WE ARE HERE FOR HIS PLEASURE

I wanted to share a poem by Russel Kefler that sums up that GOD made each and everyone of us with a purpose.

You are who you are for a reason

You’re part of an intricate plan

You are a precious and perfect unique design

Called God’s special woman or man

You look like you look for a reason

Our God made no mistakes

he knit you together within the womb

You’re just what he wanted to make

The parents you had were the ones he chose

And no matter how you may feel

They were custom designed with God’s plan in mind

And they bear the masters seal

No that trauma you faced was not easy

And God wept that it hurt you so

But it was allowed to shape your heart

So that into his likeness you’d grow

You are who you are for a reason

You’ve been formed by the masters hand

You are who you are, beloved

Because there is a God!”

I got this from a very awesome book I am reading called “Living the purpose driven life” by Rick warren. This book is amazing and has helped me look at everything with more clarity. I highly recommend this book for all that do not like themselves or their lives, to the ones who struggle with the obsessive question “What is my purpose” If you read this book please let me know how it affected you and your perspectives on life I would be very interested to know.

FEAR HATH TORMENT

The whole world is crippled by fear. Sadly the “Spirit of fear” has found a platform through the media to invade and torment people’s lives. We see from scripture that God says, He did not give us a spirit of fear. So we see clearly that fear is not just an emotion but it is a spirit that Satan works through. I know people get weirded out when someone mentions Satan but the truth is he is alive and well doing what he does best in the earth creating fear and panic. All of the world issues are demonic from the selfishness today, the easily offended, the anger and lack of morals and on and on the list goes. I think we can all agree that none of this comes from God so where do you think it comes from? It comes from Hell. Fear is simply faith in the devil. I have heard that fear means: false evidence appearing real. God has given promises to those who believe Him that he will protect his set-apart ones and His report is what I choose to believe! We have to collectively say GOODBYE TO FEAR and say HELLO TO FAITH! The “News” is pumping fear as much as possible and it is snowballing. Listen we had the scare of ebola which was much more serious, We had bird flu and swine flu. My point is this is no different. The only difference is the MEDIA AND NEWS ARE LETTING DEMONIC FORCES INFLUENCE THEM and it has created worldwide hysteria. Even doctor Drew said publicly that the panic is what is killing people not the disease. He also said that the “News” should be held accountable for all of this fear and panic AMEN! and again I say AMEN! The news is full of wicked reports hence my blog called “The Wicked Report” written to and about the news teams that contribute to all of the madness and chaos of our world! They are mouthpieces for Hell itself and totally ignorant of that fact! Let us STOP GIVING THE DEVIL A VOICE by obsessively talking about this virus. It is consuming people and it is all people want to talk about. I am over it STOP TALKING ABOUT IT. Do what you know to do and trust in Almighty God. I want to encourage everyone to read psalms 91. I will share a few verses as I have it committed to memory.

A thousand shall fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand but It will not come near you. Only a spectator shall you be inaccessible in the secret place of the most high as you witness the reward of the wicked.

Because You have made the Lord your refuge the Most High your dwelling place no evil shall befall you and no plague shall come near your dwelling.

This prayer is so powerful I am speaking from experience. I have been healed by believing in God’s word! I have had trees fall around me and yet not one touched us. I have had flood water rise to my basement and one swift move of ALMIGHTY GOD pushed the waters back. God has saved my life many times. Before I was seven years old I was almost killed three times. So let me tell you with all assurance that GOD IS FAITHFUL and HIS WORD CAN BE TRUSTED. They are living words that produce and my life testifies of that.

Let these words comfort you. Understand that the news is embellishing as always to get the hype and ratings and it is sad and pathetic that they use their voices and positions and platforms to hurt rather than help, to cause wars rather than peace, to create fear and panic instead of hope. They are taking false evidence and making it real! I cannot stand the news they are like venomous snakes striking everyone they can with their poison. Stop watching the doom gloom grim reapers and begin to acknowledge God. Read and learn Pslams 91 and let those words remove every trace of fear and enjoy your life. I will close with John 10:10

The thief (satan) comes only but to steal, kill and destroy but… I came (JESUS) so that they may HAVE LIFE and ENJOY THEIR LIVES in abundance to the full until it overflows.

Do not let fear rob you one more minute trade your fear for trust! Stop giving power to the spirit of fear with your words!

I sincerely hope this helped some people today who have been crippled and tormented by all of the wicked reports. Please have a day of calm delight.

 

 

CRUCIFY HIM, CRUCIFY HIM!

Today I am thankful to have a voice and boldness to speak the truth in a world where truth is detested and hated. As long as I have a voice I will rage truth. I have raged truth about the drug addicts, the moral decline of our world, the technologically addicted and many and I stress many other things but this subject I am blogging about I feel the most passion and so I rage!

CRUCIFY HIM, CRUCIFY HIM!

