A Weiner Idol = An Image of what is Not!

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Climbing up on a pedestal is a very dangerous act.  The a massacred human ego and self pride are the greaser facilitators who provide an ever ready ladder for those who climb to the top of a pedestal.

Problem is — there is no graceful way down once one has crested the top.  I can testify to this truth and the reality the landing from the fall is gonna hurt deep down in that secret place where ones decisions are made!

It can make one mad as hell!  That’s why we call it a significant emotional event!

Not surprised — are you?  Anthony the Weiner is trying to escape from the image of who he really is!  What better way than to create an American Idol image of what he thinks people want to see!  In truth some folks can always be fooled but thank God not everyone can be fooled.

Serious and meaningful examination of self is hard work and it takes a lot of time to overcome values unexamined for thirty years or more.

Yet such an event offers blessings that last a lifetime and bring freedom — Remember – who was it that said – The Truth will set one Free?

For significant emotional event to work it’s magic requires one to walk through the valley of tears and there is no short cut.  We humans are most adaptive creatures – Anthony has learned well and perfected the behavior of a little professor who is skilled at redirecting accountability for self and escaping being held accountable for the truth.

Behavior Scientist teach us “Little Professor” behavior prevents the development or adult relationships and short circuits effective communications.

Will someone please tells the members of the congress, the senate and yes the president!

In Anthony’s case, this current significant event must eventually threaten him to the core of his being if he is to reap the opportunity for spiritual and human growth!  It is only when one has cause to openly and honestly stare, question and look into the mirror of self truth that the possibility of God Spirit of healing and forgiveness can begin work it’s magic.

Anthony has spent a life time creating this image he has of himself, which has been nurtured and supported by those in his own party.

The Unfolding story of a traveling Weiner trying to escape the fire — to be continued ……….

R & R — Are they Balanced?

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R & R = Railroad – could be?

R & R Rest and Recovery – could be?

R & R Rest and Recreation – could be?

R & R Rights and Responsibilities in Balance – Oh no say it ain’t so!

The Truth requires a balance between one’s Right and Responsibilities!

Oh no not that truth word again!

America the land of the free and the brave!  The land of I have my rights and I am free to pursue my Rights!

What is this Rights must be balanced with Responsibilities crap?

What is this consti9tution, Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights and the Balance of Power?

Me not wanna be responsible – me wanna you be responsible and take care of me.  Me demand my rights!  Me wanna eat the little red hens cake cause me have my rights!

Anyone notice the Federal Government is our of control – no limits on spending cause me not wanna be responsible – me not wanna lose power and control over the people cause it’s all about me – I been working hard to create me elite politician class with no respo0nsibility – just rights to take the peoples money!

Time has come for a significant emotional event for the elite political class!  Time to go to the “Wood Shed” where Rights and Responsibility are balanced in the shape of a board made especially for butt whipping!

 

Anthony Wiener – Congressman – what are his gut level values?

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Notice Anthony Weiner, the US congressman to the House of Representatives from the 9th district of New York is having a significant emotional event in his life.

Truth is better than fiction – You can’t make this stuff up!

Anthony has been operating as tough he is bullet proof!  He has gained great notoriety and along came fame.  Anthony was elated and raised himself to such a level prestige he could operate above the moral values of the nation and do no wrong.  After all Anthony Weiner has been coronated as the go to TV personality spokesperson for so many in the Democratic progressive secular humanism is our God party!  He is literally the guy they put out front to lead – We can let Anthony do it — he’ll do most anything – he is a real Weiner!

Anthony is the best at insulating himself from the truth and avoiding real consequences for his actions .   Please don’t look children!

But then, full of himself Anthony, decided he could share his Weiner self to the cyber world without consequence and revealed his true self and with it his gut value system for the world to see and examine.  This going to take awhile!

Now Anthony is starring the truth mirror which he can not escape.  The truth is looking him in the eye and the truth doesn’t blink!

The question is – will this situation create sufficient emotional turmoil within Anthony that he can not escape an in depth evaluation of his gut level values?

I suspect he may not, as yet encountered sufficient fullness of the truth, to be spiritually opened up to the examination of his inner soul.  Self examination is the only avenue for  hope of being set free again to choose again a Godly set of values, first for himself and then for those he chooses to associate with.

