Hitting Nails; Biting Bullets, the Bill Cosby Way

By David Darnell

d2r2 said... [retrieved from HERE for post by PD]
As I washed dishes on Saturday, by hand, using only enough water to get them cleaned and rinsed... Knowing that this is only feasible for a single person... Automatic dishwashers are wonderful, economical and disease preventers.

So, as I stood at the kitchen sink, I was thinking about the dilemma the world is in. The specific thought was related to real estate closings being delayed because of the limitations placed on the appraisal process by various lenders and loan underwriters, i.e. banks and government entities, i.e. Bank of America, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc.

These are the same entities that were lending money to under-qualified buyers and making fairyland credit available. All the while the media was whipping everyone into a recession frenzy, with unbridled rhetoric about escalated housing prices in some markets...artificially inflated oil prices, drop in GDP, overpriced stock on Wall Street...all of the things that really don't interest the "Middle American".

[Read Article FWD :: FWD Email -- Bill Cosby HERE]

Bill Cosby is talking about the "Cliches" that makes this country stand above the rest. We are bound and obligated by our Constitution, which is a document based on Christianity, the working mans religion, to solve these issues ourselves, you and me, together. Buy American, think American, eat, sleep and drink American. Do you understand the difficulty of this?

God's covenant to America is written in the document. Read it...several times if you wish. It is great reading. Everything Bill is espousing is mete and right. The hard part is to implement and uphold.

In the Name of Jesus we must ask for God to resolve us. Pray for each other, as you've never done before. Also pray for those who hold office, that they will ask for forgiveness and re-invent the government in the Name of Jesus, who didn't become man to be served but to serve.

Also say a special prayer for M. Phelps to someday do the 100 fly so fast we don't have to talk about it anymore.

Re-Edit Of Virtue -- i.e. " I'll be Frank PART Deux and One-half"

A Much Less Rambling Essay than Previous Post
by Pat Darnell and Family


Previously: "Virtue is excellence and perfection, just as vice, its contrary, denotes a defect or absence of perfection. In its strictest meaning, however, as used by moral philosophers and theologians, it signifies a habit super-added to a faculty of the soul, disposing it to elicit with readiness acts conformable to our rational nature." (June 9, 2009; HERE)


Tornado Proofing our Family Structures with Virtue
by Pat Darnell

Families are proving ground for young ones learning virtues, simply by providing opposites of virtues. How? For instance, where else can a child learn bribery, graft, usurpation, avarice or jealousy, bargaining, pecking order, time-wasters, and blundering. A child learns early these torments, and how others deal with them -- where else besides in a family of siblings, cousins, grandparents, aunts and uncles. As above: "a habit super-added to a faculty of the soul, disposing it to elicit with readiness acts conformable to our rational nature."

For me that little definition implies family life -- no matter how virtuous or not -- is rational. Also, how can one depart from one's soul, and not seek virtues in the presence of one's own family members? Tornadoes will come in whirlwinds of family life, expect them.

Sure, one can read virtue in Shakespeare, or listen to music describe virtue in the remnants of life -- life as work, life as eating, life as sleeping, as history -- birth and death. It turns out, no infant I know can read at her age of one year. That cancels out Shakespeare as a source reference for Baby's dealing with her litter of siblings, cousins, parents and their siblings.... right?

You bet that is right. By age five, supposedly, a child may have locked in what her personality will be. It has to do with birth order, genetic arrangements and the condition of her domicile. No other frame of reference is used that magically dominates a child's condition.

Looking around, but of course, I find no first person narrative has ever been written from the first five years of infancy. Not even the first five years of Jesus's life is written in a first person guide to aid in our development as virtuous family members. However, later Jesus did ask his followers to receive His faith in His next of kin -- God the Father... eh? [Thanks to Garnetgurl]

Like some cultures, we also could consider children of infancy are absolutely in their own communion with their universe. As "beings" not of our world, Virtue is born there, in the secret language of infants.

