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SHOULD CHRISTIANS SUPPORT OBAMA?

2011-09-07T06:06:00.000-05:00

Another email received from a friend that I passionately agree with. Christians should never support dishonor, dishonesty & destruction of the freedoms purchased for us no matter from whom or where it comes. These things were won for us at too high a price to turn our backs on that sacrifice and play wink, wink with those who would dishonor them. Yes, respect the office but never lay your honor down to evil men and women in high office.

This man was on Dr. Charles Stanley's program "In Touch" as a guest speaker.
I almost shouted "HALLELUJAH" when I finished reading.
Forward or discard....it's your choice.

Dr. David Barton is more of a historian than a Biblical speaker, but very famous for his knowledge of historical facts as well as Biblical truths.

Dr. David Barton - on Obama
Respect the Office? Yes.
Respect the Man in the Office? No, I am sorry to say.
I have noted that many elected officials, both Democrats and Republicans, called upon America to unite behind Obama.
Well, I want to make it clear to all who will listen that I AM NOT uniting behind Obama !

I will respect the Office which he holds, and I will acknowledge his abilities as an orator and wordsmith and pray for him, BUT that is it.
I have begun today to see what I can do to make sure that he is a one-term President !

Why am I doing this ?
It is because:

- I do not share Obama's vision or value system for America ;
- I do not share his Abortion beliefs;
- I do not share his radical Marxist's concept of re-distributing wealth;
- I do not share his stated views on raising taxes on those who make $150,000+ (the ceiling has been changed three times since August);
- I do not share his view that America is Arrogant;
- I do not share his view that America is not a Christian Nation;
- I do not share his view that the military should be reduced by 25%;
- I do not share his view of amnesty and giving more to illegals than our American Citizens who need help;
- I do not share his views on homosexuality and his definition of marriage;
- I do not share his views that Radical Islam is our friend and Israel is our enemy who should give up any land;
- I do not share his spiritual beliefs (at least the ones he has made public);
- I do not share his beliefs on how to re-work the healthcare system in America;
- I do not share his Strategic views of the Middle East; and
- I certainly do not share his plan to sit down with terrorist regimes such as Iran.
Bottom line: my America is vastly different from Obama's, and I have a higher obligation to my Country and my GOD to do what is Right !
For eight (8) years, the Liberals in our Society, led by numerous entertainers who would have no platform and no real credibility but for their celebrity status, have attacked President Bush, his family, and his spiritual beliefs!
They have not moved toward the center in their beliefs and their philosophies, and they never came together nor compromised their personal beliefs for the betterment of our Country!
They have portrayed my America as a land where everything is tolerated except being intolerant !
They have been a vocal and irreverent minority for years !
They have mocked and attacked the very core values so important to the founding and growth of our Country !
They have made every effort to remove the name of GOD or Jesus Christ from our Society !
They have challenged capital punishment, the right to
bear firearms, and the most basic principles of our criminal code !
They have attacked one of the most fundamental of all Freedoms, the right of free speech!

Unite behind Obama? Never!
I am sure many of you who read this think that I am going overboard, but I refuse to retreat one more inch in favor of those whom I believe are the embodiment of Evil!

PRESIDENT BUSH made many mistakes during his Presidency, and I am not sure how history will judge him. However, I believe that he weighed his decisions in light of the long established Judeo-Christian principles of our Founding Fathers!!!

Majority rules in America , and I will honor the concept; however, I will fight with all of my power to be a voice in opposition to Obama and his "goals for America .."
I am going to be a thorn in the side of those who, if left unchecked, will destroy our Country! Any more compromise is more defeat!

I pray that the results of this election will wake up many who have sat on the sidelines and allowed the Socialist-Marxist anti-GOD crowd to slowly change so much of what has been good in America !

"Error of Opinion may be tolerated where Reason is left free to combat it." - Thomas Jefferson
GOD bless you and GOD bless our Country!
(Please, please, please, pass this on if you agree.
Thanks for your time, may you and yours be safe.
"In GOD We Trust"

Excuse the French BUT LMAO!!!

2011-08-10T23:09:00.001-05:00

This is just too funny not to pass on. A belly laugh never hurt anyone.

5000 years ago, God told Moses to say, "Pick up your shovels, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead you to the Promised Land."

75 years ago Roosevelt introduced Welfare and said, "Lay down your shovels, sit on your asses, light up a Camel, this is the Promised Land."

Today, Congress has stolen your shovel, taxed your asses, raised the price of Camels, and mortgaged the Promised Land.

AMERICA, RIP, 1776 - 2012

2011-08-10T00:37:00.001-05:00

I didn't write this particular piece (received it as an email from a friend) but  have written the same things, time after time. These facts never fail to send cold chills down my spine and righteous anger flaring up in my heart. It's time to get over ourselves, stop the juvenile blame-game and call a halt to this runaway train derailing America. If we don't move quickly and decisively as one, we will be destroyed. The question of 'when' is 'NOW, NOW, NOW!'

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of

Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some

2,000 years prior:



"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a

permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until

the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts

from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for

the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with

the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal

policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of

history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations

always progressed through the following sequence:



From bondage to spiritual faith;

From spiritual faith to great courage;

From courage to liberty;

From liberty to abundance;

From abundance to complacency;

From complacency to apathy;

From apathy to dependence;

From dependence back into bondage."



The Obituary follows: *Born 1776 .... Died 2012*

 Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul,

Minnesota, points out some interesting statistics concerning the last

Presidential election:

It doesn't hurt to consider this carefully.



Number of States won by: Obama: 19; McCain: 29

Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000; McCain: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million; McCain: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2; McCain:

2.1



Professor Olson observed: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won

was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Obama

territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements

and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency

and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some

forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the

"governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal

invaders called illegal's - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the

USA in fewer than five years.



If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.



If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much

is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.



This is truly scary! Of course we are not a democracy, we are a

Constitutional Republic. Someone should point this out to Obama. Of course

we know he and too many others pay little attention to The Constitution. There couldn't be more at stake than in Nov 2012.

Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer

did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only

30K over your working life, that’s close to $220,500. If you calculate the

future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer’s contribution) at a

simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays on the money that it borrows),

after 49 years of working (me) you’d have $892,919.98. If you took out only

3% per year, you receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than

30 years, and that’s with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit!

If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you’d have a lifetime

income of $2,976.40 per month. The folks in Washington have pulled off a

bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madhoff ever had.

Entitlement?? We paid cash for our social security insurance!!!! Just

because they borrowed the money, doesn't make our benefits some kind of

charity or handout!! Congressional benefits, aka. free healthcare,

outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation

, unlimited paid sick days, now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to

call Social Security entitlements!

VERY INTERESTING!



Tuesday's Daily Bulletin paper, ran two articles on the front page side by

side :



1- Calif 's 20 Billion Dollar Budget Deficit

2- The Calif Supreme Court ruling that ILLEGAL'S can attend college and

get benefits.

Why don't they just deport them when they arrive to register?

Last year they ran an article on the yearly costs to Calif Taxpayers

from Illegals using Hospital Emergency Rooms for their general health care -

At just one hospital the cost to tax payers totaled over 25 million a

year.

Would someone please tell me what's wrong with all the people that run this

country! We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans,

Homeless etc.,?

... we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile, and Turkey. And now Pakistan

...... home of bin Laden { R-I-P :) }. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!



Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they

get any breaks, while our government and religious organizations pour

Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!

They

call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have

been paying for it all our working lives and now when its time for us to

collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government

borrow from it in the first place?



We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for

the adoption of foreign orphans.



AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to

bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without

treatment -etc,etc. YET.... They have a 'Benefit' for the people of Haiti

on 12 TV stations, ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents

clothes, bedding, doctors and medical supplies.



Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other

countries.



Sad isn't it?

WHY WE SHOULD HIRE WALMART TO FIX THE ECONOMY!!!

2011-08-03T21:40:00.004-05:00

(An email I received that makes sense to me. You can't argue with success or with the fact that these people certainly know what they're doing and are the best in the world at doing it. Trump is looking better and better as a Presidential candidate.)

Wal-Mart vs. The Morons
1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every HOUR of every day.

2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.

4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.

5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world's largest private employer, and most speak English.

6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.

7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.

8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.

9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.

10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.

11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)

12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.

You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.

This should be read and understood by all Americans Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!

To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature,

It is now official that the majority of you are corrupt morons:

a.. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.

b.. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.
c.. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.

d.. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.

e.. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.

f.. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.

g.. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.

You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.

AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   ??


Folks, keep this circulating. It is very well stated. Maybe it will end up in the e-mails of some of our "duly elected' (they never read anything) and their staff will clue them in on how Americans feel.

