Prayer Warriors,    I was very dismayed when, recently, a member of my
Church said to me with great resignation that she was afraid Obama will
take the presidency. These words came from someone that in the past has
been a great prayer warrior.

“What is happening,” was my question!  Why are we Christians settling for
the loss of our Christian heritage, not issuing a battle cry and falling
to our knees and taking our country back? We allow Ourselves to be
stripped of the right to pray at school functions and in school, we have
the Ten Commandments removed from government places and are told we cannot
pray publicly or proclaim Christian principles, all the while providing
public prayer places for Muslims. We allow Muslim mosques to operate in
America funded by Saudi Arabia, and proclaim anti-American, anti-Christian
threats and terrorism.

The first thing that comes to my mind is “How in the hell did this happen?” And I’m disappointed. Why, when our country is going through such turmoil and pain, do we have to inject religious, ideological, and many times racial intolerance into the mix? Why haven’t the “prayer warriors” spoken out against the Church of Satan, the Scientologists, The Klan, and any number of groups associated with crimes, hate, or just downright unlawfulness? Why is it that we are attacking the very people whom we have been meddling with for the past hundred years? If you are going to generalize an entire religious group in such a way, then you should never be afforded the opportunity to be separated from your own group’s fringe and extremist groups.

This opening statement says to me: “Christians can’t settle for Obama because he is obviously unpatriotic and he’s got something to do with Muslims so we should hate him.”

Sad. I wish Thomas Jefferson was here to sob with me. This is not in any way a Democratic encouragement. This message presents the reader with the idea that a theocracy is exactly what this country needs.

WHOA! Wait. Didn’t we go to Afghanistan to ‘Liberate’ from a theocratic regime? Oh. We did. It looks like the Taliban may have set an example for us, then.

I’m no expert, but I’m sure Nazi Germany probably started off this way. Propaganda messages with little hints at intolerance towards Jews, then it escalated to an all out ‘cleansing’ because no one would put a stop to it.

Stop the propaganda. This is wrong on every level. If you are concerned about this election, sure pray about it. Talk to your advisers. Learn about what your spirituality means to you, but our country was founded and structured in such an amazing way that it allows all people to be free and have any ideas that they want to until they start encroaching on your right to do the same.

Isn’t our country better than this? What happened to the American dream? I want my children to grow up in an America where peace and tolerance of diversity is embraced and loved. It seems that we can only be tolerant if they are a different kind of Christian, then. Right?

McCarthyism for the new generation. This makes me sick. A modern Crusade. Never again.

PS. Here’s the full message:

Prayer Warriors,    I was very dismayed when, recently, a member of my
Church said to me with great resignation that she was afraid Obama will
take the presidency. These words came from someone that in the past has
been a great prayer warrior.

“What is happening,” was my question!  Why are we Christians settling for
the loss of our Christian heritage, not issuing a battle cry and falling
to our knees and taking our country back? We allow Ourselves to be
stripped of the right to pray at school functions and in school, we have
the Ten Commandments removed from government places and are told we cannot
pray publicly or proclaim Christian principles, all the while providing
public prayer places for Muslims. We allow Muslim mosques to operate in
America funded by Saudi Arabia, and proclaim anti-American, anti-Christian
threats and terrorism.

What in the world is going on and why are we being so apathetic? Why
aren’t we praying? Our GOD is an Almighty GOD who is Waiting patiently for
us to raise our voices to heaven to stop the tide of the anti-Christian
actions in our world today.

Now we have a charismatic, albeit inexperienced, candidate for president
that does not respect our flag and refuses to wear one on his lapel except
when it becomes politically expedient, and whose own wife and pastor that
he loves profess to have strong anti-white feelings, and we sit back and
say ‘it is a given, we can do nothing’?

There has never been a time in 2000 years that we can do nothing, never a
time that we must sit back and allow the evil in men’s and women’s hearts
to take over our world! We should be afraid, very afraid because our
apathy is leading us to perdition. It is time for all Christian  Americans
to raise the battle cry and take our nation back!

Maybe McCain on his own cannot defeat Obama, but our GOD can and HE will
if we take to our knees in prayer and raise a mighty cry to the heavens to
‘Save us O Lord.’ We have GOD’s promises in 2 Chronicles 7:14, ‘If my
people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will
forgive their sin and heal their land.’

