Valley Death

I am in shock and awe at the things I see. We live in this age of science and information but I see the things of the occult happening around me. The things in the bible that are evil I see them blatantly preformed. People trying to impose there wills on each other, magic, witch craft, and unbelief in God. Innocent lives lead astry to be the servant of a sick and twisted master. Give me the Yoke of Christ always. I am in the middle of a storm but I fear no evil for the Lord is my savior. Is this stuff for real? It has no power over me but does it have power over those that don't have the strength from Christ. I keep myself girded. I am learning this stuff has no power over me but it is very irritating and can weaken vigilance. Into the wilderness I am. I see fields ripe for harvest or is it fields for planting. Christ's Angels and satan's demons are in the fields. There is an absence of the word of God from people in the wilderness and they crave God but our systems has lead them to seek good in evil. Allowing evil to run a muck. My friend tells me that God is perfecting my heart for some purpose. I tell him what I have seen he accepts but does not truly believe because like me he is a son of science, but he wants to know. It is not something someone would want to know if they knew what they would find out. Angels and Demons are very real and the things in between. School teaches us enough to blind us to the reality of the unseen world. I have no solution for this situation except to take communion and pray. We are speaking of the Love of Christ in this malestorm. I have no idea what it is doing. I have faith as a son of Christ but as a son of science I would not believe if not for the grace of GOD. There are days when I doubt I can help anything. It will take judgement day to clean up this mess on earth, but I can only rely on my faith in these times of doubt that every little bit helps. I am done for now. The narrow path is on the wide path that is why we need deliverance from evil and guidance.

Homosexuality.

Can be viewed as a genetic anamoly, that tells us that our society is not in accordance with God. The problem is that I see our society has persecuted homosexual behavior instead of re-evaluating the conditions of socitety that has lead to increase homosexuality. I can not get this scripture of of my head:

Romans 1-25; Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen 26. For this cause God gave them up to vile afflection: for even their women did change the natural use into that is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, mene with men working that which is unseemly, and recieving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

I have no better term at the time than genetic anamoly, but that sounds harsh in my ears, like they are a defect. The dumb thing to do is to treat them like a cancer or pack them in away in a closet. Even my use of "them" I find disheartening. I have homosexual friends that are very spiritual but have turned away from traditional forms of worship. I can not blame them I have been ill with organized religion. However, at this point of time I have a religion that strenghend my spirituality.

I think there is the homosexual and the learned behavior of homosesxuality. The treatment of homosexuality can be compared to cancer. The method has been supress/kill the homosexuals you prevent the spread of the diasease into society. The diasease goes into remission "back in the Closet" but, not changing society it returns bigger and badder. To compare homosexuality to cancer is a weak and bad comparision. I can only compare homosexuals to other humans. In my, understanding, there are alot of heterosexuals engaing in behavior that I see just as bad as a behavior trait found in the homosexual community "sleeping around," Sticks and stones! log jams in eyes, pin the tail on the donkey.

The part I want to focus on is verse 1 romans 25: To worship the creature more than the creator = God. The creature in this instance is the state. I like to believe the United State was formed to help bring about about Heaven on Earth. There is no doubt in the world that the United States is a Christian nation. As a child I thought: GOD, Family, Country. At times the relative importance was different. When I wanted a bag of army men Family was more a priorty than God. I think our ancestors where tired of the concept of give to ceasar what is ceasar give to God what is God, make a state in the name of God: The United States.

The day I heard a petition in the courts system of the United States is called a prayer, this was idolatry at its greatest. An arm of the state/beast/leviathan is answering prayers of the people. I have no idea when this was begun but I knew when I found out: I thought the creature has become God. My country the United States has been fighting to be a nation of God but is that the proper way. I read St. Augustine "City of God" and he said christians really had nothing to worry about when the city of Rome fell. The Christians did not concern themselves with possessions. In our fight to make this nation we have gotten stuff. We want to keep this stuff. We serve the state to keep our stuff,.

The stuff I love is not tangible: I Corinthians Chapter 12. There is a list of gifts that I will summarize: 1) word of wisdom, 2) word of knowledge, 3) faith, 4) healing, 5) miracles, 6) prophecy, 7) discerning spirits, 8) divers tounges, etc.

However, not all of us serve the state to keep stuff. Serving the State in the name of God helps the state, a whip on the beast. There is an ebb and flow between piety and impiety that I see in the Old testament and in western civilization. For example, Socrates was executed by the state for impiety. As a Christian that does not see paganism as valid I made the assumption he was killed for nothing, even to pagans to offend a God is a grave mistake.

