Your friends...

It is quite possible that you can attend a class on math taught by a five year old on the BEDMASS principle.  But, he is not a professor yet. It does not mean that he has not learned anything but can he solve complex problems based on a simple mathematical hypothesis based partly on the theory of lost energy( that energy is only transferred but never lost and is a fixed variable)?  The five year old realises that he has had his joy of learning and he will continue to learn as he shares his learning. But, he will be closer to being a professor at five years old than a vain 19 year old calculus student if he is humble enough to say that he has more to learn and to be thankful for everyone who helps in that regard instead of presuming to be a master of it all at five. 

The bible speaks of some,  and you can google it as well, that are always learning and never coming to knowledge of the truth.  The truth is that the Holy Spirit will guide you into all truth and the desire to be always right about what you think you feel or hear is to deny a quiet submission to the Holy Ghost to lead you and guide you; right?  Your desire to be so right about whether someone will have a car accident or boat accident is a desire for your ego to be triumphed and for you to be esteemed amongst your little friends as being right about the meaning of the colour blue as an "Ora" around you or the blue door that they envision in the background of a picture you took just last night and you told your soothsayer that you were so haunted by the blue door.  You have a good relationship with the soothsayer and you are trusting that they have some special pathway to Heaven or something but they were not right about that car accident and they now testify about throwing out their tarot cards and Jesus  Christ is now Lord but they still have not given God all the glory because they are still hoping everyone will recognise them about being right; so right but they at least confessed being wrong about the Tarot Cards and the confusion it brings.
The knowledge of the truth and the lack thereof in any learner is quite shocking because being close to Jesus or what He offers is not a promise from Him to be powerful or adored by anyone. The truth is that He did not have a lot of friends while being whipped or beaten.  The truth is submission and all that entails. It includes His promise of provision but it might mean a big v8 Honda or Acura as opposed to a Bentley. It may mean a little talent and your work to multiply it.  The only guarantee is that the Holy Spirit will lead you and your work will bear up the result.  Between starting your work and collecting harvest, there is a time of waiting (seed, time and harvest). Can you wait long enough before you start the cussing? Did your husband fail to give you any cheapo gift that you asked for? Did you pawn the first wedding ring for 1/10 of the value and he forgave it when you told him and you did that instead of just returning it.
The truth is all your respect and seeking after it is a search for your respect but what about God's respicio? Your friends and the girls are demanding the 47 inch tv but your budget allows for 32 inches. Your friends do not have a key to Heaven and if you choose the 32 inch tv as God is showing you, you will thank Him when there is an extra hundred left over for the new Samsung Galaxy phone and your friends will see your wisdom as God given.  They will still come to watch the movies and eat your popcorn as well; right?  They are your friends; right?  You trusted God with the 32 inch tv and there was more than enough after all.

The truth is love your husband, neighbour and friend as you love yourself and you can certainly compete with him on the golf course. That is what friendship is all about but if you are not sincerely hoping for his success, then you are not loving him  and you can rest assured that the reason why he gave you the advice to sell your v8 SUV for the   v6 Jeep is so that you would have more money to buy bracelets and sell them to make money for the three children you plan to have with him after the first abortion that he also forgave. At least you threw out the tarot cards and started talking about Jesus and attending church but the way you cuss when you hear he has a cold leads one to ask how do you really feel about him and treat him?   How do you feel about yourself?  The truth is you shall worship the Lord thy God only and only Him shall you serve.  The truth is Jesus Christ is Lord and He has always had many rivals as seen in people's private lives regardless of whether they are preaching and worship leading with Jimmy Chew shoes on.  Don't worry about what they teach on Sunday or Saturday because the man who prayed for you and encouraged you to go to church is the man that you just said you do not respect because he has a cold. That's ok.  The process is threefold:
1. Salvation;
2. Sanctification; and
3. Service.

You are being sanctified so you may still act as if you do not know Jesus personally quite often; in fact.  But, at least you have made some tangible progress. You read the bible, cuss and you threw out some Tarot Cards while confessing you do not respect whom you say is not only your man but your uh best friend and you thank him for taking you to church and for reading with you; right?  His best friend is Jesus so he knows when to run from a two-faced devil. See 1st Corinthians 7 and  he, that man you do not respect, has kept his promise so go and start a church now and make sure you check everything with Jim Jones in Guyana first (check it with Jim Jones and make a donation on your way out). He too seemed to struggle with coming to a knowledge of the truth but we can at least celebrate him(Wow! So pleased!) for always learning.  Do you love anybody?

