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Today: We’re taught to worship great figures in history instead of believing we can BE a great person of history.
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1 Thing We Know for Sure
We Are Not in Charge
The more we insist we are, the less power we possess.
The more we respect our surroundings, the greater our potential.
For you see, we came to Earth—Earth did not come to us.
Looking around at our times, we are suddenly struck with the realization that we are all the same.
There are no culture barriers.
This is something we manufactured because we had too much time on our hands.
Women are not inferior and men superior.
This was the makings for sassy TV—but an uncomfortable lifestyle.
Oh, by the way—we can survive with less, though more seems to be our favorite word.
Hugging is heavenly.
We are learning to mask our faces but unmask our hearts.
And once and for all, we’ve demonstrated, without exception, that worry is no damn good.
Guessing can be dangerous.
Thinking is like a prayer with knowledge.
Turns out that bitching, complaining and opinions are pretty much all the same.
Humor has become the gold that will actually bring back our money.
The virus is not impressed with our two-party system.
It mocks our checks and balances.
It humiliates our Declaration of Independence and Constitution—reaching every home, even our Gettysburg Address.
Since we’re not in charge, the only thing we can do is work on us.
The B. S. M. G. Report
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Overcoming the weak in my week,
I have sought what to seek
BAD
There’s nothing to be achieved by the impeachment of Donald J. Trump.
This is not a statement on his innocence or guilt, but rather, the acknowledgement that such an endeavor is beyond us during this time with the unfolding calendar of the United States of America.
The country is weary–its citizens exhausted.
There is too much to discern to maintain any will to continue to reason.
In less than a year, an election proposed by our constitution, will settle the matter.
Although there are those who insist “an awful lot can happen in a year,” or that they wish to “nail the lid” on a coffin that has already been constructed, I contend that the deed is too costly for what might be guaranteed.
For you see, as a young man I purchased an old, green, Bell Telephone van. It was pukey. But the ugliest part of it was the carpet inside, which ran from steering wheel to back door.
I hated it. It was greasy, grimy, stained and filthy. Anyone who got into my van and saw the floor was surely convinced that I was a no-good slob.
One day I took it upon myself to get rid of that damn carpet.
I will tell you—it had been placed in the van with a notion to keep it there until Jesus had his welcome-back party. I cut, I pulled, I tore and I ripped. I probably got a lifetime of carpet fibers and asbestos up my nose.
After about three hours, I finally ripped up the last piece of carpet, though little portions stubbornly remained.
The underneath floor was just as putrid, requiring me to immediately get another carpet put in.
When I arrived at the back door of the carpet store, where I had been promised free c arpet from left-over jobs, the manager looked in my van and said, “Why’d you tear the old carpet out? You should have shampooed it and then put new carpet on top.”
Here are the facts:
Whether you’re a MAGA enthusiast for the President or you believe he’s the anti-Christ, he was duly elected and is part of our bizarre American history.
If you want him gone, wait for the next election.
Clean him out of Washington.
And lay down a new layer of carpet.
Because impeaching is like tearing out carpet—it’s a helluva project and will leave you with a bigger job at the end.
SAD
Sitting in my chair watching television, I teared up.
Maybe I’m an emotional fool, but sometimes I cry because I realize the great potential and am inundated with the present reality.
As I watched, person after person after show after news broadcast conveyed one message:
“You can’t trust anyone.”
Sometimes it was said sadly, sometimes communicated in anger. But in all cases, it was a definitive proclamation that trusting humans is not only foolish but dangerous.
Yet it will certainly be difficult to solve problems when the people we need to help us have become our enemies.
MAD
I don’t want to be a whiner.
I don’t want to be one of those kinds of guys who bitches about things and refuses to leave well enough alone.
And even though I have an abiding joy in watching college football, I am greatly disturbed at how it is gradually becoming America’s modern-day slave market.
57% of the college football athletes are black.
That is compared to 13% of the general population being that color.
