Game Changer — Each person can be a Tea Party Leader

There has been no other movement like 2008 Tea Party Movement and it may well be this nations salvation.

The Tea Party has no single leader!  It is not a political party!  The Tea Party is a Spirit that seeks the Truth!  The Tea Party asks the basic questions?  Who did our founding fathers say we were?  Are we a government of the people, by the people and for the people?  If not who have we become or are we becoming?  Is this who we want to be?

The Truth is a spirit and it will set us Free!

We have hope even though none of the former great nations of the worlds past  lasted much longer than 200 years and the clock is running on the USA fast.  The good ole USA is operating on borrowed time.  Yet something has happened that was never possible before in history.

The Gap Knowledge & Truth

Never before in history has the Gap of information between the Leaders and the People evaporated so fast!

All previous great nations rose rapidly in power and greatness and then fell from within almost overnight.  Control over the people of these great nations was always a concern of their leaders.  The gap of awareness between those who were leading the common people grew during those final days.  In other words the ordinary people or citizens of previous great nations could not see the fall coming and therefore were powerless to take action to prevent it.

The Game Changer!!!!

In 2011 there is a potential Game Changer!  We call it the “Internet” and the “Cell Phone” which the ordinary citizen has access too!  In this nation declared to be of the people, by the people and for the people, the people finally have an ability to communicate with each other no other nation in the history of world ever had.

The Main (Lame Propagation) Stream Media of this great Nation is no longer trustworthy.  Objective Journalism has been replaced with behavior that reflects that of a propaganda agent with an agenda counter to the Liberty and Freedom of ordinary citizens.  Access to objective and truthful facts and information to make an fully informed decision is now possible without the News Media.   Some in the main stream media appear to have been bought and paid for by powers seeking control over the common people.

Something amazing has happened in the last few years.  The people began to wake up to the new reality of an anti Republic movement in our own backyard.  For years this nation fought against socialism and communism and now we have leaders wish to take this nation away from its roots.

As a result the game changing technology has exploded on the scene and the people are now able to stay abreast of what their leaders are doing behind the scenes.  Instantaneous communication with verifying video recordings are now common place.  Secret agendas are becoming more and more difficult to hide.

Leaderless people, who share common values have found new tools which enable the common people to share information, facts and verify misinformation quickly.

Behavior Scientist — Leadership Skills

The Tea Party Patriots have no single leader.  This is not supposed to work or be possible according to professors with Phd’s.  Yet within the Tea Party every patriot is a leader.  As a group they do not endorse political candidates.  They expect elected officials to let them down from time to time because Tea Party people realize everyone is human.

I am a patriot and a  Tea Party Leader.  Made the trip to Washington DC – 9/12/2009.

Bus load of people from Georgia.  We prayed for the president, congress and senate.  Marched to the capital.  Stood for fiscal responsibility, limited constitutional government and free markets.

Made the trip to the American Policy Summit held in Phoenix, Az on the second anniversary of the Tea Party movement 2/25-27/ 2011.

Boy have I been called a lot of names.  Homophobic, radical extremist, racist, and just plain out of control.

For for me, acknowledging that I am a Tea Party Patriot is to say I have finally woke up from a long political awareness winters nap.  I have discovered this nation has been drifting all my life away from the values and traditions I was taught as a child.  This did not begin with Barack Obama but it certainly has accelerated.  A Tea Party Patriot is simply someone who is working hard to re-discover who our founding fathers said we were, then trying to figure who we are now and then decide if that is who we want to be!   It’s really a very basic and patriotic thing to do!

To be continued …..

The War – The Racist – The Homophobic – The Truth

There are many casualties in the war between the flesh and the spirit.  Honesty and truth, the foundational source of freedom and charity are being sacrificed for power and control.

In the 1980’s and 90’s I worked among those with HIV and AIDS.  It was a time of fear.  Few were sure how the AIDS virus was spread.  Further those with the virus were almost exclusively homosexuals and now because I associated with the Tea Party I am called homophobic.

In the 1970’s at my first opportunity to select and promote people, my first choices were the first black female to be selected as an automation specialist and a black male as a trainer who was raised in Puerto Rico.  Yet today, because I associate with the Tea Party movement I am called a racist by both Presidents Carter and Clinton.

Have American’s gone completely to sleep in front of the TV in their air conditioned homes watching American Idol and then elected the first American Idol president without a clue of knowing what he was or what he meant by hope and change.  Blind Trust to without knowing what he meant when he said “we can believe in”.  He promised transparency and gave us backroom politics and crony capitalism.   He promised we the people would have time to read the 25,00 word health care legislation and he signed it in two days.  He promised he would be a new kind of leader who would bring the right and the left together to gain the best ideas and then promptly slammed the door on the right.  We won he said!

