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Gone to the Dogs

We have a dog.  This is our 6th dog that is not our dog.  These dogs just seem to sense that our home is their home and they act like they belong and my wife is supposed to feed them. I guess it isn’t hard to figure out. She opens the door and they come in.

Then they find a bed setup in the living room and another in the bed room. There is fresh water in the laundry room and food magically shows up there.

Brownie was brown and the neighbor left her behind so she moved in. “Little bit” was a hound who wouldn’t come close or let anyone pet him.  He discovered Brownie and we had beds outside made up depending on the direction of the sun. Winston our son’s dog jumped on a truck, took a ride and got lost. But my took him to the vet where they put a collar on and someone noticed him and called the vet.

Winston became my pal along with Irish. Now we have Baily a girl hound. She can’t hear but has amazing instincts. She observes my wife closely and now monitors the two of us more closely than my wife can do on her best days.  This dog can be dead to the world asleep and we move to another room and she soon follows – like what you two up to now?

I have to be careful because she is asleep monitoring me now!  Seems this dog is teaching us something about “God” dog spelled backwards, cause we can think we are getting away with something and the next thing we know there’s the dog asking what on earth are you doing?

Tricked into a Earth Ministry

Some people think I am retired! Walk my property line with me one day! Discovered the reason I purchased this land in 1994 is so the Good Lord could teach me to be a tree farmer and how to manage land for wild life. And how to be observant of God’s creation.

Some folks might think this is a horrible thing to do but managing trees for harvest is one of the best land management practices which includes burning the forest floor every few years.

This is the way to keep trees growing, support wild life and make use of natures bounty before it dies a natural death and goes to waste. The drought last year was hard on the forest and many trees were on there last leg. Look at the forest in Georgia if you want to see the impact. Many pine trees losing there needles.

When a land owner clears cuts an area it becomes prime wildlife habitat as it is born again from the seeds already in the ground that then have a chance to germinate.

So you are looking at the “already” in the ground with the “not yet” – waiting to explode when the rains come followed by the Son/sun which will surely rise. You can bet on it!

So I must conclude tough I didn’t know it when I started – I have long had a “earth ministry” that I began serving in 1994 the year before I was ordained. I suspect God had a plan and set me up while I didn’t even know it was happening.

False Witness is still a Sin

Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor-
Anyone care to guess what fake news is? And how it has exploded! Could it be due to a people turning to themselves and ignoring God’s providence?

People were envious and jealous of Jesus Christ. They did not like how he preached or what he taught. He was rejected by the people of his own family, his church leaders did not defend him and the powers of his day feared him!

So wouldn’t it be wise to consider who we are envious and jealous of? And who have we worked to Silence and shut up? Could it be in our modern advanced, more compassionate than thou society, we the many may be guilty of bearing false witness just by our silence and failure to question our doubts. Silence is a time to look in the mirror and seek the voice of courage to probe deeper before we condemn. Could be some have and are working very hard to silence others called by the Holy Spirit.

Jesus served as a mirror for people to look into and many leaders did not like what they saw. Better one man shoul die than face the truth and have to deal with oneself.

Mother Natures Brew

Walking the bottoms. Looks like sun breaking through but it is the midst after a rain. The Skidder is broken down, cutter broken down too, the stillness of the forest floor wrapped me in it’s arms as I slowly became one with mother natures brew rising from the floor of the earth reaching up to embrace the canopy of the trees sheltering us from the sky.

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Freedom to Consent – Worship God – Balance Powers of Corruption

It’s raining – Gods way of cleaning up and quenching the thirst of the earth for new life that lie dormant in the hearts of men..

The Constitution and the Garden – what do they have in common?

Seeds of God planted hidden from the beginning, tough many deny god exists. God’s nature is three in one – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We have eyes but can’t see! The church is a people who were given the great gift of free will. Humans created equal yet unique and different. All living within the laws of nature with God as the highest authority and Sovereign over all.

How to control the nature of man who seeks the power of God symbolized in the tree of knowledge. Ah ha – how to Balance Power of a great many people created equal and to avoid the sins of man that manifests itself in democracy – majority rule the greatest of dangers? Thug politics is a better word.

Through the ages Wisdom found to control this beast required the consent of the people created equally and by separating Powers into equal branches of people attached to the same tree. Yet recognizing there is a fourth power – the consent of a people created equally yet knowing they were susceptible from the very beginning to corruption or sin.

These the words politicians hate the most (sin and corruption)!

