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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Re: RAMBLING - True confession
PICTURES... in the mind
Thank you ALL very much for a great year – thank GOD. A special mention :- my dearest Aloma Martin…perhaps you may be the one that has allowed me to keep my job – I don’t believe that I am my boss’s favorite employee, I think he may have been about to yell at me again when he stopped short and was riveted by something I had pinned on the wall of my cubicle. It was one of LOMA’s emails…he turned and gruffly said as he walked out “I need a copy of that”…Loma..give a shout out to Patrick and his family…send some pictures….Mrs Soares (coz Pauline) we have prayed very much for you…and Winston….how is Uncle Lincoln and mama…send some pictures too and the twins….where is Donny?…he may be close to ruth and keevs !!
In tenderness He sought me weary and sick in sin
And on His shoulder brought me back to the fold again
I wonder what HE saw in me to suffer such dread agony
O the love that sought me
O the Grace that bought me
Wondrous love that brought me to the fold
Wondrous grace that brought me to the fold.
I found a picture of Howard Daniels eating an apple, his false teeth came out….I don’t tink any of you will remember it…grace maybe….along wit dat was some audio “only one life twill soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last” I think that was on the Plack that he won….it’s not a very clear picture…it is old. I believe it was on the verandah at 27 Rochester Ave…I may be wrong…. back in the day they used to have these ‘youth gatherings’ at different homes and there was a lot of games and stuff….here’s another picture I think this one was at 12 Sullivan Ave. this was the ‘missionary house’ I think the Mauks were living there at the time..but any how the picture was of a bunch of us kids trying to hit a thing with candy hanging from a rope or something. You may have figured by now that these must be mental PICTURES. Here’s another one this is at Benbow Street…at Christmas..I don’t know what year it was but Auntie Coolie Had come from America wid a barrel….this was a whole lot of fun…and food..
My brother Dale and I are picture junkies….as a matter of fact he bought his wife another camera for Christmas !!…I think they have it worst than me over at their house….I think one day I am going to go over to their house and see my old friend James Lindo wallpapering all the rooms with Auntie Yonny’s 6 milloin picture photo collection.
Maybe it is not just us, grace and me had cameras pretty early on. There is this black and white picture of the plane taking off from palisados – Arlene was on it I believe-going to America!!. We have come a long way….with this digital stuff nowadays….f’r instance here I am sitting at my dining table…I kid you not …there are half used CD and DVD RW’s scattered all over the place, a stack of old hard drives is sitting under the table by my foot, a couple of memory sticks and MP3 players are somewhere….the basement is crawling with old VHS of every style, nowadays when I am not drooling reading about this new fangled blue ray stuff…I am plotting and scheming how to get to New York to plunder cousin Gee’s basement or raid cousin Boyies ranch and pick his brain dry with my handycam. I am not going to even mention my Sister Ruth in Florida who to top it all had to go out and marry a PROFESSIONAL photographer slash-commercial-artist-marketing-advertising-guru ...
…Hi Keevs….sorry I missed your call….I was going thru the basement and found your treasure…on VHS….coming soon to a blogspot near you…
Daleanne has now mastered the fine art of changing all manner of old media (VHS) to digital….I’m telling you man…. you are dealing wid de original DIGILORDS up here in cold Connecticut…dere are tings about to be released dat will make your hed spin.
This is some background for you out here seeing the ‘tip of the iceberg’ with these rambling emails and the FAMILY CHRONICLE BLOG….furthermore…my father was a prolific writer….a thinker really…if he were around in our time I am thoroughly convinced he would have a blog or two at least….I think Uncle Dale has a collection of his JOTTINGS….maybe we will publish them officially….who knows…maybe we already are !!!
I can only IMAGINE….LITTLE JO was singing that song….but here’s the deal….
If there was some kind of cosmic recorder running all the time capturing all the audio from my lips…every single word….WOW !!!
I can only IMAGINE video of ALL my thoughts…..or actions….
I can only IMAGINE….search….the chambers where polluted things hold empire o’er my soul….search me o God my actions try and let my life appear as seen by thine all searching eye to me my ways make clear.
I do believe that based on the technologies we are seeing today all the bible teachings are not at all far fetched or ‘out of the picture’ so-to-speak.
The hard drives sitting at my feet are quite dead at this time. However I got a little gizmo from my friend Ramon. He showed me how to hook-up these old dead hard drives from the old broke down computers in the garage that I have wore out over the years. CAN YOU IMAGINE!!!??? TONS OF STUFF thought to be long dead and forgotten….there it is SUDDENLY all come to life on the new DELL with XP !!….oooops all the old emails……pictures…..video clips……hmmmm!!….quick… delete…save…no…. ooops virus!!?…no wonder that old computer wouldn’t work…this DELL that I am using now with the gizmo…thingy from ramon…this dell has the latest ANTIVIRUS ANTISPYWARE anti-everything….maximum security super protection !!!
This is the same technology that Jesus mentioned in John when he said I am the resurrection and the life….he that beleiveth in me shall never die….fear not them that kill the body but fear rather the one who can destroy bith body and soul in HELL….translation: everything that you have ever done is on a’cosmic’ harddrive somewhere. I don’t want to loose my stuff. I am highly motivated to get to ‘replay’/ re-live my life….that is what eternal life is !!!…he that beleiveth HATH everlasting life.
