When I speak, I speak from experience. I question my own thinking before I offer it to someone else. I do not claim to know that much and I always try to learn as I go. I am not ignorant. I am honest. I am willing to admit when I am wrong, red faced or not.
When I speak, I do not speak in nonsense. I speak with purpose and truth. I do not push advise that I do not follow myself. I do not treat opinions as facts and I certainly do not parrot what I have heard, now as the expert with the newly learned said talking points. I speak with eloquence and confidence in my truth.
I have had to reintroduce me, to me. I had to redirect my energy back to myself. Back to my self worth, back to my future worth. I deserve to be happy. And with God, I will make it happen.
No veil can be placed over me. I see through their illusions. No dart that they throw will make contact with me. God is my protector. In his honor, I forge forward!!!
I do not need to prove anything to anyone. I will not quit and I don’t give up. I will never abandon God’s truth that He has shown me. I will not let the pressures of the world make me bitter. My heart stays open when it’s easier to shut it down. I will not harden because of this Earth. My heart remains soft for Heaven.
I do not associate with people who have bad habits. I do not spend time in environments that are low value, and I avoid places of excessive and self indulgence; Those non peaceful environments of cheap places – Down deep in the dank. I do not associate with those who constantly gossip about others. Nor, those who associate with others to bond over hating a particular person and discuss the gossip about the people they hate.
I do not use other peoples lives for my own gain. I dont do things behind their backs that I would not do in front of them. I am a man of integrity and honor. I am the same person when they are with me as the person when they leave me. I do not change for circumstance. I do not live parallel lives. I live one, with God in truth and family.
My humility is a quiet confidence of knowing that I have nothing to prove. I am not arrogant of my strengths and I understand and acknowledge my limitations without shame. I am fully myself and unattached to praise or criticism. My worth is not built on perception, it is just who I am.
My identity comes from within. I Do not search outside myself to find myself. The world is not my validation, God and family is. I persevere on my own, in my own solitude. My foundation is solid because I have God in my heart. I am loyal and real but quick to guard myself against evils.
My God in Heaven, My God in my heart, give me strength, build me up, inside and out, one day at a time, with each fiber and each breath, build myself to my future self, for your purpose and design.
Me and my daddy, 1973.
I spent all week proud of myself about Pepper, piddling around on him and showering him with affection. I was happy to create happy moments with my favorite fur baby. I captured a picture of him as an angel which really made me happy! That was 3 weeks ago…I thought the story ended there…
But, I wondered why I put a black cat, the cat of the shadows, to start Pepper’s story of love and perfection. I couldn’t figure it out because I didn’t think it made sense. But now it does…And, I ended it with a blessing.
Pepper, has two other brothers that we have also raised since we found them as 3 month olds, Creamy and Leon. I dont talk about them as much because I love Pepper down to my toes. Anyway, Creamy, Pepper’s rag doll brother was jealous of his brother’s love toward me and wanted me to only love him. I decided to find Creamy a new family after 8 years of raising him that could love him the way he deserved to be loved.
I Meet a young couple who worked together at the trampoline park in Olympia who were graduating high school and are starting their future together. I feel this couple is going to get married and I thought when I first met her that she would absolutely love Creamy. When they told me that they were going to move to another State to start their lives together, I told them that I wanted to give them Creamy, as my gift to their future together. Their fur baby will hold them together. They will love him forever.
The plan was to drive Creamy to Olympia and hand him over to start his new life with them and his new kitty cat girl friend.
At the same time, I was arranging to give Creamy away to his fur-ever home, there was another plan being hatched. A kitten sacrifice!
It was a plan to rid their litter…Freeeeeway style.
But this was no freeway spiking of a kitten football. It was more sinister than that…
There were three kittens in the sacrifice of that 20 mile strip of highway as we drove Creamy to his new Fur-ever home.
It was an ordinary start to an ordinary Saturday making the drive to Olympia with all three of our cats in the car. I was telling Creamy how much I was going to miss him. Then all of a sudden, I saw something small in the middle of the Freeway on the white stripe of the lane devider. As I past it, I though, that was a tiny kitten in the road looking up and it was petrified in fear. I saw its little frighted eyeball as I wizzed by it. And the only thing that I pictured in my mind after that was a big tire squooshing it.
I tried to shake what I saw off as random but 10 miles later I saw something else in the road ahead, in the same place in the middle of the freeway on a white lane strip. As I passed it, I thought, “That was a kitten I saw earlier. There is another one.” I felt sick to my stomach as I kept my eyes on it and slowed down as I passed it.
As I looked up there was a woman who had jumped out of a truck and started running up the freeway in mama suicide style action mode with her arms waving straight up in the air to save the second kitten from a certain demise. There was nothing that was going to stop her from trying to save that kitten accept for a speeding vehicle. I Slowed down as much as I could in the time it took me to see everything: Kitten in the road. Lady about to commit suicide. I thought “good luck” to her as I passed her and I didn’t look back. I pray that the kitten and that woman might have made it out of that freeway moment alive and unscathed.
There was a devil in front of me that day. He was showing himself to be lurking not too many car links ahead of me. He had to stop the car on a busy freeway each time to deposit the live kitten into sacrifice position. The kitten was to remain alive and kicking for all that pass to see the horror of a live kitten in the middle of a freeway. How long would each cat last? How many souls were terrorized as they witnessed the tragedy of the trapped and helpless kittens? Did a child see a cat splat? Did another human parish too? Only God knows.
A dad shouts with out thinking…”OMG, there is a kitten in the middle of the freeway, OMG!”
