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		<title>By: poohpity</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/10/17/peace-of-mind/#comment-11056</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you Dale-Brandon&#039;s Mom. Even though I hated to hear it a friend uttered the words of Job who said shall I only take the good from God and not the bad. I came into to the world with nothing and I will leave with nothing. Bless the name of the Lord. Although the feelings of loss surround us we can hold tight to the fact that one day we will be together before the Lord in His kingdom where there is no more sorrow, pain or suffering. 

The Lord will make a way for the truth to come out when we trust in His provision. Good night and I pray that you will sleep knowing that the Lord will provide for all your needs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you Dale-Brandon&#8217;s Mom. Even though I hated to hear it a friend uttered the words of Job who said shall I only take the good from God and not the bad. I came into to the world with nothing and I will leave with nothing. Bless the name of the Lord. Although the feelings of loss surround us we can hold tight to the fact that one day we will be together before the Lord in His kingdom where there is no more sorrow, pain or suffering. </p>
<p>The Lord will make a way for the truth to come out when we trust in His provision. Good night and I pray that you will sleep knowing that the Lord will provide for all your needs.</p>
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		<title>By: kingsdaughter</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/10/17/peace-of-mind/#comment-11055</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am encouraged by the love here...I believe God has been hearing my cries...I have not left the bed today..it is dreary here and is the backdrop for my mood..my pain. I found this site quite by &quot;accident&quot; last night as I looked for something to console me...I am here because God knows the genuine concern you all have for me and don&#039;t even know me..but I am your sister in Christ. I thank you so very much for responding to my desperation. I have cried happy tears while reading these posts. 

I belong to another site for Moms who have lost their children. It is a sad place to be but we are empathetic to each other. Many have different beliefs and it is hard to comfort or be comforted by those whose beliefs are more new age and mystical than my Christian faith. Thank you for being my shoulder...my rock...my sisters and brothers. Thank you for giving me &quot;peace of mind&quot;.....

Dale</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am encouraged by the love here&#8230;I believe God has been hearing my cries&#8230;I have not left the bed today..it is dreary here and is the backdrop for my mood..my pain. I found this site quite by &#8220;accident&#8221; last night as I looked for something to console me&#8230;I am here because God knows the genuine concern you all have for me and don&#8217;t even know me..but I am your sister in Christ. I thank you so very much for responding to my desperation. I have cried happy tears while reading these posts. </p>
<p>I belong to another site for Moms who have lost their children. It is a sad place to be but we are empathetic to each other. Many have different beliefs and it is hard to comfort or be comforted by those whose beliefs are more new age and mystical than my Christian faith. Thank you for being my shoulder&#8230;my rock&#8230;my sisters and brothers. Thank you for giving me &#8220;peace of mind&#8221;&#8230;..</p>
<p>Dale</p>
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		<title>By: jjhis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dale,
I just prayed for you.
May our Lord Jesus Christ give you His peace and grace. May the Holy Spirit shed abroad the love of Christ in your heart, and may you hear Jesus whisper how He loves you and your son and you both will be together again with Him.

Jim</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dale,<br />
I just prayed for you.<br />
May our Lord Jesus Christ give you His peace and grace. May the Holy Spirit shed abroad the love of Christ in your heart, and may you hear Jesus whisper how He loves you and your son and you both will be together again with Him.</p>
<p>Jim</p>
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		<title>By: foreverblessed</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/10/17/peace-of-mind/#comment-11038</link>
		<dc:creator>foreverblessed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kingsdaughter, what a beautifull name! 
You posted this just a moment ago, what a terrible time you are going through, it is so hard for any parent.
So good that you do write about it! 
Like Pooh said, that you can cry out your heart, God knows!