Only 2.8% of the students on campuses are African American.
But 70% of the fan base of college football is Caucasian.
On top of that, sports announcers have begun to discuss the athletes as if they’re specimens instead of human beings.
- “He has a huge, massive chest.”
- “Look at his rock-hard abs.”
- “He has thighs twice the size of a normal boy his age.”
- “He looks like Adonis.”
At first hearing, you might think these are compliments, but actually they are observations—the same kinds of asides spoken by slave-traders as they walked among the young black men, stolen and brought over from Africa.
Granted, some of these young men may be headed for the National Football League, to make much money, unlike their unfortunate ancestors. But this does not rationalize the attitudes, terminology and carelessness with which these human beings are regarded.
Meanwhile, not many people are concerned about their education, integration into human life or even their communication skills.
It is racist.
It may be a gentle racism, or even an entertaining one—but it is racist.
Let’s not get rid of college football, but please—let us cease and desist with the plantation talk.
GLAD
There are three outstanding statements that must be honored for the human race to continue to run well.
1. All humans are created equal.
2. In the kingdom of God, there is neither male nor female.
3. Don’t judge unless you want to be judged.
Every time one, two or dare I say, all three of these, link up to form a circle of understanding, my soul rejoices.
So when “Black Lives Matters” arrived along with the “Me Too Movement,” complete with a new awakening of patriotism in this nation, I didn’t see campaigns at war with one another.
We are gradually beginning to grasp that these ideas, along with many others scattered out there, are like the yarn of understanding that must be knit together, to help us endorse our equality, our genders uniting, and the removal of prejudice.
May they create the circle of understanding that is unbroken.
The P Word … May 21st, 2019
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WORD
Today I have two words. Each one individually could fit our category, but together, they become a negative fiasco. So the P word—or words, in this case:
Political Pundit
I hope you can see my point.
Politics, as a whole, rather than being a launching pad for the discovery of truth, has become a rocket jettisoned into the landscape of reasonability.
And a pundit is someone who already has decided, and makes the circumstances fit the philosophy, and the questions conform to stump answers.
Let me further unpeel the onion of nonsense by stating that a conservative approach to life is incapable of providing all the answers.
Likewise, as we take off the rose-colored glasses, let us admit that being liberal doesn’t always honor the kind of hindsight essential to balancing power.
So since both suffer from inadequacy, a little humility might be in order with the body politic—and certainly, the absence of anyone who becomes a champion for one thinking.
Alas, we don’t do it that way. Instead, once we decide on our political position, we become pundits of the party line. This has degraded our national dialogue down to hurling grenades of insults.
We are crazed.
Until we stop accepting politics and funding pundits, we will be a nation under the control of whoever can fund the most outlandish plans and suit up the prettiest announcers.
Political pundits: two words that need to be removed from our lingo.
We don’t need politics.
Just get the facts and make decisions based upon our Constitution and the convictions of our national soul.
We don’t need pundits.
Because once we discover what direction we’re going—whether conservative or liberal—what we are looking to achieve is unity, not dissent.
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Sit Down Comedy …February 22nd, 2019
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For the sake of our “Sit Down Comedy” today, I shall refer to this as my Mull-it-Over Report. It is the ongoing investigation done on my life by the people around me, who constantly draw conclusions about my veracity and authenticity.
There is also a Mull-it-Over Report on you. You may not be aware of it yet it persists.
For even though human beings are not supposed to judge, it truthfully ends up being one of our favorite pastimes. We love to consider, reveal and scrutinize the lives of other folks, secretly convincing ourselves that we are in much better shape than them.
This is not limited to strangers you meet, but actually more prevalent among those you consider to be friends and family. Matter of fact, some people discover this Mull-it-Over Report being prepared by friends and loved ones and become so offended that they begin grudges which may last decades, or even until such time as death does its part.
It would be ridiculous for me to turn to humanity and say, “Listen, I know you’re doing a Mull-it-Over Report on me, but I want you to give me the results of that investigation and let me boil it down to a summary before you pass it along to the masses.”
