It didn’t happen this week. At least, it didn’t happen to me. There are great and famous folks it happened to but not me. Nelson Mandela was a famous leader of the nation of South Africa and a great hero to the people he helped to free from the slavery of human tyranny and bondage. I heard of him and admired him most of my life. It happened to him, he was ninety five years old. Paul Walker was some kind of movie actor from America I never heard of before. I never saw any movie he was in. I did not know anything about him until I heard the news of it happening to Him. He was about half as old as the other man. It happened to him this week. Although they were quite different from each other and lived worlds apart, they had one thing in common when it happened. They both left everything behind; everything. I do not know whose they are or where they are now. Continue reading
December 7th
This day is the anniversary of the attack by the nation of Japan upon the United States of America.
We call it Pearl Harbor Day.
December 7th, 1941
Although it is the memory of tragedy and sorrow, it is not the end of the story. As long as there are people in the world there will be suffering, sorrows and tragedies at the hands of other people. Today the enemies of the past are friends and partners. Hatred has been replaced with kindness.
As I pray for those who remain with us who experienced the horrors of that and other wars, I am grateful for the friendships we now know. And I pray for the peace and prosperity of all the earth especially in your family and life.
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Contradictions
Why do we call it beauty
When it only feeds our lust
How is it somehow cool
To sin when it’s always a bust
Who made the decisions
To glorify this rot and rust
And tell me, how is holiness dumb
When God says it’s a must
Here we’re talking about wrongs
When we should just be doing right
Seems some confuse good ways
With evil that’s done in the night
Ya see, dirty robes won’t cut it
When Jesus says they should be white
Cuz’ walking in sin and darkness
Is not like being in the light
Speaking gossip over others
Instead of declaring their good
Shows which leader you follow
And lets you be understood
For if you choose to do well
Obeying His Word as you should
Then you life will surely be
All that He said it could
Living such contradictions
Breaks the Savior’s heart
For He knows our real intentions
And our failings from the start
Sure we can blame others
But we know we have our part
By the choices we made
Some of them were not so smart
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Home for my Heart
Home is where my heart is. It beats there every day. It’s kept in warmth and comfort cuddled in that place. It is not the house where I live, not the town I came from. My heart is not given to many rooms and large windows. Nor is it found in a smaller home meant to simplify. Continue reading