AND

I know what's wrong. We have lost our minds to "Political Correctness" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Someone please tell me what the HELL's wrong with
all the people that run this country!!!!!!

We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????
In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile , and Turkey .. And now Pakistan .....home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!

Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour
Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries! We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.
AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment -etc,etc.

YET......................
They have a 'Benefit' for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations, ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents clothes, bedding, doctors and medical supplies.

Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries. Sad isn't it?

99% of people won't have the guts to forward this. I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did

For Davy and All Those Who Grieve

2011-08-01T15:45:00.000-05:00

I wish I had words to offer that would take the pain of Davy's sudden loss away but I don't, other than to say I love you - I'm praying for you - I'm grieving with you - you're never out of my thoughts. I can't help but remember how Davy was constantly asking questions about God, about faith, and how he sought to know Him. While praying Tuesday, I had a vision of God's arm reaching down from Heaven towards Davy's uplifted arms stretching towards it, like a child asking his daddy to pick him up. In my mind, I heard God saying, "You have asked many questions and none of the answers quite satisfied you. Now, come up here, son, to the seat of all Knowledge and Power where all your questions will be fully answered." I know a loving God didn't cause Davy's premature death but He was there to take him home. Even the wisest among us lack the knowledge and understanding of the wonders Davy now sees and knows. The richest of us cannot match the glory and splendor he now lives in. Nor can the happiest and most joyful of us equal the joy of being in the presence of God where no sadness, no pain, no sickness, no deprivation can ever be. Jesus said, "Seek and you will find - Knock and the door will be opened to you." Davy sought, Christ met him where he was, and he was found. He knocked and the door opened to receive him in. He's home, truly home, face to face with Almighty God and all the friends and family who have gone ahead. In a little while, only a little while, we'll see him again. Christ went to the Cross for the 'joy' He saw and God, the Father allowed it to save us, His beloveds. I believe the 'joy' Christ saw was the reunion with His Father when He walked through the Gates of Heaven and was home again. God doesn't see death as we do because His Son took the sting out of it. He doesn't see it as a tragedy. He sees it as a blessed reunion with a blessed child whom He loved before the creation of the world. All Heaven rejoices at the Homecoming of a saint of God. Davy walked through those Gates into the opulence of a lavish celebration in his honor as only God does lavish and opulent. He is more alive now than he ever was when he walked this earth. Death isn’t the end but the true beginning of the life and living we were truly meant to have. All the imperfections are gone and Davy has entered into the ‘perfect’. He isn’t worried about those he left behind because he knows perfectly now, is in perfect faith, prays perfect prayers, and rests in perfect peace that God is able to keep that which he has committed unto Him. When we get there, he’ll be waiting for us. I can just hear him saying, “What took you so long?” God bless and comfort you all and wrap you in His perfect peace. I love you all! Aunt and Sister, Mary Ann

Do You See It? The Blood Trail, Do You See It?

2011-04-23T16:30:00.029-05:00

I guess my first memory was also the first conscious beginning of it. My mother and grandmother said it just wasn’t possible that I remembered that far back, “Why, you were only eighteen months to two years old then!” But, I remember this much clearly - I had wandered out on the front porch of Grandmom’s house playing with my invisible friend (a Mister something or another, I don’t remember what, just remember calling him “Mister”). Suddenly, I decided I wanted some bubble gum. Taking my friend by the hand, I set out to get some.

(Let me set the stage so you‘ll understand the sequence of events. There was a storeowner, named Mr. Guion, in Durant, MS where grandmother lived. He owned Guion’s Grocery just outside of town about three miles from my grandmother’s house. Every time we shopped there, he would sit me on his counter and give me bubble gum. In fact, his nickname for me was “Bubble Gum” so, you see, I knew right where to go to get it.)

At any rate, my ‘friend’ and I set out for Mr. Guion’s. We walked the whole way, crossing streets and going through the three traffic lights between grandmother’s and Mr. Guion’s. I remember the walk was long, hot, and thirsty and I was really, really hungry for that bubble gum. The amazing thing is that no one stopped me nor was I harmed on that long trek nor did anyone call to report seeing me until I reached Mr. Guion’s. When I walked in, Mr. Guion sat me on his counter and waited for Mama and Grandmom to come in. When he realized I was alone, he called Grandmom and asked if they were missing someone.

Well, my absence had been noticed almost immediately and Grandmom had alerted the town. According to Mama and Grandmom, Grandmom’s house was a frenzied hub of pandemonium. Mama was crying, people were scurrying everywhere and the phone was literally ringing off the hook. Then Mr. Guion called, “Yes, yes, she’s fine - sitting here on my counter asking for bubble gum and coke. No, she must have walked it. Just take your time - I won’t let her out of my sight. No, no worse for the wear - just hot, sweaty and thirsty.” (I well remember the heat of that summer’s day.)

When Mama and Grandmom reached me, between the hugs, kisses, and bottom swats, Grandmom whispered, “Her friend must be an angel.” They never again tried to convince me that my 'friend' was just my imagination. I don’t remember the last time I saw him but, I suspect I “outgrew” the ability to see him when I began to interact and play with other children a year or so later.

A few years later right after the war, Dad was stationed on Johnson Air Force Base near Tokoyo, Japan. I was six years old. While playing in back of the house, I spotted movement among the plants in the flower bed. Peering closely I saw an undulating body easing in and out between the base of the plants and bent down to pick it up. I don’t know what I thought it was but it was so cute until it’s mouth opened to reveal fangs about to latch onto my hand.

Before I had time to open my mouth in a cry, a Japanese gardener came charging at light speed, around the corner from the front of the house. Hitting me hard, he knocked me away, sending the snake flying from my hand. Immediately, he crushed its head with a heavy boot, picked me up by my shoulders and proceeded to berate me in Japanese. I couldn’t understand a word he was saying but I understood the meaning. I had narrowly escaped death.

After Dad and Mom arrived home and Neishimura, our Japanese ‘houseboy’ told them what had happened, I learned that the ‘cute little thing’ was an Asp, a deadly snake whose venom would have killed me in seconds. Dad muttered, “That guy either had x-ray vision or he could see around corners.” This time I was ‘chewed out’, as only a Senior Master Sergeant can do, ‘wore out’ with Dad’s belt, sent to bed without supper and spent the next week or so inside. Needless to say, I never forgot the lesson.

In that same sixth year, my sister and I were playing on the swings in a nearby playground. She wanted the swing I was in but I was unwilling to give it up. An argument ensued. Finally, bored after proving I was ‘bigger‘, I got out of the swing and headed for something else. Madder than a wet, red-headed hornet, she grabbed the swing, pulled it back and sent it flying towards me, smacking me in the top of my head. A long, protruding screw on the underside of the seat hit hard and penetrated my skull. I remember being dazed and something thick and wet was all over my face. I didn’t realize I had been injured until someone saw me and took me to the infirmary. I was sutured and sent home with Mama with a mild concussion. I still have the indentation of that whack on the head today.

A few months later, still six, I was diagnosed with rheumatic heart disease. On Christmas Eve, my seventh birthday, my father carried me to the couch (I was too weak to walk) and allowed us to do something he never allowed, open one present before Christmas morning. Cheri and I chose to open Tiny Tears dolls. Mine was in a pink blanket - hers was in a blue one. That night was the last memory I had for six months. Lying in bed hugging my Tiny Tears doll to me, I slipped into a coma watching a heavy snowfall outside my window. My next memory was lying in bed on a hot June day with a warm breeze blowing across my sweat-soaked body and the sound of my brother and sister arguing below my window.

Do you see it yet - the blood trail, do you see it?

After that, I was as active as any child - participating in sports, especially baseball which I dearly loved and excelled at. Nothing the doctors predicted happened. I not only lived but I wasn’t brain-damaged nor did my heart slow me down or stop me once I ‘woke’ up. The only evidence of the heart disease after that was a heart murmur. At twenty, I joined the Marine Corps - later marrying a Marine and giving birth to four children. Because of ongoing ‘female’ problems beginning at age nine, I wasn’t supposed to be able to have children - uh huh, yeah, right. No offense to doctors but I have learned, when it comes to me, take everything with a grain of salt because nothing turns out the way they say it will. There’s always a divine intervention.

Yes, there were other times of crises and close calls with death during the ensuing years. It seemed like my childhood and most of my life was one crisis or trauma after another. I was always having to battle my way through one thing or another. I lived on the edge continually reaching behind me grabbing at fistfuls of breathing space, normal pockets of childhood that I used as leverage to pull back from the edge. With all my being I yearned for a normal childhood where I would be allowed to just be a child, nothing more, nothing less. I had one safe haven, one hiding place to go to that I ran to often. There, I would sit among others like myself seeking comfort, seeking a few stolen moments of laughter and joy, seeking acceptance, seeking love that wouldn’t hurt us, seeking the peace and rest we were so desperate for.

