Lyle's Blog

That’s the title of a song by Kiefer Sutherland which seems to reflect his way of life. Drinking has pretty much been the crutch he’s leaned on his whole life. This isn’t about him; he’s just one of a vast army of drunks. He’s been successful in everything it would appear except in relationships.

Those words “not enough whiskey” are very true. There’s just never enough to solve your problems, to make people listen, to cover up your unwillingness to change. The song describes the typical scenario. Girl leaves boy, he knows she’s not coming back because she’s already found someone new. It’s an old story that repeats throughout the ages. It’s hard for the drunk to understand why people who have a reason to live don’t want them around.

It’s an addiction of course. Science insists that everything we do has a “chemical” reason. I’m not going to argue with that. Sin after all is an inherited curse. But in the end we are responsible for our succumbing to its power. Which ever sin we get involved in, we begin to like it. Sin itself is addicting. We do what we do because we’re in bondage to our flesh. We like being captains of our own destiny.

I’m sure we’ve all known those whose whole life along with those they “love” have been ruined by drinking. There was that first girl that left because of their drinking. That hurt, so they drank too much. For a few hours, nothing matters. Nothing matters to a drunk. Oh they may say it does; sincerity may be in their vocabulary but they have no concept of what it is. Everything they do has to have a drink added to it. Eventually it’s just drink and nothing else is necessary. We witness it over and over again. Eventually the things they did fall away and are lost forever and drinking stands alone as the god of your life.

Women too suffer from alcohol addiction but I do believe most of the time they don’t have the luxury of time that they can devote to it. Women bear children, involved in the raising of kids and making sure a house is a home. Our present culture seems to be on a “woke” binge what with women deciding that being self indulgent like men is a deserved and better way to live. So alcoholism and drug addiction have become mainstream in our culture.

So those words are ever true, there’s not enough whiskey, there’s not enough of anything to make it all, all right as the song says. There never is. The bottle always ends up empty just like life winds up empty.

The U.S. is a society of pasteurized and homogenized citizens. Trump said we would never be a socialist country but we have been for quite a while, cradle to grave government care with a capitalist bent. I say all that to paint a backdrop for the spectacle that is Washington D.C.

Elizabeth Neumann is another elitist who like so many is very smart and can pontificate to us lessors their profound insight on why the rest of us are so screwed up. She of course is well qualified because she has lived the life of us Bible thumping, gun hugging deplorables and therefore knows the remedies to be applied by the merciless state.

She, like everyone else in Washington, only sees us as they fly over at 30,000 feet. They still have good jobs, healthcare, and an apparent future. We’ve watched horrified as our cities were burned and looted by BLM and Antifa, and 50 people murdered and 700 policemen injured by these thugs and nothing was done to stop them. And we also noticed that the “protestors” don’t have to wear masks because 1200 doctors put out a notice stating the protestors were just too important to wear masks.

Speaking of masks, we’re supposed to wear them all the time for a virus that is no more deadly than the flu and yes we’ve noticed that nobody dies of anything else anymore but the dreaded covid virus. And for this we haven’t been allowed to be with our own mother while she dies in the hospital. And no, we can’t have any other maladies checked out because they have to leave those empty beds open for covid. And don’t think we don’t know how the hospital is rewarded for calling everything covid.

The only one who could have a funeral was a celebrated criminal. Yes we noticed the only black lives that matter are black criminals, not 13 black children killed by black men in Chicago. It’s all leftist BS.

And did I mention that we saw a lone man paddle boarding in the ocean arrested for doing so against government nonsensical orders? Or a hairdresser arrested and fined for trying to work to support her family. Let’s not even talk about Governor Gruesome partying maskless with healthcare officials.

How about labeling anyone white as racist………..and the list goes on and on. Is it any wonder that a few people are upset? Yes, those on the fringe got carried away (kind of like the rioters this summer) but it was a paltry few out of 700,000 people. On top of that there wasn’t 2 billion dollars damage done. Sounds like a bargain.

My daughter has a friend whose five-year-old is on suicide watch. Suicide watch. We are losing a generation of children, the middle class emaciated, and nobody gives a damn. Excuse me if I’m not impressed with the wisdom of our betters who trade our birthright for a bowl of porridge.

I woke up early; 3:30. I listened to a sermon on my Ipod which is my common practice when I wake early. The sermon was on the power of the tongue. What we say tends to be what we get. We don’t think much of the impact of our words on other people and even ourselves.

We say things we think we believe, but is there any proof we’re sincere? Much of what we say is an excuse for doing nothing. Oh, we have our routines and there may be nothing “wrong” with what we’re doing, but are we doing anything that has eternal weight?

1 John 9:4 I must work the works of Him that sent me, while it is day. The night cometh when no man can work.

So who is it that sent us and where did He send us? I’d venture to say we’re to go out the door and work for the Lord. But what is this work He’s sent us to do? Why was Christ sent to this world but to find and save that which is lost. All of our actions and motives are but for one thing, finding the lost and offering them salvation.

