Lyle's Blog

You have a receipt and put it away in case you need it. The day comes when you need it but to your shock it’s blank, it’s all faded away. Sure would be nice to have that receipt wouldn’t it? Most receipts are made without ink. They are made with special paper that is sensitive to heat. So the wording on the paper is created using heated printing heads. If you take your faded receipt and carefully expose it to heat, it will make the rest of the paper dark and the wording and numbers will be in “white” as it’s already been exposed to heat. Do note that the heat treated receipt should be copied as it will fade again.

Everything in this new world has become temporary. Our pictures are thousands in number but could be lost in a moment. It used to be we had some physical record. Today we have the “cloud”. It’s just make-believe. Now you see them, now you don’t. Keep a few things on paper. Even they will fade, but for a while, you can hold them in your hands.

I and a vast number of fly-over-country people have grown weary of the assault on gender. Men are naturally stronger than women and yet we have a pervert man/woman winning the World Biking Event for women. A Massachusett’s
judge ordered the sex-reassignment surgery for a convicted murderer. Medicare pays for perverts to have this surgery.

Like the twinkle-toe community, the transgender crowd are cramming this perversion down our collective throats. Our kids are being indoctrinated with it. It’s on television, movies, in short, everywhere. I’m sure if the very efficient google robots find this, my blogging “career” will be over. But I really don’t care what the draconian heads of the politburo say or think. I really don’t need them or their platform. I was getting along really well before the advent of the Google brain trust.

I do not have enough faith to believe this will end well. Once Pandora’s box is opened, the wicked creatures within spread their wings and flew to every corner of our planet. Even Islam can’t escape the filth emanating from Hollywood. So hold your children close, explain to them that they now live in Sodom, and spend all your time helping them cope with the temptation of the hour.

Be a watchman on the wall. From our vantage point we see what’s taking place. We’ve got to warn people; if we don’t, their blood will be on our hands.

Every election has been the election to end all elections. The end of the world seems to be at hand for so many people. Everybody believes that if just the right guy, our guy gets in office, life will be good or at least palatable. What is scary about this time is the overwhelming animosity of the one side. They live in ignorant fear of their paradigm being destroyed, their world ending. It’s unthinkable to them that the old “moral majority” is back in power and they violently resist returning to those terrible days of when boys were boys and girls were girls and those who didn’t know were few. These “sinless” followers of Darwin feel they are above the restraints of judgment and are in fact, a law unto themselves.

Bigot, Nazi, racist, and you-name-it phobia labels are thrown at anyone who disagrees with them. Up till now most of their violence has been aimed at things although some have suffered very brutal treatment. We are now at a place similar to 1850, severely divided and on the verge of civil war. The anti-slavery crowd wasn’t going to wait for slavery to die off on its own. Some states had already made slavery illegal. Slavery was becoming obsolete and would have become unprofitable soon enough but zealots being what they are, war sounded very reasonable. Not many weigh the cost of war; we’re still paying for that war today. The left will not rest till constitutional thought is eradicated from this land.

The constitution is the most hated document as it permits men to say and do things which are repugnant to some, but not to all. Free speech wasn’t always what you wanted to hear but offered a transparency of thought that is sadly missing today. One thing I am grateful to the left for is that they finally are totally transparent about their agenda and who they’ve determined to be evil. I am proud to be in that number.

The airheads have been traveling down that yellow brick road for quite some time now whilst picking up every miscreant along the way that they can find. It was only a little further to the Emerald City and when they will meet the wizard who will make all their dreams come true. It had to be a shock to finally stand at the gate of that city and realize that Dorthy was no longer beside them. It was an orange-haired monster who clicked his heels and said with a grin, “guess what boys and girls, we’re going back to Kansas.

It seems there has always been tension between the rich and the poor. Poor people tend to blame the rich for their being poor. In some cases that may be true, but let’s face it, much of our life is what we make of it. We’ve all heard that if nothing is risked, nothing is gained. The difference in our lives is what we decide to risk. Money is the main way we measure success. Some risk their money and time in a well thought out enterprise. Others invest in lottery tickets or the casino.