But those are stories for another time. For now, fast-forward to 1966 - my husband was deployed to Viet Nam for his third tour but his first as a husband and father. Our first-born child, Billy, and I moved to Lexington, MS to wait at mother’s until he returned. Mother was working for the farmer’s cooperative there so had moved from Durant 12 miles away to Lexington. She had grown up in Durant where everyone knew her and our family. Not so in Lexington. I was hired at the same ‘co-op’ as assistant bookkeeper.

I was a firebrand, passionate about my beliefs. Dad was in the Air Force, my husband was a Marine and I had been a Marine. I had been exposed to all races and kinds of people from early childhood on. I had had no color barrier instilled in me. I saw people simply as people. My father had prejudices but it wasn’t against color. His prejudice was towards stupidity. He hated it, had absolutely no patience for it and could be extremely brutal in squelching it, especially in his family.

Dad was an abusive father and husband in every definition of the word. The background of abuse served, instead of debilitating fear, to instill in me what others called an ‘over-sized’ (a word I quickly renamed ‘God-sized’ )sense of justice, anger, and indignation at bullies and those who preyed on others. I was always quick to express my opinions over any injustice I perceived and was often equally as swift to react physically as I was with words, whatever it took. I was thirteen when I began to fight back, physically, against the abuse of my father towards me or any other family member. To put it bluntly, I had a very short fuse and would ‘throw down’ instantly, regardless of the odds or who or what I faced. My opponent or opponents weren’t the issue - the ‘issue’ was the only issue for me.

At any rate, Mother warned me to keep my opinions to myself because Mississippi was neither the place nor was the unrest of the 60’s the time to air them. Of course, I could no more heed that warning than a moth can keep from throwing itself against the flame that will destroy it. My flame was injustice and I was compelled to throw myself against it until one of us was destroyed and it wasn’t going to be me. The upshot was that my son, family, and I were placed squarely in the gunsights of the KKK (and them in mine) and squarely in the ignorance of some townspeople. It became a free-for-all with them stalking and following me and me stalking and retaliating against them. When they stole my mail and wrote my husband an anonymous letter to Viet Nam and threatened to kidnap my son, the FBI came to town and began to protect us.

Oh, the trouble that ‘God-sized’ (sadly, tainted with a bit too much of me) sense of justice wreaked. A little wisdom mixed with all that righteous, indignant fire would have spared us a lot of heartache, but, you know, looking back, I wouldn’t change a moment of it. Many who’ve known me for years judge me by the worn exterior they see and I doubt they’d believe it. They’ve never challenged the hard side so have never seen it flash but God forged steel into my backbone. I learned to survive in the worst of times. Now, God is teaching me to THRIVE and DRIVE through them.

At any rate, I spent eleven hellish months in Lexington with little encouragement other than from a few good people who refused to join the witchhunt and Hazel Brannon Smith, Pulitzer prize winning author, editor of the Lexington Advertiser and my landlord at one time. What a gutsy woman she was! We talked briefly once or twice but she was well aware of the struggles I was experiencing. Like all small towns, everyone knew everything in Lexington and she knew the persecution of the witch hunt very well. One of the few things I remember her telling me is, "Never let them win and never let them see fear!"

While in Lexington, God set up the circumstances that, many years later, resulted in my being the first of many new witnesses to be called to testify against the murderer of Medgar Evers. That man spent the rest of his days behind bars denying, to the end, what he had bragged about to so many - that he had executed Medgar. Yet, he called himself a Christian and actually claimed to believe that he murdered for God and country. Wonder if he’s still singing that old song?

The trial of Byron de la Beckwith was one of Mississippi’s finest hours, all of it, divinely orchestrated by God. He waited all those years with Medgar’s blood crying out to Him from the ground for justice. Man rushed ahead with two failed trials but our patient, all-knowing God just bided His time and waited. After Medgar’s assassination, He hid His spies in the land, stationing them in exactly the right places at the right times to hear and see the boasting of a godless murderer. When the time and climate were right, He moved swiftly to exact justice using Beckwith’s own words to convict him. Justice delayed is definitely not justice deferred. No one does justice like God - absolutely, no one! Ah, if only we would learn from the examples God sets for us and wait on Him to avenge us.

This is where the blood trail becomes broad and wide. Do you see it yet?

Ok, it’s eleven years later, another hot, summer’s day, June 28, 1977, to be exact. My husband, three year old youngest son and myself are in a roadside park between Leland and Greenwood. I had dozed off behind the wheel. My husband was awake, smoking a cigarette. A deafening sound close to my ear woke me. Bill appeared to be sleeping. Shaking him, I kept asking, “Bill, Bill, what was that?” My three year old was standing in the back seat with his hand resting on his daddy’s head.

Suddenly, my door jerked open and someone was dragging me out. Holding onto the steering wheel, I fought to stay in the car until a gun was shoved into my face.

“I’ve just ‘popped’ your husband and I’ll ‘pop’ you, too, if you don’t do what I say.”

I let go of the steering wheel but still resisted what followed. My three-year old screamed, “Mommy, Mommy!” Desperately he tried to squeeze out of the car and come to me but the man pointed his gun at him and I yelled, “Stay in the car - stay in the car!”

Again my sobbing son tried to come to me - again, the man pointed the gun at him. “NO! NO! Please don’t hurt my baby - please don’t hurt my baby!”

The authorities said something in my pleas for my son must have touched the heart of this cold-blooded, serial killer because he left us alive - the only two to ever survive his attacks. The FBI said he had killed all across the country, attacking couples in roadside parks and killing them but he hadn’t seen my son in the back seat until he walked up and shot Bill in the head.

After the attack, I started the car and headed towards Leland. My husband was still alive but having seizures. Frantically, I prayed, “Please God, don’t let him die, don’t let him die!”

I couldn’t find the hospital in Leland but saw headlights coming towards me, flashed my lights and blew my horn but the car didn’t stop. Turning around in the road, I sped after the car and pulled up beside him screaming through the open window, “My husband’s been shot! I need a hospital!”

“Follow me,” he yelled and turned around in the road heading back into town. He led me to a dark building and yelled, “They’re closed! We’ll have to go to Greenwood! Stay behind me!”

In Greenwood, he led me to the emergency room ramp, tooted his horn, waved his hand and drove off. I never saw him again and never had the opportunity to thank him. A black man, a psycho who hated whites, killed my husband but a black man who only saw a desperate woman and gravely injured man needing help, led us to the hospital without stopping to receive thanks.

If God had not saved and preserved my life on the many occasions it was at risk or, if this one act of hate had caused me to hate a whole race, would I have lived to testify? If so, would I have been willing to do the right thing if God had not balanced the evil done by an evil man with the good deed of a good man? Did the courage of a black man, with the strength to help a frantic white woman and her gravely injured husband in the wee hours of the night, give that same woman the courage to do a hard thing many years later?

Do you see it now?

There’s so much more to this story and my life but that’s a book not a blog. Suffice it to say, many similar events have occurred. Most of them are so outrageous that it's hard to believe so much could happen in one life. It truly does read like a work of fiction or a book of miracles. I can look back on it all and see a trail of blood extending from the Cross over every step I took. The prayers of a righteous Grandmother, and an often tormented but God-fearing, God-loving mother, kept the Blood flowing my way. One glorious thing about age is that you gain the ability to discern God’s Hand busy at work.

Ahh me, the stories I could tell, all true, not fiction. I believe that's the reason God allowed all those things to happen. One thing is certain, I have seen, up close and personal, the faithfulness of God to sustain you through anything and to use it, not only for your good, but for the good and encouragement of others who've experienced trouble, tragedy, and trauma. You are not worthless junk or a disposable person because of the things you've done or suffered. You are the beloved of God, worthy of the shed blood of the God of Gods, Lord of Lords, and King of Kings. Never, ever dishonor Him by putting yourself down. He CHOSE YOU to be HIS inheritance and to give YOU HIMSELF and all that HE is as YOUR inheritance!

One last thing, and if you don’t see it with this, you never will. After twenty-eight years under the same ministry, God called me to a new one. Care to guess? Yep, to a mostly black church, a loving, accepting, on fire, people of faith in whom God's character is abundantly displayed. The Pastors are encouragers, loving disciplinarians, anointed and powerful teachers and leaders who expect the best of and for their flock. Why here? Ask God. I’m done asking ‘why’, but one thing is certain, HE HAS A PLAN! I don't have to know it to obey it. Here, the dry, staleness sucking the life out of me met the fire of God. It takes fire to make fire and the fire rekindled in me that day brought hope and faith for the future.

