The Bottom Line

  I read more now than I ever have, ever since that night. I study things that most don't want to know and some that people do want to know. There is a fight going on and it seems like everything is heading the wrong way. People sometimes ask why I am not afraid, but I have a secret, one that I am willing to share. Many of the term Conspiracy Theories are actual Agendas, and some are just smoke and mirrors. There is as much dis info as info out there.

  Tonight I watched Chris White's new video. I am picky these days what I endorse, especially in Christian things. But tonight, tonight was different as I listened to Chris talk on being saved. I think this is the best description I've ever heard. Some will listen and hear and some won't which is totally their option. This is short, sweet, and factual.

When we die

  I've often wondered what happens when we die and stay dead. According to some, we sleep, and that maybe be true, but when? I know I didn't sleep, so what happened? Why was I not asleep? There are just so many variations that it becomes confusing to people of all and no faiths. Who wants to join a club that requires hard things for you to do when they can't agree on what they are to do.

  Now comes the famous words from yet another man, but it isn't as simple as a line. I promise it is simple though, or at least the start of it is. I'm not sure the dead and the spirits can read this, but the living can.

So... What happens when we die, according to the Bible?

Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

  Notice what happens to the spirit. It (you) go back to God. Now I know, this just says spirit, but what is a soul and does it die?

Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

  Note, became a living soul. So we have a body, made from dust that returns to dust, and a living spirit that God gave you a spirit when He breathed into you, and you became a Living Soul.

Body+Spirit = Soul. So the soul and the body dies, but your spirit goes back to God  ans is judged.

   So, in a sense your body and soul must rest, yet your spirit goes to Heaven or Hell after it is done.

 ¹⁶For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:



Dead in this case appears to be body, which separated from the spirit, the soul is sleeping. Body & Soul

  So There you have it, Heaven is where the spirit goes back to God and is rejoined at His second coming where the glorified body once again regains spirit to create a soul.

 Short & Sweet-

What religion?

We all have a god, even atheists. The difference being what god and how we worship. Sounds strange I know, but it is true. One has to wonder just what god a person serves, either knowingly or unknowingly. I am not sure if I have ever written this down, aside from forums and perhaps on one of my websites. If memory serves me well almost 4,000 religions that exist today in the world, hard to image isn't it. I'm not going to cover them all and I'm going to focus mainly on Christianity, since I claim to belong to that one. So, the question arises, Who's you god? But I'll expand this a bit. I'll start with me.I've heard people say they "don't sweat the detail", But the devil is in the details. Hosea 4:6 :My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

  For years I posed as a Christian, even thought I was. I went to church, kind of watched my language, prayed (mostly when "I" wanted something or was in trouble). Thing is, I served God with my lips and even sorta in my heart... but I also had other gods. I lusted over women, cars, and other material things. I walked past many in need, not just physically in many instances, but emotionally and mentally. I figured when bad things happened to people they must deserve it, especially if I knew of something they had done bad.Either way, I figured it just wasn't my place to do or that I didn't have time.

I bought into what is now called a Judeo-Christian thing. Judaism and Christianity are different, as different as Muslim and Christianity are different. The three share the same old testament stories and people, the difference being the new testaments and that is where we three separate. All three break the ten commandments and no Commandment is above the other until Jesus added one and it is above all else. Christianity though is based on the life and teachings of Christ and acceptance of Jesus as Savior. The other two don't.  But since I'm using me, I'll stick with Christianity. Christians (as the name implies) accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior. Muslims say that Jesus was a prophet. Judaism says that Jesus was a blasphemer and sorcerer of the devil. Matthew 12:^24" But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils."
" The name Pharisee in its Hebrew form means separatists, or the separated ones. They were also known as chasidim, which means loyal to God, or loved of God - extremely ironic in view of the fact that by His time, they made themselves the most bitter, and deadly, opponents of Jesus Christ and His message." Reference Link . Think about that before saying the words "God's chosen people".
   
   I worshiped money and material things with my deeds, thoughts and actions. I use to laugh and say that I don't love money, just what it buys. While I gave lip service to God, the rest went to mammon (money).  These days, as Christians, we got good slogans for that too to ease our minds and justify our new gods. Ones like, "he who dies with the most toys wins", "the bigger the better", "you deserve it", "just do it", "what about me"... and the list goes on.

