What is that breeze? Is it just wind?

Where does the wind come from?

And where does it go?

It is clearly invisible.

It moans, it wails and it whispers.

Its force is such that it bends palms to the ground

and takes up mighty water oaks up by the roots.

It whirls a little leaf, and spins and gathers and

gusts and speeds until it picks up cows and cars.

It wafts across your cheek like a baby’s kiss.

It turns mighty buildings into matchsticks.

The wind cannot be contained it is everywhere.

It raises the ocean over the land like wet, heavy and moving walls.

It tosses boats about like rubber ducks in a giant tub.

Some days it is so still you think it is gone forever.

What is the wind?

Why it is the spirit and breath of God, of course!

It is the Holy Spirit that breathed upon the deep in the beginning.

It is the indwelling comforter, counselor, teacher and

protector given to all upon rebirth.

all rights reserved Johna Moody

WHAT'S A LITTLE FAT AND AGE AMONG WOMEN? WAR!

Shame, shame on all of you who are belying this lovely young woman, Sarah Palin an incompetent, a woman unable to work at a responsible job and care for five children. I know who you are. You are those women my age who fought so hard to get equality for women. So much progress was made you forgot who you once were. You were young, pretty, strong, able to take on the world and feed, dress, teach and make a living for the children without the father because he ran off with a long legged, blond who never once asked him why on anything. Get over it all, we can’t do what she is planning on doing but she can.

We are retired because life has changed, changed drastically. Oh don’t get me wrong we are nowhere ready to go to assisted living. We are not ready to have you assign us a driver, nor are we studying our last handful of chips for a last big stage flash, no we are struggling happily, thank you.

Why don’t we work? So many of us are a pound or two over the top. Do youyoung women who are appalled at seeing little old ladies with butts wider thanthey are tall have any idea what would be required of them to be on time for work even it that happened to be eleven in the morning? They have already put in 40 plus years and need a break for God’s sake. It goes something like this.

Well we are showered and shampooed. Then we get the scant handful of hair sprayed and crunched, tucked and smoothed and dispersed into as many areas as it will fill. We spray again and get on to the work at hand. Some of us were not born with ample blessings above the waistlines but bless my soul after Minni pauses and passes we find ourselves with such abundance we haven’t any explanation for it. This is a nice surprise until the whole of our bodies fill out to match the upper forward push. Things change. Things fall. Thngs stretch.

I want to be a nice lady with my words but I must do a visual for you. After retirement age some of us are so ready not to ever dress up again that we were totally shocked to see John McCain’s 96 year old mother. I think they left her body at home and brought her head on a mannequin.

For those of us who are no longer trim and sagging; we do something like this. We draw what appears to be two albeit small bowling balls made of apricot jam and poked into a pair of panty hose cut off at the knees up into a proper carrying case. The best possible attire for them is a front hooking bra. Soon we are very tired and need a rest.You see we have been standing bent at the waist arranging these panty hosed things into this contraption with at least thirteen hooks and they just lob out on either side about the time you have a hook done and the process begins again and again until you are finally plopped up hooked up and ready to do your hair all over again from the sweat.

We know we will never wear that little black dress again but we still use the little stick that promises not to leave us with an unsightly white streak under our arms. Oh well, that is all gone. Back to the drawing board alcohol soaked cotton balls swab those underarms and go with the little white stick once again.

We wriggle and wobble into the best black skirt and top we could possibly find, add that new single string of pearls; the old ones don’t fit anymore you gave them to the daughter some time ago. You are getting to the presentable stage now, after having gone through the process of putting on panty hose. Oh didn’t I tell you about that. You go to the store where they sell you all the fixings for a hospital room for the home and buy a frame to help you put on your hose. I refuse to even go there because no explanation will suffice.

Shoes? Yes we need to wear nice shoes. Avoid, heels, buckles, buttons, straps anything you have to touch. Having come this far in getting dressed you are sure to pass out if you stoop that low. Oh come on let us all be honest here that will put a new light on things. You can’t stoop that low. You could wear flip flops with just a tad of silver streaking or little flat black simple shoes. You know your feet will swell out over and near the floor with those binding things.

Oh! We must move along it is already a quarter to eleven and face it you need a two hour nap after this ordeal. We don’t have it any more but don’t blame her for her age.

But you could have done it when you were Sarah Palin’s age, with a loving and helpful husband and all the care people you could ever need. She can and will do it.

SHE IS DRAWN AND QUARTERED AND WE HAVEN'T HEARD HER SIDE

There are occasions I have to apologize for being a woman. I believe it is coming up on the horizon. I have never heard such catty behavior as women are pulling over this Vice Presidential candidate choice made by John McCain.