I pray for you that God will comfort you, because this is the hard part of life. I heard someone write (Corrie ten Boom), who had been in a nazi concentration camp who said: There is not a place so deep, Jesus can go deeper still. I wish you to experience that!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kingsdaughter, what a beautifull name!<br />
You posted this just a moment ago, what a terrible time you are going through, it is so hard for any parent.<br />
So good that you do write about it!<br />
Like Pooh said, that you can cry out your heart, God knows!</p>
<p>I pray for you that God will comfort you, because this is the hard part of life. I heard someone write (Corrie ten Boom), who had been in a nazi concentration camp who said: There is not a place so deep, Jesus can go deeper still. I wish you to experience that!</p>
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		<title>By: kingsdaughter</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/10/17/peace-of-mind/#comment-11035</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>thank you Deborah...for your kind words. It is an especially hard time with the holidays coming up. I cannot express this agony in words....it is a groaning..a terrible utterance. I know God will comfort me one day but I am struggling with to many questions surrounding my son&#039;s death..and still there are the &quot;whys&quot; of why God allows some people to live to be very old...as if giving them chance after chance to get it right and then there is the young...my son was 29...he knew some things but hardly had enough time to become wiser...to know and experience the things that make us wiser in the Lord. I know there are no answers to this...I guess I will not really understand until I am with Jesus.

I am sorry for the loss of your mom. My heart goes out to anyone who suffers from grief made worse by the holidays when tradition makes us all too aware of our loved ones&#039; absence. I hope you will be at peace during this time. Love, Dale.....Brandon&#039;s Mom</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>thank you Deborah&#8230;for your kind words. It is an especially hard time with the holidays coming up. I cannot express this agony in words&#8230;.it is a groaning..a terrible utterance. I know God will comfort me one day but I am struggling with to many questions surrounding my son&#8217;s death..and still there are the &#8220;whys&#8221; of why God allows some people to live to be very old&#8230;as if giving them chance after chance to get it right and then there is the young&#8230;my son was 29&#8230;he knew some things but hardly had enough time to become wiser&#8230;to know and experience the things that make us wiser in the Lord. I know there are no answers to this&#8230;I guess I will not really understand until I am with Jesus.</p>
<p>I am sorry for the loss of your mom. My heart goes out to anyone who suffers from grief made worse by the holidays when tradition makes us all too aware of our loved ones&#8217; absence. I hope you will be at peace during this time. Love, Dale&#8230;..Brandon&#8217;s Mom</p>
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		<title>By: poohpity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>kingsdaughter,

I wish I had the words to bring you comfort but I do not. I lost my mom the first of July this year. I have heard from people who have lost a child that say it is very difficult. Losing anyone we love is devastating. I understand your pain and sorrow. Please allow yourself time to grieve and the times when you feel like your heart is about to burst, cry as loud and hard as you can. I weep with you and I know with out a doubt that God will comfort you with His peace but He does want you not hold back your feelings of sorrow and anger. God is so big He can listen to anything we are willing to tell Him. So get out all you are feeling inside and God will listen. The holidays are a hard time but your son is still very much alive in your heart, cling to your memories and take heart that your are not alone in your pain. Love Deborah</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>kingsdaughter,</p>
<p>I wish I had the words to bring you comfort but I do not. I lost my mom the first of July this year. I have heard from people who have lost a child that say it is very difficult. Losing anyone we love is devastating. I understand your pain and sorrow. Please allow yourself time to grieve and the times when you feel like your heart is about to burst, cry as loud and hard as you can. I weep with you and I know with out a doubt that God will comfort you with His peace but He does want you not hold back your feelings of sorrow and anger. God is so big He can listen to anything we are willing to tell Him. So get out all you are feeling inside and God will listen. The holidays are a hard time but your son is still very much alive in your heart, cling to your memories and take heart that your are not alone in your pain. Love Deborah</p>
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		<title>By: kingsdaughter</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/10/17/peace-of-mind/#comment-11004</link>
		<dc:creator>kingsdaughter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The topic of this board is what has drawn me to participate in this discourse. My peace, my world, my beliefs, my faith, were all shattered on March 6, 2009 when my husband and I received the worst news that can ever be delivered to parents. Our wonderful, Christian, respectful son died by his own hand...or so it seems...and we will never be &quot;peaceful&quot; as known to this world..again. I have prayed for each of my children while they were fearfully and wonderfully made, knitted inside my womb...gifts from our Lord. I prayed for their salvation as young children and for their safety and well-being and all the other problems that were present as they aged. Imagine my dismay...my pain, my anguish, the feeling of betrayal...the peace that has been destroyed in one dark impulse. 