I realize this is a monster assumption, on many levels, and therefore looks like a conspiracy. My frame of reference comes from observation of our six children. I sincerely hope our men-children and women-children transcend my assumption, and prove someday where virtue really does spawn. I only ask that some how we at last apply -- continually -- virtues, for which there is no law against, in our lives as family members. I know in my heart there is plenty room for improvement in all resolve of stormy times amongst family people.

There can be no harm in exploring possibilities of tornado proofing our domiciles with virtues purchased and forwarded by our ancestry; and should we invite an elephant into our Living Room, we should at least discuss it's presence there... no?

I'll be Frank: Part Deux

PHOTO's: Legacy pictures from our grandfathers Darnell and Hynds

Previously: "Virtue is excellence and perfection, just as vice, its contrary, denotes a defect or absence of perfection. In its strictest meaning, however, as used by moral philosophers and theologians, virtue signifies a habit super-added to a faculty of the soul, disposing it to elicit with readiness acts conformable to our rational nature." (excerpt, MooPig Wisdom, June 9, 2009; HERE)


Tornado Proofing our Family Structures with Virtue
by Pat Darnell

It occurs in many families throughout the land, an explosion of tempers, that is remembered by siblings and parents. Usually this expository of emotion relieves no one, and whatever the real issues were, are forgotten. A tornado flits by, lifts the roof from the rafters, tussles the household; then it is over.

Have I considered path of man from child to man and woman in this manner? Yes. We understand this: we come to an understanding first with our family persons that we do not understand each other... whoever we are. Why?

Most of my life I enjoyed fat breakfast every morn, a fabulous book to read, and blessing of work every day. I have had hard days, and hard day's nights. By the grace of God I survived. What I did not experience has been explained to me with freedom of word and deed. My entire family is surviving still all around.

Do I believe Families provide a chance for young ones to learn virtues, simply by teaching the opposites of those characteristics? Yes I do, but how?

For instance, where else can a child learn bribery, graft, usurpation, avarice or jealousy, bargaining, pecking order, time-wasters, and blundering. A child learns early these torments, and how others deal with them, where else but in their family of siblings, cousins, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and pets. As above: "a habit super-added to a faculty of the soul, disposing it to elicit with readiness acts conformable to our rational nature."

For me that little definition implies that family life -- no matter how virtuous or not -- is rational. Also, how can one depart from one's soul, and not seek virtues in the presence of one's own family members?

Sure, rationally, one can choose to read virtues and contrary themes in Shakespeare, or listen to music describe remnants of life -- life as work, life as eating, life as sleeping -- and of course birth and death.

No infant I know can read at her age of one year. That cancels out Shakespeare as a source reference for Baby's dealing with her litter of siblings, cousins, parents and their own siblings.... right?

You bet that is right. By age five it is said children have locked in what each's personality will be. It has to do with birth order, genetic arrangements and the condition of their domicile. No other frame of reference is used that magically dominates a child's condition.

Looking around, but of course, I find no first-person narrative has ever been written from the first five years of infancy point-of-view. Not even the first five years of infant Jesus's life is written in a first person guide to aid in our development as virtuous family members. However, later Jesus did ask his followers to receive His faith in His next of kin -- God the Father... eh? [Thanks to Garnetgurl]

Like some cultures, we also could consider children of infancy are absolutely in their own communion with the universe. Virtue, and its contradictions, is born there, in the secret language of infants, and practiced later in families.

I realize this is a monster assumption, on many levels, and looks like a conspiracy. My frame of reference comes from observing my six children I have been given. I don't apologize for being a lifetime learner. And, between you and me, I assume that anyone who finds this interesting, will transcend my belief and prove someday where virtue really does spawn. If only some how we at last apply virtues, for which there is no law against, in our lives as family members.

Frankly, there can be no harm in exploring possibilities of tornado proofing our houses with virtues purchased and forwarded by our ancestry; and should we invite an elephant into our Living Room, we should at least discuss it's presence there... no?

