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Great News is the good news found in God's love for you and your love fo r God
Portions of this section reflect some of the spiritual disciplines I have been involved while directing my energy toward developing and sharing my concept or philosophy of All truism based on Christ's Two Commands of Love and the Golden Rule. It is my hope that it will help others like it helped me weather both health and personal problems with God's help and navigate through the trials of these hard economic times. Three Cheers for South Carolina, the only State that stopped Rampaging Home foreclosures. May others do the same. There was some good Caring Christian energy and prayers following Christ Two Commands of love there. Thank You God for Blessing those in need and moving others to help them. May other States be moved by prayer to do like wise.
Good News, I am feeling great and more upbeat than my usual upbeat self. I always have loved hard work and hard workers. it is great to be able to do it again.. I am chaffing at the bit to see where my new art will take me. I added this Jan 10, 2012
2012 First New Paintings, Angels Helping Me !The great unknown beyond my door beckons.My driveway was starting to crumble and it would not be a lie to say among my special intentions that I would pray for was to have my driveway repaired. Some special friends, who fall into the area of Angels , as in my Song You can be an Angel, People who help other people, Mike and Christine Melicia have an engineering and driveway resurfacing family business, California Driveway Engineeringcompany, resurfaced my driveway.Michael stopped by and asked if I needed my driveway done. I told him I really need the driveway done but could not afford to have it done. He said George I will do it for you anyway. Years ago I did a partial barter with them. Mike and Christine are a real neat hardworking caring loving couple. Their kids would work together with them in their family business. I like most hard working people but really admired this family. I love seeing families work together especially when you can see their mutual respect and caring love they show for each other and their kids and seeing the kids showing love and respect their parents while working with them. Good people are good people. Some people are up a notch like Christine , Mike and family, They are great people.
Mike and Christine's Painting, Love and JoyI was happy to give them the above work of art as a token of my feelings of appreciation and love for them. Years ago I had started the beautiful 24 by 48, $7500 painting called Love and Joy for them. It was not about the cost but mutual friendship. I did not finish it for a quite a while because of health problems and gave them another painting to them imstead. I think it is karma that they are going to have the work that they inspired in the first place. It is not that Mike and Christine are with out problems but they work them out together and I believe they do the same thing with their Kids who are real cool, hard working and I believe they would do any thing for their parents. They are good people and a great loving family that I have been fortunate to have in my circle of friends.
 Sharing the Evergreen tree song with Mikey & the love of his life, Richelle. Mikey is Christine's and Michael's Son. A real cool dude and a loving son that any lucky parent would be proud of. Mikey and Richelle discussed doing a painting of them at a special time in their lives. I have done a number of enjoyable commissions of special place for people, It will be neat to put the people in too.
 I was a little concerned about having to remove the cross I painted inside the 16 foot christmas wreath as I felt it was warding off foreclosure. After the 16 foot wreath was removed and the cross was black topped over I was a little apprehensive. The next day I received an ominous hard edged bad news call from Country Wide. It did not look to good for me. I told him what I was hoping to do as far as commencing payments and He said I would have to make two sets of payments to cover the new payments and the delinquent ones. I told him that would be insurmountable. I felt like having the cross black topped over was bad Karma. I removed the strips of the dried Evergreen wreath and was going to make a new wreath when it was done. I started removing the dried needles off and it was going to be more like a crown of Thorns with out the thorns. There was a delay between having the second coating applied.
 In the interim I painted Two Crosses on my doorway and another on my Basketball backboard as my game of 21 was part of my spiritual meditation exercises. Through the open door you can see a portion of the over 9 foot Cross that has towered over my studio for years.
 Two days after the call that I regarded as dire I received an overnight letter from Country Wide regarding their hope Program with real Good News, My home loan has be modified. I will be locked in at a low rate for 5 years and my payments will be less than they were when I was adding a couple of hundreds dollars to the principal every month. I did this to keep the house after kathy divorced me. This will be interest only but nothing extra will be added to the principal. The delinquent payments were added to the principal.I must add the tenor of Conversation of those involved with Country Wide Hope program, the hope modification plan was refreshing, considerate and helpful. One of my songs, inspired by my All Truism Concept was "Faith Hope and Charity"which is in the belt of Orion In my All Truism Painting. Well Hope arrived on center stage. I have been on this unique Spiritual High That Had me ready to accept any thing. I even regard the Pain, Suffering and disability I had as a blessing in disguise. It brought me closer to God and added a new sense of urgency to my purpose in life. I have to say I really like my new found energy and focus. I sometime think of how the only thing some people will leave behind as as a legacy is money. Some of it was earned through hard work and some was made by exploiting others. Some will be put to noble causes, in research , eduction and charity work. Some will be left for relatives to covet and quarrel over. I will leave something behind but it won't be money. In some ways it may be more valuable.