Do you see it? The blood trail, do you see it?

God bless you and give you revelation knowledge of the reality of Himself and His Great Love for you!

THIS SCHOOL WILL NO LONGER HONOR RACE OR ETHNICITY

2011-03-29T23:02:00.002-05:00

An email I received I believe worthy of everyone reading. Hope this spreads across the country like wildfire and becomes policy in the schools.

A CALIFORNIA PRINCIPAL'S OPENING
MESSAGE TO STUDENTS

From: Dennis Prager , principal at a high school in Redding, California, on the first day of classes in 2010: To the students and faculty of our high school: I am your new principal, and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach young people.
I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school.

I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers, against your parents, and against our country. Therefore: First, this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity. I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow, or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian, or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships. The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity -- your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is American. This is an American public school, and American public schools were created to make better Americans.

If you wish to affirm an ethnic, racial, or religious identity through your school, you will have to go elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity-, race- and non-American-nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of America , one of its three central values -- E Pluribus Unum -- "from many, one."And this school will be guided by America 's values. That includes all after-school clubs. I will not authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual orientation, or whatever else may become in vogue in a society divided by political correctness. Your clubs will be based on interests and passions -- not blood, ethnic, racial or other physically defined ties. Those clubs just cultivate narcissism -- an unhealthy preoccupation with the self -- while the purpose of education is to get you to think beyond yourself. So, we will have clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you do not already speak, math, carpentry, and more. If the only extracurricular activities you can imagine being interested in are those based on ethnic or racial or sexual identity, that means that little outside of yourself really interests you.

Second, I am not interested in whether or not English is your native language. My only interest in terms of language is that you leave this school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible. The English language has united America 's citizens for more than 200 years, and it will unite us at this school. It is one of the indispensable reasons this country of immigrants has always come to be one country. And if you leave this school without excellent English-language skills, I will have been remiss in my duty to ensure that you are prepared to compete successfully in the American job market. We will learn? other languages here -- it is deplorable that most Americans only speak English . But if you want classes taught in your native language rather than in English, this is not your school.

Third, because I regard learning as a sacred endeavor, everything in this school will reflect learning's elevated status. This means, among other things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. Many people in our society dress more formally for a meal at a nice restaurant than they do for church or school. Those people have their priorities backwards. Therefore, there will be a formal dress code at this school.

Fourth, no obscene language will be tolerated anywhere on this school's property -- whether in class, in the hallways or at athletic events. If you can't speak without using the "F-word," you can't speak. By obscene language I mean the words banned by the Federal Communications Commission plus epithets such as the "N-word," even when used by one black student to address another, or "bitch," even when addressed by a girl to a girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time you leave this school, you will be among the few of your age to distinguish instinctively between the elevated and the degraded, the holy and the obscene.

Fifth, we will end all self-esteem programs. In this school, self-esteem will be attained in only one way -- the way people attained it until the state of California decided otherwise a generation ago -- by earning it. One immediate consequence of this is that there will be only one class valedictorian, not eight.

Sixth, and last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and away from politics and propaganda. No more time will be devoted to scaring you about smoking and caffeine, or terrifying you about sexual harassment or global warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom-wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as only or primarily a health issue. There will be no more attempts to convince you that you are a victim because you are not white, or not male, or not heterosexual, or not Christian. We will have failed, if any one of you graduates from this school and does not consider himself or herself inordinately lucky -- to be alive and to be an American.

Now, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America . As many of you do not know the words, your teachers will hand them out to you.

I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO SEND THIS TO ALL IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK, PERHAPS SOME THING COULD COME OF THIS................

Diplomacy Hasn't Worked, Apologies Haven't Worked, Money Hasn't Worked, Force Hasn't Worked, But, This Will Work!

2011-03-19T23:56:00.005-05:00

WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT TO TURN ON THE TV AND HEAR ANY U.S. PRESIDENT, DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN, GIVE THE FOLLOWING SPEECH?

'My Fellow Americans: As you all know, the defeat of the Iraqi regime has been completed.

Since Congress does not want to spend any more money on this war, our mission in Iraq is complete.

This morning, I gave the order for complete removal of all American forces from Iraq . This action will be complete
within 30 days. It is now time to begin the reckoning.

Before me, I have two lists. One list contains the names
of countries which have stood by our side during the Iraq
conflict. This list is short . The United Kingdom,
Spain, Bulgaria, Australia, and Poland are some of the
countries listed there.

The other list contains every one not on the first list. Most
of the world's nations are on that list. My press secretary
will be distributing copies of both lists later this evening.

Let me start by saying that, effective immediately, foreign
aid to those nations on List 2 ceases indefinitely. The
money saved during the first year alone will
pretty much pay for the costs of the Iraqi war.

THEN, EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER IT'LL GO TO
OUR SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM SO IT WONT
GO BROKE IN 20 YEARS.

The American people are no longer going to pour
money into third world Hell holes and watch those
government leaders grow fat on corruption.

Need help with a famine? Wrestling with an epidemic?
Call France ..

In the future, together with Congress, I will work
to redirect this money toward solving the
vexing social problems we still have at home.

On that note, a word to terrorist organizations. Screw
with us and we will hunt you down and eliminate you
and all your friends from the face of the earth!

Thirsting for a gutsy country to terrorize? Try
France or maybe China .

Am ordering the immediate severing of all
diplomatic relations with France and Russia.
Thanks for all your help, comrades.. We are
retiring from NATO as well..

I have instructed the Mayor of New York City to
begin towing the many UN diplomatic vehicles
located in Manhattan, with more than two unpaid
parking tickets, to sites where those vehicles will
be stripped, shredded and crushed.

I don't care about whatever treaty pertains to this..
You creeps have tens of thousands of unpaid tickets.
Pay those tickets tomorrow or watch your precious
Benzes, Beamers and limos be turned over to some
of the finest chop shops in the world. I LOVE NEW
YORK!

A special note to our neighbors: Canada is on List 2.
Since we are likely to be seeing a lot more of each other,
you folks might want to try not pissing us off for a change.

Mexico is also on List 2. Its president and his entire
corrupt government really need an attitude adjustment.
We OWE them nothing! However, I will soon have a couple
of thousand extra tanks and infantry divisions sitting
around.. Guess where I am going to put 'em? Yep,
border security.

Oh, by the way, the United States is abrogating the
NAFTA treaty - starting now.

We are tired of the one-way highway. Immediately,
we'll be drilling for oil in Alaska -which will take care
of THIS country's oil needs for decades to come
(more than enough time to find alternate fuel solutions!).
If you're an environmentalist who opposes this decision,
I refer you to List 2 above: pick a country and move there!

It is time for America to focus on its own welfare and its
own citizens. Some will accuse us of isolationism. I answer
them by saying, 'DARN TOOTIN.'

Nearly a century of trying to help folks live a decent life
around the world has only earned us the undying enmity
of just about everyone on the planet.

It is time to eliminate hunger in AMERICA!
It is time to eliminate homelessness in AMERICA!

To the nations on List 1, a final thought. Thank you guys. We owe you and we won't forget.

To the nations on List 2, a final thought : You might want to learn to speak Arabic!

'God bless America .. Thank you and good night!'

If you can read this in English, thank a soldier.

Please keep this alive and see what happens! Let's get
this to every USA computer!

Taking Hearts and Minds All Over Earth Today

2011-03-19T18:24:00.001-05:00

For those who don't understand the relevance of the title, it's military code, at least in the Marine Corps, for the Kill Zone. One in the heart or chest, one in the mind or head. You're trained to do both, if possible, to ensure your enemy goes down and stays down.

This is a true story about my brother-in-law, Joe, who served in Viet Nam at age 18. As the anniversary of his death approaches, August 24, 2001, he's been much on my mind. This is my way of honoring a man who deserved a better death than he got.

Joe was an unarmed Army Medic awarded the Silver Star for heroism in combat. Before shipping out to Viet Nam, he was an avowed atheist who flat refused to listen to any talk about God. One day, on patrol in the bush, his platoon was ambushed and greatly outnumbered by the Viet Cong. Caught in the open under heavy fire, they were being slaughtered, picked off like ducks in a carney booth.

Desperately fighting to aid the wounded and dying, Joe watched as his buddies were cut down, one by one. In the midst of their screams, guts and gore, he knew, barring a miracle, none of them were going to make it out of there. Rage boiled over in him, erupting suddenly, like a volcano spewing death into the atmosphere. Like a demented berserker, Joe snatched up the weapon of a fallen comrade and charged into the enemy with a fierce, guttural yell. Fully expecting to die, he was determined to make their lives count by taking as many VC with him as he could.

