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The Place of Nothingness

The Place of Nothingness

May 25

“Be still and know that I am God“ (Psalm 46:10) .

Do you find yourself in a place of nothingness? There is a time and place in our walk with God in which He sets us in a place of isolation and waiting. It is a place in which all past experiences are of no value. It is a time of such stillness that it can disturb the most faithful if we do not understand that He is the one who has brought us to this place for only a season. It is as if God has placed a wall around us. No new opportunities – simply inactivity.

During these times, God is calling us aside to fashion something new in us. It is a place of nothingness designed to call us to deeper roots of prayer and faith. It is not a comfortable place, especially for a task-driven workplace believer. Our nature cries out, “You must do something” while God is saying, “Be still and know that I am God.” You know the signs that you have been brought into this place when He has removed many things from your life and you can’t seem to change anything. Perhaps you are unemployed. Perhaps you are laid up with an illness.

Many people live a very planned and orchestrated life where they know almost everything that will happen. But for people in whom God is performing a deeper work, He brings them into a time of quietness that seems almost eerie. They cannot see what God is doing. They just know that He is doing a work that cannot be explained to themselves or to others.

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Has God brought you to a place of nothingness? Be still and know that He really is God. When this happens, your nothingness will be turned into something you will value for the rest of your life. – Mother Teresa

Perils of a Catholic Upbringing

Perils of a Catholic UpbringingAs I walked down the busy sidewalk with my wife, knowing I was late for Mass, my eye fell upon one of those unfortunate, ragged vagabonds that are found in every city these days.

Some people turned to stare. Others quickly looked away as if the sight would somehow contaminate them.

Recalling my old pastor, Father Mack, who always admonished me to “care for the sick, feed the hungry and clothe the naked,” I was moved by some powerful inner urge to reach out to this unfortunate person.

Wearing what can only be described as rags, carrying her treasured worldly possessions in two plastic bags, my heart was touched by this person’s condition.

Yes, where some people saw only rags, I saw a true, hidden beauty.

A small voice inside my head called out, “Reach out, reach out and touch this person!”

So I did.

I won’t be at Mass this week.

Absurd? Emergency #’s! Cranky! Coffee! Golf!!

Why is this absurd? An a ‘gazillion’ guns? Not quite..Apparently those eveel guns scare someone..I’d be afraid of one of the monitors toppling over on top of me..

Totally awesome is what it is!!

The Most Absurd Home Office Setup On The Planet

Absurd…Must be a hoplophobe afraid of inanimate objects..Non tool user..

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Emergency Bible Numbers

Click to see all but here are a few for ya!

- When you are sad, call on John 14

- When you don’t feel loved, call on Romans 8:38-39

- When you have sinned, call on 1 John 1:8-9

- When you are facing danger, call on Psalm 91

- When people have failed you, call on Psalm 27

- When God feel far from you, call on Psalm 139

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Cranky. Hell when I am 90 I want to ‘kick’ some butt! I hope I remember how to punch!!

90-year-old man jailed for four days after ‘punching a state trooper’ who came to check on his wife

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Coffee anyone?

Coffee billed as world’s strongest

A New York company is marketing its Death Wish brand coffee as “the strongest coffee in the world.”

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Golf..Is dangerous!! BAN IT!!

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Palin. Advice. Dawkins. Colorado. Who? Time! Scaled. Fraud. Coulter v. FinkStink!

Governor Palin Rocks CPAC 2013

With a BIG Gulp..

“All drama Obama” is “just making noise”

“Remember no drama Obama?” she asked. “If only. Now it’s all drama Obama.”

You efftarded Buck Ofama supporters and you Palin bashers can say what you want..She has more balls and savvy then Buck Ofama could ever have..To bad the establishment and the Buck Ofama PR firms, formerly known as the media, were so damn afraid of her, they wet themselves and then went over the top to destroy here…Yet she is still around asswipes!!!

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Keep your advice, we’ll keep our guns and Freedom..

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Richard Dawkins tweets on abortion: ‘any fetus is less human than an adult pig’

This dude is just not human..AssO would cover it…

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Unenforceable…The ridiculous laws passed by Politicians. But that’s what they do best…

Colorado sheriff says new state gun laws won’t be enforced

War is coming…
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Who gave you the Right?
Found here..
Time to get a gun!!
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I am confident I will not submit to any more Government BULLshit laws..

Conservatives confident federal gun measures will be scaled back

Conservatives are all but declaring victory on their defense of gun rights, exuding confidence as calls for aggressive controls in the wake of the Newtown elementary school massacre have given way to scaled-back expectations to firearm restrictions in Congress. “They … Continue reading →

It is called the 2nd Amendment..Is time to reinstate it..

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CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE AND DEMAND TO HALT THE
CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION CERTIFICATION PROCESS DUE
TO EVIDENCE OF SUBSTANTIVE FRAUD

Do your rodrammed jobs congresscritters!!!!

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I just loves me a good fight…

Especially when it is some self important I am better then you peons Politician getting smacked around like a dirty rug with a rug beater…

Cat Fight Alert: Coulter Clobbers Feinstein

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Falling. Content. Somali Gangs.

