Automatons

 

#1566

June 17, 2013

Automatons

"Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer." (Psalm 19:14)

            Millions of Americans have been jolted recently, learning that the IRS and other government agencies are checking everything about them. They thought they were living in a land of freedom (this writer has experienced police state brutality in such places as the Seychelle islands, Mauritius, China, where and when you were talking to someone they were constantly glancing around to see who was listening or watching). If citizens knew the peril they face in revealing their lives on Face book the government already know more about you, your bank account, your sins and silliness, than you do. Young people do not realize they are in a steady march to a Gulag. Even those who already live in government subsidized housing, even those totally dependant on welfare.

            Like the so called meteorologist on television, the news commentator, just READERS who have no comprehension of their subject matter just parroting something that a government worker has dictated. Much like Mr. Obama, clueless unless reading from a teleprompter.

            Americans have become Alta tones, just falling in line believing anything. They actually believe that chemotherapy and radiology will cure cancer, the very things that cause cancer, strange chemicals and radiation, both of which accumulate in the body. Cancer will not be cured because cancer is worth 1.2million dollars for every person with cancer. Many Americans actually believe that their children are being educated in a public school, when we rank 37th in the world in our knowledge of math and science. This is why home schooling grows seven times faster than public schooling. Parents want to get their loved children away from the decadence of public schooling... Some refuse to fall in line.

            This writer dropped his membership in AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), several years ago, because I found that today's scientist are much more interested in government and foundation grants than in research to improve the life of their fellow man. Like many pastors, much more interested in their pastoral packet (vacation, retirement, car allowance, etc) than the souls of people who just might come to hear them and the fact that UNSAVED people, still go to hell.

            A verse of scripture that changed my life many years ago,  Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee (Psalm 84:5). The knowledge that my strength comes from God, has enabled me to live life as a 100% disabled veteran.

            In my lifetime, 82 years, the world has changed AND, it is truly remarkable how people and businesses become just automatons.

            How well I remember when any store, you receive personal service... A clerk taking care of you. How well I remember the first self service store I ever encountered... Pushing a shopping cart around, picking up things, checking out with a cashier. I thought, "anyone with baggy clothes can steal anything, and so it is". It really makes no difference anymore, because government welfare agencies are much more concerned about the shoppers than the seller... Furnishing a plastic card so the poorest do not have to worry about stealing AND, the twist beyond comprehension, sex and tabloid papers and magazines totally hiding the cash register so you cannot see what you are being charged. Business, from the banking house, to the court house, to the road house, has become a matter of greed. The hardworking, God fearing, tax paying citizen, attempting to live according to God's book, caught in the middle. The temptation of the automaton even as a child, "Everyone is doing it".

            In my youth, church house, and school house, we were taught not to gossip. As one man said to me long ago, "If you cannot prove what your saying to me about someone else, don't tell me". Starting with gossip "screenland" magazines, then moving to the radio with engaging personalities such as Hedda Hopper, late night TV talk shows, led by Johnny Carson, all media fell in line with gossip talk shows.

            The public, even responsible homes like automatons have fallen right in line with any sin or shameful activity coming around. Parents of young children even some who warm church house pews think it is fair to recognize same sex marriage, even the spending of $50 for the morning after pill by any young girl on a abortion activity... A pill to prevent inception -gestation. When will bible believing, real Christians, say enough is enough and throw the TV and other cesspools of satanic activity out of their house. It is not that we do not know better but Satan has his hold on us.

            Doctors -nursing -public health officials know better, yet they will walk on carpet in the corridors of hospitals. They know full well that every germ known to man is hiding in these carpets. Parents and grandparents, who love their children and grandchildren, will sit right there in a house wall to wall carpet , a precious child crawling around on that carpet, souls of shoes, bottoms of animals have brought every germ possible to that house now hiding in the carpet. Intelligent people will go to a doctors office, wanting to get well. Further exposing themselves to every germ known to man by licking their fingers, turning pages of old germ infested magazines, sitting on chairs where the skin of sick people have instilled germs. Most doctors, their staffs, are all too busy making money to clean their offices -hospitals, - clinics. The automaton theory of life, knowledge means little whether biological, political, or spiritual, just get in line and do what everyone else is doing.