"The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds." (Theo Jansen)

Macronutia and Micronutia

A year and some days ago, as I was traveling along my usual route to a job, God intervened in my life with a Grip of Love and Sternness all at once. The Grip was powerful enough to make it hard to breath and involuntary tears streamed down my face. I continued driving because I wasn't steering anymore, so the car just moved along with traffic and I felt the presence of our God . There was no fear or discomfort, just a squeeze on me...very powerful.

I had been following a news story of a young couple who killed their child. The young man described his act, how he disposed of the body and then fled. It was sensational news playing to an eager audience like so much bad news does. I wondered, why stories like this are sought out by the media and kept on a front-burner by the public. I had a fair amount of outrage and was thinking to myself about the need to hear about the good and godly men who go about the daily job of working, nurturing, instructing and fearing God. Not much on the tube or in the press about them.

I thought of the hundreds of millions of righteous men who don't ever receive a word of praise or thanks outside of their immediate circle. In Jesus' Name they should be counted and named as being faithful and steadfast to God. Believing in Him and following the Covenant given them by Jesus. At the very least, they... we should form a constant coalition of "Faithful and Steadfast to God" men to further God's work on this beautiful orb... He created, along with us and our dominion. As men of God, our duty is to correct the distorted view satan tries to present.

So this blog was started from this moment a year ago. I praise God that it has remained available. I thank God for my blog master brother who can channel God's word righteously. Several dear people, who I only know from this blog, have commented over the year. This is the ninety-ninth post. Meaningless but significant. Our God is an awesome God. He has given us the means to Wisdom, His Word... and Salvation, Jesus Christ. Such gifts to be thankful for and try to live as... The Word says and as Jesus taught us. Be diligent in the rejections of the diversions the adversary lays in our path.

I think of the small amount of words we are able to use in these blogs. The blogs are larger than we can imagine. The world is full of them but they are little, nearly invisible compared to the capability.

" By faith-by believing in God-we know that the world and the stars-in fact, all things-were made at God's command; and that they were made from things that can't be seen."

Faith in God is our guide to life. We use His given talents in the life to gain Wisdom. In our quest for Wisdom, we must not pursue, but must give it over to Him to guide us... through the redemption Jesus granted us, to what true life is.

Will that turn out to be anything we can imagine? I feel God's presence as a cloak around my shoulders with the devil's windy and deceitful ways pushing it up and off, still secured across my back, God can calm the devilish winds. We as faithful, steadfast and loving men should be wary and alert for these gusts trying to knock us off the narrow path, making us miss the gate. Only a small, immeasurable time dealing with the adversary is needed to awaken our flesh and we stray from our Guide. To pray and meditate back to God is both rewarding and exhilarating. I am in constant awe of the prospect of being in the presence of The Lord.

It's a macronutial feeling that makes me strive to get the micronutial ones, in the mean time.

Improvisational Tunes.. Fabuloso

Matthew 10 :: Jesus Sends Out the Twelve

'The kingdom of heaven is near.' The reward is Duty...
Retrieved HERE by PD [note -- these scriptures should always be read in context, so here it is]

1He called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.

2These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; 3Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; 4Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

5These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: "Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. 6Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. 7As you go, preach this message: 'The kingdom of heaven is near.' 8Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy,[b]drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. 9Do not take along any gold or silver or copper in your belts; 10take no bag for the journey, or extra tunic, or sandals or a staff; for the worker is worth his keep.

11"Whatever town or village you enter, search for some worthy person there and stay at his house until you leave. 12As you enter the home, give it your greeting. 13If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. 14If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. 15I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town. 16I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

17"Be on your guard against men; they will hand you over to the local councils and flog you in their synagogues. 18On my account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles. 19But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, 20for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

21"Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. 22All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. 23When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

24"A student is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. 25It is enough for the student to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebub,[c] how much more the members of his household!

26"So do not be afraid of them. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. 27What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. 28Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. 29Are not two sparrows sold for a penny[d]? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. 30And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

32"Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. 33But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.

34"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn
" 'a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law -
36a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.'[e]

37"Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; 38and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

40"He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives the one who sent me. 41Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and anyone who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward. 42And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward."

Draw closer, Listen carefully

Not long ago I heard a story about a young man and an old preacher.