To further become members of this world we have words like, "successful", "better yourself", "be all that you can be", and that list goes on too. Like most of these phrases it is the actual opposite from the truth. Motivational thoughts that are given like thinking positive works all the time, or that being faithful to God will bring earthly rewards. Man did I ever get suckered. It also worked just the opposite for those who were poor. So really, the god I was serving was money and worldly things. Funny, it alwasy keeps your hungry and thirsty, never satisfied, alwasy in need of more. Matthew 6:19 "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:"

Then there are those that worship men and their words. This one I must say I haven't fallen for in many a year, not since the NDE anyway. I watched a 7 part video series where a guy, using the Bible, said that everybody who did not count and do Saturday worship and instead done Sunday worship as the Sabbath, plus celebrated Christmas, and Easter have already taken the mark of the beast. He was quite good too, using the Bible to substantiate his claims. Thing is, on the sabbath thing, Jesus spoke clearly about the Sabbath. In all his ranting and seemingly wisdom he must have missed this man's ability, Mark 2:27  "And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:"

I've also heard those who say that God is one entity serving three roles. He went on to say that just as we experience different love depending upon our roles in life that God did as well. That one I know to be wrong. There are more references against God being one entity than for it, yet it is being heavily pused these days. Lucky for me though, I had been seduced by my god (money and stuff) and then fell I fell into Agnostic beliefs during those years. But I still had a god, just not the real One, and neither do most people I see these days. Most commercials help us out by making us Covet, Desire, and Lust an everyday natural feeling. Wall Street runs on it and so does the economy these days. 

Atheists usually choose science as their god. They may not proclaim it with their mouths, but they preform it with their beliefs. Most use Darwin as their Savior and the religion he created out of thin air. Evolution, to this day, has no solid proof, something that science requires, solid, can be proven by observation of physical proof. So it is taken on faith since there is no evidence of there anything ever evolving in the past or the present has been or is found. Their god is always changing, never constant, and usually tells them they are a bump on the earth, a mistake, a flea on the back of a dog. That makes people feel good and want to act better? 

   There are indeed thousands of religions recognized,  just not as much in it's truest form, Paganism. This have being sold these days so that if it were possible, we have Christian Pagans, Judaism Pagans, and Muslim Pagans. Thing is though, we can't. These two go no better together than if we mix the three main ones together. Pagans worship nature and the elements. In this Satan they say plays a role and I'm thinking they are about there, just a little bit more. Satan, again more than likely unknowingly, is the role and definitely created the role be it directly or indirectly. A lot of this goes back to Sumerian times and the   Jude 1:6  "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. " So sweat the details, for the devil is in the details.

  Still though, behind the scenes comes paganism, in the form of the "Green Movement". If paganism was all that and a bag of chips, why the deception? It should stand upon it's own strength and be presented as such. I'm not saying that we should not take better care of the earth, we should, but not worship it like is done these days. I wonder many times if we have become so complaisant and dumbed down, that we will go along with anything. Or could it be that we have such a large void that is opened inside us that we need to fill, that we will accept almost anything. As I said before, I know we need to take care of the earth, what we were created for, Genesis 6:  ^5"And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground." and   ^15"And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it."

   So as one can see, I'm not of the extreme right or extreme left, there is a middle of the road, one use to be called normal. This belief is either a black or white line, no shades of gray. This new green movement is no less dangerous than the military industrial complex warned about in the sixties or the free trade (another oxymoron). This one steals people's freedoms and more importantly, one's belief system, IE: religion.  From those two scriptures I'll say that is also explains the attacks on farmers. Who hasn't make the wisecracks about farming and/or farmers themselves. "Farmer's Tan",  Old Mc Donald and Farmer Brown jokes, and the classic, Redneck comments. Just for the record, the term redneck was originally coined by slave owners. This word was used to describe farmers that would not participate in slavery and done their own work. The constant attacks on farming rights, farmers themselves, and all the chemicals out there that endanger the farmers. Not to forget, low wages. Control food and water and you control everybody. Control that and you control people's will.