This is dedicated to a young part Eskimo woman who, on her 41st birthday, found out she was abandoned at 1 month old and given to a local mixed race family by ambulance employees or police she said and the family received a little money every month. She started to love raw salmon and seaweed after a second abortion.  She finally got over her fear of abandonment and learned to receive love because she could have been a great dinner at 1 month old for a pack of any sort of dogs in an alley way.

The bible does not say " thou shall not cover they neighbor's good female friend with whom he has relations." It says to not covet his wife. But, many a couple who were good friends and betrothed in the old style with conjugal rights (circa Joseph and Mary or Shakespeare and his wife) have seen the unusual behaviour of all who are not really concerned and the immediate loss of interest in their coupling and also the additional marriage offers that come flooding in when, after four years of friendship, they announce an engagement. So, as Paul said in Romans 7, if there was no law against it would we be enticed to covet the neighbour's wife?  She was always his friend after all.  It is hard to adulterate an official friendship.  There is no law against the covenant as addressed in the title friendship with the all the gifts being exchanged between them.

Also, the wife or husband has a purpose but it is not for respect with respect having all its public and social imports.  If the wife is for public respect, then she is an object more than a partner or mutual helpmate and what does she have to do or look like for that social respect that you seek after and her role to provide it? In what culture are you seeking this respect? Will she be able to provide the respect after she gets old and will she fear this loss of social currency in your life? If she is just the object for the social respect, then she is denied what she needs which is to  be known and if she is not "known", she will resent you anyway and hide or satisfy her need for relationship in spending all the time with the grandchildren or an Apple I-pad.  It is just that if you USE her as an object, then you get what you pay for. She is not your friend really but that would have been what you agreed to in the beginning if she is was chosen by you as an object for respect. The thing is that regardless of her looks, she is likely to love you anyway if you just get a good timex watch and agree to read a magazine with her or pay attention to what she found for a few dollars at the farmer's market like fresh eggs for $7.00 in the dozen.  You can play your video games at 7 am when she hasn't woken up yet and keep all your friends because she might try and have you let go of them because she is really vain.  It is not a battle of the sexes but a battle over common sense. Common sense says it is good to have good old friends with whom you enjoyed missions trips and simply treat her (your friend who is no longer an object after you repent at church with her very soon) in the best way possible since its not your fault what happened with her family or father. You are not responsible for how she was raised but you should endeavour to treat him( if you are a woman) or her( if you are a man) in the best way possible without having anyone, including her, ask you to risk your life when you can take the train or ferry if flying is too dangerous; right? 

The capacity to love-Santa Claus is working hard to remind you!

The capacity to love is innate to all human beings. Love is a default human expectation. Babies are born with an expectation of love. This is an inherent desire to experience love by receiving it and to give it. Love though is a function of knowledge and feeling. The knowledge and feeling is a product of relationship. This knowledge and feeling is the innate capacity of relationship with the creator at birth.  For example, a wolf socialised amongst other wolves anticipates love from the wolves with which it was socialised. A human presents hostility to a wolf as there is no relationship with humans upon initial introduction. It would take the wolf raised in the wild sometime to be socialised by humans in relationship to have any feeling or knowledge of love from humans and to not perceive them as hostile. So what has happened to the five year old or nine year old human who is rather antisocial? They have been traumatised by certain experiences with other human beings so that they no longer have the knowledge or feeling of love. You cannot experience love without knowledge or the feeling of love. There is no knowledge or feeling without relationship. The baby has the default position of a loving expectation because God made them and there is no negative experience at that early stage to take them out of that expectation. The five or 12 year old who has become antisocial due to negative experiences has to, at some stage, be re-socialised with affirming relationships to overcome the negative experiences. The point is to unlearn what they may have learned and thereby undo what has impacted their expectation of love so negatively. To be born again is to go back to the default knowledge as provided by the creator that you are loved; that this love expectation is sown in to the heart by your innate relationship with God( the creator) and you can live with the knowledge and feeling of love as produced by the relationship with the Heavenly father; this being the innate feeling and knowledge arising from the innate relationship with the creator that we have from our birth. This is going back to the default. No one can affirm you more than God himself. This "going back to default" or "factory reset experience" is being born again.

