Thanksgiving and Fairness

The only truly American holiday, Thanksgiving. This day smothered by the pagan decorations of Halloween and Christmas. God's word did not instruct us to celebrate Christ's birthday... only memorial instructions, His sacrifice for us on the Cross, celebrated at the Lord's table.

Forgotten, but must be remembered, “Good news”, the gospel has two sides... what God did for us and a history of what Saints of God have done in return.

Here in the room where this is dictated, a cast iron fireplace, cooking pot brought over from England by my family who landed on New Jersey shores. (Morristown farm survey, 1766) Just as most Americans do not realize that 75% of the world's children have never tasted ice cream or slept on a mattress. Premier, primitive Americans eaked out a bare existence, thankful for shelter, fire in a chimney, just any method of preparing food.

But, they took time to be thankful for the goodness of God. There is a difference in the mind of God and the mind of man. Providing for us is always in the mind of God, and thanking Him for provisions should always be in our mind.

The word fair is not found in God's word, even Bill Gates, America’s richest man, unbeliever, in his 10 rules for success in business, tells us that there is no such concept as fair.

From the first time I heard President Obama speak, I knew he was anti-Christ, proven time and time again, in speaking of fair share. The serpent, in the garden of Eden, introduced fairness to Eve... the beginning of all sin, the downfall of man. The concept of fairness was foreign to early Americans. Food from a tortured east coast soil, as they buried their dead from horrendous winters, THEY THANKED GOD FOR OPPORTUNITY.

The Jewish faith of the old testament, a chosen people seeking to live under God's law, observed feast of Thanksgiving. The feast of tabernacles, seven days of living in a temporary “booth” or shelter outside their home in memorial of their life in the desert. During that week, they made 203 sacrificial offerings to God in thanksgiving for His abundance. This practice of living in a temporary shelter is still observed by some Orthodox Jews, until this day.

Some Americans, even the disabled, those who did not win life's lottery as far as possessions, good health, good looks, good brain power, take time for Thanksgiving. Thankful, to the giver of life, for life, eternal life, and it's blessings.

There have always been those who felt they have been left out. Recently, the beginning of the 20^th century, the progressive movement and even the veterans of WWI. Then, mid 20^th century hippies, now, occupiers, much like Baghdad Bob, giving a ridiculous excuse for their plight in society. This totally blind, 100% disabled veteran, who was never been able to even get a white cane or talking watch from his government can understand the “young folks” resentment toward stretch limousines, life in penthouses-beach chalets. From one side of the world to the other, and I have observed it all, whether a political tyrant, or one who inherits great wealth, and much of it is just plain luck, there has always been and will always be great inequality in our very short life here on earth. (when you get my age you realize how short it is and you look back at blessings, not fairness) It is at the Cross of Jesus Christ that we obtain equality... the greatest equality beyond imagination, a joint heir with God, the One who threw the stars into space. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. (Romans 8:17)

Now this is a reason for thanksgiving, with Christ, we own all the gold in the earth, the cattle on a thousand hills. (Psalm 50:10)

The occupiers, welfare moochers, dependence on entitlements, the slow but certain drift to communism. Who needs God when you have government? Christian joy, the fount of everlasting pleasure, like plugging a cord into an electric socket, like electricity, always available and dependable. “Young folks”, thinking science and technology is their god, thinking that life is just pushing computer buttons, know nothing of the ugliness of war, hardships that made this country great. We can give without loving but we cannot love without giving. Love of country, Love of God, results in thanksgiving. Pushing aside any thoughts of fairness, because God delights in blessing us, whether we deserve it or not.

It was Judas (betrayer of our Lord for the price of a hog) who resented the “waste” of Mary Magdalene's worship of our Lord, her thanksgiving with the Alabaster box. (Jesus had cast seven devils out of Mary Magdalene (Mark 16:9)) and she showed her thankfulness by pouring onto Him all her wealth. Jesus said, that what she had done should be told wherever the gospel is preached. There is nothing cheap about real thankfulness, and God knows.

