Gotta

go see my therapist :-).

Love you Lucy.

Anybody ever

think it 's all part of the plan?

Easier to destroy fish in a barrel right?

"The world’s population is becoming increasingly urban. 

Sometime in 2007 is usually reckoned to be the turning point when city dwellers formed the majority of the global population for the first time in history. 

Today, the trend toward urbanization continues: as of 2014, it’s thought that 54% of the world’s population lives in cities – and it’s expected to reach 66% by 2050."

 

The world’s urban population is growing – so how can cities plan for migrants? 

Pretty

sure the intent of the overpayment of funds was for a roll of ones for the strippers at the bachelor party.

Pretty sure :-)

Bahahahahahahahahahahaha

Proverbs 1:32

Proverbs 1:32

:-)

And

yes I know how hard it would be for a freshman senator to get a slot on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Know what this guy said?

"I didn't come here to bow, yaknow?

I didn't come here to bow.

I came to conquer."

Only one entity I'll ever bow for.

See yourself there before you're there and you'll get there.

If you don't ever see yourself getting there?

You'll never get there.

Nobody who consistently thinks they can't do something will ever manage to be able to do it.

It's literally the first step in the process.

If there are setbacks?

So what.

All part of the process for when you finally do get there.

Love you Lucy.

Don't

ever think I don't know we wouldn't be where we are if it wasn't for a lot of your effort and hard work.

I just like to give you shit because it was my idea first :-).

That, and the fact your jaw dropped and you chased me through parking garages and such.

Bahahahahahahahahahaha

Surely

"Moronic Idiocracy" should score me some triple word score points somehow :-).

If you think about it?

I am being prepped for the Senate.

Bahahahahahahahahaha

Morning

sunshine :-).

It's a new day, know what that means?

Yep, a chance to start fresh all over again :-).

Love you.

The

only way to get "there" is to see yourself as already being "there".

This

is Russia.

it "is the largest country in the world by surface area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area"

This is South Korea.

(Just the dark green)

They have roughly the same size economy.

Ever know of anybody that ever bought anything from Russia besides vodka or caviar?

They can not compete with us economically or militarily and Putin knows this.

They viewed our economic sanctions after their actions in Crimea (and the more recent ones) as an act of war.

Never mind that we were meddling in the Ukraine before they were.

This is why they are doing what they are doing.

This and the Russian Oligarchs love of money and probable ownership of trump.

 "and the borrower is servant to the lender".

Proverbs 22:7.

People forget we had an oil embargo on Japan before they launched their attack on Pearl Harbor.

Yes, it was in response to their expansionist activities in Asia but my point is, you never hear about it and they viewed it as an act of war. 

All you ever hear or read about is how it was "unprovoked attack".

I could go on about how we told The Russians after the reunification of Germany and the subsequent assimilation of all of Germany into NATO, that we wouldn't get step closer to Russia's western border (This country for whatever reason has historically been insecure about it's western border with Europe). and then we proceeded to add quite a few countries into NATO.

(Thats a blog post for a different day.)

What if the situation was reversed and the old Warsaw Pack countries were closing in on our borders after they had told us, "Not one step closer"?

What do you think our response would have been?

Probably not cyber warfare would be my guess.

Love you Lucy.

I

thought I had put this story on here but I couldn't find it so I'll tell it again.

A good while back I went to this barber shop I like in Owensboro.

I'm sitting there in the chair and this older gray haired gentleman walks in and several people say "Hey Wendell!"

I'm sitting there like, wow, Wendell must be a popular guy.

A little while later somebody ask him, 

"Wendell, is there anything you miss about being up there?"

That's when it hit me, oh shit, that's Senator Wendell Ford (Retired).

"I miss being able to help people." He says.

I guess it was an accident I heard that that day right? 

Be like Wendell.

Wendell H. Ford

Seriously

just the thought of some old codger waking up and dropping his jaw after seeing the news that we're filing to run is just about good enough reason to do it all by itself :-).

Alexander will be vulnerable in 2020.

He will be 80 years old and will have been there for going on 17 years.

The pivots getting ready to swing a different direction.

Still

waiting for someone to tell me why God couldn't have caused the Big Bang.

If astrophysicist theorize that time space energy and matter could have created themselves independent of one another, then why couldn't God have created himself?

We all could be made of extragalactic space matter from supernova explosions

Astronomers Capture Wild Intergalactic Gamma Ray Burst As it Happens

Gamma Ray Burst 

" a typical burst releases as much energy in a few seconds as the sun will in its entire 10-billion-year lifetime"

Incomprehensable anyone?