I live in a very religious town and through the mail service, it is considered the “Bible-belt” I find that amusing because the posers I have witnessed all of my life and even today are anything but Bible-believing Christians. I actually wrote a poem called “The Bible-belt Gossips’ (excerpts are in my book Hells Hallways) While living in the middle of a pack of Pharisees. I am not a preacher I am just tired of all of the contradictions and misconceptions that are being regurgitated giving God a bad name! Thankfully I do know the Bible, it is just wisdom to embrace the wisest book ever written and by the way you do not have to be a Christian to do that. I have read the Bible since I was 19 years old and because I chose to educate myself my eyes are wide opened to the lies and hypocrisies today. These lies and hypocrisies create atheists and God-haters and it needs to stop!

Crucify him, crucify him was the words of the religious. While sinners were chasing after JESUS the religious Pharisees were screaming crucify him! I am so fed up with religious people and their rejection of the grace message that they are supposed to embrace. This rejection is familiar, we seen it all through the new testament. Religious Pharisees defending the law and rejecting Grace (JESUS). Every time JESUS turned around the Pharisees (the religious) were in his face defending the law that they themselves were not keeping. Church people are scared of the grace message. The attitude is if we preach grace then people are gonna sin. How stupid, first of all, we all are gonna sin until JESUS comes back, secondly, the BIBLE is very clear in..

Second Timothy: GOD hath not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

I am tired of the misconceptions and the picking the BIBLE apart to suit your preferences which is a sin by the way. SIN DOES NOT AND NEVER WILL SEND A BELIEVER TO HELL!!!!!! This is one of the biggest lies of hell that keeps multitudes apart from him and anyone who preaches anything except JESUS and the gospel of CHRIST will be cursed. REJECTION OF JESUS SENDS PEOPLE TO HELL! The grace message sets people free from addictions and bondages of all kinds. The grace message provides an intimate relationship with GOD. The grace message takes the pressure off of trying to be perfect and keep laws that have no ability to get us to heaven. I will tell you what a preacher on T.B.N said if sin could steal your salvation away then…the only way any of us could go to heaven is to get saved and then blow their heads off. How insulting you are to the cross when you preach and teach this way. THE BLOOD OF JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN it is not works of the flesh! Grace changes people. Obedience is not an obligation it is a reciprocation of the Father’s love for us. IT IS NOT ABOUT RULES AND REGULATIONS!

You or I will not stand accountable for anyone but ourselves. Do you really think JESUS died the tormenting death he did so everyone could be scared to preach the grace message? It makes no sense to me because you everyone have a BIBLE and want to camp in the old testament and old covenant.

The Pharisees boasted of their law-keeping hence JESUS demonstrated to them what it truly takes to be justified by the law. He showed them that it was impossible for man to be justified by the law. For instance, the moment you are angry with your brother in your heart according to the law you have committed murder. How many of you have been or still are angry with someone. If a man has ever looked at a woman with lust according to the law he has committed adultery. The ten commandments say you shall have no other GODS before me but yet religious people put the law above HIM all the time. Making their laws and rules a GOD. How many of you speed? If you speed you have broken GODS law because we are instructed to keep the laws of the land. So like the preacher I made reference to said if someone commits adultery and does not repent when he dies and he goes to hell then anyone who goes 56 in a 55-mile hour zone who did not repent will also go to hell. It is astounding to me how biblically ignorant so many are. I have been raised around religious Pharisees all of my life with their gossip and judgments and exclusions of anyone that is different, their dress codes and hairstyles which still baffle me. Again insulting to the cross and the blood. Your outfit will not get you brownie points or a place in Heaven and most importantly it is not a good witness. I see women in my town that I do not know personally but I know they attend the same religious church because they are clones of one another. They have frowns on their faces not friendly and none of these women have ever witnessed to me. They had the long dress on, they had no make-up on, They had the long hair but NO FRUIT!!!!!!!! I am going to repeat what I have said before If you are one of these religious people just know when people see you, they do not think of Jesus they think Charlie Manson because this is CULT BEHAVIOR. If you wanna sacrifice clothes and make-up and different lengths of hair great but DO NOT MAKE IT A LAW AND CONCERN OF GOD. This will not get you into heaven!  ONLY JESUS will get you to heaven. You all are scared to preach the “too good to be true news” which is what the Gospel is because your afraid sin will increase meanwhile you all commit sins all day every day. There is no little sin or big sin. The BIBLE is clear in Romans 14;23 anything that is not of faith is sin.

Romans 3;20,24 says it best; For no person will be justified(made righteous, acquitted and judged acceptable) in HIS sight by observing the works prescribed by the Law. For the real function of the Law is to make men recognize and be conscious of sin(not mere perception, but an acquaintance with sin which works toward repentance, faith, and holy character).

21: But NOW the righteousness of God has been revealed independently and altogether apart from the LAW. Although actually it is attested by the Law and the prophets.

22 Namely, the righteousness of God which comes BY BELIEVING with personal trust and confident reliance on JESUS CHRIST (the messiah). (And it is meant) for ALL who believe. For there is no distinction.

23: Since ALL have sinned and are falling short of the honor and glory which GOD bestows and receives.

24:All are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His GRACE (HIS unmerited favor and mercy), through the redemption which is provided in CHRIST JESUS.