 

Dr. T.R. Morris
Lt. Col USA Retired
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Dance or Dirge

“‘We played the pipe for you,
and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge,
and you did not mourn.’ (Matthew 11:17)

Buried next to President Woodrow Wilson, in the floor of the National Cathedral, Washington, DC, blind, deaf, Helen Keller... an inspiration to everyone but particularly to us who are disabled. I have written at length about Helen Keller, finally a breakthrough to her marvelous brain, by her teacher using an old fashioned water pump, they learned to communicate. Helen went on the graduate from college, travel the world, friend of presidents, world leaders and celebrities.

Keller said, “Life is either an adventure or nothing at all.” So many, struggling, not living... losing their health trying to gain wealth and then spending their wealth trying to regain health.

Life is totally unpredictable. In a vehicle, on the highway, an approaching vehicle, mechanical or human failure, just a few feet from instant death.

If you had just one month to live, what changes would you make? What would you do differently? This writer can honestly say that if he had only one month, one week, one hour, nothing would change. I believe the committed Christian, chosen of God, is ready to go anytime. “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” (Phillipians 2:13)

In this day of the minimal believer walking the isle, perhaps even going into the baptismal pool, just sitting on an “Easy Boy” thinking they are covered. Not even the most dedicated believer knows the importance of being chosen of God... not that you chose God, but rather that God chose you.

Life is for living, the greatest freedom-liberty known to man is salvation provided by God. Most Christians do not realize that this, the greatest treasure on earth, better than any pleasure the world can provide. Health gives much freedom. Our body is the temple of God, not a dumpster.

Most people spend their lives going through the motions and, when you about ready to live, it is time to die. It is just upside down. When you have acquired the knowledge, acquired enough of this world’s wealth, actually know what living is all about, it is time to die. Many do not think it will happen, too much ego. (easing God out)

God has given us the answer book but we want to fly “solo”. Not only our food intake, but what goes in the mind. If a sewage pipe were to break at your house, with the smell, the sight, the decadence, you would get it repaired, out of mind but, the average adult sits and watches 4 hours of television each day, even though the set is on for 7 hours, and actually allows their child, most sensitive years, to watch such trash. One cannot get a vehicle repaired, doctor’s reception, waiting rooms of any type, without a television invading the space.

The power of satin cannot be overestimated or underestimated. We do hot have any record of God appearing to Moses after He left Egypt, at age 40, shepherding sheep in the desert of Midian. Any bush would have done but God appeared in a burning bush. He always knew Moses' location. He had a job for Moses, to lead the children of Egypt from bondage after 400 years. Moses, age 80, Aaron age 83 , went before Pharaoh, “let my people go”. The magicians of pharaoh had the palace crawling with snakes, but Moses' rod-snake devoured them all. Satin is not going to lie down and beg you not to bother him any more. He is on the job, but God can handle the problem.

The greatest tragedy of life now, the 2000 years after the cross, the 10,000 years before the cross, men do not realize the power of God... His magnificence in designing the world and everything in it. I have stood at both the Arctic and Antarctic, 450,000 square miles at both the top and bottom of the earth, of glaciers, snowfall-ice crystals. One man, Wilson Bentley, using an ingenious method, photographed tens of thousands of snowflakes, no two alike, each designed by God. The largest almost one foot wide. Look into space, 450 billion galaxies and after that, space beyond measure. Just think, the designer of the universe, every star, snowflake, grain of sand, interested in our happiness and wanting us to enjoy living.

