While you are predicting the worst possible scenarios--and I can't argue with much of what you all are saying--has anyone considered the power of intent and prayer? Vs. worry and fury. I'm very much outraged by the entire COVID mismanagement debacle, but damn! Anger is exhausting. (Maybe it's my advanced age.) So my nefarious subversive …
While you are predicting the worst possible scenarios--and I can't argue with much of what you all are saying--has anyone considered the power of intent and prayer? Vs. worry and fury. I'm very much outraged by the entire COVID mismanagement debacle, but damn! Anger is exhausting. (Maybe it's my advanced age.) So my nefarious subversive plan is treating myself and others with kindness and forbearance, and praying/meditating for a kinder, more tolerant and loving world. In other words, trying to BE the change I wish to see in the world. The energy behind intent and prayer is far more powerful than we physical beings can believe, since we can't perceive intent with our physical senses. My prayers are constant, yet I don't turn a blind eye to what's happening or others' intent. I very much insist on accountability for actions that are just beyond the pale and have caused so much needless death and suffering. As English civil war general Oliver Cromwell said to his troops: Praise God--and keep your powder dry.
YES!!! I'm a big believer in frequencies (not joking) and the importance of vibrating in LOVE AND LAUGHTER and not fear. So that's why I do what I do, here in particular. There's enough doom-and-gloom out there and it can get mighty heavy and depressing. I included this quote from CS Lewis from 1948 in The War on Ivermectin because it's how I feel about all of this insanity:
“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.’
In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.
This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
Abiding in Christ produces fruit (that remains) and it nourishes and engenders reciprocity for the love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, meekness, temperance, faith that is borne of our being faithful to do that for which we were(re-)created in Jesus. "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places." Ephesians 6:12.....
And His commandments [those given to us by Jesus, not Moses] are not burdensome, because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
"Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ—not by water alone, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies to this, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit, the water, and the blood—and these three are in agreement." 1 John 5: 3-8
"When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain." 1 Corinthians 15: 54-58
"If we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. So then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s." Romans 14:8
While you are predicting the worst possible scenarios--and I can't argue with much of what you all are saying--has anyone considered the power of intent and prayer? Vs. worry and fury. I'm very much outraged by the entire COVID mismanagement debacle, but damn! Anger is exhausting. (Maybe it's my advanced age.) So my nefarious subversive plan is treating myself and others with kindness and forbearance, and praying/meditating for a kinder, more tolerant and loving world. In other words, trying to BE the change I wish to see in the world. The energy behind intent and prayer is far more powerful than we physical beings can believe, since we can't perceive intent with our physical senses. My prayers are constant, yet I don't turn a blind eye to what's happening or others' intent. I very much insist on accountability for actions that are just beyond the pale and have caused so much needless death and suffering. As English civil war general Oliver Cromwell said to his troops: Praise God--and keep your powder dry.
YES!!! I'm a big believer in frequencies (not joking) and the importance of vibrating in LOVE AND LAUGHTER and not fear. So that's why I do what I do, here in particular. There's enough doom-and-gloom out there and it can get mighty heavy and depressing. I included this quote from CS Lewis from 1948 in The War on Ivermectin because it's how I feel about all of this insanity:
“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.’
In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.
This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
Might want to have a boo dear Jenna.
Such an eloquent testimony:
https://youtu.be/chURiEEUsQY?
(FYI: I look at everything under the sun and "orbs" are coming up lately. A lot. Probably the algorithm... 😉)
Fight but Be Not Afraid folks.
Abiding in Christ produces fruit (that remains) and it nourishes and engenders reciprocity for the love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, meekness, temperance, faith that is borne of our being faithful to do that for which we were(re-)created in Jesus. "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places." Ephesians 6:12.....
And His commandments [those given to us by Jesus, not Moses] are not burdensome, because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
"Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ—not by water alone, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies to this, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit, the water, and the blood—and these three are in agreement." 1 John 5: 3-8
"When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain." 1 Corinthians 15: 54-58
"If we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. So then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s." Romans 14:8