Introspection

   Introspection is to look within, to see yourself beyond the mirror. We see the bodies of ourselves when we look for vanity in the mirror. But you are so much more than the face you see in a mirror. The actual you is far deeper than the vanity you primp in a mirror. The real you glistens from all light like a diamond in the sun. White hot at your core, glistening with colors of every shade at the edges of the Spirit that lives within you. Scripture tells us that we were made in the image of God, do you understand what that means? The real us, both the us who ignore our heavenly Father, and, those of us who have already found ourselves in Him, everyone. Before you search for the wisdom of the Most High, you must first know yourself, defects flaws failings and all. You must first be honest with yourself before you are able to think to search the mysteries of the Lord Jesus, our Father, amen. Here's a helpful hint for a physical awakening. Instead of playing with you face while averting your eyes. Look beyond your appearance and forget your face. Instead, focus your gaze on your eyes, for the eyes are the window to the soul. To find the actual you at your essence, you should know, that there are no mirrors for the mind, and that the mind is a mirror. The holy Scriptures tell us that we were made in His image. Do you understand what that means? We've been set apart, a royal family. And here's a supernatural fact, we, like Him, are eternal creatures, or put another way, we are the space aliens. A wellspring of knowledge is available to us and we may drink of it freely. Our souls, the spirit of us shines brightly as does He.  We glow at our core, but He is white hot and powerful at his center, and that blindingly so. Further out from the white hot light, the image shimmers in many colors and different shades, He is dazzling to behold. 

  That may have seemed a long weigh to look at it, but the simple lesson is true. You must first be willing to meet you before you can look and find Jesus. Look beyond your physical self, and be willing to show your real self. The blemishes and flaws, the imperfections. We were made in His image, and so the Holy Spirit being Life, lives within each of us. The smart ones look to know Him, but the maddening noisy throngs push on by. Let them go, for they are the fools. True wisdom is very rare, stupidity though reigns supreme in the limitations of this life. 

  Introspection? Know yourself honestly first, and then seek Jesus. Christmas time is upon us again, but our Christmas celebration is actually a birthday party for the King. He, this ancient rabbi named Jesus, worship Him, for Jesus is the King of it all. 

  Love your family, hug your kids, call your dad, make this time special. Speaking of, this year, both Christmas and Chanukah are on December 25, and Chanukah ends on New Years Day. Something cosmic about that point..    

 

Celebration

   America dodged a death bullet yesterday. This morning we wake to the joy of knowing that now we can answer Ben Franklin's question posed so long ago by saying, Yes Mr. Franklin, it is a Republic, and we can keep it. Mr. Trump's return to the Presidency was perhaps the clearest choice for freedom over tyranny, made by we, the American people, in a long time. Silent no more, breath the free air again and enjoy it. But before we pour out all the accolades of praise and thanks to Donald Trump for leading this charge of patriotism, Clearly, the message was sent loud and clear to those who don't love this country. We Americans don't want communism, nor anymore marxist lectures, nor, do we want Socialism. Having finally gotten a chance to freely give our input regarding this great country, we did just that. By our vote we gave a resounding no to all the lunacy of the so called progressive left. We are happy with our Constitutional Republic and our democracy. 

  But as important as this historic vote was, it pales in comparison to the grace shown once again to this nation. God Almighty, who has watched as the country founded on his precepts became the number one country in numbers of abortion and infanticide. Besides that horrifying reality, add to that, that we are the number one producer of pornography by far in the entire world. Add to those obvious evils, that we have by vote kicked all mention of God from our children's schools, and we were well into the process of removing all mention of the God of our founding fathers from the public square. Because of this and so many other examples, God gave us mercy when we clearly deserved judgement and punishment far worse than the silliness of Kamala and the propagandists of the media pretenders. Journalism must return to reporting truthfully again, and leave their egos and agendas at the door. Simply put, a conscious return to truthful reporting. Americans returned a clear message that we her citizens would no longer tolerate the systematic dismantling of America the free, replacing it with the slow methodical march toward the tyranny of the leadership of an elite few. Our Lord and Savior chose to yet again to spare us of what we deserved, and showed mercy, to a people so deserving of judgement. What will we do with this, yet another chance, to return to to the God of our founding fathers? Will we continue to choose debauchery over Godliness, or, will we return to love and decency. So yes, by Donald Trump so soundly defeating the machine politics of greedy arrogant fools, we get a respite from the madness of the so called progressive left, but there is a caveat.  America, we must return to the God of our foundation, by whom we were founded as a sovereign nation. 

  Politics aside, though our Lord chose to dispense mercy rather than the justice we so deserve, He will not suffer with us for long if we return to the way of choosing evil over good. Praise God that He chose to give us one more chance to turn from our wicked ways and return to our first love. But know this, enjoy this newest chance to turn wrong to right again. But if we squander this latest chance to return to God Almighty and the teachings of the book of life and the teachings of Jesus who gave up his life for us, be assured, that this latest chance will be our last.  

