The Power of Words

An avid reader and an owner of a multitude of versions of the book we call the Bible or Torah and other derivatives, I’ve fed my mind and soul over the years with many a proponent of truth.  I’ve never deliberately sat down to “memorize” scripture.  There have simply been words that have remained glued to my soul and in times of need, or in times of the world facing a crisis or disaster, they have risen to surface applicable for the moment in time and space.

There are words in the Bible that speak of end times and rulings by a one world government.  I watched a movie years ago called The Stand and have never forgotten it.  It is indeed about the stand during the time of a world that is ruled by evil, by the partners of the evil one whom we refer to as Satan or the devil or haSatan.  No, he isn’t red and doesn’t wag a tail.  He is flesh and blood as we.  He is deceptive and cunning and charming and many people are easily sucked into his diatribe.  He knows what the citizen desires in his heart of heart, and he gives the citizen what s/he wants, and then once hooked…well kiss life as you know it good-bye.  The Stand is about just that; believers in good and in God, who take a stand.  When I first saw that movie it struck a cord with me, and it seems these days it is coming to life.

Are we rapidly reaching that point in human journey when we will have to make the choice to take The Stand as portrayed in the movie.  I believe so.

Here is yet the beginnings of an article from a site that I am a member of and I am hoping I have permission to post it here.  Because it is a paid site, I’ve chosen only to give you a taste, so as not to breach any copyright permissions.  There is much here on the world wide web that can be found that will teach you, tell you about what is really going on; not just what the public press is paid to print.

We need to be informed, to know….to be prepared for that time when we are called to become part of those who take The Stand for good; for what we believe to be good and holy and the right thing to do – no matter what the eyes or ears see or hear.

Evidence of the old order collapsing is all around us

There is no need to have special sources in high places to see that the 230-year old “New World Order,” is collapsing on multiple fronts. All we need to do is examine a series of unusual news events reported in the corporate propaganda media to see that this is the case.

First of all there are many signs of a break in the traditional Anglo Saxon alliance between Britain and the US. The latest was Hillary Clinton’s statements supportive of Argentina over the sovereignty of the Falklands Islands. This sort of statement would have been unthinkable in the past.

That is not the only sign continental Europe is distancing itself from the US. France just announced the sale of four state-of-the-art warships to Russia. With the US still trying to portray Russia as an enemy and still engaged in various aggressive military moves against Russia this amounts to a serious slap in the face from a US ally.

Perhaps the most important developments though, are happening in Turkey. The ongoing purge of the Turkish military is a sign that the “young Turks” who overthrew the Ottoman Empire are being ousted from power. This is disturbing news for the Zionists because Turkey is a Nato member with a modern 1.5 million man army. Turkey has recently engaged in military exercises with Israeli enemy Syria and refused to let Israel participate in a Nato military maneuver in Turkey.

The fact that Congress passed a law condemning the Turkish acts against the Armenians over a century ago (how about condemning the multiple US sponsored genocides first) and Turkey recalled its ambassador is a clear sign of this split between Turkey and the Zionists.

Nature can teach us so much about how to take care of ourselves.

It’s March as I write this blog.  It came to me this morning as I was driving in to work.  Stopped for a red light I looked around.  I saw brown, dead grass littered with debris that had gathered over the winter.  I know my city, and soon teams of community volunteers will be out picking up the debris and removing it to a garbage dump.  As people we like to take care of our surroundings, not liter so that we can enjoy the beauty that nature has to offer.  A bed of beautiful budding flowers isn’t very appealing if there is garbage strewn all around and in it.  Besides being unattractive, likely the garbage is also not healthy for the garden, the flowers, and generally speaking mother nature.

My thoughts turned to me, the person.  They turned inwards to my soul, my spirit, my real self.  I thought about all the garbage and debris that I’d accumulated, not just over the winter months, but throughout all seasons and wondered about spring cleaning.  If I but even once a year, as we do for mother nature, did some spring cleaning of my soul and removed all the ingested garbage:  negative thoughts and attitudes, wow my burden would surely be lightened and my step would have a new found spring in it.

But we humans, well we don’t just allow garbage to accumulate over the winter months; we allow it to go on all year round, for every breath we take.  Yet seldom do we even think about it and the need to do some clean up; to get rid of the garbage.

Garbage in, garbage out is the saying.  Perhaps that is why my attitude becomes overly negative and my words unkind.  I cannot expel or demonstrate anything but what is in me.

It’s time for some spring cleaning of the soul.  Anyone want to join in?  Not that I am asking you to do my cleaning; only I can do that for only I know what needs to be dealt with and removed.

A beautiful and sunny day here in the metropolis of Toronto (Canada); sun glowing, golfers (yes I say golfers) pacing the greens 30 floors below, a bounce in their step – swinging the invisible golf clubs, getting ready to “burst forth” with new life, new exhuberance as the spring flowers struggle to burst forth through the frozen ground, each new morning striving and pushing just a little bit more; never any doubt that they shall soon raise their faces to be kissed by the sun and washed anew by the golden morning dew.

Nature; positive and ever faithful.  If she could think would she entertain thoughts of doubt and disbelief?  We never doubt, we who live in countries that truly do have “seasons”; never doubt that in March the first faint rays of the spring will come through with the days getting a bit longer, the nights a bit shorter; arising to an earlier sun rise and closing out the day to a later sunset.  We never doubt that there will be frost in November, sometimes in October.  We trust that nature will unfold as planned.  We see that despite the bleakest and harshest of winters, the worst ever, nature still comes through for us in the spring; springing forth as she always has, always will.  She feeds off of what is available, seeking life to sustain her life; spewing out or perhaps not even entertaining anything that would destroy her.

Why can’t we be like her?  Why can’t we know with such certitude that the seasons of our lives will unfold as set forth in the master plan?  Why can’t we learn not to entertain or indulge in things that would kill us; kill our spirit, our soul?  Why can’t we always and forever be feeding our mind and spirit with live giving food that will “lift us up” to be kissed by the sun of life?

We can, but we need to change our “eating habits.”  We need to stop killing ourselves.  Yes it is I and I alone who is the destroyer of my soul, my spirit…who frosts up her spirit never allowing her to unthaw and spring forth like the beautiful tulips in the spring.

I must change my diet, feed myself with live-giving nutrients.

There is power in a single word, just as this blog speaks.  I must speak love and wonder to my soul that my face be lifted up and kissed by the son; that I might spring forth in new life each moment of this life!

“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

Samuel Ullman

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

Take my breath away o day that dawns before me!

Reflections of Spring