  So when we call ourselves Christians, we are saying that we take Jesus the Christ as our Savior. The Muslims and Jewish (most sects) are still awaiting who the will call the Savior. Christians will call their savior an anti-Christ, who knows, maybe even the anti-Christ. This is why they are monotheistic. They do not accept Jesus as their Savior or Christ.

  As I wrote this I thought, about the whole of the thing, which would be too long and require a book. It is a big world, so we can all get along. I think that perhaps I haven't given credit to these religions already being established and just simply being promoted as of these last few decades. So apparently the merger of paganism has been merged with the major religions, including evolution. That the merger with Judaism and Christianity has been for quite some time now. As for myself, I'll just choose Christianity, no hyphens or slashes. Call me selfish, but I like having a God I have a direct line with. One that loves me enough to send His Son to die for me. One that teaches mercy and compassion, and doesn't play favorites with races, people, or nationalities. One that forgives and is mighty to save. Now if this isn't the Christian way you have heard about or seen, then you've seen a hyphened or slashed version of Christian, not the real thing. If this is not the One you know, introduce yourself, He is waiting, all lines are open.     

    

Sometimes I find something

Sometimes I find something that I have no additions to. This is one. Beautifully dome. This will answer a lot of questions to if I read the Bible and why. Hopefully Chris White will not mind.

Over a Year Later

So here I set, sick again with a cold, damage from two storms, and behind of getting things done, but I'm thankful. I learned to write things that I normally wouldn't say, not well, but I record them anyway. I think that made a big difference doing that during the treatments. I never expected anybody much to read the throat cancer blog, but it slowly gained readers. Through that blog I gained friends, and through those friends I gained strength.

Beginning in 2009 started what I would call as Hell on earth, not to compare it with the real Hell, but it was rough. This is the first year I can occasionally catch a glimpse of pain free days, though they be few, still there are a few. I started this morning with my wife giving me a shot of B-12 from the Pernicious Anemia I've had about 18 years now. It started right after the Lymes Disease. That was followed by I think 12 pills. Tonight I took my usual 6 or 7, whatever it is, and I am thankful.

I look like the picture of health once again, yet I know looks are deceiving. I use to see people like me that were thankful and wonder if they had brain damage. Funny how things change. In a little over a year I lost my pride, hair, teeth, skin color, independence, resistance, and strength. Oh but what I gained in exchange. I gained in faith, belief, love, respect, humility, dependance, and stamina. I still work on those to this day.

At times I catch myself sounding like a preacher, yet I am far from that, not even in the same league. I told someone the other day that at either 10 or 12 I was saved and baptized, but at 44 He started working on me again and at 50 I was born again. I may be a hard case or late bloomer. But He never gave up on me, even when I didn't realize that I was drowning in my own self.

I have done many things I did not think possible just two years ago. My youngest daughter graduated. My youngest grandson call me Papaw. Plant a garden again. Drive my car and even ride our motorcycle, those days are limited though. In the midst of the years of Hell I said bye to my dad from a sudden stroke, but I'll see him again one day. I had a chance to say thank you and I love you for raising me when he didn't have to. He was my grandfather yet he treated me as if I was his.

Through this all I learned to have compassion for others. To forgive and to not make mountains over mole hills. More importantly, I learned top have faith and drew closer to God than I ever imagined that I could. I leaned that Jesus was and is always here if we just ask. I learned just how great the company He placed around me is, though they had always been there, I never really appreciated them as I should have. I have learned humility, and dependance, and gratefulness. I have learned just how blessed I've been and still am.

I've learned to pray, not just when I am in trouble, but when I am grateful and when I just want or need to talk. Imagine that. I barely recognize myself, and that is a good thing, but I've much, much longer to go. The more I learn the more I know I need to learn. I never, in my wildest dreams, imagined the freedom that comes along with faith in God. The peace, the love, and oddly enough, the happiness. I thought I would be this old stick in the mud, marred down in rules that would make life no fun, but I was wrong.

Some would say I have an edge through a NDE when I had my heart attack, and maybe I do. Still, I think that I grew even more from this second cancer, especially when they thought they had missed it. Many nights did I lay my head down, fighting sleep because I didn't expect to wake up. I wasn't afraid of where I would go, just that I wouldn't get to say, "See ya later" and tell everybody thank you and how much I love them. I don't miss that chance to make that said each day now, just in case.