We will be parying the Good Lord will give Anthony the answers to the prayers he needs and not the answers he wants.

The Weiner drama continues to unfold – Lord Have Mercy on us all – especially our children – close your eyes !!!!  ……..

 

Values – Uh? – By Two a Child must believe they are God

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Values – we think when we use this word i.e. American Values, we are speaking of shared values.  Well this simply not the case.  Values is a word that triggers a positive indication of unity and agreement of thought when in fact could communicate a conflict as drastic as God versus the Devil and Good versus Evil.

Don’t let the word values fool you, especially when it is tied to another word like “Amercian”, “Family” or “Religious”.

Understanding how, when and where values are set and chosen is critical to discerning and grappling with the truth!  This is no place for the timid or those with a closed mind and heart!  Values is a word that lies in the essence of the meaning of life and death.

Unfortunately, many times the only way a human person can confront their own values is to encounter a significant emotional events of such magnitude they are left grappling and thirsting to discover the reason they have become so unhappy about a given set of circumstances.

Are you ready to go into the woods and try and cut down the impedimanets mother nature has placed in your path?

Want to understand how and why people possess specific political, religious and cultural values?

Where do our values come from?  When do we humans select our values.  How do we select our values?  And once chosen what does it take to change our value/s?

The human condition is an interesting and complex set of circumstances!  A child comes automatically equipped with both animal  and spiritual instincts.  An infant child doesn’t choose these instincts and has absolutely no control over where in this world it ends up.

There is an essential survival instinct every child is born with however!  What is it you say?  It is the built in desire and spirit of every child to survive no matter the circumstances the child arrives in! 

Without any conscious thought a child comes equipment with the knowledge of a behavior designed by it’s creator that will bring attention to itself.  A baby knows how and when to cry wiothout prompting!  When hungry a child cry’s.  When afraid a child cry’s.  When a child mess’s it’s pants the child cries.  When the child wants a human touch it cry’s.  When a child is sick it cries.  All of this activity requires no training or preparation.  The creator and mother nature prepared the child for this day from the day of conception.  

A unseen secondary inborn skill lurks in every child as their ability to perceive and encounter other humans develops.  A child comes equipped with the knowledge and ability to learn how to read body language.  In fact, this skill is so great, by the time a child is two years old the ability to read body langauge has been perfected to the point it has become an automatic function performed without thought or reflection.  In fact every human trusts this instinct to a point it will get them in trouble multiples times during their life.

Oh yea, we think we are that good at reading body langauge!  Ever heard “the spots on leper never change”.  Yep it comes from the belief we can read body lnagauge so well and an assumption the other person is like us and unbale to chnage what we think is their values.  Oh boy do we think we are great at this!  How could we be wrong?

Try and remeber a human is both anuimal and spiritual!  Which is in control?  Often times, especially while we are young, it is the animal instinct.  But the reality exists as we grow older we encounter failures where our ability to read body language fails us and we encounter some very upste people.  Some of those people we have come to love!  It is then we begin to search and seek understanding as to why we have caused hurt, anger, woundedness and even hostitlity from someone we trust and love!

It is when the spirit that dwells within begins to thrist and dig for the truth that we begin to grow beyond the limits of our animal instincts.   

To be continued …..

Elementary School Warfare

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Ready to Stretch your brain!

Most haven’t noticed the war that has been taking place in our elementary schools for many generations.  Oh it started back in the sixties and it hasn’t let up.

Human Gut Level Values are Set at Age 11.

The reason for targeting elementary schools is based upon research that has shown we humans set our gut level values when we are around the age of 11 – generally when our children are in the 5th & 6th grades.  Once set these gut level values are not easy to bring to the surface and examine let alone choose to change them.

This is why choosing a school, knowing what is being taught and teaching children at home at an early and young age is so gosh darn important.

What are your children’s gut level values?  How do they match up with yours?

Imagine if you can for a moment.  Human gut level values are set when we are children around the time we turn 11.  For the rest of our lives we humans begin to view the world through the values we accepted when were 11 and do it without thought.

Now if someone could control and influence what is taught in elementary school one could gradually change a culture.

One would begin with school teachers, after all at age 11 they know everything in the eyes of a youngster.  Now teachers tend to join and support teachers unions.  One then could conclude a natural tendency would exist to support a left leaning social cultural point of view and would serve as an excellent targeting strategy to begin an effort to change cultural based and value based gut level values.

