Showing posts with label Prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prayer. Show all posts
3.24.2009
2.28.2009
'Humanity is certain to do the right thing! (after it has EXHAUSTED all other options!!!!)' [a play on a Churchill's words]
Churchill left out the element of time. He should have added:
... as long as they are not too late.
"Too late" is being screamed at humanity by Mother Nature. I pray to God we will hear.
I try to be a Prayer to God
that we will hear,
in time.
... as long as they are not too late.
"Too late" is being screamed at humanity by Mother Nature. I pray to God we will hear.
I try to be a Prayer to God
that we will hear,
in time.
2.20.2009
WE WILL, WE DO WAR: BY ARMS? BY WORDS? BY DECEIPT? BY COWARDICE? THESE ARE OPTIONS. BUT WE WILL, WE DO WAR.
Oh, I may be the last one to see it. Born in an enormously sheltered, wealthy upbringing.
"Don't fight!" I was taught, by my sheltered mom. NOT AN OPTION. Life IS "fight." Inescapable.
The only question is one of means.
This last year, watching the RepuGnitan hate machine and admiring, and learning from the likes of Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart, and then myself, that "fighting" is a given.
I have been so neglect during my life, like almost all liberal Democrats. Sorry.
I'm learning my lesson. I PRAY that many of us are.
"Don't fight!" I was taught, by my sheltered mom. NOT AN OPTION. Life IS "fight." Inescapable.
The only question is one of means.
This last year, watching the RepuGnitan hate machine and admiring, and learning from the likes of Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart, and then myself, that "fighting" is a given.
I have been so neglect during my life, like almost all liberal Democrats. Sorry.
I'm learning my lesson. I PRAY that many of us are.
2.18.2009
Should we pray for our leaders?
[regarding email below]
Hey sis! I pray a lot, as you know. I pray to bring change. To what? Me. The one, and ONLY thing that Prayer EVER changes is the one praying. And seeing as THE ONLY FREEDOM WE HAVE IS TO CHANGE/CONTROL OURSELVES - this is pretty important to do.
And yes, when I feel I need to expand my Love and Understanding of our "Leaders" I pray for them; so that I become what I need to become - so that I can better serve us all.
Oh, I am so far from being what we need me to be. And I'm running out of time. We're running out of time. Must hurry.
NO! I am neither lecturing here, or spouting God's truth. I AM NOT GOD, unfortunately, cuz then I WOULD know the absolute truth! :-) BUT WHEN I AM CERTAIN, I WILL SHARE WITH CERTAINTY. It is for the hearer then to decide on whether or not I speak the Truth. :-)
Love you.
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Subject: Fwd: hmmmmm... sharing..interesting read..hmmmm
It's difficult to lead farther than you have gone yourself.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Hey sis! I pray a lot, as you know. I pray to bring change. To what? Me. The one, and ONLY thing that Prayer EVER changes is the one praying. And seeing as THE ONLY FREEDOM WE HAVE IS TO CHANGE/CONTROL OURSELVES - this is pretty important to do.
And yes, when I feel I need to expand my Love and Understanding of our "Leaders" I pray for them; so that I become what I need to become - so that I can better serve us all.
Oh, I am so far from being what we need me to be. And I'm running out of time. We're running out of time. Must hurry.
NO! I am neither lecturing here, or spouting God's truth. I AM NOT GOD, unfortunately, cuz then I WOULD know the absolute truth! :-) BUT WHEN I AM CERTAIN, I WILL SHARE WITH CERTAINTY. It is for the hearer then to decide on whether or not I speak the Truth. :-)
Love you.
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Subject: Fwd: hmmmmm... sharing..interesting read..hmmmm
Wednesday February 18
This week's promise: God is in charge of the world
Do you pray for local, national and world leaders?
Pray this way for kings and all others who are in authority, so that we can live in peace and quietness, in godliness and dignity.
1 Timothy 2:2 NLT
Prayers for kings and authorities
There is a reason Paul commands us to consistently pray for all of these people. The decisions they make have a direct, sometimes lasting, impact on our life. When the leaders of my country make good decisions, my life goes better. When the laws they pass are sound and just, my family sleeps better at night. When my church leaders make godly, spirit-directed decisions, my soul is in better hands. When my boss makes wise choices, the company grows and my job is secure. When my parents handle their affairs well and stay in God's will, I can depend on the counsel they give to be solid and sound. The strength of their character will affect our family for generations to come, so I fervently pray that God will grant them wisdom and godliness in all they say and do.
We pray for those in authority over us because it helps us live in "peace and quietness." And because it develops within us the traits of "godliness and dignity." In many ways these simple qualities sum up the whole of our Christian witness on earth.
