Currently So By Peter Gabriel Mercy Street see related

On the 5% Solution

Actually, I have little to say about the 5% Solution other than April loved Sherlock Holmes, so I hope she will have a chance to meet A C Doyle if she hasn't already.

I'm finishing up my last Friday at AWI and my second to last in Tally.  I'm not being given any work I assume because there's not that much going around and they want Nilesh trained and as busy as possible.  Hence, the time to write this and maximize my time with my fb military pursuits.

I feel like I'm molting a little too soon.  I'm dying to get the hell out of here because I know I have to, not because I want to leave the people.  I don't.  I'll miss you all horribly!  But we are not about pleasing ourselves according to our understanding beyond trusting the One Who made us to do so.  We were made for Him and He will do more for us than we can do for ourselves when we trust and obey Him.  Far more.  Besides, I have electronic ways to keep tabs on you all.  I just wish it could all be over and I would be in Jax sorting through the packed boxes at the storage unit, playing with my nephews, working out with my brother, and hanging out with my parents and old high school buddies (I'm one of the few who left, and fewer who returned).  Hopefully, in two weeks I will be settled into my new situation.

There is much to look forward to in J'ville - time with the youngest and middle nephew, jamming and maybe playing publicly with my eldest nephew, getting into shape again, catching up with old friends, spending time with the parents.  So there is once again a split or a tearing from one very good to another good, but very different.  Everything will change - all my associations and my whole lifestyle.  Though some change is good it is still stressful in direct correlation to the intensity of the change.  It is this stress that I look forward to seeing wane so that I can somehow have my peace return.

Currently Legend By Bob Marley & The Wailers Could You Be Loved see related

On the Religious Solution

Realize its all about your intimacy with the Triune.  No intimacy with Him, no hope for anything else.  You will find Him when you seek Him with all your heart, so seek Him with all your heart all the time.  Keep Him with you - He's there already anyway.

Let Him love you and let His love in as deeply as you can stand it.  His love is the only thing that can change a heart of stone to one of flesh.  Learn to know His voice and train yourself to obey it by remembering all the benefits of the times you obeyed previously as well as the detriments of all the times you chose not to.  Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.

If we all do these things and He will heal the Church, order the society, heal the land, and bring about never-before-seen prosperity.  If enough of us forsake them we will see everything get worse than we've ever seen it.  Aren't we headed that way already?  Until we experiencially know Love, no political solution will work.  Once His love is flowing through all of us no political solution will be necessary.  But, that, my friends, won't happen until we are all changed in the twinkling of an eye.  Until then, all we can do is be cisterns of His love to each other and the world - fill up, pour out, fill up, pour out, fill up.

Currently Rocks By Aerosmith Back in the Saddle see related

On the Political Solution

I finally got politically involved in my late 20's when preachers and radio personalities began making me aware of certain issues.  Back then I thought lending my voice to the debate or the volume would make a significant difference.  Although it made a difference, it only made a tiny temporary difference.

As time went on I began considering the political and governmental areana.  Where was it, exactly, and how did it become that way?  What motivated the "representatives" to vote one way or another?  Was this the best form of government currently available to mankind?

Slowly, but surely, I've been taken in a straight line to my present position.  The problems the current government is trying to address, and progressives have been trying to address for a century and a quarter do not fall into the political arena, but the spiritual arena.  The purpose for government should be to keep the peace with the maximum liberty possible.  It’s the purpose of the spiritual to take care of one another (or not, according to LeVey).  The government keeps one family out of another families business and deals with them when they disregard the imperative.  The church looks after the needs of those who have difficulty caring for themselves.

But people are not basically good.  We are basically insecure and will do almost anything to try and feel more secure.  For some this involves behaviors that destroy themselves, including taking drugs and certain consentual sexual encounters.  For others it involves behaviors that harm or destroy others - driving under the influence of substances, sexual encounters with STDs, non-consentual sexual encounters, theft, brutality.  Still others behave in a way that harms and destroys the whole social order in their quest to find a way to feel more secure - building businesses that pollute, cornering a market, preventing healthy competition in the marketplace, and terrorism for unrelated examples.

Everyone seeks to meet their perceived needs and most use something other than that which will meet that need.  Like a thirsty man who has only known salt water, he peers at what looks like it should suffice for him - its clear, cool, and glistens in the sun.  He drinks it and ends up only thirstier.