Yet he did speak one truth! — we are who we are looking for.  The founders of our nation knew they needed a system of government to balance corruption because they held deep religious convictions and values.  They knew it was humanities nature to fall into to sin.  They would not be surprised by this nations division and polarization today because the most critical component in the balance of power they created is the American people.  Unfortunately we the people went to sleep while we were falling  away from the fundamental practice of religion which in it’s many forms always calls one to seek the truth.

Yet there is hope for us!!!  From down deep in our gut the voice of truth began to shout out – wake up, wake up America!  Wake up now or very soon we will be taken captive and placed in bondage to secular humanistic anti-god government that knows what is best for us controls our freedoms.  This anti-god form of religion knows better than ourselves or our families or our Church’s.  The door for the next holocaust has been opened.  The baby boomers are ready to begin collecting social security from a system that is bankrupt.  They are ready to collect on the promises of medicare and medicaid that is also bankrupt.  All the while this nation is spending like drunken sailors with access to unlimited funds they are borrowing from and saddling the younger generations with paying the bills!

Imagine the maturity – our children are responsible for supposed to be adults actions.  Go figure!

To be continued …..

Pouring Fuel on the Fire – Economic Crises

Is anyone asking, are we repeating what created the economic conditions and crises that fueled the rise of the Nazi war machine?  Are not the symptoms everywhere?  Have we not embarked upon a campaign that is facilitating division rather than uniting our people.  Have many politcal leaders embarked upon a campaign to discredit, marginalize and define the whole Tea Party as extremist and hate mongers.

The Balance of Power = Rights and Responsibilites

What about me, what about my rights, everyone is demanding their rights.  How many realize those rights must be balanced with responsibility.  No one in Washington DC is willing to make the necessary sacrifices to be responsible or held accountable.  Those in power today are doing a Dancing with the Stars version of dancing around responsibility as they spend their way off the cliff.  The democrats are Republicans on steroids and have pressed the accelerator to the floor as we approach the cliff and the point of no return.

Are we goonna crash and live?

To be continued …..

Unintended Consequences of Abortion

In 2010 the majority of babies are being born to unwed mothers.  Think about the millions of children who will be growing up without a father.  The real reality is a father figure is required and those children will be spending the rest of their lives looking for that father.  Who is the single mother going to turn to for the help the father Gods created through marriage?  Who are those children going to turn to, when they seek natures call to be loved by their God given father?

Things are getting worse as every years passes.  The western civilization cultures and the black communities are the greatest seekers of abortions.  The fertility rates among them are dropping drastically and their population numbers with them.  Other cultural groups, however are reproduction at a far faster rate and as a result are rapidly changing the demographics of our nation.  Very soon the white population will drop below 50%.  And with that decline, has anyone wondering what will happen to our western culture?

To be continued …..

Prayer – Abortion – Rights

The Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

If the weak, the poor, those unable to speak are not protected, then all mean are not created equal!  The first among these rights is life.  If life is not sacred, then nothing that follows is sacred!  If life is not protected, nothing else will be protected.

 What is the Truth?  Do we seek the truth?  Our creator told us the “truth will set us free”!   

What we demand or compromise on we get.  Is there such a thing as sin?  Is sin selfishness?  Is selfishness wanting to play God at someone else’s expense?  Has a new level of individual selfishness invaded our land and every sector of American society. 

In the 1960’s when I was kid, society began in earnest to take God and prayer out of school.  Not that they could, but that people of faith stopped spiritually prayer and assisted in the creation of a vacuum which began to be filled with idols of the world!. 

In the 1960’s abortion simultaneously stepped into this spiritual vacuum.  Judicial activism and the right to life for the unborn was sacrificed at the altar of an idol that destroys life.  Again Christians in society took their spiritual eyes off the consequences of accepting a lie as the truth and not putting up meaningful fuss.  Self replaced spirit!

People of the Christian faith just stuck thier heads in the sand and did not digest the seriousness of the waging war between the flesh and spirit.  When the life of the most innocent is no longer sacred, it follows life itself is diminished and no longer sacred and with it nothing else is sacred.

The Book of Genesis was written so long ago, it is ancient ancient history.  But if we look around our day, the garden of Eden battle rages on.  Secular progressive humanism is the new name of the flesh’s god.  And the war to knock the Almighty, one true God off the block is for real.