We are called to be peaceful people—to be at peace with God, with our salvation, with our situation on earth, and with those around us. And we are to live holy and dignified lives—to put "aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light" (Romans 13:12). It is through consistent and deliberate prayer—for others, as well as ourselves—that these qualities are obtained.
adapted from Embracing Eternity by Tim LaHaye, Jerry Jenkins and Frank M. Martin,, Tyndale House Publishers (2004), p 37
It's difficult to lead farther than you have gone yourself.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
2.17.2009
I Quake when I pray now. Involutary. Always. We don't have much time left.
This is significant.
I have become the proverbial canary in the coal mine.
When I pray, my practice is to imagine that there is a perfectly Loving parent of us all; where in the world, where in the "family" is shehe looking? That directs my attention. To Gaza, to Darfur, to the Glaciers, to the dying seas, to the rain forests, to sub Sahara Africa, to the Himalayan Glaciers, to the millions of species going extinct...
to our DYING world,
to the END OF CIVILIZATION.
I physically start to twitch now, and it does not stop.
We don't have much time left to save our planet, our only home.
Don't ignore what I am telling you, any longer.
I have become the proverbial canary in the coal mine.
When I pray, my practice is to imagine that there is a perfectly Loving parent of us all; where in the world, where in the "family" is shehe looking? That directs my attention. To Gaza, to Darfur, to the Glaciers, to the dying seas, to the rain forests, to sub Sahara Africa, to the Himalayan Glaciers, to the millions of species going extinct...
to our DYING world,
to the END OF CIVILIZATION.
I physically start to twitch now, and it does not stop.
We don't have much time left to save our planet, our only home.
Don't ignore what I am telling you, any longer.
1.20.2009
LETTER TO 3 OF OUR GREATEST SHEROES
My beloved sheroes,
I never have expectations of others, for decades now; only of myself. So feel no obligation here. But have I ever sent a more consequential correspondence than this that I send to you three? I don't think so. And I don't know how much longer I'll have the lucidity to correspond on such a grave matter to you three. I pray that you DO find the time to ponder this email deeply. DEEPLY. DEEPLY. Whether you choose to respond is secondary, very secondary.
Yes, I've been drinking water ever since the pot luck evening last wednesday. Why? Because a third sat down and deeply "heard" what I had to say. That, not "agreement," was my condition for ending the Water Strike, from the beginning, to be heard enough by at least three of my Sr. sisters - one had, another did, and then a third. But yes too, this Hunger Strike out in the elements is taking its toll on me pretty rapidly now.
You three have been for over a year now, and remain the only folks I know that could lead the beginning of the end of the cancer that is in final stage of ending Civilization (all of the science as summarized in Plan B 3.0). Do you believe in science? I do.
YOU THREE are the only hope I see for the the beginning of the MIRACLE IT WILL TAKE. Miracle? Has a civilization ever saved itself? Not the Sumerians. Not the Jews of Jesus time. Not the Romans. Not the Greeks. Not the Mayans. Not the pre-Nazi Germans, not the pre-Nazi Jews (a pretty freeking smart group, at that).... Apparently the Icelanders (their cows) were grazing themselves out of existence, and reversed course hundreds of years ago, and did save themselves; but that is about it.
MIRACLE is what it will take to save civilization, including the U.S. - your nieces, nephews, kids world; their kid's world - from the environmental "life support collapse" we are in the final stages of unleashing.... BUT PEOPLE MAKE MIRACLES HAPPEN, OR AT LEAST, THEY MAKE MIRACLES INFINITELY MORE LIKELY. BUT IT COSTS EVERYTHING. HARRIETT TUBMAN, MANDELA, KING, GANDHI, OSCAR ROMERO, JOAN OF ARC, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, STEVE BIKO, RACHEL CORRIE.... Always has, always will. King, Gandhi, Jesus... didn't kill themselves for us so we wouldn't have to. They died to show us how we too had to live. We are dying from ignoring them.
HERE IS MY REAL POINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of you asked, 'Start, will you end your Strike with us tomorrow?" If your dearest were in a burning building, and objectively it would take a Miracle to save them, you are working on the miracle with all of your life, right? What could get you to stop? ONLY A BETTER PLAN, right?
Sisters, DO YOU BELIEVE WE CAN WIN, WHICH MEANS,
DO YOU THINK WE CAN WORK THE MIRACLE OF $200B OUT OF THE BUDGET THIS YEAR,
WHICH MEANS WINNING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL/CONSCIENCE/EMOTIONAL BATTLE ON THE HILL NOW, DURING THIS TIME OF JAN/FEB/STIMULUS BILL CRISIS?
"A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." Obama. Why does he get it, and we refuse to?