Shame on all of you who preach the law and are hiding the grace message like it were a dirty little secret meanwhile people are going to hell every minute. Do not concern yourself with someones else s walk that is between GOD and them it is no business of yours. Work on your own salvation and celebrate any newcomer in CHRIST! Religious people are notoriously known for judging and criticizing everyone else meanwhile not paying any attention to their own walk. Like JESUS said to the Pharisees You are like whitewashed tombs beautiful on the outside but inside you are full of dead men’s bones. I know why religious people stay in the old testament because they see themselves through the Pharisees in the New Testament who were calling out CRUCIFY HIM! It is time to get the lies out of our church, and the false teachings, and misconceptions, and the cult behavior where everyone looks alike. I can’t let that slide because it is not part of being a Christian. God made all of us different for a reason not so we could all dress alike, wear our hair alike, think alike, act alike, watch the same stuff share the same opinions. GOD is brilliant and creative not boring, he likes variety just look at everyone and everything he made. STOP STOP STOP insulting the trinity and GODS plan of redemption and salvation!!! You should want to look your best you are a child of a KING. I am not saying it is wrong to choose to dress and look alike if that is what you want but… do not preach it and make it a concern of GOD and a means to get to heaven. Do not impose YOUR personal preference on others. Re-read 2, Peter, this is where you religious Pharisees got that notion. The scripture was not saying you can’t look nice it was saying do not care more about the outside than you do the inside. You all took the first part of that scripture and made it a law and dismissed the second part of that scripture. STOP taking the word out of context to suit your personal preferences! The grace message does not give people a license to sin, that is a choice, we all are free moral agents. One of the greatest things GOD gave us was free will because he did not want a bunch of robots serving him out of an obligation. People can make a decision to sin but there will be consequences to all sin, so nobody ever gets by with sin. Just live your life and let others do the same, knowing that you too sin.

One last thing I do not want any grief from any religious Pharisee because I used an Amplified Bible it is not a different word it is the same word only richer because it gives the definitions of certain words in scripture. I thank GOD for resources like these. If you want to give me grief over something so silly remember you are showcasing that YOU are a religious Pharisee and I will call you out!!! I do not care who may be offended because the truth is denied its abilities in this day and age. If you are offended then take it up with GOD. But remember offense is a stumbling block, oops you would have sinned again.

Another day, Another Page

By Kimber Renee

THE WISEST BOOK

I hope everyone is remembering their blessings and things that they are thankful for. I suggested the challenge of adding to your blogs every day something for this whole month to be thankful for. I am thankful for the Bible. This book is still THE NUMBER ONE BEST SELLING BOOK OF ALL TIME! I have been reading it since I was 19. I personally love it and just so you know you do not have to be a Christian to read it. I think people have bought into that lie and they are costing themselves so many good things. People pay hundreds and thousands of dollars to set on a couch and let a person counsel them when every answer to every problem is found in the wisest book ever written. How many of these same people have a Bible collecting dust on a shelf or in a drawer and some sadly do not even know where it is. They have the answers and don’t even know it. The only expert in life is GOD the creator of it. The only doctor of the soul is God. I am not saying it is wrong to get help but as for me if that help does not believe in God I consider them dumb as a doorknob and their counsel means nothing to me. Here is an example for you. I think everyone can agree that professionalism is dying fast. You cant go to a restaurant without a mistake. You order something online or from a company and the order is either late or wrong. Recently my cousin’s husband got a dozen doughnuts and he wanted chocolate cream-filled and instead had glazed. He had to use his gas and time to take back the doughnuts. It is sad and scary how very little people take pride in a job well done. There is a scripture that could solve this problem. It simply says to do every task heartily from the soul, do all that you do as unto the Lord and not man. Now, if we could get that mindset we all would do things right and life would improve instantly. I realize the blessing of owning it considering that some countries have made it against the law to have it. People can get their heads cut off from having it. It is smuggled in some countries like drugs.  So today I am thankful for the Bible that has given wisdom, comfort, blessing, healing, and peace for the soul. It is not just words on paper it is actually active, operative and alive. It is living words that produce amazing things in one’s life who embraces it. This is just a drop in the ocean compared to what all this word does and can do. I hope someone will knock the dust off of it and start in the New Testament. Another good place to start is the Psalms and proverbs. Proverbs is 31 chapters so we have one for every day of the month. The Psalms are a book of prayers so if you don’t know how to pray or if you have ran out of words you can find a prayer that speaks for you. Proverbs is a book of wisdom and practical insights. I suggest an amplified Bible I personally have the enjoying everyday life version.

GOOD MEMORIES ARE A GOOD MEDICINE

GOOD MEMORIES ARE A MEDICINE

I am reviving this post in celebration of my grandparents who are no longer with us physically but never cease to be with us in our hearts and memories. My Grannys birthday was last month so I wanted to honor her with this post.

With all of the craziness that we are surrounded by I had to take my own advice and find my “Happy place” this time it was not my deck instead it was my bedroom, spacious and airy with gypsy orange paint on the walls. Setting on my comfortable bed with family albums stretched across the mattress. I began looking at the albums appreciating all the memories. Years ago my mom gave me the majority of her pictures so there was a lot of old pictures staring back at me. I chose to look back at times that were happiest for me.