 This was once my 16 foot Christmas wreath On April 9th just before Easter, the wreath was a red Gold Crown That would turn into a crown of thorns. Back then This section was called my foreclosure diary. Dec.24 the date that it was to happen came and went. The stress and Ill health in Dec.08 has vanished in what I call my little Christmas Miracle. My erratic blood pressure and chest pains and overall weakness are no more. My blood pressure has been fairly consistent now at the same range of my 18 year old son. 120 over 60. Not too bad for a 73 year old whose blood pressure was racing up and down like the elevator in the Empire State Building. I have been growing stronger in Many ways, spiritually and physically. Back in Dec as therapy, I had difficult reaching the basketball rim with my shots at 12 feet, My current Record for a regular set shot is over 37 feet. My Granny heave shots have sunk from over 44 feet. Jon has dropped regular one hand shots from beyond there. Chris my surfing son who lives in hawaii, use to play basketball for Carmel High, reminded us he sunk one from our neighbors yard well over 50 feet. There is a fence now that is over fifty feet.
 Some time in Dec.08 I wrote. I have been drawn more to the gentler spiritual side. I wrote of my evolving Meditation Christian exercises that I started doing and may it put up on my home page as a continuation as another form Came to me this morning as both an exercise and a morning prayer, The differences is it was designed for people who may be bed ridden though Healthy People could do it too before they get up. Some times I wake up really early but don't feel like jumping out of Bed at 5:30 AM It was another exploration in Religious focus and spiritual healing to bring positive change in attitudes which we as individuals, as a nation and also the world are in dire need of. I write from the heart, Inspired by my love of Christ, not as a voice of authority. I have been enjoying my solitude while rehabilitating from my uncalled for Medical handicap, created by CHOMP. I faired better than Bill Bates. Bill and I both artist had a penchant for Bush satire. Some might say God punished us with Staph infections, but God did not do that . That was done by man. The time without interruption was well used for meditation, Praying composing and writing. I am really feeling great now and thankful for that. There is some strange unholy undercurrent that has warped the varied social and religious structure in the world and our cities. It invades and distorts truth and reality. They have changed the Golden Rule , "Do unto other as you would have them do unto you" They made it the Stone Age Rule. Do it to others before they do it to you. Shoot first even if they are unarmed . As some day they may become armed.  Their visit and sharing my Stop Sign idea with them gave birth to an idea for my Irish priest joke. In the joke I had the priest who was in charge of a seminary in Ireland say, Most of the principals I had in school were pretty good . Could we change Standing Tall On Principles to Standing Tall On Paisley. The other Irish Pries said, I will drink to that. They never said that but their visit did inspire the joke or maybe it was the John Jaminson Irish Whiskey I was sharing with the Irish priest pushed my joke Button.
 
 I remember the Bishop was a giant of a man who was the only one who was having desert . It looked like a mountain of mouth watering goodies. I said salivating , "There are a lot of calories there. He answered as a joke smilingly, That is OK, I will walk it off George. I suggested that if he share it he would not have to walk that far, and we all had a good laugh. I recall dropping and breaking an unopened bottle of Chevas Regal on the studio tiled floor while they were over at my home. In retrospect I may have been launching the spiritual ship of my studio breaking a bottle of good Scotch not champagne. I believe in the next picture I was sharing with the Cardinal, my Idea of how a stop sign was an acronym for Stand Tall On Principles, not principals. The idea dealt with when you have a problem in life, stop and evaluate your choice of direction based on high principles, Than forge ahead being true to those principles.
 There were other priests from the Mission who were good friends and would visit and now serve God in a different areas of the Diocese and the world. Back in Glen Cove , the mother of the pastor Father Kelly died in our home as we were caregivers for her so she could be close to her son in her last remaining days. For some unknown reasons to me the last year something unusual is in place when it comes to having priests I invited over to visit. It is almost like they were not allowed. My effort to raise funds for those in need through my art, like Dorothy Kitchen in Salinas through the auspices of the Carmel Mission came to naught. I had the same problem with the Red Cross and Salvation Army , all agencies that were the benefactors of sale of my art in the past. My section on home page Reflections of a Poor Man Philanthropist bears witness to that and may have also have the reason why some may be upset with me as I advocate open objective honesty. We see so little of that in the world today it is a revolutionary when it should not be. If we focused on the positive, doing good out of love not guilt, than those who lay undeserving guilt upon you would have to behave more decently themselves. That is why I am dedicated to promoting focus on Christ Commands of love and the Golden Rule. Let render the things that are God's to God and Keep religion and politicians from misusing religion for other purposes.
