Memorial

   The horror that occurred recently at a Texas elementary school was pure evil. The Devil who is evil, hates when his real self is scene so obviously. He is usually quite the pretty boy, and can take any shape or body. It was once said in heaven that Satan was the most beautiful of all the angels, and so get the red pajamas and the pitchfork right out of your mind. Being spirit, you cannot see him of course, only the aftermath of the horror he orchestrated. The scene looked as would he, if he could be seen as that once pretty angel looks now. Now. he would look as someone ugly, nasty, and only wanting death. Of course, admitting to yourself that ultimate good exists, so does the flip side of the coin. Ultimate evil, is something that makes us uncomfortable, something we'd rather ignore. So we ignore the spiritual implications, and go straight to our religion, politics. 

  But still the question persists, and people will ask, How can God allow this, and why didn't he stop it? God being outside of time, sees things from an eternal perspective, we, of course, are limited to the here and now. God knows what was, what is, and what will be. Does His heart break for those families? Of course. But the ground work was  already in place, the demon who took control of the murderer had left tell tale signs of a twisted mind, whose calls for help were not heeded. Reality was far from him, and watching the carnage unfold in reality was for him, much like the shoot em up video games he so loved. Insane? of course, all cold blooded murder is. And yet, we as a country are trying to decide at what point can we kill the lives of even younger children than those in Texas. God gave us over to our self absorbed and debased minds. In reality, until the day God takes it back, the devil is the king of this world, it is his.  

  Free will, remember? It was by our will that we sat quietly while they removed school prayer from our schools back in the sixties. It will be that same apathetic non caring attitude, that will allow them to eliminate the pledge of allegiance to our nation from our schools next. We sat in silence during last summer's riots as they torn down the statues of our history, we even sat idly by as a granite monument of God's ten commandments was ripped from it's moorings! Think God might be a little offended at that? Our money says, In God We Trust. What happened? 

 And now evil focusses on its real desire, our children. They plan to divide them by race, and turn them all into sexual perverts. And We have the nerve to ask why God allows tragedy? Strangely, thats the same question He asks you..     

Too much Monkey Business

   Never let an epidemic go to waste, and if you can't find one, make one up. Did you know that fear sells more than does sex? Well, maybe more neck and neck.. But this occurred just hours ago. I took a trip to the thrift store, right around the block from me. I was hoping to find a used electric typewriter. My paranoia is my own.  The store was mostly empty except for some kid I saw lurking around, and two old women. They were both masked, I of course, I wasn't, because I thought the mandates were over? It was obvious that I made both women nervous, the sales girl more than the customer. Nice, typical grandma looking, but nasty. Apparently, someone somewhere had scared these otherwise fine old ladies into becoming rude and just plain fragile victims, who had just recently drank from the new Kool Aid.

  Monkey pox flu, the next panic to spread at long last. That is of course, how you'd see it, if you were them. After all, they had gotten about as much out Covid as is possible. A new disease is just what the doctor ordered. Public notification: Monkey pox, is NOT contagious, period. Oh they'll try selling it, they push and they'll spin, and try, once more, to make something out of nothing. Me thinks we Americans are sick of your tricks. But be ready for it, ignore it as best you can, but don't let your anger get the best of you. Remember, they are like children, wisdom is foreign to them, Entertain me they cry, where is the toy in the box?

None the Less

  What is life, or better yet, why is life? What does it all mean? What happens when we die, do we simply return to the earth from which we came? Is there life after death? How can that be? How could I not have not been born, how would it have affected my family if I had never lived, what, if anything would have changed? How many of you know that the odds against you ever knowing the answer of such type questions are astronomical.  These are but a few of the deeper questions of life, there are no questions in death. These deeper thoughts and questions come to us all in one form or another, and at some point in our lives. What is the answer to understanding, is it not knowledge? 

  What do you think you'll do after you die? Ask yourself, What is it that leaves your body at the moment of your passing? What leaves to change the living into a lump of dead meat? Is the extent of the human condition only to understand the short time of the sum total of our years while we live on this earth? Is that your limitation? If you have ever watched a living thing die while watching the eyes, you will see the spark of life fade in their eyes until they become lifeless and dull. What is that spark, and where does it go when the body dies? 

  What you see as that twinkle that turns dark, is the Spirit of Life leaving, that is what you lose at your passing. But what becomes of that sparkle, does it live forever, or does it too become as dead as stone? The answer of course is that both life and death are eternal.  What if you have a choice, would you choose to go on with that spark of life, to live love and learn forever, or would you choose to be plant food? Or, does your hope ly in the hope that you will return as another life form, like returning as a beautiful swan. What if you come back as lice feeding on rotted corpses? You know there is no guarantee of the swan or flower gardens? So, say that the choice is yours to make, which would you choose? Surely given that clear a choice, most if not all would choose life eternal, rather than just returning to dirt. 

  No matter what you've been taught, and as much as you may not like exclusiveness, there is only one way to guarantee eternal life with the Creator of all, and that is by becoming a follower of the son God sent as the way to himself, Jesus Christ. Jesus himself stands at the door of your heart and knocks. The last question is, Will you answer the door? Scripture tells us that more won't than will, but the remnant grows none the less.