Friends Can Be Kingly

25 Saturday May 2013

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Proverbs 22:11

One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend.

Some events are set aside for exceptional people.  This evening we honored one such person.  Yet it was the whole gathering that made the evening so completely and pleasantly memorable.  I realize that I have surrounded myself with people who are my friends.  Tonight, our ears were treated with kind and inspired words for a friend who has completed a lifetime of service.  Although the honoree deserved every kind and loving word that was spoken, it was the gathering of friends that made this evening so heartfelt.

The foundation for this love is Christ.  My friends are followers of the Word of God and show this love to each other.  How this world is made perfect by the love of the King, Jesus Christ.  John 15:15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.  Our King is our friend.

The Widow’s Strength

22 Wednesday May 2013

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Proverbs 15:25

The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will strengthen the borders of the widow.

This proverb struck me yesterday.  The two main points are the proud and the widows.  What do these two things have in common?  It is surely not addressing the destruction of a proud widow’s house; as a matter of fact it seems to be indicating those who take advantage of the widow.  In contemporary times, the widow, or more specifically in today’s culture, the elderly is the mark for the democrat.  We can see this happening again and again when these miscreants run for office.  They bring up the elderly, threatening them with the possibility of someone taking their stuff away from them.

The Judeo-Christian tradition always demanded that the widow be taken care of by people who believed in a one true God.  It is the leftists or democrats who are using the vulnerability of the widow, or the elderly, to frighten them into submission.  You could almost hear them saying, “Vote for me, or I’ll take all your stuff away from you.”, or, “If you vote for a republican, I will take away all your stuff.”  This heavy handed tactic by the democrats, doesn’t start out so severe, it is presented as a helping hand and then, WHAM, “Now do as I say, or else you old bag.”

The house of the proud is the democrat party and their minions.  There destruction is imminent.  Put your trust in God, that is the trinity, Father, son and Holy Spirit.  You will be protected and at peace.  If evil befalls you, a certain peace will overtake you.  This is especially true of the widow.  God will strengthen your borders.  In other words, God is looking out for you.  However, be on the right side.  Dump the Democratic Party.  Be true to God and he will look out for you.  Align yourself with an authentic Christian community.  Not only will your borders be strengthened, you will have eternal life with Jesus.

The Reader’s Poison

19 Sunday May 2013

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The letters trickle

Through dingy eyes

Rest in the heap

Cluttered with contempt

 

Honest words

Like tender tinder

Ignite disdain

Contempt breeds contempt

 

Innocent string

Fuels fine fire

Contains no more

Burst of disgust

 

Loving letters

Received pre-read

Burnt and damaged

On lofty perch

 

No words

Relieve or cure

A sickened soul

In eternal separation

The Injured Soul

19 Sunday May 2013

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Where is thy soul?

That you may know

What is right?

What is wrong?

 

Thy heart aches

From soulless void

Deluded to fault

Oh eternal pit

 

As a lost child

Far away from

Maternal care

The soul cries

 

Where is thy soul?

In this brokenness

This foulness

Alone abandoned

 

The way is lost

The path no more

In dangers grasp

No nurturing hold

 

No turn is known

To find a home

A way misled

Return to lost

 

Where is thy soul

Groans deep within

For life without

For ceaseless hope

 

Oh saving Grace

Take hold my soul

Injured no more

In thy tender care

The Old Woman and the Mirror Salesman

17 Friday May 2013

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Years ago, there was a sweet and cute little girl who lived in a village far away from the city.  Everyone liked the little girl, because she was so sweet and cute.  She used to be smart and witty.  But as the years passed by, the little girl grew up and married the wood chopper’s son, who she thought to be her prince charming.  The little girl grew into an old and wrinkled lady.  Each passing season the old lady grew more wrinkled and discontented with life.  The man she married cared more about chopping wood than being with her.  In the evening he wouldn’t come home, instead he would play games with his fellow wood choppers.

In her mind the old wrinkled lady saw herself as vibrant and cute.  But her heart grew dark and cold because her prince charming was spending time elsewhere.  She would tell herself that he needed to spend time chopping wood with the other wood choppers.  So her loneliness eroded her heart and the wrinkle old lady developed a hole in her soul.