Even if I told everyone I had an attorney-in-general who was going to be my reviewer of the final conclusions, I would never be allowed to tamper with what other people have decided to testify about me or against me.
I have two options:
A. Make it a moot point by living a solid, honest life.
B. Or make it a moot point by letting everybody know I don’t give a damn.
I do not have the possibility of controlling the thinking, reactions or determinations of those around me who have decided, for whatever reason, to investigate my doings and come up with the Mull-it-Over Report.
It would be similar to having children in school and waiting for their six- or eight-week report card, and then discovering that the school had allowed the students to take the tally of their grades and rewrite it into a summary which they would present to their parents. Although it would be popular with the young ones, the school system would be errant in allowing it, and the parents, daft in permitting it.
No, even though I may be nervous by the notion of a Mull-it-Over Report on my life, it is ongoing, irreversible and definitely without edit.
What is even more frightening is that the story goes that God, Himself, is keeping such a record on each and every one of us. (I don’t know about you, but I just got a chill down my spine.)
Since I can do nothing to avoid the Mull-it-Over Report being completed and passed along about me, it may be a bit ridiculous to think that anyone who is a public servant of the United States, entrusted with the care of the Constitution, should have the right to appoint an individual who is commissioned to write the Cliff Notes on a government report about him and his associates.
Here’s what we know. If you are working with several people who were in your business who are indicted, convicted and sent to jail, there are only two possibilities:
1. These people are working at your behest, with your blessing and your orders, since you are their honcho.
2. Or, you have a benevolent spirit which causes you to look on your business as a ministry to help those who are criminally minded—to rehabilitate.
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Dear Man/Dear Woman: A Noteworthy Conversation … November 12th, 2016
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Man: Checks and balances.
Woman: What about them?
Man: They’re crap.
Woman: What an un-American thing to say.
Man: It’s not un-American to find a flaw in the system. You can still honor the traditions of our republic.
Woman: OK. I’ll buy into it. What makes them crap?
Man: Too many checks to create balance. We base this whole political organization of our government on the mindset of men who were frightened to death of kings and courts, and highly suspicious of each other.
Woman: Why were they suspicious?
Man: Because each colony was an entity unto itself. The idea of being united was tenuous, if not comical. So they put so many provisions into the Constitution to protect themselves that the government struggles to make any progress for the common good.
Woman: We have made a lot of progress in America.
Man: Have we? It took one hundred years after the Declaration of Independence to free the slaves. It took another hundred years to give those same people voting rights. And it appears like it’s going to take a hundred MORE years to start treating them like they’re white.
Woman: Oh, you’re just mad because Hillary lost.
Man: Speaking of that, how could a woman of your intelligence vote for Donald Trump?
Woman: Because I didn’t want the Clintons in the White House again, and even though I know there’s some chauvinism involved with President Trump, I’ve dealt with chauvinism all my life. I was just not certain that Hillary would be President instead of Bill.
Man: Well, I’m not gonna argue with you. I’m just explaining to you that this process of checks and balances in this country–where the President can only do certain things because Congress interferes and the Supreme Court comes along and overrules everything–well, the idea is overly cautious and clumsy. Let me give you another example. It took a hundred and forty years for our country to give the right to vote to women, and another hundred years before a female was even considered for President. God knows how long it will take for a lady to hold the position.
Woman: So what are you suggesting?
Man: I’m suggesting we choose our leadership more carefully instead of making it like a high school popularity contest, so that they are evaluated and hired similarly to the way people get jobs in the private sector–because they are qualified and experienced, not based stubbornness and how pretty they are.
Woman: But you do want to give people the right to vote, right?
Man: Absolutely. But let’s understand. The two candidates who ran for President this year should have been evaluated on their resumés instead of their stamina and determination.
Woman: And what would have happened?
