Into the Breech - a stone's throw back to the stone age?

This world is filled with phenomenal opportunities to see beauty and power. It is also a place where our passions can become inflamed so that the simplest of truths becomes overwhelmed with the cares of this world.

People are working on the newest wealth builder for this ... I'd say generation, but it's moving so fast, it's lasting 2 to 3 years at a time now. At the same time, the oldest institutions continue on in rock solid power and strength.

Am I the only one to see the irony? Vanity of vanities ... an earthquake, a natural disaster, a change from the heavens ... we can go back to the stone age at a moment's notice, with the majority of our social networking wiped out at the stone's throw of adversity. Are we prepared?

What is wealth for some is bondage for others. That, my dear people, is called bondage. We take things for granted that basically ensnare our creativity for life ... maybe not for society ... maybe not for financial gain ... maybe not for pleasure ... but for the vitality and power of life.

If not this generation, for the next, or our grandchildren's? Just like the debt our country is ringing up now, somebody will have to pay for it. Be aware, be wary ... the time will come when the debt will have to be paid.

I'll share more on this very shortly. I've been doing some research, making some observations, and putting 2 + 2 together. For most, it will not be of value. For those who care about their generation, and the generations to follow, I hope it brings pause to stop and think. Make your own conclusions. For me, God is in control, and I know where my salvation comes from.

The term putting your eggs in one basket is a metaphor that has great value. As we head into the breech ... life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness must be examined for a people to maintain dignity and freedom!

[EDIT, 2015: happiness, from life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness should actually be life, liberty and the pursuit of blessedness. The founding forefathers used happiness from the beatitudes, and the proper translation should be blessedness. How different would life be in this country if we actually strove to seek blessedness instead of happiness? More on this later.]

Beauty ever after

Life's circles and cycles (harmony, balance and beauty) flow through the insanity of our 1.) hectic pace or 2.) serene existence.

How difficult it is to hear another person when we are thinking of life's impact on us, and how we are going to respond ... strange, when we want to be listened to as well! As stated by one wag, life is full of interesting monologues.

Some of life is needing to struggle so we can enjoy the times of peace and serenity ...

Being homeless is a constant state for believers in Christ, so why do we freak out when it actually happens to us?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ... what happens when scars get in the way of sight, and we don't see clearly?

Pride goeth before the fall ... we must really be fallen with all the people saying how proud they are of so many things!

Why do we get jealous of people who experience miracles? Come on, don't let your pride get in the way of being honest!

If being meek is srength under control ... we should really be afraid of meek people! They can whoop our backsides, if God gave them cause to!

Tears refresh and clear our eye ducts when mud from our shortcomings keeps floating up and hitting us in the face. That stuff really gets into our eyes, making it so hard to see!

Seeing someone we don't understand or really know prosper will tell us what kind of heart we have; or we glad for them or envious for ourselves?

I know it says He will not forsake the righteous or let them go begging for bread ... but, the bread of life is Jesus, and He will always be with us! Besides, most of us can stand to fast or go on a diet! He wants us lean to be able to go into battle and not make huge targets!

Killing us softly with this song ... with apologies to Roberta Flack and Lauryn Hill

I heard we sang a good song ...

Mysteries of past and present keep confusion as our hand maiden.

Eat drink and be merry ... or, is it buried? The slogan has been, "Just say NO; don't do drugs." Yet, as evidenced by the obesity of our country and the number of emergency room visits to the hospital for gastro-intestinal problems, food makers (both corporate and personal) continue to pour white sugar and white flour into our foods, our stomachs ... hmm, with all the fiber being removed from our food, what is left of the sugar and flour basically acts as harmful as drugs to our systems. The ability to transform the nutrients is removed ... so we eat food that is going to stay in our bodies, transforming into fat and disease. We are eating for pleasure, not for nutrition.

Killing us softly with this song, letting our whole lives get wasted ...

A high school student found her disease (Crohn's) that numerous health care practitioners missed (8 years) ... yet, a national public health care program is being clamored for by most! Is our society dysfunctional, at best?

Telling my whole life with empty words ...

What am I missing? There is so much beauty in life. There is so much to see and do. There is also so much information being left on the table. I don't agree with government being the best governance of morality; yet, attacks on people who point out the wrongs on both sides are chastised for being condescending (see Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post on President Obama, 6/12/2009) and fosters vitriol and blindness to people who, as citizens, don't take the time to fulfill their civic or spiritual responsibilities. We are too busy, we have to make a living, we are to angry ...

I heard he had a style ...

This is what we leave our children, and their children?

Hermeneutics of our current state of events leaves beauty and truth at the doorstep, not invited in. If it goes against our training, we discard the information as meaningless, or irrelevant. Our mistakes will be visited upon the rest of our lives, as well as our children's lives, and their children's lives. Letting beauty reign in the soul has produced some of the most powerful truths and actions in history. Love of faith, of fellow man, of spouse, of children ... governments, medicine, science, art have all gained powerful successes when truth and beauty are at the core of how we choose to look at life. If we fail, as citizens, to recognize this ...

Killing me softly with this song ... wasting my whole life with these words ... killing us softly with this song ...