“FLEE YOUTHFUL LUSTS”

May 20, 2026 By Leave a Comment

Ok, lusts can be very strong (strongest?) in youth.

FLEE YOUTHFUL LUSTS

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What about lusts in adulthood ?
Does temptation get any better ?
Actually, temptations get better at what they offer, and opportunities for the first time.
So,

FLEE ADULT LUSTS !

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What about lusts in middle age ?
Does temptation get any better ?
Same answer.
So,

FLEE MIDDLE AGE LUSTS !1

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What about lusts in senior years ?
Does temptation EVER get any better ?
Don’t count on it.
Fight it harder than ever.
So,

FLEE SENIOR LUSTS !

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“Fight the good fight of faith, and in the end receive the salvation of your souls.”

“Be faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of life.”

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RUNAWAY(S)

April 15, 2026 By Leave a Comment

1-Runaway train of _ _ _ (fill in the blank, add to the list)
2- Runaway kids
3- Runaway spending
4- Runaway debt
5- Runaway technology
6- Runaway inflation
7- Runaway crime
8- Runaway protests
9- Runaway violence

10- Runaway power
11- Runaway passion
12- Runaway screen speed
13- Runaway temptation
14- Runaway pornography
15- Runaway sex addiction
16- Runaway sex trafficking

17- RUNAWAY CONTROL

18- Runaway fear
19- Runaway anxiety
20- Runaway disconnection
21- Runaway uncertainty
22- Runaway information worship
23- Runaway self worship
24- RUNAWAY EVIL

It was #12-“Runaway screen speed” that triggered me and got this list started.
Almost everyone recognizes that too much in our world is going too fast, but nobody can afford to do anything about it, even if we wanted to.
We can’t get off the merry-go-round that’s spinning faster and faster—we could get hurt—we would lose just about everything.

So we don’t talk about it—a worn-out topic—we’ve got to keep going.

A few people have their niche carved out, their oasis in their week to slow down and be normal.
The rest of their time, and the rest of people, continue to fuel the race to go even faster.
Just watch I-35 for awhile (oxymoron—race track with speed limits)

So, normal is not the list above.

So, how much faster can we handle ?

So, what is the human speed limit ?

Has man ever been here before ?
Crime ? Yes
Evil ? Yes
Sin ? Yes
Information ? No
Consumption ? No
Speed ? No
Communication ? No
Knowledge ? No
Expectation ? No

WISDOM ?
RESPECT THE OLDER ?
VALUE THE PAST ?

I may be the only one—or one of only a few–
— who grew up without tv
— who does not have tv now
— who considers that an asset, a blessing
— who can look at all the Runaway everything engulfing us everywhere around us— engulfing us like a tsunami—and not be swamped by it
— who can be distressed by it, yes, but not engulfed by it
— who does not participate in the high speed ‘competition’ (like watching I-35 traffic differently – read RELIGIOUS RITUALS on this website)
— who wants to talk about what’s happening with all the Runaway speed
— who can look at all this differently because “I have to”, because “I can’t compete”, because “I’m too old”, BUT that’s not all . . .
— who may be too old, too slow, too over the hill, BUT that’s not all . . .

I have some wisdom–

  • from 75 years
  • from Daddy
  • from God
  • from the Bible
  • from stuff I’ve been through . . .
  • . . . “through many dangers, toils, and snares . . .”
  • from Amazing Grace—
    “grace that brought me safe this far,
    and grace will lead me home.”

I write because I believe this wisdom can be “making a difference in your life in the parts that are for keeps”.

There’s more to my writing than warning about the impending, inevitable crash, from going too fast.

We’re missing what can only be gained slowly—and we don’t even know what it is—‘the old school’ (enter “PIONEERS” in the search bar above).

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TRUE TEXAN RETURNS TO TEXAS

April 8, 2026 By Leave a Comment

Wrote this after watching
FALLING FOR VERMONT
(True Texan still falls for love stories.)

I was born in the middle of Texas, and the ‘Heart of Texas’ is in my heart.

I also did my time outside of Texas, so I know even more what it means to be a Texan.

Spent the last three years of college in Nebraska.
Survived ‘up north’, -14° one morning, because I didn’t need a car (walked everywhere in the small college town).

Spent the next seventeen years ‘in the big city’ of South Florida.
Should qualify in Guiness Book for longest a Texan spent in S. Florida (maybe the only Texan—never met any there).

