Thursday, February 28, 2013

Tested Truths: Memory

Tested Truths: Memory:   Memories always come as pictures, although many are triggered by a word. Just a word, spoken in some way, by someone during your day, will...

Memory

  Memories always come as pictures, although many are triggered by a word. Just a word, spoken in some way, by someone during your day, will set this process in motion! It comes when you loose interest in the speaker, and by your lack of focus, you drift off, thinking of something else? What you are now focused on, is a memory. It doesn't matter the subject, or whether you were discussing the future or not, but because it was something from your past, your mind will send out pictures of whatever event that it was? It is a memory because it has already happened!
  There is a way, to train your mind to think of new things, and this comes when you consider the future. Although your mind will search back for something that would coorelate to what it is that you are considering, new scenes will also emerge, as your mind will now add your imagination! Work on training your mind, to consider things who's outcome have not yet been decided? Those things which concern you for some reason? You can start this process with small steps? Afterall, you have to crawl before you can learn to walk! So consider this upcoming event in your life, and try to predict it's outcome? Try to establish how things will turn out, and why?
  This is only the first step, and I will give you a tip? Suppose that when considering this future event, you can see no way that the worst will not happen? If all you do is worry about this, then you will not be able to focus on what is going to happen, and without focus, you can not learn from the experience! Focus on any level is the hardest thing to control, and focus is what is called for! You must not allow yourself to worry, because worry only clouds focus.
  So, the point of all this, is not to worry about anything, especially, those things to which you know that you have little control! Take each problem as a learning experience. Once you come to realize that you have little control if any, it will make this process a lot easier!

Monday, February 25, 2013

Tested Truths: The times they are A Changin

Tested Truths: The times they are A Changin:   Absolutely god damned right! Small gee if you noticed? Whatever it is that is going on around here, I can assure you that it isn't goo...

The times they are A Changin

  Absolutely god damned right! Small gee if you noticed? Whatever it is that is going on around here, I can assure you that it isn't good! I would call the young to a new era of protests, and to take it to the street! But this time, it is not the stigma of Corporate America, but this time because of the excesses of the government!
  You see, the problem is about what it always has been? It's about money, and to whom goes the lion's share? The problem with feeding the government, is that you get so little in return? The government doesn't care about you, and they are not your friend! Now the same could be said about Corporations, and certainly, that is also true! What the government looks to do, is feed itself, and its' self is a bloated disgusting Oaf!
  But here's the thing, with the one, at least you get something like a new car, or a new pair of shoes? But the government only takes, it looks only to reproduce itself, for it's own common interest! Did you know that the Federal Government makes more millionairs then does private business? Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Tested Truths: The Banana People

Tested Truths: The Banana People:   At the table tonight, we were discussing cancer? And it led to that inevible debate regarding healthy eating habits? To which, I gave my u...

The Banana People

  At the table tonight, we were discussing cancer? And it led to that inevible debate regarding healthy eating habits? To which, I gave my usual rebuke and I said, You won't be happy until I am grazin on the grass, and drinking rain water! Funny yes, but also there is a strange thread of truth to it?
  So anyway, this is when the Banana people came up. As it turns out, people will rip open the plastic bags with the bananas, six to a bunch? And why wouldn't you, as they charge by the pound? But it drives the grocers nuts, and there is this ongoing battle regarding it! Into this fray, my wife decided to insert herself? She tells the guy, Look, why should she pay for bananas that she doesn't want? Why was this so important I inquired, and she went on to tell me, that the fruit rots to quickly lately, probably because of the time spent in different warehouses, and trucking firms! Oh, I said, sounds like a logistical problem? Yes she said, and then the conversation morphed into food additives? Now on this, we both agreed that surely, these must have something to do with the subject at hand? Funny how things have a habit of coming back around.

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Tested Truths: What can I do for ya

Tested Truths: What can I do for ya:   We have come to know it as the house of doors? All day long, doors are slammed, but no voices are ever heard? It was as if the residents w...

What can I do for ya

  We have come to know it as the house of doors? All day long, doors are slammed, but no voices are ever heard? It was as if the residents went from room to room, closing doors behind them? Perhaps it was just privacy they sought, and to get away from the others? Curios behavior? Well, we just don't know?
  She sat in the office reading, and trying to study, when the office door burst open! Startled by the intrusion, she tried to focus on the intruder? And as he came into focus, she had one last thought? Damn she thought, I'm still in the third chapter of Genisis, how am' I ever going to get through all of this? Yes Greg, she said. What can I do for ya?
  John looked only to avoid confrontation, and so he remained in the living room, staring stupidly at the television? In the other room, there erupted the noise of much activity? The commerce of it, his expected tasks, who knows? But something made him get up from his chair, and move toward the disturbance? It came from the bedroom, but the bedroom door was closed?
  Weeping willows of music fell all around him, and the music rose to a cacophony of pleasure! What? Oh, OK!

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Tested Truths: Schizophrenic

Tested Truths: Schizophrenic:   When you first become a Christian, you might feel a bit schzophrenic, because you will become aware of a new voice! And that voice will be...