I, START, TOTALLY BELIEVE WE CAN WIN. I REFUSE TO APPROACH THE IMPENDING GLOBAL HOLOCAUST ANY OTHER WAY.
I am not interested in activity, an "action." What Army unit goes to battle just to fight - do to an activity? What successful business spends resource just cuz it seems like a good idea - activity? NONE THAT SURVIVE, OR THAT AMOUNT TO ANYTHING OF HOPE. THEY WORK WITH COURAGE TO CRAFT A VISION FOR SUCCESS, AND THEN THEY FIGHT FOR AND TO THAT VISION WITH THEIR VERY LIVES. I am not interested in straightening the deck chairs on the Titanic - Guantanimo, Gaza cease - fire, arrest Bush.... I WANT TO FIX THEM ALL!!!!
Getting the DOD budget is the beginning of the end. And without the DOD budget WE WILL NOT STOP GAZA, WILL NOT STOP GUANTANIMOS.... With a $1 TRILLION BUDGET DOD WILL CONTINUALLY CREATE $1 TRILLION HELL!!! Everything else is straightening the deck chairs on the Titanic. LET'S GO FOR THE WHOLE THING! WE NEED TO GO FOR THE WHEELHOUSE, NOW, BEFORE THE "ICEBERG" KILLS US.
Will I end the Hunger Strike? Can you show me a better plan for having a prayer of sparking the Miracle of getting $200B now?
I pray that the answer is "yes!!!!"
!!!!! BUT DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME, START. I'M DEAD IF YOU DO. MY ONLY HOPE IS FOR FOLKS TO REALLY, REALLY, REALLY FOCUS ON THEIR DEAREST LOVED ONES - NIECES, NEPHEWS, GRAND NIECES.... ONLY THEN MIGHT THEY FIND THE COURAGE TO FACE THE REAL QUESTIONS:
* CAN WE WIN? "Yes" is the INDISPUTABLE answer.
* HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE? Glacial melting, alone, says - WEEKS, to start leading the wartime speed, global "Marshall Plan."
* WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FROM "ME," FROM "ME," FROM "ME," TO MAYBE, MAYBE, MAYBE, MAYBE SPARK THE MIRACLE?
The best current answer to these questions I, Start, have found so far is Hunger Strike to the Death, or to the Life - demanding Cut War Fund Peace $200B Fast with the posters and audio tracks from King and Lester Brown in Hill Occupation as my weapons to penetrate the latent Humanity and Sanity of my brothers and sisters in Congress, and within the hearts and mind of the few, the very few folks with enough humanity left to respond.
Every second that I take a breath I am open to, and searching myself for a better plan.
Got one? I'm all ears.
I never have expectations of others, for decades now; only of myself. So feel no obligation here. But have I ever sent a more consequential correspondence than this that I send to you three? I don't think so. And I don't know how much longer I'll have the lucidity to correspond on such a grave matter to you three. I pray that you DO find the time to ponder this email deeply. DEEPLY. DEEPLY. Whether you choose to respond is secondary, very secondary.
Yes, I've been drinking water ever since the pot luck evening last wednesday. Why? Because a third sat down and deeply "heard" what I had to say. That, not "agreement," was my condition for ending the Water Strike, from the beginning, to be heard enough by at least three of my Sr. sisters - one had, another did, and then a third. But yes too, this Hunger Strike out in the elements is taking its toll on me pretty rapidly now.
You three have been for over a year now, and remain the only folks I know that could lead the beginning of the end of the cancer that is in final stage of ending Civilization (all of the science as summarized in Plan B 3.0). Do you believe in science? I do.
YOU THREE are the only hope I see for the the beginning of the MIRACLE IT WILL TAKE. Miracle? Has a civilization ever saved itself? Not the Sumerians. Not the Jews of Jesus time. Not the Romans. Not the Greeks. Not the Mayans. Not the pre-Nazi Germans, not the pre-Nazi Jews (a pretty freeking smart group, at that).... Apparently the Icelanders (their cows) were grazing themselves out of existence, and reversed course hundreds of years ago, and did save themselves; but that is about it.
MIRACLE is what it will take to save civilization, including the U.S. - your nieces, nephews, kids world; their kid's world - from the environmental "life support collapse" we are in the final stages of unleashing.... BUT PEOPLE MAKE MIRACLES HAPPEN, OR AT LEAST, THEY MAKE MIRACLES INFINITELY MORE LIKELY. BUT IT COSTS EVERYTHING. HARRIETT TUBMAN, MANDELA, KING, GANDHI, OSCAR ROMERO, JOAN OF ARC, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, STEVE BIKO, RACHEL CORRIE.... Always has, always will. King, Gandhi, Jesus... didn't kill themselves for us so we wouldn't have to. They died to show us how we too had to live. We are dying from ignoring them.