But the problem is spiritual.  Our true water is love.  But we have never known the real thing.  We've known things like it and close to it, but not the pure, clean, crystal stuff that satisfies our taste and saturates our body through the bloodstream.  Love is in the realm of the spiritual and not the governmental.  The two should remain separate even though they effect one another.  Without the freedom and order provided by healthy government the spiritual has difficulty thriving.  And without love, power becomes the governing rule.

So then, ultimately, the solution is a spiritual one.  In fact, if perfect love ruled in a perfect people, there would be no need for government of any sort.  But we are not perfect, and no government made of us can be.  We are hopeless without an outside source of Love in its purest form, filling us to overflowing and cascading down to all who will receive it.

Therefore, I endeavor to ignore politics since it can only accomplish more distruction and less freedom as it is.  And I look to Love to see how I might be filled to overflowing, pouring that love into others as I'm directed by that Love.

Sting had it right, "There is no political solution, to our troubled evolution."  Now all that remains it to define purest love, find its source, and fill ourselves up like cisterns to pour into others what we all need most.

Currently Hemispheres By Rush La Villa Strangiato see related

Your Rain

Its been a long time without You

Its been a dry time without Your touch

I'm coming out from the anesthesia

And I think I can feel You around me again

And I believe that I miss You

My hunger has regenerated

Its feeling good to feel alive again

And I'm ready to run, run in Your rain,

                           ~

Your fresh, cleansing rain is falling on me

All of my deadness is falling away

And like a flower untended so long

I respond to Your love, Your love like a sweet, cooling rain

                           ~

You show me the future in glimpses

But only a snapshot or two

Then when I doubt I've heard what You've said

You reassure me with a clear déjà vu

So now I'm reinvigored I trust what You've said

And I can move now one more step ahead

More deeply into darkness as I walk

Another joyous step closer to Your light

                           ~

And into Your fresh, cleansing rain pouring down

Flooding my soul without a sound

Writing a symphony of the ways of Your love

Let me rejoice and dance, dance in your sweet, cooling rain

Currently 10 By Mercyme see related

One End is the Beginning of Another

The renting of the house is set up.  Friends will be moving in in a couple of months.  I'm getting anxious because my time assumptions are not working out.  The order is fine.  I just thought I'd have heard about when I'm to move to J'ville by now.

My roomie will be out in a matter of days and the house will be quiet again.  This time I think I'm ready for it.  It will give me time to say goodbye and prepare to be where there is little reminder of April.  I expected the stronger waves of emontion to come earlier rather than so late.  But at least they're coming.  I am a stuffer of emotions after all.

I'm ready to leave this city.  I'm not ready to leave the kids, but you can't do the former without the latter.  At least there's the plethora of ways to keep in touch through the net.  You can't have the new without releasing the old.  I'm ready for the new - time to molt.

I'm wondering if I'm supposed to move to J'ville in October when the tennants move in or if I'm supposed to wait for some specific occurrence there.  I truly wouldn't mind getting out of working for the gov't.  I will miss the pay that Abba has provided me in this job.  I am unclear as to what I'm supposed to be doing in J'ville until the go ahead is given for Oz.  But this is how Abba works, no?  You get what you need only when you need it.  I reckon its one of His ways of getting us to live in the moment, eh?  That's been one of the most difficult things for me to learn, and one I haven't succeeded in yet.

My heart toward women has been a point of strong examination as of late.  It has been very painful and yet very interesting.  There is much that needs changing in me and a bit that already has begun to change.  This is something that has long been needed, something that caused some major problems between April & me.  I will be glad to have Abba's heart in that area.

I've been reading much about history, politics, and economics recently.  I feel I have a good feel for the effects of all that is being offered to us.  However, I also realize that "there's no political solution to our troubled evolution."  All our problems are spiritual.  However, when I consider reading books in the spiritual area I balk because I don't trust the writers anymore.  Or maybe its that I've still not processed what all I've read so far.  The Bible, though, is not out of bounds.  I'm still getting some good meat out of that.

I feel like I'm blindfolded and being guided to the end of a divingboard below which is unknown - water? mattresses?  concrete?  air, air, and more air?  Exciting, eh?