GRANNY AND PAPAW’S

I have shared in previous articles that Granny and Papaws was the happiest place on earth for me growing up. There was a safety that enveloped us that cannot be explained, nothing bad could happen at Granny and Papaws. No worries, no anxieties, no fears, no insecurities. It was a happy place surrounded by love. When we were kids our aunts and uncles were always there. They would not all show up at the same time but…before the day was gone they all would end up together. The best part was all of the playmates, with aunts and uncles came cousins. In the late 70’s and most of the 80’s, I was an only child so playmates were appreciated.

My cousin Andy who was two years older than me was my partner in crime so to speak. He was more like a brother than a cousin. I remember vividly when my mom got me a Strawberry Shortcake purse. It was pink and outlined in red, it had a flap on the front of it, and on the front of this flap was a cheery and happy scene of Strawberry Shortcake with her cat Custard. I could not wait to get to Granny’s the next day to show it to Andy. I was sure that he would like my newest accessory. We got there and he was playing outside and I ran to him and said, “Andy, Andy look what mom got me!” I showed it to him and sadly he did not share the same appreciation and excitement for my cartoon friend. He snatched it away from me and began twirling it over his head taunting me, then quick as a flash he flung it in a deep ravine. I started to cry and Papaw who was close by heard my cries and came running, realizing what had happened he scolded Andy and went down in the ravine and rescued my purse for me.

Saturdays were great if we had spent the night or showed up early we started our day with a hearty breakfast. The table seemed so massive then, Papaw at the head of it as if a king (which he was to us). Granny believed in cooking and the spread would include; soft eggs, bacon, sausage and biscuits and gravy and sometimes fried potatoes. I am fortunate enough to have that table now. After our breakfast we would run out of the doors like we were escaping prison, to start our adventures.

I can remember Papaw’s garage like it was yesterday, and how that we were continuously warned, Do not go in there, stay out, you will get hurt! I also remember not listening, resulting in nails in my feet. The cure was red Iodine. I was a clumsy kid with glasses and was always tripping and falling. Every time that one of the grand-kids got hurt Granny would come running with the Iodine. My legs looked like a road map. There was a long freezer in that garage and me and my cousin Andy was sure that there was a dead body in it. The warnings did not matter to us, we were compelled to find out. Day after day we would build up just enough courage to run in and pop the lid open just enough to peep and long enough to get scared and run out screaming “There is a dead body in the freezer,” but it was hog meat and frozen vegetables from the garden.

The cellar was another adventure, we were sure that the stairs would take you to a scary land where monsters would jump out at you, making you wish for your bed and covers. The bed is an obvious place of rest, but for a scared kid, it is a safe haven. As a kid, it has a protective bubble that nothing can penetrate. Not the witch in the closet or the Bogey man or even the Ronald Mc Donald doll that was perfectly OK except at night when he became evil. I laugh at the innocence and imagination, thinking if only life could be this easy today. Good times followed at Granny’s and Papaws.

There were so many things to do there. Hide and seek which was very easy to play because of the enormous Pines that stood everywhere. I have many pictures that my aunts took of us crouched downplaying in the dirt. My cousin Andy would get a hand full and stand over me and slowly release the dirt like an hourglass at the top of my head, my mom would get so mad. The hula hoop was a big hit for me but sadly ended up in the trees most of the time. The big wheel was lots of fun and since there was only one we learned how to share. There were horseshoes and yard darts that we could only play if the grown-ups were present. We had a small plastic swimming pool that entertained us in the summer and even the fall of the year, we all would drag it over to the picnic table and fill it with leaves, and one by one we would jump off the table into the leaves. I do not ever remember us complaining about it being too hot, or too cold to go outside. I do remember when it got cold they would make us come inside and that was a punishment for us, big difference today, now you have to beat your kids with a stick to get them to go outside. We did not have cell phones or video games and internet so we used our imaginations and these memories bring me much joy even today. Papaw would visit his dad and take us out with him and there was a country store up the road a piece and me and my cousin Andy would be in the back seat and I would have Andy ask Papaw to get us a candy bar. He would and we would enjoy the sugar rush just in time to visit our Great Grandparents. Halloween was an awesome time for all of us because my aunt would paint our faces helping us to get ready to trick or treat. Easter they would have huge Easter egg hunts that always accompanied a prize egg. Papaw would take the little ones on rides on his riding mower. Papaw took the grandsons fishing which they especially liked. Creek fishing, wading out to the spot slaying red-eye and catfish and bass. Christmas was the best at Granny’s and Papaws everyone gathered together and the tree was covered in ice sickles compliments of the 70’s and gifts were stretched along the wall because there was not enough room for them. Good smells of desserts being made and lots of love and laughter. Papaw got us one year a giant size Christmas coloring book. He always brought in lots of fruit and Christmas candy good, good memories of love and happiness.

Granny loved to sew she made me some furniture for my Barbies, a little wooden couch and chair, fitted with red material. She made little red throw pillows with lace around edges. She made me a Strawberry Shortcake tapestry for my wall that sadly did not make it to my hope chest because when we were teenagers my cousin got drunk and gave it to an outside dog as a cover, I was livid. Looking back it seems he had issues with Strawberry Shortcake.