The claws are bared, the fangs are showing and the hissing is at a very high decibel. What are the problems? Well on one site where I write I have heard her called. Big Foot's cousin, NRA Queen, A former cute queen, Gun Toten' Hockey Mom, My God, she married to an Eskimo one said. Another said she has five kids to care for what more does she want? Another brilliant statement was her fifteen year old kid is pregnant and I heard some of her family did or is doing time. Another, to be expected one, was that Bible totin' fools would approve. These were some examples and all by women.

If anybody had been looking several magazines have done pieces on her including the Weekly Standard some time ago.

What individual male or female in any state in the Union has 90% favorable rating? She does.

How many of you city folk know anything about needing a gun for survival? The inner city hoodlums is a totally different situation, they will not give up their guns one way or another. So why do you think the presidency and the legal rulings should cover only the city folk and give total freedom to the gangs? i would much rather have a woman who could kill and cook dinner than a wimpy man or woman.

I think the media has said she admitted her fifteen year old daughter is pregnant and plans to marry the father. Well I would like to see the teen pregnancy rates drop. I would much rather that the abortion rates drop. The girl is keeping the baby and Mama is not requesting an abortion for hiding it. What galls me is Bill Clinton a man who is not fifteen but has a fifteen year old having oral sex in 'my office'. Yes my office and it belongs to every American Citizen. John F. Kennedy served at a time when the press was not as blatant as today; many have attested to the fact later that they knew that he slept with many women in their personal quarters when his wife was away. Scum is the only word I have for that. I did see when Marilyn Monroe sang Happy Birthday to him on public venue and it was nothing more than a sexual invitation gone public before his wife and children. Or more recently John Edwards leaving a wife with cancer to care for children while he bunks with an employee.

Democrats and Republicans are human and make mistakes it appears to me that the Democrats, back as far as I remember and that is Franklin D.Roosevelt who could care less that the world knew of his affair; are just more blatant, vulgar, in your face with their dirty laundry. Finesse is not in their vocabulary.

Before you send this woman to the gallows walk a mile in her shoes. She knows a lot more than you know she knows. Get over it. Obama has 146 hours of experience she has years! Go make cookies if you have to act so catty.

THEY LIVE HERE OR DO THEY

They hammer me in the most notable of disguises:

Cheer

Childishness

Joy

Patience

These cover the reality of their,

ignorance,

angst,

arrogance,

defiance,

obstruction,

I have traveled as an unwilling wayfarer before.

Not again.

My face is bruised from their stuffing it.

My heart is sore from their false self-righteousness.

My social truth is sore from their ill-mannered trampling.

Like worms they eat away the foundations of civility.

Like cancer in their ignorance of goodness they give the villain the go ahead.

They have brought me gifts:

Pain,

Shame,

Dread,

Weariness,

Doubt,

Insecurity,

Denial,

Worthlessness,

From them I must flee.

Where do I go?

How do I go?

When do I go?

They are stealing my last days as if they amounted to nothing!

I have but few compared to them in normalcy.

They are stealing those, one by one.

They use these tools:

Control,

Arrogance,

Distraction,

Falsehoods,

Empty Promises,

Slang,

A faith cut and sewn to fit their needs.

A way that seems right to them but in the end is death.

Pride and False Joy win again and remains blind to their trophies!

God help us All!

IS FREEDOM TRUTH?

Is this your symbol of Freedom? It is the certificate of your ability to receive and enjoy truth in our country, USA! It is not the First Amendment that gives you freedom, not at all. Many of those of our own country have forgotten what the First Amendment really means and have prostituted it into many convoluted replicas that are used to meet individual needs according to public popularity at the present time.

You are truly my disciples if you keep obeying my teachings. And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. John 8:31-32

Why would Jesus say that to his followers? It is simple. Jesus is the one and only source of truth. If you accept him, abide in him and allow him to abide in you then you will learn the whole and real truth. In following him you will see the reality of all issues, you will be freed from the grasp of Satan's deception.

Freedom is truth. Freedom is not a permission to do as you choose. It is the freedom to follow God in the good and the bad times. Truth and the keeping of it delivers you from death. Only the body dies the spirit goes into God's presence and enjoys peace and joy for an eternity. We shall be eternally free from sadness, pain, fear, or anything that is what we hate here on this earth.

When we have accepted the Lord and we begin to grow in his word Jesus' perfect rule will be grown in us and we will be set free and directed to follow the plan God had for each of us before the foundation of this earth.

Only God gives freedom through truth! Our founding fathers knew this. They did not want religion established; instead they knew God wanted only that man would be free totally free to choose what they wanted to follow, not to refuse others the expression of their knowledge of truth.

God bless you all. May you know the honorable and total truth!

Johna Moody all rights reserved. 07/22/08

HOW MUCH LONGER CAN THE WORKING POOR HANG

Gilbert and Mary gaze at one another across the dinning table. A $320.26 check lays between them, same as last week. This is the week to pay the mortgage, homeowners and auto insurance. They can never do that on this amount. Last week they had $60 gas and oil to drive to work. The price of gas is worth more than their 15 year old car.

