On Stage
Saint
Michael Archangel,
defend us in battle,
be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil;
may God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God, cast into hell
Satan and all the evil spirits
who prowl through the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
defend us in battle,
be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil;
may God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God, cast into hell
Satan and all the evil spirits
who prowl through the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
In
our country community where the schoolhouse and the church house were the chief
interests in our lives, before the time of power lines certainly television and
radio which could not have been imagined, this was 80 years ago, I heard one
old man in our community say, "My greatest enjoyment in life is going out
to the schoolhouse and seeing the young children here in our community dressed
up in crepe paper pretending to be flowers-animals-make-believe creatures
I know that their minds are working."
And
so it is, with all of us mere mortals our brains are wired to pretend, to have
imagination and, it's not just America's children I have seen children,
beautiful creatures of many skin colors making many language sounds, all over
the world, pretending and imagining as they played with one another we are
supposed to be made in the image of God.
Words are important God spoke and nothingness became somethingness why
cannot family members-neighbors-nations talk to one another and solve problems. Today, we observe the 71st anniversary of our
nation dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki Japan America
This
writer has two biological brothers we put our feet under the same eating table
in our wonderful parents home. I have
lived here in my house for over 40 years
neither of these two brothers, both younger than me, their wives or their
children, have ever been in this house.
They got mad with me about something many years ago and I doubt that
either one of them could tell you what it was about. I certainly do not know. But, at least, they do not pretend about
anything they just decided to leave me out of their lives AND, God told me to
forgive but he did not tell me to forget.
In
this new bizarro age in which we live, with the gay agenda, with the insanity
of same sex marriage, the lunacy of transgendered bathrooms AT LEAST, most
homosexuals have left the closet, are out in the open, brave enough, to no
longer pretend to be something they are not.
In my youth, gay people had to pretend about everything and most gay
people, with whom I have talked, had a very low opinion of church people
because Christians did not have the courage to live the Christian life. They were just pretending, also. Yet, the Christians condemned the gay
lifestyle it seems that everyone,
white-black-gay-straight-educated-ignorant-rich-poor-young-old-etc,etc everyone
just pretending. Old people color hair,
use plastic surgery to remove age lines, spend a tremendous amount of money for
every type chemical-substance to imbibe or rub on attempting to look-act
young. Youth, will lie-cheat-steal in
order to gain the sophistication of the elderly. Young people will risk jail to use a fake id
card for entrance to some clubs. Most
young people spend their college years, interneting instead of getting a good
education because they are convinced that it is who you know, not what you know
that will bring you success.
"Success for most young people means money, clubs, electronic toys,
moving in the right circles, etc."
I
think so much of this pretending, the attitude of fooling others started with
Dale Carnegie and his book "How to Win Friends and Influence
People". He told us right up front,
that truth does not matter what matters is reaching your goal, whatever it
takes. Remember the communist myth,
"the end justifies the means".
The
criminal defense lawyer will dress up his criminal client for an appearance
before a courthouse jury. He does not
want his criminal client to look like a criminal: clothing-designed haircut: looking acting
acceptable will help convince a jury.
One federal judge said that the accused court criminal will have his
pastor make an appearance for him.
There
are still a few places left in this world where you cannot pretend, you must be
real. This old-blind veteran has been listening to the Olympics. Olympians cannot pretend they must be real.
And so it in warfare, warriors must be real, on the front lines you cannot
pretend to be brave there are no air conditioned fox-holes on the front
lines. "Christian warriors"
want comfortable-air conditioned fox-holes.
Christian patriots are just pretending when they tell you they want to
win the world to Christ and to liberty.
Holiness
is goodness. The French author, Alexis de Tocqueville ,who visited America and wrote about America in 1840, about the time of the birth of
my great-grandfathers, said that America
was great because America America
Dr. T.R. Morris
Lt. Col USA Retired
Blind/Dictated
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(Dr. Morris is a totally blind 100% disabled service connected veteran, 8 around the world trips, passport stamped in 157 countries)
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