Solidarity

To the globalists, the leaders of the new world order, God's chief creation, made in His very image, the human being, has become very insignificant. Like the cheap comic book portrayals of future accomplishments by part-human, part-robot beings, a merger of man and machine controlled by a computer.

The word “solidarity” was little known outside of the physics laboratory until the Nobel Peace Prize was given to Lech Walensa and the word was used describing this Polish worker's following (by one-fourth of the Polish population). When Walensa and others finally decided to establish Polish worker's rights.

A very little amount of sand is left in the hourglass, the year 2010 is almost gone. Through a movement called “Tea Party”, some sleeping RINO members of the Republican party were finally awakened. The enslavement of America is finally brought full face before those who care. The liberals, blacks, gays, academics, media personalities (print and sound), do not care. Someone once asked me, since I traveled through many communist countries and had seen the what the profanity and abomination of communism does to the human being, “why do some Americans promote such a philosophy?” I told him, “they think it will not affect them because they will be in charge.”

In every communist society, every totalitarian group, there is always that very small percentage of the elitists, politburo, who feel they are destined to rule the proletariat. Liberal democrats think things are bad with democracy's fat cats, Wall Street, Madison avenue, K street exploiters, the racketeers; but the MAFIA in the communist system is a nightmare that makes the Jewish MAFIA in Las Vegas seem like Sunday school. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly. Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. (Psalm 22:10-11)

There is a cohesion-connectedness between people who are fellow sufferers. There will always be a cohesion-connectedness between those 33 Chilean miners who awaited rescue from the bowels of the earth. I have observed a connectedness surrounding Christians observing Communion at the Lord's table. I have observed a connectedness with family members and even neighbors around the casket of a deceased loved one.

The solidarity, connectedness of a college fraternity, Masonic order, Rotarian or Elk's civic club is far different from the connectedness or solidarity affecting a group of cancer survivors, a military unit at the battlefront, survivors recovering in a military hospital, or even former orphans in a childrens home.

Many of us have had the experience of the closeness involved in a group traveling together...staying in the same hotel, eating together, sightseeing together. After your final departure, you head to your own destination, and in spite of the closeness you experienced, you seldom ever hear from these friends again. It is even rare to have a close relationship with college roommates, sports team members. You felt that at the time there was a solidarity that would preserve a relationship forever; only through the common cause of neurological fellowship, does such friendship persist. In order for the Christian to know Christ, you must daily experience the power of His Resurrection, the fellowship of His suffering. (Philippians 3:10)

The largest minority in America, the disabled, should have an attitude of solidarity, because each has experienced the isolation of their own distinction, whether wheelchair, white cane, disfigurement, or some other blessing which separates them from the normal. Family members should have close solidarity, having sat around the same table, known first hand the hardships of parenthood, the festoon of genes; too often, jealousy, in-law blight, or dwelling on past problems prevent such.

One of the most honest, up-front, outspoken groups who protect and perfect solidarity is that of those with alcoholism. 75% of all crime, 50% of all divorces, 60% of all broken bones are attributed to alcohol consumption. 80% of all young people are experimenting with alcohol, and one 1 out of each 16 will become a drug addict. It all starts with the first drink.

The great problem, political correctness. Psychologists want children to like their parents, more important is how well the children like their parents after the child is 25 years old. In AA (Alcoholics Anonymous), only one's first name is used, it can happen to anyone. Across the tracks, in the poor section of town, one who cannot control alcohol is called a “drunk”. On “Pill Hill” or other ritzy sections of town, one who does not control alcohol is called an “alcoholic” or “having a disease”. We are all in this thing together...solidarity. Christ knew what he was talking about when he told us to love one another, the most difficult action in the universe: to love your neighbor as yourself. (Matthew 19:19)

Even at the church you see few wheelchairs, few white canes, and as I have been told many times as a totally blind, 100% disabled, service-connected veteran of the Korean era, disabled people make the normal feel uncomfortable. There is a certain solidarity in realizing that very few living human beings have escaped challenges of life, if your life has been perfect, solid, careful, you never know what is heading your way. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. (John 17:17)