Eve of the Eve

Another day, before the world begins our countdown to a New Year!

This is my character, home at The Goblet of FFXIV.

The media would have started on their stories looking back on 2017 as closing articles.

Of course, even as I decide to attend a BBQ tomorrow evening, there are other people to think about - people who will not be ushering the New Year, simply because of circumstances.  The friend I visited yesterday, is one of those people.

For their family, the New Year means they are closer to saying goodbye. 

Next year, will bring it's own challenges.  It's the Year of the Dog.  Frankly, I am not too certain if people will be better off generally.  2017 brought into the spotlight, brutal truth that people are not willing to accept.  The Jerusalem issue comes to mind.

Those who are in the habit of TAKING TAKING TAKING, will use that as the reason to kill others who do not share their religion. 

The world events may change, but the bottom line remains the same.  If one is selfish, one can never be unselfish.  If one is accustomed to tantrums to get something, that wouldn't change either.

Frankly, if any religion has teachings which honour the killing of followers of another religion, then THAT isn't a religion at all.
Religions came about to promote love for all.
It is not just a Christian belief.

It's nonsense that there is A GOD, who gave the green light to kill at pleasure.

Yet because people are not constructively busy raising their families, working to support their families and keeping themselves gainfully employed, they have FREE TIME - for isn't the saying
AN IDLE MIND IS THE DEVIL'S WORKSHOP?

So perhaps, a lot of governments in the world should borrow a page from our humble governing body here - make people work hard so they don't have time to dabble in nonsense.  Make people fear the law because in a lot of countries, their laws are a joke.

Here, we may not have the freedom of speech, simply because RESPECT must come first.  If we have that, then we will know better than to shoot our foul mouth off just because we can.  Respect means, we are not careless about how we address others.

Regardless of where each people will be, come the New Year, the day will still arrive.
How we ride the tide - rough seas or calm waters, will depend pretty much on whether we believe that there is always a big picture.  If we can't see it, it's because it's not time yet. 

So today, I thank GOD and the angels in heaven, for always walking with me - had I been walking alone, I would have perished multiple times over.  I was never alone. 

One thing my friend told me yesterday was that I seemed to be happier than he ever remembered me to be.  I actually got him to laugh, in his despair.

I told him - GOD keeps me well - GOD drives my cart - GOD uses SATAN to keep unwanted people from me.  No regrets.  I can tell myself that I have no regrets, but when an old friend tells us what they see, then we know that ah....I wasn't kidding myself.....

THANK YOU GOD for 2017 and May Your Blessings rain upon us to give us renewed birth for 2018!

Tears when it's Cheer time

Days before the New Year, an old friend, someone I have lost touch with, sent me a Christmas Greeting.
At first I thought - perhaps it was a mass send from his phone.  But I sent back a Christmas greeting with a note, generic, as cultured people do.

To my horror, he told me his wife has Stage 4 advanced Cancer.

I was stumped.  The one thing I was bad at doing was dealing with families of the terminally ill.  I never felt the words said to matter, because someone was loosing everything and nothing can comfort them.

I offered coffee. 
He called me.
So now we are meeting at the hospital - he invited me to visit his wife. 
I had to say yes, although I have no idea HOW and WHAT to say to her and him and their young children.

During the conversation, he asked about me, my family and everything.....I told him, I'm not important, my troubles, even if I had any, cannot match what he is facing now. 

When I chose to raise my son, alone, it was my choice.  We are now living better, with God's blessing.  Everyday, Mother resides with us, protecting us and keeping us well.  I have nothing more to ask of her.  When a trusted person tried to screw me up, Mother intervened and the huge problem he was hoping to created, frizzled out in an hour literally.  When the trusted friend, after having escaped prison and a caning tried to evict my son and me from our temporary refuge, I got another immediately and just under 5 months, I bought a new apartment - the apartment I have been wanting from the time it was available.

I never doubted that Mother would abandon me, even when mortals try their best Satanic trick. 
What mortals do for the devil, they will pay with their dying soul.  That much I know.

Now what has happened to my this friend, who has never done wrong to me, is tragic.

I know that whatever trials we have in our lives, are put there so that we grow to be stronger. 
I know that GOOD PEOPLE seem to always be the punching bag for the devil. 
I know that GOD allows such things to happen because He knows we have the strength to overcome it.
I know that it's unfair to seem to be punishing good people, but that is the devil's way of showing the little power he has.

So today, I offer this serenity prayer for my friend and his family.

I pray that he will find comfort and that he will strengthen his Faith that all WILL be as it's meant to be.

EMOTIONAL OUTBURSTS ALWAYS WINS in the world today

WHO CAN SCREAM THE LOUDEST?

I live in a civilised society - by that I mean a society which upholds respect for the individual.  That encompasses beliefs, practice, culture and TOLERANCE. 

EVERYONE has a RIGHT to exist.
EVERYONE wants to LIVE.

What right does a person have over another to say, I AM MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU.

I am a practising Buddhist.
I abstain from eating BEEF and all it's by-products.
But if a stall sells BEEF, I can still buy edibles from there - I just don't buy beef-based food items.
Yet I do carry a pure LEATHER bag.

