Peace and Safety? Too much talk?

  ….Lord Hear our Hearts, please…

Hear and heart have ear in the middle.  I don’t think it is a coincidence that God refers to his creation of the body as having planted the ear in the body.  No other part of the body is spoken of as being planted, as I have seen.

Do we use our ears enough?  Do we use our hearts to hear God?  Do we expect more listening from God than we are willing to give to him?  God hear our prayer and give us hearts and ears that are both willing to submit to You, above all of the cacophony of the world! for the sake of Christ Jesus in this world.         John Bunyan on Prayer

Life With Mother: On the subject of the Democratic convention and an editorial written masterfully by Maureen Dowd this morning...

 No disrespect intended to Seamus Heaney or the Irish wonders that were penned by the editorialist...

To Be Irish is to know that in the end?  the world doesn’t like us! {implied} is this the motto of unity?

We love you Joe! You are just not the man for the job.  This sudden feeling to mask a deeper problem with rhetoric about a speech impediment is just scary.   We love you and your Irish charm.  We wouldn’t break your heart for anything, but the America that we are in now needs a leader with business savvy and economic and brutal reality and not the limericks and Lyricism of trying to rhyme History with Hope.  Though harmonize, they might, rhyming them is a task for the fairies.  This is not a fairy problem, Joe.  This is a problem for picks and axes to dig us out of this mess.  This is not a rhetorical problem or a political problem; it is a real business and economic and health crisis.  You know something  about such things, but do you have the resolve to do anything but to save your own? Understandable to want to save your own, but unacceptable.  

   When Rome was burning under your watch there was precious little you could do and jobs were trickling out of our country and unemployment skyrocketed and unfortunately we haven't the stomach nor the resources to endure this again if you are elected.  

       You have no plan and hide under the sorry unity that hating Trump affords you.  We Americans {both educated and uneducated} can see through that mask, Joe.  We love you, but you are yesterday’s Democratic Party.  You are not in touch with today’s problems.  A mask doesn’t hide that problem, Joe.

      Its not that we are prejudiced against your Irish Catholic resolve.  It is not that we are afraid of your age.  It is not that we don’t appreciate all of the sacrifices that you have endured for our country.  We need a business and a wise and savvy negotiator in the White House.  America is deteriorating like South Jamaica was and Donald lifted it out of the slums and gave it life and vigor.   America is sick and Donald built the hospitals and Nursing homes that housed our aged and gave us jobs for our youth.  The world needs to see America care about itself, right now, so that it can do the same!  We love you Joe, but we are not voting for you in this election.  You are the past and we love the past, but we need a new future of self care and promise and not limericks and lyrics to encourage us while we sell our future to the highest bidder.

For Still Our Ancient Foe...

 For Still our Ancient Foe…

doth seek to work us woe

The weapons of our warfare are not carnal { NYT.   WJT.  Wash Post, etc, etc,}

And the enemies of our souls are not people, but principalities and powers in high places...

How then, can we cast down the imaginations that have funded and emancipated the Prinipalities and powers that plague us in this generation?  what a question/  How then, can we free ourselves from an identity of Christendom that deems us a Facist few, instead of a reconciling majority, which is what we are.  

We refuse to be deemed the problem here.   we refuse to be  blamed for the Covid and the BLM movement and the chaos in the streets that the antifundamentalist media have labeled us to be.  

They are happy to place the label of Special Needs upon us when we have been and remain the gel that has kept this republic together for its history.  We have compromised and we have discussed our differences all the way to the barn and now that we are over the Lord’s knee in spanking mode, the naughty are blaming the problem on us.

We are redeemed in our souls and not afraid of God’s judgments upon our nation, because we have asked Him to spare us from full annihilation for the sake of the few praying people.  We know we all deserve Hell and that we have been blessed with so much mercy that this sad moment in history where we are experiencing a plague is just a small token of what our sins deserve.  We haven’t been God-pleasing in our personal lives or in our churches.  We have tried to reconcile when we should have been fighting against the powers of division that sent us to our homes.  No other generation has hidden the remedy from the sick minority.  We have.  Prayer and corporate gatherings are the healing balm that our nation needs at such a time.  

It is not our expectation to escape such a time of accountability.  Trusting in the God of the Sciences is what I choose to believe He created science and data and the people who askew these data points for the fear of the weak is not hidden from his sight or the sight of the church.  Still, we would not be those who are blamed for the death in our nation for the sake of saving face.  We have been blessed with other ways to gather and we have gathered.  And we are praying and we will not be devoured by the attacking foe and the imagination of “White Evangelicals” being the problem.  We are not the problem.  we are the reality of healing in His wings White Evangelicals, Black Evangelicals, Black lives that matter and white lives that matter, White churches orthodox and Black orthodoxy, We are the solution and not the problem. The fear mongering media and divisive tactics of the media in the attempt to justify their presence is the problem.  Cover the reality and not your fear base.  

Bless us Lord! In the name of the Christ who is over it all. Amen