Schizophrenic

  When you first become a Christian, you might feel a bit schzophrenic, because you will become aware of a new voice! And that voice will be the voice of God! Is it an audible sound? No, of course not! It comes to you through thought, things that you observe, You will suddenly have a fresh perspective on everything!
  These new thoughts will come to you from many different things? Those things which interest you the most, will become clearer just by your interest! Make sense? I should tell you also, that your relationships will change, none more apparent then that of family! They will reject your new outlook, and dismiss your point of view, because what they see is the old you! Because of this, they can not see the new you, They don't see you as you are now, nor can they fathom where you hope to go? Your thoughts have become foreign to them, but the simple fact is, that you scare them!
  Now the human mind works mostly on memory. Take a simple task like tying your shoes? Now, it would be fair to say, that none of us has to put much thought into this? But do we really do it without thought? No, our minds remember the times before, it sees pictures of laces tied before. So without you being aware of it, when you are bending over to tie your shoes, you mind is remembering, and flashes of pictures of the times in which you have done it before, come to bare in your minds eye! And this, all without you knowing it!
  Your mind is who you are, and so our memories are as different as we are! The fact that there is a higher plane of concousness, is what I've been yammering about? It is the place I am trying to get you to join! But it is not me that I am trying to please, Because it is the mind of Jesus Christ that is that higher plane!

Friday, February 22, 2013

Tested Truths: Tested Truths: What is Wisdom?

Tested Truths: Tested Truths: What is Wisdom?: Tested Truths: What is Wisdom? :   With wisdom comes answers, each day, more and more becomes clear! But there are many wisdom's, that of ma...

Tested Truths: What is Wisdom?

Tested Truths: What is Wisdom?:   With wisdom comes answers, each day, more and more becomes clear! But there are many wisdom's, that of many subjects, and that of countles...

What is Wisdom?

  With wisdom comes answers, each day, more and more becomes clear! But there are many wisdom's, that of many subjects, and that of countless studies! But what is wisdom, and can you define it? Or better still, where does it come from? Most people know a lot about one thing, and not enough about the other?
  Maybe I can clear this up for you? All wisdom has a commonality, because all wisdom has one source? Because all wisdom comes from God! So then, the smartest among you, have been made that way by God! The lucky ones know this, and they return all glory to God! While the others only look to have accolades thrown at their feet?
  Can you be Godless and still be smart? Sure, but you are so limited! The one's who deny God, only want to forward their egos? They want all attention on them? They want you to say, Ooo wee, look at them! Any search for wisdom, will always lead to God! That is of course as you stay the course? Remember, that only fools deny him, and they look only for agreement!
  What I am advocating here, is a commitment to Spiritual wisdom! Because only with this, can you ever expect to know the most about anything!

Tested Truths: Imus in the Morning

Tested Truths: Imus in the Morning:   He's on live almost every morning, on the Fox Business Channel, channel 106 on my set? The I man? Isn't that a thoughtful handle, I wonder...

Imus in the Morning

  He's on live almost every morning, on the Fox Business Channel, channel 106 on my set? The I man? Isn't that a thoughtful handle, I wonder who it was who first dubbed him that? But if you think of it, it's pretty ingenous! It's two words, in two words? I, and man, both nouns, pretty cool handle!
  But the entire cast is cool, and all very talented! Hey Jesse! Try to remember your lines will ya? I like the way the little Brunette calls him sir! No doubt this must have been, or might have been, because of a recent on air dressing down? But that's part of his charm? To put you on the defensive, to isolate you!
  I have listened to this fluke of nature for the better part of my life! I think my local station was, WMCA? He might have even been a good guy? But when that little squirmish with Howard Stern erupted, I kind of lost track of the both of them?
  But anyway, he's back! Imus that is? So here's another recommendation which will not earn me a nickle? Watch Imus in the morning's on the Fox business channel!

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Tested Truths: Rice

Tested Truths: Rice:   Money, I have told you about money! It is not the money itself, but it is the love of, and blah blah blah? But here is how important money...

Rice

  Money, I have told you about money! It is not the money itself, but it is the love of, and blah blah blah? But here is how important money has become. The true power of America's strength, is her wealth! What do you think the most powerful military in the history of the world runs on, rice?
  So ask yourselves, If money is at the heart of it all, what do you think it will take to finally wake up the American people? Money! Or more accurately, the lack there of!
  The fact of four dead Americans, killed on US sovereign territory, or that American soldiers were killed by a Muslim terrorist, can't get the benefits and the honor they deserve, because this Whitehouse chooses to call it, Work Place Violence doesn't seem to concern you? Couple this with the fact that we are well on our way to a 20 trillion dollar debt, which apparently, you are too dumb to understand the enormity of those numbers? What will it take to awaken the sleeping giant? But like it or not, the time is coming, and it is not far off, when the banks will fail, and the people will panic! There will be a run on money, but the money they will give you, won't be near enough? Soon, your money will be worth about as much as was the Confederacy's money after the Civil War! We print billions of new money each day, but it isn't backed with gold anymore, that standard has long been out of style? No, what our money is backed with now, is an IOU? Debt! And do you know to whom we owe our future? The Chinese! The very people who are supposed to be our enemy?
  Now you may not be able to wrap your heads around Trillions, but this you should understand? Would you rather have a mountain of gold, or a mountain of debt?