The young man had lost his job and didn't know which way to turn.
So, he went to see the preacher.

Pacing about, the young man ranted about his problem.
Finally, he raised a clenched fist and shouted,
" I've prayed to God to say something to help me.
Tell me, preacher, why doesn't God answer me?"

The preacher, who sat across the room , spoke something so
hushed it was indistinguishable. The young man stepped
across the room, "What did you say?"
The preacher repeated himself, but again in a tone as soft
as a whisper. So the young man moved closer still and said,
" Sorry, I still didn't hear you."

With their heads bent together, the old preacher spoke again,
" God sometimes whispers, so we will move closer, to hear Him."
This time the young man heard; and he understood.

We all want God's voice to thunder through the air with answers.
But God's is the still, small voice...the gentle whisper.

Perhaps there's a reason. Nothing draws human focus quite like a
whisper. God's whisper means I must stop my ranting and move
closer to Him, until my head is bent together with His.
And then, as I listen, I will find my answer.
Better still, I find myself closer to God.

Yes, "They" Said It...

Subject: I feel smarter already !!!!!!!





(On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as
Miss America 1995.)
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: 'I would not live forever, because we should not live forever,
because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever,
but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,'
-- Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest .
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'Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the
world, I can't help but cry I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but
not with all those flies and death and stuff.'
--Mariah Carey
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'Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of
your life.'
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for
federal anti-smoking campaign.
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'I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.'
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
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'Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates
in the country.'
--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC

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'That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and
I'm just the one to do it.'
--A congressional candidate in Texas
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'Half this game is ninety percent mental.'
--Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark
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'It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities
in our air and water that are doing it.'
--Al Gore, Vice President
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'I love California . I practically grew up in Phoenix '
-- Dan Quayle while campaigning

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'We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need ?'
--Lee Iacocca
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'The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like
Norman Einstein.'
--Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.
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'We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of
people.'
-- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor .
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'Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we
received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply
if there is a change in your circumstances.'
--Department of Social Services, Greenville , South Carolina
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'Traditionally, most of Australia 's imports come from overseas.'
--Keppel Enderbery
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'If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as
they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And
the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record.'
--Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman
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Feeling smarter yet?


Send it on to your brilliant friends.

I just did !!

Obedient to God

1. ENJOINED » See COMMANDMENTS
2. ENJOINED » See DUTY
3. ENJOINED » See LAW
4. EXEMPLIFIED » See BLESSINGS, CONTINGENT UPON OBEDIENCE
5. EXEMPLIFIED » See COMMANDMENTS
6. FILIAL » See CHILDREN
7. INSTANCES OF » Noah (Genesis 6:9,22;7:5; Hebrews 11:7)
8. INSTANCES OF » Bethuel and Laban (Genesis 24:50)
9. INSTANCES OF » Jacob (Genesis 35:1,7)
10. INSTANCES OF » Moses (Numbers 27:12-22; Hebrews 3:2,3)
11. INSTANCES OF » Moses and Aaron (Exodus 7:6;40:16,21,23,32)
12. INSTANCES OF » Under the preaching of Haggai (Haggai 1:12)
13. INSTANCES OF » Caleb (Deuteronomy 1:36)
14. INSTANCES OF » Joshua (Joshua 10:40;11:15)
15. INSTANCES OF » Reubenites (Joshua 22:2,3)
16. INSTANCES OF » Gideon (Judges 6:25-28)
17. INSTANCES OF » David (1 Samuel 18:14;25:28; 1 Kings 11:6,34;15:5; 2 Chronicles 29:2; Acts)
18. INSTANCES OF » Elisha (1 Kings 19:19-21)
19. INSTANCES OF » Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:6; 2 Chronicles 31:20,21; Isaiah 38:3)
20. INSTANCES OF » Josiah (2 Kings 22:2;23:24,25)
21. INSTANCES OF » Asa (2 Chronicles 14:2)
22. INSTANCES OF » Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 17:3-6;20:32;22:9)
23. INSTANCES OF » Jehoiada (2 Chronicles 24:16)
24. INSTANCES OF » Uzziah (2 Chronicles 26:4,5)
25. INSTANCES OF » Jotham (2 Chronicles 36:22,23)

Father Hood of State Street

You Want to Go Where? In Our Car?
Richard sent you a message.