 I though of apples I would harvest from my raised second story deck from an adjoining tree whose branches would mingle with the Magnolia's limbs. some of . It was fun picking, using a lacrosse stick taped to a telescoping long aluminum pole that was designed for other purposes. The apples picked are still in the fridge as they seem to stay fresh for ever. some would still be there when I was picking next years crop. My back yard is a bit like an wild garden of Eden. It is my rough hewed Assisi.
May God Bless You and Yours in the New MillenniumMy day started off with an hour of exploratory meditation that bed ridden people could do hope I can remember them as they were quite involved and intricate only in the wider rages of exploratory forms and they helped me start my day off feeling great., Filled with the Spirit . There are many families in the same position as me but worse off as they do not have the coping tools that I have developed out of need over the years. Some will be parishioners in your church who quietly may be drawing close to having their home foreclosed. I believe one of the reason that the ax has not fallen on me is that Bank of America who received a large amount of the financial Bail outs funds been told to try to stem for-closures. This is from a banking friend on the inside who is in danger of losing her job as Wachovia has been taken over by another bank and she is working as part of the a transitional team. My nephew in Georgia offered to help me by purchasing a painting for a thousand dollars to use for fund raising for Haitians in need. I told my nephew and his wife, The people in Haiti live in a warm clime, As it was in the winter, being aware of the growing number of homeless in America who were subject to the colder weather even in Georgia. May I suggest as a way of doing something I am really pushing right now which is Christ Two commands of love to love God and your neighbor that you try to raise the issue of helping fellow Americans who are your neighbors too. I saw on television how a Catholic parish with the leadership of a caring priest was helping parishioner and others through the maze of fear of fore-closure and how to avert them. They would make arrangements where groups of these people would meet with those who could foreclose on them, and try to work out a better solution. That was my reason to ask if they were involved with the parish on a steward level. I realize what other go through and have known the stress and fear of loss of your home. I know I can come up with some creative ideas to help to keep their spirits up and pick them up if they lost everything with the will to go on. I decry the suicides that I have heard of as a result of the economic problem. One person took his whole family out depriving them of the right of trying to survive and go on and even prosper. I may be skipping along the edge of losing my home and looked into the abyss and It could even empower my efforts as an example and raise and answer questions of the why. We live in day where selfishness rules, survival reigns. I see a wave of good energy of people helping people. Every day there are examples on the news of people helping people. It enforces my opinion that people are good and my concept of All truism does exist and is becoming more alive as people see people in need and are reaching out to them and feeling good in being able to help. It was just like at the Thanksgiving dinner for those in need. Caring is alive and well and flowing through America. May we come together, Put our differences aside and come together out of the many one. Let our goodness shine. May I share a wonderful quote from a musician friend, Philip Seymour, who arranged the Mother Mary's Blue , Lourdes Song I wrote. The heading on his blog Phil's Place was SERVICE TO OTHERS FEELS GOODHe is a living example of one of the All Truism concepts , it feel good to do good. 7/11/09 He was recovering from a hernia operation and was asked to sing at a Veteran's Stand in Veteran's benefit. Phil wrote, " You cant buy what I am feeling, You have to give it away! It has been said,Ķ The more you give, the more you have to give.What follows is from Phil's Place, Seymour's Blog. " do a google search for his blog. You will be glad you did. Phil said "I wasnÕt sure if I would feel up to playing today, when Dean Wright phoned yesterday and asked if I could come to the VFW in Anderson and play some music at the Stand Down fundraiser, but I said I would." The bands he had counted on, cancelled at the last minute and could I help him out. I said sure. He said he had another guy named Gary Blankenship and that we might sound good singing together. The people at the VFW were a good bunch of friends and neighbors that had come to support the Veterans Stand Down. Each year in our area, and all across the country, doctors, dentists, therapists, social workers, caterers, and many other good people set up a small camp, with tents, clothing, food and entertainment for our veterans who are having trouble, Ōgetting back homeĶ. Many of our soldiers have returned to a society where they canÕt fit in. They may have tried to get help from the military, but it didnÕt work out. They may be experiencing, ŌShell Shock. (George Carlin had a revealing routine about that.) They live in the woods, under bridges, or sleep in the bushes. Some havenÕt spoken to another human being in years. The Stand Down is a safe place where help is available for these disenfranchised defenders of our country. Each year, a few days before the Stand Down, volunteers go out into the forests, homeless camps, and along the rivers to help these lost soldiers get to the fairgrounds, and a temporary reprieve from their inner turmoil. Would I go to Anderson and sing a few songs to help? Hell yes! Will I be playing at this years Stand Down? Damn right! How does it make me feel? Like a human being. You canÕt buy what I am feeling. You have to give it away.