Cross Cut Saw

An articulate black woman talked to me recently at a social function. She was telling me that she had just received her Masters and was about to start on her PhD. She related how hard she had worked to achieve this academic accomplishment and how proud her parents were of her. I said, “Is there a man in your life”? She said, “Through middle school high school, college, the thought has ravaged my psyche” “Where will I find a soul mate”? “The black men I know are not worth the ammunition it would take to kill them... dropouts, hangouts, no ambition, no morals, complete lack of character.” “Why, Dr., would I give myself to such a man?” This is the greatest problem for most educated ambitious black women. “I am not going to spend my life preparing for a good life to support a nothing. I want children but I want the father of my children to be respectable.”

Character determines destiny. The lack of character in males is not just a black problem. I am totally amazed with the feminization of males. I am told that there is no longer a competitive spirit in males... athletics, female conquest, or even personal and business ambition. Time after time, year after year, hiring young men to work for me and I can only use college graduates, I find their zest for accomplishment wanting, respect for an older accomplished person totally lacking. Three young men, working for me, fresh from military service, on the job, just walked off. Even before I left the military, many years ago, it was obvious that most young men entering the military were mamas boys. One after another, still holding on to the apron strings rather than go through the rigors of basic training would find some reason to get a chaplain or psychologist's excuse. Esprit De Corps is the greatest weapon the soldier possesses. Like team spirit on the athletic field, maleness is essential in war, athletics, religion.

I remember, when a woman could not use a female name after having written a book , she used a male nom de plume. I have not forgotten a woman on one of my arctic trips. She told me that even though she had graduated medical school she had never practiced because she was a woman. In the 1950s, when I was in school there was only one girl in my class. Dr. Margaret Swanson, professor of pathology (UNC-CH) said to me the time will come when women doctors can do something other than teach . From 1980 until now women graduates in all of the health care fields, law and most other professions, have doubled. Females now outnumber males in most professions, business, even politics. Unlike Michelle Obama, picking the pockets of the treasury in her mad flame as “Queen of the good life” (42 days , $10M spent on vacation this year) Many women politicians are consecrated conservative concerned Christians.

From the founding of my family at Morristown, NJ to the colonial Lucas family, who owned most of Wilson county, I have had a profound ancestry. It took me many years to realize it, outstanding ancestry, exceptional parents... all this, my life, made COMPLETE in my commitment to Jesus Christ. My father got much smarter when I went to college. I realize now that the entire community., the entire church had watched my parents, in their youth, and then marry. It was the Great Depression, few remember how hard it was. I was their first child, their wealth. I know now that the entire community and church watched the development of a child of these exceptional parents... the most attractive, social couple in the community. I remember the first time I came home from college, the large church built in 1874 by may ancestors, all so excited that Thomas was home from college. It was not me but my parents they were honoring. Time after time, people I hardly knew, church members,preachers, people I hadly knew would say to me (my parents attended all churches, loved to sing) “our church revival does not get started until we hear your parents in the congregation”.

Times were hard. My parents were the hardest working people I have ever known. My father was determined to make a man of me. The other boys in the small country school may have stayed after school and played ball. My father had me on one end of a cross cut saw, sawing wood for the “cook stove”, the “wood heaters” in the house, even the wood curing tobacco barns. Later, my younger brothers were not exposed to such hard work. Oil was used in the curing barns and heat for the house but, during those hard times my father owned 300 acres of woodland and wood was cheap. It just took two men with a cross cut saw to fell the trees saw, split, and prepare the wood for use..

I Started plowing early, one of our mules, “Nell”, taught me to plow. Treasure the memories of hard work, the competitive spirit, giving even your eyesight in warfare for your country.