That is exactly what Bill Ayers and others Marxist leaning social agenda driven individuals began doing in the 1960’s.  They recognized the potential power available in the elementary school system combined with the natural tendency of the human creature to be developing almost automatically their gut level values which influence their outlook of the world for years to come.

This human characteristic to set gut level values carries with it the added difficulty for the individual to clearly and quickly recognise their own gut level values.  In fact, about the only way a human person can be made aware of gut level values to have them trespassed upon to the degree the individual gets pissed off sufficiently they begin to again earnest to search for the reason why they are so darn upset.  This is referred to and called a Significant Emotional Event!  It is the necessary upheaval that has the hidden potential to cause one to look at their gut level values for the very first time again.

Over the past several generations our American culture has turned dramatically away from religion in significant numbers.  Something has replaced religion for millions of American children.  A new gut level value set has been formed and we are dealing with it now.  What has replaced the teachings of Jesus Christ?  What has replaced the story of Love and Suffering and Forgiveness on a Cross?  What has replaced the social justice teachings of Jesus Christ?

 

 

 

 

Here’s Looking Back at You

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Sixth Sunday of Easter May 29, 2011

I want you to use your God given imaginations today.  Pretend you have a mirror in your hand.  Oh I know, the women are better at this than men.  But when we men are honest, we know when were teenagers we spent a good deal of time in front of a mirror prepping for that moment we might encounter that girl of our dreams.

Hold up your mirror in front of your face and gaze into it!  Here’s looking at you!  The Holy Spirit seeks to draw the one looking back in the mirror into the unfolding story of salvation history.  It is a Spirit of unity and evangelization in this Easter season as the feast of Pentecost draws near.

We hear the voices of the early Christians, a Deacon, the Apostles, Peter himself and Jesus Christ who teaches He is always in unity with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  Each voice is calls us out to an adventure by participating in the evangelization of the world.

Are we ready?  Simultaneously we are confronted by a world unable and unwilling to recognize, let alone encounter the spirit of truth.  As such the world creates artificial boundaries and stumbling blocks for us.  It works on our expectations of who is the one called to this job.  So whose job is it?  It’s the pope’s job!  It’s the Bishop or priest’s job!  No it’s the deacon’s job!  Well it’s not my job?  The works overtime to an escape artists attitude in each one of us!

We have been taught and know the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one.  The Commandments come from one, the Word Incarnate comes from another while the spirit of the advocate comes from yet another.  Today’s scriptures teach while each may appear to move independently the Trinity always moves and works in harmony and unity of purpose.

It is our worldly view that contaminates and prevents us from seeing the fullness of the truth.

Acts Chapter 8: 1.  On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. 2 Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. 3 But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

What a mess – what a mess!  The early church confronted a mess from the very beginning!

And before we can take a breath, we hear of Steven, one of the seven chosen to wait at table to serve widows and free the apostles to pray, teach and preach.  Not expected is Steven chosen as a waiter and there he is out preaching the good news in the street for which he is stoned to death.  And who is standing in the crowd but Paul the unexpected converter of the gentiles.  Remember Paul who is watching as Steven is being stoned to death is still hard at work hunting down and persecuting Christians.

That is the back drop of today’s liturgy of the word describing the formation of the early church.  God reveals himself in salvation history by calling and opening the unexpected folk to step into the role of evangelist.

Because of the persecution, the early converts fled into Samaria.  Today’s reading describes what may be the first-time advance of the gospel across the cultural threshold into Samaria.

Again in this story we hear of Philip!  Who was Philip?  Philip like Steven was one of the original seven deacons.  And true to the deacon’s call, Philip is in a foreign world of Samaria and steps into the middle of a spiritual encounter on behalf of the pioneering evangelization spirit of the church.

The Samaritans were noted for practicing sorcery and magic.  They were a society steeped in occult magic and syncretistic religious practice.  Syncretistic means they were willing to merge differing and even opposed beliefs systems which in truth were in conflict.  Confusion about the truth was subverted not so unlike it is today.  Political correctness practiced in our day is syncretistic.

Philip was reaching out, preaching, teaching and healing a people who had an awareness of faith and scripture but lacked a personal encounter with the spirit of truth.

