Arrowlamp / Waysong

We wouldn't want to be in Heaven without you.

Introduction

Many people seriously believe we only know the sense of caring if we feel the pains of a situation. However, that is not true. There is a source of our living awareness that is not abstract, mechanical, or uncaring - there is a purpose in our existence beyond our ability to fully understand. The “Grand Mystery” of all things is based in with whom we are making our decisions.

God has a plan and He does not make mistakes. However, He is not the author or generator of the difficulties and hardships we and the world suffers. Changing day by day is unavoidable. We either are falling away from, or rising into, our created place of being. That is why the book of Job is not about coping, it is about deliverance.

We cannot separate ourselves from sin by separating from sinners. The Word of intercession carried in our heart is not subject to corruption by the sinful confusion carrying other’s ways without trust in Christ causes; because identifying with the sins of condemnation placed against people, ourselves' and others', denies the purposes our faith exists.

A crook is a trustworthy person who does not know where to keep focused his or her center of attention. The origin of the term 'plunder' comes from farming. It means to 'plow under'. Thieves twist the legitimate meaning to take what is not theirs. Fatalism is found in griping and complaining; using conversational intent as a lazy substitute for positive action.

Negativity in identifying error is a misdirected misapplication of the word-of–mouth unto others that properly belongs within God’s cares and concerns through combined committed faith active results-oriented sharing. Nothing is ever about what cannot be because of what could have been. Everything is always about what can be… right now.

Disrespect is the free-for-all disregard for esteem in who is dedicated to whom that gossip mongering takes hold. However, everybody’s wayward wrongdoing is always automatically placed entirely on Christ whether or not anyone asks Him for His mercy. At the Cross Christ accepts full penalty for our transgressions under His own Law through His own faith.

In His Resurrection He exonerates our unworthiness by providing full pardon, for the authority of our life in His Authority over wickedness, to living faithfully unto Him. Through our will in obedience to His will, actively faithing the moments in Him, our record is completely expunged.

Those who seek to shut out the testimony of God’s witness cannot regard it as constituting an expression of the church, “the pillar and ground of the truth.” Hence, they feel themselves justified in separating from their faith-active connections with those they love. (A direct note to officious socialites: You do not address a married woman by her first name combined with ‘Miss’, such as “Miss Jane”; no matter how or why you wish her to be estranged from her husband.)

Belligerent silence, displayed by a spitefully disappointed manipulator, is a false cover for hidden shame and echoes but does not represent enduring steadfast and longsuffering patience. Everyone matters... we get overwrought with people because of situations and circumstances and wrongly think we lose who they are to us and who we are to them.

As a result, “Proving one’s worth” masquerades for the ongoing guidance the Holy Spirit seeks to provide. The best thing to do with and for anyone we misleadingly believe we "push into the past", because of overloaded emotional regret over frustration, is to pray for them - for they have an eternal soul as we do.

There is a source of our living awareness that is not abstract, mechanical, or uncaring – there is a purpose in our existence beyond our ability to understand. “God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.” Judge not lest you be judged for there is never any past, nor is there ever a future in God’s eyes. He is that He is in the beginning, now, and in the end.

“Now is the time to come to the aid of your ____” means just that. Stalling someone against their will removes their daily living as sure as the sun and moon transverse the sky. Whereas, patiently waiting for another to respond exercises the respectfully faithful endurance of lovingkinkness Christ gives to us through His passion. As His door is open for whosoever will to accept His invitation it is His commission to give to us the courage to stay the steadfast course against worldly opposition.

God is the only presence of being that we need not, or rather should not; ask “Why?” in any matter. Not being inquisitive enough to ask any person, most especially those who are in our immediate personal concern, “Why?” and expect a reasonable clarification is to deify their persona in either their presumed goodness or evil.

Everything starts with prayer, and everything continues with prayer. We can ‘pray our way through’ any situation’s circumstantial difficulty by relying in God as the answer of answers. He gives to us our confidence to take action through the grace and mercy we share with whomever we may be ‘at odds’ against in our flesh-wise self interest.