We live in a nation that created a system that draws a people to behave in a manner that is in the best interest of men created equal with free will that grant consent while seeking to not violate the laws of nature and God who is recognized as the highest authority and granter of equality hidden in the spirit of every human.

The Declaration of Independence provided the guidelines for the creation of the Republic of the United States of America.

With every right comes a duty. When the laws of nature and God are violated man suffers. Thou shall not kill is still valid.

Those who deny the laws of nature and God deny the very founding of the greatest and longest living nation in the history of world. Sadly many seek to destroy the light placed upon a hill for the world to see.

This nation was born out of the fear of men at logger heads, brought to their knees in prayer beseeching the only power capable of opening the minds of men to save them from their selves.

We need to pray for our nation which at war with itself.

Lord wash the hatred from the hearts of this free people and provide the assist necessary to bring us to our knees. Save us from the lust for power that is enslaving some to belittle, beat down and silence the spirit of truth!

Earth Ministry

Wonder where I have been? I am fulfilling my earth ministry! Harvesting trees – some dying from impact of last years drought. Some areas being clear cut – what a mess – looks like death.

But the secret of life stands starkly before ones eyes! Yet so many are blind and can only see the destruction.  When I look I see the mystery of new life waiting on the rain and sun to follow from which new life will explode providing food and shelter for natures inhabitants.

Should I take a step deeper into the spirit of God’s creation? Too late! I already did! Looking into a clear cut is like looking into God’s mirror of spiritual existence. Something must die each day or we would all die! In the very beginning from earth we came and back again is the cycle of the body while the spirit is given the chance to soar or suffer the anguish of encountering the fire which scorches the wings so the spirit is unable to fly.

It’s raining – soon the sun will shine – maybe I’ll post before and after the rain picture!

The Dangers of Whispers = Prison

Prison tonight – what on earth do I have to offer?

Messages are passed through every conceivable method all day long – in or out of prison!

Whispering from all sides fills my ears. Those who walk as my friends, yet look for opportunity to set me low! Friends who in secret watch for my every misstep hoping it will entrap me so they can prevail and take vengeance upon me.

Check out the words of Jeremiah 20: 10-13!

A prophet who answered the call only to discover the message he was to deliver would bring him persecution.

Can I move forward even as the whispers of those, who in secret seek to pull me down?

The LORD is with me, like a mighty champion:
my persecutors will stumble, they will not triumph.

Hope no matter what, where or when exists when ones spirit is open to the whisper of the wind that caresses my cheek as it passes by even though I may not see it!

The Truth Versus My Truth

The modern world and truth: I conjured up a vision that Stone Mountain was a beautiful Lake. I was so excited I rented a helicopter to fly over my beautiful Lake.

As we hovered over the mountain the images of my Lake overwhelmed me and before I knew it I dove off trusting my ability to identify with the refreshing waters of my dream lake.

At the very instant of impact the truth was reveled. Oh – if only someone had had he courage to speak the only truth that could have saved me from myself!

Terror on Every Side June 25, 2017

The readings for Sunday June 25, 2017 have been hanging on me like a pit bull to my behind:

Mt 10:26-33
Jesus said to the Twelve:
“Fear no one. Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known.  What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light; what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.  And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

God gave me a vision of the real war taking place in our nation and in the church. Each of us defines the truth as we feel it and the truth changes as our feelings and emotions change. Dualism, Relativism, Pluralism and Progressivism are the fancy words of our modern era. Proclaim it from the house tops and fear no one.

and Jeremiah said:  “I hear the whisperings of many: ‘Terror on every side! Denounce! let us denounce him!’

All those who were my friends are on the watch for any misstep of mine. ‘Perhaps he will be trapped; then we can prevail, and take our vengeance on him.’Who would seek to silence me?

Rejection and the Cross

The mystery of rejection and the cross.

Holiness is found when one makes a trip to look into the eyes of the rejected, struggling, lost, forsaken, sick, lonely and those crying out for hope.

It listens to the stories of heartbreak and pain. It stands as a witness to the judgement of men and rejection of men. It listens to the unspoken word which cries out because it is unable to articulate the cause of the anguish encountered.

Yet in amazement a spirit willing to accept rejection begins to recognize the inner spirit is instinctively creating a depth of unrest and a thirst from within that moves the spirit to the opening of a doorway that reveals a pathway to the destination it unknowingly seeks to satisfy the purpose of the journey begun long ago – an encounter with the love of a creator who did not make a mistake in the beginning.

Come follow me and you will find yourself!