HERE IS MY REAL POINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of you asked, 'Start, will you end your Strike with us tomorrow?" If your dearest were in a burning building, and objectively it would take a Miracle to save them, you are working on the miracle with all of your life, right? What could get you to stop? ONLY A BETTER PLAN, right?
Sisters, DO YOU BELIEVE WE CAN WIN, WHICH MEANS,
DO YOU THINK WE CAN WORK THE MIRACLE OF $200B OUT OF THE BUDGET THIS YEAR,
WHICH MEANS WINNING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL/CONSCIENCE/EMOTIONAL BATTLE ON THE HILL NOW, DURING THIS TIME OF JAN/FEB/STIMULUS BILL CRISIS?
"A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." Obama. Why does he get it, and we refuse to?
I, START, TOTALLY BELIEVE WE CAN WIN. I REFUSE TO APPROACH THE IMPENDING GLOBAL HOLOCAUST ANY OTHER WAY.
I am not interested in activity, an "action." What Army unit goes to battle just to fight - do to an activity? What successful business spends resource just cuz it seems like a good idea - activity? NONE THAT SURVIVE, OR THAT AMOUNT TO ANYTHING OF HOPE. THEY WORK WITH COURAGE TO CRAFT A VISION FOR SUCCESS, AND THEN THEY FIGHT FOR AND TO THAT VISION WITH THEIR VERY LIVES. I am not interested in straightening the deck chairs on the Titanic - Guantanimo, Gaza cease - fire, arrest Bush.... I WANT TO FIX THEM ALL!!!!
Getting the DOD budget is the beginning of the end. And without the DOD budget WE WILL NOT STOP GAZA, WILL NOT STOP GUANTANIMOS.... With a $1 TRILLION BUDGET DOD WILL CONTINUALLY CREATE $1 TRILLION HELL!!! Everything else is straightening the deck chairs on the Titanic. LET'S GO FOR THE WHOLE THING! WE NEED TO GO FOR THE WHEELHOUSE, NOW, BEFORE THE "ICEBERG" KILLS US.
Will I end the Hunger Strike? Can you show me a better plan for having a prayer of sparking the Miracle of getting $200B now?
I pray that the answer is "yes!!!!"
!!!!! BUT DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME, START. I'M DEAD IF YOU DO. MY ONLY HOPE IS FOR FOLKS TO REALLY, REALLY, REALLY FOCUS ON THEIR DEAREST LOVED ONES - NIECES, NEPHEWS, GRAND NIECES.... ONLY THEN MIGHT THEY FIND THE COURAGE TO FACE THE REAL QUESTIONS:
* CAN WE WIN? "Yes" is the INDISPUTABLE answer.
* HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE? Glacial melting, alone, says - WEEKS, to start leading the wartime speed, global "Marshall Plan."
* WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FROM "ME," FROM "ME," FROM "ME," TO MAYBE, MAYBE, MAYBE, MAYBE SPARK THE MIRACLE?
The best current answer to these questions I, Start, have found so far is Hunger Strike to the Death, or to the Life - demanding Cut War Fund Peace $200B Fast with the posters and audio tracks from King and Lester Brown in Hill Occupation as my weapons to penetrate the latent Humanity and Sanity of my brothers and sisters in Congress, and within the hearts and mind of the few, the very few folks with enough humanity left to respond.
Every second that I take a breath I am open to, and searching myself for a better plan.
Got one? I'm all ears.
12.02.2008
MY FLAME IS RELIT, HAVING GONE DANGEROUSLY LOW.
Why had my flame, my Spirit, my unity with God gone dangerously low? Had to do with:
Why did this do the trick? Near as I can tell, by accessing directly and deliberately, at some great effort the reservoir, the circuits within for Universal Love, it just kinda switches it on - Universal Love - like switching on a pump that has accidentally been allowed to switch off, or to become unplugged, powered off.
It felt like carrying an extinguished, a doused torch to a fire and feeling it ignite. For the first time I now find some meaning in the idea - "You must love yourself before you can love another." NO, but close. You must FIND Universal Love within yourself before you can share Universal Love toward another. "The Kingdom of God is within you. Be like a Child and find it."
I think I'm back now.
- Being on autopilot massively absorbed in getting Obama elected.
- Being in an environment now of great unclarity when compared to the campaigns for Darfur, Iraq, Iran, against Bush... for so long.
- Being in an environment now that Obama is elected where it may be possible to be FOR something - the way the world should be, the way the world must be - to survive and flourish, and prosper; not just AGAINST the madness. But this requires massive work to discover, to learn, to conceive a comprehensive Truth based vision of how we are to Live on this earth at this time.