The first $32 was going to God’s work. Last month church friends went to Honduras to help those people to build homes. They dug wells and showed the people how to grow more food. The month before it was the flood aid groups the church helped. Of course we must keep our outreach going to rescue those from drugs and prostitution. Helping the needy is never a problem for so
many like Gilbert and Mary. He tells his wife how he feels about his work being harder and how it goes to the wrong places before he gets his hands on it.

I pay both Federal and State taxes and I have no voice. I can’t stand in my church and discuss governmental issues that many don’t know about. We are to separate Church and State and I agree with the Church never being in control of the government. The churches across this country do incredible amounts for the poor and the temporarily needy without it going into the deep pockets of the politicians in the area.

I can’t afford to pay both the State and Federal Taxes, FICA some portion of which goes to pay a congress their outrageous salaries and benefits; they never work a full week. We have lost our democracy. If this were a democracy I could have a voice in my church to speak about my government. I could exercise my freedom of speech if this was a democracy. All the problems going on right now; gas prices, grocery prices, run away inflation and nearing a recession of grand proportions, and the lovely Ms. Pelosi galore is asking to reopen the stupid Valarie Plame game again. That has been settled, people lost jobs, confessed their sins etc., it is over.

Don’t say the American worker won’t do the jobs for the low pay. Perhaps those on welfare won’t I don’t know. There are thousands in this area bringing home no more than my $320. and they are working every day. They do not hang on to their guns and church when times are tough. Times are always tough. More and more freedoms are lost daily. Much of the complaining is from emotion not from reality; these conditions are real. Anti war groups yapping like a little dog at the heels of a dancer. We, the working poor are fighting a war daily to feed our children and pay for our tiny houses and old cars. We want decency, fairness and democracy in the USA.

Those people who believe a ploy to keep the bad taste of George Bush and their failed attempts to impeach him is more important than the people who are only wanting to be honest, pay their own way and exercise their faith without persecution have not had to struggle as Americans are having to do now.

They don’t see it, they don’t live it, they don’t know it. Won’t you at least examine and explore what is happening to our wonderful country without political correctness and without hatred?

THE VOICE OF FREEDOM CRIES OUT TO HER STALKERS

I can see you there, there behind the tree.

You are watching my steps

Listening for my words

Hoping to show me up as ugly and vile.

You twist my words and spit on them

I pity you who live to rule and rant

You don’t have a clue

You hate those who agree with me.

You have no truth words of your own

You steal mine and make them fallow

All the knowledge of the Universe

You claim as yours.

All these things you have shown me

All are your Right to possess, even flaunt

Calling me names, defaming me and

Lying about me is not your Right.

Taking my Rights is like stealing

Bread right from my mouth

You hurt me and those like me

You stand on the back FREEDOM crying

Look at Me!

POLITICALLY CORRECT CHURCHES ARE CRYING FOR THEIR WORD NOT GOD'S

I see you.
I see clearly through you.
I see all you want me to see.
I see much you don’t want me to see.

You stand, you rack of dry parched bones.
Sandwiched between to panes of fleshly glass.
You’re a hanger for the big formal robes.
You’re covered in drivel of Political Correctness.

Parishioners sit staring from empty eye sockets.
They sit listening from pre-formed minds.
They hunger for the food of appropriate sin.
They thirst for the word that pampers flesh.

Bits and pieces of dogma and doctrine have been cut and pasted.
Scraps of your holy writ have been glued over His ripped Word.
All eyes in the house are closed so no one sees those who pray The Prayer.
Lies and staging none of which is what the Word says.

Feed the hungry.
Clothe the naked.
Visit those in jails and prisons, why me you ask?
We have committees for that; I wouldn’t know what to do.

Forgiveness; why nobody asked for it?
Forgiveness; that is God’s job they say.
Forgive me as I forgive them, He asked us to say.
Forgiveness ordains my prayer and my communion, He said.

Father which is it?
Is it the Holy Bible?
Is it the Pageantry?
The Spirit is absent Father.

Of course my child, read your Book.
That is but a building, a shrine to community wealth.
That is not the Church my child.
You and He who is in you are the Church.

You’ll find the church on a park bench or in a soup kitchen.
You’ll find the church in a family or a single's home.
You’ll find the church in a mansion or under a bridge.
You’ll find the church on an assembly line or in the Presidential Quarters.

All rightes reserved Johna Moody 7/15/08

A BALLOON WILL ONLY HOLD SO MUCH HOT AIR

“I just came from a truly dysfunctional home.” One woman said to the other.