Then, as easily and naturally as breathing, he did what he never expected to do - he called on God - the same God he professed not to believe in - for strength. In the bloody carnage that followed, Joe plowed into the VC like a venging angel, a killing machine striking fear, face-to-face, hand-to-hand, into the hearts of a surprised and overwhelmed enemy. What few VC escaped death at his hands, fled into the bush leaving their dead and dying behind.

When he returned to the States, I asked him, "So Joe, did you find God on the battlefield?"

He said, "I saw wounded and dying men - some believers, some not but none admitting to it - crying out to God to save them. I watched the dying, die in peace, knowing He had. I watched the wounded, praying for forgiveness and salvation, lose their fear. Though suffering and in agony, they faced it all knowing they had received what they asked. I asked Him for strength and He gave it. Yeah, you could say, I believe."

That's all he would say. He was done talking. We didn't learn of the details until he was decorated with the Silver Star and the full story emerged. I'd say Joe's story is about as powerful an illustration of the truth of the old adage, "There are no atheists in foxholes," as it gets. Wouldn't you?

My question is this, "What will you do when death comes for you? How will you answer the door? Will you answer with faith and the peace of salvation OR, will you play the sucker's game, gambling with your life and eternity? Will you procrastinate hoping you'll have the time to make a decision OR, will you search for and embrace the truth now? Will you be dragged, totally unprepared, kicking and screaming, into eternity OR will you simply step into it with the excitement and assurance of the wonders you will see?"

The choice is yours, my friend. God can't and won't take it from you because He can't lie. What He speaks is spoken into being in the same moment. No one and nothing else can, either, if you will guard your heart and mind against deception. It's deception that leads you into making the wrong decision or, just as bad, indecision. Jesus said you're either for Him or against Him. There's no middle ground, no fence sitters. Thus, indecision is a decision against Him.

A word to the wise: we have all known people who've died instantly with no time to make a decision. Your gut knows the truth your intellect denies. Be very careful, friend. You don't want to be caught on the wrong side of heaven and the right side of hell when the time comes. Neither requires your belief to exist, no more than truth. When death comes calling, it's amazing how quickly and easily one can cut through all the bull hockey and grab onto the truth. The sad reality is, though, not everyone has the time or consciousness to do so. Are you making a fool's bet that you will?

The mind cannot perceive nor grasp what the heart can conceive and achieve. Don't let your mind override your heart. Your heart is smarter and has your best interests at its core. Your mind is totally self-centered and has only its own gratification at its core.May the 'Force' be with you and the Darkside far from you. Semper Fi, seekers of the truth!

You Are Not Who You Think You Are

2011-02-26T04:36:00.012-06:00

I'm beginning to see something - something so awesome that it boggles the mind. We all know the Song of Solomon was written, not only about marital love but about us, Christ's bride. It's a passionate love letter to us that we tend to shy away from because we don't understand the analogy and are even embarrassed by it. If we can just grab hold of the fact that He looks at us in much the same way as a man and woman gaze upon a beloved bride or bridegroom - with that same incredulous wonder - that same breath-catching joy when you look upon them and realize they're yours. The passion we feel in those moments are the nearest analogy God could use to describe TO us, His fierce love FOR us. His passion is far deeper and greater than the passions of the body because it is a passion of the spirit and soul.

Unlike the body, the passions of the spirit and soul are an eternal burning with an unquenchable flame on the part of a Holy God who changes not. Once He has loved you, He always loves you, forever and ever, even if you insist on going to hell. His love for you is no different from His love for His Son in hell, who didn't just nail our sin and shame to His cross, but BECAME them -BECAME a curse so that we could inherit the PROMISE. Yet, even though a Holy Father, God cannot look upon sin, His love followed Jesus into hell as it would you. He's incapable of stopping Himself from loving you. He chases after you because He has to; because, He loves you, the object of His affection, forever and ever.

He delights in you, He holds you precious above all things ever created in heaven or earth - only you are precious enough to be the inheritance of Almighty God so He has given you the only thing more precious than you as YOUR inheritance, Himself. Ah, Lord, God, words are so inadequate! You have to see with the eyes of your heart because it is there that you are joined to Him and there, where the deepest communication happens - spirit to spirit - heart to heart. It is there where your heartbeats beat as one - there, in that eternal place, where you are wrapped in the fire of His embrace.

I understand, now, why Ezekiel described God as a FIRE shut up in his bones because he was in that eternal place, wrapped in the fire of His embrace that burns and consumes but does not destroy. Our God IS a consuming fire! YOU! YOU, the love of God's life, the object of His affection, are the consuming fire that burns in Him but cannot destroy.

Don't you see? That's why His wrath against the evil that dared touch His beloved, the love of His life, created a lake of fire that burns for eternity but does not destroy. As His love burns forever for you so does His wrath burn forever against the thing that takes you from Him. That's why Jesus had to die - that's why He came to destroy the works of the devil - so God could offer His beloved Man, a way to escape the wrath of our Holy God who is an enemy of the evil, from within or without us, that dares touch His anointed ones or takes us from Him.

No, beloved, you are not who you think you are. Whether you think more of yourself than you ought or less than you ought, you are definitely not who you think you are. Either way, your sights are set far too low, not because of anything you can do, will do or have done but for WHOSE you are and WHO appraised you and set your bride price.

Your price was set so high that only the Son of God, the Lord of Glory, could pay it and secure you as God's Inheritance. And, He could only do it by relinquishing His Throne, shedding His immortality, taking on a human body of death, and allowing Himself to be executed in your place. He did in three days in hell what you cannot do in an eternity - satisfy the wrath and judgment of the Holy God. Thus, through the Blood of His Own Son, you have become the children of His Blood. The same Blood that redeemed you, birthed you, delivered you, empowered you, made you an heir to God, is returned to Him as His Inheritance and fills His Quiver full.

I wish it could be explained in human words but I don't think it can. It's something that has to be 'caught' not 'taught'. Open yourself up to Him and become one with the fire - one with God. Start by thinking thoughts TOWARDS Him and keeping them on Him. He's always near you, as close as your own heart. Speak to Him in your mind constantly - constantly touching Him with it - and He will become so real, so precious, so needed, that the World and its distractions will begin to fade. Then, and only then, will you begin to become a companion to Him, He to you and, the same fire burning IN God FOR you will begin to burn IN you and you will become ONE with Him.

A Particular Man

2011-01-07T21:55:00.001-06:00

A Particular Man

God makes the man

He sends the call

a particular man

for a particular call.

Formed in the womb

God-breathed and knitted

like a flower in bloom

gifts are perfectly fitted.

Son ripened stalks

bent and heavy laden

beset by hungry hawks

and, one by one, taken.

Their cry is this,

"Come, man of God,

bring us Heaven's kiss

and golden paths to trod."

(c)Lightfallonme

June 9, 2002

Time Enough For That

2010-06-05T05:48:00.011-05:00

My dear friend, you are so wrong, dead wrong. How do I know? Because you're no different from anyone else. Your gut is pricking and sticking you, warning you of something, you don't know what, but it's big, really big, the likes of which the world has never seen.

You don't need the doom and gloomers or Christians to tell you this. In fact, you wish they'd all shut up and go away. It's hard enough to have a moment's peace without all that junk. You just want to relax and enjoy life but you can't because of that nagging feeling something's coming, something that's hanging over your head like a dark, threatening cloud.

It feels like the end of the world - that big - and, everything around you, in the world, on the news, all point to it. Every day feels like it is the last minute of the last day and you've got to hurry up, get through it and get home so can relax. Trouble is - there's no peace there either.

You go to bed wondering if you're going to wake up in the morning and, if you do, what will you wake up to?

You're frustrated, angry and agitated all the time and you don't seem able to do anything about it. Your churning gut keeps telling you to go to church but 90% of those guys are no different from you away from there.

Oh, they'll talk, talk, talk about their religion but it doesn't seem to stick to them outside of those walls. You're looking for a permanent solution that's real, something that's going to come into your life and turn it every which way but loose!

Then, there are the other guys, you know, the happy ones who go around with this air of, hmm...ah, expectation...yeah, that's it...like they just won the Lotto or something! There's something different about them - something peaceful, powerful.

They're all lit up and you're drawn to them like a moth to a flame. They stir a yearning somewhere deep within you that causes a general uneasiness you can't name. You thirst for what they have but you just don't know if you have what it takes to do what they did to get it and keep it.