When moving onto my inheritance (in land) became an option, I thought it was better for my children to finish growing up in the country and attend small-town high school (with its limitations, without metal detectors).

Hasn’t been perfect, but no regrets for this Texan returning to Texas.

Please enter TEXAS in the search bar,
and read more, lots more, what it means to be a Texan.
Note the dates on articles.
I wrote all that since returning to Texas.

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COMFORTABLE

April 8, 2026 By Leave a Comment

Can one word say so much ?
Can one word say it all ?
Can one word preach a sermon ?
Can one word write a book ?

Then I realized the book might not happen now.
And the sermon might be too long.
And, maybe there is food for thought in the outline itself.
I want the reader to think, not just read what I think (I do plenty of that).

As I wrote the following notes, two pertinent illustrations came to mind.
I forgot one before I could write it down.
And that makes me uncomfortable as a writer.
I’ll have to live, and write, without it.

Bull—Here’s the winner, that got this article going.
A trusted foreman for a wise cattleman was sent to an auction some distance away, to bid for a special bull to be sold on a certain day.
He was given enough money for bus fare both ways, and the max he could bid.
The bidding was intense, because it was a top-of-the-line bull.
As the bids approached the amount of money in his pocket, the foreman made a decision.
If necessary, he would add the amount of his bus fare home and his own money.
Sure enough, he won the bid and bought the bull.
But he had no way home, and only enough money for a one-word telegram to his boss.
He came up with the perfect one-liner in one word:
COMFORTABLE

That story may not leave you with profound insights, but you will remember COM FOR TA BLE and this article.
Comfortable—good, bad, ugly ?

Do we know what we want to communicate, what we must communicate, what matters most, to the people who matter most, ahead of time, before we know what is going to happen, no matter what happens.
Do we expect to communicate success in the things that matter most, because we will give everything we have (that is, everything that has been entrusted to us) to accomplish what we were sent here to accomplish ? ***

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Comfortable Culture
Comfortable America
Comfortable Lifestyle
Comfortable Military/Wars
Comfortable Retirement
Comfortable Theology
Comfortable Death
Comfortable Afterlife

x ? x ? x ? x ? x ? x ? x ?

Not so Comfortable ?

Comfortable Pioneers
Comfortable Soldiers
Comfortable Seniors (with limitations)
Comfortable Christians
Comfortable Lukewarm Christians
Comfortable Non-Christians
Comfortable Anti-Christians
Comfortable Hell

(and, more meddling)

Comfortable MAGA

Comfortable ANTI-MAGA

Comfortable TDS

Comfortable DDS

Most of my prayers are asking God to make my life easier, more Comfortable.

I usually want others to feel sorry for me or help me when my life is not Comfortable.

Without the sermon (the book) on Comfortable, on all the above—a few words from The Word, the bottom line:

“Woe to those who are at ease in Zion.”

“Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.”

” ‘Take your ease . . .’—BUT GOD said, ‘Tonight your soul will be required of you.’ “

And there’s a boatload more from The Book, already written.

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*** “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful with a little; I will put you in charge of much.”

TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome

DDS – Daddy Derangement Syndrome

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DISCLAIMERS – APOLOGIES – DILUTIONS

March 31, 2026 By Leave a Comment

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+ The Bible says, over and over, “Fear God.”

DISCLAIMERS
X – just respect God
X – don’t be afraid of God

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+ The Bible says, “Submit to your husbands.”

APOLOGIES
X – not a doormat
X – we’ve got it more right now
X – mutual submission

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+ The Bible says, “In six days, God created the earth”, 6000 years ago.

DILUTIONS
X – old earth, young earth, not so important
X – don’t lose fellowship over creation

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Again and Again:
“Did God really say, ‘. . .’?”

HE DID SAY SO !

And He wrote it down, just what He said, just what we need to know, just what we must obey.

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WHAT’S FOR REAL AND WHAT’S NOT

March 31, 2026 By Leave a Comment

In all my interactions with others nowadays, there is an assumption and expectation of functioning like always, when I know that is simply not the case anymore.
It is difficult to reconcile life as normal, that others want to see, and still count on—and life as I know it (losing ground), that others don’t want to see and can’t count on as in the past.

So the alternative is to start pretending more and more, to carry on life as in the past as long as possible—all the while knowing it isn’t real, and it’s not real living.

There comes a dreaded or feared reality when others finally recognize and label you with some “condition” so they can talk about “it”.
That is worse because you become the “it”.
The worst is awareness of talk about you, which most surely will feel demeaning.