- The relatively new http://youtube.com/StartLoving1 ministry which is quite powerful but extremely time consuming with relatively mind-numbing technical work.
- Wounds from terminated relationships that were not too long ago hugely encouraging and nurturing and sustaining for me.
- Wounds from hostility and neglect both gleeful and unwitting from parties currently.
- Solitude, a Long Loneliness as Dorothy Day spoke of it.
- Massive discouragement at having worked so long and hard, at such cost and yet seen so little, if any impact.
- Discouragement that so much can be wrong, that we can be sooooooo sick; and as is always true with addiction, so totally determined to NOT be cured.
- I was alert to the flame-out; didn't deny it but recognized it as priority #1 - SPIRIT IS EVERTHING. SPIRIT IS EVERYTHING.
- Sought solitude and took as much time, 3 days, as was needed - pretty much solid - in bed. This was not easy. "What's wrong with you?" is among the thoughts that crowded in. "Maybe you will not re-ignite," was present. Frightening. "Maybe the folks that let you stay here will throw you out, as a bum," crowded in.
- SPIRIT IS EVERYTHING; WITH IT MIRACLES ARE POSSIBLE; WITHOUT IT NOTHING IS POSSIBLE.
Why did this do the trick? Near as I can tell, by accessing directly and deliberately, at some great effort the reservoir, the circuits within for Universal Love, it just kinda switches it on - Universal Love - like switching on a pump that has accidentally been allowed to switch off, or to become unplugged, powered off.
It felt like carrying an extinguished, a doused torch to a fire and feeling it ignite. For the first time I now find some meaning in the idea - "You must love yourself before you can love another." NO, but close. You must FIND Universal Love within yourself before you can share Universal Love toward another. "The Kingdom of God is within you. Be like a Child and find it."
I think I'm back now.
5.23.2008
My ESSENTIAL LIFE SAVING KIT
Personally, I will continue to study and attempt to master all the posts on this site. But when I reflect on which thoughts and ideas are most constantly used by me to find the most Joyful, Helpful, Hopeful, Truthful possible Life for myself and others - the following are the major elements in my personal LIFE SAVING KIT: Click
"Click" and explore each and EVERY item below.
- Life / Love / Truth / JOY Are Found Only in The Emergency
- PLEASURE Marks Death/HATEfulness/Evil as JOY Marks Life/Love/Truth
- The Map of Your Two Options - Joy / Life / Love or Pleasure / Hate / Death
- Pleasure or Joy - Your Only Two Options
- You WILL, You DO Wage. Is it Love/Life or HATEfulness /Cancer?
- Middle-Classism / "Family Values" - the #1 Killer of the World
- Re-Attaching TO Your World Family - The Entire Hope for Humanity - Yours and Ours
- Heart Must Reign Supreme Over Mind and Flesh
- Example is NOT the major thing. EXAMPLE is the ONLY THING.
- Be What You Want to See
- Neglect is HATEful
- You Are Your Environment; You Are What You Do.
- Commit Life, Limb, Treasure - or You Are the Problem
- You're Committed to a Miracle - or You've Already Accepted Defeat
- The Lord's Prayer PRAYED THIS WAY
- "Success" - WAYYYYYY TOO COWARDLY A GOAL
- The Relentless Pursuit of Joy is the Only Hope of Salvation
- FOR JOY WAGE LOVE. REPEAT.
- YOUR CHOICE: A. DEPART FROM or B. BE WITH GOD (GOOD)
- BOTTOM LINE: WAGE LOVE, PROFIT HUMANITY, REAP JOY
3.29.2008
CANCER SURGEON: "I CAME NOT TO UNITE, BUT TO DIVIDE WITH A SWORD."
(Luke 12:51) - "Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division...."
From now on, I pray, me too, that ALL may Live, that ALL may be Saved.
Our InHumanity MUST be CLEARLY DIVIDED from our Humanity that we may "see" our InHumanity to which we are willfully blind, and Heal each other.
BIRTH is NOT a PEACEFUL process.
From now on, I pray, me too, that ALL may Live, that ALL may be Saved.
Our InHumanity MUST be CLEARLY DIVIDED from our Humanity that we may "see" our InHumanity to which we are willfully blind, and Heal each other.
BIRTH is NOT a PEACEFUL process.
3.28.2008
ENCOURAGEMENT OR ENABLEMENT? START'S SIN (ERROR.) SORRY.
I'm a slow learner. You must forgive me.
To those of you to whom I now seem horribly brusque, short, impatient, unkind ... the truth is I've been criminally, cowardly patient, timid, tentative, pleasant for decades, unable to discern between what I had intended - encouragement - with what I've actually delivered - ENABLEMENT.
