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Reflections at Time of Passing

March 29, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Reflections at Time of Passing

My friend served as a licensed Family Counselor at a beautiful Memorial Park Cemetery.

One day, the Park Manager escorted the parents of a daughter, who died in a plane crash, 3 days before her Wedding, into my friend’s office. The mother was sobbing. The father could barely speak. With no time to prepare anything, my friend asked, “Are you Christians?”, the father nodded, yes. My friend began to recite Scriptural verses familiar to Christians. He added a poem that he just placed on his desk. He began to say the following:

“We are fearfully and wonderfully made in the Image and Likeness of God.”

“We don’t have a soul. We are a soul. We have a body.” – C. S. Lewis
The Christian soul experiences peace & joy that the secular mind can’t imagine. We are spiritual beings, expressed through humanity – a sort of temporal parentheses, midst eternity. Our humanity is a mere transport for our soul. That is the irrefutable, immutable, absolute Truth.

Truth that our spirit is like a ship, sailing from view over the horizon, only to see the welcoming embrace of the outstretched arms, of the Redemptive Cross, on the other shore, along with family and friends of previous passing, enjoying the companionship of God.

Shakespeare asks, “What dreams may come, when we shed this mortal coil?” The Incarnation answers,

“And God so loved the world, that He sent His only Son, so that all who believe in Him, Shall not perish, but have eternal life” – an eternity of Peace, Comfort, and Joy. For “God makes all things new. No more death, nor pain, nor tears.”

 There is no value to question why God takes anyone, at any time.
“How inscrutable His judgments. How unsearchable His ways.”
We can take great solace in Psalm 116: “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.”

 Believing the above truth allows comfort to replace grief, when it’s time to say, “Auf Wiedersehen” –
“Until we meet again”.

Combined, The Above YouTube Music Video & Lyrics, along with the Poem Below, Express the Essence of the Blog Post

In the quiet stillness of the night you may hear your daughter pray:

“When I come to the end of the day, and the sun has set for me, I want no rites in a gloom filled room, why cry for a soul set free? Miss me a little, but not too long, and not with your head bowed low, Remember the loved we once shared. Miss me, but let me go.

For this is a journey we all must take, and each must go alone. It’s all part of the Maker’s plan – a step on the road to home. When you are lonely and sick of heart, go to the friends we know. And bury your sorrows at doing good deeds. Miss me, but let me go.” –
Edgar Albert Guest

With compassion and sympathy, I pray,
“May God hold your daughter’s soul, and your hearts, in the Palm of His hand.” Amen.

The father asked if my friend would mail them a letter expressing what he had just said. My friend replied, “I’ll try.”, and then they selected an appropriate memorial. After the funeral, my friend received a phone call from the father. The father said, “Thank you for your letter: “Reflections at Time of Passing”. My wife keeps it on her nightstand, and I keep a copy taped to the dashboard of my car. It helps immensely.”

The Lyrics of this YouTube Music Video Expresses the Essence of this Blog Post

My friend sent this letter to his family & friends who suffered the loss of a loved one. He received heartfelt “Thanks” for each one sent.

If you share this blog post with someone who lost a spouse, the music video below is appropriate:

“The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men… “

March 29, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

“The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men…” (about my friend’s Bachelor Party)

My friend was reminiscing about his bachelor party. He reminded me about his friend’s drunken Bachelor Party the year before. His friend insisted that it be thrown the night before his Wedding Day and include drinking Ammergutes (a shot of Brandy with Peppermint Schnapps, floated on top). My friend wanted to avoid that calamity at all costs.

So, my friend selected the most conservative friend he knew as his “Best Man”. Alex was the valedictorian of their High School Class, and an Assistant District Attorney. My friend chose a staid German Restaurant with an “Oompa-pa Band”. He only invited the 5-male members of his Wedding Party. It would be a short night of dinner & drinks, and then go home. The plan was safe and sane. It was perfect.

My friend had reserved one of the restaurant’s “Private Rooms”. The “Rooms” had 7-foot high surrounding walls and an opening with no doors to the dining room. It would comfortably accommodate his party of 6, allowing for raucous laughter. My friend introduced his wife’s brother, a college student, to the other 4-groomsmen (his friends from High School & College) during drinks before dinner.