With the removal of prayer from school we accepted the removal of the symbol of God – the Father figure from our schools.  The battle to destroy the father in all forms accelerated.  What is taking place is schools today would have never been tolerated or dreamed of in the 1960’s.  The adult supervision in our schools are shaking in fear of retribution from the secular progressives.

Abortion laws granted the choice and right to the female alone.  The father, parents, family were caste out of the garden and the female left alone to confront the snake.  The spiritual “From the beginning” the creation of life was ignored. 

“From the beginning” – how lone ago was that? Does anyone remember God created them male and female to become one flesh.  Abortion struck a death blow to not only the unborn child but the father as well.  God was defeated  The father was destroyed and the female was p[laced upon the pedestal of the creation of life alone.  The female became God in the eyes of the secular progressive.

Think about it!  A young girl is protected by the government to make the decision to have an abortion and her parents have no rights!  Yet the same girl can not take an aspirin without her parents consent!  Have we gone brain dead? 

What has happened to “Marriage is between a male and a female and the two become one flesh (one spirit).

Hollywood serves as the hierarchy of the secular progressive church.  There is no longer a single TV show where whole family is depicted with a healthy respected father figure.  Think that is an accident?  For the god of the flesh to win this battle, the father figure must be kept pinned to the ground and kept from rising.
 
Today, the Christian Church’s are under continual attack.  Especially the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope.  After all the Roman Catholic Pontiff is the top spiritual Father figure recognized in the world.  The secular progressives must destroy the pope.

Unfortunately, the human failure of the catholic clergy, many Bishops were guilty of protecting the hierarchical order rather than the children and the whole church.  The sin of the fathers of the church is still being used to attack and hold the father figure down even when we now know the incidence of child molestation was far less in the catholic church than in the rest of society.

Where ever God is under attack. the father figure and symbol in every form is to be ripped apart.  God created them male and female to become one flesh and spirit – undivided.  Abortion is a tool of the evil one to divide and conquer.  Abortion doesn’t just end the life of the unborn it threw division and strife into the purpose of marriage and the unity of the church while it attacked the God created the spirit of unity!  Abortion undermines the Declaration of Independence – which it’s founding building block principles which made this nation the greatest in the history of the world.

To be continued …..

With abortion the female replaced God and stands alone with the decision of human life!

The Truth and Ambiguity!

American English – A Living Language

My beloved grand children learn the meaning of words.  Americans love to change the meaning of perfectly good words!  bad can mean really good!  Wow can one be fooled by words! 

Ambiguous

“Ambiguous” is a wonderful word – learn it’s meaning!  Every human being longs and yearns for hope.  In my life time change has accelerated and in your generation you will experience a never ending series of events in your life far beyond my wildest dreams.

I pray you will learn the lessons of my day and study the lessons of the past.  “Hope and Change” are powerful emotional words, but know they never ever stand alone.  They are words that serve to support a full body.  But when they stand alone they are only a bare skeleton without spirit, flesh and muscle.  Alone they symbolize and have the essence of a pagan idol of old.  They possess no life or spirit and lack power to love or heal or create. 

Standing alone they are ambiguous and provide only a coat rack to hang something on and nothing more.  They are words that demand a further description of the body, flesh and the spirit that they will inhabit.

Barack Obama captured the imagination of a nation.  He spoke words of hope and promises of being able to negotiate a peace between warring divisions.  They would address the current polarization between the extremes of the left and the right and would bring calm to the storm clouds gathering overhead.  He promised a new era with hope and change we could believe in.

Because these words trigger the powerful emotional nature of humans, the potential is every person hears what they want to hear while the speaker does not reveal the full truth hidden in the messengers heart!

Yet when one listens with their spirit, the spirit if truth will begin to manifest itself in the gut.  Learn to listen to your gut – it calls the spirit to seek the truth!  It was my gut that could see through the disarming smile and deep longing to heal the divisional madness that had penetrated our nation.  It was the gut that first detected something was missing and I could not shake it.

The questioning began in earnest after the South Carolina primary.  Who is this Barack Obama and what does he stand for?  What are the meaning of his words?  Why does he have to use a prompter for every speech?  Why is he unable to risk speaking from the heart?  Are his speeches being so carefully crafted, he is unable to express his own words and ideas from the heart or off the cuff?   What is the truth that lies hidden in Barack Obama?  Who is he?  What does he really believe in? 

The truth will set us free – who said that?  The gut instincts that came form the teaching of my mother and father and my church and they were bugging me.  Who are you playing or going out with?  Who are their parents and what at do their parents believe in?  It’s as if my parents were sedning me messages from heavens gates.  Open your eys son, seek the truth and check things out.