I love that Quote and told Phil He should write a song around it. A Healing DreamI pictured a marine scene. I was sailing between tropic Islands wing on wing. Each breath I took was like a long low slow moving swell gently passing under the hull in a pleasing gentle lifting rhythm pushing the boat ahead. I tried to visualized another person on board with me for company. There was no one on deck and no one below but it was as if I heard an internal voice of some one I heard in the past. I first heard that inner voice, "I am with you ", while I was in the Army. A group of young non-coms and I were considering going out for officers candidate schools which we had the mental qualifications for and were working out to get into good shape., Swimming was part of that along with weight training. I was well off shore swimming in rough water when a wave hit me the wrong way and drove me under sputtering as I must have had my mouth open breathing when it happened and swallowed quite a bit of water. There was moment of panic as some of the water must have going down my wind pipe, when I was underwater. I heard this voice within, an inner silent voice. " I am with you." It was a bit like hearing your self thinking but it was independent of your own volition or thought process. You felt the words and presence of some one speaking to you. I became very calm, rising to the surface and was once more one with the sea which is my intrincint nature.. I kind of thought the inner voice I heard was the voice of my dad who was missing at action, in the North Atlantic. The inner voice in my day dream had the same message in my moment of need but in retrospect I felt it more spiritual in origin. It was the same friendly familiar voice that I heard from someone close in the cockpit who spoke in a way that suggested he was smiling when he spoke. "I am here with you." In my half dream I sailed on with a smile on my face too. I was not carrying on a conversation, It was more of an inner thought transmission. I am sure if you concentrate on a special time in your life you can recall some one saying something special. try to recall a love one once more saying " I love you," repeat the process and you will hear their voice in your mind and will relive the memory you cherished and saved in your memory bank. In my half dream state It was a realization that God was with me. Like before, a calmness came over me and I still feel that calmness days later. My blood pressure has been good and I feel great. The tension and stress of Foreclosure melded with the ocean lace astern in the wake and dissipated and was no more. It was small Christmas miracle to feel so good and have a sense of relief and every thing would be for the better no matter what happened.
 I thought of making one of these into a Christmas Card My son wanted to take the Toyota pick up over to where he lives in Pacific Grove and branches were blocking the doorways to the car. So I set out to cut it with a hand saw. One branch led to another and I worked from 10 to 6 PM doing some very vigorous tree trimming, I felt like a cross between Paul Bunyon with a skill saw and a sailor with one hand on the ship mast holding on for dear life while swinging a heavy two handle skill saw up over my head with one hand. I started laying out the cut branches into a circle and made a 16 foot Christmas wreath on the driveway. Putting up my Christmas songs on line and writing reflection of them about the spirit of Christmas had me in a Christmas mood and I sing all the time even when I work.  I must have been thinking about Rudolf the red Nose Rain deer but my antlers are Evergreens. I drew a large cross in the center and had J M J for the Holy Family, Jesus , Mary and Joseph.
It was arduous , challenging and exciting. though. a little risky trimming branches going up on 8 ft. step ladder in flip flops on sawdust covered ladder steps.
 I started with a hand saw and moved up to heavy duty two handle skill saw that weighed over 14 lbs. The weight became proportionally heavier when it was extended and the weight transferred to your wrist. I had a neighbor over who was bigger than I and he said he could not even lift it. I said you should try doing that and getting it well over your head when on a shaky step ladder leaning against the tree. I would not be surprised if some of the limbs I cut down were over 30 feet long. It was an Herculean effort when you were almost on the top step of a shakey 8 foot step ladder. I told my neighbor that I was strong as a bull other than my heel. My barrel chest had slipped a bit lower so I have a barrel stomach that goes with muscular chest and shoulders. I thought to my self and just as dumb as a bull when you I see red. Don Quixote charged windmills, I charge matadors of war with about the same results and keep on dreaming the impossible dream of Peace in the World. Some will say I am more like Sancha. I will answer I am just a servant of God.