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Re: libro di faccia

I AM the troll of my household! The ogre of State St. - The spoiling fool of
adolescent schemes - The only denier of childrens wishes - the intolerant of
days and the worst papa' in the world.
A solid head-butt will afford me a much needed sleep, so I welcome it.
I am compartmentalizing, of course, and remain much in love on the eastern front
while the afore mentioned battle rages with kids in the west.
I am therefore much loved and much hated - and much in demand for cleaning
dishes.
Viva your mass! In all forms - intellectual, emotional and physical - it has
always over come me.

James 4 [Amplified] Tender Reminder to me ..."

[SOURCE]

1WHAT LEADS to strife (discord and feuds) and how do conflicts (quarrels and fightings) originate among you? Do they not arise from your sensual desires that are ever warring in your bodily members?

2You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled; [so] you become murderers. [To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.] You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek], so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask. [I John 3:15.]

3[Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual pleasures.

4You [are like] unfaithful wives [having illicit love affairs with the world and breaking your marriage vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world's friend is being God's enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world takes his stand as an enemy of God.

5Or do you suppose that the Scripture is speaking to no purpose that says, The Spirit Whom He has caused to dwell in us yearns over us and He yearns for the Spirit [to be welcome] with a jealous love?(A)

6But He gives us more and more grace ([a]power of the Holy Spirit, to meet this evil tendency and all others fully). That is why He says, God sets Himself against the proud and haughty, but gives grace [continually] to the lowly (those who are humble enough to receive it).(B)

7So be subject to God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him], and he will flee from you.

8Come close to God and He will come close to you. [Recognize that you are] sinners, get your soiled hands clean; [realize that you have been disloyal] wavering individuals with divided interests, and purify your hearts [of your spiritual adultery].

9[As you draw near to God] be deeply penitent and grieve, even weep [over your disloyalty]. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your mirth to dejection and heartfelt shame [for your sins].

10Humble yourselves [feeling very insignificant] in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you [He will lift you up and make your lives significant].

11[My] brethren, do not speak evil about or accuse one another. He that maligns a brother or judges his brother is maligning and criticizing the Law and judging the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are not a practicer of the Law but a censor and judge [of it].

12One only is the Lawgiver and Judge Who is able to save and to destroy [the One Who has the absolute power of life and death]. [But you] who are you that [you presume to] pass judgment on your neighbor?

13Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city and spend a year there and carry on our business and make money.

14Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? You are [really] but a wisp of vapor (a puff of smoke, a mist) that is visible for a little while and then disappears [into thin air].

15You ought instead to say, If the Lord is willing, we shall live and we shall do this or that [thing].

16But as it is, you boast [falsely] in your presumption and your self-conceit. All such boasting is wrong.

17So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin.

1 Corinthians 10

12Therefore let anyone who thinks he stands [who feels sure that he has a steadfast mind and is standing firm], take heed lest he fall [into sin].

13For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not [b]adjusted and [c]adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful [to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will [always] also provide the way out (the means of escape to [d]a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently. [Ver. Amplified, SOURCE]

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Advocating Grass-Roots Solutions

By Dave Darnell
If I'm not mistaken, which would be highly unusual, this stumper is Dr. Ron Paul. The, steady as she goes anti-government legislator, from Brazoria County, Texas, home of the Mosquito Festival in Clute. He has been advocating grass-roots solutions to bureaucratic caused problems; partisan pork-barrel spending, inflated budgetary boondoggles, mindless government rhetoric, since the early seventies.

Up until several months ago, much attention was given to the widening gap between rich and poor, with poor spilling up into middle, also. In the nosedive, the playing field is being leveled. Stanford takes retired teachers out with millionaire baseball players also. You can buy a chalk line and chalk for four shares of Home Depot stock.
What the deal is, now we get to test American ingenuity and perseverance with full technological support. The word on the street is "Made in USA" has more clout worldwide than it ever has.