Barack Obama engaged my spiritual hope, but I was unable to discern what kind of hopes he had versus those I knew I wanted.  He had developed an ability to reflect what I wanted to hear without reveling what  his true meaning was!  Charismatic Ambiguity was his method and message.  Somewhere from down in gut arose a warning that engages the spirit into a struggle to detect and discern the truth.  The spirits task is to cut through the smoke, ambiguity and pere into the heart of the messenger.

In the study of homiletics and preaching I was taught one can not separate the message from the messenger.  If the message is not the truth that lives in the heart of the messenger the hearer in the audience will eventually begin to detect the truthfulness buried in the words of the messenger.

To be continued …..

The iDeacon and the iDove Blog

Seeking the Spirit of Truth!

This Blog was created to record an ongoing open dialogue and commentary concerning the events of today as they unfold in the world today.  It will focus on events as they relate to seeking and finding the truth.

The Ancient Story of the First battle (Spiritual Warfare)

It accepts as a reality the existence of the “Spiritual War” between the indwelling of the spirit within the human creature and the human creatures free will (i.e. the war between the Spirit and the Flesh).  It uses and reflects upon the ancient Story in the Book of Genesis as the basis of the Spirit of God communicating to humans from the very the beginning the existence of this ancient war.

Humanities Free Will wants to Play God

Simply put, it accepts as a reality from the very beginning God created humans with both a soul and free will.   Humans are created in the image of God while being confined to a human body grounded in water and the earth.

Gods purposely set us humans up for this confrontation.  It was not by accident or chance!  It surely added tension to all of human history even as it unfolds before us today.  During the journey here on earth, we human’s will be tempted to seek equality with God and yet by our human nature are mortally limited.

God’s design “To Be Tempted”

To be tempted is by God’s design!  It is a test to see what we will ultimately chose, who or what we will serve?  God’s design channel’s man down a path to prove humans are mortal and need to seek a higher authority to find what we call happiness and fulfillment of purpose!

The central question is — How will we mortal individuals handle the expected natural temptations that will come without question as we seek equality with God?

So how are we doing???  And just who is your God??

To be continued ….

Holy Family December 26, 2010

December 26, 2010

Can anyone tell me the Holy Families last name?  Some say it is the Christ, others insist it is the Nazorean.  Before Christmas several years ago I was out shopping for a manger.  I observed a little girl about five years old carefully checking out the baby Jesus in the crib of a manger.  I was taken back when I herd her refer to the baby Jesus as Jesus Christmas.

So I asked her why did you call baby Jesus, Jesus Christmas.  Because, she replied, Jesus last name is Christmas.  Well I had to ask!  “How do you know Christmas is Jesus last name?”  It has to be, she said, because his mothers name is Merry Christmas”.  We wish you a Merry Christmas.

Family – Communion of Persons:

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family.  The Catechism teaches the Christian family is a communion of persons, a sign and image of the communion of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

The family is about the procreation and education of children reflects the Father’s work of creation.  The family is the original cell of social life and represents the smallest church.  It is the family that serves as the first teacher of the fundamentals of honor, relationships, freedom, security, fraternity and do not forget the birth pangs of your mother.

And are you listening young people and teenagers?  As long as a child lives at home, the child should obey the parents in what they ask.

And parents least you forget your mission is to teach your children to pray and to discover their vocation as children of God.

Listen to the beauty in the first reading from Sirach.  God sets a father in honor over his children.  Whoever honors their father atones for sins.  In time of tribulation it will be recalled to your advantage, like warmth upon frost it will melt away your sins.

A mother’s authority he confirms over her sons and daughters.  When one prays, one is heard; one stores up riches who reveres their mother.

Getting ones sins forgiven can be simple.  Honor your father and mother while they live.

I miss my father and mother.  I wish today I could sit down with them to listen and learn from their experiences of the great depression and World War II to help me and my family negotiate the troubling waters of 2011.

The last year before I was ordained, I was assigned the second reading for the Feast of the Holy family.  Paul to the Colossians, women know the line well.  Wives, be subordinate to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord.

I practiced and practiced this reading.  You see I wanted to communicate the message of the author Paul, rather than communicate what the words might evoke from the women of our community in the 1990’s.  I failed.  When I returned to my seat, my wife glared at me and said that was the worst proclamation she had ever heard and don’t ever read like that again.

We must be reminded form time to time.  The scripture writers are interested only in communicating a spiritual message that revel the truth or an insight about our God.  We, as American’s pride ourselves on our independence and individuality and can create stumbling blocks for ourselves.  It is the pride of independence and individuality that can lead us into deep trouble and cause us to lose sight of the higher calling to the unity of the family, church and community that are under severe attack by those who want to divide us by driving Christ out of Christmas.  Let’s net let the world confuse us!