All our efforts will seem utterly futile if we ignore the Holy Spirit’s leading by deciding one or another is beyond our attentions or concern – especially when it involves our heart in personal responsibilities to our commitments in marriage and family. What is thought to be idealistic impossibility in a dog-eat-dog immature world is matter-of-fact sensible reality to our Father in heaven.

Personal growth and success is a by-product of our response-able living in faith; it is not the goal. No matter who any of us is, despite personal pitfalls, each of us has what it takes through faith action in Him, to succeed. Success, in God’s eyes, is founded in honest loyalty ahead of what is generally thought to be moral decency. Judging success by seeming moral decency precludes the required honest loyalty needed to walk the walk of faith.

It is recommended no portion of this site be taken out of context. These pages are not intended for the purposes of satire, protest, or sarcasm. (If you do not like all or part of this shared witness, pray about it and give yourself a chance to understand.) We are not taking 'pot shots' at any person or group to 'knock them down' or 'punk them out'.

We are not offering a new, or old, religion, an off chute denomination, or any strange and different ‘out-there-in-space’ message of witness. We simply provide the basics of truth in Christ unto God, applied to everyday living in the now of family circumstances, which have been either mistakenly and/or intentionally ignored by denominational churches, ‘un-churched’ people, and governments throughout the centuries.

There is no negative intent implied toward anyone.

Life, Family, and Marriage

"We stepped out on a limb for you with everything we have. Then you sawed it off behind us."

Often we hear “Everything happens for a reason…” followed with underhanded allusions to tough-it-through acceptance of any and every adverse situation that may arise. However, there are godly (social) reasons and Godly reasons, humanistic reasons that include fleshly instinctual responses to natural interactions, and devilish reasons that infiltrate their influences into godly reasons and humanistic reasons. We are not given the gifts of the light of living to trade people for people and lives for lives. Those ideas, not ideals, are based in fatalistic economics.

Everything, of course, does happen for a reason but most things that happen are not actually supposed to happen. If they were then heaven would be on earth at all times and conflict and lack would be non-existent. Because of the paradox between living awareness recognition with unfulfilled needs in the face of individual wills as in flux with community securities and well being, each person is constantly at the edge of trust or suspicion with regard to their own and other’s purposes for doing what we do.

Absolute Reality, because The Creator creates our and the world’s existence thereby, is discovered in non-religious faith in God through Jesus Christ. Religions hide their reluctance toward honest redemption through security in numbers as opposed to security in the dynamic living reality of God. The central and core, number one, civil right of humankind, the basis for all other endeavors, is the union of a man and a woman by marriage.

Marriage in the United States of America is legally classified as "fundamental to our very existence and survival" because of its role in encouraging and protecting the only type of interpersonal association which results in the natural reproduction of the human race. God’s transforming power of mercy and grace in Christ does not recognize aristocratic superiority or inferior peasantry of classes regarding people and their perceived quality, or lack of quality, in existing social alignments and attitudes.

As protectors of the sensibilities of our children to include the general society as a witness of integrity and stability, the confusion displayed by blurred gender roles is something we should guard our children from having to process. The intense personal interaction of intimacy is meant to be the permanent bonding of strength of protection and security our children need, as examples from their father and mother, to grow into healthy and mature members of our world.

Our choice to protect their young impressionable hearts is thwarted by others who believe chasing personal whims, without regard and respect of responsibilities to us and our family’s right to not be witnesses of counterculture “modern” lifestyle variances, wrongly outdistances a common moderation of behavioral standards. Being alienated from life as God provides in Christ. Through ignorance (ignoring one’s humility - pride), the blind, unregenerate child of disobedience thinks lightly of sin. There is no respect and appreciation of God before his eyes.

Lust, pride, and selfishness are part of his everyday life – most often through the condemnation of others who do not fit his perverted will. His attitude is, “Nobody is perfect!” and he is right about that but in a wrong way. His dollars of self-righteousness appeases his accusing conscience. He misses pointing out evil works and attitudes for the building up of people in victory over demonic persuasions through prayer and dedication.

He uses his “wisdom”, turned over upside-down and backwards, to profit through treachery. Personally connected social desires prompt people into avoiding being involved in right responsibility because it gets in the way of "play attitude" - causing delay. They do not realize the only created purpose for play is gratitude and appreciation for honoring right responsibilities.