I knew no better. I know better now.
More patience, timidity, pleasantry, kindness from me will kill you by ENABLING you the delusion that we have more time.
Forgive me.
No more enabling.
The toughest Love I can muster is, I pray, all you can expect from me.
To those of you to whom I now seem horribly brusque, short, impatient, unkind ... the truth is I've been criminally, cowardly patient, timid, tentative, pleasant for decades, unable to discern between what I had intended - encouragement - with what I've actually delivered - ENABLEMENT.
I knew no better. I know better now.
More patience, timidity, pleasantry, kindness from me will kill you by ENABLING you the delusion that we have more time.
Forgive me.
No more enabling.
The toughest Love I can muster is, I pray, all you can expect from me.
10.16.2007
BE A PRAYER FOR HUMANITY
There is just not much more to say about
Jesus Teachings, or that of the
great religious besides
that.
Jesus Teachings, or that of the
great religious besides
that.
9.30.2007
JESUS NON-RESISTANCE: EFFECT ON PILOT?
What was that all about? Jesus did not defend himself. * **
I think I get it now. The Truth before Pilot / the Court was clear, there was no defense necessary. The only reason that Pilot / "the system" wanted defense was to take attention OFF OF THE TRUTH; to further enable AVOIDANCE / IRRESPONSIBILITY.
Jesus realized that it would give Pilot, the onlookers and bystanders a better chance at moral conversion if he did NOT ENABLE THEIR AVOIDANCE / IRRESPONSIBILITY. To return evil with kindness would "heap burning coals upon their heads," it would leave the full weight of their evil undisguised, undistracted from on their heads, and through such a gift by Jesus of Clarity, of Truth Jesus maximized the chances that their Humanity / Conscience would be at some future time awakened.
Yes, this is how to wage UNARMED PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE for the KINDOM.
* Matthew Chapter 5 39 But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on (your) right cheek, turn the other one to him as well.
40 If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well.
41 Should anyone press you into service for one mile, 26 go with him for two miles.
42 Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow.
43 27 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
44 But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,
45 that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.
46 For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors 28 do the same?
47 And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? 29
48 So be perfect, 30 just as your heavenly Father is perfect.
** Romans Chapter 12 20 Rather, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head."
21 Do not be conquered by evil but conquer evil with good.
I think I get it now. The Truth before Pilot / the Court was clear, there was no defense necessary. The only reason that Pilot / "the system" wanted defense was to take attention OFF OF THE TRUTH; to further enable AVOIDANCE / IRRESPONSIBILITY.
Jesus realized that it would give Pilot, the onlookers and bystanders a better chance at moral conversion if he did NOT ENABLE THEIR AVOIDANCE / IRRESPONSIBILITY. To return evil with kindness would "heap burning coals upon their heads," it would leave the full weight of their evil undisguised, undistracted from on their heads, and through such a gift by Jesus of Clarity, of Truth Jesus maximized the chances that their Humanity / Conscience would be at some future time awakened.
Yes, this is how to wage UNARMED PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE for the KINDOM.
* Matthew Chapter 5 39 But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on (your) right cheek, turn the other one to him as well.
40 If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well.
41 Should anyone press you into service for one mile, 26 go with him for two miles.
42 Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow.
43 27 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
44 But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,
45 that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.
46 For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors 28 do the same?
47 And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? 29
48 So be perfect, 30 just as your heavenly Father is perfect.
** Romans Chapter 12 20 Rather, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head."
21 Do not be conquered by evil but conquer evil with good.
9.05.2007
AM I FINALLY TO "START?" I THINK SO.
From a letter to folks that have been family to me:
Your love has meant the world to me.
I think that my life has been easy for you to bear compared with what is in store now. I'm just getting glimpses, finally, FINALLY, of what I am here on earth to do. I think. I am so excited, so grateful I am sobbing. The Almighty is maybe answering my begging after all these years, I think. "PLEASE SHOW ME HOW I CAN HELP, HOW TO MAKE ALL THIS CRUELTY, KILLING, STARVING, INHUMANITY STOP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!," I beg answer of Her. I'm beginning to be shown what I can do, how I can finally be of some help.
When and if I have clarity I'll share with you more. For now, what I am "Hearing" from God is a miracle, and something of which you will be enormously proud, and anguished. No, you will NOT be horrified or mortified. And maybe as has happened so often what I am hearing now is not to materialize. We'll see.
I'm sorry I can't share more right now. I don't expect to act in the way I'm beginning to "see" for several more weeks. You must respect and yield my need for this space, silence as to further explanation, at the moment.
Pray for me. Pray for our 100 billion brothers and sisters, born and unborn.