Ron Paul and others before him felt as if "home of the free" meant free from over-bearing government or monarchy or dictatorship, whichever fits the circumstance. That same mindset is here and we all better guard all directions, because when trillion dollar signs start showing up, so do the barracudas.

Change? It means Coin: Silver and Gold Coins

Letter to my Friend upon his Father's Illness

John Michael Talbot




REFER to: At the Hospital -- Dad UPdate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpHNJaikup0

Dear Dr J:
This is something I want to share with you and your family; and of course it is made possible only through our wonderful and at same time dubious youTube social networks.

I attended a John Michael Talbot concert in Evanston, oh, 28 years ago. The place was a converted Armour mansion, in a large ante-room. His audiences were much smaller back then, but his music no less demanding.

This morning; I am reminded of JM Talbot because you mention 1Cor 11-13… which are the most life changing verses in New Testament living.

Once I realized the true definition of Love; there are in the end three things that last — there is faith, there is hope and charity. From this standpoint the greatest gift of all is Charity, our highest love. And God is Love. In this truth only then was I released from my obsessions and various adolescent behaviors… go figure. You, probably saying: “…but, you still act like an adolescent… PD… ” (/`-} aaargggh, Mateys!

John Michael Talbot is a purist, or apologist, Franciscan, and gives the same introductionback then before concerts that you hear published in these youTubes. In all respects he is amazingly consistent, except his audiences are much larger. Good all around… gives that old spirit a lift…

Not found here, though recorded in his tapes\albums include 1Corinthians 13: “Love is patient, love is kind…” I would sing it for you if I were there. Again you probably saying,”Thank the lord for small miracles…”

It is I who says thank you for sharing. You and your family’s bravery is making us all brave too.

I just wish when I will be old, to be healthy because you can never tell how things are going. I guess your father is lucky [and blessed] to have you around. (Ovid)

Love and hugs from the Darnell’s,
PD and Clan

ps. Dr J -- if you are visiting here, I want you to know I have cousins, and a brother who need very much what you have provided in your recent postings.

The Sunday 2:56 PM Poem Moment [#Two]

Leaves
astound
a single leaf
grows year round
natural requiem
as incursions surround
to blow it from its stem

it flutters
twirls, unhurried
filling gutters
skimming ground

here I stutter:
I live in a cell
it's insane, I know
I wait for a bell
they bring food

What next they bring
glimpse of life outside
or possibly paper, and ink
or nature of my crime

Possibly a letter with a leaf
from home would suffice
to explain my identity
explain I am young not twice
with work still in my hands

but I speak a language
my captors do not know
whether they understand me..

waiting is too cold

unbound me
send me away
as a leaf in winter
blowing far and free

Apocalypse and the End Times

Maybe what we Leave Behind is Life
by Pat Darnell


Life is what we Humans do between literal fulfillment's of Prophesy. Huh?
Yes, as found in Torah and New Testament Bibles writings of the Hebrews' trials and tribulations are fabulous prophesy's described in great detail.

I am sticking my neck out; I confess most of my life has been spent thinking I am too smart for all those silly stories.

They must be symbolic, I had thought. Because, a big question has been nagging me, skirmishing in my mind from my very first encounter with Bible Prophesy. What was my first? That's easy -- "'Christ is Born...' while later that year 'Christ is Risen.'"

In all its Books: do these things happen literally, or metaphorically, or is it all symbolic?

You may have heard something about Magog, a pure Red Bull, restoring the Hebrew Language in Israel, growing vegetables and fruits in the desert.

Also, something else about a million troops army marching on Israel, but not before Hebrew speaking people have accomplished rebuilding the Temple.
As might those futurist ideas mysteriously entered your consciousness; they get my ear and linger there; yours too?

Big question leads to big answer, eh? Go figure. Yes, go figure, because it is written in the Word of both old and new Testaments, in great detail. Prophesy fulfillment is impossible to miss while reading your Bible.

Thief in the Night, is a movie presented on God TV, GTV,dealing with our questions.