I am sure Papaw and Granny had much to talk about with each other in their quiet moments seeing teenagers coming in with green dreadlocks and piercings all over their face, and big black studs in their ears. This was another cousin of mine, too funny. Papaw was straightforward and funny he could not simply “say nothing” about the long hair, the green hair, the dreads, the piercings, the ear-rings, the holey jeans that we bought so we could take them and splash bleach all over them (gotta love the 80’s). He would always have a comment which I loved about him, he would release the beast from his man vault of “Burns.” It was always hilarious. I always had an appreciation for his rants. A familiar one was; “These kids could tear up an iron wedge.” The 80’s was all about holey jeans, big hair, and a rock hard attitude. They had already survived the hippy era and the Bee Gees (lol) with their daughters and they survived the 80’s with us and the grunge years with others. They saw a lot of trends. I would love to see Papaws’ reaction to men who rock “man buns” today sounds crazy just to say it. It would have been a blast.

Memories are sweet and a great way to get happy. I went to my four-year-old nieces birthday party this past weekend and my mom was reminiscing about my first day at school she said, I grabbed the doors and screamed “I am not going in there!” My niece started preschool and did not cry or whine for her mommy at all lol. She proceeded to tell them how she got called to pick me up in first grade because I was turning the lights out during a thunderstorm scaring the kids. I was never scared of the dark apparently they were. I am very sentimental and I have a couple of hope chests that I like to go through ever so often. One of my treasures is a handwritten mini-bio of Papaw and Granny’s life. I asked her to share how they met and anything funny that she wanted to include and the places they lived. She totally did and I will always treasure her words. If you still have your grandparents I suggest you ask them to do the same. I was very verbal of my love and adoration of my Grandparents, and I was always affectionate but I wish I would have told them in depth of just how much that they meant to all of us. Their home was more than a structure, it was normalcy for some, security and safety for others a place that your soul could rest awhile. They are deeply missed. I can’t stress enough for everyone who is fortunate enough to have your grandparents still with you, to love and enjoy them. Give them respect and take in their wisdom.

Another day, Another page

By Kimber Renee

OPERATION: GENERATION DYSFUNCTION

 

OPERATION: GENERATION DYSFUNCTION

At the risk of being repetitive I have to vent this week on a subject that I have written about several times, and that subject is none other than TECHNOLOGY. I have heard for awhile now that some schools have taken out writing and the students do all of their work on the computer. I just heard that there are polls asking people mainly parents if they think they should stop teaching cursive writing. REALLY!!!!!!!! I think this idea is insanely stupid and what is more insanely stupid is that, it is up for debate at all. It is reminiscent of the bathroom debate absolute insanity. Commonsense would dictate that human beings should not put their whole lives and dependence on lifeless cold machines that will ALWAYS FAIL at some point! We are toying with the idea of making our kids ignorant to the point of not even knowing how to write their own names, or to even be able to read cursive. We are toying with the idea of creating a generation that cannot think for themselves because Google and Alexa can do their thinking for them! We are deciding to get rid of one of the three basics of our curriculum since the beginning of time reading, writing and arithmetic. Can you believe that this is even up for debate. What, because it is 2018 we don’t need to go through the pain staking effort of holding a pencil and write with it? I am being sarcastic. What, because it is 2018 we don’t need to write at all because we have machines that will write for us. My husband offered at one time to get me some program that you speak to and it types it for you. I gave him a very loud NO! If I did not have use of my hands that would have been helpful, but this just further confirms what a lazy world we have created. I love hearing the sounds of the keys when I am writing it is music to my ears. I journal and write poetry so I practice the lovely art of traditional writing all of the time. If we don’t speak up it will be a lost art.

Me and my husband CHOOSE to not have Facebook and some would consider that weird but it is WISDOM at its finest. I personally do not want people tracking me down like a dog. I do not want to rebuild lost relationships, or relationships with people I went to high school with and I could care less what they are up to now. I have no desire to create drama or to get addicted to the thrills of how many friends I now have on these sights, that is called PRIDE. It is sad but true that our youths self worth is dependent on how many friends that they have on these social sights and that is disgusting to me. Pride is also prevalent today through the famous selfies that people are addicted to. I do not care to see you eating chips and hopping out of shower, or hugged up with a friend blowing a kiss. I say again REALLY? I refuse to trust social media to give me the break I so desire I have a higher power for that. I refuse to worship technology and spend all of my waking hours romancing it like it were an individual. I know people who have gave their lives to the internet, totally consumed by it to the point that they can not deal with physical interactions.

I even blame the school shootings in part to social media and technology because with every new App, social sight and technological toy invented the more we as a society become desensitized. Parents are not paying attention to their kids because its easier to let the internet raise them, teach them, comfort them and guide them. Conversations in the home has become a by-product. The internet supposedly keeps us connected, that is a facade because the reality is that we as a society are more disconnected than ever. My niece told me she does not like to talk on the phone she prefers to text, need I say more. We are trading convenience for relationship. It is important to hear each others voices. The divorce rate is at its highest because of the temptations imposed through social networks. How is that connecting? It is not, rather it is breaking and busting apart relationships all over the globe! I am in no way a prude, or a stick in the mud I like some technology like video games I appreciate the fast transfer of information but I am not oblivious to the issues. The internet needs revised and social media needs to be obliterated! I love wordpress because it gives writers and authors a voice and no-one is hooking up and causing chaos, we are simply sharing each others talents, insights, wisdom, perspectives. I detest the technologically addicted world that I am apart of. The world today as a whole is creating hopelessness. I asked my fifteen year old nephew and my thirteen year old niece for their perspective on the world we live in today and this is what my nephew said I will quote him as he “Texted” me.