The waitress brought a bottle of Champagne when desert was served. The wife’s brother boasted that he wanted to “Toast” his future Brother-in-Law in proper style. The other groomsmen responded by each providing a bottle of champagne to “Toast” their longtime friend. In gratitude, my friend ordered a bottle, bringing the total champagne consumption to One Bottle Per Person.

N. B. It is important to note that each bottle of champagne was opened with theatrical fanfare, sending the corks flying over the divider between the “Private Rooms”. The dividers were 7-feet tall. The ceiling was 12 feet tall. No one was concerned about where the corks might land.

When the final bottle was emptied, a very distinguished, well-dressed man, with a stunning, attractive woman at his side, appeared at the opening of their booth, with 6 champagne bottle corks in his hand. He said, “I was told that these corks, which landed on our table during dinner, came from this room.”Simultaneously, all 6  bumbling bachelor-party drunks began profusely apologizing for ruining that couples’ evening.

In mid-apology, the distinguished man, with great flourish, placed a bottle of Champagne on the table and said, “Congratulations to the Groom. Our waitress told us what was happening. It reminded me of my bachelor party. Prosit.” With that “Toast”, the man popped the champagne cork over the divider, as he & his wife drank with the rest of the wedding party.

Then, the man said to my friend, “You should call your wife-to-be and tell her that you love her.” That seemed like a splendid idea. (Except, that it was midnight, and his fiancée was staying at her parent’s home.) Those facts were lost in the haze of champagne bubbles. Her father answered the phone.

The father tersely asked, “Who is this?” My friend replied, without a shred of sobriety, “This is Paul. I want to tell Jane that I love her.” My friend can’t recall the exact expletives muttered by the father, as he handed the phone to Jane. When my friend repeated his unconditional love to Jane, she simply said, “Oh, Paul”. My friend doesn’t recall anything else about that phone call.

Then, someone shouted that they should go to the bar of last year’s bachelor’s party, and drink some Ammergutes. Another splendid idea. Everyone piled into a few cars and off they went to drink “Gutes”.

The Above YouTube Music Video Captures the “Free Spirit” Essence of My Friend’s Bachelor Party

Kenny, the bartender & owner and friend of the groom, took my friend’s $100 (Back Then, Beer was 50 cents & “Gutes” – Brandy with Peppermint Schnapps floated on top – was $1) and began pouring “Gutes”. Somewhere between the 3rd & 4th ”Gute Shot”, someone asked, “Where’s Jim?” (the wife’s brother). When they looked around, Jim was gone. After a brief pause, the “Gute Shots” continued.

Jim, who instinctively knew that he wasn’t well and was getting worse, left. Outside, he began to walk toward his college dorm, miles away, across the river. He walked onto the railroad trestle, next to the pedestrian & car bridge, over the river 50 feet below.

Jim’s legs slid & straddled the railroad ties, painfully engaging his reproductive organs. (And destroying the new suit that his mother just bought to wear at Friday’s Rehearsal Dinner) But fashion was irrelevant to survival.

Jim’s journey led him into the stockyards, across the river. There, barbed wire and cow manure completed the destruction of his suit, and any remnant of his dignity. He emerged on a street several blocks away from his dorm. Somehow, he managed to call his dorm roommate. By the grace of God, the roommate found Jim wandering around on a sidewalk near the dorm.

Meanwhile, back at the bar, Kenny sagely said, “The Bar was Closed”, and wished everyone a safe trip home. The groomsmen managed to get over the correct bridge and back to the restaurant. They somehow found their cars and  zigzagged home.  Mercifully, Kenny drove the groom home, who mumbled, “Get me to the church on time”, all the way there.

A variety of versions about the bachelor party swirled around the Rehearsal Dinner. More bachelor party folklore was served at the Wedding Reception Dinner. Only one thing is for sure: “The best laid plans of mice & men…”

Ding. Dong. The bells chimed. And 47 years later, my friend told me about his bachelor part

My friend & his wife honeymooned on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. They sailed on the same boat, “The True Love”, where Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly sang their duet, “True Love” .