When the state is inline with God I have no problem, when the state is not inline with God I have a problem. Trying to wrestle with a beast is absurd, but I wrestle with the beast because of the things I see around me. Homosexuality is everywhere in large cities. Are homosexuals a form of prophets that embody the fact that my nation is against God. How do I change myself for the benefit of the others. That is the will of the trinity. I am praying on it, along with alot of other things. I know with out the state i would not have my education, so I must do something for the state. Hopefully, I do self for God and others, that is what I pray for to be a good neighbor.

Freedom from Fear

The biggest fear an individual has to deal with is impermanence. We live in a constant changing world and nobody knows what to expect next. We desire something permanent to alleviate the fear. For instance, in Western civilization, our ancestors has generated a concept known as private property. Many focus on the aquisition of things, to have things that seem permanent creates an illusion of having permanence. I buy this house, therefore, I have a permanent residence. When old age settles in and the kids think you are just not safe enough living on your own, the house is sold and you get packed off to a board and care facility, while the excess wealth is used to buy the kids security from the fear of impermanence. They have a nice condo in a popular area, and I have pokers players to remembers the good ole days.

Lack of job security is another one of those fears we have. I am constantly trying to upgrade my skills. I do not upgrade them for a job, they help, but I look more for knowledge. Knowledge can evolve into wisdom or lessen to have a good paying job, to lessen the fear of impermanence. "The one who dies with the most toys wins." Our toys can not go with us to the afterlife. The ancient Pharoahs of Egypt built massive monuments to be remembered by humanity and hold their money for a trip to the afterlife. The only trip they are making is to another museum to be gawked at by little kids on a day trip away from school. The leaders of great civilization reduced to a pile of decaying clothes and bones with the chance of having a buger from little Johnny added to their wealth.

How does one find freedom from fear? That does not mean waiting to die and go to heaven, but to experience heaven now on earth. I read the bible to confirm my understanding of freedom from fear, but there are still those things that go "bump in the night" that causes me to have fear. One thing that I found interesting, but have not looked deeply into the concept, is the rise of demonic figures in Western Christian Religious art. Has hell been rising with the growth of Christianity? Weeds and Wheat growing together waitng for Christ to return. A person can say my faith in Christ is an illusion. It is difficult in this age of science to describe my peace of mind, it is an idea/spirit that can not be understood with physics.

I just don't get.

Daily I desire understanding for the things that I read in the word of God. Sometimes I get answers. Other times, I am left stting on a dock loking at the deep but only seeing my reflection. A case in point, that I have been struggling to come to grips with for over a decade: Luke 16 v 8. And the lord commended the unjust stewrd, because he had done wisely: for the children of of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. 9. And I say to you, Make yourselves friends of the mamon of unrighteousness; that, when you fail, they may recieve you into everlasting habitations. 10. He that is faithful in that whch is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 11. If therfore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12. And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man's who shall give you that which is your own? 13. No servenat can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

Who is Christ talking to? Maybe, I should get a modern King James version, but that will undermine my concept that the Holy Spirit will bring understanding in due time. I need to bring this up with another Christian that is a voice of the Holy Spirit. I believe that I am a child of light living in a capitalist economic system. I hate the aquisition of wealth. Everytime, I have tried to engage in the aquisition of wealth I have a short circuit. Literally, a short circuit, It goes against my belief. Living for money is bad. I try to get rid of it as soon as I get it to charity. I will live with a cup in my hand rather than the riches of the world. Thanks to God I am being shown a way for myself. I can not serve unrighteous mammon, is was not put into me to seek money, but to seek the kingdom of Heaven.

I think someone born in a Christian family is a child of light. The word of God is put into them like milk. At least, in my prespective. The first simple lesson I learned is that "money is the root of all evil." Today, I have modified to mean the violation of the tenth commandment to covet the neighbors things leads to evil and to protect the things that was achieved due to coveting leads to evil. It has been so extreme for me over the years that I would give all my things away and start over. Actually, I can still walk away from any property that I have.

Up their it says a ton of things that really confuses me. Am I disobeying the words of Christ not making money unrighteously. Am I to make this ill gotten money and use it for good causes. Is there where indulgences come from? I think a child of light will stay a child of light and those that are not will go to them and help those that do not have. A person not raised in the house of the lord and lived for money will see the errors of there ways and use there money wisely for God not for selfishness. On the other hand, a child of light would not go get unrighteous money. These are the delima's that keep me occupied and I search for meaning. There are days when I think I have it, but then it slips away.