GOD, give us men!
A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office can not buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor; men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue
And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking!
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty, and in private thinking;
For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds,
Their large professions and their little deeds,
Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Freedom weeps,
Wrong rules the land and waiting Justice sleeps

God Give Us Men: Gilbert Holland

Encouragement

#563

The most effective weapon Satan has in his arsenal is the weapon of discouragement. I said to a young man this very morning, “You are going to be surprised how much you learn in your lifetime, if you are fortunate to live to my age”. Because, when I was his age, and I don't own one article of clothing as young as he is. Because, I had a good mind a healthy body, acceptable eyesight, I thought I had the world figured. It is amazing how much I have learned with age. It is amazing how smart my father became, when I went to college. When I was the age of this young man, I thought old people were such a drag... so uneducated... so ignorant. I'm embarrassed now to think how much I discounted years of experience and study... just living. I'm embarrassed now to think of the first patients in my office, how little I knew as a doctor. I'm embarrassed now, to think how little I knew when I was up speaking before large groups of well informed people. I'm embarrassed now, to think how little I knew about God's Word as I filled pulpits around the country... the saints who were in the audience and knew so much more than I did... not only about the Bible but the many other books that have been written by the great minds of Faith... Charles Spurgeon, C.S. Lewis, R.G. Lee, etc.

I have participated in some large funerals in my life... men, successful by every measure, wealth, power, biography. Never, at one of these funerals, did I hear anyone speak of his automobile, his beautiful home, his golf score. They always talked about his love of God, family, and country. They always spoke of his compassion for others. Giving of himself. Following, the great example of Jesus Christ.

One, the first graduate of North Carolina State University, E.C. Matthews who died at age 100, with a marvelous family whom he loved very much, friends everywhere who, as an engineer, actually designed and built the church in which his funeral was held. He always had a word of encouragement for everyone and that is the way he is remembered. Another, who's father helped design and build the Brooklyn Bridge, was a Deacon in Bellvue Baptist Church most of his life. Always there, I don't believe he ever took a vacation. He could have been on a yacht or at a seaside villa but he was there to encourage the pastor and his fellow members. Another gentile-man, a member of first Baptist Church here in this city, who always wanted to attend the Southern Baptist convention with me had a gentile heart for children. His two sons did not turn out very well but, he told me, “they are mine and I am responsible. Perhaps I did not encourage them enough”.

God has blessed me to be able to return for his glory much of my income which I direct through his direction for awards and scholarships at colleges. My message in the thousands of dollars given for this purpose, always, this is my way of encouraging those who need financial help … particularly those who are disabled. I financed a loan fund, at one college, so any student studying, preparing for full time Christian work can always get funds … interest free. The college just asks them to repay the money when able.

“Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all [men]. See that none render evil for evil unto any [man]; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all [men]. Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing.” (1Th 5:14-17) These words, from the Apostle Paul, to the Christians at Thessaloniki are ever the words of encouragement for the church. Joyfully, we focus on God instead of circumstances. We pray without ceasing.

The most dangerous words in the world, are words found in Christ's instructions to his Apostles on prayer … most people call this the Lord's Prayer … it is not the Lord's Prayer because Christ did not ask for forgiveness. (Mat 6:9-13)

Think of what is involved when you pray in this prayer, forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. In other words, we ask God to forgive us just as we forgive others. Think of those you have not forgiven … even family members … the most unforgiving people I have ever known are members of your own family.

It is a mystery which only God can explain, how a woman and man can so love one another, marry, have children … then divorce and have such a hatred for one another even though their own children share their DNA, family backgrounds. Your own children, whether you live with your spouse or not need the encouragement from the love of both parents, the security of family involvement. Usually it is a matter of in laws, the reason the parents of children cannot act civilized after divorce.

On further down in the Lord's Prayer, “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil” (Mat 6:13). My analytical chemistry professor, Dr. JT Dobbins at UNCCH, reminded me long ago, there should be a corollary here. Why should Christians ask God to deliver them from temptation and deliver them from evil, when many times, particularly with the liquor stores and the lottery, Christians go to the poles in lock-step to vote for putting temptation into the way of their fellow man? We, of all people, should want God to keep temptation and evil from the “lost and dying”.