“Oh, yours or your neighbors? It is my contention there are only degrees of dysfunction not the absence of. I would love to see us, all of us, begin to work toward such a myth as a functional home. I have not seen the evidence of it. There is no clear description of such a thing." Replied the woman across the desk. Do you think that is an exaggerated statement?

One type of family has all the right manners, the overt behavior in that household is wholesome. They have both social and business friends. The children are popular in school. If you will notice they also have a lot of secrets. Nobody is aware that mama is having an affair with her trainer and daddy with his secretary. The children have not felt the dysfunction with the exception that they are very controlled and what they know is to be kept to themselves with fierceness of life and death. This is a dysfunctional home. These siblings may make it or they may not. They have no guarantee.

Others picture the home where everybody behaves as daddy dictates or there is real trouble. Sure this is a wholesome family environment. Daddy comes home daily after work. Mama has dinner on the table. All of them sit down to supper, silently. If you forget and talk you are backhanded by daddy and mama can’t help for fear she will be backhanded. Granted this could be physical or emotional reprisal. He will tell you in a minute he works hard for that family and deserves peace and quiet when he gets home. His family eats together, they may even go to church together he will assure you he is raising his kids right. They aren’t going to do drugs or drink. This is a dysfunctional home. What are the odds these will be able to keep daddy’s predictions? Little if any!

These two examples above are the average, assumed functional types of dysfunctional homes.

We all recognize the home where Mama and or Daddy is drunk most of the time, on drugs, selling drugs and or prostituting themselves and or the children to feed their habit. There are more of these than you would like to believe. We all know this is a dysfunctional home.

Today we see the ravages of sex, drugs and rock and roll. Young people are dying all over the place. Parents ask themselves what happened? When did it begin to go wrong? I thought I was doing fine. Nobody it seems has done fine, why? Do we know what a functional home is?

One of the greatest men in the Bible known to Christians and Jews is David. David was the ‘apple of God’s eye, a man after God’s own heart’. He prayed about everything he did regarding the business of being King and when he knew he had sinned he was quick to ask forgiveness. His home was; however, a dysfunctional one. Why do you suppose that was? He looked to God for everything in his life. He never prayed for his children. One of his sons raped his sister; we don’t see that David was ever told. Another son killed that son for his actions. This could not be kept from David. We don’t see that he ever asked why the brother was killed. There was trouble between David and this son for as long as that son lived. Wouldn’t you think perhaps this was a man with no connection of any consequences with his children until they reached adulthood? They were their mother’s problem. After all he supported them all very well. Bringing God into this with obedience would have made the difference. I believe that is what God is trying to show us here.

Can we always turn backward and blame the parents for the problems that children have? I think we always do to a point. I also think most parents (there are extremes in any issue) do attempt to right the wrongs done to them until they realize those are not the wrongs they are doing to their children without even being aware of it. As children we think we know what was really wrong at our house. There is something else out of whack and we don’t see it, we don’t know it or recognize it as a danger or even real. Dysfunction was set into the lives of man in the Garden. We keep hearing what the world says. We can do this and that and our home will be totally functional and our children will be examples of perfection. That is the lie of the world. It is possible for one to keep believing in a lie until something has to give. The balloon will only hold so much hot air!

Two people in all of history were born without parents. Adam and Eve. They had neither childhood nor parents to mess them up or bring all these problems on them. They had the best of counselor’s; they were in therapy daily walking in the garden with God. God had told them everything they needed to know. He gave them one commandment, only one; they should not eat of two trees in the Garden of Eden. Pretty simple wouldn’t you think. It wasn’t. They met the Father of Dysfunction. Satan!

Satan will work his way into any heart, home or organization he can get a toe hold in. It is necessary to have a home given to God. What happened to David, Adam and Eve? It is a simple matter of their disobedience. We have a far better covenant than that. Because of God’s great love He gave his son to die for our sins. We can ask the spirit of Jesus into our lives, give the whole of our lives to Him and ask Him to guide us in everything we do. Just going to Church on Sunday does not keep the dysfunction away, but every Word out of the mouth of God. You can slay the dragon of dysfunction from your life, that of your children or parents with prayer and obedience.

Let us seek to begin to build Functional Homes.

Johna Moody ©03/21/08 all rights are reserved

Getting More Than You Bargained For

A few weeks ago we went boating with some friends on our local lake. Considering that the boat is always moving and it is getting late I didn't think of taking photographs. George, ever the photographer did, and was at it constantly. This double sunset is one of those he took and considers a gift. He got more than he bargained for, and usually does.

We came home before dark so this dark look here is a farce, it was late afternoon. Sunset of course but still very light. The photograph has the quality of a dark atmosphere just another better bargain.
George and I will soon celebrate our 25th anniversary. When I met him that more than 24 years ago he was good looking, an awes0me guitar player, a good singer, a tender hearted man who loved babies and kittens. He was not necessarily what I assumed I would marry after twelve years of single mother-business woman living. I was not really looking for a life partner. I did; however, make it my business mostly to date men who had made their living, who were ready to settle down and make my life a bit easier. I wanted to be able to travel and lolly-gag for a bit.