What other entity do we know that is incomprehensible? 

Love you Lucy.

:-)

Love you Lucy.

Senate,

right out of the blocks, forget the house.

Lets

try for a Senate seat someday Lucy.

I've mentioned this before.

It would be the logical evolution of the journey we've been on for a while now.

I would'nt care if we won or lost.

What the fuck would I need that lifestyle for?

Other than to try and help people?

 

I'll be perfectly happy with the lifestyle were bout to have anyway.

Nothin to loose.

So win or loose, who wins?

We do.

I tell you one thing, we could raise some hell, have a good time and scare the living shit out of some incumbent, and if we won? 

We'd fight for whats right.

I mean seriously what is somebody gonna attack me on?

I've already put it all out there.

"Yeah, I said it and I mean it"

I'm telling you just announcing and filing would put a lump in somebodys throat.

Trump did prove one thing, the age of the unorthodox candidate is here.

I'm

never gonna call The Donald, President Trump, or Mr. President.

Not untill this investigation is over anyway.

"But that's disrespectful to the office" I can here them say.

Really?

He's a pig of a person, how about he's disrespectful to the office?

How about that?

Yep...

Been

chasin any more fellas in parking garages lately?

And you said you were gonna report to management about all the inappropriate text you received. 

I reiterate, woman please :-).

We were

wathing the movie "The Candidate" and old boy has a dog named "Poundcake" :-).

I think I just came up with another nickname for you :-).

"Poundcake"

Cause I plan on pounding your cake :-).

Bahahahahahahahahahaha

Oh and you said you crack yourself up, woman please.

Quite

the flurry of activity around here for something that's not happening till next weekend :-).

I

really like the way you're thinking about a particular issue.

Thinking it probably came from personal experience.

We're gonna help people.

No matter who they are or what the consequences.

Period.

Love you Bambi.

Need :-)

"I

say fly 

away home 

to Zion 

(fly away home).

One bright morning when my work is over,

Man will fly away home."

John Wesleys

Three types of grace.

(I first learned of these on my walk to Emmaus)

Prevenient Grace

This is the radio waves of God that are always out there for us to receive if we choose. They are available to us from birth. It's the sense that something larger than ourselves is at play in our lives. Ever watch a young child while he or she didn't know you were watching and they were doing something they shouldn't have been doing but nobody had even told them it was wrong? When you ask them to stop they look all shocked like "I knew I shouldn't have been doing that". Ever wonder where that came from? Prevenient Grace.

 "God’s grace enables us to discern differences between good and evil and makes it possible for us to choose good…."

Justifying Grace

 This is when the light switch is flipped and we become a different person in Christ. Now we have willingly accepted Grace. It's the conversion moment and redemption all rolled into one. We were listening to the radio message and we accepted it. It could happen in an instant or it could have been building up for years and finally reached it's climactic state.

  "It may be sudden and dramatic, or gradual and cumulative"

 

Sanctifying Grace

If justifying grace was a candle being lit, or a light bulb being switched to "on"? Then sanctifying Grace is a chandelier. Justifying Grace having grown and matured into such.

"Salvation is not a static, one-time event in our lives. It is the ongoing experience of God’s gracious presence transforming us into whom God intends us to be."

 

:-).

 

Love you Lucy.

What we believe, our Wesleyan heritage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proverbs 28:9

Proverbs 17:13

Proverbs 17:13

Proverbs 17:12

Proverbs 17:12

(That one made me smile.)

Proverbs 12:21

Proverbs 12:21

Proverbs 11:3

Proverbs 11:3

Proverbs 10: 24

Proverbs 10: 24

Proverbs 6 12-15

Proverbs 6 12-15

Proverbs 5:12-13

Proverbs 5:12-13

Proverbs 3:32

Proverbs 3:32

Proverbs 1:24-33

Wow...

But since you refuse to listen when I call
    and no one pays attention when I stretch out my hand, 

 since you disregard all my advice
    and do not accept my rebuke, 

 I in turn will laugh when disaster strikes you;
    I will mock when calamity overtakes you— 

 when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
    when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind,
    when distress and trouble overwhelm you.

 “Then they will call to me but I will not answer;
    they will look for me but will not find me, 

 since they hated knowledge
    and did not choose to fear the Lord.

