24 July 2018
When we look at our lives are we just another statistic, client
at the hospital or auto shop, "Next?"
To you and to me our lives are important, right.
Back in the day there was a TV serial called the "Naked City" which
commented on the episodes that this was just one in a million stories
of a city. What stories do you have?
If I had finished my first shot at an MA (the second shot at it would
have been more worthwhile (save that) and had I miraculously achieved
a piled higher and deeper, would that impress you? Not much
sings Shania Twain. So how can I get your attention since we all
filter what we hear or want to hear. I WANT YOU TO HEAR HOPE...
to allow you to process through the "Fake News."
Pontius Pilate, "What is truth?"
Recently I heard a young women say we should keep record of the "monuments"
in our life for our encouragement. Great idea but though my monuments are
good for me they may not turn your crank.
Here are a few events that I was exposed to, for your litmus test. If I had
witnessed the killing of JFK, it might not change your take on the event,
but it would give me credibility in terms of having seen the results, as an
eye witness.
A very insightful take on people who have not experienced contact with the
architect of the universe, said, "They are not aware they are not aware!"
How could I as a kid describe the joy of sex? How could my great grandparents
imagine the joy of flying, of video conferencing with today's smart technolog.
It does not negate the existence; in fact "not authorized" to comment is more
valid.
I listened to an emergency room doctor's story about the birth of his daughter
that was missing half her brain in pregnancy, then the child was born totally
whole, healed before birth. His pro life doctor even suggested an alternate
solution. Seeing her at ten years old -totally whole - was stunning for us.
He quit work and prayed for four months 24/7 believing he had seen previous
evidence of hope. Of course who writes about the heart-breaking thousands of
tragedies. I suggest our society tends to run its thesis according to our
flatland failures; "(We) are not aware we are not aware!" That is the real
tragedy.
I was on a literal mountain top in Alberta in 1968 and witnessed a young
itinerant teacher pray for a girl under heavy dark-side oppression, her change
was so dramatic, that it was like the sunrise over the peeks.
When we were on the beaches of Ocean City, I met other kids who witnessed
track marks leave an addicts arms immediately after their prayer. Like my wife
said recently about some trials in our circumstances, "There is a reason but
its not logical." Things that defy our present knowledge are not necessarily
illogical, they most likely super-cede our operating system.
In flying my comrades often refer to the quote, "tried and true." In business,
medicine, sports, religion it might be chimed we have always done it this
way...Fiddler on the Roof, "TRADITION".
Somebody had to do the first "tried and true" - just saying.