“I feel like humanity is doomed. Humans hate humans but they also hate anything that is not human. People hate anything that is different yet they strive to be anything but the same. The world has went to shit you cant say three words without someone getting “offended” and everyone shoots or riots over anything that can walk. Humanity is doomed”. This made me sad although I totally get it but I felt it was necessary to give him something positive in response. I told him that yes the world sucks today but..we have to keep hope alive and seek the good things and focus on them. I hope what I said helped him.

My niece said and I quote her “Umm okay well today the world is filled with drama and politics. Its also filled with mind bending drugs and bad fake news that kill out all our brain cells before we reach 17. A teens life is hard with school, sports, a job if you have one and arguing with your parents 24/7. Even though our world has its lows we can get a decent education, and we have the most freedom to an extent, the technology advances are amazing and video games are now amazing”. It is insightful but notice neither mentioned technology as a problem. I do not blame them because this is what they were raised with. However, out of the mouths of babes and it saddens me that they also feel the sting of a very dysfunctional world.

Today the world embraces everything that is ignorant, wicked, profane and immoral for convenience and then these same people complain about the conditions of this world as if they have no part in the madness of it! As I have said before I choose to see the bigger picture and I will share again my illustration Technology is like a gun cabinet full of guns and the world does not lock the cabinet instead they give everyone license to grab any gun they choose and kill everything they can with a convenient excuse hand picked for them afterward. The shooter of a school the excuse; well, he was depressed and on medication, or the parents claim they did not know anything was wrong. Why, because they were not connected to him or her but I guarantee you they were connected to the internet. The drug pandemic: well, they have a disease they cant help it. The internet: well, there is good on there too. Really what you are saying is that, it has not affected me personally so I applaud the internet, that is called selfish! That you would have the nerve to disregard all of the horrible things that THE INTERNET has produced and the countless lives that it has destroyed is SELFISH! I struggle with this world. I grieve for it. Today we have to SEEK out the good because it is not common. Seek is a strong word and it best describes how we have to live today if we have any hope of a joyful life.

I know just from the people in my life that this technology age has only made them ridiculously stupid. Commonsense has been shunned, rejected, rebuked, labeled, renounced and ran from like the plague and WE wonder why our world is so screwed up. Most parents today are as addicted to social media as their kids are, creating parents who are poor imitations playing house instead of creating a home. Technology is producing the weakest generation of men ever in the history of world and these are suppose to be the ones who will defend us and our country when most cannot even talk without crying about something! Does this scare anyone out there? Boys today would not know a hard days work and if they did they would whine all through it. Believe me I know because we have had a hard time sifting out the weak from the strong to get a descent crew together. How many flesh and blood people have lost their jobs because they have a MACHINE that can do it now. Taking food out of a persons mouth to feed a machine to make more money PATHETIC! I have said it multiple times and it cannot be overstated that TECHNOLOGY IS KILLING OUR WORLD! It is merciless, cold, lifeless, brutal and full up of wickedness. One bad apple ruins the bunch use to apply but now everyone wants to defend technology with tired arguments that go like this, there is good that comes out of it to. Yes, I agree BUT….when more bad comes from it than good its time to get rid of it. Example if someone burns down someones home and then later gives them all the money to rebuild does that justify that he burned down their house? NO WAY because there were things in that home that were irreplaceable. This is what we are doing with technology metaphorically speaking all kinds of people are burning down houses through (deceiving, stealing, scamming, conning, cheating, bullying, kidnapping, murdering, recruiting, fighting) all through the giant door that we gladly open called THE INTERNET but its OK because some good comes of it. Even though things that are irreplaceable are being destroyed daily by it.

GREED AND PRIDE KEEP THE INTERNET GOING! People everywhere are choosing machines over quality of life because they are addicted to the convenience and attention, or they think its going to make them rich some day, or they are just nosy and drama addicted and love to stir the pot, or they are conceited and think they are much speaking and love to talk about themselves. Pathetic is what it is. It is what I titled one of my poems months ago “THE IGNORANT EMBRACE” this sums up the world we live in today we have made the ignorant embrace and chose a Godless whore instead. I told my husband that I feel like an alien in this world today and he said, “Baby you are not an alien you are a beacon, if there was no darkness we would need no beacon”. How beautiful and this is what I will conclude with.