The point of any good  adult bible study or Sunday school then is to remind the student that they are a child and that they will always be a child; a child of God. Google verses on the phrase "Children of God" and leave your surrogate teacher on Grace ( Santa Claus) a good note of thanks and a thank offering of cookies and milk.

One good thing about Santa in this current microprocessor generation is that he builds toys that can be programmed almost anyway possible to ensure that the children are safe from harm with NC 17 ratings on games and toys that can be reprogrammed to suit your home's safety needs.  One new toy that is being reprogrammed is the internet such that there will be two internets; one smoke filled room, cigar and whiskey, cigarette smoking man, builderingicebergs internet with all the dirt that a monkey or ape could not conceive and a timewarner cable and apple i-phone 5 internet for consumer consumption that will keep our minds in tune with all those rights we wish to protect and enjoy at the hands of well-meaning gentrified gun-toting mailmen, court receptionists and ambulance drivers who are here to serve and protect. It's a dirty job but someone has to do it. There will be lots of games and instant chat for sure and certainly lots of milking cows with their pants and tops off to heal your need for intimacy. Cows are usually naked though.

It is obvious that Santa is thinking of everything for our good.

Warren A. Lyon.

Happy New Year!

Something Christmassy!

There has to be something true about Christ in that His message causes soo much tension in the world. This tension is found in His message and life juxtaposed against the bare or naked truth of our human nature( See Romans 7).  The simple initial point of entry in this transgenerational discussion is the following: Abraham had no law. Jacob, Joseph and  Moses did not have any law as well.  They had no codified law.  They had universal law such that Adam and Eve were married in God's common universal law, Cain was chastened in this law about being his brother's keeper and not his exterminator, Abraham was warned about his activities with the beautiful woman in his home who was not his wife and Pharaoh was warned about Abraham's wife. They had Universal law as provided by God or God's common law which was eventually codified in Moses' great experience into the written law of the ten commandments.  It seems evidently that the Holy Spirit( also referred to as the Shekinah glory ) was guiding people into all truth before the law was codified.  He is still working. Read Romans 8.  Then read Roman 10 and 11.

We celebrate this Christmas joyfully. Happy holidays and Happy Hanukkah to all from the TV Channel.  You don't have to get into the "married" or "engaged" mind space to forget that the person you have spent the last four years enjoying your rollerblades, icecream, your parent's basement and matching bicycles is your friend.  They were always your friend.  You can forget any day of the week while eating mussels, oysters, egg plants and peaches when sucking out all the meat of the uh fruit.  God bless and Merry Christmas!!

Ego Conflict with God

It is said that many a man or woman will go through an ego conflict with God.  The devil did when he looked upon himself, said he was beautiful, heard others in Heaven say he was beautiful and God himself sad he made him beautiful but the end result was his rebellion and hatred for God. Beauty does not excuse one from submission.  It is said in Romans 1 that "..they worshipped the created instead of the creator."  It also says in Ecclesiastes that God has made all things beautiful.  Google bible verse on beautiful.  Its not soo hard. Jesus, if not necessarily physically beautiful like Marilyn Monroe ( she is still in the press everyday for some reason), was eternally and internally beautiful.  He was God incarnate.  So if someone tells you to abandon all your previous friendships, especially the ones from missions trips,  to help them or make them secure that person is truly telling you that they are a "self-rejected" individual. They do not love themselves if you have to abandon every friendship so that they can feel secure. The truth is that they want to make you a prisoner of their insecurities and deny your wealth of blessings in many friendships.  They have to be ill( you do it really really good with vigour)  but more importantly, they have not submitted the smallest part of the psyche, their ego ( you do it really really good with vigour), to recognising God's glorious beauty. He( God) who is beautiful has made all things beautiful in His own time.  This includes a 12.5 year old vehicle that you have taken time to appreciate.  If you look at flowers, and deep inside, you will see its all the same down there. But, if given a flower, be satisfied with the colour and shape of the petals.  In corollary to this notion, God said that husband's should be satisfied with the breasts of the wife of their youth and this is because, well uh umm, its all the same down uh there.   If you are not sure, then buy a case of coke and you will see that every can has the same size of opening. That is just the way God designed it.  Cain's sin was not unlike that of His parents.  God offered Him a deal; that God desired that sin would not have dominion over him but He did not accept it. His parents did not accept God's deal or at least they did not listen or trust Him. Cain did not listen and nor did he trust God. Won't you come? Won't you trust Him?  Well, at least listen to your soccer coach who says that spritey player will take you on the inside of the goal if you give him a yard and you were expecting him to try and take you straight down that left wing where you would cut him off but that player knew you were faster than him so he will switch from his left foot to the right and you won't have time to recover. You left the experience  new and improved on a yard and  now you can defend against two players as the last defender in front of goal on the day. So, trust Him and trust Him in that you will RECEIVE the promise and then uh umm wait. Read the last five verses of Psalms 27. It feels like a fortune cookie.

