Kate McCannon

This is one haunting song.  Colter Wall is some singer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QySNqSdBzIM

Readers

About two years ago, I wore my reading glasses at work for the very first time ever.  I was trying to do it discreetly, but was noticed immediately.  I could have done without the attention.  But, it's just another uncomfortable milestone along the journey of aging that I am fighting every step of the way.  I am really worried about my vision.

The Power of the 🐈

King Solomon wasn't so wise.  He was an idiot.  Despite the fact that he spoke with the Lord twice (as near as I can tell), he build altars to pagan gods for his wives.  Because of that, despite the promise of the Lord if he followed His commands, Solomon's descendants lost the kingdom.

My ass is so sore...

I went for a six mile bicycle ride last night.  I haven't been on my bike since December.  It was too far.

Re-education

I had a strange dream.  I was a soldier of some kind in a post apocalyptic world where there was a plague of some sort affecting the mind.

I was deployed as some sort of patrol team.  I found the carbine too hard to use for some reason, so I relied on my pistol. It looked like a 1911, but the rounds looked like rifle cartridges for some reason.  And, in my dream, I insisted on loading them into the firing chamber through the ejection port (like a rifle) one at a time for some reason.  I was a crack shot with the pistol, apparently, according to their stats.

My team went out, but we quickly got separated (and maybe they were killed?).  I ended up just being part of a two person team, me and a young woman.  I don't remember her face now, but she had her hair tied back tight in a bun and was attractive.

At one point, we found a sick man that scared civilians had locked in a diner's dining room.  He was vomiting all over, and they were afraid to go near him.  I went in to the diner to rescue him.

We continued on our patrol.  We had neutralized several diseased targets during the dream.  At some point, I got separated from the young woman.

Shortly after, I became aware that I was having crazy thoughts.  But, I was with it enough to understand that I must have been infected.

I noticed a team was taking position to neutralize me.  But, they were going to send in the young woman first.  I didn't feel like I could trust them.  But, I knew that I was comprised. I decided to dump my pistol mag (my gut said no), and if that meant that I died to save her from me, so be it.

To my surprise, she didn't try to negotiate, but put her sidearm to her own head.  I rushed forward to stop her, but it was a ruse, and they captured me.  Once I was, I was re-educated--presumably after I got better--in an Orwellian education centre, and redeployed.  I met the young woman again, but I secretly remembered everything.

She had a different name!  And, I realized that she had been re-educated too!  I thought she was gone.  Then, she turned to me and said, "I did it for you, you know?"

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Trinity

Yeah, so, I was dangerously close to Arianism in my Youth.  I believed Jesus was divine, not understanding the Trinity fully.  The Jehovah’s Witnesses claim that if you read the Bible without guidance, you will become a Trinitarian.  I believe the opposite. 

 

I think, reading the Bible, you get the idea that Jesus is the Son and lesser to the Father.  As I matured, I understood the Trinity more.  As I matured more, I saw Jesus in the Old Testament, Psalms and Isaiah.  Now, I’m being introduced to the idea that Jesus is Yahweh (not the Father), and it is enlightening. 

FATHER, protect me from sacrilege and false doctrine

I was this many days old when I realized that the doctrine of Substitutionary Atonement is not straightforwardly mentioned in the Gospels.  It is there by inference.  And, that bothers me.  Although, I don’t know why.  I’ll have to explore that emotion.  It is, however, very black and white in the epistles and in the Old Testament.  It is there.  A strongly held belief of mine since before memory, I am bothered.

 

I’ve been watching a lot of Islamic focused Christian Apologetics as of late, and have been exposed to Muslim objections.  So, that could be the reason that I’m aware, that it’s at the forefront of my mind.  So, there’s that, but it doesn’t matter.  The epistles teach SA as well as, technically, that’s not the same as belief in Jesus Christ.

 

If we confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that He was raised from the dead, we will be saved.  For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believed in Him should not die, but have everlasting life.  If we eat of His flesh and drink of His blood, we will have eternal life.  So, we don’t have to understand SA or the Trinity, for that matter.  We only have to believe; God is beyond human comprehension anyway.

 

For the record, I do believe—and accept the gift—that Christ died for my sins, that I may be not judged.  I just am shocked that it is not called out in the Gospels (apparently) specifically.  We base doctrine on the canonical 66 books, so I’m good.

 

Holy !

I missed Holly Cross Day!  Totally missed it, normally I don't. 

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Carry The Cow

There's an old legend about a man carrying a calf every day until it was a full size cow and he became stronger and able to carry the whole cow. I just realized today for the first time that the cow is old age.  It's important to pick up the calf every day.

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If you really were an apple, you'd be red.

I was thinking about a concept last week after Sunday's Gospel reading.  Jesus was telling the Parasees that they were outwardly following the rules, but were not giving God the true worship that he desired.  More accurately, they were following the rules of man in the Temple, and were ignoring what God desired from them.  And I thought, is that what the Churches do now by bring in wokeism?  We tell people to give to the poor...by voting in socialist parties.  Remember, if you don't vote left, you don't really love Jesus?