A Few Words About WHERE WE NOW ARE~

I have been indisposed, from health care issues to studying new and old  characters and places surrounding colonial Americana–such as John Adams–and I saw that Teddy Kennedy died. I miss most news each day and only glance at it in brief intervals anymore–the propaganda is otherwise too much to stomach, it’s a steady diet of worms for the brain and moths for the heart. I have no illusions that Satan will make his last great stand of rebellion against God and against all that is good by means of his last world power. (I know that remark makes people so very, very mad to hear, primarily because (1) they don’t understand it and (2) they don’t believe it even if they do.) Let me remind my readers of how the Great Lion of Judah put it himself, no need to believe me on anything, in his conversation with that one long ago and recorded aforetime for our instruction today. (Romans 15:4)

(Luke 4:5-8) “So he brought him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited earth in an instant of time; and the Devil said to him: “I will give you all this authority and the glory of them, because it has been delivered to me, and to whomever I wish I give it. You, therefore, if you do an act of worship before me, it will all be yours.” In reply Jesus said to him: “It is written, ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.’”

No disputing as to the claim. Indeed, he validated elsewhere, and we who trust and know the scriptures to be what they are, made by God and not man, know who the ruler of this present world is. (John 14:30)

So I do not get into politics anymore. But Edward Kennedy seemed different to me over the years, different primarily because of what it was that seemed to matter to him the most, what he worked hardest to change. I wish his family well in this difficult time, for at long last they no longer heard those last days taunts–”I’m still here”!

We are still here, the rest of us, and where is it that we find ourselves? Near the end~! If we could look ahead and know we would be utterly overrun with anxiety! We would be confounded in our beliefs and we would run here and there in search of either validation or refutation, as if we had any say, as if, truly, in the final analysis, we would truly want any say. Government~! Hah~! Since the very first election in America it has been sinister intrigue and duplicity. (If anything Benjamin Rush mentioned about this has any truth to it anyway.)

I have an affinity to the Edward Kennedy family for reasons I don’t usually mention out loud but many years ago I had my left leg removed for the same reason Edward, Jr. had his right leg removed, and we both wound up in law school. The difference, primarily, was about social status and for those who hear me complaining they miss my point entirely because I am the one that made out better, I think, by not practicing the law with my J.D. and pursuing something and someone infinitely greater and better by far, and I do not mean that as a slight. Edward, Jr. and I also saw doctors at the same speciality group in Los Angeles, at about the same times. I never met him. I always wanted to. I knew of him. He never knew of me. We would have made a great trial team for the disabled in America.

In any event, this morning I guess I wanted to say a bit about the Old Lion of the liberal causes, Edward Kennedy. He cared about much of what was most important, human suffering, and did what he could as best as he knew how to do it. It was stacked at impossibility from the beginning because mankind is truly not meant to direct his own step. Self-government is about the rebellion that began in Eden, its father is nobody to get misty eyed about. The truth will set anyone free if they truly desire it. Most do not. (1 Timothy 6:3-5; Romans 1:28-32; John 8:32)

I hope his family finds much comfort among themselves as they bear up under this truly heavy loss, of one of the last family patriarchs in Americana. So much is coming to an end all around us and it is a hopeful reality because of what is about to be ushered in.

The Kingdom ~

May it come quickly indeed …