Life imitates Art. My friend & his wife are still experiencing “True Love”, 47 years later.

 

A Life of Participation with God’s Love –A summary of the “Letters of St. Paul”

March 29, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

A Life of Participation with God’s Love –A summary of the “Letters of St. Paul”, by Richard Rohr  

The power and value of St. Paul’s letters is that they are a transformational experience of his relationship with God – participation in the Mystical Body of Christ – participation in a corporate personality bigger & stronger than himself.

Paul was a devout Jew, who strictly obeyed “The Law”. On the road to Damascus to arrest more Christians, he was blinded by a bright light and heard a voice say, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” I am Jesus, the Nazorean.” 

N. B. The pronoun: “Me” was the life-changing distinction. Paul was persecuting people who believed in Christ. For Christ to make no distinction between Himself and those who believed in Christ, was transformational for Paul. Belief in Christ was the same as sharing the life of Christ – the same as Christ being in the life of the believer. It was the basis of Paul’s analogy of the Mystical Body of Christ.

We are acquitted of our sins by belief in Christ’s death. By belief in Christ’s resurrection, we are reconciled into the life of God. As worthless broken branches, we are re-grafted into the life-giving vine of God. As such, God’s love flows though us, to others. That is the wonderful dynamic of the Mystical Body of Christ. God’s unilateral gift of love to one part, is shared with each other part. There is a Corporate, Cosmic Unity to the Mystical Body of Christ.

More incredible, was Christ choosing Paul, a sinner (a hateful murderer), to be His “Apostle to the Gentiles”. Paul understood that he did nothing to deserve that selection, which led to his theme of “Grace”. (Grace is the Gyroscope for our soul.) Grace means free gift. We do nothing to earn it. Grace is not performance based. God loves us as we are – imperfect sinners. Paul states, “just as the first Adam separated us from God, so the second Adam redeemed us.” Our redemption was nothing that we earned by keeping Laws (Galatians). Keeping Laws and doing good deeds doesn’t make God love us. God already loves us, so He sent His Son, to reconcile us with Him.

Paul eschews the notion of meritorious “Ladder Theology” – that we climb to heaven by the performance of good deeds and adherence to Laws, to make us worthy of God’s acceptance. Our culture believes in Pavlov’s paradigm: Stimulus /Response /Reward: If we work hard, and produce good results, we get our reward. It’s a quid-pro-quo system based on performance & justice. Christ’s death & resurrection turned that paradigm upside-down. Christ knows we are guilty, and acquits us, anyway.

That universal forgiveness is counter intuitive to the performance principle. It is God’s unconditional love, not performance & justice, that hung on the Cross. Paul acknowledged the guilt and futility of “Ladder Theology” when he wrote, “When I what to do good, I don’t. And when I want to avoid evil, I do it anyway.” – (Romans). Paul’s transformation came from his experience of God’s love, not Paul’s worthiness.

Paul knew that the Old Testaments’ bi-lateral covenants were broken by humanity. Christ’s New Testament covenant is unilateral love. Paul wrote his letters without the benefit of reading the gospels, which were written later.

  • Paul never knew about the thief, crucified with Christ, who said, “I deserve my punishment, because I led an awful life. You don’t deserve to be crucified, because you are a good man.” To which Christ replied, “This day you will be with me in Paradise.”
  • Paul didn’t know that Christ prayed for His executioners, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”
  • Paul didn’t know that Christ told the synagogue official, whose child had died, “Be not afraid. Just have faith”, and the child lived.
  • Paul didn’t know Christ’s parable about the “Prodigal Son” is about mercy, or the parable about paying laborers the same for different performance.

That’s the Paschal Mystery.

The hardest thing to accept is that God accepts us, “As Is”. God knows we are guilty, then acquits us, by Christ’s death. We become a “new creation” – children of God – heirs to heaven by Christ’s resurrection. As such, we will love God, and others, as much as we allow God to love us. Or the reciprocal, we will love God as much as we love someone else the least.