 

Irrelevant

   If you just can't seem to remember, what it was you were thinking about before you started this, you've been side tracked. There seems no rhyme or reason for it. Out of mind long enough, it will be forgotten. Once out of mind doesn't mean gone forever. Words like spirits are eternal. Once written, spoken or thought, though they be out of mind for you, they will never be gone completely. Because, being spiritual they are eternal. There are just two ways to be a part of this world, dead, which is by far the larger part of it, or alive. It's a binary decision you might say, but then again, you might not. None the less, these two conditions though stark, are both natural by their nature.  The difference between life and death may be obvious, as seen from our current perspective, but this is because this is an example of those dimensions we spoke about earlier. If As an entity of this earth, there are but two conditions, two ways, to be on this planet. The first is most probably the largest condition by what naturally exists on this planet. More of what we see like those beautiful mountains and natural wonders are dead, they have no awareness. the somewhat smaller entity by sheer volume is living, life, ourselves, the plants and animals that exist all around us. But all of what is alive now will die eventually. We understand this, and except it as fact. All that lives will suffer the pain and loss of death. We as with all life, come into this world and grow to the maximum of our physical strength and our allotted time. Though it differs as to the person or animal as to when we have reached our natural potential as being as physically active and healthy as possible, from that pinnacle point of development the laws of entropy dictate that it is from that point we begin to die. Whatever age you believe is the point of your maximum physical prowess, it is from that point that, the short time it took to become your best physical self, the dying process begins. Everything that does live in this world will die. All life begins the death process by its aging. Even the mighty trees die, though some live to be hundreds of years old in age, whatever lives in this life, this dimension, will die. Most of, if not all you've read are natural facts of life, and are undisputed. 

  The problem arises as we consider that yes, death exists, and once dead in this dimension, most believe that life ends with physical death. But again, just as the majority of what exists on earth is dead, and that eternally so, most do not understand that for humans, as having been made in God's image, have eternal life offered to them from the same God in whose image we were created. Switching now to the more mundane realities of this our time. We are less than two weeks from a very important election. The choice has never been clearer, but it transcends the immediacy of the politics. Because beyond just the political choices which though more important today than in any time since the Civil War, comes the spiritual realities that we are also casting a vote for. We either vote to strengthen our Republic by choosing our Lord and Savior on which this country was founded, or, we pull the lever for those who will choose to continue to attempt to render the reality of a loving God irrelevant. Vote America, vote as if your life depends on it, because it does.    

Gravitational Pull

   Isn't it obvious that words are everything and everywhere? You could say with some accuracy that we are a compilation of words. The words which we heard of course, but more importantly, are the words which are of the truth. This is wisdom.

  No one would disagree that we gravitate naturally toward what is true, and cast off what is not. Why hold dear to a lie? In truth there is the light of Life, truth is the way to go, for in truth we find life. Survival is a natural instinct, it has been so from the beginning of each of us. For in our hearts is stamped the foreknowledge that we understand that truth is the essence of life, and that death comes from resistance of acknowledging that at any and all costs. 

 Though certainly a part of the cycle of life, death is the end of of all that is. When there is no sense of self, there is no life. After all, a rock is a rock is a rock.  In the famous final scene of the movie, Quasi Moto, the bell ringer at Notre Dame, has come to the place seemingly completely of no hope or future, and so he chose willingly to be a dead thing, rather than himself alive in this world in which he knew nothing but  cruelty and shame.  Holding onto a concrete gargoyle, he says to the lifeless sculpture, Why was I not made of stone like thee? The hope of life for this deaf and unloved man was far from him, and his feelings of loneliness and absolute worthlessness, led him to consider such a fate as to have never have lived at all. Without any real purpose but of that of playing a fool a for the entertainment of cruel people, left him without a meaningful purpose, something so important for a healthy life. 

 We however naturally gravitate to truth, for in it is life and the secret of the purpose of this existence. But for a life that struggles against the natural pull to the center, are those who unknowingly for most, choose instead, a death devoid of all meaning, a life of lies and the short term gains made possible by accepting what is untrue becomes them. They become fascinated by the shiny baubles so common to this world and so they choose false things and a misguided worship of the gods of this world. And by this decision and because of their defiant ignorance, they choose death over life; and death, as is life, are eternal. And so like the poor bell ringer in the story, they will become like what he longed for, they will become like the rocks. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust. The only difference, is that the rocks did not choose eternal nothingness. But they who once were alive, and once understood that life is worth so much more than is death, will  become what they chose while alive in this life and become like the rocks and stones, eternally dead. For a rock is a rock and forever a rock.   

Another Word

   Just another word about free speech. Understand that the key word in the phrase is free. Though truth is always superior to lies, with free speech you are free to speak of lies, rather than tell the truth. You are free to tell lies and spout nonsense if you choose. In short, in America, having free speech means that you not only have the right to be right, but you also have the right to be wrong. Today, our so called cultural elites don't seem to understand that. Or, the smarter ones among them do understand it, and thats why they fear it.  

