A Sliver of Light

This early morning, I look and see a fading sliver of light, shrouded by clouds from nowhere near.

Then the night light becomes clearer, as the wind shifts, the light takes shape, a quarter-moon does appear.

Now it’s gone again and although it’s so dark I can’t see the clouds; I know they are there.

Just as I know the light still shines, proving that even in darkness we should have no fear.

Now the clouds have parted, and a bright quarter moon shows, the sky is once again clear.

Watching the clouds roll by the light just above the horizon, is like our life’s shifting moods.

If you are fortunate to have experienced a long life, you know not all our days are good.

At times our lives are shrouded in a cloudy darkness, where we grope to find the simple necessities.

Hoping the majority of our lives we can see the light in the dark sky, even if it is just a sliver of light, a quarter moon.

 

I wrote something early Monday, then watched the day unfold.  What did I see but a continued divide in our country.  Where on one hand we celebrate the Holiest of days, Resurrection Day.  A day in history long past that we can’t see or touch in the present.  Belief in death being conquered, is where Faith resides.

On another hand we celebrate painted pagan eggs, and a funky looking bunny.  A tangible physical observance we can touch & see, something we can search to find, dropped from the bunny hero’s woven basket.

And now today more in our face than ever, we are being deceived to believe and forced to celebrate those who just can’t seem to decide.  When 2 million voices are louder than 200 million, you know there’s a problem.  I don’t have to accept undecided deception, no more than I expect for you to accept my beliefs on this worlds history, the life of Jesus Christ and the powers of a living God.    

Look at yesterday’s news.  On one stream, the majority would continue to glorify the Words of God in our modern-day Bible, which is a very good thing.

In other news, the efforts to show and live in Faith continue to be distracted, like clouds covering the nights sky.  To live in darkness is a choice,  to live by Faith is also a choice that will brighten the night.

But now we have the changelings and undecided.  If you were created in God’s image, why are you trying to change it?  We used to help those with mental instabilities, now we are supposed to encourage it.  Paying for a lifelong trail of medications and a sex change operation is a choice some make.  A personal choice to run from your reality and  pollute our children with clouds of confusion. Life is hard enough, why confuse it & drag society into your delusions.

Here’s a simple truth.  You can be Spiritual or secular, believe or not believe…but you can’t be something else or in between.  Just as in this physical life you can be a man or a woman, not something else.  Transgender folks suffer from an undecided and confused mind.  It is like half suicide.  Manipulating your body & mind to alter it into what you think may make you feel better.  Tell me mutilating your body and mind is not a cry and reach for help.  Please explain to me why a woman’s rights are diminished so yours can be held higher.  It’s just one more half-truth clouding the night’s half-moon.

Celebrate Resurrection Day or Easter in the manner you choose.  Just make a choice, knowing we can have Faith, Fellowship, Fun & Friendship…without the need for a new festivity based on fake & false realities.

For the record, I don’t hate confused & unstable people.  I sympathize with their struggles & pray everyday that they find purpose, meaning & normalcy in their lives.

A little word play, with some serious consequences. We’ve all heard in the term R.I.P.  or rest in peace.  That is certainly one end result, to simply rest in the cold dark earth, where hopefully you find some level of peace.  Or, you could meddle in a middle ground, relax in purgatory as so many do…or ultimately you can rejoice in paradise…something for us all to aspire.

 May the moon shine bright and the winds blow in a fair direction for you & yours now & forever.

    

An April Prank

It’s April 1^st and one of the biggest pranks played on all of us is how the right to worship the religion of our choice, has been used to eliminate God from our daily lives. The freedom of religion has been twisted to include any and all kinds of beliefs.  We are a muti-cultural society, even more so in the last twenty-five years.  But this freedom has warped into a way to influence a Godless society. 

Our inclusivity has resulted in exclusivity.  Gentile Christian beliefs have been eliminated at the sake of including any pagan, satanic or secular non-belief.  Appears all you have to do or say is…Yep, I worship that, so it’s a religion with all the rights of any other.  I differ with that in the sense that doesn’t our society as a whole have a say in things…or do we bend to the whims of a few? 

In any country there are fundamental beliefs that set the stage & the direction of its culture.  We live in a country founded on the principles set forth in our Constitution.  Under the first amendment freedom of religious worship was established to protect our spiritual rights and just as importantly safeguard our country from a dominant religious force.  Such was the case in Europe when our modern country began to be established.  The settlers and founders wanted to flee this tyranny and allow religious freedoms.  Over the years this “freedom” has been used as a divisive wedge, shaping our country into a separatist and spiritless segregated society.   

In so many ways we’ve developed more into a me for me culture, no matter the consequences… rather than what’s best for all.  Where’s the line between good & evil, or is our country a free for all?

Even if you struggle with the Christian beliefs of Jesus and the contents of the Bible, you cannot ignore the lessons of life in the New Testament.  It is hard for many to grasp, because like all formed beliefs there are struggles along the way.  Many point to the violent history of the long ago past, mostly in the Old Testament.  I would say, no religion or belief of any kind can claim total innocence.  So, if that is the standard then all are guilty, and none are any better than the other.

But we must look at the overall message & separate factual faith from fictitious fables.  It is no different than the simple fact that 99.99% of us, are born either man or woman.  No other words are needed and if you struggle to define either one of those words (man or woman) you are living in a fictious fable. You’re not living in reality; you’re living in a fairy-tale (pun intended).  On a serious note altering your body & mind is a scream for help.  It is an outreach for something better, like alcohol abuse & drug addictions. It is a desperate act of change, like slashing your wrist.  Misguided souls at the mercy of for profit science & medicine, driven by delusional ideology & mass media.

That is just one example of how far we have strayed from God in this country.  We’ve strayed so far, we think we can play God and alter our reality.  Through our Constitutional rights we can do, say and be anything we want and it’s somehow protected and okay.  I’m sorry I don’t aspire to that logic.

For if we do, if we eliminate all forms of logical & factual thought for the sake of the delusional rights of a few, the ultimate peril is an uncontrollable society without any sense of normalcy.  It starts with a lack of respect for authority, develops into defund the police, and ends in a lack of civil discourse, disconnecting us from each other, destroying our foundations & resulting in societal discord that we see and hear all around us.  

Our First Amendment Rights are being used against us whether you want to admit it or not.  The separation of church & state was to prevent a dominant religion in our country…not to remove the God our country was founded on from all aspects of our lives.  You have the right to believe as you choose, that freedom is God given & in our Constitution. That is a fundamental majority belief in this country, a cornerstone to our foundation, celebrated in many ways.  Freedom of religious worship is the freedom to not be mandated to by an established national church that could infringe on our other freedoms.  But we still need some discipline & direction, or we risk drifting like a fatherless son.  It’s time we got back to the Father God & Son we have faith in, that’s what this country was founded upon.

Pray for Others, Pray for Peace…AMEN.