Solar Flare and the Mayan Calendar

Go back to August 11, 2011, and read the account of the solar flare on a Thursday, exploding away from earth.  With the Mayan Calendar in vogue for this year, transformation and renewal might be everything this year for everyone, living on the face of the earth.  On January 4, 2011, we made a report based on a blur of information on NASA’s website about a major solar flare eruption in 2012-2013.  The next day the information was taken down.  Two days later, major news sources claimed it was just nothing to worry about and yet gave it a top news story placement.  Throwing the doomsday scenario aside, is this something we have to worry about and prepare for?  The government isn’t going to tell us for obvious reasons.  However, it has been reported in a national newspaper today, Sunday, January 22, 2012, that a “sunspot unleashed a blob of charged plasma that will pass by earth sometime today, and could erupt radio and electrical communications.”  NASA scientist’s explained, “That it will not be a major event.”  Yet, this is more evidence directed at the report we made in January 2011.  It bears repeating, and bear in mind this is not a doomsday, crazy kind of thing.  This is real.  Check it out.

“What does NASA know about the rise of solar activity cycle toward the next maximum in 2012-2013?”  It has been asked if “human society is being set up to fail and suffer an effective systems collapse with great loss of life and property if 2012-2013 solar flares materialize in the worst case scenario?”  It has been reported that the consequences of such an event could be very high, as it effects would cascade through America’s power grids and through other, dependent systems.  A space weather event or other disturbances could lead to a lack of food, given the low inventories in stores presently, loss of basic transportation with gas at its highest levels and in the event of such a catastrophic phenomenon where most Americans have no insight, the inability to pump fuel, as well as the loss of refrigeration would be the result of a solar flare.  Financial institutions would be shut down, freight transportation stopped, and the communication grid across America interrupted, and depending on damage, full recovery could take from 4 to 10 years.  The concept of interdependence begins to make sense in the unavailability of cell phone use or water due to long-term outrage of electric power, a breakdown of the distribution of potable water owing to pump failure, and the inability to restart electric generators.  Supplies eventually would be exhausted.  Emergency service would be strained.  Local, state and national government’s command and control might be lost.  Medical care systems would be seriously challenged and home dependency on electrically operated medical devices would be jeopardized.
Scientists could predict the occurrence probability of a geomagnetic storm or a solar flare 1 to 3 days in advance.  The solar storm of 1859, also known as the Solar Super-storm, or the Carrington Event, was the most powerful solar storm in recorded history.  Will it happen again in 2012-2013?  A solar flare explosion evolving from the Sun, traveling near the speed of light as a radiation storm, a “solar energetic particle” (SEP) event could begin arriving at Earth within less than an hour of the lift-off flare eruption and is said to be “Channeled along geomagnetic field lines in to the upper atmosphere above the North and South Poles.  It would initiate ozone-depleting chemistry in the atmosphere lasting for several days.”  The resulting loss of services for a significant period of time in even one region of the country could affect the entire nation and have international impacts as well.  We take for granted volcano eruptions, earthquakes of over 7 magnitudes, tsunamis, as well as violent weather globally and think nothing of it.  A solar flare occurrence globally would need a support network involving every race, creed and color of humanity in order to survive on this planet we know as Earth.”

Richard Ciera

America’s Gatekeeper

The “Three Headed Beast.”  One head is the media, the national past time functioning for society for us to live by and through whatever is reported to us.  It tells us how “to behave, invest and relate to one another.”  The second head is the television set.  It shows us what happens to us if we don’t behave in society.  Pick any Law and Order program or CSI crime drama and you’ll understand what I mean.  A television set even tells us whom to hate. The third head is the American consumerism.  The economy has gone bust and we are being sold the bust.  I can remember when organic food was only for hippies’, now the fad has set in and we reject other consumer goods because all the beautiful people are doing it and has now become a status symbol.  The American hotdog and bun are being replaced with Dim sum and flat bread.  Market prices for low end anything is sold to you at ridiculous prices.  Target and Wal-Mart are now the stores to buy your clothes to look beautiful.  The three- headed beast we created, recycles humans, like we do clothing or glass bottles, by regulating our cravings, passions, absurdness, our health, even our wars and certainly our politics.