For instance, Carl von Clausewitz in his book "On War" to a point, describes the civilian population role during war. The civilian population provides the neccessary resources for a country to engage in effective warfare to bring about political goals. The money generated by a civilian goes to the government which then can use the accumulated wealth to engage in warfare. In today's society every penney earned and spent goes into the coffers of the government. I believe all government are beast, or leviathan as coined by Thomas Hobbes. The early Christian representation for the Leviathan was Ceasar, for Hobbes was the King of England and today for me the United States of America.

First and foremost, I believe in limited government, but I have come to the conclusion there is no such thing as a limited government. Since the time of Christ, Christian have set out to create there own communities. Saint Augustine wrote a book concerning "The City of God." Early Christain settlers came to American to build a city shinning (the light of christ) on a hill. There is no where to go. The Word of God has gone around the world.

To have a city, implies a government. To have a government, implies having a beast, and that beast become unmanagable over time. The more powerful the beast becomes the less an individual has to combat the beast either with reason or force, to a point whree no one can combat the beast, because the beast controls what we see and learn. We have this concepts of freedom of press to present the masses with information to prehaps bring about change but it does not. The beast controls the media, not directly but by those that try to serve two masters, preserving themselves and the state that preserves them.

To control a state one controls the purse strings of a state. Today, the United State economy is no longer in the hands of the American people. The money I earn is going into the coffers of foriegn governments that do not share my and many Americans beliefs. For instance, China gets a large amount of tax dollars from the American people. Therefore, I am donating money to prop up a communist country that does not believe in the dominance of God, but men. I am contributiong to my own demise by buying a newspaper to learn about the death of my ideas and beliefs. I see all wealth is unrighteous mammon to feed a mammoth.

I wonder why Christians where crucified in the begining. Did they take the money out of the grasp of Ceasar. His vast armies began to shrink from lack of wealth and man power. Ceasars beast dies only to create another beast the Catholic Church. An up and down roller coaster to evolve into the states we have today. We live in the bellies of beasts and should I be satisfied my predicament.

Education is a method I promote, but what is being taught and why does the state cut back on education. I just don't get it. Forgiveness is the first step, for we do not know what we do.

Christian Philosopher

Must be praxis, the application or use of knowledge. Primary action is to practice poverty. The practice of poverty produces non-desire of material gain. No longer is one consumed with the action of aquiring wealth but spiritual gratification. First, seek the kingdom of God, then seek wisdom. To have the kingdom of God is suffecient, but to the philosopher it is not enough. Why am I doing the things that I am doing. For instance, corporate creed produced by organized religion. Corporate creeds are good and bad. The good is that it gives those without ime to have something to think about. The bad is that it stops one from seeking the King of heaven for themselve. Christianity is a self=centered religion that spreads out ward. I must get right with the creator!The way of the creator is manifested throught Christ. One must practice the truth they have recieved. The truth is the knowledge of God' true way.

To practice poverty does not mean to remain poor. Once, a person practices poverty, a new understanding of the words of Christ is unvieled to the seeker. The condition of poverty is a reality for many people, so they are not practicing but living it. However, it is not practiced, once one has the means to not be impoverised, then return to poverty a very different prespective is achieved. This develops a concept for the Christian and many that God does provide without us striving for material gains. In the post modern world we are consumed with the aquisition of wealth. The aquisiton of wealth has many reasons, primarily it provides a since of security to the individual. God provides this security.

Our free will as humans we want to accomplish things on our own, a since of independence, but none is truly independent. We rely on community and our community should rely on God. We desire to boast "I did this," but one truly has done nothing when seeing the natural beauty of the world around them. The aquisition of wealth has a blinding affect on the individual. No matter where an indiviual stands the are in the natural world. Many, tend to think the natural world is a place densly pack with plant life and animals. Humanity is the measurement of all things on earth, so looking at our community and our relationship with the community in a city is just as valid as watching earth worms and ants, more so. The relationship of humanity to nature, and self to nature and humantiy becomes easier when not consummed with getting money.

Poverty gives one the time to think. Just let yourself depend on God and see what happens. I know there is security.

Matthew 6 v 25 Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink: nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they are?