Encouragement can be such a small thing, the spoken word, the smile, or gentleness. Patience is truly a virtue … it is better to wait than to work. I'm inpatient with myself because I am so impatient with others, particularly, telemarketers. Remember, if you know someone who is blind, let the phone ring many times because it takes a blind person more time to get to the phone and, blind people cannot use cell phones … in most cases. There is no encouragement like the encouragement given to sick people. I heard Dr. James Dobson say that 80% of all people in nursing homes never have a visitor. One of my friends, Eddie Jones, after he retired, volunteered in an exclusive Florida nursing home for a time … a nursing home which cost patients over 6000 dollars per month. He said, “I could not work there, totally neglected people”.

Encourage young mothers, remember, we were all young one time.

Compass

#527

Young officers in the military are given coordinates on a map then, taken to an isolated area, put out in pairs, with a map and compass and told to reach a certain destination. In this type of exercise, you learn the importance of a compass. Most of today's young people have never seen a compass, sun dial, and certainly do not know how to read the X and Y zeniths on a map. Parallels mean nothing and certainly the solar sun spots and other cosmic activities involving the poles are not taught. Many who are geographically lost would be able to find their way to civilization...plane crash, kidnapping etc. if they had even rudimentary knowledge which our ancestors were forced to know such as the side of a tree on which moss grows etc.

Today's population, is too busy impressing one another. “My business is very good, my practice is extremely large, my children are very successful.” It has become a make believe world, everyone thinking they live life in a soap opera. Wrinkles are very honest. Grey hair is honest and respectable. Old age is an accomplishment . Why should a mother want to dress like her daughter?

One of my friends, a man about my age, died unexpectedly from a stroke. He and his wife had been very active in the church. When my wife, who was an accomplished pianist, was not there, his wife would play the piano. After his death, I was embarrassed to see her in public...obviously trying to attract another husband. She came into a restaurant where I was eating with some friends, real short dress, boots, and she looked like Nancy Sinatra in disguise. She did not acknowledge me at all and I certainly assumed that the people I was with did not want to describe her to me. My only thought, “what do her children think?”

There is nothing wrong with wigs, toupees, cosmetic surgery, if needed (13 billion spent on cosmetic surgery in 2007, a good toupee costs $800). There is nothing wrong with a family looking at a loved one after death, in a casket, if needed. It seems a heathen practice for the living, to stare at the dead in an open casket. It seems a heathen practice for death to be a time of celebrating with excessive eating. The rubber necking that goes on near a vehicle crash scene is unforgivable.

I asked my younger grandson, graduating from a large university in a few weeks, if he were active in a Christian organization on campus. He said, “most are just pretending”. We live in a world of pretension...politicians, pastors, parents, pretending to care. A parent who loves a child will be very careful about sending a child to a public school. Even putting police officers in the school, patrolling the hallways has not improved discipline. It is reliably reported that now there are cameras in the bathrooms of both sexes, that listening devices are installed in many places (locker rooms, showers, etc.) All these man made methods of control, just trying to establish discipline and acceptable behavior in a place where good behavior should be the rule not the exception.

Jesus Christ does not want cowards to carry his cross. “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.” (Rom 12:1) Ask your school psychologist if he or she agrees with this. 80% of all psychologists are Atheists...a worthless, useless, unrecognized way of making a living. One of my doctor friends, a psychiatrist at Dorothea Dix hospital in Raleigh, said to me, “psychiatry and psychology are almost worthless but a good way of making a living”. In Mongolia, a communist from N. Korea told me about the workers which she had brought over to work in Mongolia, “they pretend to work and we pretend to pay them”. In psychology, the practitioner pretends to treat and the patient pretends to get better. Like prisoners, the recidivism rate is over 50%.