It is difficult to have an ego conflict with God for long. He made you. But, if you are experiencing this, just say let God's ego/will precede my ego/will. He is the king; right?

The Prequel to Logan's Run-

It is said that the entire world's population can fit into the square mileage of Texas. What a beautiful idea?  We would see massive softball leagues with lots of popadoms on sale at half time and maybe spicy Chinese dry noodle snacks along side a coke, Fanta and cassava chips for the South Africans.  Even so, there is an old story about a futuristic population that kills off any citizen that reaches the age of 37-38.  This was done by state actors as part of the will of the people as set down by their parliament or legislature; or so they were told so that no one would argue.   The movie was called Logan's Run. It's just that people were too busy comforting themselves and distanced from the real workings of government and not any closer to what was really happening other than news clips on the Centralised National News Broadcasting Network.  It was once that art imitated life but soon life imitated art and the artists were people who used paint, computers and graphic design kits that were uh umm out of this world. Who knows what was really going on or who won any election because the reporting was the uh "reality".  Theodore Roosevelt once warned about the power of the press and he saw its work in the shadows of the early Soviet Union and the uh umm "Official" story but they had official stories in Teddy's day but more repentantly so; again to ensure that Grandma could keep her knickers on at night and in the day without fearing fire and brimstone and the signs spoken of by the preacher at her church in Salt Lake City, Utah. What a Pallavah? When we read the news, the question will always be whether the chicken or the egg came first; the story or the crafted result created by the story?  CNNBN news clips and employees appear as grafted in parts of many Hollywood Blockbusters. Why is it not a CBS news snippet and employee appearing in the movie Spygames with Robert Redford or in some "Bourne Knows His Name" movie? It is always CNNBN news snippets in the plot or in the crafted reality.  This does not lend credibility to CNNBN but robs it of any authenticity because if it was serious news, it would not appear in every holiday blockbuster; that is Hollywood blockbuster. It is not news then but more akin to fiction.

The prequel to Logan's Run involves a population that is a majority population for senior citizens. They were part of the "Me" generation which was really the "I" generation and that involved doing what you had to do to "get mines-fulfil the American dreams as stated in Marilyn Monroe's dress size and alias". It always takes two to tango; innit? But, they did not want to let go of their influence or their loss of control on the levers  even as their time to fill the workforce waned. Angry children who suffered at their compromises and their abuses did not help as these children may have denied this generation early grandchildren. The angry children developed a "survivor" generation which was really a "Lord of the Flies" generation bordering on a band of veiled "marauders" generation who would break almost any rule to get at anyone who threatened their false sense of winning or needing to win in a World of WarCraft ethics which is to kill to say "I am" while before traditionally one would say " I think; therefore I am". This ego gratification circumventing the celebration of long held traditions of virtue and order made Remembrance Days meaningless and the older population decided that they would just take these vain, ethicless, kids out since they were just little gangs breaking rules. If you ate at your mother's house, you might come back just as incontinent and as old as your mom and dad. Your teeth may not be as short in the tooth and its not that your parents were vain but you were just a little inhumane in how you responded to their needs and you forgot to celebrate with grandchildren; their move into the octoganarian years. The Prequel is Called "Hastening the end to Social Maladjustment". The French version is "Fraternite'  et Liberte'." At the end, the various generations come together to celebrate life itself and the  end to the goal of the malcontent; that goal being the triumph of the ego.

It should be in theatres in Time for Christmas 2014.  But before then, Enjoy this vision of the new millenium from a rather productive culture quite akin to our own in some respects in that we lots of Sushi here everyday. I am going for a visit for some real Tokyo sushi and I'm bringing a bible to read while I use my chopsticks.  The movie is right here: Battle Royale:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwE5-ecnH8g See what you can learn from it in terms of your expectation for order and governement as well as the royal law. You will have to google "royal law".

