I don’t, I can’t, remember much of what I write.
Actually, that is why I write—because I can’t remember important things.
When I re-read what I wrote, even years ago, God uses it to inspire me.
Hope it will do the same for you.
MENTAL DECLINE ? – – – MEMORY ? – – – RECALL ?
November 18, 2023 By Leave a Comment
IT’S SO EASY TO GET LOST THESE DAYS
November 11, 2023 By Leave a Comment
“It’s so easy to get lost these days, in the shuffle and the noise.”
There have been tough times before, all through history, that called for extreme courage and extreme faith.
But, today “the shuffle and the noise” added to the crises everywhere in the world, and the stress in our own lives, leaves most of us too dizzy to deal with it all as humans.
We are not designed to keep track of this much at this speed—it finally becomes just so much noise.
Too much coming at us too fast and too loud—we can’t afford to stop and think about who we are, really.
We continuously plunge into the next priority for our attention, and skip our own health and well-being, our human-being.
“When can I do something for me ?”
“What can I do for fun ?”
Busyness covers what we don’t have time for—“Who am I ?”
We can’t escape.
We’re lost.
We choose to participate in evermore technology.
Technology gives answers about ‘everything’, and fast, but . . .
Technology does not give answers about us, where we need to be for real.
The speed and volume of stuff just ends up adding to the noise, quickly.
The “shuffle and the noise” becomes its own coverup to hide what we need to hear and know—most especially being heard and being known.
I sing this short verse often, because I need to:
“Thank You, Lord, for hearing me.
Thank You, Lord, for knowing who I am.
Thank You, Lord, for seeing me.
It’s so easy to get lost these days,
In the shuffle and the noise.”
PITFALLS ? – – – PLUNGE AHEAD !
October 28, 2023 By Leave a Comment
How many times have we heard the warnings—the patterns, the side effects, the traps, the dangers, the hazards, the theft, the down side, the pitfalls, the prison.
How many of us plunge ahead, in spite of the warnings, with no change in our daily pattern of usage, consumption, dependence, loyalty—believing superiority over negative effects, saying, “I can handle it.” and thinking, “It won’t affect me.”
If I was with you in person, I would pause and see how long it takes you to guess what I’m talking about.
If I gave the ‘answer’ later on this site, you would read that post before this one.
Oh well, I’m talking about social media, and much of the internet in general.
Inescapable
Wonderful
Economical
Fast
Freeing
Communicating
Separating
Distancing
Distracting
Captivating
Ensnaring
All-consuming
Addicting
Dehumanizing
Enslaving
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While writing this on my phone, my son sent two links to the parallel, modern dilemma in the food industry.
In recent decades our food supply through the grocery stores has become saturated with unnatural and unhealthy additives and treatments that seriously jeopardize our well-being.
We hear occasional reports about specific, harmful ingredients and preservatives, and we are alarmed.
Then most of us plunge ahead and buy what is available and what we can afford and what we have time for.
Most of the above list intended to describe technology, seem to apply in the food concerns as well.
FAITHFULNESS
October 23, 2023 By Leave a Comment
Faithfulness
Stewardship
Servanthood
Good Bondage
Freedom
Submission
Carefree Responsibility
Called / Driven
‘Free’ Work
Easy Yoke
Light Burden
Carefree Zeal
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“What is required of stewards, but to be faithful.”
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Some are called/required to steward more, some less.
Money
Lack
Abilities
Disabilities
Strength
Weakness
Pleasure
Pain
Toil
Rest
Long Life
Short Life
Time Today
–no one has more
–no one has less
–no excuses
–no rationale that “we can’t” because of time
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Not a care in the world—
Just a God-given job/task to do.
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“Trust in the Lord . . .
Do not lean on your own understanding.”
I don’t have to ‘figure things out’—I’m not supposed to—I’m directly told not to do so.
Got trouble—Got a problem to solve ?
— First, tell God about it.
— Let Him give you the solution.
— Let Him tell you what to do.
— Do it.
— Let Him get the credit, all of it.
— That’s called “glorify Him”, aloud.
And that’s why it says, “Acknowledge Him in A L L your ways, and He will direct your paths.”
This has nothing to do with the power of positive thinking.
It has everything to do with the power of God’s thinking—in His Word !
SAFE SEX – – – SAFE SIN
October 23, 2023 By Leave a Comment
1 – If you don’t get in trouble . . .
2 – If you get away with it . . .
3 – If nobody knows . . .
4 – If you don’t hurt anyone . . .
5 – If nobody criticized or condemned you . . .
6 – If you think it’s okay . . .
7 – If ‘friends’ think it’s okay . . .
8 – If you repeated (and repeated) . . . and nothing happened . . .
9 – If God didn’t send lightning bolts or other judgment . . .
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10 – If all the above—
Then you must have had safe sex.
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Did you have safe sex ?
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BUT . . .
THEN . . .
THEREFORE . . .
Did you have safe sin ?
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If all ten “Ifs . . .” are indeed your experience, add one three-letter word—
IF nothing happened, IF no judgment . . . Y E T !