Most psychological work would be erased if parents realized that children are born untrained and that parenting is simply a matter of training a child. When talking with young men imprisoned in the stockade, when talking with young women (Women's Army Corps) who had problems adjusting to society, with both men and women, the sensitivity and harassment of sexual adjustment through the socially engineered school house, court house, church house and your house was something with which they could not adjust. The world, the flesh, the devil will always get the upper hand unless, with great parenting skills, you have made the necessary preparations in your child's psyche. Benjamin Spock, in his book Baby and Child Care, which sold 59 million copies in many languages around the world, indoctrinated many parents into training the child without discipline. Shortly before his death, and few realize this, “Dr. Spock apologized for his book and said he was wrong; his theories about raising children were hypothesis, but they did not bear out. In practice, healthy, responsible adults were not the outcome.”

As an Army medical officer, my two best friends, two outstanding doctors, one a German Jew, the only one of his family to survive Hitler's death chamber, the other, a black Meharry Medical School graduate from the Delta of Mississippi. He told me, that his grandmother told him, “if you get into trouble and they take you downtown to the jail, don't call us, we have lived as a respectable family in this community and you will not shame us”. The compass needed, in most families, is the compass of family obedience and pride. Children should have too much love for their parents to shame them. The needle on the compass should be set early in life in only one direction...straight and narrow. All of us do what we do because we believe what we believe. If we get our belief structure correct, life will be correct and much easier. Relax, live every day to the fullest, it is too short to spend your time pretending.

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.  ~Stacia Tauscher

Sisyphus

#506


Corinth is a city in Greece on an Isthmus at the South end of the Greek continent. The waters around Corinth are so treacherous that many of the early Greek ships sank trying to navigate the Isthmus. A canal was dug across the Isthmus and prior to that the ships were unloaded at Corinth and the ships were dragged across the land to re-enter the water on the other side. It was this unusual but active navigational challenge which lead to the build up of the city. We find the problems of Corinth described in the writings of Paul in his epistles to the churches at Corinth (I & II Corinthians). There was a large racial mixture in the city, a city of much sin. As in much large cities around the world, even in the United States the student of political geography finds that all cities, almost without exception are built on waterways or secluded harbors because nearly all commerce in the early history of the world depended on water travel.

Greek mythology attributes the founding of Corinth to Sisyphus. Sisyphus was the son of the king Aeolus of Thessaly. Sisyphus promoted navigation and commerce around Corinth but was accused of being deceitful. His punishment consisted in navigating a tremendous boulder up a hill only to watch it roll back down and then to repeat the same punishment. This was his punishment for eternity. From the writer Homer onward and even until this day, Sisyphus was known as the craftiest of men accused of every sinful deceit. Sisyphus was described by the poet Homer and even painted in the monastery at Delphi.

Greek mythology as well as other Pagan mystic raconteurs are almost subservient to Holy scripture and antiquarian mythological writing.

Often I am asked, how do you prepare a student for college or the university? We know, without one shadow of a doubt, that colleges and universities are laced with unethical atheistic professors and academicians who take a thrill in subjugating the faith brought to the campus from the unsuspecting student. 95% of all college professors are flaming liberals. Nothing makes a professor happier than to conquer the thinking of a student, the Christian student from the Christian home, of his hard earned faith. After all, God only expects one thing from us, student or otherwise...trust. If an academician can instill a seed of doubt within the heart of a believer he has achieved a Satanic triumph. The professor has made his decision...as Sinatra sang...”I did it my way”. The professor has already accepted the Darwinian myth that man is just another animal and why should the human animal possess or profess any characteristic different from the dog found in the alley way? Starting in the early part of the 20th century, with the founding of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Roger Baldwin who headed this anti-Christian organization for 30 years, we have seen a steady decline on the college and university campus of spiritual activity even though most of our early colleges and universities were founded by outstanding Christians. As I wrote to President Jenkins at Notre Dame, when he invited our first Communist President to speak at the university's graduation, I reminded him of the mission of the ACLU and Roger Baldwin who wrote, “I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself...I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.” Even on the day Baldwin was married, he and his wife professed they did not believe in marriage, that one should have sex with whomever possible, any more than he agreed with boundary lines or discipline of any type. Very much like John Dewey, Columbia University, who was used by the Russian Communists to set up their education system, “the end justifies the means”. We now have an administration in Washington who is following the dictates of Baldwin and Dewey.

