Time Moves On

It is time to slip on the work clothes and to go out back and cut down all the dying flowers that I planted earlier in the season. So now we have had the blistering heat of summer, we shall prepare for the numbing coldness of the winter to come.

It is all I have heard this year, :Too damned hot or too damned cold, depending on the season… people never seem to be satisfied, do they?

Then there is the inflationary economy and people are bitching and moaning (The same as they have for at least the last 80 years) “A poor man just can’t make it in this economy anymore.” Exclusive!! — My Grandfather was saying that 70 years ago and my own Dad was saying it all the time I was growing up and everyone I knew was saying it all trough my life to the present day — and you know what? Everyone bitches about how the poor man can’t make it in the economy but, for some strange inexplicable reason, they always do manage to make it.

I do not know if that is something psychological or mathematical or spiritual or a little of all three.

But I do know and can testify that My God supplies my every need and the inflation and the economy have no negative effects on me at all …not now…not before now…not ever! I somehow seem to be able to get what I need when I need it and in the quantity that I need it and at the price that I can afford. I cannot explain this but it is a fact.

Might have something to do with residuals from the billionaire days.

If You’re an Unbeliever, You Still Don’t Have to Be Afraid of Hell — There Is An Answer — There is A Free Insurance Policy.

If you are an unbeliever, you may have heard Christians talk about hell in ways that sound frightening: believe the right things, obey the right rules, or face eternal punishment.

But there is another side of the Christian message that is often overlooked.

Christianity does not ultimately teach that people can earn their way into heaven by being good enough. At the heart of the Christian gospel is the claim that God offers forgiveness as a gift through Jesus Christ.

You may not believe in God. You may have serious questions about Christianity, the Bible, or the existence of an afterlife. Those questions are worth taking seriously. Faith should not require pretending that difficult questions do not exist.

But consider what the Bible itself actually says.

It begins with a remarkably honest assessment of humanity:

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23, KJV).

According to Christianity, the problem isn’t simply that some people are unusually bad. Every person falls short of God’s perfect standard.

Yet Christianity’s central message isn’t “Try harder.”

It is grace.

The Bible says, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8).

The Christian claim is that God did something humanity could never accomplish for itself. According to the New Testament, Jesus Christ willingly went to the cross and took upon Himself the consequences of human sin.

Romans 5:8 puts it this way:

“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

That is the heart of the gospel.

You don’t have to clean yourself up first. You don’t have to become religious enough. You don’t have to pretend you have no doubts.

The invitation is to investigate Jesus.

Look at His teachings. Examine His claims. Read the accounts of His life and resurrection. Ask whether the evidence gives you reason to believe that He really was who He claimed to be.

Jesus said:

“He that believeth on me hath everlasting life” (John 6:47).

Notice that Christianity presents eternal life as something received—not something achieved.

And for those who do believe, the Bible offers this extraordinary assurance:

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1).

So perhaps the most important question isn’t, “Am I good enough to avoid hell?”

The Christian answer is that none of us is.

The deeper question is: Who is Jesus, and can His promise of forgiveness be trusted?

You don’t have to pretend to have all the answers today.

If you’re an atheist, start with an honest question:

“God, if You are really there, show me the truth.”

Then investigate.

Read the Bible. Ask difficult questions. Examine the evidence. Talk with Christians who are willing to discuss their faith honestly.

Christianity does not ultimately point you toward trusting in your own goodness.

It points you toward a person.

Jesus Christ.

Messed It Up A Long Time Ago

Right now I am typing this in the font called “Roboto-Sans” because a whole lot of other people like it even though I am essentially the only one who ever really reads this dastardly piece of literary crap with the exception of five or six wonderful friends who seem to stick with me through shit and shingle.

That reminds me of something we used to eat when I was in the Army—chipped beef on toast with the associated gravy-like mixture that looked something like the ooze from a sewer pipe — but it was plentiful and it was nourishing.

Is it true that some fast food restaurants have a school where they teach their cooks to spit in customer food when they get mad at management or something?

It is past my nap time, folks.

Can’t you tell?

Have you heard of the squirrel census?

QUOTATION —Squirrel Census

The Squirrel Census is a series of crowdsourced squirrel-counting projects. Launched by writer Jamie Allen in 2011, the first squirrel census was conducted in 2012 in Inman Park, Atlanta, United States, and was followed by a second in 2015. Over 300 volunteers conducted a census in Central Park, New York City, in 2018. The project has been on hiatus since 2021. Organizers described the project as intended to tell a story, rather than being a scientific inquiry; according to Allen, the census is about “the Eastern gray, urban green spaces and us”.[1]

You wanna read more? —-click HERE

You are welcome.