Ahh, but you do, my friend, you do. That thing churning in your gut - that's the God-sized hole inside of you calling out to be filled with the only thing it was designed to hold, God.

The reason you're becoming increasingly more restless and dissatisfied is that it is increasing - calling louder, stronger, more urgently than ever, warning you, TIME IS RUNNING OUT AND YOU ARE IN GREAT DANGER!

But, you already know that, right? Every time you've ignored a gut feeling, you've paid for it, right? What makes you think you won't this time? Time is of the essence. You are playing Russian Roulette with eternity and your life.

God is trying to warn you, time is against you, not for you, but He is for you. If you will give in and allow Him to fill that hole, He will change and empower what He fills. Where He is, there is peace, joy, and every good thing. If you persist in delaying, you stand a good chance of finding yourself on the wrong side of God and Eternity, subject to His Wrath not His Mercy and Grace.

But I don't have to tell you this. You already know the truth of it because you have a witness in your own body - your own gut feeling and uneasiness and foreboding.

Listen to them, my friend, that's God calling you, warning you time is running out. Uh oh, you thought God never talks to people today, didn't you? Well, now you know. Do you really want to say, "No", to the One who is trying to save your life?

If you believe in Him but don't really have a personal relationship with Him, it's not enough. The bible says even the demons believe but, no one confesses Jesus as Lord except by the Holy Spirit. Huh? Demons are evil and can never be indwelt by the Holy Spirit who is God. As a result, they can't confess Jesus as their Lord. Ah, you're beginning to see.

Maybe, you just, flat out, don't believe. Phooey! Sorry, friend, you'll have to do better than that. I have, personally, seen more than one tough guy, self-professed atheists, crying out on their deathbeds to the very One they claimed not to believe in - "Oh God, save me, help me!"

Why do you think it's said, "There are no atheists in foxholes?" Because, where life, death, and eternity are at stake, there's no time for such foolishness. Look around you, friend - YOU are in that foxhole now!

I really don't believe there are true atheists in the world today. Anyone claiming to be one doesn't understand the meaning of the word or is so hate-filled that it has darkened and clouded his mind and made him ignorant, foolish and deceived.

Most of these so-called atheists are actually agnostic - they admit the possibility of God but haven't seen evidence of Him yet or so they think. Consequently, they refuse to acknowledge the existence of what they can't see, touch, feel, or prove. Yet, the bible says God has written the evidence of His Gospel in Creation - they are blind to what's before their very eyes.

You want an example? Ok. Werner Von Braun, the great nuclear scientist, was a self-proclaimed atheist whose science proved to him that only God could have created the precise mathematical order of the universe and everything in it, living and non-living. Not only that, but all this matter, animate and inanimate, is made up of the same, tiny components, atoms.

To conclude all this could be the result of a random, cosmic accident was ludicrous to him. As a scientist, he had no choice but to conclude that a mind, far greater and vaster than man had the capability of conceiving, had planned and initiated it all, but whose mind was it? What was it?

Having thoroughly investigated and discarded everything else, everything he knew, he turned to the bible. There, within those hallowed pages, he found the answers he sought. He received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

There are many more examples, like the wind you can't see but can see and feel the results of. Or, the electricity you can't see but can see the results. Or, thought, which you can't see, touch, taste, smell or hear, but you know it's there.

When, you, as an act of blind faith, make Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior, He makes Himself known to you and gives you the witness of the reality of Him inside your own heart and gut.

You can make Him your Lord simply by receiving and confessing Him. If you are ready, pray this simple prayer out loud: "Father God, I believe Jesus Christ is God, Your Son, and that He died for me on the Cross, rose again, and lives today. I receive and confess Him, now, as Savior and Lord. I know that I have sinned, for all men have sinned and come short of the glory of God, even the best of us. Forgive me of my sins and wash me clean. Lord Jesus, come into my heart, change me into the person You would have me to be and reveal Yourself and Your purpose for me to me. In Jesus name I pray and receive. Amen."

If you want to know why you had to pray out loud, read these scriptures: Romans 10:9 - 11; Matthew 10:32; Luke 12:8; 1 John 1:9, 10 and 1 John: 4: 3, 15.

Congratulations! Welcome to the Kingdom God! You have just exchanged eternal death and torment for eternal life and joy! You never need to fear death or anything else again.

Go to church, as soon as possible, and fight to make it a habit. Get a bible, preferably one of the easier to understand modern versions, and begin reading in the New Testament. Begin talking (praying) with God as you would anyone else because He is as real as they are, more so in fact. When you pray (talk), pray to the Father and close with, "in Jesus name, amen."

Never put yourself down or think you're such a bad case that even God can do nothing with you. That's an insult to God who is all-powerful and can do anything. Nothing is impossible for God or a child of God whom He is acting through. The Blood spilled for you took your punishment and has made you worthy and righteous. You are the child of His Heart and He loves you! Yes, even you!

The Seed of God's Greatness has been sown in you and God wastes nothing! You have what it takes - everything it takes - lacking absolutely nothing!

We learn by doing, even when we fail. Sometimes, the greatest lessons are learned through failure so don't beat yourself up when you fail. We all fail. You will be no different. There's no shame attached to it. God looks upon the heart and judges the motive.

Know this, God works from the inside out and the new you is on the inside. Hold on and trust Him to change the outside to match the inside. Don't sweat it. He'll never give up on His child - just see that you don't give up on Him.

God bless you, child of the Living God!

The Tower Rises Again

2010-06-05T02:49:00.005-05:00

Brethren, I have seen a thing so insidious, so profoundly deadly yet so invisible that most of its victims are caught unaware in its grip. THEY ARE DYING never knowing what killed them. Oh, they give it this name and that name but the root; the deadly cause is going undiscovered, unnamed, and free to kill wantonly and indiscriminately.

Where is this happening? Everywhere. Where is it not happening? Nowhere. There is no safe haven, not even in the church. Yes, even there the sickness has spread and is doing its terrible work.

I have also seen the cure at work; however, it is strong medicine, not easily swallowed and few will tolerate it right now. As a result, some will die, perhaps more than a few. They will serve as wake-up calls and the pendulum will swing from death to life as more and more people decide to tolerate the medicine, bitter though it may be.

The sad thing is that these who fall sick or die will infect others leading them to the same fate. They may die spiritually, physically, or both but the results are the same. Death will enter them through deception on a level never before seen. Everything they touch will be tainted by it. Many will be deceived from the top down, old, young, wise, foolish, good, bad, faithful, and faithless.

What is it? That’s the question I kept asking and asking God. Then, the answer came and, with it such a heavy fear of God that I was shaken to the core of my heart and soul. Never have I experienced such anguish, sorrow, and holy reverence.

We have had voices lifted up in warning, crying in the wilderness but they were largely ignored. At least for decades and I suspect for far longer, this vile thing has remained hidden doing its work secretly.

So, what is it, anyway? The spirit of Babel has invaded and saturated the Church, His Blood-Bought Church. What was outside the walls has entered in through unsuspecting carriers. I saw it clearly, for the first time, during the three months I spent in Florida. I called it the “Feel Good Spirit” but it is death, plain and simple.

It’s hunger and thirst for power and ascendancy in the church is insatiable. It has partnered with our own flesh that sees the end of its days coming. This unholy alliance has given it such an enormous death-dealing potential and influence that ordinary defenses will not defend against it. It has spawned a casualness and disrespect for God that is appalling.

Like Babel, it’s rooted in pride, the pride of man. We have said, “It’s a new day that requires a new way,” So we have dreamed our dreams, devised our schemes, plotted, planned, executed programs, and methods to target this group and that group, to speak their language, follow their customs, entertain them, manipulate them, draw them in and hope we can hold them by attraction and affection for these things. The bottom line is numbers.

It takes numbers and finances to survive, right? If we are to grow, we must produce numbers, right? After all, sheep beget sheep; thus, Christians produce Christians. WRONG!!! Did I say that strong enough? NO, NO, EMPHATICALLY NO!!!

Sheep may beget sheep and apples, apples, oranges, oranges but WHO begets Christians? Who sires that life – WHO breathes the breath of life into it? GOD DOES!

It’s true, humans do produce humans through human conception and only humans can be Christians but only God can reproduce His Life in a human. He says we must be born again, not of the flesh which will die, but, of the eternal part, our spirits.

Only this eternal part can house an eternal God. Can mortality hold immortality? Not for long, because, one day, mortality will die and immortality will go on living. After all, can the child beget the sire or reproduce the sire’s life in another? Can the creation reproduce any part of the Creator in anyone or anything?

