Daylight Savings Time...

Only weeks away from daylight savings time on the east coast where I live in New Jersey in the seaside town of Toms River. Summer a few months later. It is always time we could be spending with those we love and those that love us...
If only we could believe in life after death we could be looking at spending time with our loved ones that need never end. We could spend millennia just celebrating God's wonderful gift of life we share together...
Meanwhile on planet Earth life is wasted working ourselves to death to eat, drink, and be merry as we can, instead of just harvesting from nature all we need for the price of tending "the Garden" the lovely zoological garden we lived in before we went industrial size mismanaging of our time making profits of all types.  For example people starve and go not medicated because they cannot afford food and care. If only it were business as usual to Feed the hungry and medicate the ill before selling the rest of the supplies for profits. Another example laborers working to produce things they will never afford. How much do people get paid to do that?
When will we grow up as a race. When will we stop saying we cannot do anything about what we have become as humans but need to live in the system because... When will we stop working to keep the bottom line upward growing instead of our quality of life improving with our trained use of our collective intelligence? Sure we grew intelligent as the employer needs but do we think? Can we think?
Unless we want to make others "beds" so much unlike our own, "beds" we will never sleep in or have for our own we will always be just the perfect employee instead of all we are capable to be.

A Very Humbling Experience...

College Mathematics. That is the first class I ever failed for my academic life. K to 12, no F's... It was very humbling. Now I know what it is like to not know something. I am applying myself to learn this subject by studying a College Mathematics textbook I found on amazon.com. My student adviser got in touch with me. There may be a make up/repeat of this subject in my future at Grand Canyon University.
Just thought to share the bad grades as well as the good... I guess this proves I too am only human, of flesh and blood made (song Human by the Human League).
Yet understand I have my doubts about my or anyone really being human! The universe and the solar system we live in could be just a three dimensional sensory feast virtual reality like planetarium display. I have yet to see anyone disprove the possibility that we and all we know are not some type of technological created "mirage".
Yet I flunked College Math like so many other College students and may have to retake the class. It is amazing how mundane life is. The ordinary daily activities repeat routinely, while children grow, people fall in love, and the cycle begins again...
I am enjoying College. Sure there are a lot of reading and writing papers, and taking quizzes involved. Yet that is how we still learn as "humans". No Psychic osmosis supported by educational telepathic instruction being beamed out over the world for all to plug into... but what is that in the mirror, does it carry educational materials too?

For The Bible Belt...

What do these mean...

Old Testament -

Genesis 1:1

Deuteronomy 6:5

Jeremiah 6:21

Micah 6:8

Proverbs 14:15

New Testament -

Romans 8:9, 8:14, 14:14

Titus 1:13-15

James 2:12

John 8:30-32

Ephesians 4:14, 5:26

Do not try to think of what I mean if you look over these references,

but try to feel the Spirits moving you to understand what they mean...

Welcoming the New Year...