I could justify my son&#039;s actions if only I knew how. I love him more than life itself and would have gladly taken the bullet that ended his precious life that night. I yelled at God...I have been more than angry at a God I trusted to answer my prayers about the lives he entrusted to me, a Christian mother, albeit imperfect and sinful at times. I know my Redeemer. My son accepted Christ as a very young fellow and attended church throughout his life although he fell away for awhile when he moved away and married. It was then his life seemingly drifted. He married a young woman who had a drinking problem...a problem our son thought he could fix with love and attention...but it was not to be. It was the catalyst for all things bad and &quot;unpeaceful&quot; in his life. He brought his wife to me so I could witness to her how to overcome her alcoholism through Christ...a life in the church...His teachings....but she would not have it. Their lives unraveled. During this time he earned his degree in nursing and it had only been a year since then before he died. To tell you about his life would take volumes and I don&#039;t even know if I should be posting this here...but as I said....PEACE...I would like to know about it again...I have had to discover the grace I thought I knew through this great loss. It has been hard...and continues to be difficult each day. 

I rarely leave the house anymore. I can&#039;t read God&#039;s word that it doesn&#039;t smack of punishment and condemnation. I am stunned each morning that my son is gone in the most horrific manner. One that offers no answers only questions. There is very little peace unless I search and pray for it. And it has come a little at a time. God has not left me...nor do I believe He left my son that night. My son who was not himself..who had taken unprescribed amounts of Zoloft to deal with the depression and mood swings that had overtaken his life. But then there is more....the second scenario...the one where his &quot;grieving wife&quot; and &quot;best&quot; friend moved in together the week after the memorial. There is too much to tell. I know I have probably told too much already but &quot;peace&quot; ...&quot;peace of mind&quot; is the draw for me here..although it has been elusive on many days and nights since this tragedy. I must regain the trust I did have and the hope that I will see my son, no matter what he may have done here, in Heaven...That is true PEACE...that is the only true peace a Christian mother can ever have is that she will see her children in Heaven.

I always thought it would be me that greets my children in Heaven along with Jesus and the saints but now it will be my son who greets me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The topic of this board is what has drawn me to participate in this discourse. My peace, my world, my beliefs, my faith, were all shattered on March 6, 2009 when my husband and I received the worst news that can ever be delivered to parents. Our wonderful, Christian, respectful son died by his own hand&#8230;or so it seems&#8230;and we will never be &#8220;peaceful&#8221; as known to this world..again. I have prayed for each of my children while they were fearfully and wonderfully made, knitted inside my womb&#8230;gifts from our Lord. I prayed for their salvation as young children and for their safety and well-being and all the other problems that were present as they aged. Imagine my dismay&#8230;my pain, my anguish, the feeling of betrayal&#8230;the peace that has been destroyed in one dark impulse. </p>
<p>I could justify my son&#8217;s actions if only I knew how. I love him more than life itself and would have gladly taken the bullet that ended his precious life that night. I yelled at God&#8230;I have been more than angry at a God I trusted to answer my prayers about the lives he entrusted to me, a Christian mother, albeit imperfect and sinful at times. I know my Redeemer. My son accepted Christ as a very young fellow and attended church throughout his life although he fell away for awhile when he moved away and married. It was then his life seemingly drifted. He married a young woman who had a drinking problem&#8230;a problem our son thought he could fix with love and attention&#8230;but it was not to be. It was the catalyst for all things bad and &#8220;unpeaceful&#8221; in his life. He brought his wife to me so I could witness to her how to overcome her alcoholism through Christ&#8230;a life in the church&#8230;His teachings&#8230;.but she would not have it. Their lives unraveled. During this time he earned his degree in nursing and it had only been a year since then before he died. To tell you about his life would take volumes and I don&#8217;t even know if I should be posting this here&#8230;but as I said&#8230;.PEACE&#8230;I would like to know about it again&#8230;I have had to discover the grace I thought I knew through this great loss. It has been hard&#8230;and continues to be difficult each day. </p>
<p>I rarely leave the house anymore. I can&#8217;t read God&#8217;s word that it doesn&#8217;t smack of punishment and condemnation. I am stunned each morning that my son is gone in the most horrific manner. One that offers no answers only questions. There is very little peace unless I search and pray for it. And it has come a little at a time. God has not left me&#8230;nor do I believe He left my son that night. My son who was not himself..who had taken unprescribed amounts of Zoloft to deal with the depression and mood swings that had overtaken his life. But then there is more&#8230;.the second scenario&#8230;the one where his &#8220;grieving wife&#8221; and &#8220;best&#8221; friend moved in together the week after the memorial. There is too much to tell. I know I have probably told too much already but &#8220;peace&#8221; &#8230;&#8221;peace of mind&#8221; is the draw for me here..although it has been elusive on many days and nights since this tragedy. I must regain the trust I did have and the hope that I will see my son, no matter what he may have done here, in Heaven&#8230;That is true PEACE&#8230;that is the only true peace a Christian mother can ever have is that she will see her children in Heaven.</p>
<p>I always thought it would be me that greets my children in Heaven along with Jesus and the saints but now it will be my son who greets me.</p>
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		<title>By: elderchild</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Peace? 