Another Day, Another Page

By Kimber Renee

LETS LIVE IN THE PRESENT BECAUSE IT IS A GIFT

LETS LIVE IN THE PRESENT BECAUSE IT IS A GIFT

I think it is interesting that we refer to the present as a gift “A present”. I have been living more in the present. The other day I was soaking in a hot bath and began to appreciate the hot clean water, the nice smells of the soap, the music that was playing in the background. The relaxation of that moment. Life is a gift, a present that we all open everyday. There is no paper to rip apart we simply open our eyes. This culture today is full of distractions that rob us of the present moment. I want to encourage people to stop and smell the roses so to speak and literally. Take time to be present, take time to just ”BE” in the moment. When you ask most people how have they been the popular response is “I have been busy” I heard it said we are not Human Busies but Human Beings. Lets just “Be”. I think for most we have to learn this and for all of us it has to be on purpose. I am all about moments, I go outside on my deck and close my eyes and listen to the wind rustling through the trees and the birds singing and it literally restores my soul, but I have lost a lot of days and moments to being busy physically and emotionally. We cannot get a refund on our days or moments. They come and go with a twinkling of an eye. Let us be aware of the present and not waste days living in the past or worrying about our futures. Lets simply “BE” and enjoy all the many things that we have been blessed with. If you have a family enjoy that family, If you have animals enjoy those fur-babies, If you have gifts and talents enjoy those gifts and talents. If you have a home enjoy your home. The list could go on for days but you get my point. One of the things I like to do is rock out and go for a country ride with my husband. I love the scenery and the music. I love the moment and that is what life is a series of moments, fleeting moments. They do not have to be fleeting WE can make them linger by living in the present in everything that we do.

SWEET GABRIEL, YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN

This poem is written about a little eight year old boy I never knew but love dearly. As you read further it will be explained. This picture is not him I did not know if I could download his picture and put it on here without his parents permission and I have no clue how to reach his parents. But like this picture he was a little eight yearold black boy, only he had a smile that would light up a room. I suggest you look him up and see for yourself how beautiful he was. My heart still aches for him so I decided to write a poem to him, to this boy I never knew.

SWEET GABRIEL YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN

I have never met you sweet boy

I am grieved for your choice

I am sorry that people failed you sweet boy

They are wicked, calloused and cold with their choice

Your name is one of an angel and that is so sweet

I am sorry Gabriel that so many are weak

To weak to stand strong for you

This boy I never knew

Gabriel I love you.

I am sorry baby boy for your pain

I am sorry for the deafened ears that did not hear

I am sorry for the blinded eyes that did not see you

To the ones who ignored you I pray for great shame!

I think of you often a smile that lights up a room

I pray that justice will come soon

I grieve for you

This boy I never knew

I LOVE YOU!

I lift my voice for you

I cry tears for you

I wish I would have had the privilege of knowing you

I will never forget you

I will keep writing about you

I will keep honoring you

I WILL REMEMBER YOU!

Your life has affected mine in a profound way

I wish you could have stayed

The smile that lit up a room

The boy I never knew

I LOVE YOU!

I have two blogs written for Gabriel called “JUSTICE FOR GABRIEL and JUSTICE FOR GABRIEL PART TWO.” He was an eight year old boy who killed his self because of bullying. I heard this story on the news as I walked through the house when my husband had it on. The bullying took place at Carson Elementary in Cincinnati Ohio. He was put through hell everyday and he stayed home one day and hung himself. I cannot tell you how this affected me. I wept all that night. I will always remember this young boy who captured my heart. I hope he captures yours too. Lets ask our children if there are any problems at school. Lets get active with our young ones. I hope all parents that read this will take the inititive so that this will never happen again. This has been a few years ago now and I still weep for him and suspect I always will.

THE WICKED REPORT

THE WICKED REPORT

I want to write to the “News Teams.” I normally do not watch the news, but for the purpose of this article I chose to. I watched a two hour broadcast that included only two things that were positive. Only TWO out of a two hour program! This needs to be addressed. We have epidemics of all kinds in the world today that reach beyond drugs like; Ignorance, denial, delusion, I’m offended syndrome, lack of common sense, lack of accountability, rebellion, violence, excuses etc. Some would disagree with my list, but the one thing that I think all the people can agree on is: we are overdosed on negative, wicked and fear based reports. We have a saying in the south “If it isn’t broke don’t fix it.” I think we all can see the world is broken, she is bleeding all over the place. I want to make it clear that this is not a hate letter but rather a letter written in hope of change. This is not a rant about (fake news), or the crazy politics of our world today. I stay far from the madness of politics. This is about “truth.” I have heard it said in the “news business” “good news is no news” and when it comes to the news I totally agree. News people take responsibility for your words. You promote the EVIL and wicked report all day, everyday and the consequence for you may be, that you have a pocket full of money, but sadly the consequence to the world is anxiety, fear, depression and even suicide! You glorify hopelessness to get ratings and it is pathetic. The majority of people start their day with you and you spread misery as much as possible and then wonder why the world is so bad. This is what you promote!

You steal peoples hope before they even get the sleep out of their eyes in the morning and then you put on your concerned television face and continue to add fuel to the fire! America is wounded and needs to heal and you have helped bruise her! What I mean by bruise her is; all of the non-sense that we have allowed to infect her. I challenge you to make a decision for only one month to refuse to promote negative stories that WE DO NOT NEED TO HEAR AND KNOW ABOUT and see how dramatically America would change. I am not saying that this will fix everything in our world but it would be a good start. I care about the conditions of this messed up world and everyone needs to take their part and make change. I am not saying I do not appreciate informative stories, Obviously there are some things we need to know. I appreciate warnings and such, but the problem is we get every twisted, disturbing, heart piercing, anger and fear based tragedy, and trauma a person could conjure. I am not implying the issues of our world is created solely by news teams. I am saying news teams contribute to the chaos and madness. I have had issues with the “SYMPHONY OF NEGATIVITY” for years, which is precisely why I choose to not watch the news.