Since they would not accept my advice
    and spurned my rebuke, 

 they will eat the fruit of their ways
    and be filled with the fruit of their schemes. 

 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them,
    and the complacency of fools will destroy them;

but whoever listens to me will live in safety
    and be at ease, without fear of harm.”

Turns

out the best day to fly out from an air port is....

Drum roll please...

Ta-Da!

Tuesday!

Isn't that...

 

Interesting?

Bahahahahahahahaha

Oh you people are slaying me Lucy, just slaying me :-).

Love you

Dollbabay.

Who is

the artist of the week again :-)?

"In France a skinny man
Died of a big disease with a little name
By chance his girlfriend came across a needle
And soon she did the same
At home there are seventeen-year-old boys
And their idea of fun
Is being in a gang called The Disciples
High on crack, totin' a machine gun"

Methodism

"In Wesleyan-Arminian theology, which is upheld by the Methodist Church as well as by Holiness Churches, "sanctification, the beginning of holiness, begins at the new birth". With the Grace of God, Methodists "do works of piety and mercy, and these works reflect the power of sanctification". Examples of these means of grace (works of piety and works of mercy) that aid with sanctification include frequent reception of the sacrament of Holy Communion (work of piety), and visiting the sick and those in prison (work of mercy). As such, in "sanctification one grows to be more like Christ." This process of sanctification that begins at the new birth (first work of grace) has its goal as Christian perfection, also known as entire sanctification (second work of grace), which John Wesley, the progenitor of the Methodist faith, described as a heart "habitually filled with the love of God and neighbor" and as "having the mind of Christ and walking as he walked". This is the doctrine that by the power of God's sanctifying grace and attention upon the means of grace may cleanse a Christian of the corrupting influence of original sin in this life. It is expounded upon in the Methodist Articles of Religion:


Sanctification is that renewal of our fallen nature by the Holy Ghost, received through faith in Jesus Christ, whose blood of atonement cleanseth from all sin; whereby we are not only delivered from the guilt of sin, but are washed from its pollution, saved from its power, and are enabled, through grace, to love God with all our hearts and to walk in his holy commandments blameless.

Justification is seen as an initial step of acknowledging God's holiness, with sanctification as, through the grace and power of God, entering into it. A key scripture is Hebrews 12:14: "Follow after...holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord."

:-)

"At its heart, the theology of John Wesley stressed the life of Christian holiness:

 to love God with all one’s heart, mind, soul and strength 

and to love one’s neighbor as oneself. 

See also Ministry of Jesus. 

Wesley’s teaching also stressed experiential religion and moral responsibility."

I'm

smelling lots of bull shit these days lil miss thang :-).
maybe some is real.
Maybe some is contrived to serve a purpose.

I've

learned this much about life, if you don't think you deserve better?

if you're not willing to work for it?

You're gonna stay stuck in your same situation Ad infinitum.

I promise you you will.

.

Exactly :-)

Our love Lucy?

"It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful."

In fact, I would argue the imperfections make it more so.

Left

worship this morning and listened to 

"Show me how to live" by Audioslave.

"Nail in my hand, from my creator

You gave me life, now show me how to live

Nail in my hand, from my creator

You gave me life, now show me how to live"

Promise I did.

Love you Lucy.

Now

How bout those ass cheeks?

Bahahahahahahaha

It's

really pretty simple.

There is a voice in my head.

(It's out there for everyone)

I know who it is.

I listen to it.

I do what it says.

It never ever matters how crazy it may seem.

Things work out the way the voice wants.

End of story.

I don't see how anyone could challenge this at this point.

Love you Lucy.

Revelation 22:11

Let the one who does wrong continue to do wrong; 

let the vile person continue to be vile; 

let the one who does right continue to do right; 

and let the holy person continue to be holy.

James 5:11

James 5:11

James 3:18

James 3:18

Galatians 5:14

Galatians 5:14

I

mean why am I lying in bed last night and all the sudden the word "sanctification" pops in my head out of nowhere?

Galatians 3:11

"...the righteous will live by faith."

I

was told, in no uncertain terms:

"YOU"RE GOING TO LOOSE EVERYTHING!"

Matthew 16:25

For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.

What if?

God deliberately put homosexuals here to divide up his church as the end times approached?

Again, IDK, just thinking out loud.

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart,

for they will see God.

Ephesians 4:31

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, 

along with every form of malice.

Ephesians 4:28

Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, 

but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, 

that they may have something to share with those in need.