The dynamic of the Mystical Body is to allow the “vertical” Grace of God to flow “horizontally” through broken vessels to each other, whose love, in turn, flows back to God, and so on and so on. We share God’s love because we want to, not because we have to. We love God out of gratitude, not out of the fear of punishment.

This transformational conversion experience of living “In Christo” results in “suffering and death”. Paul speaks of dying to the old-self. The old-self is selfish. It’s petty and needy of admiration and affirmation though praise of achievement – through the acquisition of things. The old-self is defined by persons and things outside of itself. It’s fragile, because its validity is determined by changing life situations.

Paul turns that cultural notion upside-down. Our value comes from the life of Christ within us. We are made by God, and for God. Until we understand that, life won’t make sense. By dying to selfishness, we experience the presence of God within us, and live “In Christo”. The “old-self” is powerless against “Powers and Principalities”. The “New Creation” in Christ, triumphs. When we suffer reversals by rebellion (sin – “kicking against the goads”), we will gain renewal through participation.

Participation in the Mystical Body of Christ shares in the Pascal Mystery of Death & Resurrection, and of Loss & Renewal. By Christ sharing in our humanity, our humanity shares in His Divinity. Not by doing what is right, nor by knowing (Augustine wrote that Satan knows the creeds of the Church), but by experiencing the presence of God within us. The Mystical Body of Christ is a bunch of broken branches re-grafted into the life-giving vine of God. It’s the progeny of Christ’s unilateral covenant of unconditional love through the Gift of Grace.

The Sanctuary of our Soul experiences Christ’s Love by being in Communion with God through Grace.

As a result, we will keep Commandments & do Good Deeds by participating in the Mystical Body of Christ.

Science Debunks Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

March 29, 2020 by admin 1 Comment

Science Debunks Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

My friend told me the following scientific refutation about “Darwin’s Theory of Evolution”:

Many people think that evolution simply means “Change”. We see change everywhere in nature.

But, Darwinian Evolution means Very Specific Change:

  • A pool of non-organic chemical ooze somehow produced life-sustaining amino acids.
  • All life (fish/birds/animals/man) are descendants from that pool of common ancestry.
  • That common ancestry morphed into different species “Through Many Mutations, by Random Chance Through Time, guided by the “Natural Selection”, of the “Survival of the Fittest”.
  • The Fossil Record would produce MILLIONS of “Transitional Fossils” as Proof of these many mutations through Time

THERE ARE ZERO TRANSITIONAL FOSSILS AS “PROOF” OF DARWIN’S EVOLUTION: There are many different Dogs and many different Cats. But there are NO Dog/Cats. There are many different Apes, and many different “Men”, but NO Ape/Man”.

A Step-by-Step Examination of Darwin’s Evolution Fraudulent “Proofs”:

Haeckel’s Embryos are considered the “Best Evidence” – that ALL living creatures are modified descendants of a common ancestor that lived millions and millions years ago.

Darwinism claims that EVERY NEW species can be explained by descent of modification from a “Common Ancestor”, resulting from the “Natural Selection”, by “Random Chance”, of genetic mutations.

Haeckel’s renowned sketches depict the embryos of a fish, salamander, tortoise, chicken, hog, calf, rabbit, and human side-by-side at three stages of development. However, when actual photographs were compared to Haeckel’s drawings, they didn’t fit. There were huge discrepancies between the Actual early stage embryos and Haeckel’s illustrations:

In some cases, he distorted his drawings to appear more similar than they are. In other cases, he used the SAME wood-cut to print embryos from different classes. Haeckel “cherry-picked” his examples, showing only a few of the 7 vertebrate classes, that happen to be more similar than the omitted classes – stacking the deck.

Darwin’s theory needs early embryo similarity to support the “Common Ancestry” required for decent, of modification, by mutation. Actual early stage embryos confirm the OPPOSITE REALITY – early stage dissimilarity.

Embryologists rebuked Haeckel’s Drawings as FRAUDULENT in the late 1860’s, but they remain in our text books today.