Be the news team that is known for spreading hope and see how your ratings will skyrocket. I encourage everyone to stop watching the doom gloom teams that dominate our mornings and instead magnify the good and lovely things so that they can enlarge. Give power to the “GOOD” and weaken the “evil.” We need to be lovers in this earth. LOVE is what is missing. Love is what is needed and in some cases craved with no fulfillment leading more and more to kill themselves. You give nut jobs fame, You help create race wars and many, many other things. You promote hate, anger, and you give life to fear. Always promoting fear with your choice of stories. This is some of the message that you promote. You can do so much good for our world and yet you use that power and platform to steal hope and peace from everyone who listens to you. How do we get rid of the darkness? By bringing in the light! It is not rocket science and you do not need ten degrees to know your part in this messed up world. I rage against the darkness that is overtaking our country and anyone who contributes to it. The world is not evil, it is the people in it. Words are containers for power, you can heal or break with words, you can love or hate with words, you can take hope or give hope with words so why would you want to spread misery and encourage madness? What good does it do to tell us about someone killing their son, or a kid got molested, or head on collisions, rapes, overdoses, robbery, murder. This is death that you give voice to and promote. None of what I have mentioned has life in it. None of this do we need to know! In that two hour program thirty seconds was dedicated to something positive, that is pathetic!!!! You all have a hard on for politics and it is so ridiculous, you talk politics to death but do nothing else. Spilling the same junk over and over again, creating more anxiety and fear. Our quality of life is being destroyed daily by all of the issues I rant about. The suicide rate is at its highest and you set blind, deaf and dumb with statements such as; that is awful, that is so sad, that is tragic. But you are not connecting the dots and taking your part in the hopelessness we all face in America today. You promote fears of every kind and wonder why people are going crazy, and why people are anxiety ridden. No matter your belief system when it is all said and done we ALL will be held accountable for our words and how we lived our life. Do you really want to be told how many people you helped pull the trigger on, or how many you helped push over the edge because of your repetitive, incessant bad news? Do you want to be known for giving all dysfunction power because you like to over dramatize situations and talk it to death just to have a story to share. You contribute to the hate, the violence, and the depravity of our world because YOU GIVE IT A VOICE!!!!!! This is a choice, The evidence is all around us and I plead that my letter will not be in vain, but that is YOUR CHOICE!

Those two hours I dedicated to “The News” inspired the poem “The Ignorant Embrace”.

THE IGNORANT EMBRACE

THE IGNORANT EMBRACE

The world today is backwards,

leaving me baffled,

The victims are the enemy,

The victimizers are pitied,

Delusion and denial are the diseases of the world!

The world is hypnotized by ignorance

Morals are protested against

The goal today is to protect the sin.

Death is embraced,

While life is erased,

Ignorance is what it is,

The accepted mentality, live and let live.

No rules, no accountability,

No truth just accommodate me.

Super sensitive, arrogant and easily offended,

Get over yourselves and stop pretending,

Selfies are symbolic

for the arrogant vain times we are living in,

The world is hypnotized by ignorance

Morals are protested against

The goal of today is to protect the sin.

Indecision,

Contradictions,

Pity party victims,

Crying men,

Continual offense,

Technology addicted,

Morally afflicted,

Wicked,

Trying to throw God out of everything,

This is insane to me,

Twisted lies

And we are left to pay the price.

Hand picked excuses for all manner of dysfunction

Keeping the world sick, and I am left disgusted.

Stepping on lovers,

While embracing the haters,

The media spreading death everyday of the week,

Creating chaos instead of peace,

Abusing their positions for a paycheck, title and TV time,

Meanwhile their “NEWS” is creating suicides,

The wicked report is what they promote

Meanwhile people are hanging from ropes,

Wicked minds,

Wicked lives,

What about me all of the time,

Defending crimes,

Getting high,

Robbing people blind,

Feel sorry for me,

No responsibility,

Refuse to see,

Excuses make them free,

Denial and delusion are the diseases of the world!

The world is hypnotized by ignorance,

Morals are protested against,

The goal of today is to protect the sin.

We are living in the ignorant embrace,

That some of us have made.

The exchange of;

Lovely for ugly,

Educated for insanity,

Truth for lies, Freedom for crimes,

Quality of life for technology,

Purity for dirty,

Loyalty for social media,

Wisdom for ignorance,

Good for evil,

Reality for fantasy,

Life for death,

Justice for injustice,

What is left,

This exchange is our downfall,

Live and let live with no rules is law,

We all are witness’s,

We all see,

The world treating morals, values and human decency,

As if irrelevant in 2019,

All of this and more disgusts me,

The world has become a big giant whore,

Taunting, stalking,

Infecting and destroying,

Using, devouring,

Tempting, exposing,

Spreading disease,

Self destructing, calloused and wounded,

Twisted delusion,

Chasing excuses,

Adding to the abuses.

The madness has to stop,

Lift your voices and say no more,

Let us divorce the whore and…

Take our world back as it should be,

Safe, enjoyable and lovely.