Lyle's Blog

As I’m growing older reminiscing has become a constant companion. There’s a line in one of the songs I like that says “little things I should have said and done, I just never took the time”. Looking back I can see the things that would make a big difference were just little things. Taking time to say things and do things make a huge difference in the lives of those around you. Taking time, that’s the hard part. We’re so busy with work, play, and our plans for a better life. We have three children. When your first is born they receive all the attention. They benefit from the sole attention of two parents. This is a two-edged sword for them because even though they may be catered to, they must also suffer the undivided attention of two parents who from some fount of wisdom have figured out exactly how to raise a child. This one is going to be perfect. And for a while you actually believe they are. What you don’t realize is that you missed the little things like the teaching and mentoring of love. Enter child number two; they being a baby require lots of your time. Your first born now receives half your attention which they probably resent although there is a freedom in not being monitored so much. It’s a little thing, a little less time, a little less of everything if you’re not careful. Child two usually takes a back seat to child one. There’s just less time (and maybe money) to do all those things you did with child one. I do see parents that try to do that, running to this game and that, believing that activities keep the devil away. There is some truth to that of course but you do have to notice the little things that take place. What kind of people are becoming your child’s heroes and therefore mentors? Sports and music both produce characters that have only one virtue: talent. When your child wants to replicate that virtue many times they adopt the other less desirable traits of these people. Living with a child emulating these personalities can be challenging. If child three arrives time is further limited and it becomes harder to take the time to spend with the older children. And that’s when they need it the most. Having children doesn’t necessarily bring a couple closer together. Oh it does for a while sometimes, but when you were without kids conflicts were usually few and easy to overcome. It was easier to stay together. After a few years there arise issues that blind side you. Then all your short-comings flood back in and remind you of where you went wrong. That’s if your lucky. Our modern world makes it ever more difficult to weather the storms of life and stay together for “better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and in health”. Why? There are so many options these days. We don’t have to be diligent about spending the time on the little things. It’s just the big things that consume us. There are so many broken families. Don’t wait till you’re old to assess your approach to those you care about. In the end none of us have done everything well but certainly some have done much better than others. You’ve just got to let them know right from the get-go that they are always on your mind, that you love them, and all you want is the very best for them. You see, it’s love that covers a multitude of sin, short-comings, and lack of knowing. So the best we can do is spend the time on one giving each other the grace we need to weather their storms of this life.

Have you ever asked yourself why you are here, why you were born, what your purpose for being alive is? Many would say it’s to leave this earth a better place for our children. You know, clean the place up whether it be pollution of the planet itself or the pollution of the mind. This seems correct and reasonable and I do agree that we do have to consider our children’s future. But we perpetuate the myth that we can make this a better place, that we are better than our ancestors. Take a long look around the world; are we really different from men of two or three thousand years ago. Sure we’ve advanced in so many areas, but I’m not talking about modernity. I’m talking about sin. The desire and ability to do evil to one another has merely become more sophisticated. Our technology enhances our enslavement to wicked living. As a nation we ignore the blight of human trafficking, sexual deviancy, the abuse and killing of our innocence, and corruption of leadership that is supposed to protect us from ourselves. In America we have come to believe that everyone has a right to believe anything with the resulting robbing of Peter’s liberty for Paul’s reward. We’re not supposed to judge anyone. That notion is quoted from the Bible by people who disdain the Bible. It is used to parlay there support for unscrupulous actions by squelching opposing views that Bible believing people may hold to be true. It is seldom challenged which has brought us to our present dilemma: the total corruption of our culture. By allowing secular deviants to cherry pick the truth we have relinquished our moral duty to protect liberty which leaves everyone at risk from the tyranny of the few. Man does not become better with education. Knowledge is important if not purported to be an end all. Man is better when he humbles himself to God instead of being humbled by the whims of the state. This is our one hope: that as we become more humble we may submit ourselves to the will of God and bring upon the world His desire that none should perish. We need to encourage others to seek liberty by being humble, to love life and encourage innocence, and allow everyone to pursue happiness which is the contentment of an easy smile.
“Question 1: What is the chief end of man? This most basic question confronts each of us. Why am I here? What is the reason for my existence? What is the purpose of my life? The catechism on the basis of 1 Corinthians 10:31 and Psalm 73:25 provides the familiar answer. “Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.”

Somebody named Prince died. He had lots of fans. Kind of the Robin Williams of music I guess. It’s always sad when some one dies. So many have died. We all die. We all have to stand before Him who created this universe. No matter what you had here, the only thing that matters when you stand before Him is: do you know His son Jesus Christ. I pray Prince did; I pray you do too.

Donald Trump is the only one who has said he will do something about the thugs crossing our borders. He further refuses to be afraid of the statists who have transformed free speech into hate speech. He has identified the establishment hacks and exposed them for the vipers they are. By simple words he has brought them out of the closet and we now see them. Muslims are a threat and he has taken the dangerous position of saying so. The left are all too ready to submit to Allah like good little boys and girls. The conservatives want to “talk” about it some more. Donald is the only one who has offered to protect Christians from the assault by Islam. This for once is a one issue election; protect western culture or die.

Since the crowning of the present monarch for a second reign of deception, the homosexual community has been exalted to equal status as the old heterosexual standard. This has been celebrated as the new normal or as I would prefer, the new reality. To relegate homosexuals to one stereo-type is certainly unfair although it is proper to generalize that most have a propensity to be promiscuous at a rate eight times that of their heterosexual counterparts. Monogamy isn’t the usual desire of the average gay person. I believe this push for marriage is rather to accomplish two goals, one being the initiation of equality in society and the other the attraction of participating in the largess the government doles out to the rest of society. I have met some “nice” homosexuals but I don’t feel that is reason to support their desire driven agenda. I once knew a man who seemed “nice” but after their divorce I found out from his spouse that he wasn’t quite as nice as I had thought: he was a child molester. So we have to be careful about giving credence to a whole sector of society because some of them are nice. I’ve also learned that heterosexuals shouldn’t be given unfettered access to our children. The junior high our kids attended had one teacher who had a hard time keeping his hands off the girls. After being bombarded by parents he was removed. However we found out that he had been transferred to another junior high and it was the fourth time he had to be removed from a school. Like homosexuals, teachers are held in high regard. I believe it’s very dangerous to assume people are of the good character just because they’re in a favored group. The school system. along with the union, protected a predator. Are we to believe that a homosexual won’t be even more immune from discipline, as saying anything against a gay person is deemed homophobic. The man/boy sector of the homosexual community is especially troubling. Transgender individuals are coming out of the closet in droves. Exposing young children to their musings will confuse the minds of our children and interrupt the natural decision making process about sex. What we are witnessing is the abolition of normalcy and expansion of depravity. Unloosed from the mooring of Judea-Christian morality standards, society will further plunder its youth in its quest for sexual satisfaction. Once men are free to have sex with whoever they want they will demand it from whoever they want. We will have attained a rape ridden society, void of innocence and filled with frightful violence. As I often say there are too many consenting adults and I detest seeing the state under-girding their corruption. Lowering the age of sexual consent is the goal; sex with children is soon to be deemed normal. This was the societal norm in Sodom; we are well on our way to Gomorrah.