REDEFINING RACIAL RECONCILIATION

       

               

Years ago we attended a church led by a pastor of Latino ancestry.  He didn't want to be considered Mexican American.  He said, "I'm just Mike."  So anyone who was born in America is just an American.  Today on World Magazine Darrell B. Harrison and Virgil Walker were interviewed.  To hear the truth about racial reconciliation watch the You Tube above or listen to this podcast.

ONLY 9 YEARS TO SAVE THE PLANET FROM CLIMATE CHANGE OR WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE— NOT

How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change/ Allan Savory

My mom was the greatest recycler I've ever known.  I remember one time, during a visit to my parents place in Hornbrook, CA, that my mom had saved so many packing peanuts that the bed of the old Dodge truck was quite full of various containers of them.  My mom, dad, niece Jennifer, and son Jes drove miles and miles to take them to a recycler who wanted them.  Other family stories include these -My great aunt and great uncle, Aunty and Beanie, polished their teeth with a clean handkerchief instead of using a toothbrush and toothpaste.  My dad straightened used nails and saved them in saved tin cans.  My youngest brother, Wayne, carried a reusable water container before everyone started buying water in plastic bottles.  One time a child of some of our friends tossed a pop can into Coeur D'Alene Lake.  I told him he was a litterbug.  He grew up to work in water quality.  

As Biblical Christians we read in God's Word Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” -- So we are to subdue the earth.  But that doesn't mean we worship "Mother Nature" or fear that God will allow us to destroy the earth.  We have no worries that the earth will be destroyed in 9 years and that we will die.  God has told us what he will do with the earth in His time ( Revelation 21:1-27.)  We have free will.  We can go along with God's plan or we can rebel against it.  Here is a link to a blog I found quite informative written by one of Jes's high school friends on this subject.

CHRISTMAS IN JULY

Heather and Jes 1978

For many years I have enjoyed watching Hallmark Christmas movies in July.  They bring out my good will and cheer.  And every year in July Chris remarks that when the Seahawks start training Christmas is here.  This year it doesn't seem like Christmas at all.  Yes, there are Hallmark Christmas movies showing all month, the Seahawks are attempting to figure out how to train--  but, and this time in our nation is more difficult than ever-- we are dealing with Covid 19, race riots, anarchy, and bad will to those who disagree with our beliefs.  

So how is a Christian to deal with all of this?  We opine as Longfellow wrote-- And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men.

So we put on our masks, (Heather is wearing a mask in the picture above as she had a cold), we go out and do good, and we pray.  God will prevail!