IF A MAN DIE…..SHALL HE LIVE AGAIN – Job
ONCE TO DIE…and AFTER?…JUDGEMENT - Hebrews
…and he lifted up his eyes IN HELL being in torment….I don’t fully understand all this stuff but it is certainly becoming clearer to me that when God run’s his heavenly antivirus on me and CLEANS all the mess / virus / Trojans / worms / spyware / evil cookies / SINS etc…that is the stuff the cleansed version that I want to see and for you to see….I cannot therefore afford the luxury of secrecy / privacy whatever….secret sins….who can understand his own errors….says the psalmist david….”cleanse thou me from secret faults, keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins, let them not have dominion over me …then shall I be upright and innocent of the great transgression …let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in THY sight, o Lord…my strength and my redeemer…..AMEN.
Heroes of the Faith - part 1
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This is my Pastor from Jamaica. May God continue to Bless His Ministry. One thing I remember about pastor Vidal is when he formed asinging group called "The Beacon Brothers". We used to sing and have fellowship a lot in my teen years. One of the songs I remember is :
Across the bridge there'll be no sorrow
The sun will shine...and we'll never be unhappy anymore.
other members of the group were, Basil Glen Roninson, Carl Guthrie, James Lindo maybe Impy I can't remember. God Bless you Pastor, you are a great example of faithfulness.
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This is the person who taught me almost everything I know. Here you see him doing something that he does best; reasoning. He mostly liked to reason about righteousness. This is Uncle Sonny otherwise known as Sonny Man but best known to us his eight children as 'DADDY'. Maybe Cousin Gee can tell how the name Sonny came about. Daddy is also a great example of faithfulness.
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Here is another living hero or 'shero' as the case may be. This is Siter Dulcie. She was one of the people who helped inspire me to continue to play around the keyboard. I hear that she is on the radio sometimes in Jamaica. She was a school teacher as well as a musician. She has been an great example of a one who has endured many dangers toils and snears and kept faithful in uncompromising leadership. As the name suggests there is a 'sweetness' about this great christian soldier.
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Can you tell by this Radiant Smile....this is without doubt a Child of the KING !! This is Sister Betty. Also from my church. A shining example of a Godly women. Sometimes nowadays I dispair that those older women which the bible talk about who ought to teach the younger women.... they seem to be fast dissappearing ...but not Sister Betty, she seems to be going nowhere soon. God Bless Her.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
RAMBLING - this week
A Soldier's Silent Night :
click here -> WHY WAR.
I often wonder about my uncle billy. I wish I could talk to him. He was in the war. I have some very emotional childhood memories about him. I wish I could ask him now that I am older. I am sure the war helped to make him. War is big business in some peoples mind....but war is much more than physical combat.
My brother had a passenger in the car driving along... the SOLDIERS SILENT NIGHT came over the radio....the passenger started to weep uncontrolably...we found out he was a soldeir.
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IDENTITY THEFT
father chris : so where is lucky these days?
sis : on the web
mother tea : you mean the web of deceit?
sonny : yup that's his gig now. he gave up his old job to start his own business.
sis : he used to be the light bringer right?
father chris : He used to work for my boss. he was not just into light, he was also the cheif sound man...he was the multimedia guru!
How do you know who you are dealing with
when you get on the web?
In today's brave new world wide web you can morph into whoever you need to be. So in the words of 'Sonny' why wouldn't that be a great gig for mister whats-his-name?...lucky..lucif (CLICK IT)
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I was thinking about this bible phrase MORE THAN CONQUERERS.
struggling to find out what is more or greater or better than a conquerer. so I googled it and ended up on this game. Anyhow my time got eaten up - on the web of deceit and...
We are left with the idea of overcomer.
My job is a kind of manager for a large information pool - database management. the greater part of every day for me is spent working with names. mothers and fathers and children; brothers sisters etc. So I was kind of taken aback when the secretary left me a sticky note to return a call to Florence Johnson. I nearly went crazy trying to remember where I had met her before.
Even Washington and Jefferson flashed across the screen of my mind as the brain searched through its mental names bank. BTW that would be DENZEL WASHINGTON and GEORGE JEFFERSON ....oops!! stop there it is!!! Florence Johnson is George and Louise Jefferson's maid...WOW!! "we are a moving on up to the eastside to a deluxe apartment in the sky..we've finally got our peice of the pie"!
So anyhow, I remembered this scene from an episode of the jeffersons where they have recently started living on the UPPER EASTSIDE rich neighborhood. Weesy is kinda lonely and makes friends with a black lady she met in the building. the lady assumes weesy is a maid like herself. she even goes into the Jeffersons apartment a few times to chit chat. It is one of these times that Florence shows up and some how it comes out in the conversation that Weesy actually owns the apartment along with her husband george. ...at which point weesy's new found friend exclaims...."how come we black people did done overcame and ain't no one told me!!!!".....so there is our word again....OVERCAME....overcome.
