The Debt committee has worked perfectly- Democrats wanted another vehicle to cry wolf  on congresss and they got it. Plus thanks to baseline budgeting even if sequestering happens or perhaps a deal  real cuts are unlikely.

I just got the Xerox Documate and haven’t had time to really play with the software. Being able to scan multiple documents is nice and it does seem to put out a good quality image.

The Way

Terrors by night

And misgivings by day

Where is the path

That narrow way

Weakness is deadly

And shame may cost souls

But this wandering pilgrim

He just wants to go home

 

Its not a theology

Nor feelings inside

It is one looking for family

The center of life

True repentance must come

The old man must die

But walk by the light

And beware of the night

 

Consumate Conqueror

Ruling great king

Rescue this vassal

From the sea Galilee

Ye seven cities

Where dwells the deceit

They crumble to ashes

But for the street

 

 

Continuing to write my paper for class. The most interesting quote so far is by Goebels who said that thatit is not matter how clever it is, for the task of propaganda is not to be clever,its task is to lead to success. Today indeed most propoganda relies on our fallen and base nature to be effective.Likewise it is not the intellectual backbone of the cross, which exists, but the power and Love of the Savior which are the only things that can save us.

Are they family

The door it shuts the space is quiet:

Inside the heart there is a riot.

Pent frustration and tired woes:

Feelings unmanly to show

Are they family?

 

History has hardened life

Once carefree now trapped inside

It matters not these temporal thoughts

What matters most cannot be bought

Are they family?

 

Is it convenience and a power thing;

Or is it more to which he clings?

Bitterness – yet joys hidden well

Now I ask of you please to tell,

Are they family?

I am putting together a paper for my business communications class. It is concerned with public relations or propoganda. While I have heard of Edward Berneys before reading some of his ideas, whenre they were used and how he got them is really not a comforting topic.

His most revealing thought is that in a democracy it is not the people who make desicions but their inner desires, he based this on some of his cousin Freud’s work, if you satisfy these selfish desires the people become docile. Consequently the gifted politician is able, by the instrument of propaganda, to mold and form the will of the people.

In the presence of my enemy

As I walk in the full moon,

and see the gold

I feel a danger

a breath of the cold

 

That beautiful woman

 that smile of hello.

I sense the enemy-

 the power of the toad

 

So Lord protect me-

 from this dark notion

Too often have I fel-

This guts commotion

 

The caress of death –

in so called white art

I see eyes of  the possessed

And  their darkened hearts

 

I feel my enemy -

and call to my King

Dance not with nature child -

In Pan or Periclees’  ring

Call me in the morning

Call me inthe morning-

Once timehas passed.

For it isdark outside-

And I willnot be last.

 

To someit’s asygnation-

To othersa time for sleep.

But as formy own reason,

It’s notfor you to Tweet.

 

Call me inthe morning-

When lighthast broken through.

Then weshall sally forth,

And laughat mornings dew.

 

Why can’t he hear You?

The angry waves crash down by the shore:

The shouting of voices at his very door,

The Pounding of surf within his heart-

Why can’t he hear You?

 

 

He’s tired of listening and not catchinga sound:

Tired of footfalls with no one around,

Tired of deafness and ignorant thought-

Why can’t he hear You?

 

 

Some men they drink to quiet the mind:

Seeking the truth right in front of theireyes,

Sometimes like them he’s not very wise -

Why can’t he hear You?

 

 

H’se been to Golgotha and seen the tomb.

He knows the power of that upper room.

Loyal like Job and yet so confused-

Why can’t he hear You?

Be a light

It’s bitter, it’s angry

But most of all lost

Pulling and clawing

You  see the cost

So mirror of light – not fake or afraid

This is the purpose

For which we were made

 

 

I see in his laughter

The pain in her eyes

I see in tattoos

Souls bitterly cry

I see in art, in music and word

That this generation

It is terribly hurt

 

They hate what they love

Prisoners of state

The darkness consumes

From nature innate

So look to the light- oh vessel of clay

Submit to the potter

And shatter their chains

I just read a post on Revelife about an individuals journey to the faith of atheism or agnostism and it was really sad for several reasons.

1. In the arguments I read I saw nothing about knowing Christ-did he ever truly meet God and thus was he ever truly a Christianfor that matter while there is much room for disagreement among true believers what about those he cited were they truly saved?

2.  It’s easy to be nice and your okay with someones beliefs. While I accespt that you may have different beliefs and in most cases this is a good thing. However As to the core of the gospel it is not okay if you reject This not only means eternity of seperation but it also true emptiness here on earth for this individual and those he influences.

3. While perhaps not essential to redemption his citing of evolution shows why we as Christians should not accept even a modified version of this faith. it is a poison which misleads many and there are just as many or more questions about this as there are about the veracity of scripture. Indeed while faith is not blind and we should study to show ourselves approved God warns us about reasonings and arguments which seek to steal the faith.

4. The final question of what does God desire was really sad. For as children of the king I believe there are two passages which describe the answer the first is Michah 6:8 which states roughly that he has shown us what He requires. That we love mercy, act justly and walk humbly before our God. The second reference is found in Jesus teaching on the two greatest commandments which are that we love him with all our heart, all our mind, and all our soul; Then love our neighbors as ourself

Tear drop

This strange little diamond

This effervescent  stone.

More powerful the waterfall

Yet it stands alone

 

This crystal of power

This historical vault

That mountan of meaning

The words which are not