richard h baldwin wrote:
> Here I sit typing away this e-mail to you. I wonder if it is worth it to
> send it or not. What would you think?
I've had the same thought from time to time on sending mail to Rangernet.. and have
deleted some purty good
stuff<G>
..other times I've sent some doozies<G> In gerneral, thoughtfull traffic is never a
waste<G> and you sent
it so the
decision is allready made for yah!
I happen to be on the recovery side of a "lung funk" and was dose'n myself with Codine
cough medicine, and
several
of your coments crossed *MY mind<G> So I'll try to tell yah what I think..
.(Lucky You<G>)
> Or would you care if I do send
> it. But I type away just to share my thoughts. Just passing thoughts of
> a moment of time and space before heading off to bed.
Heard and understood.. When I get a GREAT thought I write it on the wallboard in the
utillity room...this
happens from time to time.. and recently when replaceing the electirc pannel..
provided cheap entertainment
for friends<G>
>
>
> Here with in this dirty house I live. The house is being remodeled. I
> can not wait until the house is back to normal. The kitchen is torn
> apart. The items from the kitchen are boxed up and packed through out
> the first floor.
We were down to one burner on the Range when the heat element fell from the roof of
the oven<G>
Cdr.Jen looked at me with "that look" and I skee-daddled over to SEARS and bought a
dandy new stove<G>
The between time tho... had us eat'n Taco Bell "Gordidos" and bar-b-q.... in the yard..
Times will improve with a new kitchen.
*Throw out yur old pots tho... they are from the LAST century!<G>
(we got some with Hippie toadstools on 'em from when we got married<G>)
>
>
> Tomorrow the carpenter may come.
Trust me.. he won't<G> He's been de-layed by a higher paying customer! (Kidding)
> Hopefully tomorrow the inspector will
> come to inspect the wiring. Once that is done. The sheet rock can be
> put up, then cabinets and all.
>
> Here I sit before this computer. Typing my thoughts and trying not to
> think about what is around me.
Try this thought..
Injuns camped in a winter camp and when the good weather came they just got up a
left<G>
*sometimes they left the Tipi standing and all the junk inside...
Cdr.Jen prefers that "stark" utilitarian minimalist attitude.. *I'm differnt.. I save
groovy cool stuff
like an "Orange juice squeezer" my aunt had in California before they tore out all the
orange groves to
build Disneyland!
*No Orange trees for 1,000 miles... where I live.. (..course who knows if I won't
live in a orage grove
somewhere and
regret throw'n out such a treasure<G>
>
> Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh what is life? What is normal? Yea, what is normal? Is
> normal being healthily and having no problems? Or is normal facing
> life's heartaches each and everyday. Not giving into life's pressures.
> But facing them with God's Spirit and strength.
*I think "normal" is being hopeless and un-aware of a soon comming eternity in Hell.
(We ain't normal BTW!)
We have got the whole applecrate up-side down when we expect things to go good<G>
"Normal" is for the car to allways be out of gas with a weak battery and no money to
fix anything<G>
and you feel like death is on the door step....
Pastor told us just a bit ago that *DEATH was "looked forward too" as a time to lay
down burdens..
recieve ultimite healing and go on to a great reward! Not so long ago... no one
recieved any health
care or medication yah had to pack a toad or look fer a "barley corn in the dung of a
she donkey!"
Yup.. I'd say things have improved some...
>
>
> Aaaaaah, what is Life? Facing a bright new day even in the dead of pain.
> Even it seems hopeless and all. But when life seems hopeless and all.
> What one must do to let go of the rope. What rope? The rope we think
> that is saving us? It could be pride that is holding us back to let go.
> It could fear that is holding us back to let go. Or could a number of
> things.
*I'd do two things...
First "claim" my healing thru Jesus stripes ect. and keep a firm grip on the rope<G>
It's funny how silly being "Hopeless" is when a few minutes later a re-run of a TV show
or a cup of good coffee clears yur head... We have our eternity decided when we
accept the Lord..
but we still live day to day moment to moment. *Pain is all part of the human
condition, and is not
in any way "spiritual" or to be desired..
It don't take that much pain to get yah to let go, but God said he wouldn't let you
suffer more than what
you can
handle... so hang on and don't let go<G>
>
>
> We put up walls around us to cover the truth with in. We deceive
> ourselves at times to the point where we believe them. That is why it
> called deceive. Deceive or a lie which covers the pain.
This is all avoidence mechanics .....
Some things you cannot cover up.. My son stuck his finger in an electric socket and
got a jolt
of reality... he tells me about this from time to time...
It surprised him how hard and quick the electic shock went up his arm.
No one ever desires a shock, and too much will kill yah... But the TRUTH of it
set a standard for him<G> How we handle electricty is our choice.. if you fool with
it you will get
zapped!
You can say.. the "Power is off" *but in truth it is.. or it isn't and that is the
truth<G>
>
>
> Another word that came to my mind is mask. Is life a big play like a
> play on Broadway? I have sit in malls, stand on the corner of downtown,
> and sat in the car waiting for my wife. While waiting I sometime spent
> watching people go by.
>
Life is not a big play on broadway, trust me.
Life is a "divine spark" on loan to us from the creator...it was passed to us by our
parents and passes
thru us to our children.
We need to be responsible and thank the Lord for life... *It passes so quickly.
>
> It is amazing what one sees while waiting. People hurrying to go
> somewhere. Trying to put as much as they can with in time. But time is
> not ours to give or save. Time just ticks on even while we wait or as I
> type this thought.
Yah need to smell the flowers while they bloom man<G> make hay while the sun shines...
>
>
> Back to that word mask. It is amazing how children see things. When we
> were children things seem so simple. We wonder why adults put on mask.
> We question their lies. As they lie to each other. But if the child
> mention the lies. The adult covers it up. And tells the child to be
> quiet.
Not all masks are that way... I wore one in a Navy gas chamber to protect me from
CS gas and wore another under a clear wave full of tropical fish in Hawaii....
I wore one when I was a boy... pretending not to know what my folks were trying to
tell me.
Children may start out innocent.. but they also are born in sin.. *That is the
greatest mask..
a sinfull nature that hids us from the Lord. Gods see's right through 'em..
He's got "X-ray vision" <G>
>
>
> Then as life goes on from childhood to adult. The mask comes on. Why do
> we cover up our hurt to one another? Why do we cover up are true feeling
> to one another?
> MASK?......
>
> Another thought to share that past through. How does one go about his
> life with out knowing Christ? How can one deny Christ and God the
> Father? How can one say there is no God? When before their eyes is the
> universe? How can one question there is no God? How can they? When God
> is giving them air to breathe, food to eat, and water to drink. Can
> they answer what makes the heart pump or stop?
>
The peoples of the earth break down your question in differing ways.
I for one would never join an army to fight the United States of America... *But
perhaps if I had been born
in Hanoi instead of Pheonix... *Things might have looked different.
I might have thought Ho chi Minn was cool<G> and LBJ was a fool!
They are ignorant!
The answer is to go into the world anyway<G> just like missionarys have for years!
>
> God is God.........He makes the rules. He does it for our best interest.
> Can imagine not have gravity? I am laughing at that one. How can the
> clay rebel to the potter? Clay can not turn the wheel. Clay can not add
> the water. Clay can not form itself.
*Wow man...
Duane -=A=- Love yah!
>
>
>
>tick....tick.......Tick......Tick.....TIck.........TICK..............................silent........then
> dead.......
> What would life be with out knowing Jesus Christ in a personal
> way?.....................empty
>
> God loves you and so do I.
> rick
>
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