The Fossil Record & The Cambrian Explosion:

Darwin’s 1859 “Origin of the Species” postulated that there would be millions of “Transitional Fossils” of many mutations from one “Kind” to another, in the fossil record. The fossil record would be the ultimate irrefutable proof of Evolution. Without numerous transitional fossils, Darwin admitted that HIS THEORY would be FALSE

Paleontologists and anthropologists confirm that the dazzling display of thousands of fully formed fossils found in the “Cambrian Explosion” was created in a geological blink of an eye.

This stunning variety of complex creatures has NO Transitional fossils, as required by Darwin.

The Cambrian Explosion gave rise to the Sudden Appearance of most of the major animal Phyla that are still alive today. These findings are absolutely contrary to “Darwin’s Tree of Life”. These animals, which are fundamentally different in their body plans, appear fully developed, all of a sudden, in what paleontologists have called, “The single most spectacular phenomenon of the fossil record.” It turns “Darwin’s Tree” upside-down, because the major groups of animals come first, instead of last, on top of the tree.

Fraudulent “Ape-man” Fossils:

  • The “Nebraska Man”, used as irrefutable evidence for evolution in the famous “Scopes Monkey Trial”, was a Fraud. It was formed from a single tooth found in 1922, that later proved to come from a pig.
  • The “Piltdown Man” was shown to be a hoax in 1953, because its teeth were filed and stained to appear old.
  • The “Java Man” was the misrepresentation of an ape’s skullcap and a man’s leg-bone.
  • “Lucy” was promoted to be the first creature to walk on 2 feet. “Lucy’s” skeleton is that of an extinct chimp.
  • The “Peking Man” supposedly consisted of 5 skulls, about 150 jaw fragments & teeth, and 9 thigh bones, discovered in part by the man involved in the “Piltdown Man” hoax. ALL of the “Peking Man” bones were conveniently lost before they could be examined for authenticity.       Not a single bone remains for examination for authenticity.  

Atheist and Evolutionist, Richard Milton, sums up the fossil record of evolution: “In human anthropology, each new fragment of bone or tooth is enthusiastically greeted as further evidence of man’s decent by natural selection from an ancestral ape-like creature, when every single find of this sort has been definitively assigned to either Human or Apes, and Not to any intermediate category.”     

NO TRANSITIONAL forms are found in the fossil record.

The sequential pictures of bent over creatures gradually standing erect in our text books are merely cartoon drawings that exist only in the imagination of the artist. Those pictures are NOT Photographs of Actual “Transitional Ape-Men” fossil skeletons.

There Never Were Any Ape-Men.

The Above YouTube Music Video expresses an Alternative to the Lies & Fraud of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Exposed in this Blog Post

IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY:

“Darwin’s Black Box” by biologist, Michel Behe, refutes the evolutionary process of many small random steps by the irrefutable scientific confirmation of complex biological entities that can only function if ALL OF THEIR PARTS EXIST AT THE SAME TIME, i. e. the human eye, the human ear, a bird’s wing, etc.

Einstein said that you cannot look at the human eye and not believe in God. The eye requires an intricate combination of complex parts to perform its function. Furthermore, even a complete eye is useless unless it belongs to a creature with the mental and neural capacity to process the information provided. Evolution allows only for small mutations and not this complex capacity all at once.

The ear is capable of sensory response to sound whose pressure at the eardrum is no greater than two ten thousandths of a millionth of barometric pressure. This pressure moves the ear drum about one hundred millionth of an inch. That dimension is approximately one hundredth the width of a hydrogen molecule. Random chance cannot accommodate that precision.

The bird’s wing cannot function as an organ of flight until the hooks and barbules are co-adapted to fit together perfectly. These interlocking hooks and intricate features suitable for flight are quite distinct from other feathers that supply warmth. Darwin and his disciples have no credible answers for this irreducible complexity.

Gould, a defender of “Evolution”, admits that “irreducible complexity” exists and that it refutes the principle of “many mutations by chance though time”. Gould stated that these things just occur, without explanation. Gould calls it “Punctuated Equilibrium”. He might as well call it “Abracadabra” – Poof.  A complicated thing just appears.