But, "play attitude" inverts everything to disadvantage when it is assumed tending to right responsibility is created for the purpose of playing. That is why people steal from others and try to hide the destructive messes they make - it is a game of "let's see who can get what from whom and laugh about it". People usually do not want to solve right responsibility issues... they do not want to talk about real things...

They only want to talk about play and playing because right responsibility seems less fun - except when it can be destroyed by delay as if the passing time makes it some sort of twisted false right responsibility. And then, "play attitude" takes on increased intensity in running from the guilt playing against right responsibility causes. “That’s how I am! - That’s how he is! - That’s how she is! - That’s how they are!” is the deceptive core persuasion people use to defend their fantasy perceptions.

Day by day tensions build through ignoring delays, play more deeply seats it's clever misuse of its reasons for being to compensate, and people who are in the player’s cast-off balance suffer without so the players can have their fun. Meanwhile, the downtrodden are in prayer; hopeful, waiting, and loving the deceived and confused for God's sake... because He wishes none should be lost to exploitation of right responsibility to profit for play - except life and living goes by...

…and will go by... because who as a human being should be "bigger than God" to give up what He has in His will? In that, people who are trying to fake others out of His ways of created responsive romance of living are most likely denying the only one(s) left honestly praying for them. Differences of approach in rating and judging others ways are based not in whether one is judging others with regard to the balance separating natural expectations vs. contrived exploitation.

The practice of misjudging by judging for the wrong reasons is formed from projecting with selfish intent one’s own sensibilities onto others he or she does not understand. Prejudice means to pre-judge. 'Everyone' automatically assumes that stereotyping is a bad thing; that prejudice has something to do with labeling stereotypes. But prejudice is founded in attempts to shield against unknown fears which draw from similar appearances with past tragedy and brings reminders of pain.

It is not the categorizing into stereotypes that causes the problems - just as individualism vs. socialism rests in a balance of moderation of the two with priority concerning personal choice. Prejudice is making malicious sport of others’ differences. As only Christ fully understands the glory and/or degradation of anybody’s purposes, His natural direction of focused leading is realigned toward trust in Him exactly where and with whom anybody spends the moments.

Personal choice means not folding into and under robotic general opinion that washes out any differences of thought and recognition. So, respecting stereotypes, appreciating the differences for what they are, and standing against unacceptable differences, is a better way to maturity than holding in ill regard anyone who intelligently (or seemingly ignorantly) chooses to live their social awareness by aligning stereotypes according to their own requirements.

Boys is boys and girls is girls. They grow up to be men and women. Concepts such as “lifestyle”, "sexual orientation", and “unconventional relationship” are bye-words - expressions of distorted understanding based in cognitive/emotional confusion - a subconscious self-willpower derived from an un-human spirit (rousing persuasion) of rebellion that masquerades itself using an indignant “right of free expression”.

But, true expressive freedom responsibly embraces standard and traditional rules of conduct and behavior with respect for one’s own authority in cohesion with respect to higher authorities. The seeming paradox between free will away from responsibility and free will through responsibility is most of why we have so many socially conflicting battles. In many ways there is confusion as to what is generally healthy for everyone the same, and what is appropriate for some and not others.

Therein is the internal source of a feuding attitude. When there is no distinction from basic applications of behavior for everyone (primary rules) and specific differences of behavior for each to choose (secondary rules) there will be nothing but increasing chaos unless and until the proper differences between the two are collectively realized.

The belief a person’s individual identity, as fixed to sexual orientation, is opinion stated as fact. It is part of the confusion creating our social upheaval. Even though unconventional sexual orientation may be emotionally binding and most likely a rigorous compulsion that increases with practice, the fact the conditions are less easily denied by will of choice does not mean alternative lifestyles are not a choice.

If intimate relationship outside marriage between a man and a woman were to be generally understood as illnesses, as in some societies, the assumptions that the conditions are not choices have more merit for argument, just as someone may contract the flu. However, even sensibly considered as illnesses, there still remains a choice to search for remedies.

