MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christ is Born!







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Words of a Mountain..

Words of a Mountain.. of Grace.. of Wisdom.. Of GOD!

When I first painted "those" words on an ornament this week for a gift..I didn't reflect so much on where I came upon the first part-words of a mountain- actually from a book I am reading about a spiritual pilgrimage. No I rather went into another room and opened the Bible and started to meditate there in. As I thought about that concept of a Mountain top visitation I suddenly started to have revealed to me not one but several mentions of those visits to mountains. Most of us may think of Moses going up into them and speaking with God when he came down with those commandments. Yet quite a few times Jesus is written about going up into them to meditate. Is it something about the heights? Is it that we feel so much closer to God there? Probably that and the fact that we can get away and view the world from up on high and feel removed from it all. We can get away from the rat race as we now call it and gain some separation in our thoughts.

Words from the Mountain then? The Word was from God and the word is God. God being Love I've heard. The word then comes from on high as from a mountain.

What is it about the words, the folk wisdom, and the traditions that come from the people that grow up near those mountains? Is it the plain speaking and honesty and forthrightness? Is it their words of a common appreciation of family, of their beliefs, values and wisdom gained through generation after generation. Words of appreciation of what is important about family and these other things and sharing with each other and giving and showing that love from on high?

What is it that I think of these things again like last Christmas Eve with new and old friends at a family gathering like last year enjoying and maybe convinced in proving for all time that it IS ALL ABOUT LOVE AND NOT ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE! These are MY words from a mountain...

MERRY CHRISTMAS, GOD BLESS AND GOOD NIGHT TO ALL!

MEET JOHN DOE!!!!

You know, I am a strong believer in synchronicity and when I saw how the movie that I accidentally came across Sunday night..I began to think how cool that was! I mean it tied in everything all together from all that is going on and what the doggone sermon was even about this morning.

Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in that 1941 classic -yes, "Meet John Doe". It portrays an every man who get elevated to a iconic status that takes off like wildfire across the entire country. He preaches common sense and that you are to take account of your neighbor and everyone else. To have a spirit of self reliance and assisting your neighbor without government interference. To respect the common man.

Now if that wasn't a little bit about our "Christmas Classic" service at church. The first in a series that spoke about another movie about Scrooge. And how it is so important to get the real message about what life is about. About the Spirit we should have about helping your neighbor and giving. And God's presence and not just presents.

In these tough political times when the Federal Government is starting to take away that spirit in a huge secular swath. When they are preaching and subverting those messages and replacing them with one of reliance not on God and his spirit and charity but one of dependence on the "Big Brother" called Washington DC..one has to stop and think! One has to reflect on old fashioned values and liberty...the golden rule and neighborly love... helping out your fellow man or woman and child and loving your neighbor as yourself. Not waiting for a federal handout or helping hand from taxpayers. Good old fashion work and common decency.

God, how I wish we could start back about 70 years ago and stay focused on what this country should really be about again and not this evilness and power and greed-but real old fashioned American way and the beacons of truth and decency and love!

We are being betrayed!

Take heed!

Be a John Doe!