 The bigger lower limbs would require cuts on bottom and two side before doing a top cut. It would then fall down but not off and I would have to lift it up move it as far as I could side to side . lifting it up dropping it down until it separated from tree. The branches were logs by the time I trimmed them that my son and I could hardly move. They were over 30 feet long until I cut a portion off the end so we could move them.  The first Cross I put in left a little bit to be desired as far as the lines in the drawing. I added more lines and colored chalk the next day. to enhance it. I wanted to do it over but was concerned about the difficulty removing the original drawing. I thought that God may have helped me remove the first cross with the night rain to prepare me a clean slate to do another more permanent one. I used paint and a carpenters square to have the lines straighter.
 The Afternoon of the 23 d. following Night rain, The cross was gone. I was surprised that the ground showed no trace of Chalk as I had it on a bit heavy as I put The chalk on twice in two days... It provided me with my blank slate to do a better more permanent statement
All Truism Exercise Routine moving in unison with the Positive Energy of Golden Rule and Christ Two Commands of Love.It is an exercise routine I developed while focusing on using All My Creative Energies focusing on The Golden Rule and Christ Two Commands of Love. It is a Christ and God the Father and Holy Spirit orientated exercise a combination of prayer and exercise that I do to music I wrote as a prayer offering to God. I feel wonderful doing it and great afterwards. "
 Now for New Music for my morning exercises, Theme, Bless Me Lord with Your love and Light, Help me Lord to do what's right!
To download these MP3s right click the song's title and select 'save target as'. < Narrated intro to melody line One by One Two by two, To God and your self and others be true, Obey Christ Commands of Love today
Love God most of All, Love your neighbor too As You love yourself , Jesus Christ loves you more.
 Reach out and help your fellow man  embrace the Golden Rule today
One by One Two by two, To God and your self and others be true,
 Embrace the Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have them do to you. Do obey Christ commands of love.
As You love yourself, Jesus loves you more. He will bless you here and now and eternally If you reach out and help his children in need. We are all part of his family
 Don't be guilty of turning away, There are children of God in need today across America today, In all our States, Counties and home towns There are many in need in the USA, Do what you can to help them today.
 Three by Three , Four by Four
 Time to love God Evermore, Love Your neighbor too As you love your self As Jesus Christ Loves you more
 Five by Five , Ten by Ten Time to obey God Ten Commands
Love God most of All, Love your neighbors too As You love yourself , Jesus loves you more. He gave his life for you on a Cross on Calvary.
God gave us Ten Commands, Jesus Christ gave us two Command of Love to live by, for you and all men We're all part of God's Family, Kept safe in his great hands
Hundred by Thousands and Millions more Are drawn by grace to heaven's door Time to love God more and more, Time to obey Christ's Two Commands of Love. It's time we live by the Golden Rule.
 My neighbors would be walking by bundled up in heavy coats and jackets. When the session was over I felt like the 66 degrees I keep the house, warm like like being in Hawaii. I start with arms out forming a cross with palm open to receive the warmth of the son and also the blessings of the Son.
I will raise them over my head ,
 return to the cross position, then down to my sides.
 During the lines of Love your neighbor my arms will extend out and open .
 I will turn in different directions facing different part of my neighborhood.
I will cross my arms almost like a hug when I say as I love my self
Do the same when I say Jesus loves you more I will raise my arms over my head from the cross position, turn palms outward when I say Help me Lord Part the strife with Your Truth , Love and light. When trying them out with the music i composed for the exercises , I found myself doing a lot of figure 8 movements that worked naturally with the music. It was also good to stretch out deltoids muscles after earlier weigh lifting. The words may differ slightly while I am exploring the forms, but they follow this theme. For some reason I feel my calling is to have more people focus on Christ' s Two commands of love as a key to peace within ones self and hopefully through out the world. The exercises is for others to do. The words are for others to say to open up their personal gate way to welcoming God Jehovah or Allah into their Heart with His peace , love and forgiveness. The word were put to music and edited yet there are times when I will recall them while exercising to instrumentals I composed for the purpose. The exercises are not aerobic but more for your internal spiritual and mental well being as it fill your inner space with Peace and love and the desire to live the way of Christ's Two commands of love. It does help maintain flexibility through stretching. It softens the tightening that may come as a result of the pre-exercise weight lifting session. I have grown stronger inwardly and by being at peace with myuself my Blood pressure has improved and is more consistent in a good healthy range, I love you Lord Help me please, Help me to be better May I be your temple Lord, Come into my heart Help me part the clouds of strife with your love ,Truth and Lightthat darkens people's lives May I be your humble light, a candle in the dark May your light fill my soul with your light of love May I reflect your will O Lord in my life and songs Help me Lord do what's right, stop me Lord from doing wrong. Let Thy will be my will. May every women , every man, in every child in every land Know right from wrong it's inscribed in their heart, God my heart is in your hands. My I love you more each day, more in every way. Bless Me Lord With your Grace, fill me Lord with your light Help me know what I should do, Help me do what's right. Help me love the world O Lord and love my fellow man Help me love myself O Lord as I know You do But more than all please help me Lord, help me to love You Help me Lord to grow strong, Strong in my Love for you Help me know right from wrong, What I do, may I do, out of love for You. May I do what's right O Lord, In the open, in your light May I be your messenger, a pawn moved by your hand, with your message of Peace and love, Love God first most of all and love your fellow man. May all who know me O Lord be moved to love you. May I be your Troubadour, singing songs of love for you. P>To download these MP3s right click the song's title and select 'save target as'. P>To download these MP3s right click the song's title and select 'save target as'.