As I have discussed in other commentaries, almost accidentally, I met Gus Hall in New York, chairman of the Communist party of the United States. I discussed him telling me in detail, “draperies and bedspreads”, how the Communists could burn America down overnight but, the Communist like the Islamic extremists do not want to take over a destroyed America but the “American dream”, homes, hotels, campuses, hospitals, factories, all built as a part of the greatest Democratic republic ever to exist which they can takeover for use in their control of the masses...slaves.

And you think, that the dumbing down of America happened accidentally. The global struggle for control of the Western world, without much bloodshed...much destruction was carefully planned. It was learned long ago, that even with churches on every corner...radio and television preachers sweating away in their proclamations about the soles eternal welfare...like Sisyphus, they really don't care. Carrying boulders up a hill or even eternal hellfire does not bother the psyche of most Americans.

This week, a memorial service was held for a 14 year old girl, just walking from school, murdered and buried. A 17 year old girl has just disappeared in the same area. These horror stories happen so often we hardly remember them from one day to the next. Close by, Fayetteville, a five year old child prostituted by her own mother, murdered and found buried, the mother and the mothers boyfriend arrested for the crime. Each day, 1,000 school girls become pregnant. Each day, seven teenagers commit suicide. Each day, 3,000 babies are aborted...1,452 black. When was the last time you heard your pastor speak about the sinking into Sodom of our nation. This country, blessed by God as no other has been warned time and time again about it's slippery slide into oblivion. God shows us what he can do...earthquakes beyond compare in Haiti, Chile, Japan, Taiwan, Turkey...all within two months.

The average college student is invincible, immortal, and infallible. Who needs God? Your professor does not think so, your school, even the Christian schools, do not think so. Like 50% of the American population students live from grants, the largess of hard working, tax paying citizens. The generosity of philanthropic citizens.

It bothers me beyond words to describe, that as frugally as I have lived my entire life, my generosity, as unto God, I give to Christian causes including Christian colleges. You would be shocked to learn how few times I have received even a simple...”thank you”. We have produced a “me” society content to just let others pay the bill. I am amazed how many times I send a gift of money to an organization (NRA, BVA, RNC, churches, clubs, pro life) just to find that the money I sent thinking honestly that I was helping do some good somewhere is used just to bombard me with solicitation for more money. In other words they spent every dime I have sent them, free will, thinking it will be used to good advantage, just to have the money “turned on me” with almost daily solicitation.

It is at the college that most students, right out of high school, eyes gleaming and thrilled in the anticipatory desire to learn and prepare for the future, has his first encounter with homosexuality, pornography, materialism, diadectic atheism. Parents, prepare your children from the earliest ages to encounter the satanic traps Satan has set for them at every conceivable encounter down the road of life...particularly in the college matriculation...their first independence. It is better to escape the entrapment. Many have been redeemed from such entrapment...and it is a learning experience...but character determines destination and the character instilled as young as possible will serve well throughout life. God was not joking when he said, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it”...even in college (Pro 22:6).

We are not born prepared for life. It is a matter of early training, education, preparation. My greatest gift was the gift of blindness. The disabled, the handicapped learn early to carry boulders up hills, not as punishment but as a reward for escaping eternal damnation.

Christmas Time

The celebration of Christmas has changed completely during my lifetime (80 years). As a child, Christmas was centered around the white, clapboard church built by my great grandparents on both my mother and father's families in 1874 as they recovered from the Civil War and the destruction of every religious symbol in the community when the Yankees moved through on Sherman's march to the sea.

I personally object to Christmas decorations in a house of worship. Most of the decorations are symbols of the pagan activities of that season of the year which the Christians took over from the worshipers of heathenism. But, in the very isolated, rural communities, the poverty which was there when I was a child (remember there were no radios, television had not been invented, one telephone in the entire community, no electricity) gave the children in Sunday school a reason to look forward to this time of year, because it was a time that they participated in enjoyment not found at any other time.