America, is supposed to be the most cultivated and advanced of all the nations in the civilized world.  Right now this empire, our activity, our behavior toward other countries is bestial, it is by rule of might, it is by blood and fire.  For whatever you think about the Constitution it is truly about power and strength.  It does not deal from weakness, as some would like you to believe.  Our armies and stockpile must be tremendous, otherwise we have no authority to negotiate, except from power.  In the scale of justice, by land or sea or in the courtroom, there is the sword.  It never fails.  But what is the future of this nation?  Of its people?  Out of this great seething mass of humanity what is the future?  What is it we see out of the three-headed beast?  Agitation, that is all we see, that is all we see in the past three years from our government.  Without revelation and inspiration from our leaders, other than from heaven, this nation rises out of a great social revolution of convulsions.  The future if not redirected is a feeling of torment and agony.  There is rage, there is passion, there is war, there is success, there is bitterness, there is strife, there is crime, there is poor and there is corruption, and that is all we can see.  Yet we are in a raging sea, that torments us and tosses us individually and all of us face it.  If not today, tomorrow.  We are on this planet, we are riding this thing.  We are going to be buried in this planet.  We cannot continue as a nation, this raging torment of uncertain and darkened future.  We are all in the torment together.  We have leaders whose words are faulting, and feeble and faltering, and human, yet we need strong sensible individuals; political leaders, students, scientists, teachers, who unite us, who will fill our lives with hope, and glory, and optimism, and triumph and victory, not just the blackness of the night.

In four years: a s___load of cash to dumb ass graduates

In the Republican debate three night ago, I couldn’t help hearing that some of these GOP hopefuls for the presidency actually believe that those folks receiving unemployment benefits are all uneducated.  They need to be reminded there are thousands of unemployed “master degrees” who are receiving benefits and can’t get a job.  The passion or degree position they were looking for is now down to, just finding any job.

A Civilian National Security force proposed by Barack Obama means what exactly?  The president has yet to tell us.  Then there is the military’s total control indefinitely of United States citizens without due process, held indefinitely.  Barack Obama was for the XL pipeline from Canada to Texas, which would create thousands of jobs for laborers and general contractors, leaving America a little less dependent on foreign oil, but now he is against it because the Republicans are for it?  Mitt Romney believes that violent felons having paid their debt to society once released should not be allowed to vote.  Really?  There is so much screwball across politically lines it’s frightening.

The President’s tenure in office has been divisive and has not united the country with confidence and leadership.  Being a black candidate for the White House in 2008 held two strikes against him, that was a given.  Black people have made no demands on this president and therefore get no respect as well.  Trying to wake up the black vote is like waking up a corpse.  Thousands of black women are on welfare and food stamps because they decided long ago to take the money and dump the dead beat black man when welfare was created and they got more loot when no man was living with them.  Blacks get angry hearing the truth, and somehow they blame it on white America.  What black politicians in Washington represent African Americans today?  I haven’t heard of any.

Let’s take this a step further.  Blacks have lived off bragging rights indefinitely.  Whether it was from the television premier of “Roots” in the 70’s, even at a time when black politicians started to run and win elections on a large scale.  Few, if any, from that day until now have there been any criticisms or demands made by black voters on black politicians, including the office of president.  Reverend Sharp’s presence strolling in the rose garden was a bone thrown to the African community.  Once they captured the grand prize, the White House, there has been no meaningful revolt, or dialogue from 99 per cent of the black population.  During these tough economic times, most blacks are content to blame the white man, racism, Republicans, Fox News or whatever right wing conspiracy they can think of.  For the African American, disunity and non-conformity is the problem, which can be said as much of the president’s four years in office.

Americans of every color and creed watch television and attempt to emulate the brainwashed Hollywood stars and bloated lifestyles of empty materialism.  All the while Congress is prepared to paralyze government and harm the nation and its citizenry with laws and policies if it means defying Obama’s attempts at reform.  From healthcare to the military, from Wall Street to education, from financial windfalls to Social Security, Obama has given reform a bad name.  Yet, somebody, right wing power brokers perhaps, whomever, are pleased with Obama in office, because if it weren’t so, we’d see viable Republican contenders for 2012, not a bunch of nut jobs.  So long Rick Perry.

Mormonism and the Romney candidacy

It is mine and your responsibility as citizens of this country to question at all times current and future Presidents of the United States, about their policies and past records of public or private office, including their church faith for the future of generations to come. How much Mitt Romney’s faith plays into his political journey is now at the forefront of his candidacy in the 2012 election.  Romney cannot duck it nor can he look to the Church in Utah to somehow excuse him of what he believes just because he is seeking the highest office in the land, which is unlike any leadership role he possesses within the Mormon Church hierarchy today.  His campaign manager suggests that his faith has nothing to do within his pursuit of the office of President of the United States; thus, Romney’s campaign avoids the evitable of Romney addressing his faith and answering tough questions about Mormonism.  When Romney’s handlers state, “The issues of the church (Mormon) are not the issues of the country,” I beg to differ with him.

