Have you read "The Secret"? "The Law of Attraction"? If that's not magic, what is? Even Jesus said, "All that I do, and more, you shall do."
So, who told us there was no magic? Who persecuted & prosecuted the witches, warlocks & sorcerers? Ummmm.... The Church. Why? Maybe, they wanted to keep The Secret for themselves. Perhaps they thought the great masses of people were too stupid to be entrusted with exactly what Jesus came to tell us we were inheritors of.
In fact -- He told us exactly how to work "magic." "Seek first the Kingdom of God, and all else shall be added unto you." "If you have faith the size of this mustard seed, you could ..." lift the mountain right into the sea. We could heal the blind, the lame, the heartsick. "Ask, and you shall receive. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened unto you."
I'll bet, if we worked on it, we could teleport -- just 'step' from one location to another. That'd sure solve the transportation & energy problems.
I totally believe this. Yet, I'm afraid. What if it really IS true? What if I'm as great as I think I could be? I'm afraid of becoming arrogant, thinking I'm superior. These words -- this knowledge was given to ALL of us. We all can be great. Why am I afraid to be first? Why am I afraid to be all I can be?
Am I afraid to find out it's NOT true?
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Thursday, July 3, 2008
What's gonna happen next? We have early, extensive wildfires in California; a devastating earthquake in China -- the area still is quivering, check the usgs.gov earthquake site; thousands dead in Myanmar from Cyclone Nargis; Typhoon Fengshen in the Philippines; the drought continues in Southeast US; the Mississippi River Valley floods like it did in the early 90s -- thousands homeless, farmlands devastated.
That's just the natural disasters so far this year.
Oil, this world's main energy source (currently), is up to $145USD a barrel -- putting the cost of transportation up. Food being one of the most necessary items being shipped, food prices are up (and what effect will the flooding in the corn/wheat basket do to prices?). People here in America are curtailing their driving, airlines are raising prices, this affects a LOT of industries. This summer -- the travel, tourism & recreation industries are suffering -- people are just not traveling as much. It's too expensive! This is an industry which provides a LOT of summer/seasonal jobs -- not necessarily well-paid, but jobs none-the-less. The Iraq War is taking wa-a-a-y too many resources -- $162 BILLION USD for a useless war.
This morning, the radio said we'd lost 62,000 jobs this year; due to the recession we're skirting the edges of? And temp jobs are not picking up the slack -- they're down too.
So, higher food prices, higher energy costs, fewer jobs.
Y'know, even a country which has husbanded it's resources well would be hard-pressed to deal with several disasters at once. Look what happened when we had the Stock Market Crash in '29 and the Dust Bowl in the 30s. Too much at one time will take us under.
What's next? Where will it take us? Will we collapse, tighten our belts yet another notch & huddle by the fire -- or rise to the occasion?
Personally, I don't think we have the resources to throw behind another major blow -- or two. I'm afraid for the future.
That's just the natural disasters so far this year.
Oil, this world's main energy source (currently), is up to $145USD a barrel -- putting the cost of transportation up. Food being one of the most necessary items being shipped, food prices are up (and what effect will the flooding in the corn/wheat basket do to prices?). People here in America are curtailing their driving, airlines are raising prices, this affects a LOT of industries. This summer -- the travel, tourism & recreation industries are suffering -- people are just not traveling as much. It's too expensive! This is an industry which provides a LOT of summer/seasonal jobs -- not necessarily well-paid, but jobs none-the-less. The Iraq War is taking wa-a-a-y too many resources -- $162 BILLION USD for a useless war.
This morning, the radio said we'd lost 62,000 jobs this year; due to the recession we're skirting the edges of? And temp jobs are not picking up the slack -- they're down too.
So, higher food prices, higher energy costs, fewer jobs.
Y'know, even a country which has husbanded it's resources well would be hard-pressed to deal with several disasters at once. Look what happened when we had the Stock Market Crash in '29 and the Dust Bowl in the 30s. Too much at one time will take us under.
What's next? Where will it take us? Will we collapse, tighten our belts yet another notch & huddle by the fire -- or rise to the occasion?
Personally, I don't think we have the resources to throw behind another major blow -- or two. I'm afraid for the future.
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