Loving you immensely, Start
ps: You must disconnect from me if and when traveling with me as you have gets too intense. You are responsible to protect your blessed and utterly essential ability to contribute, from damage.
pps: I've never been given more important revelation than is in the process of posting at START LOVING. You might want to keep checking over the next few days.
Your love has meant the world to me.
I think that my life has been easy for you to bear compared with what is in store now. I'm just getting glimpses, finally, FINALLY, of what I am here on earth to do. I think. I am so excited, so grateful I am sobbing. The Almighty is maybe answering my begging after all these years, I think. "PLEASE SHOW ME HOW I CAN HELP, HOW TO MAKE ALL THIS CRUELTY, KILLING, STARVING, INHUMANITY STOP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!," I beg answer of Her. I'm beginning to be shown what I can do, how I can finally be of some help.
When and if I have clarity I'll share with you more. For now, what I am "Hearing" from God is a miracle, and something of which you will be enormously proud, and anguished. No, you will NOT be horrified or mortified. And maybe as has happened so often what I am hearing now is not to materialize. We'll see.
I'm sorry I can't share more right now. I don't expect to act in the way I'm beginning to "see" for several more weeks. You must respect and yield my need for this space, silence as to further explanation, at the moment.
Pray for me. Pray for our 100 billion brothers and sisters, born and unborn.
Loving you immensely, Start
ps: You must disconnect from me if and when traveling with me as you have gets too intense. You are responsible to protect your blessed and utterly essential ability to contribute, from damage.
pps: I've never been given more important revelation than is in the process of posting at START LOVING. You might want to keep checking over the next few days.
8.20.2007
DYING TO THE FLESH?
Hmmmm. Is a glimpse of "dying to the flesh" what just wafted over me a few seconds ago? I was pondering lugging my body back in front of the Sudan Embassy 6d/21h for months.
My body is not, NOT happy about the idea. But it is not pulling me away from the idea either. "Dying to the flesh?" Yes, this is what I sensed.
Am I moving in this direction? Certainly.
Do I have any regrets? Yes. I regret that I am learning about this and gaining some capacity for it at 56 years not 8 years old. Oh my God, what a mistake, what an error, what a travesty is our worship of selfishness / disconnection / self-indulgence.... Hell. Pleasure Island. Filthy. Blood soaked.
Will I ever be good at it - at Dying to the Flesh? I pray so. We'll see.
:-)
My body is not, NOT happy about the idea. But it is not pulling me away from the idea either. "Dying to the flesh?" Yes, this is what I sensed.
Am I moving in this direction? Certainly.
Do I have any regrets? Yes. I regret that I am learning about this and gaining some capacity for it at 56 years not 8 years old. Oh my God, what a mistake, what an error, what a travesty is our worship of selfishness / disconnection / self-indulgence.... Hell. Pleasure Island. Filthy. Blood soaked.
Will I ever be good at it - at Dying to the Flesh? I pray so. We'll see.
:-)
8.12.2007
ONLY KINDNESS MATTERS. HURRY.
Click (3min54sec)"Hands" Jewel
If I could tell the world just one thing
It would be that we're all ok
And not to worry because worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these
I will not be made useless
I won't be idled with despair
I will gather myself around my faith
for light does the darkness most fear
My hands are small, I know,
but they're not yours they are my own
but they're not yours they are my own
and I am never broken
Poverty stole your golden shoes
but it didn't steal your laughter
And heartache came to visit me
but i knew it wasn't ever after
We will fight, not out of spite
for someone must stand up for what's right
cause where there's a man who has no voice
there ours shall go singing
In the end only kindness matters
In the end only kindness matters
I will get down on my knees and I will pray
I will get down on my knees and I will pray
I will get down on my knees and I will pray
My hands are small, I know,
but they're not yours they are my own
but they're not yours they are my own
and I am never broken
My hands are small, i know,
but they're not yours they are my own
but they're not yours they are my own
and I am never broken
We are never broken
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's mind
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's heart
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's eyes
God's hands
We are God's hands
God's hands
We are God's hands
If I could tell the world just one thing
It would be that we're all ok
And not to worry because worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these
I will not be made useless
I won't be idled with despair
I will gather myself around my faith
for light does the darkness most fear
My hands are small, I know,
but they're not yours they are my own
but they're not yours they are my own
and I am never broken
Poverty stole your golden shoes
but it didn't steal your laughter
And heartache came to visit me
but i knew it wasn't ever after
We will fight, not out of spite
for someone must stand up for what's right
cause where there's a man who has no voice
there ours shall go singing
In the end only kindness matters
In the end only kindness matters
I will get down on my knees and I will pray
I will get down on my knees and I will pray
I will get down on my knees and I will pray
My hands are small, I know,
but they're not yours they are my own
but they're not yours they are my own
and I am never broken
My hands are small, i know,
but they're not yours they are my own
but they're not yours they are my own
and I am never broken
We are never broken
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's mind
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's heart
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's eyes
God's hands
We are God's hands
God's hands
We are God's hands
8.11.2007
"DEATH," RESURRECTION AND IMMORTALITY
From: Who was Oscar Romero?