Little did I know this man had none of those qualities. He was not about to make my life easier right away, oh no. He brought some baggage. What I did not know was that he was going to make my life markedly 'better, not easier'. I got far more than I bargained for.

He taught me about the creation of this world rather than showing me this world. He was not intimidated by independent women. Little did I know he was exactly the man I had been looking for all of my life. I knew I was being nudged along toward this man so strongly that I really believe I fell in love with him on the first date. This was a God thing. We had a long list of whys that neither of us should marry the other but we kept getting closer by leaps and bounds. We both had dated a lot since our divorces but this was one of those, you know, different things. I daily thank God for this man. He is truly much more than I bargained for and I am a blessed woman.

THE 4TH IS A BIBLE, A FLAG & A BURGER AT OUR HOUSE

George is grilling. Join us there will be plenty of these for July 4th. We are so glad to proclaim this as a wonderful and glorious remembrance of freedom paid for by our ancestors with blood, sweat and tears.

Yes that is fresh mozzarella, home grown tomatoes and lettuce. The portobello is almost out of sight but is out front in taste, marinated in Burgundy and garlic.

We wish all of you a happy 4th of July where ever you are. If this is not your Holiday it is hopefully a blessed day for you!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Time and Time Again

Once upon a time is my past.

I don’t like to disturb it without

knowing exactly where I am going.

One’s past can be a sleeping monster?

Then there’s that cool futuristic time.

It is all supposition, design it as you will.

Don’t expect time design to come to fruition.

This time is the toy of imagination.

Present time, what is it? I claim it as now!

It is gone forever; another Millisecond and you

have no present. It flies by at the rate of the

greatest mathematical breakdown.

Time Frame is yet another time altogether.

We can manage our lives in this time. Out of our

present time we may design our futuristic goals

with intelligent perspective gleaned from our past.

THINGS THEY ARE A CHANGIN'

Foolish me I thought it was illegal for a company to form a monopoly. Of course I saw how Micrasoft played congress and Bill Clinton like a fiddle. But this last one has been created by the Democrats.

That is right, the do good for the people 'democrats' have given us a mandate. First they managed to keep us slave to the Saudis by blocking the off-shore drilling. That could not only provide natural gas and oil it would give jobs to so many people. No off-shore drilling keeps those beaches in assured pristine condition. Oh well drilling would make it uncomfortable for the millionaire tourists.

But the real clincher is this. They made it mandatory that in a few years, sorry I can't remember the year it is either 2012 or 2017, we will have to use, HAVE TO USE those squirrely light bulbs called CFL.

1. They will fade your curtains, art, photographs or anything in the room.

2. They interfere with television and radio just for starters.
3. If you break one immediately do the following:
   1. Turn off heat/air.
   2. Open windows.
   3. Get children and pets out of the house.
   4. Do not, I repeat do not use a broom or vacuum to clean this up it is filled with mercury and is very dangerous to your health and may kill you, etc.
1. Turn off heat/air.
2. Open windows.
3. Get children and pets out of the house.
4. Do not, I repeat do not use a broom or vacuum to clean this up it is filled with mercury and is very dangerous to your health and may kill you, etc.
4. No other bulbs will be allowed.~~ No big deal they are only full of MERCURY! In our homes, and no choice allowed!
   
5. These are made in China. These are only made in China.

According to my limited knowledge this is illegal. Why would any fool create a law that is so dangerous, and made by a country who has already sent our children lead laced painted toys and our pets poisoned food?

Please listen to reason the leftist progressives will kill us to stay in office. They want to tax us and give us gas or some such idiocy!

MUST WE REINSTATE THE DRAFT OR BE REASONABLE?

REINSTATE THE DRAFT LAW WITH A NEW TWIST A lot of things are amazing to me. Is that a surprise, since I could fill libraries with what I don't know about most everything. Having admitted that I want to also admit that the greatest surprise of all life to me is the people I meet, read after or watch on t.v. who don't seem to think there is a possible view other than the one they have. Or that they may not be right at all. They never seem to see that reality and their personal concept of said situation could be vastly different.

There are a few things I do know about. I know about real freedom because I also know about loss of true freedom; however, this is not a piece about my loss of freedom. There has always been war. There will always be war until in the end this planet is ruled in total peace. Oh go on have a field day on that one!

We have so many wars going on all the time, yet the very people who are anti-war are waging wars of their own. Have you noticed that too? Many say we are fighting a war in the middle east because of oil. Most of them want us to come home now and grow corn to run our cars. In reality that is not viable. Oh well? We have more oil in our own country than is in the Middle East! Any myths about that are simply that, myth to prop up somebody's preferred concept of reality.

