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Chigago O’Hare and “AI”

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1970’s

In the 1970’s I was selected as Data Systems Analyst in the Air Traffic System at the World’s busiest Airport Air Traffic Facility! Chicago O’Hare airport – ORD! After attended a few months of training in Oklahoma City I returned to work at O’Hare and began an intensive real time learning experience!

Due to the heavy volume of arrivals and departures at the airport, the only time I could work on the new ARTS III system was during the mid night shifts!

Began Writing Software:

Early on I began writing software to fix some needed software changes to fix problems that were not detected during the earliest development of the system!

I remember one night standing in front of this giant computer, taller and wider than me, with seemingly a thousands of buttons to display memory / contents – 32 bit bits – binary / octal! Yikes my mind was being stretched yet I managed to persist!

One Particular Middle of the Night:

This particular night, I had written an important patch to fix a serious problem from the night before which keep me from sleeping! Stress was really real! An essential ingredient necessary for one to grow!

The system had a horn and a failure light just part of the system! Well this night I hit the start button after having manually entered the software change coded in Octal!

Within seconds the system horn went off shaking me wide awake and the failure light shown bright!

I still remember cursing the computer because I couldn’t possible make a mistake!

Shaken by this event I was launched into investigating just went wrong!! This is hard work folks! Not easy especially when pride gets in the way!

Oh my I couldn’t believe my eyes – yes I my logic was the cause of the failure – humility found me in the middle of the night and wisdom began to grow in spite of the pride!

A Lesson was taught in the Middle of the Night with Stress:

A lesson for the ages was born – for today I am 81 and know this is exactly how “Artificial Intelligence” will be developed! Do not miss my point! Humanity seeks the Power of God as “In the Beginning” – Adam and Eve – in the Harden!

I wonder if ever I will be able to tell my grand children this story???

Yes Parental power can block and prevent the passage of wisdom unseen from generation to generation!

“AI” will have such power by default and young – very very young people today are being handed technology humanity has never before had access to let alone have parents and leaders handing this technology to little children who do not have the ability to discern or understand the great danger this technology represents!

And “Screen Time” impacts the brain of any human triggering the opposite side of the human brain to develop at a rate no other human generation has ever experienced!

I wonder if anyone will read what I wrote??? And just can I communicate to my grand children – “Do not be afraid – you were born for this day”!!

To my Grand Children:  I pray one day something will shake you awake to see the coming written in the Book of Revelation! Yes you were born for this day and time! Protect your children by exposing them to God’s creation / “the Sun” and “the Son”!

Advent 2024

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Advent

—> a season and a word not always comprehended! A penitential season – yep! – penance – many “oh not for me”!!!!

One only needs to look at the Cross with Jesus hanging there to begin to get a glimpse of penitential!
Yes to suffer for all others in spite of oh so many not aware!
Does anyone remember when sour wine was lifted up to touch His lips! Just before the objective of silencing the speaker of Truth! A reward???????
What did He say to us? Oh yea! Pick up your cross and come follow me!!!
A Penitential a season to be celebrated immediately before the time we give thanks and remember His birth in a stable — Christmas!!
One who speaks the Truth in today’s world will soon receive “Sour Wine” lifted to touch one’s lips!
Hmmmm’. Brother and Sister — What’s that face???

In the Beginning Original Sin

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The Real Time Spiritual War – Yes 2024

When I write about the current Spiritual War against the “One Flesh” – God’s design for family I am recalling the Biblical Story found in the Book of Genesis as “In the beginning”!
The last 35 years of my life have lead me all the way back to “In the beginning”! It is the story of the nature of man know as “Original” sin largely cast aside by the modern world!
Jesus was there “in the beginning” and thus knew exactly the flaws and nature of humans! He knew way back when what would be required to penetrate the hard heart, stiff neck and stubborn nation of humankind to “blame” everyone except themselves!

35 Years ??  Wow!

The past 35 years I have sat and listened to humans looking into the mirror of “Truth” asking “Who am I” and “was I created this way”? Well the answer is clear —> “Yes you were created with the original Flaw called sin”!!!