The independent "me first" attitude that drives consumption of manufactured goods in order to increase the "thrill of experiences" is why we are abandoning our better senses of self preservation by and through the preservation and protection of others. When we care for our children, born and/or unborn, we are fulfilling our duty to ourselves and everyone else.

Of course, there are specific and rare times tough and heart wrenching medical decisions need to be made where someone loses - but, that is not the case in almost all of aborted children. It is a fact that most aborted children do not have genetic defects and/or health considerations to warrant their life be extinguished.

Emotional considerations when weighing the alternatives of the quagmire involved in conflicting responsibilities usually sway the mind to err toward “self-protective measures” over others. In cases involving involuntary pregnancies, whether because of inattention to consequences, rape, incest, or what have you; the circumstances of conception do not give anyone a right to remove the right of a child to live.

The reality of a 'viable life' is in whether an unborn child would be alive as a human being, in any capacity, if allowed to continue to birth unmolested. We take someone with guilt ridden ill-behavior; drag them down to the Gospel altar of salvation to rid them of aggravations in order to have a better example for ourselves to follow – all the while expecting God to make of them a good citizen.

When human quirks and errors of havoc crop up, we then reason salvation as not doing its job, and condemn our subject to an increasingly guilt ridden ill-behavior. “Outcome based Christianity” is a pick-and-choose-your-whim-of-Scripture reversion to the retributive Law of Moses as if the Old Testament message needs no New Testament direction of conscientious liberty.

While we are saved not by works, but by grace through faith, it reasonably follows we are not condemned by our works – our separation from life in Christ is by fear through doubt. Right is right, no matter how we feel about it - no matter the responsibilities a turn of events may bring. The purpose of the Church's preaching is to invite the non-caring into the practice of caring.

It is not to condemn the non-caring into never caring. Jesus Christ bought and paid for this entire planet and all who live thereupon. The church lovingly accepts people to share in growth out of the darkness of misdirected motivations into better ways of understanding - while the process of the church does not accept some behaviors of the people they accept.

A church cannot be a life and soul changing experience if there are no changes of heart and behavior. It wouldn't, then, be a church. It would be more like a social club where the Word of better living has no actual effect. Feeling sorry and in dismay for one’s self and others beings emotions that spin into thoughts about what cannot be done and leads to identifying people with the state of affairs.

However, faithful empathy and compassion give to us knowing recognition, an appreciation, for opportunities in what can be done by working to understand that people are not the situations that bind them. God does not provide verifiable profile applications for admittance into Life. He already provided the purity of righteousness in our stead via His Son Jesus Christ for “whosoever will”.

It is generally assumed that our goals of living are to get into heaven where earthly troubles do not exist. Though it is true earthly troubles are left behind upon one’s death, it is not widely understood that heaven is wherever God is. With His Word written in our hearts, in His promised life and living, there exists a ‘heaven on earth’ manifestation of God’s Truth of being by faith outward from within.

Believing on Him, as is so often recorded in Scripture, means to trust in or accept as true His Word. Clinging to awareness of trusting our faith in His providence is not a cowardly substitute or last resort way of dealing with inability and/or frustrated successes. It does not mean to believe on Him as an historical figure and it does not mean to trust Christ solely in the midst of sickness, financial, or relational needs.

Temporal faith, or fair weather righteousness, based in the sensational social experiences of religious fervor, is like mere intellectual or emotional assent to the world. It is insufficient to be the foundation of daily forthright and truly successful purposes; and is certainly insufficient to find the pathway to a heaven that may be the only place left for peace and deliverance from the suffering that running from respect for dignities of responsibility brings.

Matthew 7:7-8 says, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.

Living is not about what we have become. Living is about who we are becoming.

Scoffing at the Wise

Are you a “behind-the-scenes no boundaries know-it-all manipulator” who critically arranges controls for others you do not rely in yourself? Who is it, most important to you, are you fearing in your pride of self-preservation that needs your trust in faith for God’s sake? When we find ourselves tempted into scoffing over the fears, inadequacies, and shortcomings we believe are binding others against our view of reality, we are binding ourselves to the very ways we claim to oppose.

