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Memorial Day
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CURE CRISIS - Ch1 draft
"Hate Speech"
The Starbucks in front of the Mardon Hotel was full as
unusual. Across the street from the
patio’s café was Clinton Park, filled with its own flock of patrons. An unkept vagrant man was waving a hand-painted
sign that read “We’ve all been Left Behind!” The homeless man paced back and
forth the length of the coffee shop’s patio.
His shouting of prophetic warnings went unnoticed. The man’s ragged appearance was as invisible
as the very trees in the park about him.
Every other day the Dallas Police would redirect the wild man to another
location, less populated, but always in sight of their drones overhead. Today felt different and his rantings more
animated. Not everyone ignored him, as
the screaming prophet caught the glance of a man in black following him.
Sitting at a patio-table
beside the guard rail closest to the pacing Prophet were two men finishing up
their meeting. His friend’s twitching
upper lip was offended by the prophet’s unbathed odor. It was not as easily ignored as his background
shouting.
“Repent you Sinners!
Stop taking the fact that you are still alive for granted!” His continued yelling
cut the quiet of the spring day. “Eat and Drink all you want, but even you
can’t ignore that the world has changed!”
Suddenly the man flung
his sign behind him and dashed across the street. Dodging a trolley car’s
ringing bell he reached up and began clinging to the rail-wall of the patio. His white-knuckle grip was wide spread as his
face pressed through the bars before the two men at the table. He shouted to the man in black, “Will you be
a martyr with me, brother? I see the
truth in your eyes. You know who The
Anti-Christ is, and soon he’ll show himself to the world!”
About that time
three Police drones overhead sounded their alarms just as two armed officers
tackled the Prophet to the ground beating him unconscious. The Police State’s tolerance was not so
tolerant.
The man in black calmly
asked his friend, “What do you think him?”
The older man with
the offended nose, “Him?”
“Yeah.” They both watched as the Police carried the
limp figure away in cuffs.
“He’s just another nut,
why?” His boss smirked.
“Anti-Christ?” The man in the black wool coat seemed
puzzled.
Shaking his head the
Executive shot back, “Take a number: Ronald Reagan, Bush, Obama, and Trump.”
“…and?”
“-and what? They were all wrong?”
“Ah, so…,” Began the
younger man.
“So? There’s no such
a thing, just another corrupt bogey-man for the masses to be afraid of, and
controlled.” His boss was growing
irritated with the topic.
Changing its
direction, the man in the black top-hat sighed, “Okay. What about ‘The Rapture’, three years ago?”
The older man in his
sixties had had enough, “Really? We’re going there: Alien abduction, CIA, 9-11,
Secret Ops. Who knows, and who cares! People come up missing all the time, Brycin.”
Brycin could not let
it go, “But, the people, Jean?”
Standing up to
leave, Jean reminded his best reporter, “Look.
Just finish the expose on Steven and the Underground.”
Looking back at his
blond Starbuck’s waitress, Brycin dismissively replied, “Sure. I’m waiting on my contact.”
Jean smiled at the
seated man in black, “Red hair, five two, a hundred fifteen pounds; that one?
Brycin nodded, “Well,
her too.”
Jean added as he
hailed for a taxi, “Just ask her out, man.
I want something on my desk this time tomorrow. Deadlines have meaning, Brycin.”
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Live With No Regrets
We all die. That is the Cycle of Life, and a Fact. So, make the dash between the two years matter. To be sure I have had more than my fair share of "lessons learned" and foolish mis-steps.
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Trek Beyond
I have loved Star Trek since I was a child. I have not really liked the idea of the New "Reboot" Versons. This new BEYOND looks 'hopeful' but still very much not Trek, but more Fast and Furious. Will have to check it out.
This one is for all you others who don't know the Love of Trek from the Beginning.
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This First Teaser is for
MIKE COPE
my "family" my "brother".
This one is for all you others who don't know the Love of Trek from the Beginning.