In defense of Romney, he has done some things for individuals that warrant merit throughout his own personal ministry.  I have read the historically data on him. Romney has bent the rules over church policy concerning women’s individual rights.  Doctrines of the Latter Day Saint’s church have changed drastically since the 1840’s and continues to evolve closer to the ecumenical traditions of religions, certainly where Christ is the abiding presence in lives govern by the Holy Spirit.  Marriage and family values etc., etc., etc.

However, myths and occult practices by the early Mormon Church right through the administration of Brigham Young himself, has hurt the church with criticisms to this day.  So, when Mr. Romney speaks about his faith, being “the faith of my fathers, I will be true to them and to my beliefs,” can bother voters who still see the Mormon Church as being an occult and Joseph Smith a fraud.  Leaders of the LDS Church are seen as men without compassion within their own congregations, which to my way of thinking is a character quality to have.  Romney has been known to bend the rules, but he is also a Bishop of the church.  Mormon church leaders today convince themselves that their course of deception suppressing truths about Brigham Young and Joseph Smith, threatening members to remain silent who have anti-Mormon questions is for the good of the church.  Church leaders, Mormons or not, can live in a world of self-delusion and denial.  “Mormons believe they are too smart to be ever been deceived.  Other people can be deceived, other churches; other people can go in denial but not them.  They believe they have the truth and if the Mormon Church is not true, then nothing is true, God cannot exist and their own existence and that of the Cosmos has no meaning.”

The history of Christianity documented historically, and authenticated over 2000 years is quite different than “The Book of Mormon,” which is not ancient history.  It is a production of the 19^th century.  Maybe the good news for Mormons is, it does not matter.  Mormons who do good in their lives can expect to receive a favorable incarnation in the next life, IF they DO what their church leaders SAY, but NOT what their leaders DO.  Mitt Romney as a candidate for the Presidency of these United States has to answer for his Mormon faith.  He doesn’t have to hit it hard with voters but he cannot afford to duck it either.  Millions of voters are going to ask questions about some of things I have presented here, some more harsh than others.

Where have all the “Straight women” gone?

Straight women in this country need to get off their fast asses and get into Pilates and take this country back sexually from lesbians in this country. There are 5 million more females in the U. S. than men. The problem is that women today are lazy and voiceless.  Allowing members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Community (LGBT) to continue in their quest to oppress women with their dialogue, that “women should not depend on something as earthly as their genitals” and Advocates of Youth Organization, who continue to use Washington, D. C., as a model city to promote sexual orientation in public school curriculums, as “the romantic attraction of an individual to someone of the same gender or a different gender,” all before a child enters second grade, if allowed in this country, the survival of anybody’s family is in danger of extinction.
If the straight women in this country ever decide that her place or role is going to be different from what God decided for her, as the center and heart and keystone of the home, if it ever becomes repugnant to her, there is no future for any section of society that you might want to name.  Future goes out the door.  The women past or present who build homes with men, hold our future in their hands.  However degraded the woman maybe to this mainstreaming of the deviate and sick homosexual life-stylers, to God, the woman is still a princess.  The LGBT continued effort, a clever parody, an insidious imitation to discredit women, and the Church altar, the things of God for the family, is to seduce mankind to their way of thinking.  Same sex marriage is an abomination and it excludes straight women entirely.  Where is their voice?  If same sex marriage becomes the law of the land, equal marriage status will be equivalent to humans making love in the bedroom and wild dogs humping in public.  Same sex partners, marrying, cannot reproduce in kind, thus destroying the sanctity of marriage.

Richard Ciera

The “Dylan” of politics

Ron Paul gives the country a wake-up call more than any other candidate.  Just don’t let him catch a windfall around the country where tweeting is on the rise.  Paul’s message of small government and anti-war message is taking hold.  Changes to our government across the board, from how we pay taxes, civil liberties, elected officials in how they use their office, what truly comprises an effective military, treatment of our military when soldiers come home from a war, and a national media makeover, where the facts are all that matters to the American people.  Because right now all you hear about, are rhetoric politics and drug commercials about Viagra and Cialis.  “Election, erection, election, erection” and no matter how you look at it, we are still getting screwed. All the technology voters have access to; will be used in this coming presidential election. People are carry laptops, smart phones like a man carries his wallet in his back pocket.  You can talk all day about Super-Pac’s and their influence on American politics.  I say you haven’t seen anything yet, if Ron Paul takes hold.