James 3:16

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

What

if the "new economic system" Bro Joe spoke of so often in his bible study on the Book of Revelation is the convergence of cell phones and banking?

Cards replaced cash a while back.

Now it seems like cell phones will replace both.

IDK.

Just thinking out loud.

Luke 6:21

Luke 6:21

I

don't have access to the writing so i'll paraphrase: 

"Negative emotions such as: anger, bitterness, envy and jealousy must be dealt with before they consume you and poison the universe that surrounds you."

Hebrews 12:14

Hebrews 12:14

Sanctification

 "set apart for particular use in a special purpose or work and to make holy or sacred."

Jeremiah 17:7-8

Jeremiah 17:7-8

Yep :-)

"You're the risk I will always take."

Isaiah 26:9

Isaiah 26:9

"I'm

 a capturer, that's what they say. 

Soul adventurer, night and day." 

Gonna

go work on my tan :-).

FYI?

I can be ready to go in 15 minutes :-).

Love you.

"Who Jah

bless, no one curse"

Time to get caught up :-)

Verses and snippets from sermons given by Bro Joe and others at New Chapel and Lewisport UMC.

Matthew 5 1-12. (Always a good one to read :-).

Isaiah 61-1

Psalms 70-5

Luke 17 20-21

James 1-17

Habakkuk 3 17-18

Colossians 1 19-20

"God didn't save you to go sit in a pew on Sunday" - Bro Ron. Love that one :-).

"What a fellowship what a joy divine"

Psalm 27 1-4

Proverbs 3 5-8

"The just shall live by faith."

"Everything is possible to him that believes."

"He is able to do the impossible for you."

"Peaceful confidence."

"If God gives you a mandate then you have to follow it."

"Whatever God tells or shows you, hold onto it. Hold onto it and God will make it come true.

"Lust

fades, connection stays"

Isaiah 41:10

Isaiah 41:10 

:-)

"He told me several times that he didn't like my kind
Cause I was a bit too leisurely
Seems that I was busy doing something close to nothing
But different than the day before"

Ate

my last three eggs this AM. :-).

Closed my savings account to get the minimum balance of $5 back :-).

Wanna guess how much a bag of dog food is?

($4.50)

Exodus 16:4 indeed.

Rumi

Rumi's answer to questions asked by a disciple. 

What Is Poison?
Rumi – Any thing which is more than our necessity is Poison.
It may be Power, Wealth, Hunger, Ego, Greed, Laziness, Love,
Ambition, Hate or Anything.

What Is Fear?
Rumi – Non acceptance of Uncertainty.
If we accept that uncertainty,
it becomes Adventure.

What Is Envy?
Rumi – Non acceptance of Good in others.
If we accept that Good, it becomes Inspiration.

What Is Anger?
Rumi – Non acceptance of things which are beyond our control.
If we accept, it becomes Tolerance.

What Is Hatred?
Rumi – Non acceptance of person as he/she Is.
If we accept person unconditionally, it becomes LOVE.

Killin

me hommie, just killin me :-).

Planning on it :-)

:-)

"All 7 and we'll watch them fall
They stand in the way of love
And we will smoke them all
With an intellect and a savoir-faire
No one in the whole universe
Will ever compare
I am yours now and u are mine
And together we'll love through
All space and time, so don't cry
One day all 7 will die"

Outa

time :-).

Gotta get.

Love you.

Deuteronomy 29:19

...“I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way,” they will bring disaster...

I know it is true.

I've done it to myself several times over.

I've seen others do it to themselves.

I've heard many a sermon about it.

Till the other day?

I never knew it was actually in the book.

Love you Lucy.

Sorry for being such an ass the other day.

Bike ride anyone?

There is a place in Kentucky, the western most place in Kentucky actually, that if you are not at this spot to begin with? 

The only way you can get to this spot in Kentucky is to go through Tennessee :-). 

Just look at the map :-). 

Wanna go Lucy? 

I do, just to say I've been there. 

Who else you ever gonna know that's been there?

Kentucky Bend

:-)

"I remain confident of this:
    I will see the goodness of the Lord
    in the land of the living."

We

need another big ass sign in our home :-).

Psalm 101:7

New International Version

"What

was the first book you ever read?"

"Yours"

"Do you think that was an accident?"

"No. No I don't."

Know

the feeling.

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter: You think I killed those people son?

Lesra: Now I know you didn't.

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter: How do you know?

Lesra: I just know.