Man: I don’t know. It’s just that the President of the United States should be the CEO of this great corporation instead of being at the mercy of the partisan inclinations of a Congress which is working harder to get elected than they are at passing laws to benefit the citizens.
Woman: How about the Supreme Court?
Man: I would like to know what nine people we know of who have the wisdom to overturn the Congress and the President.
Woman: So what do you suggest?
Man: Less checks will bring more balance. People have to have jobs. You can’t tell the President that he or she is the leader of the country and undercut him or her right and left with the priorities of some junior congressman from North Dakota.
Woman: But it’s worked for all these years.
Man: Has it? Some of the best programs in our country came through the inclinations of a single person who we chose to be our leader. The Emancipation Proclamation was Lincoln’s baby. Social Security was spawned by FDR. The United Nations was originally conceived by Woodrow Wilson. And much of the War on Poverty was the hope child of LBJ.
Woman: I see your point. So how will this work?
Man: Well, honestly, I’m curious about the Presidency of Donald Trump. Will we accidentally stumble into some more realistic ways to open the door to good legislation because we have disrupted the normal passing of the torch from one old politician to another old politician?
Woman: Interesting. What you’re saying is, there was a need for this particular interruption because we have stymied the country with gridlock with the two parties. We’ve actually endangered the well-being of the people the government was meant to serve.
Man: I think so. There are three major problems that need to be changed. We’ve got too much culture. We have to decide if we really are “one nation under God.” Number two, the gender bias is killing us. Having an ongoing conflict between men and women never gives us a moment’s peace. And third, we certainly need to cease the class warfare–the poor against the rich and the rich against the poor.
Woman: That’s a tall order.
Man: Yes, but if we don’t take on the tall order, we’re going to greatly suffer under the short-comings.
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Good News and Better News … July 11th, 2016
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Yesterday I was bestowed the great honor of sharing my traveling message with the dear hearts of the Reformation Lutheran Church in Reading, Pennsylvania.
There are certainly folks who would contend that Martin Luther did very little to reform the Catholic Church, but instead, ended up starting his own ecclesiastical order. Matter of fact, some people will tell you that he retained the worst of the Mother Church while losing the more endearing portions–like Bingo and delicious fish frys.
But undoubtedly, there is a need for the religious system to be reformed and become more like the church that Jesus envisioned. What would that church be?
If you recall, after his resurrection Jesus gave Peter a simple instruction about how to empower the believers: “Feed my sheep.”
Although it’s true that politics, entertainment and religion attempt to feed the populace, each one tends to focus on only a part of the human experience, leaving other aspects unattended.
Humans are heart, soul, mind and strength.
Emotions need to be fed. This is what Jesus meant by “blessed are the pure in heart.” We must cease being afraid of our feelings, and air them out to see if they have any validity.
Feed the soul. The spirit of humankind lives off of a truth that makes us free to pursue wisdom. When the truth is diluted or hidden, we become religious instead of soulful.
Feed the mind. The brain retains. To get rid of faulty retention, there has to be a renewing, with fresh information and invigorating dialogue.
Feed the strength. We have bodies. They run on fuel. The more we feed our bodies the correct fuel and exercise, the healthier we feel.
As I spoke to the folks in Reading yesterday, I realized that they had arrived at the church weary from a week filled with bad news. They needed to be fed.
So emotionally, we told them that nothing happens until we show up, and nothing is over until we give up.
Spiritually, we shared that nothing of quality begins on Earth unless we understand that judging one another closes the door to fellowship.
Mentally, we challenged them that a God who loves us wants us to be happy instead of sacrificing our dreams to restricted religious regulation.
And physically? Well physically, we told them that the doorway to good health is to start off by enjoying the life God has given us and finding pathways to make it more abundant.
We can become the reformation church if we realize that those who come through our doors need to be fed–heart, soul, mind and strength.
That’s the good news.
The better news is that we don’t need to make up a program or draft a fresh constitution. Jesus has already laid out a terrific platform for complete human growth through his Sermon on the Mount.
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