Category Archives: Family Values

Father, Mother, Male, Female, an, Woman, Husband, Wife, Children, Boy, Girl.  God’s Design = One Flesh!

Sexual Harrassment – This is gonna drive someone Nuts!

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I was watching one of the “Lip Gloss” stations. If you don’t get the context of “Lip Gloss” ask a man who lived before the turn of the century. In amazement I listened to four women discuss sexual harassment dressed in very short skirts, tight dresses, some low cut and each wearing “Lip Gloss”. I guess the message is a woman can use body language that communicates to a man whose blood is still warm – I am sending signals to be sure men are thoroughly confused by the signals I send. To add insult to injury I can do this but you have to ask me if your response is welcome. I am sure we have miles to go to restore a proper balance of virtue. decency and chastity in the public arena. God created us with eyes to see, unchoosen instinct to react and a spiritual intellect to know our human nature.

So just when will we begin to discuss the breakdown between spiritual virtue and selling our sexuality for whatever purposes we ought to look at for both men, women and the culture we have encouraged to test our spirit!!! Who have we encouraged the most – the devil or our guarding angel? I think the devil is ahead on points!

Is there a Doctor in the House – Who will come during Mass in the Middle of Church?

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1st Sunday of Advent. We do not know the hour or the day, but our future lies in our ability see things through the eyes of our spirit. We need to know what to be watchful for. It’s a discipline the world doesn’t want us to practice or develop because the world seeks to deny God and objective truth.

Today at Mass right after the sermon a man stood up and asked if a doctor was in the church? Everyone looked around. The most unlikely man (in my opinion) in the house stood up and came from the other side to an older gentleman on the opposite side. When he arrived at the old man’s side, I heard him say “stay with me – I am here”! by then some others came to help. The unlikely man returned his seat. Things seemed to worsen and unlikely man returned to the old mans aid and stayed at his side until the paramedics arrived.

What did my spirit see? The unlikely young man probably spent time homeless or living in the street and knew what being alone and afraid felt like He must have recognized immediately because he himself knew what it was like to be helpless and in fear. He wasn’t worried about being qualified and was willing to ask people to make room as he passed through the pews twice. He knew it wasn’t about him. His spirit saw another in distress and offered the only thing he had – himself!

I don’t think the unlikely young man is Catholic but he managed to demonstrate what Jesus came to teach – he freely gave himself away – the most unlikely young man was watching things through the eyes of his spirit! On the way out of church I shook the hand of one whose spirit is awake! Thank you for the gift of yourself! Amen!

Even Possible without the Tail

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A message of Hope hidden in a journey home?!? One of the pigeons in last weeks 300 mile race made the trip home without it’s tail. Now the tail is what the bird uses to guide it so it can navigate and avoid the dangers encountered on the way home. So what was it that allowed this bird to not only make it home but finish in the top 20% and to finish in the $$?.

This well kept secret lives in the heart and the unseen spirit that is buried in the gift of DNA birthed the day mom and dad successfully copulated.

There is always hope, especially for those who have children lost in the storm of life. Trust they were not skipped! The spirit is there though perhaps buried deep within the chaos of a world looking everywhere else for directions to find the destination they were ultimately created to discover.

This hope was nailed to a cross, so the lost may one day open blinded eyes to find hope when suffering reconnects them to the spirit too often forgotten that lives within.

The world seeks to eliminate suffering with the death of the spirit and then prides itself on being more compassionate. The spirit forgives the world it’s vain glory and never ever gives up on the spirit of life freely given at the moment life begins. Look with Hope to the baby who offered His humanity so one day the lost and the blind might find their way home!

The Greatest Gift of Getting Old

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The very best part of getting old is watching children and grand children discover the beauty of the Christmas spirit. We live in a world that seeks to sterilize young people and worships at the devils altar of self pleasure luring folks to believe selfish pleasures will sustain the young into thinking they found happiness while forsaking the greatest gift and adventure a human can ever give – the birth of a child who will teach them again like it was the first time about the discovery of new life everywhere!

Gosh I wish I could penetrate hearts bent on a purposely chosen baron relationship with no possibility of participating in the greatest artistic gift – the creation of a baby that draws one outside of self into an adventure with the possibility of forgetting self for a greater cause and finding where true happiness lives when one gives oneself away to the possibility of new life!

