Praise & Gratitude

Thanking Jesus for Suffering

When I am suffering, as I do 24/7, or afraid, about to be tested to see if my cancer is doing anything, I praise Jesus and thank Him twenty-four seven.

I thank Him daily and constantly, knowing His suffering was unspeakably greater than mine. And not only that, His was voluntary and onto death three days and nights, for me. 

I recall reading Paul when he wrote he lived with his thorn in the flesh knowing it would be such a short time he would experience it, compared being healed and rejoicing in eternity.

Time runs out

Book with a Singular View

Being too busy is a distraction from reading the sayings of Jesus. I know. I had been reading a book containing only His words until yesterday. Busy time is lost time in the end.

On Being with Jesus

Safe & Sound

I picture myself in heaven, I am sitting just slightly behind Jesus on His left side, listening. I am not saying anything. What would I say to Jesus? He knows everything both now and what is to become.

I am only comforted to be safe where He is, thanking Him in my prayers for everything I know, both it good and bad, including whatever may be reassuring or threatening.

I feel like my little pup dorg Butter, a pug by trade.

On God & Comedy

Nonsense & Idle Words

I love to laugh and make fun of the human condition in all its' pretense, my own and friends. I've analyzed the anatomy of nonsense which is some serious stupidity right there. Jesus says to let our words be yes and no. I have not yet figured the full meaning of those words, nor the practical usage of them.

So why do we call Him Jesus? Even more serious and more clear to me, are idle words spoken in vain. Exclamations like Jimmeniny Crickets! are suspect. Not only suspect but they trivialize a serious outlook on life that mocks the Eternal and the Holy. 

On Getting Ahead from Behind

Crucifying the Body

In Favor of the Spirit

 Since my body will not help me, according to Jesus, but will crucify me as I get older, the signals are in gear for me to have faith and no ought against any.

I am getting lingering signals the long term it is to my benefit if I do not drain my time and energy annoying myself not trusting Jesus to for everything, the good the bad and the ugly.

To pick up my cross and follow Jesus is becoming increasingly clearer than I ever conceived previously. In a changing world I am changing for my unseen eternal benefit.

As with everything in the seen, it is the same with time. All I can do with it in the end is to measure it.

On Why I Will Die

The Unseen is very Deep

I can sense it, there is a reason I will die, beyond the accepted prediction drawing me short of a total eagerness for eternity. 

This because the anticipation, simply put, has an end times unpleasantness. Times that themselves, it could be said, are passing away. Maybe I will be glad of that anyway, because so many in it do not wish each other well. 

It spoils the view for strolling at sunset.

On Chances

Time Slipping Into Eternity

It seems to me that I my banana peel, after all this time, were to increase during the first fifty years and decline the next thereafter. 

I racked up my body out of the gate and now my body seems like wanting to rack me up entering the home stretch. 

I just want younger folks to know what they have to look forward to. "Time is going to enter the picture in the end." Robert Morley in Beat the Devil. Next: Crucifying the flesh? 

I Am What I am

What I Speak is What I Get

A tree is known by its' fruit. And it is I found, as I repeatedly forget, the same with myself. So now I refuse to be offended because I not only do not want to be an offensive person, but I try to take watch over my tongue, so I do not create any unpleasant unwanted fruit of myself.

Taste buds change inside time

Success & Happiness

Front End Loading

 To my knowledge Ingrid Bergman gets the most frequent credit for this double quote.

Success 

is getting what you want. 

Happiness 

is wanting what you get.

Like reincarnation. Seems exciting going in but gradually the taste buds turn on the tum tum like in overdosing chocolate.  

I was my own God for a time

On

Being My Own God

I like to remind the casual hits that I cannot persuade anyone, they have to do that themselves, just like I am doing. 

If anyone's understanding of God does not please them then I myself have already been there and done that. I found being God was altogether too much work.

Everything appearing here is my own personal viewpoint on the date entered only and can change anytime. 

I naturally assume everyone has their own slant on things. But I suspect many who want to persuade others are actually, at the core of the apple, primarily trying to persuade themselves, seeds and all. 

The coincident is too intricate

Understanding the Unexplained 

Randomness seems to be at the root of many things but this is only because we do not yet understand many things. As a result not a few say there is nothing coincident at all.

I struggle to remember the more knowledgeable are slow to conclude. Probably this is because they have more to consider, being excessively rich in knowledge.

It is harder to believe in the heaven like spiritually transcendent if one seems to be there already.

The less knowledgeable are quick to speak and slow to consider since for them there is less known to consider. If all this is true then it can be seen why God can forgive. If God knowing all God can forgive all, proves God loves all.

It also proves God cannot permit evil or even tolerate it it in His presence. We all need another helper, a counselor, a paraclete to vouch for us even before God.

By itself it seems then as tho this is not fair to the ignorant, unless they have become consumed by destructive unforgiving spirits speaking for them instead. I walk in the fruit of my own spirit so long as I avoid personal judgments of others. Only God can judge.

Incarnation of God

Million & One Names for God

Recently  have learned of an an interesting I Am Jesus blog entitled Ryan Callahan's Blog focusing on the incidences recorded where Jesus made seven "I am" references to Himself in the Gospels.

Historically there has been a long standing tradition that no one has seen God and to look on His face would result in one's death. 

I have centered my own particular rifle-like attention on Exodus 3:14-15 when Moses talked with God after he was given the commandments and had asked God who shall he say sent him.