I still remember there were children in the community, at the church, who had never seen an orange or banana. The only Santa Claus they knew anything about was the one they saw on the pages of the Sears Christmas catalog, which came to every home. They could wish for things but the chances of them getting any thing was slim to none. My mother related so many times about how she and her sister wanted a doll for Christmas. They each received a child's purse in which was a note which read, “Perhaps next year will be better and you will get a doll. Signed, Santa.”

Over my long and exciting life of traveling the world as a blind person, then, as now, having everything described to me by someone else, I was interviewed by a reporter from a large newspaper about my experiences around the world at Christmas time. It is very simple, only in those countries where Christ is known will you find the celebration of Christmas. Certainly not in the 48 Muslim countries. Perhaps the most exciting Christmas was celebrated at the South Pole, Antarctica. Next in excitement would be spending Christmas Eve at Bethlehem in the Holy Land. I fully described this experience in one of my blogs.

How, when I arrived at the hotel in Bethlehem from Jerusalem, the place was full and my driver and I were given rooms on the outside in rooms reserved during tourist season for bus drivers. I described how cold it was in Bethlehem that time of the year, emphasizing, again, the known fact that our blessed Lord was not born in the latter part of December because there were no shepherds in the fields with sheep at such a cold time of year in the Holy Land. But, on that Christmas Eve as all my senses reconciled my metabolism in the physical knowledge of that part of the world at any time of the year, I rejoice just to be there. On Christmas Day, I went into the Church of the Nativity, which is built over the cave where our blessed Lord was born. Even though being in the Holy Land at Christmas, celebrating the birth of the Light of the World, my guide told me he did not see one Christmas decoration, one Christmas light, EXCEPT in a small store just across from Absalom's Tomb (Absalom, son of King David).

I was in Athens, Greece at Christmas one year. The people at the hotel and others told me they had never seen one city so beautifully decorated as Athens. Of course, having been here several times, I knew the Acropolis, on which the Parthenon is located, is always illuminated at night. Crawling up the Acropolis to the Parthenon on Christmas day, reaching Mars Hill (where the Apostle Paul had much to say about the God's of the Athenians) I thrilled in the knowledge that all history, every calendar, every date on any document, all punctuated by the birth and life of one solitary man, God-man. When you move around the Mediterranean, you realize this one solitary figure of history never walked over 50 miles from where he was born, never owned anything except his robe for which His crucifiers gambled as he hung on a tree.

This Christmas, you do not have to travel the world as I have at Christmas time (South Pole, Holy Land, Majorca, Holland, Greece, Rio, Tokyo) to know the real meaning of Christmas. When you look at the Christmas tree, think of the tree on which our blessed Lord was crucified. When you see the thorns on the holly tree, think of the crown of thorns on His head. When you see the red berries, think of the drops of blood he shed for you, when you see the bright lights which the world has distributed up and down every street, a world which has denied Him over and over, think of the Light of the World and the fact that every day, in every way, the world prefers darkness to light.

Over spending, over eating, over activity, is the way pagans celebrate Christmas. To the world, it is not a holy day but a holiday. Keep pagan practices out of your house of worship; there is nothing more beautiful than Christian Church, Christmas music. The gifts of Santa Claus do not compare and should not be mixed with the incomparable gift of the Christian Christmas. Don't get confused, God is not mocked. For the believer, the believer in Christ, Christmas is a time to rejoice in children, even in seeing a pregnant woman. God chose to put a tent of human flesh on a small baby born of a virgin mother, to live among us, to die for us, and has told us only to remember Him at the communion table. Celebrating the Lord's supper is the only way we were instructed to remember him. The rest is just peripheral, to be done with sobriety, thoughtfulness, and an excellent time to show man's humanity to man.