Blame – Not my Fault:

Blame someone else – couldn’t be me – Yep – Adam and Eve!The wish to deny reality and Truth while placing the blame on the one testifying to the Truth!!

The Cross:

Take such a risk and one will find their cross! Listen to the voice of the one who sent me! “Pick up your cross 1st”. Then come and follow me!! Rejection and persecution of the one who dares to speak Truth and clarify who it is that seeks to deceive!
Not so easy to follow! Message triggered by Article in the “The Epoch Times” Nov. 20-26 2024 “Life&Tradition” C4!
Yep 2024 approaching 2025 – the great deceiver is still working hard!

Steps Made of Rock

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One of the things that impressed me most was how Deacon Alfred Mitchell’s (Jose) wife was treated at his vigil and funeral!!!

Honor a word missing in the Secular World:

Honor is a word not always fulfilled! All of the good Alfred accomplished was time his wife graciously supported his calling!

My Rock: Lynn

As a married Deacon my spirit can’t do much without the support of my wife!!
Thank you Lynn, my unseen partner, as I travel to places were so very few people ever venture! Unselfish love are the stable steps my feet walk upon! Unseen yet made of “Rock”!

The To Be Continued – Jesus in the Boat Asleep:

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Well where did I leave off? Oh yea my dad’s reaction in the middle of the night in the middle of the Storm / Squall! Oh my Today’s Gospel! Jesus sleeping in the boat in the middle of a Squall while his brothers were filled with anxiety!! Yea you and me – we humans! A test of faith and trust!! Do you trust me to finish?
My dad said – “Son it’s just the lightning”!  Go and get back in bed!
Magic words – my father had spoken! Promptly, I walked back into my room, got back in bed, covered myself with my blankets and immediately went fast asleep as the Squall, lightning, thunder and the blaring sirens continued unabated! Holy Smokes! Pay attention the Father speaks and everything – yes everything has a purpose! God wanted me to never forget that night!
Why I ask? Yes Lord – for you today! We are living in just such a Squall only it is a man made storm on purpose! The Great deceiver is working at deceiving humanity! Yes he is! I was born for this day and so were you!
Every time Jesus met his disciples his first words were “do not be afraid” and “peace be with you”! Yea he knew our humanity – he was there the day humanity male and female were created! He knows us inside and out!! We can not hide from Him!
And yes, yes, he loves us exactly where we are – yes even in the middle of the storm when we are caught red handed helping the great deceiver lead us down a fantasy trail into the bolt of lightning and fire!
Teach your children the Truth – you can be the best news your children and grand children and even great grand children can ever encounter!
So Friday the Good Lord sent me a 40+ year old inmate who was adopted as a baby yet
drugs took him on a journey where the Good Lord gave him to me as a gift and treasure!
I encourage each of you to become that treasure yourself where. Fear is replaced with peace! Yea an encounter with Jesus in the boat sleeping in the midst of a squall!
You know I gave this reflection to inmates in a State Prison.  English and Spanish.  One Spanish inmate did not speak English and so it was with Faith and Trust I asked the other Hispanic inmates to relay the story!

Squall and Jesus Asleep in the Boat:

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Usual for me!! Went to prison today! Group growing slowly! New Hispanic inmate today brought to my Catholic service by a brother Muslim friend! Abraham had two sons!
Two weeks before another brother inmate attended! Discovered he was adopted! Drugs and the addiction the normal partner married to drugs blinded the ability to see destination prison!
Being stretched because one inmate does not speak English! Having to develop habit to stop talking and ask my Hispanic brothers to provide him with an update on what was discussed!
Jesus in a boat! Squall comes up – rough seas and Jesus is asleep! Disciples in disbelief – wake up Jesus!
Holy Smokes!! Words I use when it dawns on me a life experience!
I was in 3rd or 4th grade! Home town just installed Sirens in town to warn citizens that rockets had been launched and are on the way to the USA! My dad’s factory participated in a civil defense drill! Objective: Turn on the sirens, evacuate the factory and the town to the country side to test the evacuation system.
For a young kid this was serious stuff!
Every Thursday at 11 AM the towns sirens were tested! Oh boy this certainly drove the point home for this kid!!!
Later that summer during the night a squall storm was passing over our town. Lightning and thunder exploded everywhere! The rain drops came pouring! I was doing pretty good in bed until the Sirens began blasting in the night!  I squirmed in bed thinking about the reason for the sirens in the first place! I began wondering when my dad would come and get me, my brother and mother and take to the country hills safe from the coming rockets! I was sweating!
Dad when you coming?  Dad — Dad when you coming??  Anxieity running wild!
Finally I got out of bed – went to mom and dad’s bedroom to wake my dad! Oh boy was I afraid! I knew when someone woke my dad he might come up swinging! Yikes! Yet my fear and anxiety caused me to shake him anyway! When my dad woke up- I quickly told him about the sirens blasting!!!
I will never forget my dad’s reaction – to be continued!