One day the wrinkled old lady decided to go to the city and visit the shops.  While she was walking passed the shop windows, she came upon a mirror shop.  She hadn’t looked into a mirror before, and wandered into the store.  The shop keeper greeted her in a friendly manner.  “How may I help you?” Said the shop keeper.  “Oh, I couldn’t help but notice your mirrors.” said the wrinkled lady.  She saw a mirror that had a pretty frame and purchased the mirror.  The mirror salesman was kind and helpful.  “I hope you see everything perfectly in your mirror.” Said the mirror salesman, in a cheerful voice.

The wrinkled lady arrived home with her new mirror, hung it on the wall and looked into it.  As she gazed into the mirror, she was appalled by what she saw.  The face looking back at her was old and furrowed and very frightening for the wrinkled old lady to behold.  She closed her eyes tight and opened them to gaze at the image in the mirror.  The wrinkle old lady gasped.  “This is the most hideous thing I have ever seen” she thought to herself.  All at once she glared at the mirror, “That no good mirror salesman sold me a broken mirror” she said to herself.  Immediately the wrinkle old lady took the mirror off the wall and bunched the wrapping paper around it.  “It’s his fault”, she screeched, “I’m taking this mirror back.”

The very next day the wrinkled old lady marched into the city, right to the mirror shop.  “I demand a refund for this mirror.” She demanded. “It’s broke.”  The kind mirror salesman asked in a concerned voice, “What’s wrong with the mirror?”  The wrinkled old lady said, “It makes me look hideous.”  The kind mirror salesman in his wisdom knew that it wasn’t the mirror that was defective.  So to make things right, the kind mirror salesman exchanged the mirror for another more beautiful one, with a gilded frame and carved with fancy scrolls.  “This mirror is far too expensive for me.” The wrinkled old lady complained.  “That’s OK”, the mirror salesman reassured her, and “there is no extra cost.”  So the kind mirror salesman carefully wrapped up the mirror for the wrinkled old lady to take home.

Upon arriving at her home, the wrinkled old lady rushed to the spot she hung the other mirror.  She tore off the wrapping and hung up the new mirror.  She ran her fingers around the edges of the gilded frame, admiring the fine craftsmanship.  Her face was off to one side of the mirror.  She closed her eyes and slowly moved to face the middle of the mirror.  She snapped open her eyes and snapped her head back in terror.  “This one is broken, too.” She screamed. “I look even uglier in this mirror.  She cursed the mirror salesman, and began to tell lies about him.  She vowed to destroy his life because it was him that made her so ugly.  So that night she began to conjure up tales that would make all the other people hate the mirror salesman.

Her tales worked like a charm, and in no time the whole city ran the mirror sales man out of town.  He was left with nothing.  She felt good that she had ruined the mirror salesman.  Her face had a look of dubious pride.  She squinted and licked her lips.  “That’ll teach that mirror salesman.” The wrinkled old lady thought to herself.  But the image she saw in the mirror was there in her memory and wouldn’t go away.  She ran into the dark closet, but it was still there.  She began to cringe.  She threw herself in her bed and covered her head under her pillow, but the frightening image wouldn’t go away.

Then one day the wood chopper arrived home.  He found the wrinkled old lady huddled alone in a corner, weeping and sobbing.  “What’s wrong?” asked the wood chopper.  “I bought a mirror from the mirror salesman and I saw something very scary.”  The wood chopper thought about what she had said.  “Then what happened?” he asked her.  “I went back to the city and took it back.”  “Did that help?” the wood chopper asked.  “He gave me a mirror that was more beautiful than the first one” cried the wrinkled old lady.  “But did that help?” asked the wood chopper.  “No, no, no!” she screamed.  “So then what did you do?” he asked.

