May 2024

“Jesus stood in their midst and said to them, Peace be with you.   They were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost.  He said, why are you troubled? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself.  Touch Me, and see because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.  Have you anything here to eat?  They gave Him a piece of baked fish and He ate it in front of them.” 

(Luke 24:36-43)

Dear Friends -

At last! some warmth has exploded all over my mountain hideaway after a long cold and snowy winter.  Easter was celebrated with a three-foot snowfall setting nature’s growth back about a month.  Only the most tenacious of daffodils pushed their way through the snow to burst forth the first color of spring, Hallelujah!  The thickening buds on all the branches, reach for the sun with such an earnest desire to burst forth, I can’t help but duplicate their eagerness in my being … new life after dormancy… how delightful! Spring certainly is nature’s season of new life, and just so, Easter is the supernatural season of new life, Christ’s resurrection from death; how marvelous they occur simultaneously on our calendar in total compliment to each other.  Each natural or supernatural season has its own beauty and pitfalls, but the hope relayed in springtime and Eater is the soul’s most desired and needed commodity.  Without hope, life is drudgery when desires and goals are squelched.  The reason to continue is generated by new goals, but always, what is shattered drives the spirit onto unforeseen avenues, to pursue that which never would have been considered before the devastation.  In the garden, we hope the seeds and plants embedded will provide a harvest of produce and beauty each life needs. In the supernatural, the virtues cultivated and honed throughout our lives we trust will enable us to follow in Christ’s image all the way to heaven.  We are reminded by Christ’s example at Easter that there is an absolute certainty to a new life after death.

What will that new life be like?  We have all sorts of questions about what life in heaven will be like, and Jesus has given us a few clues.  Starting with Luke’s accounting above of the resurrected Christ appearing to the apostles, the emphasis is placed on Jesus having a physical body.  Jesus reassures them He is not a ghost, Touch Me, and see… I have flesh and bones… He ate [a piece of baked fish] in front of them displaying that a functioning human body existed.  Remember from Matthew 17:1-8, how the normal human body of Christ was transfigured when He took Peter, James, and John up on a high mountain by themselves?  “His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light.”  His dazzling divine image was being shared with His apostles to fortify them for the persecution He was soon to endure… Christ was proving His divinity!  He was also conversing with two other tenants of heaven, Moses and Elijah, which the apostles also saw, and then heard, “a voice out of the cloud said, This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased, listen to Him!”  Quite shocking for the apostles to say the least, but Jesus reassured them not to be afraid by the enormity of what they had just experienced… Christ had a Divine Image as will we when we make it to heaven. Yes, we all have natural parents from whom we inherited a genetic combination that gives us a material being.  However, we not only have a natural being, we have a supernatural being from our Heavenly Father… that’s what God meant when He said: “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him.”  (Genesis 1:27)   What we do in our supernatural image is what gets us to heaven or hell, therefore, for those who make it to heaven, their virtuous supernatural life will make them sparkle over any physical being.  Children of God may not radiate their divine image on earth as vividly as Christ did with His apostles, but they certainly will dazzle in a new body free of all the negative effects of time, illness, and strife… a new life after death!

The foolish unbelievers that exist in our world, those you know who have deliberately closed their minds to God, need a tongue-lashing all about the magnificent truths on the reality of Almighty God.  Brow-beat those closed minds until crack by crack you let seep in the irrefutable evidence of His Supremacy.  The whiplashing you inflict can save their souls from hell, and regardless of its needed brutal intensity, it is nothing compared to the brutality of the hellish existence you are trying to help them avoid. Nice speech or kind manner will get you nowhere with stupid, religiously ignorant, devilish minds.  Prove the existence of hell by Christ’s words; delineate the apparition of its existence shown to the children of Fatima by the Blessed Lady, and relay from the documented lives of the Saints those marvelous visions and miraculous experiences of theirs that cannot be refuted.  Make them give an explanation for those holy people who have received the stigmata… if it’s not a duplication and proof of Christ’s crucifixion wounds, then what is it? How could that occur over and over again, for centuries, if not by Almighty God?  Inflict their feeble minds with so many disturbing accusations of their inadequacies, that they will never be able to clear their minds ever again, and on their own, they will be forced to face the Truth.  Be relentless!  Put the fear of God in them!  Scare the hell out of them!

SHAME ON YOU EVILDOERS

JOE BIDEN

When Biden took office, the first thing he did naturally was to undo whatever Trump had done that he could, particularly with the illegal immigration border crossings.  Joe let millions of foreign nationals enter unlawfully, bringing with them drugs, diseases, and criminal histories they continued here with detrimental mayhem.  Cities across the U.S. were disrupted by this influx, taxing their revenue, policing, and legal capabilities to the point that Joe’s generosity in providing housing and food to these illegals, was often at the expense of our own; children were required to go back to online schooling so the illegals could have their school buildings for housing.  Police stations were used as motels and our own poor homeless were ignored while illegals got room and board, even debit cards for expenses!  Crime exploded everywhere from smash-and-grab to rape and murder.  Progressive Democratic D.A.s didn’t prosecute to the letter of the law leaving the police impotent, and many businesses went bankrupt leaving cities without the necessities and certainly with unsafe streets. If the businesses didn’t close because of crime, Joe’s economic policy did them in with a lack of customers who couldn’t buy anything but essentials because of the skyrocketing inflation making life difficult for most.

On the world stage, Joe’s political prowess suffered greatly as in his bungling of the Afghanistan pull-out where 13 American soldiers were killed.  His diplomatic acuities are as faltering as his footsteps, and his posture next to world leaders is feeble and fragile… disrespect for the U.S. became apparent as he is made the butt of cartoons and jokes abroad.  America lost her leadership standing through his continued fumbles, political, physical, and verbal.  His cognitive abilities are noticeably deteriorating when his handlers aren’t around or in control furnishing him note cards to stay on message; on his own, he lies, (probably some from dementia) forgetting the simplest of facts and history, be they personal or political… and that will only get worse as the senility increases with age.

Joe considers himself a devout Catholic when in reality he is not; priests and bishops have called for his ex-communication in receiving holy communion at mass when he is in an obvious state of sin. He is a sinful hypocrite for his pro-abortion stance and wanting to reinstate Roe v Wade, and he has weaponized the FBI and IRS to go after religious institutions and criminalized Americans with religious viewpoints.  His worst assault on Christianity occurred when Joe declared Easter Sunday as “Transgender Day of Visibility.”  The holiest of days on any Christian calendar is Joe’s choice to celebrate transgenderism, what a slap in the face to Jesus Christ!  At the same time, the White House banned any religious symbolism on decorated Easter eggs submitted for their art contest… what is their definition of Easter?  Joe Biden is an evil spawn of the devil and continually falls disgraced before Almighty God.  IF Joe were a cherished child of God’s, he would be upheld by his heavenly Father, but no, he is not, and therefore, the shame and disgrace Joe is receiving can only be seen as the punishment earned for his dishonoring and contradicting God and His creeds.  God will not be insulted, and I pray, as should all Christians, that He keeps Biden from winning another term. The man is to be pitied and his soul prayed for; any family member who loved him would influence him to the ridicule he is subjecting himself to, and advise him to leave with a shred of dignity before it's too late.