Hablo Espanol – I Try

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A couple weeks ago I signed up for a Spanish on-line class being offered by my diocese. I have young “espanic” speaking inmates who attend the Catholic service I support at the Burruss Correctional Training Center (- state prison).

Started the on-line class last week and realized I didn’t know where I had put my ear phones with mic when I bought this pc.
Class is recorded so as I tried to listen while I searched the God lord had me look in the right place.

I was reminded my dad’s parents where immigrants as children through Ellis Island. My dad told me when he was a boy and the immigrant children in his neighborhood mostly refused to speak their parents native tongue because they were now American’s.

Years later, my dad told me he regretted that decision because he lost the ability to speak the language of his parents.

So if you know someone young or old do not be afraid to tell them it is not un-American to be fluently bi-lingual. A human being is capable of cherishing both.

And if your English only tolerant – ease up a little.

A secret key lies hidden in desire to reach the heart of the listener where the door of hope is found for every human!

Sometimes one must grow old to begin to understand the fullness of the language of life, hope and love!

Gone to the Dogs

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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

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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.

Freedom to Consent – Worship God – Balance Powers of Corruption

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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!

Symbols of Wisdom – The Worlds & God’s

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There are two kinds of Wisdom.  The symbol for the worlds wisdom is the iphone or smartphone.  Every youngsters around the age of 12 begins to carry the symbol of the worlds wisdom everywhere they go these days.  With it’s internet connectivity all knowledge and images are available to the child with little or no supervision.  A child has neither the maturity, knowledge or ability to understand the most intimate details they may be exposed to.

The impact of the worlds wisdom creates division which can easily be observed almost everywhere a family and friends gather.  Check out the tables at a local restaurant.  Everyone at the table is more than likely being consumed by a non-living smart device.  We could conclude they are being trained by the device of the world, voluntarily being divided and consumed into a non living selfie devise.  Each individual is living in a fantasy world of self where the development of social skills/interaction with real people is inhibited or worse eliminated.  Hence we might expect in the face of real or perceived conflict these young folks will soon learn to run for the nearest imaginary wifi safe zone.

The symbol of God’s wisdom is strikingly different.  It is the real flesh and blood of Christ hanging on a cross we call a crucifix.  And secret code to God’s wisdom is provided by the nail driven through the flesh of Christ which serves as the key that opens the door to the wisdom of God and a life lived more abundantly.  The crucifixion is the result of dealing with real people by one who was willing to sacrifice everything to speak the truth to those loved including ones enemy who seeks to bully, discredit and shut up any voice that has the courage to speak of the word of truth and wisdom reveled to those willing to surrender to the creator of all things.

 

Modern Gun Violence versus Cowboys and Indians of Yesterday

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When I was a kid in the 1950’s the major game my brother and I played was cowboys and Indians.  Our favorite hero’s were Gene Autry & Back in the Saddle Again, Roy Rogers & Trigger his horse, Zorro, and the Lone Ranger and Tonto.  We went to the movies to watch cowboy shows every chance we could.  We both used sticks as imaginary horses.  I remember a long piece of brown wood with white paint alone the 3/4″ side was my horse which had a white mane.

From morning to sunset it was ride em cowboy and shoot up the bad guys.  I must have shot my brother a million times and he did the same to me.  Sometimes we would argue who shot who first.  But for sure eventually one of us would pretend to die.  In fact we could take almost forever to die as we exaggerated the slowest of slow deaths.

Wow – can you imagine what might happen to us in today’s uptight modern world?  We would be taken out of school, away from our parents, placed in custody and required to talk to a shrink with an agenda to dismantle the spirit of the boy we were created with and then require we be put on some sort of drug.  I suspect today’s so called highly educated self proclaimed experts must have experienced a seriously lack oxygen to the brain that effected their critical thinking capacity.  Or worse they must be taking self prescribed drugs that cause them to seek safe zones from little boys.

Think about it neither my brother, nor I or any of our cousins or friends ever killed a single person because we had what today’s experts do not honor and was probably never covered in their higher educational curriculum or internship experience.  We had mothers and fathers of  faith took us to church every Sunday and when necessary gave us a spanking.  Gosh they sent us to a Catholic School where “religion” and the “ten commandments” were taught.  Gosh my brother and I knew the difference between play, pretending and real life even when we were little boys.

This is called being “churched” versus those being incarcerated in our modern world that are now recognized as being “unchurched”.

Go figure – just how smart are the secular progressives?