Then the wrinkled old lady picked up her head and grinned, “I ruined him.” She said with evil delight.  “Well, I must say, it wasn’t the mirror that was broke.” He said in a correcting tone.  The wrinkle old lady looked at him intently.  “It’s your face.  You’ve grown old and bitter.”  The wood chopper’s axe was shiny and sharp.  He lowered his axe so that she could see her reflection in the shiny part of the axe.  She screamed in horror.  “Now you know why I stay away chopping wood.”  Now go back to the mirror salesman and tell the truth.  Get him his business back.

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The wrinkled old lady went back into the city the next morning.  She began to tell everyone that she wasn’t honest about the mirror salesman.  She admitted that she was angry because she grew old and wrinkled, that when she bought the mirror from the mirror salesman, it was the first time that she had a good look at herself.  She didn’t like herself and took it out on the mirror salesman.  She helped get the mirror shop opened again and helped restore the mirror salesman’s reputation.

The mirror salesman gave her mirror back.  But he said, “You must give this mirror to someone who has never looked into a mirror before.  Help them to see the truth in what the mirror reveals.  Tell them not to be afraid of what they see.”  So the wrinkled old lady began to find others who had never looked into a mirror before.  She saw many people become bright and cheerful.  She helped thousands of people.  One day she realized the she hadn’t looked in her mirror in months.  She slowly approached the mirror, keeping her eyes closed.  Ever so carefully she opened her eyes, and to her surprise she saw a bright and cheerful elderly woman.

Darwin’s tree has been cut down

16 Thursday May 2013

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Where do humans find truth?  In the 21st century some might say that science is truth.  This is a bold statement that many have clung to in order to give their lives meaning.  Others have an innate understanding that truth comes from God.  Here we have the classic dog chasing the tail metaphor.  Perhaps with the latest revelation that Charles Darwin was wrong on his idea of evolution we might reconsider that humans do not have the intellect to present absolute truth.  According to a 2009 article in the Guardian, Ian Sample writes, “Charles Darwin’s ‘tree of life’, which shows how species are related through evolutionary history, is wrong and needs to be replaced, according to leading scientists.”  However, since the 19th century many people have staked their eternal souls on this dubious theory.

The turning point in the United States came in 1925, when John Scopes, a high school teacher, was accused of teaching evolution in a state sponsored school.  Oh my how times have changed.  But things changed precisely because of the scopes trial.  God and religion have been forced out of the public schools and the meaning of life has been replaced with Darwin’s theory of evolution.  Now we find out the Darwin was wrong.  Oh what a pickle we’re in now.

It seems that the map which science is plotting to guide us through the reality of our existence is wrong.  Have we lost our way?  We’re like explorers who have drawn their own map of an unexplored forest, only to find that they are lost with no way to get back out of that forest.  Yet the science type will cling to their manifestos and incorrect theories, in order to avoid saying they have been wrong all this time.

A mother’s love or lack thereof

16 Thursday May 2013

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What does a person do when they’re own mother loathes them.  A very dear friend of mine –who shall remain nameless because he has a delusional sister that may kill him for writing this—has such a mom.  But for the sake of cogency, I will choose a random name that in no way relates to anyone in real life.  I’ll give him the name Fred.  To all you Freds out there, this is not you.  Fred’s story is both heartbreaking and inspirational, because he has gotten professional help to face all the neglect and abuse he suffered through as a child, and has become successful.  Fred was born into a dysfunctional family, where the father was alcoholic and the mother was narcissistic.  Now, it must be made clear that Fred was not the only one in his family who suffered and was injured physically, mentally and emotionally.  He was the only one who sought professional and spiritual help to overcome the debilitating effects of his dysfunctional family, particularly his mom.

Although, you might say that Fred’s recovery is a miracle, his family shows contempt because Fred doesn’t live the lie anymore.  Fred has a younger brother who has always been a momma’s boy.  Fred would get beat for the lies that his brother told about him.  Fred’s mom would use shoes to hit Fred in the head.  And that, I’m sure would hurt any 4 to 13 year old.  Fred’s mom would call him stupid and moron, to name only two of the many names he was called.  As a young boy, around seven years old, Fred’s mother pushed him away and said that she could no longer comfort him.  This caused Fred to be angry at the world.  But as with many abused and neglected children, nobody would listen to Fred’s account of his family.  Sadly, this is usually the case with tormented, abused and neglected children; no one wants to believe them.