&quot;In the world you will have tribulation&quot; even as you engage in &quot;Spiritual warfare&quot; for it is the forces of evil that rule over this wicked world.......

And as those forces of evil &quot;hated The Messiah&quot; so it is as The Messiah testified, &quot;those who followed Him would also be hated&quot;.......

Sadly, the multitudes have taken the bait! And The LIES have been swallowed, hook, line and sinker ;-(
 
Someone had written: &quot;When I talk about people buying or being sold &#039;absolute junk&#039; I&#039;m not only talking about the material but also about the ideological. We are &#039;sold&#039; on consumerism, the wars (Iraq), elections (the presidency), all manner of things. Unfortunately, so few people see that just because these ideas are on sale, that they don&#039;t actually have to buy them!&quot;
 
Sadly, the multitudes have bought The LIES ;-(
 
The multitudes have taken the bait which is &quot;ease of life&quot;, so-called, and The LIES were swallowed(believed),
 
hook(money),
line(education/religion),
and sinker(technology/&quot;progress&quot;) ;-(
 
This place they call the u.s. of a. is the &quot;bait&quot;master and they catch their &quot;fish&quot; in every nation of this world ;-( Yet in england, france, germany, japan, etc, in all nations of this wicked world there are those who have become disciples of the &quot;bait&quot;master and they also have found other &quot;waters&quot; in which to catch their &quot;fish&quot; ;-(
 
And so it is that today there are multitudes in every nation under the sun that have taken the bait(ease of life), and swallowed(believed) the hook(money), the line(education/religion) and the sinker(technology/&quot;progress&quot;) ;-(
 
Tempted, hooked, reeled in, and held captive as they but serve &quot;time&quot; in the prison that is this wicked world ;-(
 
Simply, they could not withstand the media blitz(krieg), or their own desires, and their &quot;imag&quot;ination got the best of them ;-(
 
Some two thousand years past The Truth bore witness to the fact that, &quot;the WHOLE(not just a portion) world is under the control of the evil one&quot;! (1John5:19) Yet, the &quot;fish&quot; continue to seek out that &quot;good&quot; place in the world, when in Truth the world today is but the product of mankind&#039;s &quot;imag&quot;ination, a dry and thirsty land of mirages, nothing but shadows, vapors and smoke ;-(
 
And in this wicked world, &quot;image&quot;s abound and are worshipped ;-(
 
So why receive that which is of mankind&#039;s &quot;imag&quot;ination?
 