Poverty allows the Christian Philosopher to know the truth. Deminishing the desire for material increases the abundance of spiritual gain. I learn that submission to God one loses his self to find himself. All Christians do not have to do this, but the Christian philosopher must. We rely on faith and works. What we believe is true so we must do. We do the things we believe and we gain understanding. Christ governs our minds and actions. Overtime, we are moved by the entire trinity. We govern ourselves within the trinity.

To know ourselves we must discover the truth with time and guidance from Christ. Any one born in a Christian country is blessed.

The Christian philosopher is torn. The Christian philospher wants to do for God and do for humanity. It is being torn that makes a philosopher become a philosopher. The Christian philosopher is torn between service to God and service to humanity and searches for means to accomplish the two. To serve God is serving humanity but not all of humanity desire the Christian path so to help is difficult. To know God, one will know the institutions of humanity. The Christian philospher looks for means to put the institution of humanity in accordance with God.

Poverty gives the Christian philospher time to view the problem. Wealth gives a person the time to view the problem, but the wealth aquirred creates a torn position, because the person with wealth desires to preserve there wealth while trying to help. The ladder creates the condition of serving two masters wealth and God at one time. However, looking at the problem will give on the answers but frustration at the same time. To help humanity for God can become a meaningless endeavor. The world looks to be unsavable, so the Christian philosopher goes into isolation. For instance, a monk in a monastery. However, this is counter to the Christian way:

Matthew 5 v 14: You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill can not be hidden. 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick: and it gives light to all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

I ponder this parable alot. I have noted it before. In a world of darkness the darkness is the light and to see the light is darkness that must be prevented. The light among light causes competition who is the brightest light. Among the good and the evil I find despair, which encourages isolation and contemplation. The spirit puts me into action which I do not know until the last. I am learning not to complain, because I sought and found but did not know what I sought to be found.

Original Sin Part I

What is the point for the sacrifice of Christ to save the world if we are gonna keep going back to the fall of man. Christ sacrifice is a renewal for humanity mnot an excuse to continue in sin. Today, I went to buy a soda at the local liquor store. I usually have a direct route strait to the refrigerator and over to the counter to pay and leave. I have never walked around the store. When I walked in today, the owner was getting re-supplied and I had to meander throught the store. Holy smokes, there was a third of the store covered in booz. I did not know there was that much liquoer inside. I got my soda and went to the counter to pay. The owner was talking to a liquor merchant to buy more booz. I mention to the owner, I did not know you had so much much liquor in here. The both chimed inn in unison, whatever you need we have it. I was like no I do not need, but you can come to my church. They both said they go to church and are Catholics. The liquor merchant said he felt bad selling booz to all the executives in downtown and the owner did not say he had the problem but compared drinking the caffine in my soda to drinking booz. So booz is the same as soda to the guy? I bought my soda and said as Catholics you have confessions with priest to absolve your sin, I do not so I don't drink. Technically, I get my Lord's prayer answered in 20/20 hindsight but that is a different story.

My first problem is that they both felt bad that they where selling liquor to people. Right there in that instance, there is some aspect of the trinity telling not to do it or just being human. I think since the grace of God and Christ we have that know without being a Christian (debatable). We get it more as Christians. There is a point where we have no desire to do wrong and we do good. Saying we are under the burden of original sin is not good. Christ redeemed us for us thus we have that little thing in us that says don't do it. People, squash that out of them and do whatever they choose (can be gotten back), The little voice will not have to tell you that action is wrong, but you are doing right. either can be cultivated, I know the way to cultivate it in the optimum conditon is with the grace of God through Christ.

These two guys go to mass and get there sin absolved by a priest but go back to doing it the next week until they can no longer bear it and go back to the priest. Im like go to God and you will get on the path to peace. The doctrine of original sin gives everybody the ability to do evil. I accept Christ to know the good in life, not to keep doing the same wicked deeds. I am still thinking about the whole cadre of things.

Critique of the Wisdom Jesus

Written by Cynthia Bourgeault. I have not read the complete book as yet but the frame of mind the book desires to place me I disagree. First, the authors seems to make an assumption that Jesus learned threw seeking the kingdom of God. I think Jesus new the kingdom of heaven from the moment of his birth. Therefore, if Jesus seeks, What he is looking for is Wisdom that exist in the world that he is born into. He is a light looking for other lights. I like to think of him as Diogenes carrying a lantern during the middle of the day looking for the truth.