So now I am a former shadow of what I once was, and I say Amen. I battle the damage of the treatments and it is not 100% that they got it. Again, I say Amen. With each cold, there is a chance of my throat closing off while I sleep, and it is well. For from these battles I have finally leaned to be still, and know that God is God. I finally have leaned that I have been blessed... all of my life. He loved me when I didn't love. He cared for me when I didn't care. He waited for me when I stalled. He picked me up when I fell. He believed in me when I didn't believe in anything. He gave when I only took. He carried me when I could not stand. He had mercy when I needed it the most and Grace when I didn't deserve Grace. He surrounded me with great people, all of my life. I lost me and found Him. Not that In would want to do all of this again, but I would for what I have inside now. I would for just one second to be near Him again. I am at peace now, and I say Amen.

Focus

Time for me to babble what is in my head again. If I done this at home I'd drive everybody crazy, :). I just keep going over a few things in the back of my mind and sometimes I wonder if we haven't all lost focus on the big picture.

There was a time that people contemplated on life and what was real, now if you do that your a nut. We focused on each other and on current events, how to make things better and how to right the wrongs. Now it seems we are more concerned with movie stars, reality shows, picking the "lesser of two evils" or one that just blows me away is the phrase "a known evil is better than an unknown one". Who thinks this crap up and even worse, who believes it? Have the problems grown so big that rather than address it we just go along with it? We're feeding the elephant in the room yet ignoring it, in hopes it will go away.

I watch some TV and some movies yet I stay away from much of it, I just don't think it is mentally healthy, and studies have shown that. I may go into that later on, on how that works exactly, but there is another thing I want to type out first.

There is a scripture in the Bible that bothers me. Now as I've said before I don't just set around reading the Bible, but I've read a lot lately. I don't understand it all and truth is probably understand less than I think. It seems that there are as many people claiming to know this or that, but just as lost as most, self included. Just too much dogma these days. But anyway, that is part of the drawing near of end of days too, which maybe tomorrow or maybe a thousand years from now.

So here is what bothers me and to some it will not mean much while to those of us who have experienced pain and suffering for a long period, it should literally scare the Hell outta us. Revelation 9:6 (King James Version) And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. Now this is scary. Over the years I have seen a couple of times now in my life where death looked good to escape the pain. Where dying would be easier by far than living. While I did chose to fight, a few times I gave up for a few days, I wanted it to end. God however saw differently and so I'm glad he did now.

To someone who has had little to no sickness, or a brief encounter with pain and suffering, I don't expect they would understand. For those of us who have seen hell on earth for many months with no escape in sight, I don't expect them to understand. This passage is one of the ones that people and clergy often run right over as they can't relate, or maybe they don't want too. Be that as it may though, it's there, and for a reason.

I and everybody else that has reached their limit have and option of continuing or stopping, and maybe that is the point of it all. We had that option. I think up until this last event I couldn't understand why would someone just give up. I do now. Giving up does not show a lack of faith, nor does it show anything lacking in a person's whatever. It just shows they are tired. Having said that I do believe we are to fight, but also I know that I saw my limits, and I will never judge another again if they do quit. I see now just how ignorant and unfeeling that was, not to mention boastful.

With science today and the frontiers of medicine it is almost possible, and indeed may be possible as well. Just as anything else, this can be used for good or bad. I'm not sure about anyone else, but I really don't want to live forever. Imagine if you will being tortured and not being able to die. That is hell on earth and basically a living hell, which after being toyed with, could maybe result in going to the real hell. I'm not sure I would be strong enough to endure that. Imagine how weak one would become as a whole person.

So then we say who would do that. Plenty. Waterboarding is a prime example of just that, so was the events that took place at the prison over there. Both events, IMHO, show just how depraved people can be and are. It also exhibited yet another thing, that people are willing to go along with it. At some point we must ponder if we have become the beast we chase. When we no longer are ourselves, then we are indeed no better than that which we chase and will replace that beast with yet another beast...us. Part of this is bringing people back to life only to kill them again and again. Eventually though, death wins, and I'm sure not soon enough for the victim. I think the lowest parts of Hell awaits those who carry this stuff through and just up a notch from that, the ones who endorse it, and up just another notch, the ones who go along with it, or turn a blind eye to it.

