Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Day 195 Ceaseless Chatter

This may contain: an elephant wearing a jacket and hat sitting on top of a wooden table next to a wall covered in papers 

7/14/2025

"Why do the nations rage, and the 

people plot a vain thing?"

Psalm 2:1

  

Monday already? Like I said, these days are flying by! On Mondays we have been revisiting the Nicene Creed, and learning how antisemitism crept into the church at the meeting of the Nicaean Council. Something seemingly beneficial and God-honoring turns around and causes great harm to the Jewish and Christian people. It's just that, only the Jewish people realize it! That's because many Christians have believed the lie that they have replaced the Jewish people as God's chosen, and salvation is coming through the church. This is an obvious error that comes when someone does not know the word of God. It is called Replacement Theology, and it's been around as long as hatred has. Romans 12:1 exhorts us "To study to show oneself approved unto God, workmen who need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." So, why don't we? 

Antisemitism is another form of racism, another form of prejudice. It has been present in our world since the beginning of time, beginning with the Tower of Babel when people are dispersed over the earth to do what God had told them to do in the first place, be fruitful and multiply." But no, just like man today, they wanted to "be" God, not obey Him.

I think I became more aware of evil involving certain events in history when I was 13 years of age. I formulated my thoughts about the assassinations of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy as a young girl just watching people and listening to the things they said. I could see a lie in an eye way back then, and it's pretty much the same today. In fact, I make people uncomfortable at times, because I look into the face of the one speaking with me, and I can tell a lot. Over the years the skill has grown, and God has given me an education I wouldn't have easily learned in medical school, had I gone, or in the educational or mental health fields. I also worked using my creative, entrepreneurial gifts, again God-given when I needed to earn a living and take care of my kids. Just to be clear, my husband of 25 years wasn't shy about doing any honest work that would put food on the table and keep us in our home and bills paid. I worked to make additional income needed for other necessities - like clothing, healthcare. We worked together back then. And, I wish I had just gone to work at the college when I moved there, as a door was open working in the lab. I was trained in electron microscopy, and they needed one. I don't know how they learned about me, but I chose to remain home, help out at the store, and acclimate the children to a new culture. The point is that we used the good sense and the talents God had instilled into us in order to take care of our children, and we helped others who needed help. I come from a long line of service-minded folks who help others. I do not intend to change my ways.

Going back to the intention of my comment above regarding being able to "read" people, it turns out, as information is becoming public, that I had some things right, that is for a 13 year old who thought John, Martin, and Bobby could do no wrong. Hey, wasn't there a song written with a similar name? Oh, yes, Abraham, Martin and John by Dion, about Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and John and Bobby Kennedy. That was one thing about the days when I was growing up, songs meant something. I guess that was called rebellion, then activism, and now it is plain ole fanaticism and misconceptionalism. That's my word for it.

I have another gift - mercy, and I can see the character of a person in their eyes, what they say, and mostly what they do. I wish more people would take the time to learn to listen, and to understand before jumping to conclusions and making false judgments: "For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment." (James 2:13). Imagine how things might work a lot better if all people learned to play well together.

Working with people with disabilities, physical, mental, educational, traumatic, and on and on, taught me to become an even better listener. I can understand changes in the Medicaid and Medicare systems, because I've seen waste, fraud, and abuse, in fact in our annual trainings, case managers and others involved in providing services were taught to identify fraud, waste, and abuse. There were days I would become very agitated observing potential clients who could perform tasks without a hint of disability or impaired acuity or anything! Since I lived with chronic back, hip, and neck pain and constant headaches - spinal, migraine, sinus, and cluster, I did have a few bad days. That list did not include the diagnoses and surgeries to correct things or years of insomnia. Have you ever had a doctor tell you that you should be dead? And all this is only the tip of the iceberg, but the experience of learning to cope aided me in assessing the needs of a person. There are many variables. So having said all of that, I want to say that I think change is due, and I am glad Robert Kennedy, Jr. is making some changes. I pray it turns out well. I just wish people would wait and see instead of speculating and talking about things they know nothing about. Please learn to check out facts yourself, and if you need help, let me know. I'm a researcher too. Care to know a bit about the SARS-CoV-2?

So, let's see - all of the above complicating life as we know it - lies, cover ups, wrong assumptions, and blah, blah, blahs! But that wasn't the worst of it. I'd already been watching Little House on the Prairie too much last week, reliving some of Laura Ingalls Wilder's stories of growing up on the prairie, told by Michael Landon, who wrote Highway to Heaven. I wonder what stories he'd tell today if were still alive...about mistreatment of others because of age, status, or race? The fact that children are taught to spread such hatred, contempt, total disregard for a person's needs, abilities, or rights to be treated fairly, respectfully, or with human kindness, or Christian love. That aside, I was checking my daily news feed to see how my boys and girls (IDF soldiers) were doing, and an article caught my eye. 

File photo of Elmo promoting the film "Being Elmo," as the Sesame Street character poses for a portrait in the Fender Music Lodge during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah

 

'Kill All Jews': Elmo's X Account infiltrated by antisemitic hacker

The article included more vile words aimed at Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump and towards the nation of Israel. It is a horrible shame that such moral depravity exists in our world. The article said that it was "tweeted" which I assume means it was plastered all over the web. This is bad enough, but children see this and are affected by it. We are surrounded by young generations filled with so much confusion that adults have allowed to infiltrate society through their immoral, lawless, godless ways. There is no compassion, certainly no love or regard in any way for the well-being of another. Just because someone may choose to live their lives in the cesspool doesn't mean they have to drag everyone else with them, nor does it mean we splatter it all over the world as if it were good news. Especially the young, impressionable youth, who, if Jesus tarries, will be leaders in this world. What kind of world will that be? We who walk with the Lord are responsible to set righteous examples for the world to see. Jesus said to love God and love each other. It doesn't mean agree with everything they say or do, but loving everyone regardless is what He said do. Pray for a heart of compassion, and show this example to the world, rather than the latest gossip about which pastor fell from grace this week. 

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