Even when such is supposedly &quot;free&quot; there will always be a price to pay, for mankind&#039;s &quot;imag&quot;ination is destroying the earth(land, air, water, vegetation, creatures) and perverting that which is Spirit(Light, Life, Truth, Love, Peace, Hope, Grace, Faith, etc.);-(
 
Consider the time when there were no radio&#039;s, no tv&#039;s, no movies, no newspapers, a time when there was no way yet &quot;imag&quot;ined and then manufactured, that would allow someone to publish or display the vain &quot;imag&quot;inations of mankind to the &quot;masses&quot;. Sadly those who rule in this wicked world, and who control the &quot;media&quot;, consider the &quot;masses&quot; to be but the M in E=MC(squared);-(
 
And yet today, here i am publishing(sharing) that which i believe to be from the heart, The Spirit within, not the vain &quot;imag&quot;inations of my fleshly mind, for i  believe that which i share is of The ONE whose Voice i have heard and whose Power i have experienced in The Miracle that is receiving &quot;the love of The Truth&quot;, and The Miracle that is New Life, Real Life, and The Miracle of healing more than once, and The Miracle of deliverance that sets me free, free from the &quot;I&quot; in me!
 
i believe that which i share is of The ONE who revealed the lies that are of this world, it&#039;s &#039;god&#039;, and it&#039;s systems of religion, as i received evermore &quot;a love of The Truth&quot;. HE is The ONE WHOM i know and believe is the Giver of Life, The ONE and Only True Living G-D and Father(Creator) of ALL!
 
Father Help! and HE does.......
 
In times past, when i would wonder why things were as they were, i questioned?
 
Do you feel as i feel?
Do you wonder just what&#039;s real?
 
D you see the little child?
Do you see them running wild?
 
i see their doubts and i see their fears,
i see their hurts and i see their tears.
 
Now could be that&#039;s what i look to see,
Yet what i see is real to me.
 
Now am i alone to care and cry?
Or must i close these eyes and surely die?
 
Sadly, the children, or those who once were called children, today are referred to as &quot;kids&quot; ;-(
 
Sadder yet, the reference is true ;-(
 
Baby goats abound because their &#039;parents&#039; feed them all sorts of &quot;trash&quot;, and so it is that as they grow, they &quot;eat&quot; any and all things, no matter the dis-eases(no-peace) that causes them to be pill pushers, peer pleasers, or worse yet enslaved by the media ;-(
 
&quot;Where have all the children gone? long time pa-as-sing&quot; ;-(
 
Progress? As promised things are getting progressively worse and worse! 
 
For &quot;evil men and seducers are waxing worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived&quot;.......
 
Yet Hope IS Alive!
 
For Miracles do happen!
 
Hope is there would be those who would take heed unto The Call of Our Father(Creator) to &quot;Come Out of her, MY people&quot; for they will &quot;Come Out&quot; of this wicked world(babylon) and it&#039;s systems of religion, and they will no longer have their portion with those who are destroying the earth(land, air, water, vegetation, creatures) and perverting that which is Spirit(Light,Truth, Life, Love, Peace, Hope, Grace, Faith, Mercy, etc.) ;-(
 
And for those who have embraced &quot;mother earth&quot; and the oneness that is the natural Creation?
 
Hope is they would also experience and embrace that Spiritual ONEness that is a common union with their Brother, The Messiah, and Their Father, The ONE and Only True Living G-D(Great Spirit), HE WHO is Creator(Father) of ALL!
 
Family! indeed and Truth....... 
 
A Simple and Spiritual Life.......
 
Forever.......
 
Peace, in spite of the dis-ease(no-peace) that is of this wicked world and it&#039;s systems of religion, for &quot;the WHOLE world(not just a portion) is under the control of the evil one&quot;(1John5:19) indeed and Truth.......
 