Listen carefully to Matthew!  Matthew was pouring out his soul in the words of today’s gospel.  Through the story of the Holy Families flight into the Egypt, Matthew was calling, imploring and shouting to his family, his Jewish brothers and sisters; see and hear the fulfillment of the old testament scripture in the Torah, the prophets Isaiah, Hosea and Judges all pointing to the promised Messiah Jesus Christ.  Jesus Christ comes from the mouth of our very own prophets and scripture.

A number of years ago during the Christmas season, the first grade teacher at our parish asked the children to draw a picture of the Holy Families flight into Egypt.  One young lady drew a picture of an airplane with three people inside, all wearing halos and a fourth person in front without a halo.

“I understand that the three people in the plane with halos are the Holy Family,” said the teacher, “but who is the fourth person in front?”  The little girl replied, “Oh, that’s  Pontius, the pilot.”

Year C 22nd Sunday Ordinary Time: August 29, 2010

The word parable means to use one situation to examine a second.

Oh Lord it’s hard to humble, when your perfect in every way
I can’t wait to look in the mirror; cause I get better looking each day.
To know me is to love me, I must be a heck of a man.
Oh Lord it’s hard to be humble, when you’re perfect in every way.

Can we see the irony in the lyric’s of Mac Davis’s hit song being played out in the Gospel today?  What is the lesson Jesus Christ is trying to teach?  Is it about humility?  Is it about honor?  Or is it about salvation?

Luke tells us, everyone there was watching everyone else, including Jesus closely.  Why were they were watching so closely?  They were trying to figure out the pecking order.  They were trying to figure, the highest place of honor they could claim, without running the risk of being embarrassed by being asked to move.

In the midst of this tension, while everyone was on alert, Jesus took advantage of this teachable moment.  Jesus came to save everyone!  Jesus knew the way one acquired honor was critical to passage through the narrow gate.

So how does our definition of honor measure up against Jesus standard?

Well what was that standard?  Did anyone catch it?

Jesus used the word “Rather” twice in the Gospel?  Rather is a transition word that contrasts for us what he noticed people doing versus what he calls us to do following the same principle found in the reading from Sirach.  My child conduct your affairs with humility and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts.

Go to the lowest place! That’s easy enough is that it?  Nope there is one more rather!  Invite the poor, the cripple, the lame, the blind, all who are unable to repay into our lives.

Let me share a some food for thought. When I was in basic training at Kessler AFB, Mississippi in 1964, I lived in a barracks full of men.  No real walls, just bunk beds and men.  There I encountered a roommate, who I soon realized was inviting every soldier in our barracks to join his group each time we were allowed to go to Biloxi.

He had an open charming manner and made everyone he invited feel like an old welcomed friend who was essential to the group.  What he did was infectious, and many joined in going around from bunk to bunk to make sure no one got left out without an invitation.   I am ashamed at admit I do not recall his name.  But I would bet, he would be seated at the place of honor where ever he might go.

In 1989, the Franciscan Order accepted an invitation from the Archbishop to take over the St. Philip Benizi Parish along with the St. Gabriel mission.  At the time, St. Philip Benizi Parish had just finished building a new church, during which the community had become divided and consequently was in a serious financial situation.  One of the first actions the Franciscans took was to hold town home meetings with parishioners.

What do you want from your church:

They left their place of power and went into the homes of the lowest churches.  Almost the first question out their mouth at those meetings was to ask the people, what do you want from your church?  It was the first time in my catholic life to be asked what I needed from my church, as if I might know something.  It still served as a most refreshing moment and a renewal of Baptism in faith.  They turned things upside down.  They lowered themselves into the shoes of the people.  Almost over night, those Franciscan priests set that parish and mission on fire.  The financial troubles began to evaporate.

Today at a banquet, whom might a host invite to sit at the highest place and table of honor?  Would it be Mother Theresa who lived and worked in the streets of the slums or the local bishop who lives in a mansion?

Honor comes to the one who lowers themselve:

Honor comes to the one who lower themselves to serving those who can not repay.  Humility comes to those, who take the risk to get out of their comfort zone and step into the world of the hungry, the poor, the lame, the crippled and the blind.  It is while walking in their shoes we learn humility for every talent we have is pure gift from God.

Oh Lord helps us grow humble and poor in every way
We can’t stand to look in the mirror; cause we see our enemy there.
You know us, yet you love us; You must be an awesome God
Oh Lord helps us grow humble and poor in every way