The Wages of Unfaithfulness

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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I have written earlier of what I believe is a direct correlation between the decline of America and the “great falling away” of her people from the religious faith, which historically was a part of the foundation of the country.

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Breaking News – The Obama Administration pays for CNN content

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LTEs From Amy Klobuchar Democrat and David Bly Democrat..

Summarized..

This weekend’s Northfield News had letters from Amy Klobuchar and David Bly. Interesting similarity in their principles: petty, cheapo socialism.

US Senator Amy Klobuchar: “Seniors Deserve Affordable Prescription Drug Prices”
MN Rep. Bly reports on his first bills of his second career to “help us”.
Klobuchar’s bill:The Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act “will empower Medicare to negotiate the BEST POSSIBLE PRICE for drugs” for me.
Is that the lowest drug price for the government and me? Or the necessary price to induce new drug discoveries? Klobuchar thinks she knows better than the marketplace.
Bly’s HF355 “improves access to mental health education” for grade 6 to 12 students. Ah, E D U C A T I O N will solve mental illness, prevent gun violence ….
Bly’s HF364 will increase K-12 funding (naturally) for year round independent study programs “to grow and learn outside the normal school day”.
Obama too has a new program to improve education outside the normal school day. His preschool Federal bureaucracy would supplement mothers care from Birth to Head Start.
Note in all cases, the Democrats want to provide steady, small, invidious, incremental growth of the nanny state, supplanting the family and the market.
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Somali gangs in Minnesota…

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National Coalition Vows to Fight Erosion of Gun Rights

The basic arguments put forward in the letter are that:

1. Background Checks Don’t Impede Criminals.
Criminals obtain guns through illicit means such as theft and by having friends and associates with clean criminal records purchase guns for them, while rampage killers often have no criminal or serious mental health record to impede them. The Newtown Connecticut murderer was the only recent rampage killer who didn’t pass a background check to obtain his weapons–stealing his and murdering the legal owner–and none of them obtained guns from private sellers.

2. Injecting Government into Private Transactions is Unproductive and Dangerous.
Purchasing a firearm from a licensed dealer is the only exercise of an enumerated constitutional right which requires government permission. Every time a person purchases a gun through a licensed dealer, they are investigated by the government, even if they already own dozens of firearms, and even if they have just purchased a firearm in the previous month, week, or day. The infrastructure for these redundant checks costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year, and adding private transactions into the mix would cost millions more.

Money which could be much better spent on programs that have been proven to actually reduce crime. There has never been a study produced demonstrating a significant reduction in crime due to the background check system.

The current load on the background check system from dealers is often overwhelming, causing long delays and system shutdowns. Including private transactions in the process would exacerbate those problems and could result in a complete stoppage of all legal sales as easily as flipping a switch. These checks also provide the foundation for a federal firearm registration scheme–something tens of millions of responsible gun owners vehemently oppose. Registration in New York State recently resulted in hundreds of gun owners being placed at risk when a newspaper published names and addresses garnered from registration files. Several of those gun owners were subsequently burglarized.

3. Compromise on Background Checks is a Losing Proposition.
There is no gain for politicians, firearms retailers, or the public in any compromise on firearm rights, and the proposals for “universal background checks” are no exception. Few politicians have ever been harmed politically for opposing gun control, but support for gun control has ruined the careers of hundreds.

The backlash from passage of the Clinton “assault weapon ban” alone was credited with retiring almost half of the House of Representatives and numerous members of the Senate. No firearm manufacturer or retailer has had their business significantly hurt by being supportive of firearm owner rights, but the few who have made concessions to gun control advocates have paid a hefty price.

4. Don’t Just Do Something; Do Something That Works.
Politicians can make a significant impact on crime and rampage killings by focusing on strategies that have been proven to work like keeping violent criminals behind bars and doing away with imaginary Gun-Free Zones.

The letter concludes by declaring that restricting lawful access and use of guns will never deny illicit access and use of guns, and by putting politicians and others on notice that the group’s members will actively work to defend the Second Amendment against any encroachment and will exact a political or monetary toll on any who stand against them.

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Facebook Sunday..

here is today’s compilation of pics.

I am going to Worship and will be praying..

That we remain free, without having to fight for it violently..

That our elected politicians will pull their heads out of their asses and remember whom

Elected them.

Pays taxes.

And are going to hold them responsible for what they do or o not do.

 

The Rich..

Have nothing against success, do have something against those whom use their wealth to dictate and control others and those like the so called progressives whom wish to dictate upon others their political viewpoints. Kerry, Reid, Pelosi, Obama come to mind..
Here is a verse for them..

James 5:1-20
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted , and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold , the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud , crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton ; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold , the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient ; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh . 9 Grudge not one against another , brethren, lest ye be condemned : behold , the judge standeth before the door. 10 Take , my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. 11 Behold , we count them happy which endure . Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. 12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. 13 Is any among you afflicted ? let him pray . Is any merry ? let him sing psalms . 14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick , and the Lord shall raise him up ; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed . The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain : and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. 19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; 20 Let him know , that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.