Truth is never ending.......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peace? </p>
<p>&#8220;In the world you will have tribulation&#8221; even as you engage in &#8220;Spiritual warfare&#8221; for it is the forces of evil that rule over this wicked world&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>And as those forces of evil &#8220;hated The Messiah&#8221; so it is as The Messiah testified, &#8220;those who followed Him would also be hated&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>Sadly, the multitudes have taken the bait! And The LIES have been swallowed, hook, line and sinker ;-(</p>
<p>Someone had written: &#8220;When I talk about people buying or being sold &#8216;absolute junk&#8217; I&#8217;m not only talking about the material but also about the ideological. We are &#8217;sold&#8217; on consumerism, the wars (Iraq), elections (the presidency), all manner of things. Unfortunately, so few people see that just because these ideas are on sale, that they don&#8217;t actually have to buy them!&#8221;</p>
<p>Sadly, the multitudes have bought The LIES ;-(</p>
<p>The multitudes have taken the bait which is &#8220;ease of life&#8221;, so-called, and The LIES were swallowed(believed),</p>
<p>hook(money),<br />
line(education/religion),<br />
and sinker(technology/&#8221;progress&#8221;) ;-(</p>
<p>This place they call the u.s. of a. is the &#8220;bait&#8221;master and they catch their &#8220;fish&#8221; in every nation of this world ;-( Yet in england, france, germany, japan, etc, in all nations of this wicked world there are those who have become disciples of the &#8220;bait&#8221;master and they also have found other &#8220;waters&#8221; in which to catch their &#8220;fish&#8221; ;-(</p>
<p>And so it is that today there are multitudes in every nation under the sun that have taken the bait(ease of life), and swallowed(believed) the hook(money), the line(education/religion) and the sinker(technology/&#8221;progress&#8221;) ;-(</p>
<p>Tempted, hooked, reeled in, and held captive as they but serve &#8220;time&#8221; in the prison that is this wicked world ;-(</p>
<p>Simply, they could not withstand the media blitz(krieg), or their own desires, and their &#8220;imag&#8221;ination got the best of them ;-(</p>
<p>Some two thousand years past The Truth bore witness to the fact that, &#8220;the WHOLE(not just a portion) world is under the control of the evil one&#8221;! (1John5:19) Yet, the &#8220;fish&#8221; continue to seek out that &#8220;good&#8221; place in the world, when in Truth the world today is but the product of mankind&#8217;s &#8220;imag&#8221;ination, a dry and thirsty land of mirages, nothing but shadows, vapors and smoke ;-(</p>
<p>And in this wicked world, &#8220;image&#8221;s abound and are worshipped ;-(</p>
<p>So why receive that which is of mankind&#8217;s &#8220;imag&#8221;ination?</p>
<p>Even when such is supposedly &#8220;free&#8221; there will always be a price to pay, for mankind&#8217;s &#8220;imag&#8221;ination is destroying the earth(land, air, water, vegetation, creatures) and perverting that which is Spirit(Light, Life, Truth, Love, Peace, Hope, Grace, Faith, etc.);-(</p>
<p>Consider the time when there were no radio&#8217;s, no tv&#8217;s, no movies, no newspapers, a time when there was no way yet &#8220;imag&#8221;ined and then manufactured, that would allow someone to publish or display the vain &#8220;imag&#8221;inations of mankind to the &#8220;masses&#8221;. Sadly those who rule in this wicked world, and who control the &#8220;media&#8221;, consider the &#8220;masses&#8221; to be but the M in E=MC(squared);-(</p>
<p>And yet today, here i am publishing(sharing) that which i believe to be from the heart, The Spirit within, not the vain &#8220;imag&#8221;inations of my fleshly mind, for i  believe that which i share is of The ONE whose Voice i have heard and whose Power i have experienced in The Miracle that is receiving &#8220;the love of The Truth&#8221;, and The Miracle that is New Life, Real Life, and The Miracle of healing more than once, and The Miracle of deliverance that sets me free, free from the &#8220;I&#8221; in me!</p>
<p>i believe that which i share is of The ONE who revealed the lies that are of this world, it&#8217;s &#8216;god&#8217;, and it&#8217;s systems of religion, as i received evermore &#8220;a love of The Truth&#8221;. HE is The ONE WHOM i know and believe is the Giver of Life, The ONE and Only True Living G-D and Father(Creator) of ALL!</p>
