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“But know this—that if the good man of the house had known when the thief would come, he would have watched and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.” *
We weren’t watching.
Maybe it’s because there isn’t a good man among us. I don’t know.
Maybe we thought there weren’t any real thieves out there.
Perhaps we were bewitched into believing that a Republican or a Democrat possessed any spirit to follow through on basic human integrity.
Maybe it’s because we were afraid to admit that the whole political system is evil, and nobody can exist within its parameters without absorbing the filth.
Again—I don’t know.
The thieves have come in and broken up our house.
We could get angry.
We could call all the politicians “sons-of-a-bitches.”
We can insist the ones who wear red hats are righteous or the ones with the blue hats are benevolent.
But we’d be missing the point.
The tree is corrupt, so the fruit will be rotten.
Moving forward, if we’re going to protect the American house, we need to make sure we’re not allowing thieves to come in and handle the national jewels.
This will require that we stop prancing around the room, talking about voting, civic responsibility and checks and balances, but instead, ask more internal, piercing questions of those who would desire to lead us.
I only want to know four things about anybody.
I don’t care if he mows my lawn, distributes my groceries or is the President of the United States. And the answers to these questions tell me whether I can trust him or her and therefore grant my support.
Just four questions—and if you agree, you can stop concerning yourself with immigration, the economy, health insurance and social standards. The answers to the questions tell you whether an individual running for office truly gives a damn about anybody.
So here are the questions I want to ask anybody I ever meet, to inform me where he or she is coming from and where they’re going:
- Can you tell the truth?
- Can you confess your faults?
- Can you learn?
- Can you love your neighbor as yourself?
After I ask them, I listen to the answers. I don’t accept, “I’ll try,” or “Everybody tells a fib now and then,” or “Who do you think I should confess to?” or “I’m pretty smart the way I am but I could probably learn,” or the classic—“Who’s my neighbor?”
The answers are actually easy:
- I not only can tell the truth, I want you to hold me to the truth, and when you catch me, I want you to stop me.
- I will confess my faults, because I know you will find them eventually anyway, and if I confess them, I have a better chance of being healed.
- I don’t work on being smart. I work on increasing my capacity and hunger to learn. There are too many angles for any one person to figure out.
- I will love my neighbor as myself because it’s the only way I can guarantee a positive ending to any situation.
You can go ahead and believe in politics if you want to—but as the “good man of the house,” I see the thieves coming around again, and I, for one, am going to do everything I can to make sure they don’t come in and break up our house anymore.
*Matthew 24:43
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G-Poppers … October 20th, 2017
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He was tall, lean, with tight jeans, leather skin, cowboy hat and a big cigarette puffing out of his head.
He was The Marlboro Man.
G-Pop grew up believing that this cowboy was the symbol of masculinity.
Unfortunately, G-Pop was so-so tall, portly, marshmallow skin, baseball hat, with no “Puff the Magic Dragon.” Needless to say, his appearance was not deemed macho.
The vision persisted until other images of emaciated victims of cigarette smoking splashed on the scene–the consequence of years of tobacco, tar and nicotine.
So nowadays we don’t really know what makes up a man or what constitutes a woman, though we are certain that the two sexes are better when they intertwine instead of interact.
What makes a man?
What constitutes a woman?
It does sound like the beginning of a very long essay, or a series done by a writer attempting to generate readership through a dribble of controversy. G-Pop shall save you the time.
The absence of truth places every human being right back in the center of the animal kingdom, willing to do anything to survive.
And as Pontius Pilate sardonically phrased, “What is truth?”
Truth is what we understand to be factual, while waiting for more information to enlighten us.
There’s nothing sexier than telling the truth.
Nothing more romantic than making it clear that you can be trusted.
There’s nothing more valuable to another soul than being able to relax with the account that’s been stated, and have some measure of confidence that it’s true.
Matter of fact, the truth sounds terribly alluring until you realize that occasionally it demands confession, apologies and repentance.
There is a contingency of our society that has begun to believe that the best way to avoid difficulty is to always deny any responsibility. It is pukey, sickening and devoid of any of the clarity which makes it simpler to live life.
Somebody lied to The Marlboro Man about cigarettes, so he ended up lying to us. Somebody’s lying today, and we are being tempted to buy into the lies and offer them up as explanations.
God help us all.
G-Pop would love to encourage his children to tell the truth, beginning with themselves.
It’s not always pretty, but it is always beautiful.
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