Do you know that Jesus said, The two things that bothered Him most while down here are:

1. The enormous lack of love emanating from so many.

2. Two of mankind’s biggest issues are these:*

-Envy of what his fellow man possesses.

-Jealousy/hatred for who his fellow man is (in light of who he himself is not).

3. One of His greatest ❤-aches is that so few people would be saved (chose satan over Him -the principles we live by translate to a choice between good and evil (and some of those principles, seemingly harmless in nature, none-the-less belong to one side or the other -it’s just that simple 🤷‍♂️)) by His sacrifice 😔

*and you know what… I remember telling myself years into sobriety “Whenever I get around (certain) people I get these feelings of…” maybe I didn’t know the exact feelings at the time -but looking back now, I recognize them to be… you got it “-jealousy and envy-“. -> Which, BTW, often prompt us to:

-hate-crimes and;

-trying out-do one another by acquiring… which of course Corporate America has no issue at all with (I saw something in an article about the main reason people purchased…. The main reason, social something or other -to look cool, stand out… laughs). The structures we put in place and the flimsy, shallow things we rely upon!

•Title credited to “Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To)” and is a song written by Michael Masser and Gerry Goffin. It was initially recorded by American singer Thelma Houston in 1973, and then by Diana Ross as the theme to the 1975 Motown/Paramount film Mahogany.^[1]

When all black people want to be called African Americans then I will call them African Americans. Or I’ll call each individual as they care to be called. But the fact that the matter is not everyone wants to be called…

I was told long ago that hispanics and Mexicans don’t get along well together. The dark skinned blacks don’t get along well with light skinned blacks..

I don’t have a problem with being considered = to a black man, or a Chinese man, or a Jewish man, or a purple man… I just don’t care for being treated less than… or chosen over… 🤷‍♂️

•Title credited to “Black or White” a single by American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson. The song was released by Epic Records on November 11, 1991, as the first single from his eighth studio album, Dangerous. He co-wrote, composed, and produced it with Bill Bottrell.

The government is continually restricting its citizens from knowledge about…! Is it because we like the maturity? Is it because we have big miles? Monk is it because they want an advantage? Is it because we like the maturity? Is it because we have big miles? Monk is it because they want an advantage? Is it all the above? I mean doesn’t it seem odd that they use our money tour money to explore so many things that we that we ourselves are not made privy too? Are not allowed to experience? Are not allowed to benefit from?

They take our money and build these billion dollar bunkers so that a handful of people, excluding ourselves, can be safe in time of it’s a different time of apocalyptic….

There are many kinds of knowledge. I mean many years ago it was much the same kind of knowledge; It was more a matter of who was in the know versus who wasn’t. But for some time now… OK let’s switch gears. There’s the knowledge we the common people have. There’s the knowledge the government has. And there’s the knowledge the government wishes to get their hands on. Many books today are filled with laws and information. They allow us to build this or apply that… BUT FOR EXAMPLE, WHAT TESLA KNEW TOOK THINGS TO A DIFFERENT LEVEL. WAS IT WHAT HE KNEW THAT DIFFERED? OR WAS IT HOW HE VIEWED THAT DIFFERED? Was it simply him looking in a different area or was it him looking at a deeper level? Or both? Operating a principle is one thing -being able to manipulate it is another. Explore its’ various dimensions? You take gravity for instance -theories abound about how it works, but we know it does. But to be able to counter it, or neutralize its’ effects… 🤷‍♂️

It’s rare, but some people never change -they are highly resistant, coupled with a strong anti – will! Others on the other hand are highly pliable and very willing.

In a God-made universe God is the Supreme-Ruler! In a man-made universe, God is still the Supreme-Ruler -but oh how man likes to think that in such an environment he is king..

“YOU WOULD HAVE NO POWER OVER ME IF IT WERE NOT GIVEN TO YOU FROM ABOVE. THEREFORE THE ONE WHO HANDED ME OVER TO YOU IS GUILTY OF A GREATER SIN.” John 19:11

If you look at some of the historical… from previous generations regarding media and television for example (and further still) -they were no angels either!