Tested Truths: Simplicity

Tested Truths: Simplicity:   The wonder of life is found in its simplicity! Although conversations which look to find the reasons for life, and how it all came to be, ...

Simplicity

  The wonder of life is found in its simplicity! Although conversations which look to find the reasons for life, and how it all came to be, are usually quite complicated, in reality, it isn't! There is a certain symmetry to life, because at it's essence, all life adheres to a very simple rule? The physicists are the ones who through their complicated formulas first stumbled upon what is a simple fact? In fact, the computers which we have invented, all operate on this same simple premise?
  It's binary dear Watson, because everything becomes so much clearer, once you cast off all of those difficult therories, forwarded by those whose only desire is to impress you with their difficult trends of thought!
  Binary, at it's simplist, is either a one or a zero, it is on, or it is off! The truth about anything physical comes from the grouping of these two digits! It is only a stretch for the willfully Godless, to deny that the symmetry and simplicity of everything must come from an intelligent designer! Strangely, none of these non believers would ever forward the idea, that the super computers of today, came about on their own, with absolutely no designer! And yet, when it comes to actual life, This they can not accept?
  To deny the existence of God is to say that computers evolved by themselves, and so, life needed no intelligent design?

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Tested Truths: Different Stimuli

Tested Truths: Different Stimuli:   Each of us is the sum total of our parts! Sounds redundant doesn't it? For me, it has become nothing more then a purging? Out with the old...

Different Stimuli

  Each of us is the sum total of our parts! Sounds redundant doesn't it? For me, it has become nothing more then a purging? Out with the old, and in with the new! I can only stay interested in a news story for just so long, afterall, there are so many so fast!
  So how is it that you became you, and I became me? Other then instinct and your basic needs, everything is a learned response! If you think about your body, and the organs which sustain your life, which of them would you deem more important? Some would say the lungs, because of their size, and it is them that pumps life giving oxygen to the body! The romantics among you would say the heart?
  But I will tell you that it is the brain! Because hey Bunky? All those other organs don't work well without the brain! Now, the brain controls the body as a reflex, and no thought is required. But the biggest job for the brain is the forming of your mind! It is your cognitive side, the one with which you think, and is really who you are, as the rest of it is dying away!
 So, different stimuli? We build our psyche's right from birth, and to a lessor extent, while still in the womb! As babies, we absorb what we hear and experience, and this goes on until today, and they have made you who you really are!
  The family! It's the breakdown of the family which is at the heart of it! And all of this, It takes a village, we are the world silliness, doesn't amount to a hill of beans! A child doesn't feel safe in a crowd of strangers, unless he first felt safe in his family!  

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Tested Truths: A Vitreous Woman

Tested Truths: A Vitreous Woman: She comes into a room, and brings fresh spring breezes with her! Each man in the room is immediately refreshed, and every eye is drawn to he...

A Vitreous Woman

She comes into a room, and brings fresh spring breezes with her! Each man in the room is immediately refreshed, and every eye is drawn to her! The first instinct of every man as he first looks, is that he would love to have her! But the lady, having just entered the room, is only one, and they are many! Men's thoughts are almost exclusively about sex? But then again, men are dogs, and we will eat our own vomit!
  But her calling is to a higher place, because for her, only love will open the garden gate! Here's a little tip for you ladies, when you wonder what it is he thinks? His first thought is to ravish you, but what he thinks after that, is how you will find his sincereity!
  But here's the thing girls, don't give it away, because you believe that by being promiscuous empowers you? It doesn't, it only empowers him! Give it for love yes, but give it only for the purest of love!

Monday, February 18, 2013

Tested Truths: For Mindy

Tested Truths: For Mindy:   Sorry for your moment of desperation, I'm sorry that things came this far! But it just goes to show, that it is love you sought, and it wa...

For Mindy

  Sorry for your moment of desperation, I'm sorry that things came this far! But it just goes to show, that it is love you sought, and it was all you ever wanted. I have known many like you, though you, I have never met? Innocent girls, they came in with eyes all aglow! You just wanted to party with the boys? Afterall, you thought, I can take it! At least, that is what you thought? The boys? We were split about your entrance into our world, half of us didn't want to see it happen to you, and the other half couldn't wait?
  Party like a Rock star, do people say that anymore? Even though you were Country, the pressures are one in the same! Endless hours on the road, recording contract timetables? Why a girl was entitled to a little fun, a time away from all the pressure! This was your first thought, and after the first few times, nothing much had changed, you were still in control? But then there was the first time, when the pills were hard to find, and you started to feel a little ill? Still, not too bad, as it was much like a very bad cold? That was your first real warning, and if you had gotten out then, things might have been much different? But you didn't stop there, and you went on, you went to challenge The Dragon, and the dragon won!

Tested Truths: Stay Tuned

Tested Truths: Stay Tuned:   On the weather channel, it tells me that it is 18 degrees outside? But when I return from making my coffee, to find out about the wind, th...