There is a cultural self-invigorating emotionally motivated belief in results through resentful anger that draws on rage to overcome obstacles and oppositions to self preservation, and thereby defense of others. The devil wants people to believe that nobody gets into heaven without a fight. So, he gives to us a fight to try to prove the deception. Any assumed strengths of character based in doing what is needed to do, because one or another gets mad enough to work a situation through, undermines the very joys of loving-kindness and respectful integrity in appreciating work for its positive attributes.

Community standards are many times established, and kept established, by individual intellectualism designed to promote shared sarcasm in a group. Self-elation by derisive reprimanding innuendoes cast toward those who are not playing the ‘good ‘ol boy’ game seems to give solidarity to standing for the emotional strengths of acceptance camaraderie instills. It is an old sand-box way of dealing with others whose ways and means are not readily understood. It also creates barriers between honest helpfulness with respect to who each of us is, and dishonest protectionism with regard to hidden fears.

This is exemplified by a clannish outlook. What people call “Tough Love” is the using of circumstantial controls placed upon others to bring desired results. Its torment is contrary to the Love from and of God in Christ and separates faith of the will of the heart from realizing harmony in Truth through responsible sacrificial intercession. Nobody needs to be tested. Life and living is enough of a test as it is. It is sadistic to test an individual or associated individuals with judgment, trials, temptations, and hardship conditioning, to determine and/or train into acceptance their viable accountability.

Forcing people under the law of works serves to ruin the inherent capacities each person has to respond to the witness of righteousness for faithful trust in who God creates everyone to be in Christ. Scoffing means we do not understand our own place in living God’s expectations for us unto others and, therefore, means we do not understand other’s rights in Christ to our and their dignity in improving all our lives. False justifying of one’s fears at another’s cost directly denies faith-action’s justification in grace through mercy.

Aside from demonic influences and pressures to drive people against living in God’s creative plans, the reason ignorance into pride reaches the self perpetuating levels of scoffing is our avoidance of trust in God where we are unable to figure out our own solutions. We play others over and through a fence between our own perceptions and the perceptions we force upon others to agree with our way.

Scoffing is one of the aspects of false pride that gives strength to mockery. Idolatry is taking a good thing in its proper place and orientation and making it an ultimate thing in its improper place and orientation. Scoffing is a ‘fear-based’ defense mechanism that reinforces itself by projecting and transferring fear’s emotional intensity onto and into anyone who piques our defenses in opposition to our own inadequacies.

Because we are unable to comprehend properly working through our own fears without a stable reliance in Christ and His life through us, we errantly try to overcome our misunderstanding by forcing those whom we hold accountable for life’s problems to capitulate to our will instead of respecting God’s will through their will. “The devil takes care of his own!” and “God takes care of His own!” are both condescending denials of one’s faithful responsibility in Christ with and for those with whom some surrender is wanted.

Consequently, scoffing is also a display of jealousy where we do not understand means and ways foreign to our own sense of security, protection, and will of choosing our purposes through our fascination with sensations. Self-righteous-indignation (as different from righteous indignation) is because we are deceived in believing the basic rules of living, which apply to everyone, are actively at our whim of choosing to change in the same way as the variances of personal choice within the rules of life we find in our particular and unique awareness.

But, when we confuse personal choices of fulfillment as the same as choosing to ignore general responsibility to common decency and respect for our reasons for being, we lose the very purpose God gave to us our ability to choose the values and joys of living. So, we unwittingly allow an alliance with the “master of scoffers” (the enemy of mankind and God – satan and his minions of following demonic hoards) by scoffing in others what we recognize is wrong in ourselves.

This reinforces our acceptance of the wrongs we wish to be rid of by validating the wrongs as wrongs that must be hindered in order to achieve the strength of ‘anti-fear’ in the power of pride and self-edification. Self-edification, based in compensating for the fears we adamantly rail against, is founded in those very fears and we reach out to religious avenues of expression for their own merits and deny the reason the reality in religion is calling us through the Gospel.