Now

"...sometimes we don't pick the books we read, they pick us" 

What if you had just read all the old testament parables three times over and the entire book of Deuteronomy once all within a few days and then you're watchin this movie and you hear that line?

What would you think? I guess would be my question.

I am not hear to brag.

This and text are the only way I can communicate with you because it's the path were on Lucy.

 It's like I sit down to read and I can't get myself up sometimes. 

Let them laugh.

 

:-)

"It's very important to transcend places that hold us"

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

Bro Joe

preached against the prosperity gospel again Sunday :-).

New Chapel is still the only place I have ever heard it preached against.

To me?

It seems wrong because if you come to God expecting him to bless you instead of just worshiping him and giving thanks? 

It just doesn't work that way.

Now, on the other hand, if someone comes to God and worships him and tries to live a correct life and God becides to bless them? 

That is completely different from having expectations from the onset.

Seems to me like the ones who come with no expectations shall be the ones who receive Gods blessing .

It's kind of a putting the cart in front of the horse sort of thing.

Anyway, I'm glad to have heard it preached against several times now at New Chapel UMC :-).

RNM

"I had to run like a fugitive 

just to save the life I live"

RNM

"Cause the things people refuse
Are the things they should choose"

And

yes, we all have so much work to do with ourselves.

'the marks of stiff-necked people?

1. Certainty that you are right.
2. Refusal to listen to anyone else.
3. Defensive when criticized.
4. Making excuses for your shortcomings.
5. Lashing out at others.
6. No desire to examine your own life.
7. Repeated pattern of misbehavior.
8. Prayer without repentance."

RNM

 

“The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.”

RNM

“Truth is truth, I don’t care who offend when the truth speak.”

Even

through everything.

I couldn't ever imagine being with anyone else.

Ecclesiastes 1:1-11

Ecclesiastes 1:1-11

I

know I lost my cool and said a lot of things just to try and make you mad, and for that I am sorry, but I am tired of being lied to straight to my face by people I trust.

It makes me not trust or want to be around them.

I

wonder where he got that from?

I started listening to him when you were four or there abouts.

Think any of it has sunk in maybe Lucy?

As

for my enemies, both known and unknown who take pleasure in my suffering?

"Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. 

Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell." 

I

just really don't feel like you get it sometimes.

If you had millions of dollars on a pallet, the deed to the biggest, most exquisitely decorated house I've ever seen, a pool, 40 acres out in the country, out buildings, four wheelers, every amenity known under the sun, cool as hell rides, bikes, you etc...

and somebody says, 

"It's all yours, just sell me your soul."

What do you think I would do?

I know what I would do.

"What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? 

Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?"

So

yeah, anytime you wanna get everybody together and leave me at home?

Just suggest Sushi or Sashimi and I'll gladly let you go on your way.

And no

I don't like sushi or Sashimi.

There just weren't the places around that serve it when I was growing up. 

I've tried it several times and I just don't like it.

I

think Hobby Lobby should take a good dose of:

 "Just shut the fuck up already."

Won't

give a fuck tomorrow.

Don't

give a fuck today.

Didn't

give a fuck yesterday.

We

should get a really nice telescope Lucy :-).

Matthew 13:11-13

¹¹ He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. ¹² Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. ¹³ This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;
    though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

I

know this much Lucy, the surest way to destruction is to know what God wants you to do and to not do it.

Psalm 1:1-6

Psalm 1:1-6

 The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked

1 Blessed is the man1

who awalks not in bthe counsel of the wicked,

nor stands in cthe way of sinners,

nor dsits in ethe seat of fscoffers;

2  but his gdelight is in the law2 of the Lord,

and on his hlaw he meditates day and night.

3  He is like ia tree

planted by jstreams of water

that yields its fruit in its season,

and its kleaf does not wither.

lIn all that he does, he prospers.

4  The wicked are not so,

but are like mchaff that the wind drives away.

5  Therefore the wicked nwill not stand in the judgment,

nor sinners in othe congregation of the righteous;

6  for the Lord pknows qthe way of the righteous,

but the way of the wicked will perish.

“I

 had to run like a fugitive, to save the life I live.”

RNM

"Better to die fighting for freedom than to be a prisoner all the days of your life."

Luke 12:2

Luke 12:2

Mark 4:22

Mark 4:22

Matthew 10:26

Matthew 10:26

Luke 10:2

Luke 10:2

Luke 10:20

Luke 10:20

Ephesians 6:10-17

Ephesians 6:10-17

Matthew 28:19

Matthew 28:19