Listening: Synod: 10 Years Versus 3 Sessions:

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Do Our Ears Work?:

Going to Catholic Synod listening session tonight! Have been reflecting upon this process since it was first proposed about 3 years ago. For me one of the results of my reflection is I began the Synod process of listening starting back in the late 1980’s.
What triggered my connection to the Synod process was when I was asked to do a ministry that made me “UNCOMFORTABLE”! Yikes! So how did the Good Lord lead me there?
Well my brother called me on the phone and informed me our cousin of my Aunt Jane had HIV and was suffering with AIDS. It hit me in the face! “What can I do to help him”? He lived in Chicago and I lived in the Atlanta area.
So I started searching around for what I could do. I ran across Sister Margaret McAnoy at the Shrine of Immaculate Conception in Atlanta. I called her up and asked, “What can I do”? So began 10 years of traveling to the heart of Atlanta on Tuesday nights to the basement of the Shrine!

When Uncomfortable do we Listen more Intently:?

First night! Got there early! Oh they served a meal to people with HIV on Tuesday nights. I was there to help deliver the meals to the tables of the people who came. Honest!!! I was fearful because at the time no one knew how the HIV virus was passed. I stood there with my back up against the wall watching. My body was pressing hard against the wall! Yes it was! I still remember.

Oh my – Called and Sent:

One of the volunteers that night had eyes that could see my loud communication! He came over to me and asked? “Why are you here”? Heck I didn’t know it at the time – “I was called and sent to learn how to listen”. I told him about my brothers call and my response. He didn’t seem satisfied with my answer!
All I can say is the Holy Spirit was working! Because I then asked asked him if there were any other AIDS / HIV ministries in Atlanta?

Tears – What is Happening to me:?

Well yes he said. After I serve here I am going to the Good Samaritan Project where people gather to support people suffering with HIV / AIDS! Can I follow you I asked?
For the next ten years my training “in earnest” began! I could not have told anyone at the time because I had not figured out just what the Good Lord was doing to me.
How did I discover this truth? On my drive home from downtown Atlanta I would pass by the Atlanta Fulton County Stadium. By the time I was passing the Stadium “Great Bid Crock-a-dial Tears were streaming down my checks”!
My prayer – “Lord what is happening to me”? What are these tears about?
Today I can tell you! I was learning how to listen with my spiritual eyes and see with my spiritual ears!
Some of you may think this story is complete. No no no – No way! the Good Lord just had cut a new pathway into my heart!
But yes – way back in 1990 I entered the spiritual school as a unknowing student being trained to learn how in the use of ones spiritual eyes and ears!

The Journey Continues:

More to the Story: To be continued:!!! Yet this very day I reenter the story again!