You really do want our young people over their fighting for your freedom.You may not be bright enough at the moment to realize it, but you do not want Sharia law. That is unless you are a Muslim male who has a thirst for blood of any and all who differ with you. Or it may be that you are a Muslim female afraid to differ, either way it is not reality. Becoming independent of their oil is but one method of bringing our troops home without suffering the incredible concept of war in our cities and towns.

There is another group who wants absolutely no pain to animals. They will protect them with their own lives so they claim. I want to throw a little reality into this equation: Most of the large or all of the largest animals are in Africa and Asia. Mostly in large quantities in Africa. Are you aware of the reality that we have more protected land than the whole of Africa? We have become an insane country when it comes to animals. I have a lovely kitty and she is well taken care of and I love her. If both my kitty and a rank stranger are in peril and I can save only one of them, Duh? Human kind is the top of the animal line and must be addressed as such, despite some of their actions. If protecting a human before that of an animal does not apply to you, reality is askew in your life.

Many of you have lost children in battle and out of. I lost two neither in battle but one in the military just state side at the time. He was willing to go fight for you to put animals first, I am not!

I do have a solution for you. If you want to stop wars, have oil, get out of the Middle East (never mind it will follow you home) then draft all those Caribou, bears, reindeer and what ever else it is that is keeping you from wanting to drill in ANWAR and send them to the Middle East to fight for your freedom. What sort of stupidity have I been drinking you may ask? I am drinking real juice. All the land was once covered by animals. So you call me insane, not any more my friend than your resistance to reality. Animals don't give a damn, our military does. That is the nature of mankind. If you don't like it work with it for the best results don't fight it expecting to win, you can't.

It isn't about whether you make your car electric, alternative fuel. It is about all those things we have that are petroleum based. Can we continue to feed our children? Can we afford to do without all the things we no longer can revert back to wood stoves in all areas of the country. Oh forgive me you will not let me use wood! I can't cook with coal, gas is too expensive and so is the electricity. Don't you think it is time for serious thinking in a variety of directions no just what this or that politician advocates.

LET US LAY ASIDE OUR DIFFERENCES TODAY

LAY ASIDE OUR DIFFERENCES

Today let us lay aside our differences both politically and religiously and look to the needs of our countrymen. People are hurting all over the world.

It makes no difference who is in the White House when you are watching the coffin of your child lowered into a grave. Your religion is only of the value that it is Your God to whom you pray when your child comes home with a flag covering his coffin. I know both these situations first hand so don't give me flack about what I am asking of you.

Open up your hearts, your pockets and put away the complaints, the pointing out of shortcomings here and around the world until the waters subside and the people have homes again. Man will never be a peaceful creature but for the time being our whole country needs some sort of help. Right now it is in the Mid-West more and the coastal fire area. One is dead there and sixty homes burned. We have no count on the horrific devastation from flooding.

NO, THAT IS MY HUSBAND. Some things one does not share.

“It is all your fault. God will make you pay for what you have done.” Sari is not just a little mad, she is wet hen sort of mad.

This confusing statement comes months after Abram's beautiful wife Sari had decided to lend him her personal maid as a surrogate mother. We have no evidence that Abram complained to his wife about not having children. God had promised them children. He had already told them they would be the mother and father of many Nations. It appears they did all the right things but no babies came. You see this was some 4,000 years ago in the Middle East and the value of a woman was measured by the children she could bear.

Sari knew God had great plans for Abram and she felt she was hindering things by not having children. So she said, Abram God has not seen fit to give me children take Hagar and maybe I can have some children by her. There is so evidence that Abram said, “No honey you will be unhappy later.” Nor is there any evidence of word but action speaks rather loudly. We do not hear him saying “Oh I don't know but I'll give it a try.” He did give it a try and Hagar became pregnant.

That was about the time the fat hit the fan. Hagar knew Abram was number one man in the area and she was only a beautiful piece of Egyptian property at the time; she knew she was about to give him a baby and her mistress could not do that. So she treated Sari badly thinking she could get away with that given her new found step up. Not so quick girl.

This brought about those harsh words toward Abram by Sari. “Is she not your maid servant? Asked Abram. Then do with her as you please.

Sari dealt harshly with Hagar and she ran away. An Angel of God saw her running through the wilderness and stopped her. “Hagar where are you going?”

“I am running away from my mistress, she has treated me badly.”

“No. You are pregnant. Return to your mistress. I will bless your son he is to be called Ishmael and he will be the ancestor of the nation of twelve princes. Return now and do as I have told you.” And Hagar called him the God that sees me.

