THANK YOU, JESUS, FOR 75 YEARS !
OUR FATHER
August 28, 2025 By Leave a Comment
[WHO IS IN WASHINGTON]
— OMG
— NAME IT—CLAIM IT
— SELECTIVE
— PLUS RETIREMENT
— BARTERED DEAL
— DON’T BLAME US WHEN WE
— 911
— LATER
SCHEDULING TIME
June 25, 2025 By Leave a Comment
SCHEDULING TIME FOR . . .
OR
SPENDING TIME WITH . . .
Time ?
Time for what we must do !
Time for what’s important to us !
Time for people important to us !
Time for health !
Time for fun !
Time alone !
Time for God !
Time with God !
Time to GO !
Time to STOP !
Schedule time ?
Why do we need to schedule time ?
Can we schedule time ?
Does scheduling time mean we have too much in our day ?
Does scheduling time mean we are better because we get more done ?
Does scheduling time make it go farther ?
Pioneers and Us ?
Seems like they did not have to focus on scheduling like we do.
Seems like they did not try to, or think they could, get more done by scheduling better.
They just worked hard until the day was over.
Always seems to me that we could learn from them, even to counter the expectations of ‘scheduling’.
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Think !
How does it make us feel ?
Is there a difference ?
+ Scheduling time for those closest to us.
+ Spending time with those closest to us.
WRONG SEX
May 25, 2025 By Leave a Comment
(written in 2010)
Wrong sex* is like poking a hole through a dam to get a drink of water. While you’re drinking, you don’t care how big the hole gets because you’re thirsty and the gushing water feels so good as it gets stronger. When your thirst is quenched and you see the damage and try to plug the hole, you can’t do it—it’s impossible. You can only watch the rest of the dam wash away. Then you have to rebuild the whole thing. However, you will always know where the weak spot is in the dam in case you want to do this whole thing over again.
*as defined in the Bible—any sex not exclusively with your lifelong marriage partner
THIS IS MY BODY
May 24, 2025 By Leave a Comment
“This is my body, . . . This is my blood. *
This is my body – – – This is my choice.
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How blasphemous ! ! !
Abortion is indeed the sacrament of the left, of evil, of the devil.
Your baby is not your body !
YOUR BABY IS NOT YOUR BODY ! ! !
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* “This is My body, given for you.
This is My blood, shed for you.”
—–Jesus, to every follower in His Truth
“The thief (devil) comes to kill, steal, and destroy;
I came that you may have life, and have it more abundantly.”
—–Jesus, to every child inside their mother
Jesus came to give life, not take life.
He gives us life, every single one of us.
He gave His life, for our sin.
He gives meaning to all of our lives, in all circumstances—and, in all locations.
Note that Jesus said He came that we may (might) have life—we can accept His offer of life for ourselves, or reject it.
We can extend His offer of life to protect the unborn, or reject it—and join the thief, the devil, in the most despicable “killing and stealing and destroying” the lives of precious babies.
GOD LOVES BARBECUE ! ! !
May 21, 2025 By Leave a Comment
God loves barbecue.
Think about it—after all, we’re made in His Image, so . . . !
Surely, enjoying barbecue is a blessing from God !
Doesn’t say if God ever ate any, but He sure delighted in the smell of barbecued beef (and others), particularly sacrificed from the heart of one right with God.
‘Incidentally’, vegetarian sacrifices were included, but never sufficient for dealing with sin—God required shedding blood from the beginning, and it pleased Him.
Lots of Bible verses on this, making God happy (look up “sweet smelling sacrifice”).
“The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma (of Noah’s sacrifice after the flood) and said, ‘Never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.’ ” *
Since Jesus told the following story to give the New Testament completion of getting right with God, I find it hard to believe He would have refused good barbecue while He was here.
Prodigal Son—
One of my favorites, for lots of personal reasons, including this:
Jesus made up the story, and intentionally included the extravagant feast with barbecued beef from the calf that was fattened especially for this (long anticipated by the father).
So, our return to Our Father creates joy in heaven that warrants barbecue of a fattened calf.
I LOVE IT ! ! !
(also, THE PIGPEN, on this site)
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In the book, DADDY SAID, I relate a personal experience growing up and enjoying the fatted calf ! ! !
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* On a different note than this article, the next verse after the one above, puts to rest any fear of catastrophic climate change:
“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.”
God and His Word had the first word “In the beginning”—and always will.
OMNIPRESENT
May 17, 2025 By Leave a Comment
There was a time, in times past, when that word referred only to God—rightly so—still true today.
But when we look to things man has invented, created, developed, and built, our perception of omnipresent is changing.
We enjoy many things we have made, and we expect no limits to what more we can do.
We also fear things we have made, and what else we might make, and we wonder if we are better off.
We can create for good because we we are created “in the image of God”.
We can create for evil because we have a fallen nature, sin.
Over the millennia of history, man has created for good, to improve this life—and man has created for evil, to cause suffering and destroy this life.*
Our history is indeed omnipresent.
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NOW, new on the scene—TECHNOLOGY.
+ Computers
+ Cell Phones
+ Internet
And NOW, new on the scene of technology—ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
+ Where did AI come from ?
+ How is AI coming so fast ?
+ What are the limits of AI ?