“Boo” said the 3rd orange tabby kitten who was 10 miles yonder with its brains already splatted in the pavement.
The Devil is out there, always ready to wreck someone’s life to be damaged and jaded. There is no bigger joy of evil than to permanently leave all who involuntarily witnessed their mayhem, tilted and forever changed because the crossed path with malice.
The boogie man thanks you for making your way down Kitten Sacrifice Lane. Sweat dreams and spatted brains to all who drove it, survived it and left in pains.
There is no low to the evils of this world and the games that it will play to leave people more broken like them.
Creamy made it to Olympia and has settled into his new life with his new family. They love their new cat!
May God always protect his own from the wicked schemes and the harms of darkness.
In ancient times The highest God lived with the Israelites in the Temple they constructed for Him, in Jerusalem. When they revered their God, they flourished. But when they turned to Asherah, their persistent idolatry had them under attack from their very own God they claimed to worship. Their God holds up his covenant with his people. His people do not and they pay the price of what was to come of them.
God promised his people through his prophets that their physical land would become level ground. Then he would bring out the cornerstone to shouts of ‘God bless it! God bless it!’
The Israelites believed they were a mighty mountain in their God’s eyes no matter the action or disrespect they took against Him. They assumed he would always be there for them and protect them no matter what they did in his face.
He was their God and they believed He would send a Warrior King to defeat their enemy, the Romans who were overwhelmingly suppressing them in God’s land. They wished for David to return, The Warrior King to rid their oppressive enemy once and for all.
God gave them wisdom over material possessions. They wanted God’s wisdom to make them the richest, most powerful earthly kingdom to ever exist – The Principality to take down the mighty Romans whose strong arm suppressed and occupied the Israelite land as their very own. The Roman’s did own it. The Israelites became renters of their own land, living under occupied force.
When they listened and followed God’s rules and direction, their garden grew and they flourished. By the time their Messiah arrived they were making their own rules and listening to everyone and everything else but their God, their provider, their protector, their faithful Husband.
They wanted a king. They wanted David to return. They wanted the warrior they felt they were promised from their God. They wanted someone to defeat their physical enemy. They wanted a King to bring down the mighty empire that was squeezing the land of the Israelites, ‘God must save his land’ they thought ‘He must’.
God sent their King to them through a pure and innocent virgin Mary. When the three wise men informed the ruling king of Israel of the new born ‘King’, he had every 1st born son murdered to prevent a userp of power from this new ‘potential’ rival king. God spared the baby Messiah’s life.
In the end, 33 years later, they got Him. They murdred their King anyway. The one promised from their God to lead them to the promise land and defeat their enemy. On the Passover, he was the final sacrifice to God from the Israelites, their ultimate sacrifice to Him. They sealed their own fate.
To honor their God, they sacrificed His son in the most heinous way. It took all day for God’s Son’s strength and body to give way under the most horrific pain imaginable. The Isrealites were proud of themselves and delighted in their Passover Sacrifice to their God. Pilot wasn’t sure the Israelites made the right decision. God made it so. And, it was. “King of the Jews”. He is King of the Earth, He is King of the Heavens.
He walked out of that tomb into a Roman world. It was not God’s land of Israel anymore. They were the Romans’s for the final taking. God gave the people of Judah a generation to repent and recognize their Messiah that they just killed in front of every Countryman as a sacrifice to their God. God gave them 40 years to turn things around for Him after He tore the veil as He left His temple to never return to His people’s physical land ever again. The land was his no more. The land and the temple were cursed but each individual was given the chance to make amends and recognize their Messiah and honor their God correctly.
He walked out his tomb a new man. The New Man. The first man to be raised from the dead. The first man to defeat death. The first man of the new Earth, he was the new Adam. The first human in Heaven to walk with God in Paradise just as Adam did in the Garden before he sinned and turned against his God.
The land of Israel unleashed the Lion. The Lamb was now a Lion. A warrior of endless measure. The King of the people of Israel. Their King had risen as they were promised he would. The people of Israel now had a great land – The Promised Land, in the Heavens, with God Himself.
Growing up, Yahshua lived amongst them, and measured and weighed them during his earthly life span. He just watched their actions and read their ways. He debated them and told them of their wrongs and they balked at his judgement of truth against them and they called it slander of character against God’s protected people.
Instead of changing for the better to improve themselves for their God, their provider, their protector, they chose the easy road – Kill the one who speaks against their excessive and cheating way of life against their very own God. Murder him, they did. “We’ll Blame it on the Roman’s” they conspired as they built their new shiny castle under Roman thumb.
Jesus was the cornerstone of the New Heaven and the New Earth. A New Heaven that is now accessible to the New Man (the true man of God), and a New Earth where the New Man can now defeat death and rise to the Heavens to have eternal life and walk in Paradise with the existence of God Himself.
Yahshua came out a Lion. The Apex Man who defeated death and rose above every Angel in Heaven to sit on the throne with God Himself. A human being was now the king of all of the Heavens and of Earth. He became the God of God’s over all things to rule for all of eternity. Nothing can defeat Him. Nothing can touch Him. They woke up the Lion when they murdered him. There is a Warrior no better, A Power no stronger. He is the Force that must be reckoned with.
Jesus Christ, protect my family from that which lurks in the darkness, the shadows of haunt.
You are the only Way.
Messiah of the people of Israel, You are King over all things, Earthly and Heavenly. Your Angels are Legion. They are, and always be, Victorious under your command. Nothing can bring your Empire down…
Nothing!!!
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