Stay Tuned

  On the weather channel, it tells me that it is 18 degrees outside? But when I return from making my coffee, to find out about the wind, they were running scenes from outside the Washington monument, showing hundreds of freezing protestors, who may have been waiting for those not as weather brave as they? Over at Fox, it was a story about some ding bat and a coma? Wow, it's like watching an episode of, The La Goons? That's a comedy I've been working on, about a family who are all in the TV business? Some as soap opera actors, some as journalists and prognosticators, while others did commercials. But all were in television, even if it were in a technical job behind the cameras!
  John LaGoon was the father of this madcap family! He had once been a hard nosed reporter, who wouldn't rest until he got the story! But as he had moved up in the company, his assignments had become less about the truth, and more about PR? He had risen at a steady pace, and the pay had been good! He was now, the head of the cable version of NBC, and during his tenure, he begins to doubt his  motives, and finds himself torn, between what he had become, and the once young firebrand that he was! It is just these kind of thoughts, which slowly begin to cause him to have a change of heart, and this puts him at odds with the family!
  You see, in our little play, John is the protagonist, and he and the clan get into some very funny scrapes, but, in an other way, He is the families only hope? Stay tuned!

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Tested Truths: Sharpening the Divide

Tested Truths: Sharpening the Divide:   The silence was deafening, there was a cold chill to the air! Planning on watching Killing Lincoln tonight on Nat Geo. It starts in fourte...

Sharpening the Divide

  The silence was deafening, there was a cold chill to the air! Planning on watching Killing Lincoln tonight on Nat Geo. It starts in fourteen minutes? Of the two popular books out about, Presidential assassination, this is the one that I wanted to read! The other, Killing Kennedy? I lived it! I figured unless Bill was going to tell us who ordered the hit, that I probably wouldn't have much to gain?
  But this one, Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth I know, more then that, not very much? Lincoln of course is one of the key figures in American History, and he ruled in the time of the Civil War! He, Lincoln, fought to make men free! Politics were played, and deals were made, but in the end, the President prevailed!
  The paraells to this time in history, though polar opposites, are still astounding! One of the men looked only to make men free, while the other, wants to enslave them again! One looked to unite a country, while the other is content to divide it? It doesn't matter your politics, whether you consider yourself a liberal or a conservative, because all Americans have felt this! It has become such a sharp divide, and the country is split right down the middle! This is what should concern any red blooded American! It has gotten to the point, just as in the times of the Civil War, even families are divided!
  Only the President can repair this, but apparently, he's too busy sharpening the divide?

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Tested Truths: Sheep among Wolves

Tested Truths: Sheep among Wolves:   The time for hiding is at end, You must proclaim your faith! But you need not stand on a soapbox, that is unless the circumstances present...

Sheep among Wolves

  The time for hiding is at end, You must proclaim your faith! But you need not stand on a soapbox, that is unless the circumstances present themselves? But when an opportunity presents itself, you are called to speak it plainly!
  There is little time for ceremony, as the role call has already begun! Onto each believer, God has placed a task? You must share the Gospel, so that none who are called can say that they didn't hear! He calls us out as sheep among wolves, so your task will not be an easy one. But you must not refuse to do it, but rather, you must be always looking for opportunities to tell it! If you refuse, this will be added to your account, and likewise, if you accept your task, this too will be accounted! You will certainly endure a certain amount of persecution because of this, but you mustn't allow this to differ you!
  Remember, that it is not your job to grow that person, you need only to plant the seed! That is all that is required of you, and once you have done this, it is up to them, whether they will accept it, or reject it? If you have piqued their interest enough, that they look further into the things of God, then you have done well! But if you decide to keep the good news to yourself, you will have trials and tribulation, until at last, you do as he bids!

Tested Truths: High Wire Actor

Tested Truths: High Wire Actor:   He thought of other things, broken trails of thought long since overgrown with doubt? A face in the crowd, another face forgotten? What wa...

High Wire Actor

  He thought of other things, broken trails of thought long since overgrown with doubt? A face in the crowd, another face forgotten? What was it he was doing, what is it that he was thinking about? And then, the crowd below, snapped him back into the task at hand! He was at the top of the Big Top, and the people on his left and on his right all gaped up at him? Concentrate, he thought to himself, you must think only about the wire!
  With this, he readied his chair, and went about doing the trick that had made him famous! He went about his act now, high above the crowd below, and he performed it perfectly! When he was done, he made his way to the other side, and bowed mechanically to the cheering crowds below!
  But safe now on the platform, his mind was far from all of this? He thought again, trying to remember what it was that he had been thinking about, when he had lost his concentration out there on the wire?

Friday, February 15, 2013

Tested Truths: Going Home

Tested Truths: Going Home:   It was held in one of those old churches, one so old, that it had a history of it's own. The graveyard outside, had the names of old famil...

Going Home

  It was held in one of those old churches, one so old, that it had a history of it's own. The graveyard outside, had the names of old families, solid families who had settled here before New Jersey was a State! The headstones outside told of the people who were buried there, some, who had been born and died, in the nineteenth Century, and some, the brown ones, were even older!
  Together in the chapel, the group had gathered, and talked among themselves, looking back fondly on old times, but also, so they wouldn't have to talk about the man, that they had come together to honor. A collection of characters who ran the gamut! There were those who were like Royalty, because their families lineage could be traced back form the town, and for some, the church in which we sat! These folks had family buried outside, you could trace the names like street signs! Then there were the implants, those who like my family, had joined this community during the great exodus from the cities, which had happened after the Second World War.
  But there was no pretense in this crowd, because all of them had come home! There lives had intertwined, their parents had known each other, and they had been kids together! But there was something to be said which ran deeper then those interpersonal connections? There was something about being back to this town, sitting in this church, something about just being there together again! So many memories came flooding back!
  Life is funny, because though the good times fade with the rigors of everyday life, it is always the sad times that will bring us all together again! Goodbye my old friend! You brought us all together again, but here's the best part, we came together as kids again, if only for a moment!