That in and of itself is scary and brings about another passage, Matthew 10:28 (King James Version) And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. To me that says to fear them that can cause you to hate, do evil in the name of good, or not forgive. These things goes against being a Christian. A dog can call itself horse but that doesn't make it one, and never will.

All in all though, these two short and simple passages are what helps me to keep focus. As I said before, I really don't expect the majority of the people to relate to that, but those of us who do can. It isn't a short sickness or pain, but rather one that drags on and on and on that puts this into perspective. The one that never seems to end. The one where dying is easier than living.

Somehow we have lost focus though on all that counts. I could go into TV and today's music and how it works, but I'll see if any want to know that. It gets a bit detailed and in this case the truth is not only stranger than fiction, but hiding in plain sight. One of those, man, how did I miss that things.

So now we come to focus again. How to raise our kids. How to remember our dead. How to worship God. I really want to touch on that last one though. It's pretty clear in the Bible how to do that. I saw a whole website and indeed a whole ministry based on the Sabbath and end times. Then another "news' place that is suppose to be Christian and has stupid things like, "Was Jesus a Socialist?" What is that? Apparently someone that has Christianity mixed up with something else. While I'm not the brightest bulb on the tree and have a ways to go yet, even I know that.

These are just two of many that have lost focus, if indeed they ever had any to begin with. I think it is important to know why and what you do, then make an informed decision, but as for like the Sabbath thing, Jesus spells that out pretty clear. He does the same with His politics, or lack thereof. He does the same for Money Changers (bankers). Most of what we call conspiracies these days are facts that Jesus dealt with and indeed the world has dealt with from the beginning of time, except then they were known as facts. Jesus addresses especially the dogma of religion, something that got Him crucified.

So these days I am very selective as to who I listen to and what is said. I question what I hear as the control slowly tightens into the hands of a few, and it grows less everyday. There will be a day that blogs like this one, or websites like the one I have, will be taken away. In their place will be controlled information and controlled opposition, nothing new and nothing that wasn't tried before the Days of Noah.

The whole object of the game is to have you lose focus of the reward that you will get, should you follow a narrow course. The goal is to make you lose focus on just how important you are to God... and Satan too. To make you lose focus on how you are loved and stopping you from loving too. While what some of refer to as The Powers That Be (TPTB) want full control over your body, Satan wants the rest and not because he loves you either. Maybe that is what this means, maybe not, Revelation 13:18 (King James Version) Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. So TPTB serve Satan, each gets what they desire, for these days are not the wrath of God but the wrath of Satan and man. Don't lose focus. Ephesians 6:12 (King James Version)For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Changing the world

Changing the world. Don't seem possible does it, but it can be done. I've mused on this on and off for a while and how that could be done. The answer was surprising simple, yet hard to do. But it can be done and it ain't impossible.

We spend most of the time working on don't and don't haves, or rather that is waste time on that. The problem is major. This is something that I've tried and it seem to work, at least for me. No way that just one person or group can change the whole of the world by working on someone else. So I looked in the mirror. That dude there seemed to be where to start, he has issues, so that is a great place to start.

Imagine, not Lennon's song, but a real imagine on this. Imagine that you can change the world. Imagine that all you needed to do is start, then maintain you. People would probably think you are nuts... at first. Limit yourself to only one TV show a week. Now imagine that you could get someone else in your home to do so, provided you aren't living at home alone.

Imagine that the politics of who does what to whom and who is wrong or right (except crimes of theft and murder) doesn't matter. Example: He/she is Gai. He/she talks filthy. And the list goes on. How does that effect you? It doesn't, unless they are directly in your face. Imagine that you accept them and love them as they are.

Imagine going to town or on a trip and taking it easy. A driver wants over in your lane and you let them. You are in your zone. Traffic congested... not a problem. Someone cuts you off or makes a driving error, and you just smile. You are in the zone now.

Imagine that you are walking into a store and a man is there with a sign or cup, begging for money. You give him some. Imagine that while you are in that store you see someone who is having a hard tome locating something. So you help them. Now imagine that you know or have a neighbor who is having a hard time meeting ends. Yes, even if they are a drunk and their kids and spouse is nice, perhaps they are out of work or maybe you don't know why. But they're hungry. So you have enough money to buy a little something, just for them. Imagine that some person is having a hard time loading their groceries. So you help.

