesh original – “it is good” package has been divided and the spirit of God has been removed from the relationship, the family and the children are walking alone while moms and dads are busy with material things. The worst is yet to come! With God out of the picture and flesh in control the question of abortion hardly penetrates the mind or spirit of many people.

Since 1962 the fertility rate of woman in the USA has been steadily dropping. Note that this fertility rate is not associated with potential but with actual live births. So with abortion, a birth could have occurred but did not. Statisticians, tell us when a cultures fertility rate drops to 1.3 births per mother, that culture can not recover. Put another way that culture’s way of life will die either peacefully or by war. In America with the aid of the war of the flesh overpowering the spirit the abortion industry has facilitated the law of unintended consequences to slap the western Jewdeo/Christian culture in the face when we finally wake to realize some other culture has taken control of our nation.

If you are a young man and woman – it is time to wake up! God gave you free will and calls you to let him love you. He calls you by the name that is music to your ears. Joy bounds forth from those who answer his call. The purpose for which you were born is to fulfill the purpose for which you were created – “to do the will of the father”. Help facilitate creation of new spiritual life in the spirit and for some maybe – just maybe an intimate trinity relationship that consists of a man and a woman participating with God that as one flesh and spirit to create new life.

To be continued …