We hear when the apostles heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John who prayed for them that they may receive the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit had not fallen on them yet, until the apostles laid hands on them and they received.  Why was the Holy Spirit delayed?

The Holy Spirit is the advocate that unites and preserves the unity of the church while the world continuously seeks to create human animosity between peoples like the Jews and Samaritans.  The unfolding story of God’s plan reveals the laying of hands through the apostles is the process of the church unifying peoples.  The Holy Spirit converts on both sides of the cultural barrier between peoples.   The fullness of Holy Spirit seeks to open and reveal Christ through the process of people finding each other. Samaritans and Jewish Christians were assured that the Samaritans were truly regenerate and the spiritual equals of regenerate Jews.

The symbol of the unity of the Church through the Holy Spirit is revealed through the laying on of hands.

So how does this affect me?  Back to the mirror in your hand!  Listen to 1 Peter again!  “Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks for a reason for hope!”  The people of our nation and the world are desperate and starving for hope and an encounter with the truth of who they were created to be!

The one looking back in the mirror was created for this day and time.  The one looking back in the mirror is the unexpected one who encounters people everyday who thirsts for hope and purpose.

“Do it with gentleness and reverence keeping your conscience clear, so that when you are maligned, those who defame your good conduct may themselves be put to shame.”  God’s counter to political correctness is the truth!

Yep each one here is called to Go into the world and proclaim the Good News.

To Garrett

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My first born grandson!  The apple your daddy’s eye!  Sorry son but your outnumbered 4-1 and I can’t help you much.  I gotta believe God wants you to learn a lot more about women than I know – it’s simple – he surrounded you with them and you can’t escape.

Maybe that’s why you like older women huh?  Can’t forget the reason you gave for liking your sisters good looken friends.  “I can’t help myself – I just do”!  I suspect that’s the Best answer I’ll ever hear!

In spite of your older women tendencies, God gave you many manly instincts.  When you where a little tyke, just able to walk – your sisters would walk through the garage directly into our house.  But not you, you would have to check out the guys stuff in the garage on the way in and getting dirty was part of the job.

But your real manly man talents shined the day your dad took you fishing on his boat when you were still a tyke.  No napping for me daddy!  I couldn’t believe you didn’t take a nap!  You were there to enjoy the outdoors and fish all day long!  Let me catch em and take em off the hook.  And just show you how much promise I have – I’ll kiss the fish too.  And let me handle those worms.  Well it’s true little boys and dirt go together naturally!

God must have sent you through an energy field on your way to delivery.  You give the energizer bunny a run for the money!

Well there is an exception – the first time I took you deer hunting – 6 Am in the morning and it was really dark.  We walked over to a food plot and sat in a blind about an hour   before sunrise.  You put your head down on my knee wand went fast asleep.  About 15 minutes before sunrise you woke you took one look around.  No deer, let’s go back to the cabin paw paw.  God was good to us that day.  On our way back, across the lake was a fawn eating acorns under an oak tree.  Yes it was a successful hunt we had together.

I love you son.

To Taylor

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You are a joy to my heart and a treasure sent form heaven with a sense of humor to boot!  God knew we needed a love button and you are it.  Taylor (Tay Tay) with a “H” for Hug me and I will hug you back!  And though you probably grown tied of hearing it, your as close to a spiting image of your grand mother as you can get.  You are more like my wife’s sister than her grand child.

I still remember the day your folks brought you our house when you were first learning to walk.  You stopped on the drive way and had bent down to look at something on the ground for what seemed an eternity.  There you were chest against knees like only toddlers can do.  I had to find out what was it that caught your imagination.  So I came over and bent down (as I could chest to knees) to see if could discover what had captured your imagination.  Almost unseen was the tiniest ant I think I ever saw crawling across the concrete.

You helped me discover again the beauty and mystery of God creation that unfolds before unseeing eyes.  You give me moments that are etched in my mind forever.  Thank you for the beauty you bring to my life.

Oh how we wish you could come to our house and stay over more often.  Only problem for me, is I lose my sleeping bed unless you make a pallet on the floor when your sister and brother stay over as well.

And that wonderful smile, look at me I hit the ball but I am not gonna run!  Someday, I will get that chance to watch you run to first base – maybe when we visit in heaven.

I love you!

To Haleigh

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You have blessed me with treasures and visions of beauty beyond those I could dream of.  I pray one day I can bring as much joy and beauty to your life as you have to mine.

