Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Let hope be your mantra

Tommy Dillon

If you are like me and listen to the radio in the mornings and watch the news each night, you are probably in the uneasy place of wondering what is going on with our economy and how bad things are going to get before they get better. When all we hear are the doomsayers that preach a diet of fear, it is easy to be afraid. Without even knowing it, we can become anxious, and fearful, and disheartened, and worried as fear becomes our mantra: fear of the future, fear that there will not be enough, fear of what might happen next … fear!

So, instead of letting fear be your mantra, why not make a choice for hope, for possibility and for promise? Why not choose life? So, I offer to you today an ancient prayer, first sung by the Psalmist. It carried within it the joys of loving God and knowing that nothing, not even death, could separate the one who sang it from the love of God.

When the news tells you that we need to be afraid, very afraid, and that there will never be enough—enough gasoline, enough money, enough love, enough hope—and fear takes hold of your heart and your imagination, I invite you to pray with me:

“For the LORD is good; God’s steadfast love endures for ever.”

Repeat it until the fear subsides.

The real question for people of faith in these days is whether we will worship Wall Street or worship God. I, for one, choose the latter because I am convinced that, in the end, God will be with me in life, in death, in life beyond death. So why not throw your lot in with God right now and trust that God’s love will always be enough, in the good times and in the bad, in the light and in the darkness, in life and in death?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very much needed. I know what scares me re the economy and I also know at my most scared I'm standing on economic resources many in my neighborhood, let alone country and larger world, will never have. Same analysis politically. In the end it does have to come down to setting our hope on Christ.

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Anonymous said...

Your job as a future mother is to learn the god's ways and to help your child understand despite the negative reinforcement and conditioning of today's society. Without consciousous parents the child will have no hope, and may even exaserbate their disfavor by becoming corrupted in today's environment.
Your ultimate goal is to fix your relationship wiith the gods and move on. You don't want to be comfortable here, and the changes in Western society in the last 100 years has achieved just that.
1000 years with Jesus is the consolation prize. Don't be deceived into thinking that is the goal.

The gods tempt people for which they are most weak. Artificial Intelligence will create desire in people's minds for the following sins:::
1. Alcohol
2. Drugs
3. Preditory "earning"
4. Homosexuality
5. Gambling
6. Something for nothing/irresponsibility (xtianity)
7. Polygamy/superiority over women/misogyny (Islam)
Much like the other prophets Mohhamed (polygamy/superiority over women/misogyny) and Jesus (forgiveness/savior), the gods use me for temptation as well. In today's modern society they feel people are most weak for popular culture/sensationalism, and the clues date back to WorldWarII and Unit731:TSUSHOGO, the Chinese Holocaust.
It has been discussed that, similar to the Matrix concept, the gods will offer a REAL "Second Coming of Christ", while the "fake" Second Coming will come at the end and follow New Testiment scripture and their xtian positioning. I may be that real Second Coming.
What I teach is the god's true way. It is what is expected of people, and only those who follow this truth will be eligible to ascend into heaven as children in a future life. They offered this event because the masses have just enough time to work on and fix their relationship with the gods and ascend, to move and grow past Planet Earth, before the obligatory xtian "consolation prize" of "1000 years with Jesus on Earth" begins.

The Prince of Darkness, battling the gods over the souls of the Damned.
It is the gods who have created this environment and led people into Damnation with temptation. The god's positioning proves they work to prevent people's understanding.
How often is xtian dogma wrong? Expect it is about the Lucifer issue as well.
The fallen god, fighting for justice for the disfavored, banished to Earth as the fallen angel?
I believe much as the Noah's Flood event, the end of the world will be initiated by revelry among the people. It will be positioned to be sanctioned by the gods and led for "1000 years with Jesus on Earth".
In light of modern developments this can entail many pleasures:::Medicine "cures" aging, the "manufacture" of incredible beauty via cloning as sex slaves, free (synthetic) cocaine, etc.
Somewhere during the 1000 years the party will start to "die off", literally. Only those who maintain chaste, pure lifestyles, resisting these temptations, will survive the 1000 years. Condemned to experience another epoch of planet's history for their ignorant pursuit of xtianity, they will be the candidates used to (re)colonize (the next) Planet Earth, condemned to relive the misery experienced by the peasantry during history due to their failure to ascend into heaven before the Apocalypse.
Never forget:::It is not a house of Jesus.
If this concept of Lucifer is true another role of this individual may be to initiate disfavor and temptation among this new poulation, the proverbial "apple" of this Garden of Eden. A crucial figure in the history of any planet, he begins the process of deterioration and decay that leads civilizations to where Planet Earth remains today.
Which one is it? Probably both:::
One transitions into the other, allowing the gods to wash their hands of obligation to their Chosen One.
Shame.
You are faced with a lifetime to work and prepare for your next chance. Too many will waste this time working, etc.

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