Now as adults, it is only Fred and maybe a couple of his brothers who seem to be well.  The rest are as sick as their secrets.  Fred’s younger brother has grown fat and lazy, and is still a momma’s boy.  His sister has grown ever more delusional and suffers from misplaced adolescent rebellion.  In other words, because she didn’t act out when it was appropriate, she does so as an old lady; not a pretty picture.  His mother, who is up there in years, simply doesn’t return Fred’s phone calls and ignores him.  Fred has grown to accept this sick behavior from some of his family.  The difference is that today Fred can name it without fear that his mom will bash him over the head with her shoe.

The most important lesson I got from Fred is that he prays for all of them.  He sincerely loves them, but he knows that they cannot return love to him.  Fred knows the horror of what it was like to live in this family, so he seeks forgiveness.  Fred’s example of seeking God’s will in all of this is so inspiring.  He truly is my hero.  He told me that his sister said that she would pray for him, he hopes that she will.  This is the way to heal the trauma of living in this family.  Today, Fred is a leader in his community.  He understands the young adults that have been brutalized by sick parents.  Fred helps these young people become healthy adults.  Even though Fred has recovered, his family, for the most part, remains sick.  This remains heartbreak for Fred.

Be careful what you ask for

15 Wednesday May 2013

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Scripture has many stories that relate humans interacting with God.  Although, there are some who scoff at the Divine, this essay considers what humans want and getting what they asked for.  Before we get into the situation that we find ourselves in, that is the democrats electing Barack Obama as president of the United States, let’s see what history tells us about a people who got what they wanted.

Let’s look at Samuel 8:10-18 (NIV).

10 Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king.

11 He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights:

He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.

12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.

13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.

14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants.

15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants.

16 Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use.

17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.

18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”

In the Book of Samuel, the Israelites got what they wanted.  Some people, like liberal, democrats from the U.S., consistently vote for godless laws and legislators, thinking they are above everyone else.  And they voted in a doozy with Barack Obama.  This guy is taking away all U.S. citizens’ life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.   The democrats got what they wanted.  The trouble with this is that it affects real Americans too.  The scripture has it right; your king will take everything for himself.  But in the case of the U.S., the president will take all your stuff.

No longer do Americans have a choice in healthcare, education or privacy.  The democrats have given up the sovereignty of the U.S. and is handing it over to the U.N.  What’s worse is that the democrats have even taken in from the future generations of Americans.  That’s right; democrats can be thought of as taking candy from a baby, before the baby is even born.  But democrats don’t like babies anyway.

All you conservative, real, Americans don’t relinquish what is being taken away.  Fight for what is ours.  Consider what history tells us.  We need a government of the people, by the people and for the people.  We need conservative leaders who believe in small, limited government and liberty for the people.

Abortion is still deadly

14 Tuesday May 2013

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Contrary to what liberal democrat women believe, abortion is deadly to the women having the abortion and the baby that is being slaughtered.  The trouble is that these liberal women are stupid.  They believe that the baby that is in the womb is only a mass of tissue.  Wrong!  Wrong! Wrong!  So it’s a belief system of perverted knowledge that is guiding these misguided bimbos.  According to the AP, “Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, a Philadelphia abortion doctor, was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation’s debate over abortion.”  But this will not be reported in the liberal media, so these inadequately, informed women will stay in the dark about the truth.

And that truth is that abortion kills.  Those fetuses were alive in the womb and outside the womb.  This is human life no matter what you think.  And Gosnell is guilty of murder of killing an innocent life.  A woman I know said she was offended by billboards that showed aborted fetuses.  She said that this should not be shown in public.  This sick female doesn’t know that she wants to be kept ignorant of the truth.  And that truth is that abortion is offensive and must stop.  I suspect this woman had killed a child in her womb and is riddled with guilt.  But, to the point, the Gosnell case is what abortion is all about.

The Atlantic article, “Americans Aren’t Really Paying Attention to the Gosnell Case”, points out that 53% off women are not paying attention to the Gosnell Case.  This is typical of liberal, democrat women.