 Dec. 24 Th. I worked on a design for my Christmas CD. Label until 4 AM. I slept in until Ten and thought I would like to Do the exercises I created Yesterday. I went to the computer to recall just how to do it. I played the Christmas CD that I was burning copies of. I like music on when I am doing just about everything. On the one where You are going to raise your hands over your head, I changed the starting position to one of attention with your hands at your side. As you start to raise your arms, turn your arms and hands outward so they assume an open position. Stop briefly when they reach the Cross position hands open to receive God's blessing and love. Continue upward always stretching, Until your finger touch lightly at top almost like the top of a church steeple or pyramid. Turn them outward hinging on the still touching thumbs. The hands and arms are now opening , parting the clouds of your problems. Your arms continue back to the cross position with your palms downward as if you were propelling your self when swimming. If you play You can be an Angel Only in this exercise you are lifting your spirit upward. Stop briefly, When you reach the cross position, Once more Turn your hands to the open position to receive God's Blessings and help. Turn them downward as your arms descend to lightly touch your side with your fingertips. I stress the light touch as I want you to raise the sensitivity level of your touch and the gentle spirit of meditation. This not meant to be Jumping Jacks or clapping exercises. The purpose of this exercise is to awaken and draw spiritual energy within not an aerobatic exercise. You will find the natural breathing to compliment your movements. Just breath in really deeply while you feel God's Love in you and around you. Despair will vanish. When you fell pain, offer it up to God as a prayer That He will help others who are in more pain. If you fear loss of material things, count your blessings if you still have your home. For some the sky over their head is the only roof. There are some very wealthy people who lose what they have been accustomed to but will still have comparative comfort and security. If they do not have a realization of Christ, Two commands of Love. They will not be blest and always be insecure, living in fear of losing what is not most important, The Material Things
 I am intrigued with how writing about a Cross I painted on my driveway would lead to sharing an exercise prayer with you. But than again anything you are doing can be a prayer if you offer up the effort to God. You may even surprise yourself and fin.d that you are doing it better.  It was like a small Christmas miracle at how different I felt after a daydream before going to sleep. The week before my blood pressure was erratic as the DOW with a low of 65/40 to 179 over 96 in the same day. I was scheduled to have a nuclear cardiac perfusion test at the VA hospital. I would get dizzy just going up stairs from my studio and had to sit down before I fell down. I was having some pressure aand chest pains. Thank God That is gone. My heel is looking very much better but I have internal pain. It reminds me of Hip pain in my good hip when a sliver of bone or something showed up on X ray. That kind of healed itself. The sliver of bone that was causing the problem disappeared. My song the Perfect Christmas gift just came on, It was the gift of your heart with all the love you have within. It evolved into a song encouraging organ transplants. The ultimate recycling plan, the gift of life. God is also with you in a special way. Love him do fear him. Love your neighbors, even the gay ones. Love your self too, just don't be vain. Peace be with you! Do you remember those blown up plastic Punch or Bop Bozo the Clowns pinching bags? There are some people who have used me for that. But I keep popping up and they hit me again. I am not sure why I am smiling when I say that but I am and I feel like a little duck paddling around a big pond, quacking, Baby the rain must fall. I do not find joy or solace when strange things happen to those who punch me but they seem to happen. I have written about some strange timely happenings with emphasis on a dynamic Psalm related one that was that was a revelation! They are on my home page on directory button .