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Perhaps you are the person who waves off, laughs off, any negatives from your lifestyle.
Perhaps you will read what is next anyway.
Perhaps it will start a crack in your sealed wall, which is actually your prison.
Perhaps not.
Perhaps you are aware of, and may be experiencing some of, ‘the rest of the story’ with “. . . YET”.
Are you waiting for some of the consequences to get stronger, some of God’s judgments to get stronger, to get your attention sufficiently, to change ?
TRICKS PLAYED ON SENIORS
October 11, 2023 By Leave a Comment
From humorous to—not so much.
+ When you come out of a store to the parking lot, someone moved your car.
+ People talk . . .
+ People don’t understand . . .
+ People WILL NOT talk loud enough for you to understand them.
+ People move your stuff.
+ People always say you’re the one who can’t remember correctly.
+ People talk about you without including you in the conversation.
+ People will really talk about you if you get very sick, and you will feel worse, literally.
+ People can (in extreme cases) make you feel like vultures are circling over a weakened animal, when you get old and feeble and unstable, and it hastens losing your mind. (Be thankful if you never experience that.)
ALZHEIMER’S – FEAR ? VS HUMOR ?
October 11, 2023 By Leave a Comment
We all know how horrible it can be to experience alzheimer’s or watch someone go through it.
But we recognize the universal role of humor to help cope with fear of some things from a distance.
As a counter to my ongoing loss of memory and mental acuity, I had this light-bulb moment some time ago:
Since they say that short-term memory tends to lose function first, I decided that is not my problem—it’s just things that happened over thirty seconds ago that I struggle with.
Oh well, just a thought.
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And, if a person has a number of experiences with minor memory failure, could that give natural immunity to the real thing ?
Please don’t take this too seriously.
NO CELL PHONES IN . . .
October 7, 2023 By Leave a Comment
NO CELL PHONES IN THIS ROOM OR THIS ROOM OR THIS ROOM !
+ No cell phones in the bathroom !
+ No cell phones in the bedroom !
+ No cell phones in the room where you are eating, TOGETHER !
I could write for an hour on the best use for each of those rooms, and how I thought of this article sitting in one of them.
But it is more effective if I let you think and talk about how you and yours will use your time there, without cell phones.
PLANNING THE PANDEMIC
October 4, 2023 By Leave a Comment
October 2019
— Before the rest of us heard about covid and a pandemic, there was a secret meeting in the U.S. of ‘one-world’ minded elites, to plan how they would handle the coming pandemic and use it for their purposes.
March 2020
— Covid-19 arrived, was declared a pandemic, and triggered a host of mandates and controls that devastated economies and the well-being of millions who conformed and buckled—pre-planned power grab.
— This gave just enough time to seriously impact/control the election in eight months, with mail-in ballots mailed-out en masse and collected by ? ? ? en masse, etc.
November 2020
— The outcome of the all-important election was indeed affected, altered according to plan, and immediately changed the course of American history—to orchestrate and expedite the downfall of the greatest nation ever.
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October 2023
— That would be right now.
— People are planning the next pandemic, and not so secretly, and talking about it.
— They are counting on the people accepting their plan and following their rules again.
— They are building a repeat of fear—fear of disease and death—fear of losing livelihood and everyday living.
— They are talking about masks and vaccines all over again—so people get used to it, again.
? ? ? 2024
— Uncertainty of when the next shoe falls, when the balloon goes up, when the next pandemic hits, keeps the people just where the controllers want them—dependent, for survival.
— But, some people are not going to buy the threats of consequences for not following ridiculous orders, this time.
— But, but, how many sheeple complied with unhealthy masks and isolation just three years ago, beyond logic and beyond their personal convictions.
— In light of the power of technology to track and control just about everything and everybody, the flow of goods and services for our very survival can be manipulated by the puppet masters already in charge.
— And, when faced with hunger from shortages, and panic from travel restrictions outside your house, people are still known to sacrifice freedom for food.
November 2024
— In light of the power of technology to track and control just about everything and everybody, we no longer have confidence in guaranteed fair and free elections.
— So, which will it be—our continued demise, with demonic forces operating through individuals currently in charge in this country——or——serious, complete return to the God of the Bible, the God of our forefathers, in repentance for our sins ?
SENIOR MOMENT/OXYMORONS (4)
September 30, 2023 By Leave a Comment
As time goes by, I find it interesting to compare functioning of the brain to a computer—sometimes similar, sometimes not.
— Memory upgrades or additions become unavailable.
— The hard disc seems to rotate slower, which explains why it takes longer reviewing stored information, to find what you’re looking for.
— You just can’t have as many files open at one time, like in the past, or like other people.
— What used to work well in your life, you are told is out of date–and upgrades simply don’t fit.
— Pressure does not increase productivity—another crisis blows another circuit—can’t afford that.
— Older systems are no longer supported, and everything you do takes so much longer.
— The cost of inefficiency and failure of logical function, add up in real dollars, with no reprogramming to correct the damage.
— Thinking about another better system is not helpful—actually, that kills your own system, almost like it has personality and gets offended. Yes, it does, because it’s you, a person and not a technical machine like a computer.