Where did all this begin? In the Garden where all things began. Then, in Genesis 11, in Babel, a city built by Nimrod, the first to be a mighty man before God in the earth, builder, and ruler of Nineveh, son of Cush, son of Ham, in this city a tower began to rise.

In those days, Man was united by language and easy, unlimited access through the smallness of his world. As a result, pride set in allowing deception to deceive him into thinking that his abilities and strength came from him. Man was the greatest and mightiest in his world; therefore, he was the greatest and mightiest in Creation; therefore, great and mighty enough to take on God.

He began to build a tower to reach God and usurp His place in Man’s life by taking Him and all that He has by force. In other words, he intended to lay mortal, human hands on Immortal God so that he could snatch His Power and Things and wield them according to his discretion and terms.

Folly, truly thy name is Man. The rest is history, God confounded Man by dividing them into groups and giving each group a different language so they could not understand and communicate with one another. Then, He scattered them all over the earth. Sound familiar?

Today, through science and technology, the world has, again, become small. We have easy access and the means to understand and communicate with one another again. Today, that accursed tower is being built again, brick by accursed brick.

Man has become so prideful in his own accomplishments that he no longer sees the need of God in his life, profaning and belittling His Holiness, trespassing upon sacred ground again. Once again, natural man has been deceived into thinking he knows better than Supernatural God.

Although there are still pockets of living, dynamic churches, the vast majority is experiencing a dryness and apathy heretofore unimagined. A great "falling away" which began as a trickle has now become a Niagra. Horrified, we are amazed to discover we are living the “Apostate Church” that we, ourselves, launched.

People have become jaded – what used to appeal to and hold them, no longer does. So, the Church, desperate to preserve its dwindling numbers, experiments with this and that. These attempts are quickly met with short attention spans, disillusionment, followed by boredom and wandering. It’s as if the whole Church suffers from an acute, crippling form of ADHD.

Desperate to stem this growing tide, many churches are modeling themselves after the corporate and entertainment worlds with woeful success in a spiritual sense. However, they do have an immediate, novelty effect that appeals to the emotions and fleshly desires, especially in the young, but no real longevity.

Why? Because these World mechanisms have been doing it longer and better. Why should people partake of the Church version when it comes no closer to easing the real hunger, and the World’s is so much better?

Yet, the God-sized hunger and thirst in believer and nonbeliever, alike, has never been greater nor more urgent and compelling. It’s the real reason why what the church offers does not satisfy but drives away an ever burgeoning number. Why? Because the gnawing spiritual need, God custom-made to hold Himself, cannot be satisfied nor filled by man-made methods and things.

Have we come so far to be lost now? NO! Christ will not lose His Bride, purchased at the cost of His own Blood, Suffering and Sacrifice. To lose His Beloved Bride, to whom He has joined Himself and paid the highest bride price possible in the natural or supernatural worlds, would make all that He did and suffered in vain.

We all know it’s impossible for an All Knowing, All Powerful, All Perfect God to fail. Much of what you see in the Church, now, is God moving, shaking, and correcting things. He has loosed His Discipline and Correction into His Church.

Those who look to His Discipline and receive it as a sign that His Love and Faithfulness endure; that His Plan for us is still in place and working; that only a true child receives discipline as an heir with the hope of restoration; who receive it with joy in the knowledge that the outcome of a Church purged by the Fire of the Living God is God, shut up in her bones like a fire, these will thrive and endure to the end.

For our part, it will take letting go of everything we thought we knew, including independent thinking and planning apart from God, humbling ourselves before God, and saying, “Bring it on, Father, burn out every vestige of unrighteousness in me and consume me with a thirst for your Holiness. I choose to forgive everyone and anyone, including myself, and leave judgment to you. I choose to lose my life to gain a life sold out toYou. Loose the bonds of worldly cares, delights, and deceits, Great and Mighty God, and shackle me to you. Enslave me heart, soul, and body and ruin me for everything but You.”

Yes, it’s a bitter pill to swallow, at first, but, oh, the benefits it will produce. As we get back to basics, follow the example of the First Church in humility and submission to the Holy Spirit, every need will be met, every God-inspired thing will succeed and no church will have to close its doors. Jesus said, “If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me.” You can’t get any more simple or basic or powerful than that.

As churches do this, they will be sensitive to and respond to the needs, not only of the lost and dying, but also to the brethren, regardless of denomination. Denomination is Abomination, a reeking, stinking, man-made thing separating God’s people rather than drawing them together.

God says His Body is fitly and neatly joined together, not disjointed parts acting independently of one another. It is an indictment against every church when one church fails and the arrest warrant has been sent out.

Did we really think God was going to put up with this infighting, backbiting, territorial, snarling, self-mutilating, self-serving, reputation destroying, hate mongering, apathetic, complaining, murmuring, judgmental, stiff-necked foolishness in His Church forever?

Did we really think there would never be a Day of Reckoning or that, if there were, we could actually stand before Jesus Christ, God Himself, look into those eyes that see the hidden motives of the heart and be vindicated?

Did we really think we could question or touch the ministry gifts He, Himself, has called, gifted, anointed, given authority to and placed in His Church? Did we really think God would place His leaders under the authority and discipline of followers? Did we really think God is less capable than we are to perceive, correct, and discipline error?

Did we really think God needs our help to fine-tune His Gospel to make it more relevant for today? Did we really think we can ‘improve’ on the presentation of Jesus Christ to make Him more palatable and easier to swallow? Since when did the Holy Spirit relinquish His Abilities, Authority, Weapons, and Role in favor of man-made counterparts?

WAKE UP, CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, NOW, BEFORE MANY DIE!

Only God can change us and purify our motives. We have to prepare the soil of our hearts to receive from God by pulling out all the rocks and weeds, tilling and watering the seeds of change and repentance with His Word and Forgiveness which will enlighten, expose, discipline and correct so that we can forgive, forget, submit, obey, and go on.

We cannot be defeated unless we allow ourselves to be. God, Himself, with all His Abilities and Power, resides in us but we have lost the reverential fear, awe, and awareness of this fact and of Him.

We have forgotten to whom credit belongs and have taken credit for ourselves. We have run amok like bulls in a china shop when we should have walked softly, carefully, reverentially honoring the One who holds the power of Life and Death in His Hands.

I pray for the Church of the Living God, to submit, repent, be cleansed, re-empowered, filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, super-sensitive to His Leading, to go forth boldly, as He promised, and do greater exploits than Jesus Christ, armed to the eyeballs with His Methods and Weapons.

Please go to church and support it with all your heart, mind, body, and resources. If you are unchurched or dissatisfied where you are, there are still a few living churches in this area. I am the member of one, Tema Life Church in the Sports Hall of Fame & Museum on Lakeland Dr.

The bible says, “Give honor to whom honor is due.” I am unashamed to honor my pastor, Tim O’Leary, without whom, neither my children nor I would be alive today. I’ve heard many, many teach, some nationally and internationally known, but can unequivocally state, no one has taught the Word with greater integrity, accuracy and authority. Few have faced the opposition and adversity he has and come back from it, stronger and more dedicated than ever. I don't think he can be stopped. Come visit us. You won't be disappointed.

Now, brethren, I implore you to ask God to help you examine your hearts. Dig deep and, if you find any offense or false thing there, get rid of it. Only God can purge us of all unrighteousness but only you can ask forgiveness, apologize, make restitution, wherever possible, and leave the rest to God

If you are offended at anyone, regardless of how justified you are or think you are, it’s a sure and certain sign that something is wrong in you. It’s a sure and certain sign that deception has come into play somewhere in you! I don’t have to tell you this, brethen, because, God Himself, has taught you.

You don’t dust your feet off and desert a fellow believer, regardless of disagreements. He receives the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He is not an unbeliever who refuses to receive it. What if Paul had deserted Peter or Peter, Paul?

They disagreed yet they were careful not to break fellowship with one another nor doubt or impugn God’s call upon the other. They acted with integrity towards one another and were scrupulously steadfast in their support of one another.

Why? Because they were completely intolerant of any unrighteousness in themselves and were quick to root it out, obey God, receive forgiveness, forgive, and make amends. They were acutely aware of their responsibility to the Church and were vehement in their protection of her.

To do otherwise not only would have brought them under judgment, but it would have hurt the weaker members of the Body of Christ. How lightly do you think God views that? God never, ever ordains dissension and strife among His Elect.

With eternity so very close, we cannot afford any offense or false thing in the Body. We cannot afford to hinder the work and progress of God in any way. May the Lord have mercy on those who do because they will pay dearly.

I beg of you, brethern, do whatever it takes, whatever it costs in pride, family, friends, material things, whatever it is, to make amends, restore fellowships, toss the false things out and get this ship turned around and sailing in the right direction again.