State and local governments are in the same boat.  Any time you read about a politician, using their influence to circumvent the deportation of illegal immigrants, it’s time for that politician to go. Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein, high on the hill, did exactly that, intervening to save a same-sex marriage couple’s partner from being deported to Australia. Whom do the laws of the land pertain to?  Proposition 8 in California, which took the voting privileges out of the hands of voters in that state, who voted against same-sex marriage, understands the mainstreaming of the deviant and sick homosexual lifestyles in our culture is one of the greatest swindles in history.  It has warped the minds of college age young people, who continue to believe, sex is love.  Sex is neat, sex is fun, but it isn’t love.  Women want to know two things.  “Do you want to fuck me or make love to me?  Because for women, there is a difference.  Sex and love are not even in the same erogenous zone.  Despite their gains, homosexuals just can’t resist destroying the sanctity of marriage.  A gay judge and gay attorneys for the plaintiffs in the case, hood-winked Californians.  Jerry Brown, as attorney General, was also part of the problem.  Now as Governor, Jerry Brown’s proposed increase of taxes to Californians, using the elderly, disabled, and children as weapons to get his budget balanced, is not going to get him the man of the year award.  Although, the welfare state has reached its limits.  Put a tax on lotto spending.  Money donated to cats and dogs on the airwaves are astounding as to the amounts raised.  Can we do less for our children, abandoned, through no fault of their own?  “The times, they are a changin’.

Instant replay, even in politics

700,000 plus votes for Romney and Santorum, out of Iowa’s just over 3 million people.  Now that’s a shame.  Ron Paul, as a younger man probably would be the overall winner.  Yet, the problem facing these chosen few in Iowa, is not what the American voter had in mind.  This notion of a candidate for the GOP having to match a conservative DNA is hopeless and out of touch with American voters.  Where is that somebody who can galvanize the country into one people, instead of the divided lot that we are?  As hopeless and deprived as we are, needing as we are, for a seemingly decent, upstanding, clean, smart, no dirt kind of candidate.  Because with Romney, also known as a flip-flopper, the race will look more like, “White versus Black.”  This country will start moving backwards once again.  So what will we do?  We will re-elect Barack Obama for a second term.  It gets down to this for my conservative friends.  The American voter knows what they can expect from Barack Obama.  They will not change in the middle of the stream and start all over again.  This is the election if it were held today or in November.  This President has been tortured by every conceivable notion on the planet.  God knows I have burned him and trampled on him over many months.  The Plains Indian, Comanches, couldn’t have done any worst to him.

At one time I supported Mitt Romney.  Mitt Romney got beat up and left in the heat of the battle.  His chance passed.  The President is not responsible for our economic woes.  We didn’t like the way he fixed it so we are taking our football, and going home, without finishing the game with him.  This president numbers are low for performance, so what?  He is likable by most Americans. Forgetting politics for a moment.  This man has stood in the fire as a junior Senator and taken the heat pretty much without complaint and has answered them all.  No, BO is not the sparkly celebrity he once was, but because the office has taken its toll on him, new gray hair and all, he’s learning about his higher calling as President of the United States, which he loved saying when he was running back in 2008.

Without any new face for the GOP, they are going to have to wait four more years, like it or not.  Oh, they will put on a good face and the racists will come out of the woodwork, but in the end, Obama wins and the first sign may well be the U. S. Supreme Court upholding Obamacare.  If this is all there are in candidates, to block, not run, but block the second term of Barack Obama, then I say, “Throw the flag to challenge the ruling on the field and review the instant replay.”