We have no knowledge of Sari taking the child or having anything to do with him and his mother except for her position as maid. But ten years pass and God in the manifestation of a man comes to lunch with Abram. He announces that in one year from this date Sari will bear a son by Abram and this son will be called Isaac. You will the father of all Nations. This is a bit staggering to Abram. Sari laughs; after all she is 90 and Abram is 99 years old. Abram asks if he can't just bless Ishmael. God said specifically I will bless Ishmael but he is not the son of promise and he will not be the father of my people. That day God changed the names of Sari and Abram to Sarah and Abraham. He instructs Abraham to go home and circumcise every male eight days or older in the whole camp, slave and free.

Very soon thereafter the cat fight that has gone for more than 4,000 began and is going strong today. Isaac means laughter and you can see from the text that there is joy and laughter in the camp. We come to the time of the weaning of the child and Sarah throws a massive party. This is a true celebration and we notice there is behavior to show what will come later and that this is missing from Ishmael. I don't know if it is written in the Jewish Traditions, but there is definitely strong indication here so we will know what did not take place. Bar Mitzvah was not done for Ishmael, he was of the age but instead an eloborate weaning party was given Isaac. Ishmael knew he had been slighted and he made disparaging remarks about Isaac. Well this mother who waited 90 years to have a son took to that like a cat to water. She demanded both Ishmael and his mother Hagar be driven from the camp and never to return. We know Abraham loved his son Ishmael and he starts to talk with Sarah but God stops him and says let it be. Do as Sarah has said. The next morning early he gave Hagar and the boy a skin of water and sent them on their way.

We don't know how long Hagar was in the wilderness before Ishmael begins to fade. He is dehydrating fast and growing weary. She leans her son against a tree and moves away and calls upon the God that sees her. She tells him that she can't bear to sit idly by and watch her son die. God tells her the boy is not about to die. He is about to be blessed. He will be a wild man against everyone and everyone against him. He will be a warrior and will live in the desert. Then he tells her to look beside her and take the boy a drink. There was a well beside her. To me this is one of the greatest promise in the Bible to single mothers when you get down to your last move call on me and I will give you a well overflowing.

Now we know that Ishmael, name means wild one, son of Abram and Hagar became the father of all the Arab peoples, not the Palestinians, they can be traced by to the Philistines. Isaac, son of Abraham and Sarah became the father of the Hebrews or Jews. They will fight until the bitter end. The Ishamalites do not see anyone separate from the Jews except themselves. These two women began families with one father that will be a thorn in the side of the world until the very end it is being played our right now. The lack of trust Sari showed and getting ahead of God changed the world forever!Publish Post

Here is one important tidbit of news: To be circumcised establishes you as a member of the covenant between God and Abraham. To be bar Mitzvahed makes you an heir to the land God gave his people. This is the real issue of the fight between the First lady of the Jews and the first surrogate mother. The blessings of the covenant belong to both, but the land belongs to Israel.

©Johna Moody 06/06/08 All rights reserved.

TELL WASHINGTON TO GET THEIR HANDS OUR OF YOUR POCKET

The only thing Einstein and I share is the same birth month. I am proof one does not have to be a genius to understand the incredible mess our country is headed for. Come on, phantom CHANGE is simply a major mistake. We are talked to and about as if we were imbeciles. Not so!

There are so many people who want to take over this country and this world, they will lie about anything. Let us look only at one segment of great harm to us and our freedom at this moment: Gasoline

• We have oil and gas. We must drill in our Gulf and in Alaska. We MUST do this.

• Gas prices effect everything we do and have from getting food to home heating and travel.

The political contenders and worse, those we already have in congress say we should tax the profits of the oil companies. That is about as bright as a cave with no candles. Those profits belong to many of America's retired or soon to retire. You do not have to be one of the world's richest to own oil stocks. This is taking money out of our public hands, those who buy and spend. Congress wants, particularly those in congress running for office, to put it in the government coffers and give it to other countries and/or pay incredible salaries and benefits to congress for a lifetime. We are not that stupid, but we are too silent!

If we drill in our own oil supply we can put people back to work. We can open our own refineries or as it is now we need to refurbish them. They are in poor condition and this is our one most used commodity. We depend on gas and oil for everything in this country. Our President was recently in Saudi Arabia appearing to beg the Princes for a cut. In my opinion just cut them out; use our own supply.

If we think for one minute we can depend on corn, grass, soy or Canola for alternative sources just sit down and think about it. This is no more difficult to figure out than are you taking Johnny to succor or is Bobby's mom picking him up? Simple, just think! We use these grains, etc., for our food, oils and to feed our livestock which in turn is also our food. We will not have enough. At this point we have not learned a method that is less expensive than gas/oil. There is already substances in the food for our livestock you don't want to know about, if the grain supplies are shortened the meat will not be edible, at least no safely.