I’ve known a couple of rich men and they are very different from each other. What they have in common is just one thing: they recognize an opportunity when they see it and act on it. This attitude started at an early age. You’ve got to be forward-looking and be forceful enough to make and carry out the right actions. Each success builds on another. Success becomes a habitual way of doing things.

One of these men said that every rich man has their “lucky” day, being in the right place at the right time, meeting the right person, marrying the right person, believing well-founded things. We orchestrate many of these things. Laziness is something we decide. A large part of our failure is the habit of procrastination. Tomorrow is always a good time to begin. Garth Brooks sang the song “If tomorrow never comes” which asks the most important question in life. If you pass from this life tonight, who will know that you loved them?

The real riches in life aren’t found in money, land, or anything material. It’s those things we put on autopilot.
Our marriage starts with choosing the one we pick to spend our life with. If you have children, how are they to be raised? Will they have the right god in their life, will you be a good example to them, will you choose your friends wisely? How ethical will you be? What will you, by example, show them is important in life?

Wes Bentley leads a ministry in Africa called Far Reaching Ministries. When he was a young man he was courting a great girl, a daughter of a good pastor, a giving and devoted follower of Jesus Christ. But Wes had a calling on his life; he was going to spend his life in Africa working in some very difficult conditions. He needed a wife that would be “comfortable” leaving the good American life and identify and suffer with the war-weary poor of Uganda and Sudan. He had to break off his relationship with a wonderful girl. She would find a more appropriate partner and serve the church in America. Wes found a girl that truly gave up everything and to this day they are doing marvelous work. Our choices aren’t always between good and bad, but between good and best.

The Bible says to choose this day whom you will serve. It makes a lot of difference if you do that early in life, as right decisions build on each other. Every day is the day to make the right choices. Don’t take jobs, buy houses, take vacations for money reasons. Sometimes we don’t have good choices, but much of the time we do. Wlll taking a job keep me from having a close and influential relationship with my family, will moving to another house be good for the kids, and will my making other things more important than God facilitate an end of life you can live with. Will I make a home for myself and my family?

I haven’t done those things. It’s only by the grace of God that there is any “rightness” to my life. It’s never too late to cross over into the promised land as long as you don’t burn bridges. Procrastination has always been a problem for me, the foolish idea that there is always plenty of time. Time is short, we say that but do we really believe it? Choose today whom you will serve. Choose to be rich in Christ and poor in the desires of this world.

I look around, I see an atmosphere of distrust and hate. It’s as if love has been dealt a death blow. There has always been conflict, but we have crossed the threshold of a new place, a place where family and friend have become our enemy. Everything is horizontal; there is no vertical.

In our present culture, we have all become little gods. Like Adam and Eve, we believe we know the difference between good and evil. Confrontation leads to violence. Violence leads to death. We are in a most dangerous position. We need Jesus Christ.

It’s really up to the followers of Jesus Christ to bridge this gap between left and right. A solutionless world needs a mediator and that is Jesus Christ.

I wonder why so few who claim to follow Christ aren’t interested in saving a lost world. We want horizontal problems fixed and only as an aside mention the vertical problem we all have, that being no or little communication with God. Jesus said if I be lifted up I’ll draw all men to me. Is it possible just to love the people Jesus died for and stop trying to change them.

Maybe it’s time we humbled ourselves, love the unlovable, and followed Christ. Our job is to make Christ attractive by doing the work of love, because it’s love that covers a multitude of sins. Politics is for the gain of power over others. We must show the world the advantage of allowing Jesus Christ to have all the power. We need to be reminded that what little power we may gain will be lost at the grave. Then we will see Christ in all his power and glory. Then we will realize that we had nothing to bring to the table and all we have we owe to him. This is everything our family, friends, and enemies need. They, like us, desperately need a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Jesus is the answer for the world today. Above him is no other, Jesus is the way.