I am coming to the conclusion that Jesus foray into the wilderness is looking for the light among humanity. He did not find light expect for one that is John the Baptist. This is similar to King Solomons search for a wise man in the world and he only finds one. Moreover, it seems that people forget that Jesus is the first born son to Joseph and Mary, thus he would be consecrated to God from birth, establishing his manhood in the Jewish community. (not really gonna look at it at this moment) Jesus is a Nazareth according to Jewish law and i have heard called by this term. As a Nazarine, Jesus knows the Law. Living the Law by God first and learned within his culture as being a first born son to Jewish parents. For instance, the author makes the claim that Jesus could have been an Essenes Jew. He being the first born son gives him many duties.

My counter speculation: Is living as Nazarine (keeping the Jewish Law real, as a duty for the Jews, but the word made flesh by God) He learns the hypocrosy of the Pharisee. He might can not teach in the temple but he definately has access. He is not a Levite those that give the Law to the people. Jesus teaching "Wisdom" outside the temple is an infraction of the Law (a job of the Levites) but the Levites do this inside the temple not outside. The death of Christ takes what was behing the veil of the temple to humans outside. While he walked among us, he was the ark outside of the temple. So much ignorance in humanity/world/ the world is more than humanity/ that he was so distressed because the truth he knows had been lost.

The author mentions our "20/20 hindsight." We don't see to good. I think Jesus was pissed. A way was prepared for him, with stumbling blocks in his path. One of the reason Christ does not want chidren to be lead astray of him. From my personal experience, I have set in quite a few course in college, and there was information presented in class from professors and students that I wanted to scream "BULLSHIT" but I kept my tounge silent and presented my position in time. To know the a truth and see it butchered is torture. Moreover, at least once a week I hear ignorance considering Christians Faith. Do I cast my pearls before swine, or walk on them like bad salt? Overall, I wish they would seek the truth instead of second hand information.

Furthermore, I do not think seeking is from reading it is from doing. I did not need to read the gnostic text for further guidance. I am not saying to read them is bad but, do and you will learn from the parables of one book of the Gospels. The Gospels being the four books written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

The book is keeping my attention, and good to hear anothers journey to self realization in Christ.

Man ape = sinner

The Greek Philosopher Diogenes was the first to attack the category system of Aristotle. For instance, during a lecture at the lyceum (similar to the area outside the Jewish temple) Aristotle made the proposition that a man is a two legged featherless animal. To counter the argument, Diogenes plucked a chicken and returned it to Aristotle saying her is a man for you. Aristotle changed his proposition to say clawless.

During my undergraduate studies a professor told me that the greeks assigned value to thing related to its function for society. For example, the purpose of a tree was to be: table, chair, spear, etc. I did not understand the argument. For me, I believed the purpose of a tree was to be a tree. We argued the matter for five minutes, and it finally dawned on my professor that it was a Greek that thought like that not me. Two seperate understandings. A tree is my neighbor, to the ancient greeks it is a commodity to be consumed by humans.

When i look at a tree I notice that it gives itself freely. Ripe fruit falls from the tree and the bark also falls off the tree: use bark to cook instead of chopping down trees. Humans have a tendency to covet and Nature is the first to suffer from this ailments humanity has.

The man ape to me is one that buys into the concept that we are animals and it is in our nature to behave like beast. Thus, negative behavior patterns are associated to animal behavior. It is natural to behave evil. I think it is natural to behave good. The natural condition of man has been debated, as an American I have inherited the secular understanding from John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. For Locke, man is majestic and free, to Hobbes men are a beast to be controlled.

However, most animals do not kill there own an activity humans are quite fond to do if given the proper encouragement and conditioning. Negative behavior patterns are considered sin. Therefore, a man ape is a sinner. The greeks called this barbarian. The term barbarian is to denote one that does not speak greek, I geuss like a non Jew is a gentile. The Jews learned Greek not to be barbarians did the Greeks learn Hebrew? A man is good. To be human is to embrace the divine.

I think Shakespear said something like men are between the angels and beasts and have the ability to act like both. The thing is that we act like what we are taught by other humans. Angels and beast act the way God made them to act. I geuss an angel must look like us for us to listen to them. Today, we have two competing belefs creation and evolution concerning humanity. God made us or we grew from some soup dejour. They both attempt to explain our negative behavior problem.