"We are certainly living in the most exciting era of world history, as we earnestly await the Return of Our Lord Jesus. Over the past year however, the Lord has laid on our hearts a tremendous sobriety concerning the End-Times and we believe that it is so important to the Lord that His people were prepared in their spirits for the shaking that lies ahead and that they are not ignorant of satan’s devices. That is why we at GOD TV are sounding the alarm this month, as we bring you an extensive line-up of End-Time programming. Much of it is sobering – eye opening, but we feel it so important that all of us begin to understand the times and seasons that are upon us and that we accomplish our part in the great End-Time harvest the Father wants to bring upon the earth before the return of His beloved Son. [Rory and Wendy; 2008. Message from; HERE ]

"..We [Rory and Wendy] will personally be hosting a brand new End-Time program ‘Apocalypse and the End-Times’. We’ve had a hectic November in Washington DC after Missions Week, filming and interviewing guests such as Grant Jeffrey, Chuck Missler, Paul McGuire, Mike Evans and many more fascinating guests who specialize in eschatology, so be sure to stay tuned to GOD TV!"

You may have seen my ongoing Parody's of Life and Society at MooPig Wisdom and other places on the internet. Generally I am a hard case to get past in here. I don't go away; like old tires I'm hard to bury, even worse to burn.

I have learned through styles and method of writing just how important prophesy fulfillment is to our understanding things in the material world. Many wise people claim today in January 2009, that a full 80% of Biblical prophesy has been fulfilled literally. Now even a twisted mind has to sit up and notice when accuracies are that incredible. Read on brothers and sisters, read on; and live on free, free, free; and write, write, write.. and believe me, you will smile when you realize it is all true.
(Patrick)

Enjoy this Barry Smith Mystery of Babylon

If you have an hour and a half or so, find out secret names of George HW and his son George W Bush, PoPPy and Temporary, and check our obelisks of Washington, DC.

Prophecy, Dreams and Visions are our emails from God the Father Almighty:

Early Birds

The word for May 22 is earlybirditude

the (often annoying to others who don't share it) overly happy attitude of early birders - often associated with a great eagerness to call 7am committee meetings and to embark on sales-related shopping trips that mimic dawn raids on enemy encampments

"it's his earlybirditude i can't stand - he doesn't seem to realize that if i'm awake at 6am it's because i'm still up from the day before, not because i had a sudden urge to go running"

"only the most manic earlybirditude could make the shopping mall seem appealing the morning after thanksgiving"

Testimonial of a Poet

by Pat Darnell

At one point in my adult life I re-read Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah. I then shied away because... [this will sound silly]... I felt I was puffed up with knowledge. In other words as I with my family be-bopped around the newer, exciting, rock and roll churches in Chicago area, fellow Christians would ask me about a subject, but become troubled by my answers. Not good for one-another group gatherings. I think I became a buzz-kill, party-pooper in my circle.

But I am compelled to tell others about other dimension of some of the books in Old Testament. This is, therefore, an apology for wondering. May I explain?

One wise person once said "If you continue writing poetry past your twenties, then you are a poet..." Paraphrased here, and who wrote that, I have forgotten; the point is universal though. I found this prerequisite when I was in my thirties, and still very much a closet poet.

I then found another fantastic phrase somewhere, probably in a preface to a Zondervan Bible... "Ezekiel, Jeremiah, David, and Isaiah and the poets had lives only artists have. In the message of the Torah these writers have given us a record of the feelings of having a faith."

Poetry is that, precisely, a record of faith beyond regulation and law; in otherwise "feelings." The passages of these writers have given us a path to the depth, height and width of our feelings in relationship with God, Jesus, and Our Comforter.

Also, if I have read correctly, lives of the poet authors follow closely Vasari's Lives of the Artists. Or Stone's Agony and the Ecstasy: lives of artists are not all that Christian-looking when evaluated from a seven deadly sins perspective. Let's look at a modern poet. Say, Willie Nelson -- long-lived amidst short-lived musicians and songwriters -- is not a candidate for sainthood, it turns out his life is full of pitfalls that most others do not want to record in poetry or prose. Right?