Now the Lord said, go out into all the world and preach the gospel; absolutely. There should be no resistance or antithesis in this endeavour since it is just a simple message about love and forgiveness right?; read Romans 7.  In Star Trek the Borg said resistance is futile and I think vampires try to convert the living into the dead. In certain other stories people share their pain by sharing their hurt knowingly or unknowingly but what if there was a community that, in some organised fashion, wanted as many people as possible to know their pain and they had has many Aids as possible in Aid of their cause? Soap opera fans are quite the same.  That would be quite frightening actually.  That feels like a bad "B" movie. Upon one thing we can all agree; hmm. Where there is light, there is no darkness. It is amazing that ultraviolet light therapy is being used to cure almost anything and AIDS the healing process completely in many cases where they thought there was no cure. I read about it on the inTRUEnet. Bonzai Mother Lover! Getting back to the point, there are many civilisations that have preceded us and I am sure their citizens must have thought they were pretty smart with their ancient flushing toilets, markets, theatres and banks; not unlike us in many ways. Then, there is eternity and they assured us of that as well in their writings ( both Messianic Jewish, Jewish and pagan( Mount Olympus etc) ). So, getting back to the real point, the real question is what do I do until  then?  You can't choose the family into which you were born so make the best of the talents you discover and establish while studying at the post-secondary level, forgive those who tried to sidetrack all God put into you  at birth and if you are looking for a perfect answer to the "Male" or "Female" figure you never enjoyed in your childhood as father or mother where the ability to trust was bruised, then take some time to regain a reasonable expectation of such a figure. You will probably try to find such a figure in the form of a wife or husband; right?  You are looking for "Superman"  and there is only one man recorded in history as having the ability to be almost everywhere at the same time( "Go as your child is now healed where she is"-google that maybe!) and to walk on water. You could make Him your husband, being a bride of Christ, while you heal and ask for the best and appropriate fully human variant to fit His purpose( Romans 8) for your life.  If you are a man, you can have a similar covenant with Him in some scripture like John 1 or something like that; eh? You can try it just a little and be afraid. Ok?  You will not find a perfect man to make up for all the shortcomings in your parents or the way they raised you. Didn't Lisa Bevere teach you that or M. Scott Peck? That is why you need to forgive and if Joseph's story in the bible was not enough to understand how a family can be, then read David's story. David's dad was not his best supporter. There was also a boy with a brother or friend named Cain.  Also, David's father was not Scottish.   

Warren A. Lyon.