Conquering seems to lack the idea of permanence..as in that strategy game. you may be winning now but not for long...some one is about to conquer you and then what?...the whole cycle of winning and losing gets repeated ...oft !!
Last night there was a beautiful MOON...and there was also a pretty brisk wind, to top it all, there were a bunch of fluffy white clouds being driven by the wind...northward...the neighbors must have thought I was crazy..it got down to 25 degrees last night....but there I was out in the yard looking up in the sky.
Between the moon and the moving clouds, I saw the landing lights of a big jet as it approached the nearby airport. That was when I thought about OVERCOMING versus CONQUERING. The big jet aircraft had to conquer the force of gravity... to stay flying; the big jet engines have to stay working all the time. However at landing time, he had to surrender, gravity would bring him back to earth.
The space shuttle on the other hand, has to exert no effort to remain in orbit. We are told that the weightlessnes of outer space is of such that you can just float around in zero gravity...effortless !!
YOU WILL NOT FALL!
My son is taking up wrestling as his high school sport this semester. He wants to demonstrate all his "new moves" at home. This is not a great idea !... I am steadfastly resisting it...mostly in my mind. Every so often now, he trys to put me in one o them "head-locks" or something : BTW...This is not new.... He's been doing this since he could talk. ". (could this be the cause of Alzheimers: kids putting their parents in 'head-lock'?! LOL)
The whole experience, though, is shedding much light on some things partially hidden.
We wrestle not against flesh and blood.
Of late I have been wondering if I was loosing my mind....this steady onslought of renegade thoughts that stampede through the mind. ...this stuff is close up and personal !! I used to try to separate out the thoughts to see which ones were mine....wrong move ! I now know that that is impossible...all kinds of thoughs will to the mind unbidden come !....(a little old english lingua there)....
So what's the point...
not yet,
a little more rambling first....
..there is a thin line between sanity, stupidity and alzheimers. I saw a sister on TV last week talking about a family member. At first I was shocked that an apparently private matter would be treated with this degree of openess especially by an avowedly private individual...ok so now that I got that out of my system...where was I?...o yes that's right...I recovered quickly from the attack of evil thoughts against the sister by using the Sheild.
That's right the shield of faith. I had to beleive that no matter how it seemed, that this was indeed a well intentioned move. ..and sure enough as I listened further it came out that there was indeed much for me to learn regarding keeping my mind active, (and MOSTLY RENEWED) and staying physically active as well to stave off any coming alzheimers or other dementia. I reflected on my old friend Oral...yup, he is my friend ORAL ROBERTS...we commune a lot....does he seem a bit demented to you ? ..well he is not !
Ruthie was on TV this week. (is this an example of mental malfunction?.. not Ruthie it was Ann Graham....Ruth Graham is the wife, check it out here) She was talking about her dad too....she said that he was still pretty sharp mentally, both himself, BILLY GRAHAM and ORAL are in their nineties.
So anyhow, lawlessness is very much a characteristic ouf our times. The Bible calls ANTICHRIST SPIRIT OF LAWLESSNESS.....look it up see what you find. Then take a read of the Chicago Tribune if you have time...politicians in general and Chicago politicians in particular seem to be a law unto themselves....I could be wrong.
FAMILY CHRONICLES beleives in families. Family represents order. Marriage is very unatural, it was invented by God. It has something to do with modeling our obedience to our God and His son Jesus.
When our children are habitually disobedient, is it becasue we have modelled it so well for them in our husband / wife relationship....in our own homes !! ?
So ought every man to love his own wife as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it and the wife to obey her husband....that does not go over too well with most of us...and so we become MONOSEXUALS.... (I never saw this word anywhere before, have you?...I think I may have invented it !!)
...that is... we do our own thing, we come up with a ton of other ideas that "will work for us"..are more convenient more comfortable more satisfying...after all...let's be reasonable...trans, bi, homo, multi, cross, serial monogamy, trial marriages, trial separation, shacking up and varoius other fornicating social networking kinds of things...whatever works for us...right?
Romans 1: 16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Subject: Mindboggleing!!
2 Peter 3 :1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: 2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; 16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. 18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Fw: Your Diet... Did You Know This?
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Worthy News
Christian Revival in Iran
good tidings to your colon. !!
Friday, December 5, 2008
Thank You Pastor Vidal
Savior, like a shepherd lead us, much we need Thy tender care;
In Thy pleasant pastures feed us, for our use Thy folds prepare.
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! Thou hast bought us, Thine we are.
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! Thou hast bought us, Thine we are.
We are Thine, Thou dost befriend us, be the guardian of our way;
Keep Thy flock, from sin defend us, seek us when we go astray.
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! Hear, O hear us when we pray.
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! Hear, O hear us when we pray.
Thou hast promised to receive us, poor and sinful though we be;
Thou hast mercy to relieve us, grace to cleanse and power to free.
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! We will early turn to Thee.
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! We will early turn to Thee.
Early let us seek Thy favor, early let us do Thy will;
Blessèd Lord and only Savior, with Thy love our bosoms fill.
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! Thou hast loved us, love us still.
Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! Thou hast loved us, love us still.