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2018 – 1981 Whew! 37 years Really!

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August 3, 1981. Where were you? 11,000 Air Traffic Controllers went on Strike! PATCO the Union associated with the AFL CIO. They had control of the Trucks and Ships! Now if they could control the Air they would have Power to control a nation.

They did an amazing job of briefing controllers and their families on what would happen during a strike. They so convinced many wives, men I never thought would strike did. They help create one of the meanest spirited times in my career!

They did not realize they were also creating a spirit willing and able to overcome destructive spirits! I can not emphasize enough the value of the lessons I learned from this selfish grab for power! It has prepared me well for this day when propaganda driven powers seek to overcome the spirit that transformed this nation into the greatest the world has encountered to this day.

There are those in this nation that at war with the spirit and culture that created it!  Many  are afraid to speak up against the power of the those who seek to enslave us!

In 1981 we had a leader who was Not afraid to call that power by name! “Evil” exists! “evil” divides! “evil” kills! “Evil” seeks to silence the voice of opposition! “evil” has invaded our nation! “Evil” has even taken hostage some who call themselves Christian and leaders of the church!

Yet in the midst of this battle “evil” will one day be transformed into good lead by the same spirit that created man in the beginning! Flawed sinful humans will answer the cry’s rising from deep within the soul to bring healing to the broken and divided nature of man! Today the unseen breath of God is passing over the wellsprings of new life hidden from those blinded by the power they seek to replace God!

The Journey Includes Crushed and Broken: How to Survive?

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The reading this week used in prison. Elijah went a day’s journey into the desert, until he came to a broom tree and sat beneath it. He prayed for death saying:”This is enough, O LORD!
Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

The desert a place no man controls! A place where nature can wraps it’s arms around man with an embrace of the reality of life and death. A place where the sun and wind can penetrate the soul of the man! A place where the spirit of the man can cry out from the depth’s of the soul where lie hidden the burdens and wounds inflicted from life and can be set free to the ears of the wind. A place where the voice of God who hears is carried on the wind can speak to the soul of the man bypassing his stiff neck and hardened heart and penetrate his soul.

He lay down and fell asleep under the broom tree,
but then an angel touched him and ordered him to get up and eat. Elijah looked and there at his head was a hearth cake
and a jug of water.

After he ate and drank, he lay down again,
but the angel of the LORD came back a second time,
touched him, and ordered,
“Get up and eat, else the journey will be too long for you!”
He got up, ate, and drank; then strengthened by that food,
he walked forty days and forty nights to the mountain of God, Horeb.

Forty – the extraordinary amount of time it takes before the heart and neck of man can be healed of stubbornness of a self appointed God!

Crushed and broken is the bread of life that man might have life more abundantly!

Secrets Buried in Every Soul

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I took my pigeons to Forsyth, Ga today. 15 miles as the crow flies. It was the 6th day starting from 3 miles. The birds are getting the picture in more ways than one might think! When I let the tail gate down the birds were watching my next move like a hawk. A couple birds tried to fly through the wire of the crate. When I dropped the doors out they came in a rush! It was as if they were attacking the sky! There awareness and observation of their surrounds is far superior to that of man. The dash into the sky is designed to gain speed and altitude while surveying as they circle the sky for dangers ever present. A sense of urgency is communicated within the flock to lookout for hawks. Within minutes a slow weaving to and fro is begun as the DNA created at birth begins to detect the proper direction safety and home are located.

I drove as fast as I could and avoid detection myself. When I arrived thinking I had won the race only discover a bird already in the loft. Where are the rest? A sure sign Mr. or Mrs Hawk had intercepted them near home. A few minutes later the shadow of the flock passed within view. Yep they were home yet very aware of the dangers there! Again and again they passed over a little lower each pass. Where is that hawk with camouflage concealing?

Lessons in life nature provides to those with open eyes. A baby pigeon is born with survival instinct and knowledge of how to find the way home!

Now if we can just teach our children and grand children the secrets buried in every soul before they are born! We sure are slow of heart to observe gifts our creator planted in our DNA before we were born!