My Man

My man(as written from the account of a young, repentant woman learning to be thankful for the man and not his suit or vehicle which can easily be changed-suits and vehicles do not kiss you or choose to bridle their tongue with wisdom or refuse to lay their hand on your mop to wipe up the dog's urine on the bathroom floor; everyday!-why so dirty?), no matter how much I call him mine, is some body's son. He is also God's child.  My man, no matter how good he treats me, it does not say anywhere that he is mine to abuse or mistreat.  My man is not mine like a replaceable, disposable mass produced, identical G.I.Joe.  My man, if they all looked the same, would not interest me really if he sat home all day with ME and didn't thrive and push in something, some endeavor, save somebody's life, encourage, pray and believe, work hard 9-5 pm in something somewhere or just work.   That work is 24 hours in one day or 40 hours in three days as he is my man and I need to trust him when he is not with me in body and the flesh, to trust that his heart is still with me. He's my man no matter what I have been told about men being all dogs or all the same.  No matter how much I've learned from our ancestors about men philandering, it does not mean I need to turn my man into a philanderer in my imagination only with my continual doubts, fears and suggestions of it when he is not.  Its just I was told all men cheat, so I decided to follow the culture that believes this lie.  I followed it soo much that I cheated myself and I was assured fallaciously by other followers that I can rest assured that he cheats anyway, whether I can actually see it or know it regardless of what he says.  "My man cheats...!" as I was told by all the old ladies since I had ears to hear those bitter experiences at the age of 4 and my man, I knew I love him when I saw him. I love him when he was just my friend. I loved him when my man was not my man and I was with the man who was being abused by me as my real man and who was not just my man as my friend was.  Then my man who was my friend became my man and my real man who  I was taught to abuse to keep him in check but he never stopped being my friend.  I fell into a pattern of doubt and negative expectation about him and now I know it is because my mind and heart was taught to bring what could have been a happy time with my man to a place of my own negative reality, demeaning him, doubting his faithfulness, being ill when he was successful and wanting to throw up, calling him a bitch to test his manhood in comparison to my own manhood and all because I choose not to let go of my struggle with trust and to have faith that he is truly my man. So, the question is who am I? I  am my man.  While your parents and other older family members may be responsible for how you were nurtured in your formative years, your husband or man is not.  All he can do is treat you in the best way possible if you let him.  Your role is to  heal with God's help if there were any misgivings in the upbringing because there was no "perfect" household nor is there a "perfect" household.  You can also take responsibility for your memories, reactions and deep-seated expectations (the expectations that you also seem to create with constant unnecessary dissensions for which you apologise) and if you are not ready for that deep meaningful friendship/marriage relationship with one person, then be honest.  A man, you were taught, was to be "read emotionally" maybe out of some fear as that was the experience of the household in which you were raised. He is sort of an impersonal entity and your reactions make any man just a passive actor in the plot you continually create no matter how sincere he may be. It's you. He is no more than a "football" in your play and it seems so true with all that you say because the whole entire community in which you were raised had similar encounters with a father quite similar to yours; hence the collective pain but maybe you did meet a man who knows your experience and he decided early to look to the right and away from a certain pattern as many psychologists will tell you, as on Donahue or the Mr. More Safer show that if you do not forgive, you will walk in the same behavioural patterns. Your man just went to find a wife that was at least honest about her need to heal with Christ as her source, first and  foremost, because if Christ was a battery he never runs out. He is eternally ready to supply all of your emotional needs according to His riches in glory and his wife, after that, needed a good friend which he certainly is for coffee and tv.  Are his shoe laces untied as they might be after four hours of work? Then, tell him or you can just call your ex.  Mon Dieu. He is very strong as a good friend. Mon Dieu.  The end.Now if you can't have one man, that's okay because some men don't mind being used and using like a set of old bras and tops from the Good Will or Sally Ann's( Salvation Army).  You can always get another one tomorrow.  Also, there are some descendants of Yassidic Jews in the West Indies called Rastafarians who swear by the virtues of the scriptures. Some smoke Hay and some smoke weed. But, certainly most of them believe in the virtue of being fruitful and multiplying with as many women as possible.  There is only one man in history who received that command just after the many animals he was called to steward
 received the same direct command to multiply andbe fruitful.  In being fruitful, Adam received one wife for that purpose as did Cain and Seth and Noah.  This is also true of most of the animals; one spouse or partner like the whales. Whales stay together forever.  Abraham had one wife as well to be fruitful and multiply but was rushed into evading the patient fruition of God's promise by his wife. That seed of impatience has produced many time saving devices like microwave ovens and Campbell's Cup of soup; just add water. Its just that between David and Abraham, they are both honoured as prophets and also as Kings but also both were obedient along side their imperfection for which they were truly sorrowful and sincere in repentance.  Now, why is it that the bible says Solomon died with his heart seperate from God and Abraham and David did not yet Solomon is known as the wisest? Was it that  He was the wisest but also the most stubborn when God warned him more than once about having too many women? One too many is just one too many. When you are a father one day or a dentist you will know when your child or patient has had one candy too many and there is a uh uhm uh cavity. You will also know when your child comes back home with type 2 diabetes and you will remember, along with your child, how you told him that you think on that day he had one shake too many; get it?  The thing is that Cain and Solomon all came from good groups and families and they really believed what they believed for good.  It's just that at the end of the day, you can get lots of temporal approval for being a part of the right family. Ted kennedy knows but you are not going to get eternal approval from God just for being identifed by on-lookers in your city as being part of a family or group even if your name is Maadoff or Kardashian. God has no grandchildren and everybody must believe for themselves that He exists ( Hebrews 11:6) and trust and believe (John 1: 12-13). There is a simple formula. People who love cake recipes and only buy cookbooks should find this simple. Read this: at the end of the day, its called "FootPrints."  Read that poem or read Romans 8.    


Written by Warren A.Lyon
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The truth is...

