(1) STAY ALIVE¿ – or – LIVE☆

Axioms of life

Lessons (learned ?) from covid:

“Don’t spend everything just to stay alive – – – and not live.”

or

“Stop, and smell the roses along the way.”

DO YOU NEED GOD’S PEOPLE ?

“It is uncomfortable to attend public worship for those who are satisfied with themselves.”

“MANY HAPPY RETURNS”

No, this is not about a birthday party and best wishes for the future.
But you will enjoy the connection at the end.

This is a true story, exactly as I tell it, no embellishments added.

I did extensive bobcat work for a gentleman cattleman, cleaning cattle pens and improving drainage.

His business was buying and selling cattle, meeting custom requests from buyers.
There were cowboys on horseback that sorted the cattle and handled vaccinations and medicines in the squeeze chute.
I got to know and respect several of them.

One evening there were half a dozen cowboys having some beer.
I was still scraping a pen close by.
It was not hard to be included and get a beer.
I continued driving my bobcat.

When I finished my beer I pulled up close to the cowboys, turned off the engine, got out my marker pen, and started writing on my empty beer can.
That definitely caught their interest, wondering what I was writing.
When I finished writing, I handed them the can to read.
It worked, everybody loved it, and I immediately got another beer.

On the can:
“Return For Refill”

Never realized the title above fits here:
“Many Happy Returns”

(1) ALIVE¿ – or – LIVE☆

Axiom of life

Lessons (learned ?) from covid:

“Don’t spend everything [just] to stay alive – – – and not live.”

SO, YOU’RE A DOCTOR

You are in the operating room.
The patiemt is ready, for a heart transplant.
It is time to begin the surgery.

Everything is in place.
It is amazing how every detail for the success of the operation is perfectly prepared.
Others have pioneered in the medical field to bring this patient and you together so you can save a life, and the patient can live a new life.


And then:
You realize the extreme complexity of everything before you.
You have to be in awe of it all.


Actually, you were placed in this setting without any effort or choice or decision of your own.
For a moment you think it is a dream, but no, it’s not.
You know it’s not a dream.

Then you wonder how you got here.
You wonder how everything was prepared so perfectly, just for you, for today.

Then you think:
Maybe it’s a dangerous time to think, to reflect.
You don’t have time for anything philosophical.
You must stick with scientific, medical.
You must not be distracted by anything.
The operation before you requires all of your undivided attention, now.


The thoughts will not go away.
The feelings are real—as real as the operating room and medical personnel and patient before you.

You are shocked, when the reality of your musings overrides the reality of your obligations.
Everything is suspended—time, the schedule, the operation, the people in the room, your own presence and qualifications—
You suddenly must have answers.

You need a manual–
— that tells exactly how all this meticulous preparation took place, just for me to participate in a professional role to save people.
— that tells me what I’m supposed to do, and exactly how to do it.



The ‘doctor’ in this story is like all the rest of us.
We find ourselves placed in this incredible setting, with so very many details already figured out and made ready, just for us, so we can do incredible things.

Then we stop and think:
How did all this happen ?
And how did it all get started ?

To perform this heart transplant, or design a computer, or build a spaceship to the moon, there must be some amazing people before me who pioneered in the field, successfully.

But how did people get such intellect and insight for such ingenuity, in the first place ?
As in, “In the beginning . . .

Like the doctor (without any medical training—or with the best in the world), we all face the wonder of it all.
How in the world (and everything in the world) did all this happen ?
How in the world does all this keep working in perfect order, for thousands of years ?

Did God really say what He said, in the Bible ?
YES, He really said everything in the Bible.
And the devil really said, “Did God really say, ‘Don’t eat that fruit. If you do, you will die.’ Not true. You will not die.”

Eve and Adam ate, and they died, and we’ve been dying ever since.

How could they ? ? ?

How could anyone today believe in evolutiom and teach and defend it for centuries ?
Again, the Bible explains all that,
“The fool says, ‘There is no God’.”

The doctor stopped, to think, and he knew there had to be God, to make all this, and make all this work, and make us able to transplant a heart.

THROWAWAY NATION

We have enormous man-made mountains outside our cities.
Impressive monuments—
to what ?—
to whom ?—
created wth what ?—

OUR TRASH !

We have become so accustomed to throwing away a dozen pieces of trash from a fast-food meal . . .

We have become so accustomed to throwing away food that hungry people would appreciate . . .

We have become so accustomed to throwing away what older folks have to offer, learned from a lifetime of experiencing reality . . .


All that—“becoming so accustomed to throwing away”—now we are ready and willing to throw away everything else, hanging in the balance, plus or minus:

  • or — our economy, based on capitalism
  • or — our history, based on the Declaration and the Constitution
  • or — our Godly heritage, from founders that openly stated dependence on “Divine Providence”
  • or — our family values, passed on to generations, essential to the strength of this nation
  • or — our very families, literally, and the emphasis to keep families intact at all cost
  • or — our children—our future as in every generation since our beginning, now thrown away to the demonic dogs of abortion and gay and transgender ideology

And,

  • or — just about everything that made this country great, by the blessing of God

AND NOW,
We have become so accustomed to throwing away . . .

We are ready to
THROW AWAY AMERICA


The more stuff, and people, we throw away, the less valuable everything becomes, and the more likely to see the trash can.

CREATED WHAT ?

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

6000 years later, man (part of that creation) said, “No, God did not create everything.”
After that bold and foolish statement, then answer the question, “Where did all this come from ?”

In order to avoid accountability to God the Creator, man invented evolution to explain where all this came from.

Actually, evolution does not answer the question, “Where did all this come from ?”

Evolution just tries to explain what ‘someone’ said ‘could have happened’, after it all started—without God.

In the absence of ANY scientic evidence, promoters of evolution had to invent a more recent addendum to Darwin.
If given enough time, the existing can create anything.

Now we expand even beyond evolution, and teach, “Anything, everything came from nothing.”
Describing what happened a billion years ago, two billion years ago is laughable, ridiculous, blasphemous, from the pit of hell.
So we hear, and we believe another lie—and the fallout is destroying us.

The proclivity, the tendency, of human nature is to hear, to listen, to doubt, “Did God really say ?”

When you consider the magnitude of destruction and fallout from two centuries of universal teaching, believing, and acting like we’re animals (evolution personified)—
—the devastation rivals what happened the first time “the liar” presented that question of all questions to the first people, “Did God really say ?”

When we can’t answer the question, “Did God really say?” with a resounding ‘Yes’, He did!”, we open the door of every evil, old and new.
— the rise of communism, naziism,
two world wars, terrorism, can all be linked to the endorsement of evolution a couple hundred years ago.
— and the church, Christians, were silent a couple hundred years.

POWER OF A BILLBOARD

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ABORTED BABY PARTS

MY THREE NEMESES

FITNESS
Self-discipline
Doing what I must do

TEMPTATION
Self-control
Not doing what I must not do

WORRY
Self-resignation
Accepting what I cannot do7

? I AM CONTENT ?

Paul didn’t boast about being content.
He boasted about his afflictions, and listed them (long list).
And then he said, “I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content.”
He lists the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Paul also said it’s so much better to die and be with Jesus.
. . . but better to stay here awhile longer for blessing the people receiving his letter and encouragement.