Earth Ministry – Death Preparation for New Life

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Today marked the next phase of my Earth Ministry. Workers came to begin spraying parts of Whispering Pines in preparation of the promise of fall linked to the beginning of winter. The spray is designed to kill the growth of weeds, grasses and trees, especially those pesky gums popping up every where. This spray makes it’s way to the roots. All this is in preparation for the planting of news trees after the falls rains have quenched the earths crust. The game plan is to give the new trees the most competitive advantage. If weather and time permits we will do control burns to remove the dry fuel left behind. Maybe someone will inform California this actually works in Georgia and regularly reduces available fuel which minimizes the intensity of a wild fire.

Turf Protection Unseen – It’s my Turf -er- Sin Hiding behind Authority:

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Working on Sermon for Spanish Class. Write it in English first then translate and later deliver in Spanish. I chose Gospel of Mark 9: 38 – 50 – Story of Jesus disciples complaining someone outside the inner group was healing folks in his name. Tell them to stop – human nature’s jealousy reaction! If they are not against me – hummm thinking as smoke comes out my ears!

So in 2018 we know some in the elite group we call clergy have been very naughty!
Did I tell you I plan to use this reflection in prison to those found guilty and locked away in a prison?  Could a real prisoner one day play a part in healing souls buried in a kind of authority prison where few clergyman are willing to enter?

I wonder just how many of you would seek to silence the voice of one willing to step into the darkness carrying only a light of hope hidden from eyes blinded by bars created to suggest only the inner group posses the grace to set others free?

Do we believe what Jesus taught? Could be time for those outside the inner authority circle who follow Christ’s lead to begin to find the voice that has been encouraged to be locked away waiting for a sign it’s time to speak and act!

Perhap’s we need someone rejected and imprisoned to show us the pathway to freedom?

The War Below the Surface – Still?

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Seventeen years ago, my wife and I got on a plane in Atlanta. Destination Ft. Lauderdale Florida and a funeral for my wife’s Aunt Norma. We never got off the ground! I thought my mind was running on overtime remembering Aunt Norma. I had no idea what real overtime could be?!?

Aunt Norma spent much of her time in a bar – a bar that became a home for some people from every kind of walk through life’s journey! I don’t think Norma ever met a stranger no matter their status in life from the homeless bum to the wealthy! Some would say Norma was foolish and silly for opening herself to being taken advantage of by some who sought selfish ends. I still remember her smile and greeting! Always room even when room was hard to find.

She loved her children and grand children and gave generously although sometimes her gifts didn’t match up with the hopes she wished! Aunt Norma gave herself away – a gift in itself often misunderstood and unseen by the world of imperfect people she encountered!

Then unfolded before our eyes the gift of self as normally unseen people rushed to the aid of others without thought to the danger an evil spirit can unleash upon a people so busy living the good life no one was paying attention to the evil ever present in the hearts of some!
We live in a world where a war rages below the surface of human eyes but can be seen by spiritual eyes willing and open to the voice of the spirit that created us. Love one another – but do we know what love is?

He said, I came to testify to the truth and gave us a promised gift! The truth will set you free! Truth is love! The source of truth is spiritual and comes at great cost!

Are we ready to run into the burning building of our world to save the bum, orphan, stranger, self observed and those who think we are a fool and tell us to shut up?

Mirror Mirror on The Wall – Stop Talking!

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Got an unexpected text from an inmate who has been working out of the govenors mansion for the last three years. I helped him become Catholic about 5 or 6 years ago. After he was baptized he asked me why his cell mate began to criticize his every move. I told him when one begins to follow Jesus magic happens and they turn into a mirror. Folks look into that magic mirror and they don’t like what they see. It can take awhile before they realize their unhappiness lives inside and not in the one who serves as the mirror!
Long journey for this man. Brought up in a family involved in crime. That’s just the way it was.
Good good good news can take a long time and the cost often comes at a price of folks trying to drag one down in the mud. It’s I gotta drag you down to act bad like you used to so I don’t Feel bad about being bad!
Envey and jealousy can cause some folks to tear another person to schreds.
A lifer has plenty of experience listening to that negative voice. When the truth finally sets one free it is time to celebrate and pray the chains of sin will be cast into the never ending fire.
Me – I am gonna plan on attending Mass with this man and his God Father when the Day of Liberation opens the gates of prison and we can walk in the light of freedom!