Richard Ciera

“Hand in hand, touching me, touching you”

The government of these United States is supposed to be, of the people, by the people and for the people and shall not perish from the earth, according to Lincoln at Gettysburg.  But if the truth were known, government has shown this past year more than any other year, that it is big corporations, banks, lobbyists, political financing and the very rich as the ruling government.  Communism is at the threshold, where greed has risen and taken hold of the land.  For now we will call it socialism.  What else would you call it, when the lottery exploits the poor.  Laziness has been rewarded with welfare checks and food stamps.  We have gotten into God’s business by killing our unborn and calling it “choice.”  Government even calls “abuse of power,” politics.  Of course, my favorite of all time is, we have polluted the air with profanity, pornography, and sex with the same gender, as freedoms of expression and basic human rights.  This country has reversed its values – values of our forefathers, into something called “enlightenment.”   Sane people, all, complain and wonder why people have taken to the streets.  Well, this is just the beginning of a new time and new age.  No one will be sitting on their laurels just a few days from now.  The New Year government is in a no win situation because it has failed to govern itself.  The president will be judged on the economy and the Republicans for not expanding the welfare state.  Commies love this kind of crap.  They feed off of it, like a lion feeds off its kill.  Throw in the mainstream media’s ignorance, relying solely on the proper way to form a sentence or take a picture, or be entertained by a coiffure talk show host from the South with a 550 acre farm in North Carolina in hopes of winning some prize at the end of each year, and you’ve got the mother of all hopeless situations.  We can no longer rely on piece of crap writers, English accents, baritone voices and irreverence to dull the senses of the righteous in the land of the free.

The media and our government continue to allow many people, not all, behind protests, to work the most effectively in the dark, with their anti-Christian, anti-American, racism and violence, to use seductive names for their organizations for the last 80 years to gain the support of the young while brain washing them. In the end, we can accuse a divisive, small community agitator that has brought out the dregs of humanity from basements, caves, woodwork and from under rocks and the rabble are supported by unions, elected city officials, federal officials, Hamas, and the Communist Party and it is well may be four more years of disharmony and despair.  Civilized pro American protesters need to camp out on “journalists” lawns or offices or how about the White House Rose garden?  Uh… Happy New Year.

BORN IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS DEATH

“Dear friends:  It seems more people than ever are taking Christ’s name out of the season than ever before in history of mankind.  How I personally feel about this celebration can probably be most easily understood by those of you who have been blessed with children of your own. I don’t care what you call the day. If you want to celebrate Christ’s birth, just get along and love one another.  If it bothers you that the town in which you live doesn’t allow a scene depicting Christ’s birth, then just get rid of a couple of Santa’s and snowmen that you put up every year and put in a small Nativity scene on your own front lawn.  If all Christ followers did that there wouldn’t be any need for such a scene on the town square because there would be many of them all around town.  Stop worrying about the fact that people are calling the tree a holiday tree, instead of a Christmas tree. It was God who made all the trees anyway.  You can remember Christ anytime you see any tree. Decorate a grape vine if you wish. Scripture actually spoke of that one in a teaching, explaining who Christ was in relation to you and I and what each of our tasks was. If you have forgotten that one, look up John 15: 1-8.  If you want to give Christ a present in remembrance of His birth here is a wish list.

Instead of writing protest letters objecting to the way Christ’s birthday is being celebrated, write letters of love and hope to soldiers away from home. They are terribly afraid and lonely this time of year. Visit someone in a nursing home. You don’t have to know them personally. They just need to know that someone cares about them.  We burn the President, at least I certainly have, in effigy from time to time, yet, instead of writing the President complaining about the wording on the cards his staff sent out this year, why don’t you write and tell him that you’ll be praying for him and his family this year.  Instead of giving your children a lot of gifts you can’t afford and they don’t need, spend time with them. Tell them the story of Christ’s birth, and why He came to live with you down here. Hold them in your arms and remind them that Christ and you love them.  Pick someone that has hurt you in the past and forgive him or her.

Did you know that someone in your town would attempt to take their own life this season because they feel so alone and hopeless?  Since you don’t know who that person is, try giving everyone you meet a warm smile; it could make
 the difference. There are individuals and whole families in your town who not only will have no “Christmas” tree, but also neither will they have any presents to give or receive. If you don’t know them, buy some food and a few gifts and give them to the Salvation Army or some other charity, which believes in
God, the Christ, and they will make the delivery for you.  Instead of nit picking about what the retailer in your town calls the holiday, be patient with the people who work there.  Give them a warm smile and a kind word – even if they aren’t allowed to wish you a “Merry Christmas”
 that doesn’t keep you from wishing them one – then stop shopping there on Sunday.  If the store didn’t make so much money on that day they’d close allowing their employees to spend the day at home with their families.  If you really want to make a difference, support a missionary, especially one who takes Christ’s love and Good News to those who have never heard His name.

Finally, if you want to make a statement about your belief in and loyalty to Christ, then behave like a Christian.  I know personally for me it has been one step at a time, it’s been quite a journey.  Don’t do things in secret that you wouldn’t do in God’s presence.  Let people know by your actions that you are one of His.  Don’t forget, God can take care of Himself.  Just love Him and do what He told you to do.  God will take care of all the rest.”