You want someone to be a friend. But, are you a friend to that person? You just told your wife(ex) or your husband(ex) that you don't love them but you want them to be your friend.  Think about your past. Where did this begin? Is your behaviour more indicative of your need to get over a fundamental, formative rejection?  You must also realise that they don't need you because the ex never called you back.  You are harassing them; especially as you are not sincere. Why not just be sincere or are you always wanting to feel powerful by having secrets and feel as if you got away with it but you could not handle being with someone who treats you in the way you treat others? You might need to just believe in the concept of friendship as it relates to any intimate relationship. They (relationships) should not be power struggles or ego tussles.  You could be too ill  or old at your age to recognise your need for Jesus as a mighty counsellor. But, you want to teach others.  You weren't there when they were born but you may have heard them sing in the choir quite harmoniously.  You thought they had a musical gift.  You heard them play the piano.  You thought they had a musical gift.  You saw them win red ribbons at the first track meet you and your children ever attended in Wisconsin or Chicago.  You noticed they had an athletic gift.  You read one of their childhood book reviews or article review projects on the Crimean War completed in Grade 7 and also observed the art project where they drew a can of Campbell soup in Grade 7.  They also drew a picture of a Volkswagen emblem in Grade 7 but they decided not to be an architect which was your thought.  That's ok.  God made him and his gifts.  He did not know you as an influence until he was 2 months old and then you left. When he met you again, he was two and a half and he could not remember you. It's just that children at that age do not read magazines or study faces to know who is Granddad or Uncle apart from the father; that is who you are. Good!  It's just that there is a "knowing" and a familiarity and a development of relationship that a child will enjoy.  You might have to give him a few five cent gums for him to recognise you as someone you would expect to run to you and show you a fond greeting.  In spite of your expectations of how your puppy should behave, it may not know its owner without a treat. Most puppies will go home with the person that shows some interest on a moment by moment basis or the one that lays down the treats.  Your child is not a puppy but if you went away for some time, you will have to recognise that the truth is, you will need to redevelop some knowing in that child's mind and a five cent gum would help.  That's ok.  Forgive yourself because he had lots of soccer coaches to say don't quit and some school teachers who said, don't worry about it. You are a good little puppy and you jump really far as well; like 6 metres 90 cm in grade 11. That might have been unofficial. But that's ok because you knew God loves you from about a week after you turned 14 and if you need to forgive someone so that you can love the work you produce or the many children who say you feel like you don't know who you are, that's ok.  God loves them and knew them in their mother's womb; remember? Google the part about being known in your mother's womb.   It's just that whatever you think you went through may have been the same thing as some other really smart man who got a scholarship and who knows what life may have been like if you stayed on the big farm with your grandmother and not the tiny farm with your father's family. But, that's ok.  You can blame your two and half year old son for not knowing you but at least you were consistent; consistent in not knowing who you are and certainly feeling like it. You have to see that they are not crying over you and you might even get a t-shirt from his wedding with the big toothy smile on the back and a note that says "God makes all things good"  because God does.

Now his wife or the family that intends to have their daughter marry him may not like how he feels eating Fruit Loops with milk.  They may be so determined to have him "feel" the way they would like; that is like a man who might just have black coffee and bread. Well, if he is going to be a good husband his diet is the least of your concerns at this stage because he might not even know your feeling on the issue.  He was too busy minding his own business.  This is a reprisal from a story that actually happened in the Mediterranean and the Himalayas a long long time ago.  The family would go to the house of the potential suitor and leave gifts and take food off his shelf that made their daughter uncomfortable. If you don't leave gifts, then there is no point. You might as well, tell your daughter to marry an android.  In other cultures, they give dowries which is a sure-fire way of getting the young man's attention. Now, you think your daughter is worth all this hard work but you were not there when he( the potential suitor) was born and he might think she is butt ugly although she is your little idol and angel so I suggest you remember that your idea might be grand and the young man may be flattered by your intentions and you might find out that if you invite him over for some tea and cake, he is likely to say yes and you can serve all the nice foods your daughter likes and will tolerate in the union you are forecasting but until then, he is minding his own business and he will play golf  and put balls in holes where and when such golf courses make themselves available with the intention  of a life-long membership at that well and able and willing golf course with field dimensions of 34, 22, 39.  That sounds healthy!  Even if you are West Indian, this little parable may have some relevance.  In fact, you may see that he thinks your daughter is quite unique, beautiful, and /or symmetrical in her features but you can't marry a "picture". Remember; God makes all things beautiful.  He already met a crazy girl with symmetrical features (see Proverbs 11:22 if it persists and make two prayers in the morning while you run away as fast as you can) who could not wait two minutes at a train station and if you can't wait two minutes, how can you be married for 30-60 years? Work out the math and read Charles Stanley's sermon on forgiving quickly. That is how you stay together especially if its a horrible nonsense and if you can't wait then go home. A lot of people wait two minutes for their husbands; even the retired  ones who only go to the library and the odd toastmaster's meetings and the gym to work out. With all of this, know that monkies cannot dance and they cannot remark on the beauty of a sunset or flowers in a well manicured garden or comment on the use of garlic in an excellent recipe that has its origins in the multi-facted culture of Provence.  That is why we are reminded that everything that has breath or tongue so to do, should praise the Lord. Read Psalms 50. Sorry; that was monkeys. 