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Tested Truths: The games people play,

Tested Truths: The games people play,:   It is a time that all have known, it's that moment, by just a little slight of hand, you through off the other person intentionally! Games...

The games people play,

  It is a time that all have known, it's that moment, by just a little slight of hand, you through off the other person intentionally! Games, everyone runs games, and we all play them, and we play them most of the time. We tell our little fibs, we want only to hide our true feelings away! We all play games, because everybody hustles on some level? We look always to justify ourselves!
  This is a way with us, and everyone one of us has played the gamer! I know, because excuse me if it sounds like I brag, but I'm a pretty good gamer myself!
  Explanation points are flying, they abound in the Land of God! There are fresh thoughts here, thoughts that you've never thought before, a new threshold of hope! Hope springs eternal here, hope is all you can find! Whew, man, you guys really should see this! Has there ever been a reason why you would not come? Ah, finally, a way out of the land of explanation, and into the land of questions?
  I will tell you this, It is a wild ride! you just latch onto a thought, and off you go! Woo, ha ha...
Come back to me, don't you go drifting off just yet, because I have one more question? What will you be thinking about in a million years, or will you be thinking at all?  

Tested Truths: Take up your Cross

Tested Truths: Take up your Cross:   What are you ready to do, it is a question I ask for a simple reason? What you are ready to do, what you gotta do, and what you will do, a...

Take up your Cross

  What are you ready to do, it is a question I ask for a simple reason? What you are ready to do, what you gotta do, and what you will do, are often just that, three different things?
  What if for awhile each day, you thought only about things eternal? What if during time, you took your mind off the mundane trappings of this world? What is it you think would happen? I can tell you one thing, even if you have only done it once? It will give you a fresh perspective on life!
  It really doesn't matter, if you consider the meaning of life, or you choose to travel in the great death of the universe? Why doesn't it matter, which path you choose to consider to look at eternity? Because in our thinking within the relm of eternity, it is there where you will find the source of what is eternal, it is there where you will encounter the thoughts of God!
  So, I will challenge each of you who read this, to take the time, to stop whatever else it is that you are doing, whatever else it is that you are thinking about, To think about eternity!
  I feel sorry for those who can not see beyond this life? Because for you, this is all your life will ever be!

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Tested Truths: Billy

Tested Truths: Billy:   I will miss you my friend, old times always seem the best! I remember one summer very well! It was the summer when we stole the raft from ...

Billy

  I will miss you my friend, old times always seem the best! I remember one summer very well! It was the summer when we stole the raft from the lake, and paddled it out as far as we could! I can't remember how we got it free from it's moorings, but I remember the day, and I remember it so well! We had been out to the channel, after leaving Snake Island, and towards the end, we were over by Dickerson's point. That's when the cops came, and we got to shore as fast as we could? I remember that at least one person panicked and jumped off before we got to shore! I can't remember whether it was Terry, or Dennis? But I know that it wasn't us, and Tockers made it to shore with dry cloths also!
  But the day, that warm summer day! Just a couple of buddies floatin out on the lake, acting like a bunch of Tom Sawyers! Those were the days! Just a couple of care free kids on a perfect summer day!  

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Tested Truths: The prayers of the Saints

Tested Truths: The prayers of the Saints:   This is the thought that spurred me on, because I don't want to write what I'm about to write! It has been a tussle I've been having with ...

The prayers of the Saints

  This is the thought that spurred me on, because I don't want to write what I'm about to write! It has been a tussle I've been having with the Lord? I have told him on many occasions, that I didn't want to be the one? Why should I speak to them of death, why are the scenes of war so heavy on my mind? I have always been troubled by these scenes, but they are getting clearer now. The one I'm about to tell you about was crystal clear, though only for a moment? They used to be much vagor then they have become lately!
  I saw rockets falling on houses, right here in the good ole USA! It will start slowly at first, sporadic attacks, that will be covered by the news! They will tell two different stories at the first ones? One side saying that they are rocket attacks, and discussing who had done this, while the other reports will tell a different story? They will say, that a house was destroyed when a terrorist blew himself up while making a home made bomb!
  The problem for me, is that I only see pieces, and I too get confused by this! Because I have sat and heard sermons from both sides? One speaking of being raptured before the tribulation, while still others say we must go through it? What difference does it make now? To argue over this point is stupid! Because all that you need know, is that the end comes, it is very close, and it will happen within this lifetime!

Friday, February 8, 2013

Tested Truths: Control

Tested Truths: Control:   I am a dweller on the threshold, I am a tinkerer at the corners, and I have come for you! It is a calling to the saints of God, it is a ca...