We have the power to change the course of this election and to keep a man
as suspect as Barak Obama from leading our country to who knows where with
his message of ‘change;’ a change which I fear will be away from our
Christian ideals, and away from Christ, and further away from one nation
under GOD to one nation under Allah. We are great at passing stories and
pictures around the internet but where are our prayers and prayer warriors
praying to stop this tide of Barak Obama? GOD parted the Red Sea, JESUS
was raised from the dead, and we can bring our country back to its
Christian roots and stop the undermining of our country by Muslims.

We can stop our country from being ‘under Allah’ but we must begin to
pray, to pray as our country and our lives depended on it because they do.
We can stop all these atrocities against God’s commands that have taken
root in our country through something as simple as sincere prayer, a call
to God to deliver us, to forgive us our sins of apathy and to protect us
from the evil that is upon us.

Okay prayer warriors, here is your challenge, start those prayer chains.
Get the spiritual power working on our behalf and stop Barak Obama the
proper way, by calling on our GOD to save us from the deception that
charismatic preaching is using to lead us on the wrong path. Stop those
who would take GOD out of our country and our government. Raise up good
men to lead us and protect us. George Bush is being buffeted because he
has fought a holy war against the evils that attack us … and we should
not be surprised because a prophet is not honored in his own country. But
we should not rest on our laurels and allow ourselves to be taken further
off the path of Christianity and to have GOD removed from our presence in
our schools, courts, government and businesses. Invite GOD into the fray.

Ask that HIS power rest upon us and give us the victory. Ask HIM to raise
up a mighty army to defend us and to protect our country as he did in days
of old. Let us be victorious beginning NOW. The battle is HIS but we must
call on HIM without ceasing and unite our voices and hearts in prayer and
fasting.

Please pass this around to all people of prayer that you know and maybe,
just maybe, a more eloquent person of prayer Will write something better
and more inspiring and even the rocks will shout that JESUS IS LORD and
our MIGHTY GOD Is with us and bringing the victory for us and ultimately
for HIM.

AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
PRAY PRAY PRAY

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My parents’ dog, PJ, is a complete mess. He’s absolutely helpless without someone holding him and giving him their undivided attention. Aluin, my dog, and PJ stayed in my bedroom while I was at work. I came home and the filling from my comforter was strewn all across the room.

Thanks, guys.

I knew I could trust you to eat everything in sight!

He barks incessantly until you pick him up and put him in bed with you at night. I dont want him sleeping with me because he’s a brat and takes the thing over. Whatever, though. Aluin drives him nuts.

It’ll all be over in less than a week. Thank God.

of my future

in someone else’s eyes

sunshine from a heartbeat

my mirror has a name

Deep and dark like the heavens, those eyes rise as the sun, fall as the moon, shine through the black of night….

They can’t be buried like that, not now at least

From dust to birth and nothing to something
A heart beats not by choice but by perfection
Hands reach skyward, eyes blinded
Fear wiped away by thoughts of paradise

Imagine the world with nothing left behind
A cold, boring shell of shrinkwrapped new car smell
Hearts remember, they’ll always remember
Everything is left behind

But the new day makes everything beautiful

I got so lost in my narrow field of vision for a while that I started to lose track of where I’m headed and how I want to get there. I never got off track, but failed to see the roadside attractions. The necessary distractions and potential companions.

The journey has been re-evaluated.

My eyelids are heavy and my thoughts are more contemplative than normal. This week will be hectic. A balancing act for the uncoordinated. Tip-toe through the minefield hoping not to stray.

New faces.

“If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don’t show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.”

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”

“Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn’t worth the time and effort.”

Maybe I’m not doing anything and my mind is just wandering. This is most likely the case.

I catch myself in places that I thought didn’t exist…or at least that I had closed the doors to and thrown away the key. Not necessarily bad places, just somewhere old and completed. Somewhere deep in my thoughts that served its purpose and was put into the archives for emergency purposes only.

Like a humpback whale in a geo metro, stuff weighs me down. Thoughts. Not the ‘what-ifs’, either. It’s usually the ‘why-nots’ and the ‘just-because’. I’m famous in my own mind taking my memories for hostage and killing the weak ones first. They were gonna die early anyway.

Like I was in some deep conversation about

Religion or politics or pineapples

Something is floating around in there

My memory takes a break for a while and

My head works overtime to fill in the gaps

With molded bread, broken bottles, and goodbyes

An hour or two after I started talking and staring

I’m an elephant in a minefield

I could get out but I’d die trying

I can’t dance like this

And my oversized stump comes down on the sensor

It spins up and sends fire into my body

Leathery elephant flesh rains down

Thud.