Imagine that you go to buy a house and want it paid off early. So you buy a smaller house, something you can pay off in 15-20 years. The furniture and electronic items you pay in cash.

Imagine that you come to a doorway at the same time, so you allow the other person first, or hold the door for the next person. Imagine that you help a person who has a hard time walking.

Imagine that you have pretty clothes, but you only buy what you need, create a fashion. Imagine when you decide to get rid of the clothes, you took them already washed and folded to someone who has had a tragedy that needs them, or a church that helps people out, even if you don't go there. No yard sale, just a gift.

Imagine that you have more than enough money, and a neighbor goes hungry, so you buy extra to give them. Imagine that you see to it, if you can, that nobody you know goes to be hungry.

Imagine that you have a neighbor who needs help. So you help them do whatever it is they are doing. No charge.

Imagine that you run into an old person who is lonely, or possibly a kid that is confused. So you take time to listen and maybe speak with that person. Imagine that you take that time since TV is cut off all but one night viewing it. Now imagine that maybe it is your spouse or child that needs a shoulder.

Imagine that you have enough, so you take care and make sure if you have more to share that with someone. If someone is in need you are there.

Imagine that you yield to animals rather than run over them. They count too. Imagine that you walk in a park or field and look at the beauty of it all. Imagine that you muse the sky at the colors it has. Imagine you take time to be still.

Imagine that you do this, even when it is hard to do, but you do it anyway. It gets easier and easier as you do this and already you feel His grace. It's a full size that fills one up, but for someone new it feels a little funny at first. It isn't one that is all understood, even by those who practice life like this. It's hard to do but at the same time the fullness of the day leaves one refreshed... most times.

Imagine that after a few months of little to no TV, telling you what the newest thing is that you just can't live without. You no longer need what they are selling in the grand scheme of things for the most part. That keeps you out of debt or at least no new debt. The biggest thing is, you may just start being content with what you have.

Imagine that your actions would change because you no longer know what television tells you to act like through their stereotypes. Imagine not being prejudice because of this, prejudice is not a trait, it is learned.

So imagine that each person thinks of another person first and themselves last. Imagine that each person sees their own faults and works on them. Imagine that we begin to say we instead of I. What if I didn't think of myself but everyone else first and everyone else thought like that.

The world has had division for thousands of years and done just fine. True, there were wars, but at least not everyday like we have now. This world is no smaller than it was, yet people act like it is too small for people to be different. It was a world full of amazement with all the different peoples. A world of wonders. A world of mutual respect. Now it gets closer and closer to people being just a clone of what those that rule wish it to be. But just imagine if we had respect for the other person.

Just think about if we stopped looking for differences between us and begun looking for common ground. Different is what makes life worth getting up for. Just like opposite ends attract on a magnet, so could the differences be with humans. It could be a better place. It would be a better place.

Is it that we are so deep in the forest that we feel so lost that we stand still, or run in circles? But why? Why is it that we have given our power away to the hands of a few and like puppets, we dangle on their strings of what they prescribe us to act like, feel, and do. The world has lost it's way so that we feel so insignificant. I don't know, but maybe we have so many problems that we just don't know where to start. Maybe it is fear of nothingness if we try. But what exactly do we have to loose.

We all have power within us, true power, but just on ourselves and that is a lot of power. Our power though has limits because it is only true power over ourselves. So though we may not be able to change the world, and there will always be problems that arise, but each keeping in check one person, them self. Our little corner of the world will change and maybe we would shine bright enough for another to see this peace and joy, they might just change too. It would make them different than each other, yet the same in joy and peacefulness.

So what if I am the last person I think about. If I am the last person I am concerned for. What if I focus on defects in me. What if I care less about me and more for someone else, everyone else, and they for me. Really cared. What if it become live and let live. Certain the world would not be a great place because this isn't possible to get 100% cooperation, but it would be better.

So we look at this like a huge rock that needs moved. We can't pick it up and move it, it's just too big. It can't stay there, it's in the way. So we chip at it until piece by piece it becomes smaller and eventually is removed. Rather than change the whole of the world, I'll just do my little corner of it.