<p>Father Help! and HE does&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>In times past, when i would wonder why things were as they were, i questioned?</p>
<p>Do you feel as i feel?<br />
Do you wonder just what&#8217;s real?</p>
<p>D you see the little child?<br />
Do you see them running wild?</p>
<p>i see their doubts and i see their fears,<br />
i see their hurts and i see their tears.</p>
<p>Now could be that&#8217;s what i look to see,<br />
Yet what i see is real to me.</p>
<p>Now am i alone to care and cry?<br />
Or must i close these eyes and surely die?</p>
<p>Sadly, the children, or those who once were called children, today are referred to as &#8220;kids&#8221; ;-(</p>
<p>Sadder yet, the reference is true ;-(</p>
<p>Baby goats abound because their &#8216;parents&#8217; feed them all sorts of &#8220;trash&#8221;, and so it is that as they grow, they &#8220;eat&#8221; any and all things, no matter the dis-eases(no-peace) that causes them to be pill pushers, peer pleasers, or worse yet enslaved by the media ;-(</p>
<p>&#8220;Where have all the children gone? long time pa-as-sing&#8221; ;-(</p>
<p>Progress? As promised things are getting progressively worse and worse! </p>
<p>For &#8220;evil men and seducers are waxing worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>Yet Hope IS Alive!</p>
<p>For Miracles do happen!</p>
<p>Hope is there would be those who would take heed unto The Call of Our Father(Creator) to &#8220;Come Out of her, MY people&#8221; for they will &#8220;Come Out&#8221; of this wicked world(babylon) and it&#8217;s systems of religion, and they will no longer have their portion with those who are destroying the earth(land, air, water, vegetation, creatures) and perverting that which is Spirit(Light,Truth, Life, Love, Peace, Hope, Grace, Faith, Mercy, etc.) ;-(</p>
<p>And for those who have embraced &#8220;mother earth&#8221; and the oneness that is the natural Creation?</p>
<p>Hope is they would also experience and embrace that Spiritual ONEness that is a common union with their Brother, The Messiah, and Their Father, The ONE and Only True Living G-D(Great Spirit), HE WHO is Creator(Father) of ALL!</p>
<p>Family! indeed and Truth&#8230;&#8230;. </p>
<p>A Simple and Spiritual Life&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>Forever&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>Peace, in spite of the dis-ease(no-peace) that is of this wicked world and it&#8217;s systems of religion, for &#8220;the WHOLE world(not just a portion) is under the control of the evil one&#8221;(1John5:19) indeed and Truth&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>Truth is never ending&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: fluer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This site, and these blogs are blowing my mind! I feel so blessed,humbled,and truly invigorated the more I read here!

Although people&#039;s thoughts,feelings,understandings,and convictions &quot;seem&quot; to differ,and at times bump up against anothers,I am profoundly delighted that at the core of all these topics is an earnest love of Christ and who he really is. It is clear that all here appear to DEEPLY care about figuring out,and living out, what it means to be a true follower of Christ! 

So thank you to ALL of you for your hearts,and minds,and feelings that you are willing to speak and share with all of us(with me).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This site, and these blogs are blowing my mind! I feel so blessed,humbled,and truly invigorated the more I read here!</p>
<p>Although people&#8217;s thoughts,feelings,understandings,and convictions &#8220;seem&#8221; to differ,and at times bump up against anothers,I am profoundly delighted that at the core of all these topics is an earnest love of Christ and who he really is. It is clear that all here appear to DEEPLY care about figuring out,and living out, what it means to be a true follower of Christ! </p>
<p>So thank you to ALL of you for your hearts,and minds,and feelings that you are willing to speak and share with all of us(with me).</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For me the Trinity is freedom; atheism is slavery. When you have lived on both sides of the river, the choice is an easy one.</description>
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