by Jesse Abel
Thoughts from Papa “J”
Proverbs and Ecclesiastes is where I spend much of my time reading. Then occasionally I run to Psalms or Lamentations. If you feel that there is something missing in your daily communication with God, then find some portion in His Word that speaks to you and you will find that it is God who speaks through the writer or prophet and he is faithful to comfort.
Good Morning
I remember once as a young boy of leaving the movie theater. I was there with my cousins and of course their home was only part way to my home and by the time it came for our paths to separate we had turned our moment into a frenzy of fear. The fear was as a result of the movie Frankenstein.
Once my cousins were out of sight, lightning struck under my feet and I was running for all it was worth for my home another two blocks away. I decided to take (what I thought) was a short cut. The side walk where I was running had a hedge about three feet high and my mind said… “Boy! you can jump that hedge and save a couple of minutes”.
There I was airborne, reaching the height of the hedge when my black and white high top tennis shoe toe caught the thin wire running through the top of the hedge and like one diving into a pool I went face first into the grassy lawn on the other side of the hedge.All the change in my pocket spilled out. It was like falling off the fiscal cliff!!!
Are there any thinkers out there, or are the educated so heavy minded that the frenzy of staying within the simple building blocks of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are challenged with visions of “frankensteins” chasing them? I think it is time that the adult population of the United States of America, GREW UP!
You might think that I am angry or a bit bent, well maybe just a little. We seem to think that a commercial with “a pig” sitting in an airplane using his smart phone has more sense to talk nonsense to the flight attendant about paying an auto insurance bill then an adult and this coming from a company who claims it supports Government Employees. What?
We are children in adult clothes, our bodies look like an overstuffed pillow in its finest hour. We speak volumes of nonsense to one another and then we allow the liberal media to explain to us what is being said and sadly, before we have time to digest the words another commercial says.
“Folks, you may have high cholesterol so take this pill. The side effects will kill you but at least your blood will flow smoothly. We who manufacture the pill will take money from you or the pig on the plane so we can live happily at your expense!” Yep! Its BAH HUMBUG time again.
I believe the apostle Paul has something to say about this in his first epistle to the Corinthian church. You see I believe that the condition of our nation is not because of our ability to reason things out as adults (although it is a sign of the times) but because we are spiritually EMPTY of God’s love.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 is not about love and marriage as some religions believe, but it is all about living and maturing in the Love of God. Have you noticed what the apostle says about being a child in verse eleven? For me! I have a simple thought, must be because I have a simple mind! If when I become an adult and I have little to no conciseness of the existence of God’s love. Then how can I put away childish notions or “cartoon characters” I cannot! Simply because these are the only things I understand. Now you can have a Happy New Year! Or return to God’s love and have a blessed new year.
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