When the New Year seems the only thing new in your life, perhaps it is time to relax, and reflect on the good times in your life. Obviously every year is no longer a great adventure waiting your handling of the good times to come, like the years before when life was a gift from god (or nature) you shared in common with your fellow human beings. Now it is the "is the cup half full or half empty" time of your life beginning, or being postponed until you are ready to face that day.
If you are ready, and would like a little helpful musings of that moment, by someone who decided at nineteen his glass permanently full read on... At nineteen I was ready for forever to begin. I was happy. I was young. I was alive and hey, isn't that what living is for? Just to be alive a wonderful thing to enjoy?
Life stretched out before me like time to spend on enjoying everyday possible, for life did not end in a grave to me, but was our gift as God's creation to enjoy from birth to forever.  Life, my birthday suit especially, as a gift from God in His image, little did I know then, or know much now, what part of our humanity is in His image (mind, body or spirit, or maybe all three?). Life was fun, I enjoyed being human, and did not yet know all the responsibilities of an adult, with their needs to be supplied, by anyone not choosing a life of service to God, as either priests or nuns, but like an idiot, I dropped out of college, became homeless, and unemployed. Was life trying to tell me something?
Soon life was not the party scene I had enjoyed for the past nine years of idle pleasures and indulgences, but then was a running balance sheet of bills and their paying, or doing without these billable necessities like food, clothing and housing. Life became neglected by me for nine years and was not embraced at nineteen as necessary to spend human, at least not alive...
Schizophrenia gripped me with its symptoms and detachment from the life ongoing around me for a reality that seems to exist only in my head.
In this alternate reality there was His Majesty God, His creations with their gifted children and me, someone who can dream and wish things were different but remained the same anyway. Life went on around me full of people like me I did not know (yes I even had a messiah complex for awhile), with empty hands, full hearts and nothing of value to anyone, not even myself.
My father, who has passed onto the mystery beyond the gave, gave me his single room rent controlled occupancy unit in The Village in Manhattan (little did I know what a luxury this apartment was, being it was only a room to me my father gave me while I was wondering about his offer to me of rent for a Bowery hotel room or a bed in a Bowery bed/housing center). I can only guess what went on in his mind, or how I must of looked, puzzled over what to choose. Of course, like an overgrown retard, I took the room without much thanks never realizing I was changing both of our lives. His to resuming a life He had outgrown, with years of employment in the same job, with good enough pay to provide his humble wants and needs, and me, from growing up and aware life is not a party but a position in a team of community in nature, where everyone contributes or feeds from, in our western civilization. Little do I know how life would have shaped me then, if dad had not made the call when others sent me away, no more the wiser I was not a spiritual entity, at least not yet, but a flesh and blood enough human to need things regularly supplied, or they would not last even three days, without water.
So my life went on, guided by dad to get a job, he did not volunteer the rent or food and other needs, but used their necessity to coax me to the normal life I was not sane enough to know was there, beyond the nose on my face, waiting for me to join the working class, or skilled labor class, if I used some time to grow more valuable to community than just my labor,
For twenty five years I lived out of touch anything or anyone lived a life worth supporting, let alone working to support, or pay for... Now fifty six years later, I could hate the way I damaged lives that cared about me by neglecting relationships, and not noticing all being done for me, because I only grew bodily, not mentally and wonder now even, do I see anything in a sane way?
So, as you ponder about your glass, do try to remember the life we live is not just ours to enjoy, but the product of labors, shared making things to share, by the business practice evaluation of the works done worth perhaps but shared just the same, the time and labor of each member.  Anyone not contributing is living on borrowed time, from the workers supported western civilization, where some hope to be every year, even if as undocumented laborers, as this life which some hate, and some take for granted, is not a gift like a pet rock, but a living "pet project" that needs regular feeding and proper caring for or will not be there much longer...
Just a few thoughts from one, who perhaps spent  too much time dreaming and living on insurance and otherwise charity the "west" can provide, but does not want to, I am slowly becoming more and more aware, as I try not to become the burden of my brother or sisters, I have been to now both my parents having moved back in with mom...
Training is in progress, to become able to support medical and other needs I share, with so many human beings, yes I have heard there are others out there, like me. Some even working their ass off to not become a burden. Little did I know.

Pass the Pork Chops Please...