One is because of sin, the other because we are animals. I use the term man ape because a gorilla gave me the terminology. (Recently, I was told by one who has wisdom not to make light of a serious event that has occurred in my life or beliefs that I hold dear and true. It dumbs down the message. However, just mentioning that I commune with animal life at certain points of time during my existance is unbelievable in this day and age of science and technology. But,we have all these signs and symbols of animals from the old world and the new world that had meaning. Today they are just emblems on cars, blue jeans and corporate logos. They mean things to me at times and speak to the heart of the matter at hand. I believe a sentient creation of God communicates with God and the holy spirit allows cross communication. A plant knows to grow to light for life.) A gorilla will know the actions and behavior of men and how it has changed over time. A gorilla is peaceful, more like an angel than a man. When I look into the eyes of a gorilla in a cage, it is like, he is questioning me, when are we going to return to the positon God intends for us. The gorilla still lives in the condition that God has made for it. We are trying to be God and change their role in God's creation. Man's downfall has always been trying to be GOD instead of men.

Creationism and Evolution are both used badly, they justify bad behavior among humanity. The purpose of Christ is to remove the negative behavior from humanity. The beatitudes tell us the salvation he brings to humanity. We no longer need to look at angels or beasts for guidance we look to Christ. It does not mean that we can not listen to angels and beast for more guidance. I do not mean disecting a frog in a high school classroom.

Comparing a human to a gorilla is comparing apples to bananas. Comparing a human to an angels is comparing apples to oranges. Basically, human can only be compared to other humans, but our systems of value and catergorization puts humans closer to angels or beast. The number one will be angels and number ten will be the beast. I want to be number one, so I must act like an angel. A gorilla is just the same as an angel a creation of God that can not say no to the will of God.

We still got live with each other. Imagine if animals had angels to defend them. As a creation of God they are protected by something divine. The world God loves is so much bigger than humanity, but the world will be different without humans. We are the Divine comedy and that makes us divine. A gorilla of the divine would see the comedy in our actions.

Good Bye

From a distant
past I hear
today,
while
whistling
Yankee Doodle
and
washing dishes
smeared with bar-B-Que sauce
sprinkles
of
pie crust crumbs
and
drops
of
cold cinamon sweet apples.
Farewell,
or
Fare Thee Well,
prehaps
PEACE UNTO YOU.
We the people!
MUST HAVE
(not NBC T.V.)
but
COLOR BLIND ,
Proper words,
for our proper people
constantly edited
and rewrited
by HAMILTON
or
was it Madison,
Our first leader
said.
To the mases
huddled in fear
and doubt
concerning our experiment.
Representive Democracy!
Our model for the World.
A shining light
shone from
Plymouth Rock
Displaying
Providence
a NEW ROCK
in the
NEW WORLD
IN GOD WE TRUST
no other.

The Republic For:
PEACE!
LIBERTY!
and
The pursuit of
HAPPINESS.
Brave and Bold
He rode his horse
into the setting sun
to rise again
on the lips
of this patriot:
Be wary of:
Beware of:
dividing your self
between the OLD
and
NEW
Just be one:
I AM AMERICAN!
Today,
placing
clean dishes
in an old cabinet
with rusty hinges,
I think:
My Country
that was made
for ones similar to me:
AMERICAN!
are being
sacrificed and sold
to the OLD WORLD:
BRITIAN,
JERUSALEM,
EGPYT,
our
young men are dying
in IRAQ and AFGHANISTHAN
and losing their minds
for "Lot's wife syndrome."
LOSING OUR BLESSING
for the
TANGIBLE
ALMIGHTY DOLLAR
but
NOT
the IDEAS and Aspirations
printed on the Bill,
portraying
George Washington.
making me,
FEEL
ill at ease,
and sick to my stomach
for many moons,
we are giving
away the American Dream
I will say
GOODBYE.

We walk

In the darkness.
some are
searching
for the light,
others not caring,
STALE,
luke warm coffee,
that will dumped in the sink.
Many love
the shadows.
Hiding
their imperfections,
and
willing it to grow.
Down the sink they will go.
Us that search for the light?
No reward.
A servant doing their job,
made
to be!
walking toward the light.
FEEL IT!
The light is here,
not over there,
not up there,
or
around the corner.
Definately
not
a commodity
to be bought
and sold
at the hardware store,
or
a transaction
on Ebay
neither
can it bought
on Amazon dot com
or
on Sundays
where the bells toll.
The steeple is the place,
for a gentle
reminder
for my mind:
In the valley of shadow
there is evil
and the unkown
but evil is not the narrow path
and
Wisdom is a light
I GAIN
to not trip and fall
on the Roman roads
as
I walk.
when
we walk.