Enoch XXII

In the tenth Heaven the archangel Michael led Enoch to before the Lord's face.


3 And who am I to tell of the Lord's unspeakable being, and of his very wonderful face? And I cannot tell the quantity of his many instructions, and various voices, the Lord's throne very great and not made with hands, nor the quantity of those standing round him, troops of cherubim and seraphim, nor their incessant singing, nor his immutable beauty, and who shall tell of the ineffable greatness of his glory?



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Updated: GLORIA-oskees -- it was bad so I edited it !!

I would just as soon be a follower- of- Christ- type fool, ...than just a fool.

It's awards time.. time to report the best in class of recent past.
Today we could nominate: Second Chances?

Second chances is a good place to start. Faithful and steadfast means belief in second chance.
{PHOTO: we asked our actor to kick a little sand in the face of the other, but he succumbed to bullying...
Is something irritating you?

Is there sometimes a little ache in the stomach early in the morning having its way with cognitive activity? Did some bully take a cheap shot yesterday?

Long ago, one of my neighbor's visiting father told me, as we parlayed under the Hawthorne tree between our driveways, "I have cranberry juice first thing in the morning to get my bowels started."

To myself, "Whoa, that's a little more than I was ready for!"

The rest of the day he would have a vodka and cranberry juice, I guessed to embalm himself. "I'm a four handicap and play golf at the Glenview Naval Base Golf Course."

Thus, stimulus, and irritation... by my retired lawyer duffer neighbor. But he got his second chance every morning to stimulate his good intentions. He is my kind of opportunist.

Outside sources sometimes close in on me. Some irritations are heaped upon us from unlikely sources. My friend and our esoteric contributor, Compostholestoy, said to me when we met that he came to school in San Antonio from Chicago so he could play golf year round.

Last week, my brother Dave, D2R2, held the phone to his ear while playing out a par four. Both these guys are left-handed. My youngest boy, Pat2, sometimes contributor, too is a lefty. Culture has not always been nice to left-handed people. They all hit right, but write left. They are ambidextrous.

There was a time when left-handedness meant devil-possessed to some murky past cultures. Probably true in non-written-history ancient societies as well; left-handed meant about the same as follower of Wicca.

Today, in America, we know unless you have a lefty batting third in your line up, hopefully a switch hitting 333 hitter, you have no offense.

Society and political fervor do not rule; Truth rules. Second chance for society, second chance for humans, it is part of our collective experiences and mindful acts.

Details of second chance are spelled out almost every week in the world. In my experience, the Holy Spirit communicates a new detail of redemption every time a tidbit of Christ knowledge stimulates my brain... Eh?

Details are as simplistic as can be -- like the order of 1 through 5 civilization: 1-wander, 2-arrive, 3-pitch tents, 4-build altar to God the Father almighty, 5-dig a well. And if I don't get the order correct, I get a second chance. I can go back to consult the Best Information Book Life Entails, and make adjustments.

Details like -- the masculine voice of the Father and His Son: how could Cain have killed Abel if they had been women? Men of earth are a rabble. If men of this wilderness can be turned to God the Father, then salvation is imminent, in the offing. In the mind of the Creator, women are the vessel of men, how can they be also a destroyer of men?

Details -- Christ mixed His spittle with some dirt and rubbed it on the blind man's eyes, who ran to the city. Lifetime blindness, erased with a little dirt, ouch, that is simplified.

Details like -- remembrances in the flesh; Thomas had to touch the wounds, but was left with a pain in his side. Moses had a lisp. Christ was not a handsome man, rather He was common in looks. Why are there bullies in our lives?

Yes, I have reminders in my flesh; don't you too? A thorn here, a thorn there... a ten pound goiter of flesh in an odd place...

What you gonna' do about it? I'm going to ignore them and push on.

To many we are this man, as he appeared on back pages of comic books for my entire life...

And like this patron of second chance, Charles Atlas, he and I cannot heal our own blindness, but we can muddle about until the work is done.

Yeah, maybe it's time to air out the old Speedo, and do some beach work !!!!

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Anonymity of Internet: Unity in Messages

Just wanted to tell every person I have had the privilege to know, that I am so grateful to have you each in my life. I pray you have with me a blessed hour, blessed day, blessed night, week, month.... Blessed Life!

May everyone who receives this message be blessed. It is difficult to decide who I thought could go through this with me. That is because many people claim to pray, but not everyone does. I hope I chose the right twelve. Please send one of yours back to me: "You'll see why."

To magnify our blessings use this simple repeating number 12. For instance there are 12 months/ 12 disciples/ 12 tribes of Israel / Jesus' birth celebrated in the 12th month. This is our message of faith, hope and steadfast charity attached, to forward to twelve others.

Prayer is the only free gift we receive. Couldn't pay for it if you tried...and lots of reward. I encourage you to pray, and pray believing God will answer.

Today is all you need it to be. The peace of God and the ambience of His Holy Spirit rests in your thoughts, rules in your dreams, and conquers all fear. Today you wear the armor of God, and you have the enlightened mind of Jesus Christ.

God is manifest today in all ways to you, as you might never have experienced before. Look to joy fulfilled, dreams much closer, and prayers answered. I pray you experience faith at greater intensity; I pray that I and you give God the Father Almighty all our heart, and seek his rightness, that these things be added to our eternal life with Him.

I pray for peace, healing, health, happiness, prosperity, joy, true undying love for our Father.

Now send this to 12 people within 5 minutes and remember to send this back..... I count as 2, you'll see why.

Suggestion: Copy and Paste rather than just forward in email. The lists of addressees get too long.

[Note from editors: Message Received anonymously in email, edited for blog.

It has been my experience that this and other similar messages have circled the earth many times. They began when email was invented. This one is obviously very aged, in terms of how I received it: the language is unnervingly the same as it was the first five times it went by me. I mention the language because in passing messages around most the time the meaning is altered, lost or just plain mispoken. This message remains coherent.

Notice I said "five times:" I am witness how easy it is to just say no. But after it goes by several times, something starts to wriggle its way into the cognitive conscience of us beings' sitting at keyboards; Then two then four, and so on, in multiples of twelve.

I respect the logic, and the message inherent in the letter; that of encouragement. I send it on in respect for myself as keeper of faith, of hope and of charity. I look forward to a return of the message because I made an oath to seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness. I trust that others will remain loyal also. God bless you all.] >>pd d2r2