+ Should we fear AI ?
+ We do fear AI !
Artificial Intelligence ?
+ Omnipresent—yes, so it seems.
+ Omnipotent—no, never.
+ “But God . . .”
If you are worried about AI,
If you fear AI,
Then use a bit of technology to find all the Bible verses that say, “But God . . .”
You will find all over again that “God is our refuge and strength; a very present help in trouble.”
A few lines from old hymns that renew our faith, like the lines from ‘old’ Bible verses that never get old:
“Trusting in my Father’s wise bestowment,
I’ve no cause for worry or for fear.”
—–from Day By Day, And With Each Passing Moment (read all the verses)
“Truth forever on the scaffold,
Wrong forever on the throne,
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow,
Keeping watch above his own.”
—–from The Present Crisis, by James Russell Lowell, ardent abolitionist of the 18th century (read the entire poem)
*”And do not fear those who kill the body [this life], but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”
—–Jesus
“The thief (satan) comes to kill, steal, and destroy—I came that you may have life, and have it more abundantly.”
—–Jesus
ESSENTIAL MINUTIA
May 14, 2025 By Leave a Comment
This is an assortment of the minor details of life, some with explanation, some without.
ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – ‘Minor Detail’—we’ve often heard or used that phrase to highlight how a particular matter is anything but minor.
ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Billy Graham emphasized three things essential to success in his ministry—Prayer, Prayer, Prayer.
ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – James Dobson emphasized three things essential to success in his ministry—Detail, Detail, Detail.
ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – The Bible verse that tells the creation of the big lights, ends with a simple mention of “and He made the stars also.”
— In all 6000 years of history, who ever knew how big that little phrase at the end of making the big lights (sun, moon) that order our days “. . . the stars also”—how big that would be.
— We always knew there were too many stars to count.
— Who ever knew how big each one of them is ?
— Who ever knew how many there are, until now ?
— And now, with advanced science exploring ‘out there’ and counting, we have a better idea how many stars there are.
— So, how many stars are there, really ?
— We have no idea, there are so many, and so many more ! ! !
ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – If God took care in creating all the extravagant detail of the universe, the monumental and the minutia—and then topped it all by creating us—most surely He cares about taking care of us, in every detail.
ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – This includes daily routines in our personal lives, our families, our children, our health, our fitness, and challenging changes in details for seniors.
ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Consider the VERY FIRST thought, word, action of your day.
— God, spouse, bathroom.
— Pattern, to habit, to auto-routine.
— Must not be automatic, not just a routine.
ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Is each morning, each new day a routine ?
— Not on your life.
— Your life, you’re given another day—why ?—what for ?—from God.
— What will you do with this non-guaranteed gift ?
— THANK THE GIVER, for starters.
— Find what He has for you, why He gave you another day.
— Commit to giving it back to Him.
— Faithfulness, service, sacrifice, PRAISE.
ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Covid mandates.
— Essentials open, others closed.
— Says who ?
— ESSENTIAL CHURCH, watch the movie.
ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Jesus fed over 5000 people, with plenty of free food, and then He told them to gather the leftovers, the crumbs, so nothing is wasted.
ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – “But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.”
ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Jesus often got up a great while before day and departed to a solitary place and prayed, and sometimes he prayed all night.
ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Details for seniors.
— Little things that were/should be automatic routine, now take most of your time, and all of your concentration.
— ‘Important Things’ become MOST IMPORTANT.
ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Does God have everything covered when we don’t, when we start losing it ?
ESSENTIAL MINUTIA – Time alone with Jesus, every day, often.
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Read SENIOR YEAR(S) on this site (type in search bar).
EATING WRONG – – – EATING RIGHT
April 30, 2025 By Leave a Comment
For Our Body
For Now
For Our Soul
For Forever
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I could leave it at that, for your reflection.
Or I could add this, to direct your reflection:
Most everyone knows how eating wrong or eating right has consequences for our bodies—maybe not immediate, but long-term for sure.
Most people don’t stop to consider how the ‘long-term’ concerning our body is really, really the short-term for our soul.
No matter how we take care of our body, or don’t take care of it, it is all just for now.
The effect of what we consume for our soul is indeed forever, whether we stop to think about it and evaluate the health of our soul, or not.
Not taking in ‘bad stuff’, or taking in ‘good stuff’, may not secure the future well-being of our soul.
Only one thing guarantees the health, the very life of our soul forever—
Eating Right for our soul comes only from the Bible—taking in Jesus and His food for eternal life—
“Jesus paid it all; all to Him I owe.
Sin had left a crimson stain.
He washed it white as snow.”
Eat and Drink and get your name written in heaven, now.
CONTENT ?
April 30, 2025 By Leave a Comment
“I will be content . . . “
OR
“I am content.”
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Take time to reflect.
Wait on God.
“Trust in the Lord, . . .”
. . . don’t lean on your . . .
— your anything
— your thinking
— your understanding
— your abilities
— your figuring it out
— your health
— your strength
— your goals
— your position
— your success
— your money
— your insurance
— your retirement
— your . . .
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.”
If we do not stop to consciously, verbally, recognize our dependence on God, our trust in Him “in all our ways”, in every detail—then we are not trusting in the Lord with all our heart.
ALL – – – or – – – NOTHING
“Be still, and know that I AM God.”