According the Washington post:

Patients were neglected; providers were not certified; and cats were allowed to roam and defecate in the clinic.

The health department received multiple complaints about the clinic, including one from a doctor who said that his patients “were becoming infected with sexually transmitted diseases at Gosnell’s clinic when they had abortions there.”

“Gosnell had a simple solution for the unwanted babies he delivered: he killed them,” the report said. “He didn’t call it that. He called it ‘ensuring fetal demise.’ The way he ensured fetal demise was by sticking scissors into the back of the baby’s neck and cutting the spinal cord.”

According to the grand jury report:

One woman, for example, was left lying in place for hours after Gosnell tore her cervix and colon while trying, unsuccessfully, to extract the fetus. Relatives who came to pick her up were refused entry into the building; they had to threaten to call the police. They eventually found her inside, bleeding and incoherent, and transported her to the hospital, where doctors had to remove almost half a foot of her intestines.

Read the grand jury report yourself:

http://www.phila.gov/districtattorney/pdfs/grandjurywomensmedical.pdf

The Gosnell case represents what all democrats believe and how they live.  This is what they have been promoting, carnage at the most diabolical level.  So, if you’re a democrat female who has a shred of decency, morality and humanity left in her, it is not to late to choose life.  No one is forcing you to stay a democrat.  But democrats are forcing you to kill your babies and go to abortion clinics, the kind Gosnell, the baby murderer, was operating.  Remember when you vote democrat, you vote to murder babies and kill women.

False Motherhood

12 Sunday May 2013

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On this Mother’s Day, it is important to note that in this post-modern era, not all, in fact very few women have risen to the level of true motherhood.  Any women who are a democrat cannot claim to be a true mother, so that group is off the table.  Any women who knowingly took the life of the baby growing inside of her womb, is not a mother, rather she is a murderer and will spend all her after life in Hell.  And there is the abusive, narcissistic woman, who didn’t really want children, but went along with her instincts and got pregnant anyway.

This woman in principle deserves recognition for carrying the baby to term and birthing the child, but that’s where the fun stops.  Only on a technicality can these women be included to be given happy Mother’s day wishes.  But it must be clear that such a woman is cruel to some of her children and can be emotionally damaging to her son or daughter.  This is a female that wished she should have taken contraceptives to avoid pregnancy, or should have aborted her child, because she didn’t deserve the burden of another child, but had the baby anyway.  This woman regrets having the baby, and grows cold to the child, usually beating and abusing the innocence that is her own flesh and blood.  Yes, even though a woman like this appears like your ordinary, run-of-the-mill mother, there lurks something dark and sinister within her.  On a grading scale this woman deserves a D+ for her mothering.

Let’s be clear, this is what the liberals wanted with feminism, to be able to murder the life, the human being that they were carrying within their womb.  So some women have abdicated their right to be real mothers.  They instead, by succumbing to the evil desire to be like a man, have discarded what is feminine, only to become freakish and unfeminine.  The ultimate conclusion to what liberals and democrat women have chosen is perversion and they have become the spawn of Satan.  It is not appropriate to wish a succubus “Happy Mother’s Day”?

All democrat, liberal women, who committed murder by killing the child within their womb or supported abortion through their vote cannot, in all good consciousness, be greeted with a happy mother’s day.  They simple don’t qualify.  What does scripture say about evil women and their children?  Ezekiel 16:20-21: And thou hast taken thy sons, and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne to me: and best sacrificed the same to them to be devoured. Is thy fornication small?  Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them, consecrating them by fire.  It is a sin to kill your own children.  That means literally; to murder, and figuratively, to abuse and neglect them.

It is the hope of all Christians that all souls be brought to Christ.  Even the lowest form of human female, the heathen, democrat liberal women, can be redeemed and saved through the saving grace of Jesus.  But the sinful woman must truly be contrite and sorry for their sin.  Reject acting the slut, as one liberal democrat woman calls herself.  So Mothers have a duty to be real women.  Return to God and repent of your loose ways.

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