And all along you just want[ed] someone to believe you, accept you, and relate with you where you are—not what they hope, wish, expect, pretend, so they can cope with (or ignore) their their own life issues.

And, you certainly want to avoid turning inward and focused on no one understanding—when your heart’s mission is to unselfishly make a difference in others with your wisdom from living.

Nowadays it seems no one under 50? has time or patience to step in the shoes of seniors, with struggles—and with much to offer.

It is much harder for over-busy, over-loaded, over-scheduled younger generations today to be content spending time—TIME—with older folks just to absorb good stuff gained through decades of living.

Rather, they are more likely to apply the lense of their ‘got it together’ generation and ‘much too fast life’—wanting quick answers that they will accept by pre-set default.
They don’t have time to wrestle through issues in life like older folks did, to come to convictions and foundation principles to stand firm on, through difficult, rough, hard times, like today, and the uncertain days ahead.

Where is there room for those in 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, to find change in their life, from time spent with seniors ?

Wisdom is so much more than just an interesting story of someone who has lived longer.

The Bible is full of wisdom, and so are the older ones among us who have walked with the Lord and His Word.

Mary chose “the one thing needful”, sitting at the feet of Jesus and listening.

I urge the reader to do the same, and sit with a senior, and listen.

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“THE PLOT CLOTS”

March 29, 2026 By Leave a Comment

“The plot clots.”
—–Ed Young THE CREATIVE CONNECTION 3-29-26 on afr.net, in message on Joseph, when Joseph’s brothers bowed before him to buy food

Imagine those poor brothers, painfully, step by step, by God’s design, and by the hand of Joseph, coming ‘face-to-face’ (LITERALLY) with their sins against their brother and lies to their father.

PAIN
before
REPENTANCE
before
FORGIVENESS
before
RECONCILIATION

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BIBLE READING/BIBLE STUDY – – – IN THE HOME

March 28, 2026 By Leave a Comment

First of all, a decision to follow Jesus is good, but incomplete.

With following Jesus, time in your Bible will follow, it must follow.
Reading your Bible every day, every morning, every night, WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

Bible reading is just the start, even just a short time.
Leave your Bible open, where you will pass and see it several times a day.

Leave a pen on your open Bible, to mark, underline, circle, date, add notes for anything that had meaning.
Reviewing and re-reading marked passages will add to and strengthen your walk with Jesus.

Pray when you stop to read your Bible.
God’s Spirit will shed light on what ‘He wrote’, and your Bible Reading will become Bible Study.

Then you experience why your decision to follow Jesus was incomplete.
You now have a commitment to everything you can get with Him.

A decision leaves you with some control, some say in things.

A commitment is stronger because it gives specifics.

But a surrender is everything—and that is what Jesus wants—He will settle for nothing less.

Get it straight in your life first to spend time with Jesus and His Word—in your home, where it shows—then you can lead the rest of your family likewise.

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CHOICES ?

March 26, 2026 By Leave a Comment

“The debate is no longer beteeen right or left.
It is between normal and crazy.”
—–Sarah Huckabee/Sanders

“These people are CRAZY.”
—–Donald Trump, directly to democrats in the room refusing to acknowlege anything good, anything heroic, anything American, any brave Americans recognized in person in the room, during his State Of The Union address

Filed Under: Family, Health, Inspirational, Political---Cultural, Time

HELICOPTER PARENTING – – – HELICOPTER HUSBANDING ?

March 22, 2026 By Leave a Comment

The question is this:
Would it work in our lives if we took the Bible verses just as they are written, and applied them ?

“Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.”

If we don’t believe it would work, then the Bible continues in the next verse with how it works.

“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her . . .
In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies.”

Nowadays we think we improve on many things the Bible says, to make us more comfortable or more excited.

For decades now there has been a plethora of ‘upgrades’ to fit our enlightenment—book after book and programs galore explaining how marriage and family really work.
Doesn’t anybody raise a healthy skepticism over the compulsion to write a new list or formula that gets it right—meaning we didn’t have the secret before ?

How is it that we have created such a demand for new answers from psychology, and authors and talk show hosts capitalize on the ‘market’, boosting the search for even more.

Mutual submission does not come out of Eph 6, unless you are trying to ‘soften the blow’ of wives submitting.

If your marriage is great, you don’t have to listen to all the new presentations.
If your marriage is not good, then you ‘have to’ pay attention and try to follow every new book that fixes thousands, guaranteed.

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