•Title taken from 1955 comedy of same name starring Humphrey Bogart/Leo G. Carroll/Joan Bennett. Directed by Michael Curtis. Story by Albert Husson [Remake: 1989 starring Robert DeNiro/Sean Penn].

As Human-beings, some of us can be as gentle as a kid (young lamb), or as wild as a mountain lion caught in a net. Depending on the temperament of the individual, and the circumstances… -trust me, we humans are not all that tame!

•Title “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is a song originally written and recorded by Solomon Linda^[1] under the title “Mbube“^[2] for the South African Gallo Record Company in 1939. Linda’s original was written in Zulu, while the English version’s lyrics were written by George David Weiss. The song was adapted and covered internationally by many pop and folk revival artists in the 1950s and 1960s, especially after it was published by Folkways Music Publishers in December 1951,^[3] including Henri Salvador, the Weavers, Jimmy Dorsey, Yma Sumac, Noro Morales, Miriam Makeba, and the Kingston Trio.^[4] In 1961, it became a number one hit in the United States as adapted in English with the best-known version by the doo-wop group the Tokens.

Yesterday I had a bad day.** I decided to swing by the bookstore anyways -just to get out of the house, clear my head… After picking out a couple of movies I walked back to the car to get my wallet and saw something shining in the rocks next to the building. The angle of the penny to the sun, from where I was standing was perfect -like a mirror reflecting the sun in my eyes. I wanted to take a picture of it so I walked to the car and got my phone and came back. After having taken the picture I proceeded to pick up the penny and then saw another, and another, and another. There must have been 30 or so spread out in the rocks, some facing upward and some facing downward. I picked up approximately 20*** of them facing upward while with my fingers I turned the other 8, 9, or 10 over so they would be upright for the next passer by. I placed those I had picked up in my pocket, then went back into the bookstore to pay for my DVD’s. As I walked back to the parking lot, along the sidewalk which ran parallel to those rocks, there was another penny right there in the area where the other pennies were, turned right side up, and right in my path (which, without thinking, I placed in my pocket with the others).**** In the back of my mind I was thinking 21 (3 X 7 = 21 “7 is a good number” God’s?). Anyways, on the way home, the numbers 23 or 24 started appearing in my mind (I was anxious to get home and count them). Incidentally, I had reached in my pocket to pull back out that one that was on the sidewalk because it was special -after I slid it down the back side of my pocket earlier, I reached back into the same area to pull it out. I vaguely remembered what it looked like and that I had placed it in my pocket with heads facing to the front of me. So I slid my index finger, and thumb down into that area and pulled out the penny nearest to my thigh – It looked just like it, and sure enough it was heads facing forwards. So when I got home I placed them all on top of a cardboard board box I have sitting in my living room. The pile of coins to the right and the one to the left. When I counted them there was a total of 20 + 1.

*After arriving home from work, my grandmother would often tell me about the lucky-penny she found on the sidewalk or elsewhere -that God had given her that day. This tradition appears to have been passed down to me 😁

**Many times in the past, during my most difficult struggles -God gives me a lucky-penny. It might be on the sidewalk, it might be on the counter at a grocery store… but it is always heads up -and sometimes two (or 3) in a day.

***Now that’s a new record (previous record 3 -twice 😉) -for sure! 🤠

****Between the pennies that were already turned up, and those face-down which I had turned up, I got a bit confused ‐a time or two 😏. So, I asked God “OK, which one is which (bad luck to pick up a penny you yourself turned “heads-up” eh)”. Well figuring it was a lost cause, and that I simply had to do the best I could… I put the coins in my pocket and went inside, as I stated above, to pay for my DVD’s. Now remember, I felt I may have shortchanged myself one or two. That’s when I came back out of the store and found that one penny directly next to the rocks where I had found the others -sitting face up, on the sidewalk along the building, directly in my path. GOD!!!! 🙏

God’s (unconditional)

Man’s (conditional)

•Title (song) credited to artist Bill Conti for the movie “Rocky II” 1979.

Whatever has happened in my life… An extremely painful event… I’ve always seemed to rebound, leveled-off emotionally.

I’ve noticed through the years and I’ll call it anonymous when I am close to the program I have much more soundness of mind than when I have drifted away. I have witnessed this phenomenon come and go in direct correlation with…. for decades! There is definitely something there!