We have enough to deal with without dealing with dissension among ourselves. Nothing is worth that, nothing! It only destroys our effectiveness and makes a laughing stock of the Church of Jesus Christ. We have work to do – let’s get at it!

Forgive me for any offense this newsletter may cause in anyone. I have been compelled to write it and have written it gravely and carefully, examining my own heart and motives with nearly every word. It is as much for me as for anyone.

The whole process has birthed a fear, awe, and wonder of God, and the things of God that I have never known before. It has opened my eyes to the gravity God views our careless trespass of His Sacred things. That is what I hope you gain from it also.

God enlighten, cleanse, save, and restore us all to His tender mercies.

I just arrived home from church and, as it often happens, whatever I need, correction, discipline, encouragement, confirmation, whatever, God whispers it to Brother Tim and he drives it home like a 100 mph fast ball straight between the eyes. It is the most uncanny and amazing thing that never ceases to stun me and everyone else under his spiritual leadership.

Keep in mind that I have been writing this newsletter since July 7th and he just preached a big chunk of it. That's confirmation enough for me to go ahead with it. And, folks, I'm not the exception but the rule in this ministry. I wish I had the time and space to tell you all the amazing things I've seen as a direct result of God's ministry through him but I don't.

However, stay tuned because I intend to keep writing. I intend to give back everything I've been given. I hope you're ready for this, but, ready or not, here I come! God bless you!

Hold On, Help Is On The Way

2010-06-05T02:45:00.006-05:00

We have taken Ps 37:23 to mean that we, first, make our plans then God is obligated to follow along and make them happen. But, the same psalm, in verse 7, says, "Be still and rest in the Lord; wait for Him and patiently lean yourself upon Him; fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass. v.8 Cease from anger and forsake wrath; fret not yourself - it tends only to evil doing. v.9 For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait and hope and look for the Lord [in the end] shall inherit the earth.

To me, this seems to describe a situation that isn't going quite as planned - it's not happening in the way planned OR it's not happening quick enough OR it's not happening at all...YET!

But, God.... Yes, God gives the vision and brands its hot image, burning and searing, into the trembling flesh of our hearts BUT have we then, after a time as humans will, in zeal and impatient anticipation, jumped in there with a plan to make it happen? AND, when it delays further and doesn't, and doesn't, and doesn't, have we then questioned, why, why, why?

Have we asked, "Have I missed God - have I missed the time? What holds me back - who holds me back?" Have we, through our questioning, allowed a vague sense of desperation to become an acute awareness of how little time is left, spurring us into prematurely trying to push and force it into happening?

Sometimes, we not only have to put God in remembrance of His Word but ourselves, as well. v. 3 - 6 of Psalm 37 says, "Trust, (lean on, rely on, and be confident) in the Lord and do good; so shall you dwell in the land and feed surely on His faithfulness, and truly you shall be fed. v.4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart. v.5 Commit your way to the Lord [roll and repose each care of your load on Him]; trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass! And He will make your uprightness and right standing with God go forth as a light, and your justice and right as [the shining sun of] the noonday!

Glory! This just came smoking by: We know our bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost, thus God lives in us, but, where exactly - in our hearts, side by side with our spirits? No, in our hearts where our spirits are enveloped and hidden in His! Get the picture?

He who touches us must, first, lay his hands upon the living Dwelling Place of God, the living Ark of the New Covenant! Do you think he will get away with it?

As long as we stay hidden and don't play, "Peek a Boo, I see you - now, you see me, now you don't", we can't be harmed. We may go through trials and testings but we will always come through and out of them on top.

Of course, this is subject to our will. We have to play with fire to be burned by it. If we keep ourselves out of its reach, it can't harm us. Oh, my, my, my, keep following this trail - it never ends! What is hidden in Him, that comes from and through us, filters through Him, is sanctified and empowered by Him.

Ok, to get back on track, perhaps you have held fast to the vision and to your confidence in God but it has been a long time coming. You are growing weary and support has been sparse. Your eyes ache and long to see the fruition of the vision, but, you need help and you need it now.

Let's go back to Psalm 37 and read v.18, 19: "The Lord knows the days of the upright and blameless, and their heritage will abide forever. v.19 They shall not be put to shame in the time of evil; and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

God knows the days, the timing, and has already set up a trust fund to carry us through the evil, lean days. At exactly the right moment, the trust fund will kick in, abundance will begin to flow, help will arrive, all needs will more than be met, and the vision will become reality. He knows our limitations and has prepared for it.

How do I know and how do you know you qualify? Ok, let's read the key verse, v.23 and verses 24, 25, 28, 29: v. 23 "The steps of a [good] man are directed and established by the Lord when He delights in his (the man's) way [and He (the Lord) busies Himself with his (the man's)every step]. v.24 Though he(the man) falls, he shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord grasps his(the man's) hand in support and upholds him. v.25 I have been young and now am old, yet have I not seen the [uncompromisingly] righteous forsaken or their seed begging bread. v. 28 For the Lord delights in justice and forsakes not His saints; they are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked [in time]shall be cut off. v.29 [Then] the [consistently] righteous shall inherit the land and dwell upon it forever."

When the man delights in the Lord, he follows His ways. The Lord responds by delighting in the man's ways. He, Himself, directs, aims, points, levels, trains, steers, pilots, guides, and leads the man towards the proper course, guides him along that course, aims him like a weapon at carefully calculated targets, points him towards a thing, person, destination, goal or position, levels him to the position where he will do his most effective or deadly work, trains him directly on the mark like an arrow at a bullseye, looses him, piloting the man to a direct hit.

The Lord persistently devotes Himself to this end, turning and bending His attention and efforts towards directing the man's steps. That's a far cry from the man making his plans and expecting the Lord to be obligated to make them happen. The Lord gives the vision and He makes it happen. Not only does He lead, guide, and direct the man towards the fulfillment of the vision but He protects, prospers, and preserves the man, in whom He is delighted, along the way.

Our position is the only position it should be when the Lord pilots - relaxed, reclining, resting, secure in the knowledge that He knows where we're going, how to get there, and has the power to deliver us there safely and successfully. That's why Jesus could sleep in the bottom of the boat while a major storm raged. He knew and trusted His Father. So, He slept, in perfect peace, secure in the knowledge of the Father's love, fellowship, ability, and will to bring Him and His safely to their destination.

v.34, 39, and 40 sum it up: "Wait for and expect the Lord and keep and heed His way, and He will exalt you to inherit the land....v. 39 But the salvation of the [consistently] righteous is of the Lord; He is their Refuge and secure Stronghold in the time of trouble. v.40 And the Lord helps them and delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they trust and take refuge in Him."

Beleagured, battered, battle-weary and shell-shocked saints of God and leaders, we have worn ourselves out trying to reverse what only God can reverse. What we thought was out of control is under God's control. We may no longer be able to see the course but God does. That's all that's necessary.

He warned us about the coming of this day so, that when it came, we would not lose courage and strength. We have to reconnect to our Source and wait, rest, delight, trust, heed, so that we will be strengthened in our inner and outer man. This is the only way we will be ready for the next, great move of God, perhaps the last one, which is near, very near.

What the Body of Christ needs now is encouragement, peace, and rest. Many have dropped out of church altogether. Contact those you know and encourage them with the news that this day was foretold but God is cleaning and pruning in and around His House.

When He's done with that, His next move will rock us to the core, shake the foundations of the Earth, and upend us all. We only think we've seen God move, before now, but we've seen nothing compared to what's coming!

Tell them to give church one more try. Now is the time to draw together and draw strength, sustenance and hope from one another, not the time to stray away from the herd and be picked off, one by one, by predators. Tell them they are sorely needed, loved, and missed.

I encourage us all to get back in the boat and rest in the bottom secure that our Great Pilot will make the necessary course corrections and steer us safely to our destinations.

Help is on the way. It has already been provided and will arrive in time. If we will hold on, just a little while longer, we will yet see our vision appear on the horizon like a small cloud the size of a man's hand. The rain is coming, brethren, the rain is coming!

God bless us all and keep us in His Perfect Peace.

I Nearly Died Laughing

2010-03-07T01:39:00.005-06:00

Think about this:

1. Cows

2. The Constitution

3. The Ten Commandments

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COWS

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country.

Maybe we should give each of them a cow.

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THE CONSTITUTION

They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq ... Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.

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THE 10 COMMANDMENTS

The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a government building is this --you cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal' 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of politicians .... it creates a hostile work environment.

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Also, think about this ... if you don't want to pass this on for fear of offending someone -- YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM! It is time for America to speak up!

Yes, I passed it on!

Robert F. Bragg 307-751-2912