Does God operate in mysterious ways?I have always felt like some one is looking out for me. Could it be I have God's help in some ways. I know I have been involved in a selfless missions in my life inspired out of my love for Him. Doing His will, I regard as a calling. Let thy Will Be My will has been a short favorite short prayer I made up. You may have experienced it your self or have friends neighbor or relatives that are essentially good people but are put down or attacked by others and they go on with their endeavors and warning are sent to those who would do them harm. I am not talking about the finality of a cou'de'Gras. I believe that God is loving and forgiving and at time will warn you. There are many stories of how at times personal pain and suffering will lead to positive transformations in one life. There was an incident where a wonderful kind woman was taken away in an accident. I knew a man who exhibited grace, tenderness, love and sacrifice in caring for his disabled love one. He had a weaknesses that may have played a chance role in her demise. He was prone to make statements to people I knew, that was wrong and calloused for me to overlook, but I did excuse them and was blind to the pain and sensitivity of someone one I love. I paid for it later. Some time we'll excuse the behavior of one person toward another as we minimize that behavior because we have accepted that behavior lightly as part of another's persona. I do not deem his actions as the sole reason for his love one's demise or for my problems with someone. It tallied up in the end for both of us. His lost is permanent and I am still trying to reconcile with my beloved one. The silver lining to the dark clouds of that story is the positive change the pain and loss that occurred in his life brought a profound wonderful change for the better in his life. He found God. not in any organized religion, but within himself and others. He still loves his departed deeply. He has become a more caring person and overcome the weakness of over indulgence with alcohol . It is kind of strange That Pastor Rick Warren Book which I have not read , but the title has encouraged me to continue to lead and understand the importance of a purpose driven life. I may have a little more rougher time ahead doing it then he will. As usual I have accepted another unenviable thankless task Of swimming upstream, going against the flow. I have a calling , My current mission is to have Christians who are into the total acceptance of all the words in both the Old and New Testament to focus more and establish a priority on The Ten Commands of God and Christ Two Commands of Love.
A Challenge to all Christians, Obey Christ Two Commands of Love, It is so clear and simple to understand, Yet too often it seems as if they are the forgotten ones, The keys to Heaven, Christ gave you out of love.Some Evangelicals may call it blasphemy to raise questions about their personal bible interpretation while other Christians will say it is a profound in it's understandable simplicity as a way to Honor and Obey God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ. The Christian Challenge that I am presenting has the purpose of helping other Christians be better Christians by living vital relevant Christian lives directed by the words of Christ, bringing to fore, prioritizing and obeying the beautiful Simplicity in the clarity of Christ's Two Great commands of Love in the New Testament. To be part of the living, breathing acting family of Christ. By Their works you will know them! The same approach holds true in the Old Testament. THat Christians and Jews alike when they relate back to the Old Testament they use God's Ten Commandments as a priority in choosing a way of life that would please God, not dishonor Him. The Ten Commands are direct not nebulous personal interpretations that can lead to being misused. Some of the many diverse stories in the Bible talk of the sins, perversities and cruelty of man. The Bible and the the Old Testament in particular does describes acts that are not in accordance with God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Some will misuse them out of Context and other will lack even the basic intelligence or conscience to realize it. Some will say it is not wrong to stone some one to death, It is in the Bible. There was an Evangelical Minister guilty of Child abuse who said Girl could get married at 8 years of age. It is in the Bible. I can understand the Jewish Religion looking forward to the Coming of God as they did not accept His first Coming, His Passion, Death and The Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Nor did the Moslems but the Moslems revered him as prophet and had great respect for Mary. Christian who are more tied into emotionally and belief with emphasis on the Second Coming can be diverted into not living Christian lives following Christ Two commands of Love. They are vulnerable to being misused by those would use Religion for Political Gain or what they deem their concept of National Interest or the interest of other countries. I will ask this 3 part question of all Christians. 1... Is it in vain to feel You were meant to be apart of the prophesy of Armageddon? 