Control

  I am a dweller on the threshold, I am a tinkerer at the corners, and I have come for you! It is a calling to the saints of God, it is a calling to return home! I am that tinkerer that you hear, and I can get under your skin? And given the time, I'll burrow right into your heart!
  Show me in the ways of behavior, show me in which way you think you should go? Do you refuse this, do you cast it off as so much rubbish? What is the tally of your heart, how much is flesh, and how much is spirit? Who among you is capable of resisting this telling? Let them step forward and tell it to me plain!
  You, your puny powers of this earth, I thunder at the works of your hand! Who among you will resist me, I would very much like to know?
  From grandeur I thunder, where is it that you come from? Do you think you can change what will come? Do you think to contain it?
  God laughs at all your efforts, because it is He who controls it!

Tested Truths: Claim the Spoils

Tested Truths: Claim the Spoils:   It is an old tactic, one tested in time by every man, who ever hoped to rule, completely unencumbered! As I read more about how Adolph Hit...

Claim the Spoils

  It is an old tactic, one tested in time by every man, who ever hoped to rule, completely unencumbered! As I read more about how Adolph Hitler came to power, two things occurred, that made it easy for the German people to be led astray. First, the great embarrassment of the loosing of the first World War was still fresh. That, coupled with the treaty of Versailles, which placed restrictions that were most unfair, as seen by the people, who figured that they had suffered enough, and this new treaty would  make it near impossible for them to rebuild their once great Nation. Hitler understood that this underlying current of anger could be exploited, but he needed something else, something closer to home? What was needed, before any world conquests could be considered, was a uniting theme within the country. Hitler found this, by dividing the people by their financial situations? Jewish businesses were an easy target! There was an undercurrent of anti sematicism against what the working class saw as an unfair advantage held by these Jewish businesses. This was easily done. as people were suspicious of how cloistered the Jewish community appeared to be? Using Jewish business, was the vehicle he used, to his ultimate goal, of blaming the ills of the country squarely on the Jews themselves!
  For any dictator to rise, he must first galvanize the people against a common theme, and there is no easier group on which to cultivate distrust and outright hatred, then the well to do! Jealousy is a powerful tool!
  When you look back at the century just passed, it isn't much of a stretch to see the similarities in this century! Because the tools of the powerful, will always be used against the working class, who feel helpless against what goes on, by using empty promises' and soothing words about a better future. Once that is in place, the dictator needs only to claim the spoils!  

Tested Truths: Anticipation

Tested Truths: Anticipation:   When you anticipate that only bad things lie ahead for you, won't that very anticipation flavor the events which do lie in your future? Co...

Anticipation

  When you anticipate that only bad things lie ahead for you, won't that very anticipation flavor the events which do lie in your future? Conversely, if you anticipate only good, won't the opposite be true?
  When you are raised in a certain environment, won't you then claim those points of view espoused there as your own? We are all the product of our environment, but as we grow and move along in life, how long does it take, before we begin to see things from a more personal point of view? There is one dynamic of any group, which is often the most dangerous, and that is, developing a group mentality! The extreme of a group comes when that group becomes an angry mob! Imagine yourself caught up in a group of family and friends which begins to consider a violence of some kind? Often, in instances like these, the group, once it has become a mob, will unite, if for no other reason, then to belong to the bigger whole. We are social by nature, and everyone wants to belong!
  But what of a person who has been ostracised his whole life? A person who like all of us, wanted only to feel like they belonged to a larger something, only to feel shunned time and time again?
  These are the people who are the most dangerous, because they have never understood an opinion, other then their own. When these people who have no sounding board of any kind lash out, it is usually extremely violent, but to them, it all makes perfect sense!

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Tested Truths: Imagine

Tested Truths: Imagine:   A teller of tales, a weaver of words? These are the things they say, but still I wonder why? Why this, or why that, or my favorite, does t...

Imagine

  A teller of tales, a weaver of words? These are the things they say, but still I wonder why? Why this, or why that, or my favorite, does this have to become that? What if it wasn't, and then again, what if it was?
  The trip to the heart of God, comes through soul searchin! Turning your opionated eye on yourself! A broad step, a huge jump, Wait a minute you say! I'm OK, you simply can't mean me? Who'd ya have in mind if not you? The trip to spiritual intelligence, starts from within. It is the way to the greatest intelligence, an intelligence, far greater then you could ever imagine!
  I know this, because I have made that move. I took it upon myself, to look at myself, but first, I asked for help, because my worldly mind, could not do it alone! the limits of my mind were too great!
  Only by deciding to join with the mind of God, can you ever begin to hope to understand these things!

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Tested Truths: A Wintry Mix

Tested Truths: A Wintry Mix:   It appeared first through the window, and then, as I moved outside, I understood it! It was a wintry mix, one of rain and snow, and of tin...

A Wintry Mix

  It appeared first through the window, and then, as I moved outside, I understood it! It was a wintry mix, one of rain and snow, and of tiny puff balls of hail! This was a curios thing to me, but man, it was wet! Instances of instigation, what is it that you have brought forth?
  Musical interludes float by, time has slowed for the watcher! Moralities like memories fade, They have become the things of ridicule? You say to yourself, This can not be, it can not be so absolute? But in reality, it is exactly that! Why are the Constitution, and worse yet, the bible being attacked? Because they are true, and people fear the truth! Can you grasp the arrogance of any man, who thinks he knows better? I will speak of the Bible and our Constitution as one now. They are absolute, they are the mark by which we are to set our compass! The Constitution Is the law, and the law should not change! But the Bible is the spirit, and it is not dead, but rather very much alive! When it comes to this great Nation, It was an adherence to these two books which made us the greatest nation in the history of the world! No one, ever, has wielded the power which we possess!
  There must be an accounting, There simply must be a set morality, and that national morality, comes from the adherence to our laws, and not changing them on a whim! But also, it is our faith! We have many faiths here, and we protect the rights of everyone that is legitimate! This was perhaps the greatest ideal that our forefathers knew? They knew that to be fair as a people, that the United States must remain generic when it comes to religon. But to no longer look to those two great documents, as a guide, and a solid base with which to build our hopes and dreams, we are lost!