Then Jesus Christ becomes a false scapegoat for the building up of our egotistical self in the name of God in a way where “spiritual wickedness in high places” is not speaking about those who are making a mess of our world and our own ability to proceed in faith. Rather, it is actually speaking directly about ourselves and we deny the possibility because our pride “in Christ” keeps us bound through spiteful retaliation substituting for responsible thoughtfulness.

In our pride of false superiority we believe snooping into “inferior’s” interests and possessions will punish them for their lack of support for our own weaknesses. Manipulation of others through implied emotional persuasion is an attempt to eliminate the risks of being denied. Respecting another’s integrity to decide their will to be what God supplies, or chooses not to supply, in their responses to our wishes rests in directly and honestly asking our desires of them – especially to whom we are married.

This allows faith combined with genuine togetherness to oust out and overcome the “tricks-of-the-trade” of tactless using displayed in the “tactful urging” of other’s cares and concerns. Also, it releases the knotted pressures found in taking advantage of ourselves and others through the convoluted conflicts the valuing of people as identified with circumstantial situations bring through selfish and willful compensations for personal fears of insufficiency.

Simply, the accusations we are under and the accusations we hold against others, are not of us but of the adversary. It is true we and others are not living in perfection but we hold them bound to their imperfections by manipulating wrong against right in efforts to find peace and order. When we avoid others because of wrongs we have done, whether or not we label them 'uppity', we continue to increase their misery.

The chaos that results is through the same process where we deny people the privilege and dynamic of faith in the one and only true God through His Son to mend and uplift the errant through grace and mercy rather than the presumed intimidation, bondage, and separation thought to bring remorse unto a fear to disobey – oftentimes maliciously arranged to appear as happenstance of providence.

A common anti-Gospel complacency based in the worldly wisdom of rugged independence can be found in the phrase, “God helps those who help themselves.” A vengeful make-it-right-for-me-whatever-it-costs person is persistently looking for sources (and continually ongoing sources) to focus their pride based esteem in the false god of personal self-worth.

Rightful self defense against wrongs brought about by self and others connects, through temptation, with internally depraved opportunistic exploitation, as a backdrop for false faith securities, in taking pleasure in standing against people who are considered unworthy. These ‘others’ who are judged by humanly contrived right-over-wrong conditional requirements, through their paying to support revenge based ‘restitution’, become physically and spiritually bound to the holders of “civilized spite” called ‘just punishment’.

Whoever is working hidden greed to extract ‘due recompense’ from others whom they think have caused great or small harm must ask their selves: “Who is it I am making pay for evils I do not fully understand… and is that a greater evil?” We wouldn’t want to happen to ourselves what we see is happening to others and it is counterproductive to disenfranchise ones we deem inferior to what we believe is our way by forcing hardship with regard to circumstances and situations.

We cannot separate ourselves from sin by separating from sinners. We cannot proclaim our Gospel witness by separating sinners from us. The Word carried in our heart is not subject to the sinful confusion carrying other’s ways because the sins of condemnation placed against people denies the purposes our faith exists. The more angry we are with what others do, and the harm we see them doing to themselves and others, the more they need our prayers and assistance with respect to their own promises, desires, and will given to and by God.

As long as anyone is drawing the breath of mortal life, we must pray for, and help, him and/or her to honor their responsibilities unto whom they are committed according to our and their respective places in Christ. They were born into the world the same way we were and they must die away from the world the same way we will.

Matthew 18:18-22 says, Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus said unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

“The love of money is the root of all evil and gossip is the fruit of the tree.”

A tough pill to swallow

Thinking is responses to what we know. What we know is from our awareness of life, our will to choose, and our natural instinct. As we do the thinking for ourselves, thoughts necessarily compare with expressed thoughts of others because our thinking is mostly formed by our learning experience. So, in order to make sense of our thinking we must, in simple human terms, project our expectations of what others might expect of us to know that what we are thinking is sensible and functional. Imagination needs reality as a backdrop for a control of standard our creativity can deviate from to overcome the necessities of serviceable living.