From the time you were a baby before you could walk and talk I knew God had graced you with marvelous motherly instincts.  The gentle way you took care of your dollies and yet even more spectacular was how you looked after your baby sister as if she was your own child.  How could one so young have these instincts unless it was a gift from God.  You are going to make the best mom some day.

I will never forget the day your uncle Troy brought his first daughter to our house.  You already knew the hoped for treasure she could be.  The excitement I saw in your eyes and your sisters and how the two of you encircled that new baby like.  She was going to become your new best friend forever.  Someone you could play and share life’s journey with.

The hope of that moment still lives in my heart!  I pray you will never let the bumps in life ever diminish the innocence and purity of your spirit for love of family.

I pray one day God will bless with the opportunity to encounter the joy of that moment that will always live in my heart!

I love you.

 

Sixth Sunday of Easter May 29, 2011

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Sixth Sunday of Easter May 29, 2011

The Holy Spirit seeks to draws us into the unfolding story of salvation history.  It is a Spirit of unity and evangelization as the feast of Pentecost draws near.  We hear the voices of the early Christians, a Deacon, the Apostles, Peter himself and as always Jesus Christ who is always in unity with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  Each voice calls us to venture out and evangelize the world.

Artificial Barriers and Stumbling Blocks for the Spirit of Truth:

Are we ready?  We are confronted by a world unable and unwilling to recognize let alone encounter the spirit of truth.  As such the world creates artificial boundaries and stumbling blocks for us.  So whose job is it?  It’s the pope’s job!  It’s the Bishop or priest’s job!  No it’s the deacon’s job!  Well it’s not my job?  Escape artists are we!

3 in 1

We know the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one.  The Commandments come from one, the Word Incarnate comes from another, while the spirit of the advocate comes from another.  Today’s scriptures teach, while each may appear to move independently the Trinity always moves and works in harmony and unity of purpose.

World View Contaminates:

It is our worldly view that contaminates and prevents us from seeing the fullness of the truth.

Acts Chapter 8: 1.  On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. 2. Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. 3. But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

What a mess – what a mess!  And This where we start! 

Before we can take a breath, Steven, one of the seven is out preaching the good news in the street for which he is stoned to death.  There standing in the crowd is Paul watching on.  Remember Paul is still hard at work hunting down and persecuting Christians.

That is the back drop of today’s liturgy of the word describing the formation of the early church.

Because of this persecution, the early converts fled into Samaria.  Today’s reading describes what may be the first-time advance of the gospel across the cultural threshold into Samaria.

In this story we hear of Philip!  Who was Philip?  Philip like Steven was one of the original seven deacons.  And true to the deacons call, Philip is in a foreign world of Samaria in the middle of a spiritual encounter on behalf of the pioneering evangelization spirit of the church.

Samaritans = Syngenistic (Merging even opposed beliefs):

The Samaritans were noted for practicing sorcery and magic.  They were a society steeped in occult magic and syncretistic religious practice.  Syncretistic means they were willing to merge differing and even opposed beliefs systems which in truth were in conflict.  Confusion about the truth was subverted not so unlike it is today,

Philip was reaching out, preaching, teaching and healing a people who had an awareness of faith and scripture but lacked a personal encounter with the spirit of truth.

The Laying of Hands / Unity of Spirit:

When the apostles heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John who prayed for them that they may receive the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit had not fallen on them yet, until the apostles laid hands on them and they received.  Why was the Holy Spirit delayed?

The Holy Spirit is the advocate that unites and preserves the unity of the church while the world seeks to create human animosity between Jew and Samaritan.  The unfolding story of God’s plan reveals the apostles came to unify peoples, converts on both sides of the cultural barrier.   The fullness of Holy Spirit seeks to open and reveal Christ through the process of people finding each other. Samaritans and Jewish Christians were assured that the Samaritans were truly regenerate and the spiritual equals of regenerate Jews.

Unity:

The symbol of the unity of the Church through the Holy Spirit is revealed through the laying on of hands.  So how does this effect me?  Listen to 1 Peter again!  Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks for a reason for hope!  Do it with gentleness and reverence keeping your conscience clear, so that when you are maligned, those who defame your good conduct may themselves be put to shame.

Yep each one is called to Go into the world and proclaim the Good News.