Think about this before you condemn anyone for not being like you, not worshiping as you worship, not praying as often as you pray, not having the same religion as you, or worse not keeping the same religious abstinence and practises you do... Or you may be at fault yourself, for not praying for others who you find unacceptable to God, instead of being a cheerleader for Hell!
When did pork eating get anyone sent to hell? I will tell you even now Orthodox Jews do not eat pork because it is forbidden to them by God in the Old Testament Christians share with them as their legacy. Pork in any form, bacon, pork loins, and pork chops including...
So next time you see someone leer, or hear someone whistle like a wolf, or hear someone even just tell an innocent lie to boost someones feelings about their "bad" haircut, Stop, and Think, "What would a good neighbor do", and do like wise! I am sure that is what Jesus would want you to do too, especially if you lay claim to being a good Christian. Save souls, do not send them "packing up for hell" while they have the life God can indulge them still in and have time to be saved if they need it as far as God is concerned!
People having fun and enjoying their birthday gifts from God I hope do not have to fear GOD, their CREATOR and Heavenly FATHER for it, as that would very much not be a neighborly thing to do, for even GOD.  A good neighbor does not force its political party, religion or chosen lifestyle on its neighbor in America. We are free to be different. I would hope God could do likewise!
I hope you are not going to argue we are clay and He the potter... That is because God is said able to raise children from stones for Father Abraham and so - even IF We Are CLAY... We are still God's children more than stones not transformed to being like us, having been made in the image of God and called His own in Luke in the New Testament of the Bible. Go look it up it is in the first few chapters...
Further, we are encouraged in the Proverbs of the Old Testament in the Bible to get wisdom for our own benefit, growth and GOOD (14:15, 19:8, !9:20 especially). It is not my attitude we should eat, drink and perhaps yes even actually enjoy our birthday gift from our Creator in all merriment but that is advise from the Bible too.
So next time you see children in love Kiss, or lovers embrace or adults look a little too sensual REMEMBER the only one dong the Devil's work of sending innocent people enjoying themselves to Hell maybe you and the others on the Devil's Cheer Leading Squad! As for me, I love God but I am not going to lie to myself as it seems some do that there is no knowledge, intelligence, or wisdom but these are all just accepted constructs Created that only God knows the truth of...

Thank God Often...

Thank God often if:

- you have received life from His creation or think you may have received life from His work...
- you enjoy a gift you have received from God, even if it is in need of repair, or upgrades...
- you enjoy a birthday gift from God, even if it is not a permanent everlasting gift...
- you enjoy the image of God as a family legacy birthday suit, even if it is under a curse for awhile         because of any transgressions...
- you enjoy your liberty as a Christian, even if some may think you damned because of their belief         some of your liberty not allowed...
   you enjoy being reborn a child of the promise, even if the children of the slave laugh about your         being condemned...
- you enjoy worshiping God in the religion of your fathers, even if they might not approve of some         of your freedom...
- especially if you enjoy religious tolerance only, instead of welcome in any of the houses of worship     because of some of your beliefs...

   AND THANK GOD IF YOU ARE ABLE TO HOPE FOR A BETTER DAY, TOMORROW, OR       LIFE, SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IN A LIVING GOD, AND FOR NO OTHER                 REASON

- because humanity and the human condition do not give one hope that anything in these will ever change for the better simply because of our own deeds...

Merry Christmas Season!

Tomorrow Advent officially begins with the start of the countdown of the weeks to the celebrated birth of Jesus. The Christmas Season is begun. Time to dust off the list of who has been naughty and who has been nice...
I believe we should keep Christ in Christmas gift giving as a reminder of the potential gift God has waiting for all who believe in His son and His reconciliation to Himself of all who accept His free gift of Himself and His love. You just have to believe to receive and even the Apostle Thomas was allowed his doubts and given a sign to help his faith.
If we have a living God it should be obvious He can convince us He exists. You just have to show an interest and it seems the rest you can leave to Him... Faith comes from hearing and personally, like any houseplant, I am planted in the source of hearing about God Jesus, the Bible, and have it on audio book format which I love to spend time listening to. So I hear the Word of God and find my belief getting stronger and hope someday I can believe with the seem innocent belief I had as a child, and later as one who did not have the dark night of the soul realization I have yet to meet the Living God as a "being" in my life that I know as a friend, let alone the great eternal King of His Creation, the Heavens and the Earth He made.
I have lived aware that the world treats religious belief the same as a child's belief in Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, and the Easter bunny. As I have covered in my post about doses of godhead I hinted that even with phenomena like God talking to one, or Angelic visions, these can be treated as delusions and hallucinations, and you, as prophecy said, can be treated as mad. There is no convincing unbelievers you are not crazy if you have religious experiences so forget about proving anything to anyone else. They might even say you are causing them to hallucinate if they end up sharing a vision with you.
So, seek and find God with fellow believers and God can do the rest... Christmas season would be a wonderful time to go home to Jesus. He is available 24/7/365 and it is not a long distance call because He is always with you where you are. We live inside Him!