New Year, New resolution...

Living my life backwards.  I feel like I'm living not in this year, but some time in my past.  The weather today reminds me of--some other day.  The sunshine streaming across the landscape reminds me of--some other time.  Some people call it deja vu--or some such thing.  Doing something, meeting someone, reliving a past experience in the present. 

We are standing on the fresh snow of the new year, poised to begin the journey.  After so many years of 'new journeys' one would think we wouldn't be so naive.  But, as the song says, 'will I be pretty, will I be rich, here's what my mother said to me... Que sera sera; what will be, will be. '   Each new year is a new journey in like manner.  Will life be pretty, will it be rich, what will it say to me?

Some memorable lines from years past:
    If you keep doing the same thing, expect you will keep getting the same results.  
   Insanity?  Doing the same thing and expecting a different result!
   Walk a mile in my shoes?  Then who's shoes would I be walking in?
    One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day?   ( 2Peter 3:8)  I've had minutes that passed like that.  One minute was like a thousand years, and now that I'm older a lifetime that has flashed by like a thousand minutes...



There are some things we never quite grasp.  Here is a quote from a face book friend from a movie she watched;  "the movie Tuck Everlasting. I thought was worth sharing: "People will do anything not to die but will be afraid to live their lives......Don't be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life! You don't have to live forever - You just have to LIVE!"" (disclaimer here, I have never watched this movie, do not have any idea other than this quote about it.  I am not endorsing it in any way.)

 This doesn't give you or me the license to live a frivolous, or a godless life.  It doesn't give anyone the cue to be self serving, or less than noble.  On the contrary it should encourage and inspire each person to identify those things in life that are indeed the most noble and virtuous aspirations and seek out those things.  A sort of Noblesse Oblige.

Darwin was not the first to come up with a theory of  'evolution', however, for some reason his theory caught on like a prairie fire in an updraft.  There are a number of odd things though.  Some say even he didn't believe his theory, and whether he did or not it has never been anything but a 'theory'.  It has never been shown in any aspect to be a truth.   There is no basis to it, yet it is taught as fact.  If you don't support it you are then ridiculed as being an antiquated idiot, probably a religious zealot, and ignorant as well.  But look what it accomplished with it's emphasis on 'we're just graduated animals':

Whereas Christian religion elevates humanity to:  Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; Thou crownedst him with glory and honor, And didst set him over the works of thy hands: (Hebrews 2:7)
Evolution says: just a higher form of ape. 
Yet most children are taught evolution as fact, and  by the time they finish high school, they will defend it in the face of all the contrary evidence.  And all of the evidence is contrary to evolution.  There is no fossil record.  No record of anything ever evolving into a new species, nowhere at any time.  Evidence?  Here are two excellent links, one is to Dr. Brad Harrub's website       http://www.focuspress.org/   and the other is to Appologetics press http://www.apologeticspress.com/

So evolution accomplishes it's goal.  The undermining of our society.  Turning humans into mere animals that can act as animals would in a jungle, in a zoo, in nature...where ever.  Acting as if they are not accountable for decent behavior, now they are given license for murder, rape, incest, in a nutshell...for beastly behavior.  But they're wrong.

 Matthew 18:3  and (Jesus) said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye turn, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.

As ironic as it may seem, just try telling a child, "I'll give your brother/sister a piece of candy, but I don't feel like giving a piece of candy to everyone.  So only that one child gets the piece of..."


The hue and cry of the non receivers would be: THAT'S NOT FAIR!"

A child's sense of 'right and wrong' may not be quite on track, but the fact that even as children they have a sense of a standard of right and wrong shows that, unlike animals that have no moral compunction, we ARE different than mere animals.


Some good things to keep in mind until next time:
      Philippians 4:4  Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice.
5)  Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
6)  In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7)  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
8)  Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
                                                      (To be continued)