Monday, February 4, 2013

God's People

  I found myself on the defense tonight? I was attacked by some well meaning Catholics, who quoted to me, the doctrine of men? Relax, I'm not gonna go off bashing catholics? At least not wholly so. I do have a combative side, and of this you can be sure! The problem is, the biggest obstacle that impedes man from God, is religion!
  I was baptized a Luthern, Made the equivalent of a first communion, the whole works! My childhood Pastor was a man named Griese, and he was a spitit filled Christian! In my young adult days, I bounced around when it came to the subject of God, even tried my hand at athieism? You see gang, It doesn't matter your religous banner, for there are many of you, but only one Him!
  So then, if you've been following my religous evolution, it leads me today, it leaves me where I am today? And that is, if you need a label, label me an evangelical? So you might say to yourself, that's it, surely these guys got it right? But no, they have rules and doctrines of their own! They will tell you, which music is Christian, some will tell you that dancing is no good? Now they don't write this stuff down, as in a hard and fast doctrine? No, this is only opinion, and you know what they say about opinions?
  Paul was a great orator, a brillant man, who was the Pharasee of Pharasee's! But because of his absolute understanding of what today is called the Old Testament! Couple this with his little mishap on the road to Damascus! The moment of conversion, his ephany, made him into, in today's parlance,  a Messianic Jew!
  You leaders of God's church, you must separate what is spiritual thought, from the doctrines of men! It doesn't matter your religion because with it, you tear apart God's people!

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Tested Truths: The Wonder of Sport

Tested Truths: The Wonder of Sport:   Well, here it is! Super Sunday! Two great teams, two great cities! And so the game will be watched, and the players will be celebrated! Th...

The Wonder of Sport

  Well, here it is! Super Sunday! Two great teams, two great cities! And so the game will be watched, and the players will be celebrated! This is a good thing, something that unites us, if only for a day? It is we, the fans, who hang on every pitch, and we wonder at every catch!
  But why do we love sport so much? Because it is pure, it is real, it is true! Winners and failures, painful plays, or an endzone celebration! If you stop to think about it, you will find, that we are all drawn to purity. What do you think causes us to love animals so much? It is because they are pure! For in their eyes, we see what it is that we want to be! You have heard that the best things in life are free? Well, that is absolutely true!
  I will tell you of the greatest purity, a purity, from which all purity flows! It is the source, it is real, and it is unimagined Power! The emptiness in your life is what you desire to fill, You try to fill it with things which are not pure, and so, you are never satisfied! This desire for purity, is a natural thing, for God has placed it, right into our DNA!
  So enjoy the game, and come together for a day! And while your celebrating together, ask of yourself a question? Why can't everyday be like Super Sunday? But we can be united as one, on every day! That is a promise of God!

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Tested Truths: A Note

Tested Truths: A Note:   Thoughts come in, and thoughts go out, they are a lot like butterflies, and they are sometimes so hard to see? I have been to the ramparts...

A Note

  Thoughts come in, and thoughts go out, they are a lot like butterflies, and they are sometimes so hard to see? I have been to the ramparts too many times, I will defend myself no more!
  Pieces of things, framents of reality. Memories, some real, some not? Just a moment ago, I saw a piece of paper, and on it, I had written, Note to self? With it, was a web address, that I can't for the life of me, remember what it was about? Or, for that matter, what good it would do now? What if I could go back to that precise moment, and have that same thought, Then I would have to figure out whether it was true or not? Too much hassle? If it's important, it'll come round again! There is a ying and a yang to life, others might call it, tug and release? In, out, all around, life swirls at you, and all you can see, is yourself? What is it with you anyway,what is it that you think about the most? Don't tell me, because I already know, it's money!
  Money is a necessity, but when does it cross over, and become a love? It is the love of money that the bible talks about, it is not about physical money. Does, Render unto Caesar ring any bells? You people, you think yourself above all that! Not me, you say, I'm a cheerful giver!
  REally? What if I was to tell you, that it won't be long, until we will have to live as the first century Christians did, and if your interested, the story is in the gospels! There is coming quickly, a time when you must give of your abundace, because do you think, that when it was said, To whom much is given, much is expected pertained only to spiritual things?
  Want a shortcut to understanding this? Read about the early church, you can find it in the book of Acts! and look at how the money was shared among the brethren. Why do I tell you this? Because as most of you know, life is cyclical, so that point in time, when the church was persecuted, and the believers banded together, that time, that necessity, it's coming back around! God gives many gifts, to some of you, he gave great wealth, but here's the thing, God's calling in his note!