2... If your actions indirectly bring death and destruction to innocent people in the Mid-East and the world, Are your actions contrary to both the 10 Commandments and Christ's Two Great commands of love. 3... Will the blood of American soldiers and innocent people through out the world stain your hands like the washed hands of Pontius Pilot. He said the blood of Christ would fall upon those who called for Christ death. Was Pilot's hands clean? What is a reality is I like the time I can spend by myself to meditate, contemplate and write. There are those who would rather you not discuss issues with me, afraid perhaps that my sound reasoning might encourage you to think objectively for yourself. Some people regard my activities in the area of being a Peace Maker as political where in reality I regard them as moral issues consistent with Christ Two commands of Love. My objective questioning may lead to other finding honest revelations about the reality of the world we think we live in. I did not walk softly through that minefield. What I wrote about in my songs have come to past. I sometime wonder if some of my unique true spiritual experiences has some of the local clergy at the Carmel Mission, wary of me as some kind of new age mystic as I wrote honestly about a number of Unique religious experiences. in my art and spirituality section on my home page. One I had while giving a painting lesson at River beach where the Carmel river empties into the sea. A cross appeared in my painting, Return of the cross. The lady with me at the time is now a minister serving the Fallen Sparrow in Arizona. Even my painting experience in Assisi could cause them concern. I was turning over stones looking for some form of life other than people. At that precise moment three white doves fluttered into the tree that was also in my painting. Call it chance if you must. I can not help but think in a positive way. It was more than chance. I had a note book with me and I started the following song that the unique experience inspired. I been enjoying St. Angelas in Pacific Grove. Especially the 5 : 30 mass with the guitar playing and singing. Talk about a joyful sound, They are great. I visit Jon afterwards and sometime before as i keep trying to get him to go there as it is real close to where he live. This past Easter was joyful for me for Jon went to St.Angelas with me. The Church was crowded so we ended up in the Choir loft and I enjoy having him sing the hymns along with the congregation and his dad. This was the young man who told me on his fifth birthday , " I am so happy I want top die" a concerned dad that I am asked him to explain that to me. He said with the purity of a child , I can't wait to go to heaven." After hearing a talk at St. Angelas by a young Missionary Nun from the Philippines , I wanted to assist them financially in their work. I gave the nun a couple of bucks but even that was a sacrifice as I was behind in all my Bills. I wanted to do more so I offered to give a reasonably priced Master Touch work of art which was more than a good value with the whole purchase price going to the nuns. They could hang up in their Library area for the benefit of the Missionary Order of Nuns, dedicated to Mary, Mother of Christ, who rescued young ladies who were caught up in the sex trade and slavery. This is a horrid problem in the Philippines and other areas of South East Asia. It was a no go and I have no idea why. That is the Mary Missionaries in the Philippines loss. All I can do is make the offer. I have been very supportive for years of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, An Irish order who served the ill and unfortunates through out the world. Over the years not just of late I had consistently given Gifts of art to The Church and Catholic Charities to raise funds for charitable purposes of my choice that they were involved in. Example The $4000 I could not really afford at the time that went to a Catholic Church In Kobe Japan. When you are moved to give to others in need outside of other's favored charities or agencies though it may be in a similar field of need of the moment/. They question why the gift was directed to others, not the one of their choice. It is the same in secular situations. That is why I developed an approach to fundraising where the purchaser could select where their share would go, as to the group whether it be a secular agency like the Red Cross or some other group working in the area where need is created by natural or man made calamities. I wrote about that on my website in the Art and Spirituality Section as an example and challenge to those who could afford to to at least do something other than question why others give. I have had more people give me flax for being generous to others but not the ones they would have preferred my attention and funds be directed. I have a friend Mary who does great work with pregnant women in the work force. I have more of a feeling for other pregnant young ladies who are more insecure, perhaps still in school or ladies who are doing more menial work, the poor ones. At that time I was as usual low on finances. Some of my $ 1000 gifts and more have been very generous so they think He must be wealthy where in realty, it the opposite. There is a story on my home page that was involved and even Greece came into play in it, as unfortunately so did Emmanuel and Maria from Greece. who played a role in the gift. When I put up my Message for Humanity in the Interest of Peace in the world, They sent me a Post Card of A Mosaic of Christ, in a Church in Turkey, That they erroneously claimed on the back of the card that the Moslem Government plastered over this beautiful Mosaic. This did not happen. They stopped paying me. I sent the full amount of money out of my own pocket to the church anyway much to the chagrin of my wife who was having problems balancing our own budget. I was going to give half of an $8000 painting and I gave $4000 and only received $2800. So I was stiffed for $6200. and ended up making a $2600 contribution in addition to the first $1400 I sent the church in Japan, for Kobe Earth Quake relief. I have little regard and do not covet wealth though I have lived well. All My life, when I am in need for some strange reasons my needs are met. I like to think it is a higher power that helps me in many ways because of my love of God. which is focused and strong. This section is still in the process of editing, writing, having more photos and perhaps music music to add. I have writing on related subjects all over my home page but at 73 years of age it takes an effort to find and organize them. I regard this section as a lenten exercise. |
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