Why is so much attention being paid to Romero twenty years after his death. Why does he matter to so many people? Should we focus so much on the actions of one individual? The message from El Salvador and across Latin America is that Romero and his message still live on – as he prophesied. The people still gain enormous strength from their memories of him and the words he left behind. His sainthood was assumed almost immediately and the people’s faith in themselves is strengthened by the memory of his faith in them. They commonly say: “St Romero of the Americas, pray for us”.
Only by offering all of our
"Suffering, the nonviolent resister realizes, has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities," King wrote, quoting Gandhi that "Things of fundamental importance to people are not secured by reason alone, but have to be purchased with their suffering. Suffering is infinitely more powerful than the law of the jungle for converting the opponent and opening his ears which are otherwise shut to the voice of reason."
“If I get killed
I will rise
in the Salvadorean people.”
I will rise
in the Salvadorean people.”
Why is so much attention being paid to Romero twenty years after his death. Why does he matter to so many people? Should we focus so much on the actions of one individual? The message from El Salvador and across Latin America is that Romero and his message still live on – as he prophesied. The people still gain enormous strength from their memories of him and the words he left behind. His sainthood was assumed almost immediately and the people’s faith in themselves is strengthened by the memory of his faith in them. They commonly say: “St Romero of the Americas, pray for us”.
Only by offering all of our
inocent, world-familyish blood
to the beast -
disconnection / selfishness / evil
- will peace / kingdom / nirvana /
universal joy reign.
Start Loving
"Suffering, the nonviolent resister realizes, has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities," King wrote, quoting Gandhi that "Things of fundamental importance to people are not secured by reason alone, but have to be purchased with their suffering. Suffering is infinitely more powerful than the law of the jungle for converting the opponent and opening his ears which are otherwise shut to the voice of reason."
Martin Luther King
8.05.2007
Desmond Tutu Quotes
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
We would like to see you departing peacefully.
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
We would like to see you departing peacefully.
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
8.03.2007
Douglas MacArthur
- A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
- Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
- I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
- It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
- Life is a lively process of becoming.
- No man is enitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
- Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
- Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
- Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
- The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
- The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
- We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
- Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
- You are remembered for the rules you break.
- Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
- I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
- Last, but by no means least, courage - moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle - the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your; conscience on the other.
- The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
- Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. - Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
- The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
- There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
- One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
- Americans never quit.
7.28.2007
GETTING KILLED FOR PAINTING THE EMBASSY
Sudan officially rejects revised UN text on Darfur force
For days I've been praying / comtemplating / pondering over the idea of expressing my views about the Darfur situation (above article) by making the Sudan or Chinese Embassies "ugly" and "awful" like Bashir's goverment describes the UN Peacekeeping agreement wording - "ugly," "aweful."
As I envision doing the painting, it could happen that the Secret Service (the patrol the embassies) would come upon me in process, cry "Halt," and shoot me when I do not.
MY BIG CONCERN REGARDING THIS IS HURTING THE OFFICERS. IF IT TRANSPIRES THAT I AM SHOT AND KILLED, PLEASE MAKE IT KNOWN THAT I LOVE THE OFFICERS, THEY ARE MY BROTHERS, AND I HAVE GROWN TO EXTREMELY RESPECT THEIR SELFLESSNESS, PROFESSIONALISM, RESPECT, AND SENSE OF DUTY.
For days I've been praying / comtemplating / pondering over the idea of expressing my views about the Darfur situation (above article) by making the Sudan or Chinese Embassies "ugly" and "awful" like Bashir's goverment describes the UN Peacekeeping agreement wording - "ugly," "aweful."
As I envision doing the painting, it could happen that the Secret Service (the patrol the embassies) would come upon me in process, cry "Halt," and shoot me when I do not.
MY BIG CONCERN REGARDING THIS IS HURTING THE OFFICERS. IF IT TRANSPIRES THAT I AM SHOT AND KILLED, PLEASE MAKE IT KNOWN THAT I LOVE THE OFFICERS, THEY ARE MY BROTHERS, AND I HAVE GROWN TO EXTREMELY RESPECT THEIR SELFLESSNESS, PROFESSIONALISM, RESPECT, AND SENSE OF DUTY.
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