Friday, February 1, 2013

Tested Truths: The Roar

Tested Truths: The Roar:   The roar was a mighty one, because it shook the strong walls of the canyon! But this time, the sound did not fade, but rather, it increase...

The Roar

  The roar was a mighty one, because it shook the strong walls of the canyon! But this time, the sound did not fade, but rather, it increased in it's volume and intensity, as the mountains joined in singing back in echoes which rang loudly throughout the land! The fury of the sound sent great boulders rolling down the hillside, and these crashed with the ones already below! This too made a loud sound, but these soon meshed with the louder sound from above!
  With this, I turned to return to the shade of the cool forest, but as I turned, I looked back over my shoulder to see if now I could see the end of this valley? But again, a scene showed in front of me? This one lingered for a longer while, and so I remember it!
  It was of an army of some kind, marching in perfect order! These were professional soldiers, and their snap and military precision was evident! Hard men, with hard looks upon their faces! As they marched by, they performed a close order drill with their weapons, presenting them as they went! These movements were perfect, and they moved by as one!
  Behind these were another group of soldiers, but these wore different uniforms, and carried weapons which were unknown to me? But these too marched by in perfect order, and these fellows were very impressive!
  I could watch no longer, and I turned from this grand scene, and Started back to the shadows again. Ah, I said, a cool walk, away from the hot sun, that could be just what a body needs?

Tested Truths: A Mighty Roar

Tested Truths: A Mighty Roar:   I dreamt I was walking in a strange land, and I was in a deep forest. And I came to a clearing, where the hot sun had bleached white the g...

A Mighty Roar

  I dreamt I was walking in a strange land, and I was in a deep forest. And I came to a clearing, where the hot sun had bleached white the granite stone! A place much brighter then the forest from where I had come. And as I moved forward, the darkness of the forest, slowly gave way to the light, and I stepped from the shadows, and into the light! I stopped and stood still, and it was as if time had stopped with me? I saw that I was in a valley, and the canyon walls of granite rose up on either side! Mighty granite walls, that glistened clean in the bright sun light! This granite had deep crevices in it, which were damp with green moss. At the base of these twin monoliths, were giant boulders, partially covered by smaller rocks and pebbles. The boulders that were strewn about were huge, and they dwarfed me!
  Then I looked down the middle of the valley, to see if I could see the end of it? But as I was looking, I could no longer see what I had intended to see? What came in front of me was a scene, like a still picture at first, and then showing like a film in front of me? Just as I was thinking I knew what it was that the scene was, it would change, as if the spool had turned, and another frame with a new scene appeared before my eyes? Each time I settled in, thinking that I knew what it meant, it too would move on?
  I stopped looking for awhile, and I looked instead to the sky, and as I did this, I threw back my head, and roared? It had come most unexpected, it was as if it had belched forth on it's own? Before this happened, I remember feeling something deep within me stir? As I listened, the sound faded in echoes, until I could hear it no more? It had felt good, and so I did it again. Only this time I put my all into it, and screamed forth a yell, a mighty roar!

Tested Truths: Reelin in the Years

Tested Truths: Reelin in the Years:   Have you been reelin in the years? Do you look forward, or can you only see what is behind you? Have you taken account of your life, where...

Reelin in the Years

  Have you been reelin in the years? Do you look forward, or can you only see what is behind you? Have you taken account of your life, where you have been, and what it is that you have done? Look forward, yes, but don't forget to look back also, because history really does repeat itself.
  What measure is your life, from where have you come? Where is it you go to, and what is to become of you, when the end of your days are upon you?
  All that lives, dies, that's just the way it is! No one escapes dying from this life, and in the end, there is only one difference? One life will go on forever, and the other, will go on to what it is accustomed to, and it will go on to eternal death!
  Time goes by so quickly, have you ever noticed that? Your ife, and your time in this one, is but a speck of sand on the beach of time. Here for a moment, and in a flash it is no more! Imagine if you can, Eternity! Your life of 85 years, what is that when compared to what is eternal? You are nothing! This life is nothing! It swims in the Ocean of Time, and it drowns far out at sea, and then, long forgotten?
  God is eternal, and it is he who is the life source! But God is pure Spirit, and so must we be, before we can ever hope to join him!

Tested Truths: King

Tested Truths: King:   He came in soft and low, he came in as a helpless infant? But he returns as a Lion! His return will come whether you believe in him or not...

King

  He came in soft and low, he came in as a helpless infant? But he returns as a Lion! His return will come whether you believe in him or not! You can no longer afford to deny him, You can no longer deny the signs, because the time of your calling is at hand! Step forward and shout out loudly that Jesus Christ is King!
  Silently he came, but like thunder he returns! He comes now to judge the quick and the dead, He comes for an accounting! Which side will you be on, who among you will say Yes? Do you think that the King of the universe waits for you?
  Wars, and rumors of more wars, they are already here, for this is their moment! Eathquakes, volcanos, and strange weather, it is as if the earth herself was wretching? She convulses to rid herself of the evil that binds her!
  Your time is short, and it won't matter what you think? Because when it comes to thought, His thoughts trump yours, a million Centuries to one! Could you imagine the betting line, if Vegas would offer odds on how many will choose to accept him? I haven't handicapped anything for awhile, but "d put them at about a million to one.