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Who's The Boss?
In part one of the Book, (the Old Testament) the reader of that grand story finds the main character trying to get men's attention with how to worship him, and behave with one another. All the while, unknown to the 'readers' the main character is laying the seeds of a plot device called 'foreshadowing'; seeds of what is to come next.
However, in part two of the Book, (the Old Testament), a new main character appears. Yet all he does is refer back to the main character of part one. Again, foreshadowing seeds are planted and should be more obvious even to the reader, but only near the end of The Book is the plot twist truly revealed.
The main character from part two turns out to be none other than the Undercover Boss from part one! Jehovah GOD spoke things into being, and the very act of speak/singing/ proclaiming "was" GOD himself! The very 'image of the invisible God', 'became flesh', and the fullness of deity dwelt in a human form'. You could say that God went undercover and 'humbled himself like a servant'.
Some argue Jesus was a created thing. Only in the turn of perception that God was trying a different technique of communication with his creatures was Jesus to be considered like an "only begotten son', or even a 'Son of Man'.
EMANUEL Who?
In The Bible we are told that Christ would be called Emanuel. But after we are told this, his parents actually name him something different to begin with; Jesus (which mean Savior). When we view the entirety of Scripture as a single volume of a complete story, only then can we realize that the main character is actually: GOD. Therefore, in the second half of the story, the New Testament; we find a peculiar plot twist in the story. By way of a spoiler, I think the Bible should actually be re-entitled: The Tale of The Undercover Boss.
So, where does 'Emanuel' come into play? The opinion I assert is that instead of being a "failed prophecy" of Isaiah, it's fulfillment was actually manifested in a different manner. It was that "difference" that was the plot twist no one saw coming! Though the first born child of Mary and Joseph was "named" Jesus, his followers 'CALLED' him Emanuel, because they saw in him the manifested fulfillment of the Spirit of the Law! Emanuel means "GOD WITH US".
John and Paul both gave us scattered pearls throughout their letters and book. It is up to the astute reader to thread those pearls together; and the Christian follower should proudly "wear them" in how they share them with the world in which we live and encourage one another to continue to look for hidden "Easter Eggs" like precious gemstones.
I do not think that, just because the actual name or title was not given to the child of Mary and Joseph as Emanuel that it is a failed prophecy; but, I believe that inferring its metaphorical meaning in the present Cannon of Scripture is HOW the prophecy was (is) manifested. In other words, the believer must individually search out the given volume of work, and for themselves dig out those gems. In personal Bible study, they (WE today) ourselves declare with our lives that:
I do not think that, just because the actual name or title was not given to the child of Mary and Joseph as Emanuel that it is a failed prophecy; but, I believe that inferring its metaphorical meaning in the present Cannon of Scripture is HOW the prophecy was (is) manifested. In other words, the believer must individually search out the given volume of work, and for themselves dig out those gems. In personal Bible study, they (WE today) ourselves declare with our lives that:
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The Lay of FAYENDAR and ENAVA
{The extended version}
Mine eyes first followed her lovely curves
bathing on a candle eve 'neath the stars long ago
at the banks of the shallow River called Blue;
just south of the city Uruk I saw her prancing way......
bathing on a candle eve 'neath the stars long ago
at the banks of the shallow River called Blue;
just south of the city Uruk I saw her prancing way......
CONTINUE READING HERE:
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AND THEN HE TOLD ME
Very few songs have ever caused me to instantly become "emotional" as mush as this one touches me. I had not been in church in years, I went back and was so overwhelmed BY THIS song, a few years ago that I want up from and simply laid down on the floor in front of the Pulpit and cried. I cried and prayed. I prayed and cried. As I prayed the preacher preached. As I cried this song and others just played on. A bright light over came my vision and the impression of warmth came over me. I said FATHER I'm sorry I never became a pastor... I saw a light and heard a voice.. AND THEN HE TOLD ME... I just said follow me. That is all God wants, for us to follow him.
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