I’ve noticed lately the night is coming, my death is drawing near. I’m weaker and less sure of myself. All those things I’ve procrastinated about, many of them can’t be done. Opportunity comes and if not taken, slips away. People move away, we move away, they die and we don’t have another chance to say what we should have said.

We don’t pray much because we don’t believe much. We want to be good, honest, kind and like to hang around others who are the same. It’s hard to be so kind to those who hate us, don’t love God,, and may be hostile to Christ. Jesus said to love your enemies, treat them well, be like Christ to them.

Jesus had compassion on the hurting, but he wasn’t some kind of Social Justice Warrior. He didn’t come to solve the social ills of the world by doing “good” things. No, he came to save them from their sins. All of our problems stem from having hearts of stone; we need hearts of flesh so we can remember that we’re merely sinners saved by grace and those we struggle with are perishing. We are their lifeline to salvation. If we don’t look past their sin, we can’t pull them into the boat.

I guess it’s hard for those who have always been good. When you’re squeaky clean it’s hard to understand the dirty among us. When ever I feel I’m pretty good, I just have to remember when I was pulled out of the miry clay and saw my sin and its destruction for what it was. I thank God for saving me from the power and penalty of sin.

Our work is to speak words of life, be continually aware of opportunity save those that are lost. Times a-wastn’. I’m finding that night makes a sudden appearance. I didn’t really think about it much. I always thought there would be tomorrow. There’s not.

We’ve all heard or used the phrase “you can’t fix stupid”. There is this idea everyone has that they are smarter, wiser, more educated and let’s not forget holy than everyone that disagrees with them. We have so much invested in our superiority that it’s very difficult to get at the truth of anything. Why? Because superior people don’t listen to what they consider inferior people.

We now have a new administration dedicated to the proposition that all men are stupid and will be endowed by their government with certain rights that can be given to whoever worships them the best and taken away because of thinking the wrong thoughts.

So we are going to live through the same America hating administration as we had with Obama. Biden was and still is a power-hungry oligarch and flippantly issues edicts to harm as many Americans as possible.

What you say? Let’s get troops into Syria right now. Let’s force our country to buy our petroleum from countries that produce oil with no regard to the environment. So in the process (just like in the lockdowns) they eliminate jobs which they don’t deem as essential. That translates into your life not being essential which is of course the bare naked truth of what the Democrat Party thinks of you.

This is further demonstrated by their penchant for a school yard type of revenge on those they don’t like, those who get in the way of their deserved authority. Their positions have nothing to do with justice and everything to do with power.

Thirty five thousand troops surrounding the capital should be enough to wake up even the woke crowd but alas the opposite is true. Just like those who were mesmerized by Adolf Hitler, Beijing Joe devotees pant after Joe. But in Joe’s case it’s not because he’s a strong leader (that will come with Hateful Harris), no it’s because Joe is one of them, one of the crowd of condescending self-righteous, neighbor destroying jackals, weak in morals and strong in self-defined virtue.

Identity politics has been a masterful move just like everything our “betters” have orchestrated for the last hundred years. Can we overpower these thugs? I don’t know, I have no crystal ball, but I do know what the Bible tells us if we’re willing to listen. Just like the vaccine, the mark is coming No doubt we won’t be able to travel without the vaccine. We’ll be well-conditioned to buy and sell with the mark. They say in the end we (we being Christians) win, but I think the battle ahead may make us feel like winning isn’t even an option.

Our assurance is not in winning this battle but in realizing His promise is true. I believe God’s promise and Word are true. That’s why I’m looking up because redemption is drawing near, but maybe not on our schedule.

When some BLM protesters became violent and looted, burned our cities and causing the death of fifty people, I resented those actions but I knew that those people were on the fringe of the movement and therefore were taking advantage of the chaos.

I would like you to think of the atmosphere identity politics has created and all of it “spin” by the Democratic Party. It might be politically savvy to call the opposite party Nazis and racist just because they are white, and say our president is Hitler but those words are meant to convey that we are the enemy and not worthy of living.

I myself am afraid of the hatred displayed by the Democratic Party and so it would be no wonder that “Nazi/white supremacists would feel threatened and be on the side of the party that didn’t hate them. It is unconscionable to label 74 million people as racists. This is dangerous offensive talk and could not lead to anything good.

Our country used to be a “melting” pot, a place where people of different ethnic backgrounds could learn to live together and decide it was more important to be American than it was to keep allegiance to the countries and political systems they fled.

All this talk of re-education camps, destroying people because they worked in the last administration, and creating a zero history culture is not unifying, it is the talk of war and hate. Beijing Biden says the word unity like a swear word; it means nothing except 1984 or the Brave New World of tyranny.

We now have the most corrupt president in history. We have been sold out to the Chinese by a family who profit quite handsomely from the treason. I don’t vote for people because they have the “right” sexual views or because they have a certain letter in front of their name. Biden is filling his cabinet with incredibly incompetent people and it we will pay a huge price in the end. “Printing money will only go so far.

But in the end it matters little as we have long gone past that point of return and we are on the threshold of that magic place called the Valley of Megiddo.