 America fought the Nazis' in Europe during the war in Europe and on the other side of the globe against the Empire of Japan. But with our military so spread out across the the world, facist type thinkers were emboldened by what they saw as weakness, and for a time in the nineteen forties, the so called American nazi party marched openly in the streets and also held huge rallies, the most famous was held at Madison Square Garden in New York city. With such openly arrogant evil, Americans had to choose to allow these tyrant loving fools to be so openly against God and country. Gritting their teeth with anger no doubt, because these freedom loving patriots understood that under the laws of our country, and because of free speech, they had to suffer these evil fools and allow them to spew hatred and division. They, these Hitler puppets, as are all hostile forms of government, was big on the use of propaganda. The first goal of propaganda is to silence the free speech of those who refuse to toe the party line with the use of censorship. Sadly censorship is back in use, and if you know that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it, so far there seems to be little opposition to the political fact that our government has jailed people who dared disagree with the current administrations apparent disregard for free speech. Are they so naive as to think that if when in power the other side might well choose to do to them what they did to others? Censorship is the first giant step toward tyranny. They speak of losing our democracy, but in reality we are a Constitutional Republic. The main difference being because simply put, democracy means majority rules. If that were true the large cities would control the government, without needing the agreement and consent to smaller cities and towns. 

  This grand experiment of this unique form of freedom has been admired since its inception and admired by the rest of the freedom loving world. But today the values that made this country the envy of the world seem to no longer be important. They are! now more than ever.

  

Free Thinking

   Free thinking has no limits, needs no parameters, knows no boundaries or rules, except those of natural law. Earthly thinkers are limited to the realities of this life on this earth. They can dream about the future while remembering the past, but unlike their eternal counter-selves, they are unable to know more than what can be known, from this, our time. No matter how grand their dreams for the future might be, the limitations of time in this reality limits their opportunities. These well intentioned thinkers have so much to consider in such a short time. Because their vision is so cluttered and obscure, they do not know or believe that there are other realities all around them. They see the spiritual realm as fictional, they cannot see it, therefore it must not exist? An extremely limited point of view. 

  To be able to see beyond the limits of space ant time, to see and understand that there are many dimensions all around us with only our earth glasses on, is impossible. To see from beyond any and all limitations is only when we view things with the glasses from God. If you desire to be eternal, and be able to spend it unlimited by the boundaries of space and time, you must understand that you can only see that from the eternal realm, God's realm. This lifetime you now live, when seen and compared to a life eternal, is but a vapor, a puff of smoke, a dissipating nothingness compared to life eternal. Pure and perfect logic go hand and hand with free thought, and of course truth, for Truth, is the third and most important leg of this most stable platform. 

  Eternal life vs. this life is really no contest at all. This life with all of the trappings of the world. Wealth, fine foods and the best of everything, pales in comparison to the riches of an eternal life. Let me put it in terms that are easily understood. Given the choice between one hundred tax free dollars or one million tax free dollars, which would you choose? God controls trillions of billions of all that is in eternity, God is eternity. 

The Lion Inside of You

   There is a lion inside each of us. My lion hates liars! My lion roars and flashes his teeth at those who live to lie. Their whole being is a slander, they communicate with a wink and a nod. Do they not understand that a little light illuminates the room? As it is, people fear the light, they feel safer in the shadows, in the light all their flaws are seen, their actual selves are exposed, they are as if they stand naked for all to see, and so they choose to linger in the shadows. But you have been made in His image, created as intelligent beings, with lives of purpose and understanding, not of the mindless paths that we claim as our own. 

  America, you can no longer enjoy the luxury of apathy. We have hit the end of the road partner, there is nothing ahead except the darkness, we must turn one way or the other. They speak openly now of killing children. Openly as if it were only a subject of politics, they speak with a callous disregard for the yet to be born, by far the most fragile of children. Infants, babies yet to take a first breath of life. Not long ago, on an ocean beach near me, there was a great drama had unfolded. followed closely by the local news and even picked up nationally for a day. A mother whale had beached herself and she was pregnant and dying. But the unborn calf was still alive and so a great effort was made to save the baby. They worked into the night, but the baby whale died. By now a huge crowd had gathered to watch this real life drama unfold. When the calf died, many in the crowd cried, some wailing bitterly. 

  In reality, many of these same people so upset with the death of an animal, spoke of unborn children with a callousness and an apparent lack of concern when it came to human life. A child eliminated from their chance for life because it was inconvenient for one reason or another. What's even more amazing is that this issue will be the single issue reason that will decide their vote. In truth at it's core, it really isn't a difficult choice, because at its core, it is either a choice for death or a choice for life. 

  Understand that these choices ahead of us far exceed politics. They are on a higher scale, for it is a spiritual decision which is also at stake. What kind of nation do we choose to be, You see, life and death is a stark difference and easy to distinguish. But understand this, there is a spiritual decision that will also be made. God is many things, and one of them is Life. If we as a nation choose death over life, that will be the final nail in our coffin. By choosing life you choose God, choose death, and choose evil. make no mistake America, you will reap what you sow.