Why Blue?

If one never looks at the sky, to wonder long upon its blueness, to see it contrasted with the green of the mountains forest, then one will never consider it, or when he does, thinks it not much worth his time.  If one overlooks the Praying Mantis, doesn’t speak to it as one living thing to another, telling it, “I am more glorious, oh so much more glorious than you,” one could think less of it and much less of himself.  Flowers and birds, trees and bees, are all there to give all our wise answers to all our dull questions a place, sheer foolishness.  The grandeur of us is us apart from anything we have done.  You are you with absolutely no help from you.  Your thinking, seeing, feeling, hurting, loving self is gifted to you.  You are a gift, the most stunning gift of all your life.  But if you don’t normally hear the wind in the trees, you are not much worth a moment being you.  Oh the mysteries of God in Three while sitting on the porch under a blue sky I see, but have no thoughts worthy of why it is blue.  

   

 

A Letter to My Democratic Friends

To my Democratic friends, acquaintances, and readers.  Don’t do this.  Do not vote for this pair of illegitimate, unkind, and desperately misguided politicians.  I will not argue individual morality with you for President Trump and your two are equally morally corrupt.  I will argue facts—first the cause of our children.  From abortion to the teaching of children the lifestyle of LGBTQ+ and the ability to change one's gender identity or live in a world where you will be exposed to others' attempts to be a different gender is unkind to the point of appalling.  No one can uprightly and with a spiritually guided conscience assert that these two ideas of cultural reality are good for children.  Secondly, the hardship on the poor that the economic situation occurring over the last 3 ½ years of democratic leadership, is likewise appallingly unkind and unjust.  Thirdly the unrestrained access to our country by anyone willing to walk in is one of the greatest acts of treason perpetrated by any political party in the history of America.  How anyone can think it would be a good idea to invite all people who would like to walk unrestrained into your home is unfathomable and unpardonable.  This act alone by a democratic president and his party is the reason for them all to be tried, convicted, and sentenced for treason.

Lastly, the America I hear the democrats, the media, popular culture, television, music, and Hollywood describe and uphold is not an America I want or even recognize.  Much of what I see in America today is incomprehensible to me as anything other than evil and upheld by the democratic party.  I am a man of faith, redeemed from a life of sinful, blind, unrestrained, self-indulgence.  The America I see now is the one I would have created myself if it had not been for the grace and mercy Christ Jesus afforded me on November 10, 1986, in saving me from myself and my own destruction.

I have been on both sides of this, raised a Democrat, and chose a life of moral ineptitude, but was saved from myself for a life grounded in Truth.  In this Truth, I implore you not to vote for these two people who are just like the person I used to be. 

 

 

I Am Only Old Because of My Age

“I am only old because of my age!” my lover told me yesterday in response to us both feeling a bit of our years.  Such is life with her.  She is a celebrant of living, dancing around all the time to the tune the Divine plays for living that she always hears, and I very seldom.  She is a birthday girl today, 72 of which 41 have been with me.  The 41 best years of my life.  She is really 14 but has been 14 for 72 years, this is not magic; fact, she is the youngest person I know; the “child-like” in the profound saying, “and become like little children”!  She is like a young child of 14 which keeps me close to–say maybe 40.  

Collecting seashells celebrating out 40th wedding anniversary 
last year where we honeymooned, Okracoke Island.

  

 

How To Respond to an Otter

I saw an otter yesterday.  The third time since being at Fair Haven.  Seeing an otter is not an everyday occurrence, like a shooting star it startled me when I saw it.  Its long, lean, and shining body bounded down our seawall onto the riprap and eventually back down in the river…and was gone.  The joy of it is so acute that my first thought was to assure myself I saw it and was thus assured by the smile on my face.  These experiences are life-giving, demanding I live this precious thing named life.  I was once a very dull boy, called manhood, but nothing was manly about me.  I was as dead and dumb as dirt.  But I got saved from my dullness and now am given life every time I am bright enough to acknowledge Him.  Thankfulness is a gateway trait into life and the only response when seeing an otter.   

  

 

Oh The Paradise to Come

I cannot sit at Fair Haven and do anything but look.  Its power to turn my thoughts into dreams is ever-present and needs me only to raise my eyes and see.  Just now a deer is wadding along the shore of the island across the way, eating the leaves off the overhanging trees unaware that she is a part of my morning quiet time.  Earlier as I sat in the dark, the ripe moon reflecting a silver so bright I couldn’t even collect my thoughts.  And now a bee buzzes quietly in the jungle of Vincas that celebrates morning with me.  I have long had a patch of land, a bit of sky to always claim during my morning time with The Ancient of Days but He has now given me an enormous view of earth readying me for the paradise to come.  

    

 

I Was Raised A Yellow Dog Democrat-No more

I was raised a Yellow Dog Democrat.  I will not vote Democratic now.  The first reason is the democratic establishment has decided that abortion rights are the premier cause in their platform.  Abortion is unkind.  It is the willing killing of another human.  It is often not the mother’s fault because the Democratic-led public culture dehumanizes the child and gives sainthood to the woman's right over her child. This is one of the most destructive and heinous realities of American life.   Great public culture should be where we accept the fact that many pregnancies are unplanned and often unwanted and provide loving care for both the mother and child and then inexpensive and quick methods by which the child at birth is placed in a loving home.  Instead, because of power, greed, and wanton unkindness we have allowed for a culture of killing our most valuable members, thriving children, to become a right so sacred the democratic party sees it as paramount to all other rights.  The second reason is too many of the leaders of the democratic party see my God as having no place in public life and increasing in private as well. They are actually ashamed of God.  Embarrassed by Him.  So embarrassed and ashamed they believe He is not.  This has led a vast number of young Americans to give up God for cultural relevancy.  They see a culture and the democratic party as increasingly intolerant of personal faith in a living God.  Their only alternative to living and thriving in America is to walk in lockstep with this belief.  Any other belief is unacceptable.  Lastly, I was raised in a youth culture that held government as highly suspect, often untrustworthy, unkind, and out of touch with the common man.  Today many of those who were raised in the same way see the democratic party government as the only winning team, the affirmed leader in culture, the supreme voice of truth.  This is the great falsehood I was taught early in life.  The government is never the final bar of truth but is actually never to be trusted to be truthful.  We are to guard the government, not for its survival, but to keep it from destroying ours.  I see the democratic party determined to place us all under government control and willing to cancel anyone who thinks, expresses, or acts outside their prescribed way of thinking, doing, and being.  

   

Nature

Nature, a plot of earth you place under your care and daily purview, is a sure source of your evangelism to the love, care, and salvation of Christ Jesus as your Lord and Savior.  

I found this Divine work of sculpture lying
on a forest floor.  It so demanded my attention, and 
more quickly, my adoration for God in Christ.