While our need is to think our way to survive, we know everyone else is different from us as individuals, and the same as being people with common to all needs. Thus, as we must think because to stop thinking is to stop… being, the tendency is to do the thinking for others to have them think with us in order to better make do with the living of living. Conflicts ensue when each other person is doing as we are to cause us to think as they do. We and they lose who we are trying to be we think we need to be in establishing thinking that works for us and others, as well as our own thinking that must work for us individually as distinct and different from those others.

Pinch me I feel it. Pinch you, I do not feel it, so my pain is more real to me than it is to you – and, of course, the reverse. You may feel your pain differently than I do when pinched as your voice is different from mine and your calculations and processing of life’s information is from your own perspective. My viewpoint is not the same as anyone else’s and your viewpoint is not the same as anyone else’s. But, we must agree about the things that are beneficial and the things that are not. Agreement brings better chances that we will make it through a day better than if there were no cooperation.

All the above would be fine and well, if human life were simply the co-existent interaction of people helping people to live healthy and well lives. Without realizing the purpose for living itself, everyone who is unaware of why they are living is bound to this humanistic simplicity. The many people who believe that humankind would be fine and well to believe natural life is reality, and anything else is fantasy, are fooling themselves by the ever-present fact of evidence that nobody, no person, is purely matter-of-fact living in absolute reality as the plants and animals are.

Our awareness of our own existence gives to us the sense that there is purpose to our living. We do not know what the purposes are, so we naturally identify with other “life forms” to see ourselves as living to live. That means defending our self esteem to protect life in ways where opposition to our desires to achieve and experience as we wish must attempt to be eliminated. It also means defending other’s self esteem to protect life in ways that conform to our own perspectives is our ultimate imperative. It is miserably difficult for anybody to accept direct, open, and honest leading and guidance when the general belief is people create and own their thinking.

If a single person were thought of as an ant colony and another cooperative person to the first were also thought of as an ant colony, all would be well because ants do what ants do and have not the anti-societal self-destructive individual will to choose against their own well being. When there are type differences and territorial and resource supply conflicts between ant colonies, survival overtakes collaboration into battle and the fittest survives – but, continued survival cannot be as if there had been no dispute. Nobody will ever see an ant laying outside an anthill with sunglasses on slurping a drink while watching the other ants work.

Again, since people are not natural creatures as all other natural creatures are, our particularly distinct human thinking that makes us uniquely pleasure fascinated, mechanistically progressive, as well as self destructive through those same evilving propensities, is because we fear death (at least our own unless we are browbeaten by terrorists who wouldn’t do to themselves what they require their subjects to do) in ways where our thinking is able to consciously contemplate how we came to be and our purposes for being. The reason we are confused about this is “right in the looking glass”. It is because we are deceived into thinking our thinking is generated by our thinking.

To grasp our thinking that generates more and better thinking, we learn and input experiences by the truckload to find satisfactions which poorly substitutes for safety, security, and peace. Because we understand that the individual cannot collectively survive in the accumulation of knowledge and technological development, we assume the culture of humanity has importance over an individual. Thus, we again try to identify with natural creatures to rid ourselves of the unknown differences between ourselves and nature in how the functioning of nature works to maintain its ways much better than people.

Thinking… Where does a person’s thinking that responds to stimuli (whether internal or external) originate? A person’s unique and new thoughts did not originate before they lived, and personal perspective based in the accumulation of varied experiences does not account for the mind-boggling ideas and behaviors people devise. So, as people do possess awareness, will, and instinct, they possess the gift of the power to respond to thought… but, people do not have the ability or capacity to generate thought. Thought comes from trusting faith in God through Jesus Christ through interaction with those with whom we are involved, and/or thought comes from another source by trusting in the self and others without Godly consciousness.

Since God’s desired plan for all humanity is perfect, whole, and without all the hardships and troubles the world has been experiencing for ages, contrary thought to right living of and by human beings is not produced by human beings, but an enemy (or hoard of enemies) who are able to subvert our right knowing about who we are and why we have the lives to live we have. What we do have is the ability to pick and choose our decisions to respond to our Godly, or otherwise, prompted thinking, in any situation and circumstance, as we see fit – with the clear trust for God’s sake that anyone and everyone else is also cared for by Him to honor themselves by honoring Him and others in their place unto each of us. (MB – 1978)