Warts

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Anger & Pain

Part of me, in the midst of shock and sorrow, wants to say to her, "you selfish little bitch!"  How hateful is that of me?

She did to her daughter and family the very same thing her father Ian did to her in 2013.  She's gone to us forever before the age of 40!

I haven't seen her in years.  I had no idea she had gotten into hard drugs.  I see her still as a ten or eleven year old kid, laughing and playing with her cousin, my daughter.

May God have mercy on her soul and may He comfort the rest of us.  I ask this in Jesus' name.  Amen.

Fw: Kaitlynn

Why?

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Subject: Kaitlyn

I looked for and found these two pictures from my old Facebook file.

Hot Mic

Always, in life, speak as though the mic is on.  When you cannot, check your mic.  I'm looking at you, butt dialers.

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So much is here; there's the ridicule for believing, the becoming alien to family and friends, being asked to pay back what I didn't take, and so much messianic prophecy here.

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Tank Dream

I was in a tank on a modern battlefield.  We were moving fast, engaging and neutralizing targets. A fire broke out inside the back of the tank and I was struggling to fund a fire extinguisher.  My alarm woke me, and the fire will never be put out.

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The thought that if there is evil in my heart that God won't listen to me is deeply disturbing. 

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Pardon me Farther, but you seemed to have stepped in your disdain.

We've become so intolerant.  We have gotten to the point where family members stop talking to each other because "they like Trump."  It's a very sad state of affairs.  We no longer tolerate the diversity of opinion in social engagements nor in society.  Worse, we can no longer have civil discourse to seek out the truth or at least explore other options and evaluate the best way or policy.  But, family isn't the only place this happens.

In Anglican circles, the expression used in resent times it to "draw the circle wide;" this means to bring into the circle or group all those who are different and marginalized, as we seek to include the gay person, the immigrant, the transitioning person, the environmental activist or extremest, the returning terrorist, the Marxist, the Wiccan.  We actively seek to include what has traditionally been the outsider.  At the same time, we push out the orthodox.  We ridicule the believer in scripture.  While shouting how inclusive we are, we make no room--and keep it that way--for the bigot, the traditionalist, the conservative, the Free Market Capitalist.  What did St. Paul mean when he said "to be all things to all men?"

Social media and algorithms that reinforce our views are to blame for a lot of our division.  But, we've also lost the ability to think critically.  Social scientists know that we seek out association with like minded individuals, and that this in turn reinforces our rightness.  What social media helps do is, it protects us from alternative views to a larger degree while bombarding us with our own view.

We have become way, way to intolerant of diversity.  The irony is that most people believe they seek the opposite.  People loose their jobs over what they believe.  We have thought police, cancel culture.  You can't tell me that believing a gay man is transphobic because he doesn't want to lick another man's vagina isn't the hallmark of ridiculous intolerance. 

We have gone off the deep end.

In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

Today, this very day, I've noticed a whole bunch of grey in my beard that I've never noticed before, on my chin.  Lately, this Summer, I've thought I've had trouble focusing my eyes.  Is it my imagination?  Floaters abound, dark spots in my view.  I played slo pitch on Saturday, a four game tournament; I'm still limping.  My right Achilles Tendon is painfully sore and both sides have tightened up, despite being a long distance runner (10k-16k).  And there's nothing I can do about any of it.  God have mercy.  We are just animals, after all.  We waste away and leave this world weak, feeble, and often senile.  It's sad, painful to watch--in others and ourselves--happen, angering too.  I plan to resist it.  I'll fight it every step of the way, tooth and nail.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2012&version=KJV

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