COWBOYS AND INDIANS – – – NOT

February 14, 2024 By Leave a Comment

We don’t play cowboys and indians anymore—not woke.
No more – Cowboys good guys
No more – Cowboys win
No more – sticks or fingers for guns

We play middle east, on video.

Video games are really real.
Search and shoot, clearing inside buildings, from building to building, just like the real thing.
Without an option to play this out in war, more kids and adults satisfy this conditioning in mass shootings.

And, with hundreds, thousands of hours gaming, many become expert ‘professionals’ remotely operating fast cars, planes, tanks, AND DRONES.
What could possibly be closer to the real thing.
Kids actually do well operating drones for real in the military.
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Thus, powerful, all-consuming addiction.
More time spent in the unreal world than the real world, leaves less connection and function in the real world where we must live.
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Everybody knew that playing ‘cowboys and indians’ was harmless pretending, even falling down to the ground for a time when you got ‘hit’.

Not so now—the lines are blurred between shooting and killing in pretend games, and shooting and killing in real life.
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Can this be changed in our culture ?
I don’t know.

Whatever your contacts with people, start saying something about things that aren’t right, to make a difference in someone’s life.
Then talk about actions that any of you can do.

Filed Under: Educational, Family, Fun, Inspirational, Political---Cultural

THE BIBLE – – – HATE SPEECH ?

February 14, 2024 By Leave a Comment

WOE TO THOSE WHO CHALLENGE GOD !

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“GOD, I THANK YOU . . .”

February 14, 2024 By Leave a Comment

God, I thank You that . . .

. . . I’m a good person.

. . . I know about You.

. . . I’m respected by others.

. . . I’m successful.

. . . I live a clean life.

. . . I do good in the community.

. . . I have a good reputation.

. . . I can do without church.

. . . I consider myself a Christian.

God, I thank You that . . .

. . . I’m not like those who cheat on their taxes.

. . . I’m not like those who cheat on their wives.

. . . I’m not like those who cheat on their company.

. . . I’m not like those who cheat on their customers.

. . . I don’t lie.

. . . I’m not in trouble.

. . . I’m not a hypocrite.

. . . I’m not like church-goers who treated me wrong.

. . . I’m not the guilty one in personal conflict.

. . . I’m not part of fake church.

. . . I don’t associate with hypocrites.

. . . I’m not like so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so.*

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Jesus spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’ And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
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*Addendum to the parable:
God, I thank You that I’m not like the Pharisee—my heart is in the right place.

*Addendum to another parable:
God, I thank You that I’m not like the rich man farmer who “had much goods stored up for many years . . . to take it easy”—my heart is in the right place.

*And in the actual story of an encounter with Jesus:
God, I thank You that I’m not like the rich, young leader who couldn’t give up his “great possessions” to follow Jesus—my heart is in the right place.

Filed Under: Faith Based, Inspirational, Political---Cultural

“MAY ALL WHO COME BEHIND US . . .”

February 13, 2024 By Leave a Comment

“We’re pilgrims on the journey of the narrow road
And those who’ve gone before us line the way
Cheering on the faithful, encouraging the weary
Their lives a stirring testament to God’s sustaining grace
Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses
Let us run the race not only for the prize
But as those who’ve gone before us
Let us leave to those behind us
The heritage of faithfulness passed on through godly lives

[Chorus]
Oh, may all who come behind us find us faithful
May the fire of our devotion light their way
May the footprints that we leave lead them to believe
And the lives we live inspire them to obey
Oh, may all who come behind us find us faithful

[Verse 2]
After all our hopes and dreams have come and gone
And our children sift through all we’ve left behind
May the clues that they discover and the memories they uncover
Become the light that leads them to the road we each must find

[Chorus]
Oh, may all who come behind us find us faithful
May the fire of our devotion light their way
May the footprints that we leave lead them to believe
And the lives we live inspire them to obey
Oh, may all who come behind us find us faithful
May the fire of our devotion light their way
May the footprints that we leave lead them to believe
And the lives we live inspire them to obey
Oh, may all who come behind us find us faithful”

Filed Under: Faith Based, Family, Inspirational, Time

WALK WITH JESUS, TODAY

February 13, 2024 By Leave a Comment

“Walk closely with the Lord, so that when trouble comes, you won’t have to catch up.”
—–David Jeremiah

Filed Under: Educational, Faith Based, Inspirational, Time

CONTENTMENT ?

February 13, 2024 By Leave a Comment

Repeat from 2-19-15

This morning after breakfast, I was sitting in the recliner, drinking my coffee, watching the sun rise, listening to Christian music, trying to let the words soak in and lift out my worries.

I found myself dreaming of building my log cabin, with a sunroom outside the bedroom—a place to relax and enjoy the beginning of the day, warmed by the sun.

I realized once again that most of my thoughts of contentment revolve around someday when I get such-and-such done.  And many of those projects are so slow in coming that they rob me of peace for today and contentment right now.

Then I thought of a Bible passage, and I will close with this.  I want it to sink in and let God work in me.

“Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls;

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

The Lord God is my strength, and He will make my feet like deer’s feet, and He will make me to walk upon my high places.”

Filed Under: Faith Based, Financial, Inspirational, Time

BEAUTIFUL – – – JUST FOR LOOKS ?

February 13, 2024 By Leave a Comment

“Looks are only skin deep.”

“Beauty is fleeting.”

“Like a flower, here today, gone tomorrow.”

“Just a vapor, reflecting sunlight.”

“Beauty in the eye of the beholder.”

Is there a beauty that lasts ?

“Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing,
But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.”

Filed Under: Faith Based, Inspirational, Time

DEFINITELY

February 13, 2024 By Leave a Comment

In Pilgrim’s Progress, Christian was

Delivered from imminent
Destruction of his city
enDowed by a
Desire to reach the Celestial City
Defined the course of his life
Decision to leave all—everything, everybody
Direction—focused, renewed, clarified
unDeterred by repeated
Distractions
Devotion to purpose, Person
Dedication against all odds
Determination in spite of opposition
Diligence through the challenges, to the end, the glorious end

Filed Under: Faith Based, Inspirational, Movie Review, Political---Cultural, Time

TRANS – – – VERSION 12.2

February 13, 2024 By Leave a Comment

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be TRANSformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”—–Romans 12.2

Filed Under: Educational, Faith Based, Health, Inspirational, Political---Cultural

CLOSE TO GOD ?

February 13, 2024 By Leave a Comment

I believe I’m close to god when . . .
. . . when I’m close to nature.
. . . when I’m helping someone.
. . . when I listen to my favorite music.
. . . when I’m alone.
. . . whenever I feel like it.

Lots of people claim that.
That makes LOTS of different ways to get close to God.
Wonder if God agrees with all those ways—God who made everything and everybody ?

Does the natural world have that freedom to operate every which way ?
No, only people have freedom to make up anything we want to believe, and expect it to fit into reality in the spiritual world.
In other words, we see the natural world has order, run by consistent laws.
But we then count on the spiritual world to be completely random, run by and answerable to eight billion different, fluctuating ideas from wishful thinking.
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+ “I believe your gravity is okay for you, but my gravity is different.”
Okay, show me an example.

+ “Your truth is not my truth.”
Is that true ?

+ Someone challenged God, saying he could make anything God says He created, by using evolution.”
God said okay.
“I started with nothing—what are you going to start with ?”
The person said he would start with a bucket of slimy mud and turn it into everything.
God answered, “Go get your own mud.”

That does take care of evolution—it doesn’t even have a starting point.

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May I suggest getting close to God on His terms—simple, clear, true, final, good, exclusive.

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