First Post

Turning 60 years of age will cause a man to begin to think about his mortality.  Watching one's parents get old and die helps to initiate the process.  My grandparents passing came and went in the middle of overriding dreams of fame and fortune.  I guess drugs, sex, and rock and roll would pretty much sum them up.  Society wants to take young men and ruin them as fast as it can.  Or at least certain parts of society.  There is also society that wants to take young men and raise them up to be great statesmen and patriots who stand for freedom and liberty and the preceps of the united States Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution.

Men who are educated in this manner will less likely be taken into captivity by satan.  Of course the fear of God is the beginning of all wisdom and 60 years of living have knocked me back to my senses and I believe in God the father, Jesus Christ his only begotten son, the holy spirit, and the life everlasting.  Just for that one sentence men have been persecuted beyond all imagination since the time of Adam and even in the first earth age.  The beautiful thing is that in the third age of heaven and earth there will be no persecution and only beautiful things.  All by the grace of one man who hung on a cross with a crown of thorns.

I like the old country singers.  I just want to be a country singer, I don't want to be a  superstar.  So many old songs.  It seems country music, or country music that is on my country music playlist, kind of transcends all things.  And when you sit back and listen to some good old Merle Haggard gospel while your Dad is taking his last breaths in the hospital bed at the nursing home with your brothers and mom and brothers wife and son  and a team of nurses well a certain peace comes upon you and you realize that this whole world doesn't really amount to a  hill of beans.

So I start thinking in terms of my Last Will and Testament.  The idea comes to mind that anybody who doesn't have their affairs in order might be looked upon in some circles as being an uneducated man.  When my mom had her stroke, and forgive me Lord but I will write it down right here, shortly after taking the Chinese Flu shot, and they gave her two and a half weeks to live.  I remember it like it was yesterday.  Two and a half weeks to live.  Now where does anybody get off coming up with some kind of number like two and a half weeks?  I guess some of these educated doctors who have taken an oath to do no harm.  My dad was a doctor of veterinary medicine.  I think he took his oath seriously.

So then they tell you to go home and get your affairs in order.  Now who out there doesn't have their affairs in order.  What does it mean?  Go home and look at your checking account and hope to God you can afford to die with a modicum of dignity?  Thank God and thanks to many years of hard work my mom didn't have a  whole lot to worry about financially.  But they say, go home and get your affairs in order.  Who would be going along in life knowing that their affairs are not in order?  It's  like go home and make your bed.  I mean I like that navy seal who gave the speach on youtube about first thing you do when you wake up every morning is to make your bed.  

Probably many feel the same as I do.  Many are of a different opinion.  And that is what makes America great.  And makes the world great if we can get along with the heathens.  

heathen - a member of a people that do not acknowledge the God of the Bible; 

Now even among the believers, you will have differences of opinion.  Tony Spell spend I think more than a few days in the slammer because he wouldn't shut down his church during the Chinese Flu scare.  Many other preachers that I like did not say one word  of support for him.  Rodney Howard-Browne was  arrested.  I don't know if Tony Spell had a word of support for Pastor Rodney.

Well back before the internet it might have been understandable, or at least given one some level of plausable deniability, to say that you don't have time to be writing down you opinion on every issue that comes up twenty-four hours a day but now with the internet you really do not have that out.

I made this same argument twenty years ago with the blog.  I ended up tearing that all down and deleting everything after I went down like Saul and Jonathan to the Philistines.  And twenty years ago they could just ignore you.  But today it is twenty twenty-three and there is Twitter.

What is twitter?  Well grandpa, you  remember when the telephone first came out?  You know who Alexander Graham Bell was?  Well it's kind of like that only different.  And my young neice and nephew will explain it to you, I  need to go and write my last will and testament.  This is my first post.  My  last post will come.  My  remains will be cremated and that will be left here will be this blog, my  facebook feed, my twitter feed, my instagram page, and my youtube channel.

God bless you and thanks for stopping by.