Preparation for Spanish Reflection:

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A few weeks ago I selected a Gospel reading to be used for my final reflection as the final requirement to complete Level II Spanish Class. I choose this past week ends Gospel – Mark 9: 38-43. Within this Gospel lives Hope for those outside the inner group. Even someone in prison, locked up behind bars the spirit has the potential to drive out demons and penetrate hearts of stone. In the Name of Jesus those open and willing to take the risk can take the leap of faith they may be able to assist in driving the demons out of those possessed with evil especially those in powerful places including our government and church!

Could the Lord have been leading me to speak in light of the scandal of the Roman Catholic Church and the scandal of the United States Senate! Pray in the Name of Jesus the demons of division be driven from the places where the lust for power has replaced the spirit of truth!

What you Wanna Be When you Grow UP:

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A few weeks ago I asked the inmates who come to my service what they wanted to be when they grow up? Goofy question say some! I was surprised when weeks later one of the inmates who regularly comes to the Catholic service who is from Mexico asked me what should I do?

His parents are in California and in poor health. He is in prison for drug trafficking. In about a year he will be released. ICE will be there to meet him. Every lawyer he has talked to tells him he will before a judge and be deported to Mexico.

Catholic Charities will not help him due to his crime. The drug cartels keep track of folks like him, especially since he may owe them money. He told me they will have someone find and meet him when he is released in Mexico. They will not be friendly and will use whatever means to force him back into drug trafficking!

What should I do was his question! Well folks what would you tell him? There was no doubt in my mind his life will be on the line and his courage and faith will be tested beyond any level I have experienced in my life.

If you read my previous posts – it might give you a hint! When they find you, tell them the man they are looking for died in prison and you witnessed his death. For the slow of heart, it happened the day he decided to return to practicing his faith and returned to a life of prayer. He was born again and washed clean the day he began true repentance for his sins!

The real question for us here is what would we do? Those who consider themselves brave, courageous and especially those accustomed to having power?

Do we really understand what a dying and rising is? Would we have the faith and courage to speak with so much conviction the hearer could visibly see the conviction of one willing to die. But it doesn’t end there. Being willing to die is just the beginning.

Before the receiver digests the words spoken, say to those who seek to persecute you, “While you are here, do you have something or someone in need of healing that I can pray for? I call upon the Name of Jesus as I stand before you to pray that His healing power may overshadow you and those you hold dear to your heart dispelling the darkness of doubt.

I will pray for you even if you tell me – No More Sermons!

And in speaking those words come to understand the message, I came to do the will of the one who created me!

I pray the Holy Spirit will drive the demons that seek pure power out of the houses of power in the church and in the government! How many will join me?

I ask is there anyone with the courage to confront the demons released into this nation and the world by the sinful nature of men seeking to replace God ( a word that includes women for the confused). The battle in the Garden continues!

Destination Home:

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Home – a treasure – a place one would be willing to die to protect and return to – no place like home!
Human observation a gift! Spiritual observation a skill to see what is hidden deep within a treasure reserved for those willing to be open to a power of a dove!
Sunday last my pigeons were released 215 miles from home. Most made it the first day 45+ mph!
Wednesday evening I was hunting and got a call. A lady about a mile away had one of my pigeons that hadn’t yet made it home. I met her about an hour later. She gave me the bird. I carried it home.
When I reached home the bird died in my hand.
As I reflected upon this birds journey home – the spiritual reality of this birds desire to return home began to sink in! I noticed it had feathers at the base of it’s tail missing along with a couple primary tail feathers. A sure sign of a hawk attack on the bird on it’s the journey home!

I wonder if the eyes and ears of your spirit are open?There are great dangers thriving in this world which seeks to take our life and prevent us reaching our treasured destination. This bird never gave up in spite of over welming difficulties of the journey. It was willing spend every once of energy to reach it’s beloved home. The bird weighed almost nothing! It gave it’s all to the spirit within that called it home.
In my hand rested a bird that gave it’s life that I might be taught again by the spirit that loves me to see with eyes this world would deny us!
Yesterday evening I went prison and encountered men singing “Lord Jesus carry me home”!
What will it take to open the eyes of the blind to see even within the most hardened heart lives a longing to seek and find that place called home where one can finally rest in the hands of the one who created them with a spirit that can not be seen by those who seek the power of God! I was blessed to hold a the gift of a treasure that made it home!