And finally, my personal message from me to you for Christmas and the New Year:  “The skeptic is silent before the matchless glory of a living Christ.  The world stands in fear and awe of the Power of the Holy Spirit.  Do you just see Jesus only?  It does not happen much in this day.  We don’t see only Jesus, we see everybody other than only Jesus.  We see our fleshly, Madison Avenue, Hollywood shenanigans and put the Jesus tag after them and call it God.  My friends, you don’t have to call it God when it’s God.  The whole world bows and says the Lord is God.  You don’t have to name it, He exalts it when He performs it!”  What a beautiful truth.  Merry Christmas everyone.

Richard Ciera

The Power of the Holy Spirit, a message to the Church

America doesn’t know whether to say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays.  I say to you, they are just words, nothing more.  Neither person should be offended.

I really do wonder what any of us are like; compared to the design and plan God has for all of us.  I look at my own life and people can say it’s great and I stop and think, compared to what?  I wonder, if you and I as Christians and as churches, and ministries per se, I wonder how many of us really have God in the fullness of His glory and power, living through, manifested through our lives.  I wonder how many of us have been duped by Satan, tricked by Satan, into believing that once we have to fight the struggles of the Christian life in the energy and power of the flesh, that we’re ultimately doomed to defeat, and the more we try, the more despondent, discouraged and depressed we become, until we all learn to be if we’re successful in our Christian life in the eyes of the world, the greatest actors on the face of the earth.

I know because I am part of the problem.  I know a thing or two about acting.  We learn to pretend often times to have a victory we don’t have.  We pretend to be happy when we’re not.  We act like Christians, when inside there’s no zeal, no fire, no love.  We want to be concerned about people, especially during the Christmas and New Year holidays, but in reality we’re not.  And if the truth be known, all of us have the same problem that plagued Adam and Eve in the Garden and has continued to curse humanity from that day until now, basically we have the serious and severe problem of self centeredness – and we have a battle with self and we’re defeated constantly, consistently in our lives – and the power of an enthroned Christ does not reign predominately and preeminently through us.  But we have a guide from God; we have a word from God.  When you read the Holy Bible, or just the scriptural prose or the Psalms, a breath of fresh air ought to come over you, because you are not reading the mere words of mortal man, you are reading the words of life; you’re reading the words of the Son of God, of Jesus.  Now think about it for a moment.  You can read after many authors and many writers, but Jesus said some things, “God with us”.  Jesus spoke to us and He spoke to us words of truth, words of life and those words are eternal.  I am glad God gave us these words.  However, from the day God planted in my heart the living word that is Jesus, Satan has sought to keep scales over my eyes, so that I would not see or heed those words of light and life.  It’s amazing how Satan keeps us from God’s truth and how he hinders our life.  I have stood in truly great churches in great denominations (United States and Great Britain) and I’ll be honest with you, and I am not being unkind or critical, we’re not an anointed, spirit filled people.  You go pew-by-pew, person-by-person and in how many lives is Jesus manifested victoriously and mightily?

When something happens in your life, do you pause and ponder the proper response to a particular crisis and say, “How should I act”?  It’s an improper response when a certain problem comes or a crisis arises to pause, think and say, “How do I handle this”?  Do you know what you are saying?  How can I so organize my thoughts as to appear spiritual!  You might say my baby died, my husband died, what should I do in light of the situation?  No!  In Him, all things live and move, and consist and have being!  He is in all, through all and over all!  He is mighty to deliver and mighty to save!  Now you answer me honestly!  Do you do that?  Because within this being (your being) resides the greatest person and power in the universe, the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus himself, not in the tomb, but in my heart.  I don’t have to ask the question, how do I respond, for before I ever have time to ask the question, what do I do, what’s the proper action to take in light of the situation, before I ever have time to ask the question, much less ponder the answer, Jesus Christ is standing ready to enact.  But do you know why He can’t – because the letter “S” is in the center of your life.  We’re so full of self.  The ego wants applause, recognition and attention and there’s no way you can distinguish between the urges.  And most of the time, the Spirit speaks in a still small voice, barely speaking to us, but He’s there.  Yet, we’re so cluttered with things, we never sense Him.

This was Part 2, concluding in Part 3 for this holiday season… on The Y Listen Network… Twitter and at www.firstleftthenright.com