Empowerment

A subject of research is the migration of the Monarch Butterfly that navigates winter in northern areas including Canada and flies south to Michoacán, Mexico. A great mystery, like the Northwest Salmon that migrate, or the Arctic Tern which migrates 3,000 miles each season from the Arctic to the Antarctic, I was amazed on visiting the cliffs around the Arctic Ocean to see the areas almost totally covered by these birds where they are hatched. It further amazes me that this small bird about the size of your fist has the innate ability, or empowerment, to leave the Arctic and fly 3,000 miles to their summer “camp ground.” The butterfly, the salmon, the tern, all empowered by an all-sufficient Creator to find their route of travel and their maintenance by the will of God. Over and over, we are told to watch the ants, the way this smallest of visible creatures can maintain and, if this isn’t sufficient, get a microscope and watch life without backbones as they live and multiply.

When the British archeologist Carter first opened the Tut Tomb in the Valley of The Kings in Egypt (this is one of the few tombs which had not been robbed earlier), among the magnificence of gold and treasure, was the unwanted capture of microbiology, still thriving after thousands of years, diseases unknown to science at that time and even today, which sickened and killed much of the healthy. Carter survived, but was never well after this.


The greatest challenge in today’s world of technology is laziness. Never in history have we had the ability to empower civilization with the knowledge and morality that we have today. Yet, young people whose ancestors developed power instruments and appliances, discoveries for better health, expeditions into outer space, drop out of high school without knowing how to do anything and even most with diplomas, cannot read or write. 40% of live births in this day of reproductive education, are to single mothers. 50% of the population in this day of nutritional knowledge, are diabetic. 68% of the population in this day of multiple exercise facilities and carefully controlled foods, are overweight. Nearly 75% of the population are addicted to some substance that is dangerous. Only 8% of the world’s population are living with any semblance of prosperity. (If you have a car and some money in the bank, you are better off than 92% of the world’s population.)

From 1799 to 1892, this nation was dedicated by the U.S. Supreme Court to be Christian. At the rate of nearly 10% each year, we are becoming less a Christian nation. Occasionally, you will have someone in industry or athletics as the exception. The owner of Chic-Filet has always closed his business on the Lord’s Day. Mormon athletes will not participate in athletic events on the Lord’s Day. Sandy Koufax, famous Jewish baseball pitcher, would not play ball on Saturday, the Jewish Lord's Day.


In a country blessed of God with the entanglements of materialism, 30,000 citizens, mostly young people, commit suicide every year, one every 3 minutes. Young girls, having given their most private and precious possession to someone seeking sexual gratification, do not feel empowered to give live birth to the life within them, the greatest of God‘s creation, and so, enabled by godless Planned Parenthood, godless social workers and councilors, 63 million babies are slaughtered in the holocaust abortion mills, particularly among the Black population. The black population numbers 13% of the total American population yet accounts for nearly 52% of all abortions (1,400 black babies each day). Those in this country who love life, who love the precious promises of God, are anxious to assist in finding homes and adoptions for these children who might just be the next Pope, President, pastor or the presenter of some great scientific discovery or source of entertainment.
The founder of the Methodist Church in this country, John Wesley, was crossing the ocean on a ship at a time of storm. He was scared beyond words, yet he noticed a group of Mennonites who acted unafraid, busy singing hymns. After the storm, he asked them why they showed no fear during the storm. One said, “The same God who takes care of us in the calm, takes care of us in the storm. It is all His business.”


There are one million handicapped citizens in America. As just one of these disabled people (I am a totally blind 100% disabled service connected veteran), it took awhile but I have learned to walk by faith not by sight. I had rather walk with God through the darkness of blindness with its isolation and cruelness than walk in bright daylight with 20/20 vision, alone. When I go to the Veterans’ Hospital and see the phalanx of wheelchair-bound veterans, the scars of wounds (there are not that many blind, usually, when there, I am the only one), I rejoice in the knowledge that we were fortunate enough to live in a country worth fighting for, dying for and living for in a haze of disability. I still believe the greatest heroes of this nation are the mothers and fathers who were brave enough to have and raise children and empower them with the training and education necessary to make this the most blessed nation in history.


When I go in my yard and hear birds singing, when in a distance I can hear the laughter of children, I have the assurance that God has empowered animals, human, domestic and wild to survive. With all the technology of artificial color, synthetic mediums, corruptible personalities and behaviors, substitutes for the reality of God have not been discovered. The singing of birds, the laughter of children are still the best symphonies known to the auditory nerve system.


When the new Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, accepted the Margaret Sanger Award (founder of Eugenics and Planned Parenthood), her husband (the first Black President according to Toni Morrison), forgot that Margaret Sanger called Black people “weeds” and racist Sanger like Charles Darwin, felt they should be exterminated. To the uninitiated, everything is obscure. Mr. Obama‘s Saul Alinsky in his book “Rules For Radicals” “the scripture” on which Mr. Obama is evidently basing his Presidency, isolates targets and just works towards them. The voters who have put him and his ilk in power and have empowered him to turn this country into a “changed” Socialist “pawn shop” will be empowered by their conscience and the wrath of Almighty God to repent for this empowerment and the forsaking of every principle of integrity that made this country great. For those of us who wore the uniform, who bear the marks of battle, those of you who empowered the present administration, have sufficiently insulted us as individuals and as a group.