The DNA molecule is an example irreducible complexity and design beyond mathematical possibility of “chance”: “Signature in the Cell” by biologist Stephen C. Meyer is a 600 page comprehensive review and rebuttal of the evolution of random chance though time by many mutations, with recent scientific discoveries of the profoundly complex digital codes of the DNA molecule. (Darwin thought that the cell was a simple round blob with a brown center that split itself.)

The actual machinations of the microscopic DNA molecule are some mathematical Power of Ten beyond “Random Chance”:

  • In the process known as Transcription, a molecular machine first unwinds a section of the DNA Helix, to expose the genetic instructions needed to assemble a specific protein molecule.
  • Another machine then copies those instructions to form a molecule known as messenger RNA. When that transcription is complete, the slender RNA strand carries that genetic information…out of the cell’s nucleus. The messenger RNA strand is directed to a 2-part molecular factory called a Ribosome.
  • Inside the Ribosome a molecular assembly line builds a specically sequenced chain of amino acids. These amino acids are transported from other parts of the cell, and then linked inyo chains often hundreds of units long. their sequential arrangement determines the type of protein manufactured. (Actually, what makes you, you.)
  • When the chain is finished, it is moved from the Ribosome to a barrel-shaped machine that helps fold it into the precise shape critical to its function.
  • After the chain is folded into a protein, it is then released and sheperded by another molecular machine to the exact location where it is needed.

That precise mind-boggling procedure caused atheist biology professor, Dean Kenyon, to repudiate the conclusions of his own book on the chemical Origin of Life.

The book, “Darwin on Trial” by attorney Philip E. Johnson:                                                

Reviewed the “evidence” of peer-reviewed scientific findings and concluded that Darwin’s theory of evolution was guilty of fraud and misrepresentation. Attorney Johnson has taught Law for over 20 years at the University of Berkeley – California, and found that:

“In fact, there is a great deal more to the creation/evolution controversy than meets the eye, or rather than meets the carefully cultivated media stereotype of “creationists” as Bible-quoting know-nothings who refuse to face up to the scientific evidence. The creationists have a very good point to argue:

What science educators propose to teach as “Evolution”, and label as Fact, is Not Based upon incontrovertible empirical scientific facts, but upon highly controversial philosophical presuppositions. The more people learn about the philosophical content of what scientists are calling” facts of evolution”, the less they are going to accept it.”                

There are many mutations WITHIN a species (but None BETWEEN species of a different kind). There are all sorts of cats, and all sorts of dogs, but NO DOG-CATS, NO APE-MEN. Darwinian disciples demonstrate many similarities AMONG species, but NO transitional fossils BETWEEN species of a different kind.

Instead, all the current empirical scientific evidence proves that the “Facts” supporting “The Theory of Evolution” are wrong or fraudulent.

People who believe that “We are created in the Image & Likeness of God, to be children of God and heirs to heaven”, are NOT Bible quoting Know-Nothings. Their belief is supported by rock-solid, irrefutable, empirical, Current Scientific Evidence in Biology, Geology, Paleontology, Anthropology, and the Statistical Mathematics of Probability & Impossibility.

To Believe Otherwise, is Foolish or Arrogant, or Both, as the above YouTube music video explains.

The result in believing in God is the Boundless Joy expressed in YouTube Music Video of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 conducted by Barenboim and played by the East West Divan Orchestra (A Combination of 100 Arab & Israeli musicians), along with the 200 Voice London Youth Choir, Below:

Please Start Watching the above music video at the 4 Minute Mark. The music & singing Ends 21 minutes later.

The above Symphony & Choral YouTube music video is an Example of the FUNCTIONAL DEFINITION of Divine Intervention in the Creation of All Things.

Everyone of Sound Mind & Body Must Conclude that:

  • The tens of thousands of notes,
  • Specifically chosen for the dozens of diverse musical instruments,
  • Producing myriad sounds,
  • Harmoniously blending into the most majestic melody,
  • Written by a DEAF Composer,
  • Was the Inspiration of the Divine Designer, for whom it was written.

Any Other Conclusion is Intellectually DISHONEST, belonging to the Obtuse & Arrogant.

 

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