Some states are about to tax gasoline! Do we, citizens of the United States of America, dislike ourselves so much we refuse to stand up and say you are in office because we put you there? Now we want representation. All those e-mail notices you get to sign this or that list to send to congress is malarkey. Send your very own e-mail to your congressmen both state and Federal and if you don't get a substantial response keep sending them. Call them. Let them know you are not sleeping out here.

Be brave: Do not vote for anyone who promises CHANGE unless they can identify what they plan to do and how they plan to do it from A to Z. Nobody this election year has done that so far.

IN GOD WE TRUST

©johna moody 06/09/08

HOW GOD USED THIS WOMAN TO CHANG LIFE FOREVER

She had everything of beauty available to her beyond those things we could imagine. Yet she had none of the following:

• She had no childhood

• She had no parents

• She had no girlfriends

• She never dated

• She was never cheerleader, oh my, my

• She had no choices in boyfriends or husband

The first of a list of them is a flirtatious little chick that was the total queen of paradise! She must have been absolutely beautiful, she was hand made by God. I can just imagine her lolled back on a giant mushroom chaise doing her nails with Polk berry juice. She had the best of the best of the day. She had equity to her husband. She had anything she needed. She had no clothes or dishes to wash, didn't need them, nobody was there; or was there someone lurking in the bushes?

None of the women I will show knew the importance of their actions. In most cases certainly not that they would change the world; nor could they have done it in their own power. They were simply willing vessels for the Lord to work his miracles through. What about you? Have you ever thought your life may have some major purpose beyond any presumption imaginable? Your actions may bring about world change that you will never know. You my be working your destiny now that will effect those to follow. Who knows?

Eve and her husband Adam had power over everything in the Garden of Eden. ¹Her husband was put in total charge of and guardianship over all that existed there. He let his guard down and in came Satan. He inhabited the serpent who to this time was a very cool dude. In the Garden all the animals were present and all were vegetarians. Satan knowing Eve had no friends, or any diversions of any sort except to be happy and only one restriction he propositioned her.

He took the truth and flavored it with falsehood enough to make her want to explore his quests. He ask her if she could really eat of anything in the garden? Of course we can except the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. She told Satan they would surely die if they touched it. Not having known death she was not really sure what that was but of course, Satan knew. What did he do? He tempted her with half truths. He assured her she would not die, she would only know both good and evil just like God did. This intrigued her and she took him up on the offer. How did God have a hand in this? He left her on her own trust to be obedient!

She ate the fruit of the tree and offered it to her husband who also ate. He was to have guarded the gate, spoken up and confronted his wife's choice, he did neither! God knew man must be able to make a choice between good and evil. He allowed Eve to make the decision that made us all born in sin and introduced death it changed the world drastically and forever.

1Genesis 1:26 The beginning profile of Adam and Eve.

JUSTI'S THINKING ALOUD

WHERE IS THAT SCARECROW?

You know the one, that little guy with the cute hair. Hair cut model oh yes Edwards. He came out right at the last minute in the game of manipulation. Threw in his delegates and went home.

Dorothy, Lion and Tin Man have reached the Yellow Brick Road. A skip, hop and a jump and they will have arrived at the home of the Wizard, but is that the real Oz?

This is an incredible tangle the voters are in at this point. Hillary Clinton has received a far greater number of votes than Senator Obama. In fact it is said that more people have voted for her than any candidate during a primary in history. Don't plan on drawing me a picture, I am aware that it is the number of delegates and not the individual votes that count; however, those regular delegates are representative of the constituiency vote. It is the Special Delegate group that turned over the oil can.

Tell me what is democratic about a bunch of elitists deciding who they want regardless of the voice of the people. Even the speaker of the house threatened to step in... But then what does she know? This is where the straw man comes in, Mr Edwards threw his delegates in at the last minute. That got his name in the paper one more time and made a difference or the powers that be would have called on all those other people - who they are God only knows- and would have overthrown the vote of the people.

Having said all that the votes have gone to the Tin Man and he is due a vote of confidence until proved not worthy. No one else has defeated Dorthy and her family at anything they began before.

What is the Wizard going to tell them?

"Go home Dorothy, put Toto in a kennel, get Bill some therapy. You may want to go see if the Lion will take you over to his side of the Isle. Joseph Lieberman is an independent have you considered that route?"

"Mr Lion I know you have all the experience and know-how you need. It would not hurt if you got a touch of Viagra for your step and to put a little pep into your speech."

"Mr Tin Man, they are all aware of your eloquence but one or two more foul up like all 57 states, (they know there are 57 Muslim States) instead of 50 and they will wonder more and more about your allegiance than whether you wear a stars and stripes lapel pin. First advice is to get a social director to choose better friends and associates than before and I think you will do alright in the Illinois State House until you get a tad more experience in democracy. But then who knows Rev. Wright may become the Senate Chaplain."

The road is long and golden they will not arrive until November and until then I wish them all success!

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