In making the decision to give thanks, you cannot act like a metronome; your mind going back and forth and constantly in two places. How long can you halt between two opinions; innit? Either you want what God gave you or you don't. If you don't then be thankful for what you have chosen in the end or what you have.  You never left to receive anything else and don't blame anybody about your attitudes and what you think because you chose what was readily accessible in the instance time and time again and that's okay because you usually have to remove barb wire before you can grow a crop on any desired land if it is even fertile. Ok?; so there you have it. You created your answer and you wanted to know that you had issues. It is because you have not forgiven yourself for not sincerely forgiving and your father sees right through you.
 Here; watch this now. It's called Metronomy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoTwieqNyEA

Jesus App at the Applet Store; also available for Android!-It tends to make you more human and magnanimous!

The new Jesus App  includes an entire copy of the whole new testament in the English Standard version with Psalms and Proverbs including a section on what to do if you are angry with yourself for any reason including the instigation or starting of unnecessary arguments with people who sincerely care about you and your hard work to free the drain and your penchant to make it release and in light of your stubbornness to buy a dictionary and sit down and register for a course in drug and alcohol addiction recovery or the other course in sincerity and in the vain notion that you can take money from people for lying to them.  Its also free!  Try it today; eh? It is also available down home or anywhere that you have a reasonably good internet connection with Cogeco or Time Warner internet Cable in Canada (new competition for netflix).  You can also use the translation service on the side and translate the above in as many sentences as you like. Try to re-write it in 10 sentences.  Remember that Asimo is the new big gift this Christmas.  You can play video games with him and he has several reactions and expressions when he wins the game. He comes X-box compatible. He has a "perfect listener" mode that will work all day long since he is retrofitted with a supercomputer that will enable him, one day, to drive in evening traffic and respond to any questions whether they are intelligent or unintelligent as if he really cares about your nonsense and without crashing the vehicle. If the answer is too robotic and you disapprove, Asimo will give you a tissue. Order now to avoid disappointment.  There is also a free Gospel of John App included.  There was insufficient memory after the X-box module to load the entire bible. If He is the way the truth and the life through whom all must enter into the Kingdom, then He is the Church. The Church is also referred to as the bride of Christ. Should not the bride be one with Him(emotionally, pychologically and spiritually)? Read John 17.  Is your sense of self or ego to big to surrender to Christ or are you living for that respect keeping up with the Jim Jones or Jones'? What is that saying because anyone can stand on a soap box or preach if only the stones will listen but what is your motive? God answers all prayers in His own time and after David was annointed as King by Samuel, how long did he have to wait?  This is a bible scholar's question or you can just google it. What is the name of the prophet who annointed him? Is it Balaam Donkey? Did he have an error of great renown? Who is Cora and did she just revile and rebel against Moses? What is straining out a gnat( google it)?  What part of love your neighbour did you not understand or treat others as you wish to be treated did you not understand?  To tie it all together practically, you could read Desiderata.  It's really good.  Just believe it.  What's in your wallet? Is it Capital One? What's on your desktop pc? Please read John 17 and 1st Corinthians 14 as well as Acts 2.  Not everyone has the gift of healing but all may have the gift of discernment.  This would also mean that the gift of speaking in tongues may fall upon believers in any church organisation but the church is greater than any new organisation starting tomorrow or one which started 500 years ago.  The Lord knows who are His whereever they may be.  As such, your goal is to be with Christ and when you take communion it is to acknowledge Christ and not an organisation as to join an organisation but to celebrate Christ.  Its amazing; isnt it? Start with the Lord's prayer and say it a few times. Every knee will bow and everything tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord.  Read the book of Romans from chapter 1-9 and Hebrews-the last chapter.