Can we See? Long Missing – Good News Arrives:

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One of the things I learn in prison is: We people often have ears and eyes that simply can’t hear or see!! Case in point!
1. Brought good news pictures of freed inmate recently marriage and celebrating birth on new baby daughter to share.
2. Great surprise – young man shows up who has been missing for more than a year! I recognize face but old me can’t find the name!
Previously, he only came for a few months and then disappeared! Discovered the reason he didn’t come is because he found a unique way to get into trouble within the prison resulting in more punishment keeping him from coming! NOW Just HOW Slow are your EARS and EYES????? Evidence of Good News is standing in our Face!!
3. Next thing I know old inmate is complaining about wanting to hear good uplifting news!!!
Yes folks sometimes we are both death and blind!
4. I don’t have to go to prison to visit yet somehow I have managed to make weekly visits since 2010 with a forced COVID break!  Yet I too can stumble!
5. Buried in this message is Good News Shouting! Yes yes yes – He came to die for me! Yes yes yes He told me I would be rejected! Yes yes yes He loves you in the midst of your Sin! Yes yes yes He doesn’t give up when we get discouraged!
6. Yes yes yes He is calling you right now!!! Hmmm. How your eyes and ears doing?
7. Thank you Lord for the Cross – the only way to open the Door where the Narrow Gate is hidden!
8. Yea “Merry Christmas” Yep he came for you and me too! Say this prayer: Help me Lord do your Will! Often I am not so sure I am!! God loves you where you are this moment regardless of your Sin!
Amen:

The Roman Empire Self Destructs: Hmmm America Today

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We are witnessing the war and destruction of American Values and Principles everyday in so called elite universities and colleges!

Fools logic!  Make no mistake no human being can change gender the specific great deceiver war against the Christian Truth proclaimed by Jesus Christ Himself! Procreation and the One Flesh design as “In the Beginning” is the prime target of the current political Marxist movement in our nation!

What? Decolonization?  What is that?  Decolonization is supported by the current Democratic Party leadership!  Can we connect the Dots?

Abort babies by every means possible under any circumstance clearly articulates every means possible without consideration of reality or God’s design. LBGTQ is in lock step with this war! Those who celebrate the LBGTQ movement and gender choice agenda are guilty of supporting the Great Deceivers War against God’s design for humanity!

The Border – the Border:

The open border decision allows the mass transfer drugs purposely targeting young American children and young adults! Are we asleep?  Yes decolonization is politically supported by the Political establishment!

We stand as witness’s to our own self destructive nature = Sin! Check around and you will find even people who refer to themselves as devout Catholic’s celebrating the great deceivers War against life itself!

By any means possible includes the Great Deceivers agenda – embrace sin – decolonization and replacement of people using every method including science, doctors who remove healthy organs to satisfy the Devils War!  All the while proclaiming man has replaced God’s design with selfie self focused purely on emotions and feelings!

Our Nation and many of our top leaders have aligned themselves with the Devil’s agenda! Yes folks this is an intense War humanity has not encountered in previous generations!

The next battlefield and new weapon is upon us!  Artificial Intelligence a non living entity:  AI will reside within a non living technical invention humans will begin to worship and will not be able to live without!  The Smart Phone has arrived.  The arrival of  modern man’s newest God and is now establishing it’s worship among foolish vulnerable young while simultaneous the long war against the One Flesh design is reaching record epidemic levels of destruction to protect God’s design to safe guard the truth — through the protection of the One Flesh!

Thought Provoking: Blessing Irregular Couples

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Finding it thought provoking that the issue regarding blessing irregular couples seems to hand cuffed the leadership of the Catholic Church from addressing the over ridding Spiritual War against God’s design from “In the beginning”!
That design is described as the “One Flesh” which encompasses the very best solution to teaching and the education of children from the earliest of ages!
The ordained priests have for ages used the title “Father”!  They seem to have no understanding in the modern world of the true Fathers design for Father and Mother!
Focus is on irregular the couples issue?  Seems to me this issues is best addressing at the earliest ages long considered the time to Baptize babies.
So what is it the Catholic Church says to parents?  Expressing the hope that can exist in the first and the best teachers?  How about we get back to the basic’s of defining God’s design for the “One Flesh” in a world marriage is in decline as “Sin” abounds within the human family as “selfie self” has taken over the reigns of the leadership of the oldest Church?
Hmmm – how much danger am I in and from whom?
Make no mistake the “One” who brought me back to life has spoken!
Yea – and he spoke “pick up your cross and come follow me”! Yes, yes!  Joy is buried somewhere in the cross – the doorway lies hidden and only in the darkness of suffering can serve as the flashlight so the suffer can find the doorway in the dark!
Amen!