Buddhism teaches TOLERANCE.
It's a philosophy of life.
Do good unto others and have others do good towards you.
(Sometimes, people prefer to take advantage, but it's okay, KARMA catches up - what goes around, comes around)

Today, I read world news, whether it's FAKE NEWS or MODIFIED NEWS or CRAFTED NEWS and I find that world society gives in to EMOTIONS rather than facts.

I am a Psychology Major, and I know that giving in blindly to emotional outbursts NEVER SOLVES THE ROOT PROBLEM.

So why are world politicians, who are supposed to be people who received some kind of scholarship or some sort, blind to FACTS?

It's a little like a couple - one party goes on an emotional rampage, threatens to end a life and cries until the tear ducts are worn, just to get the other party to cave in.  It usually works.  That's why, till today, couples stay unhappily married, so they don't have to deal with the excessive emotional storm.

Our daily life, outside of marriage, has become the same.
People rather vote with the majority, even though that IS factually incorrect.
GROUP DYNAMICS - Applied Psychology.

Back in the day, parents raised us all to be tough.
We were raised to speak the truth.
We were raised to return what doesn't belong to us.

I guess, with all that education, fat salaries and VIP treatments, the fundamentals of ethics went down the toilet.  In crude terms - LOSS OF BALLs.

I can't wait for the SECOND COMING OF CHRIST....I'm Buddhist, why should I care right?
WRONG.
I'm still a Roman Catholic.....retired, but still is.
If being a Catholic means, I get to meet CHRIST, then I want to because I have a ton of questions for Him.

I want to know why HE took so long to return.
I am about to run out of TOLERANCE and PATIENCE because people in high places CHOSE to be IGNORANT about the truth. 
Already, I have refrained from eating food simply because the stall offers BEEF products.
I am ONE person, I do not have ECONOMIC WEIGHT.  I do not matter to the stalls.

BUT I MATTER TO GOD.

I always have.
So I SEEK GOD to answer my humble prayer this Christmas.

LET JESUS BE BORN AGAIN so that the world may return to what GOD wanted it to be.

When I celebrate Christmas Lunch tomorrow, I will actually say GRACE, because finally, after skipping out on Christmas for 2 years, I decided to stand with Christians around the world to spread the GOOD NEWS OF THE LORD.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

About JERUSALEM

FACT FINDING TIME:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/12/08/jerusalem-has-been-home-jews-for-3000-years-to-deny-it-is-israels-capital-is-fake-history.html

MORE FACTS:
https://www.jerusalem.muni.il/en/Visitors/Facts/Pages/Section31621.aspx

AND MORE FACTS:
https://www.ancient.eu/jerusalem/


I DO understand how important it is to keep PEACE in the world.
I ALSO DO understand how important it is to keep HISTORY intact.

We have all heard the saying, 'history has a habit of repeating itself' - but only IF we do not learn the lessons of the past.

To alter HISTORY just to keep the PEACE is eradicating the truth, bit by bit, until generations later, after adding up all the missing bits, we get a whole new truth, which is actually a LIE.

I am a retired Catholic....the joke of course is in the acronym RC.....it's a Catholic joke.  I say that because I do not go to church every Sunday.  However, being 'retired' does not mean that I am no longer a believer of the Catholic faith.
One cannot erase the 10 years of Catechism in the Convent, 10 years of celebrating MASS for any small reason, 10 years of leading the school in singing hymns.

Therefore, it is with HORROR that I find a lot of people, in high places, making nonsensical statements about the recent announcement that Jerusalem will be recognised by the the USA as the capital of ISRAEL. 

I get that today, the internet is more important than having a belief in GOD. But to want to condemn what is only correct i.e. JERUSALEM was originally for the JEWISH people, is disgusting.

I do not wish to preach, since, I do not go to Church every Sunday, but over many years, generations, centuries, the Jewish people and the archaeological finds have proven, beyond reasonable doubt, that the Jewish people were the from before the beginning of our calendar.  That isn't about religion, it's history.  So why are people, who hold control and power in countries, UNWILLING to accept the truth?

Since the announcement, papers are reporting violence in those areas.
Perhaps they were just blinding following their leaders there, who called for an UPRISING.

I wonder, what are they upset about, given that it's the Jewish people who have suffered for thousands of years.  A Jewish friend of mine told me in jest, that it's perhaps to pay for their sin, of what happened to Christ.

I also read people seeking for things to go back to before the announcement ie talk about a 2-government/country solution.
This has been going on for DECADES.

GUYS, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect a different outcome.
Where is all that common sense?

Is this about who can cry the loudest?
What happened about doing the right thing?

People say, this will bring about WAR.
Well, let me say this:
The second coming of Christ is INEVITABLE.
With the world this selfish, STUPID, and wicked, it may be time for human-kind to start over.

Christians all over the world know that it has been Satan's reign - it was given to Satan, this headstart.
As in movies, the good wins.
In real life, GOD wins.
He always does.

Those who still want to stay on the grey area, go ahead - stand there and wait - worship Satan and re-write history.
That would probably make the world end a lot quicker, and put all our miseries in the grave...perhaps it isn't a bad thing.....this is my piece, a retired Catholic, who is a practicing Buddhist.