Most persons have actually expunged from all public record deeds that are derogatory. Could I contrast Willie to Al Gore...? ...and Google to find any juicy, naughty, revealing poetry written fubu [for us/ by us] for Gore and his kin? Both Willie and Al are trying to influence society in their own time. Who is to say they are not the same person, saying the same thing in entirely different ways? One abides with poetry and feelings; the other finds his way through law and politics.

I believe articles of the Old Testament give us believers our expected standards for Faith. Interpretations matter less than our absorbing our experience as we forge ahead into the future, no matter how one reads it. In my old age I am now more convinced that Jesus considers me His present being, and it turns out He is my Past and Future being. This allows me freedom from my consternation, fear and otherwise greed, feelings that are not derived in the Spirit of Christ.

Go figure that I would be so blessed... and a total baby crying all along the way too... who would give me a chance? That is why when I see someone studying Ezekiel and the poets, I perk up:

Here is a very interesting discussion from this amazing website... thank you for reading:
Based on what I have just communicated, I now ask you: Are you also a poet?

Heaven Awaits: Bible Predicts final Fate of Gaza and Palestinians

Prophecy from the Book of Isaiah

Isa 14:29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit [shall be] a fiery flying serpent.

Isa 14:30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

Isa 14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, [are] dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none [shall be] alone in his appointed times.

Isa 14:32 What shall [one] then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

In Response to Dave's Comment on 'Those Traps'

December 22: chachki

Trinket, useless sentimental stuff filling up your book cases and counter space, miscellaneous items collected and set out to enhance your decor, stuff you should probably box up or sell in a garage sale, things kids take when their parents pass away because it reminds them of good times past.

Grandma's collection of mini spoons from around the country, mini statues (Lladro), little bowls of stuff for people to look at, figurines, doilies etc.

comment on this definition Urban Dictionary Word for the Day

Some more trappings that we pass by every day... "Times are too few that we say : I have loved you." Those are the good traps, I think.. no?

Those Traps

Sunday Night at the Rock and Roll Church,
by Pat Darnell

We have settled on a church. Brazos Fellowship has three services in the mornings and one at 6 PM. Last Sunday we attended the evening service. There is a rock and roll band on stage every time. Reminds me of... well it's all new to me. My tweens love it. (HERE)

Our pastor is good about bringing "visual aids" to the pulpit. Pastor William, "Will" for short, this time he brought out a cart. In the cart hidden from us was a "varmint trap."

He explained that he had asked Academy for a "Bear Trap," but they only carry Varmint Traps. Then he told us today's topic is about how traps are set for us on a daily basis. Then he sat down and forced open the jaws of the trap with his feet, set the firing mechanism and placed a chunk of ham on the trick arm. So he set it up on top of the cart, sprung and primed, and awesome.

Pastor Will described a host of problems that lead many to falling into traps. The common thread to all those situations had the element of temptation.

The story is his to tell, so I need not tell the whole thing here. And you guessed it: his sermon led to his pushing on the pressure plate with a long stick, and its exploding the ham shank in all directions, pieces landing like Gallagher's smashed melons.

My point today in telling this is that as Pastor Will went about telling the various angles of the scriptures and how traps are set by the temptations, including fight or flee adrenaline reactions of us the prey, he waved his hands too close to the primed trap, for my comfort.

Finally, I had to look down and away. I could not take the vision of him getting too close, or accidentally setting off the elements. Even my blood pressure started rising. I worked into a sweat just sitting and waiting the inevitable, unable to watch.

I am a worry wort, born and bred, no lie it was discomfiting. Please join me in watching out for temptations' traps: I think it is important to look for the traps, and to actually ask Jesus right away to move them away from my hands and feet, and all extremities of my wife and kids, and puppy; in context of last Sunday evening... in a building on the Parkway, in a little town in the middle of America. A ham shank and a bear trap... lesson learned -- is funny, huh?

Report from the Middle

"This is my kind of humor," says Alice.

Lettuce entertain you, then...