BeLOnGings

The apartment Father assigned us on our Boston trip was #714.

I immediately thought of 2 Chronicles 7:14. “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

We have been called to much Identificational Repentance and actions demonstrating this, over the years. I have found that authentic identification repentance is something that we enter into freely, as we are made aware of “the sins of our forefathers” (Psalm 79:8) It is orchestrated and directed by the Holy Spirit. It is often hidden from public view and always bears good and lasting fruit in the lives and relationships of those involved.

I remember this being deeply impressed on me when visiting St. Augustine with a spiritual mentor. I was showing him the site where the first European Christians set foot on ‘turtle island’. I was lamenting the fact that the Spanish mission Nombre de Dios i.e. the Name of God failed to fully manifest the Nature of God. He spontaneously dropped to his knees, and prayed,

“Father Forgive us!”

The counterfeit to Identificational Repentance is Identity Politics.

Here, Identity is drawn primarily from a human grouping, rather than from the divine creator from whom we have all come. It could be along racial, religious, cultural, socioeconomic or idealogical lines. The ‘enemy’ highlights this secondary identity and capitalizes on the fear between groups fostering hostility in order to gain political power.

Jesus resisting the tempter in the wilderness could be seen in terms of his staying true to his primary identity as God’s son. Rather than making a political power grab, he chose, in identification with the sins of the whole world, to become THE victim going the way of suffering love. Right up to the end he did not ‘protest’ his or our innocence, but became ‘obedient unto death, even death on the cross’

At one point in Boston, Robin confessed to finding it difficult to wake up, and had to ‘push through’ to regain ‘reality.’ When we arrived home another brother in our group unaware of Robin’s experience reported two dreams that week also involving difficulty waking up. I too had a dream in which I was driving a car. I was finding it almost impossible to keep from falling asleep at the wheel. Fearing I was about to crash, in desperation I slapped myself violently on the face with both hands. Yes! I actually did this – waking myself up! – and Hilary in the process!

This triple witness emphasised to me the urgency of this message, that we push through the discomfort in order to ‘Wake up!’

We realized Robin’s difficulty in Boston was likely due to the strong cocktail of pain killing drugs he was on at the time. The Greek word “pharmakos” from which we get the English word Pharmacist, is translated ‘drug related sorcery’ in Rev.17:23. This points to how Babylon has seduced or bewitched people bringing them under her control. In Rev. 22:15 we are told those who practice ‘sorcery‘ will not be classed as Overcomers and allowed into ‘the Holy City.’

We knew that part of our assignment in room 714 was for the three of us to to pray identificationally on behalf of all ‘my (God’s) people’ that they would, Puddleglum-like, push through the pain – to “WAKE UP!” from their Babylonian spiritual stupor.

“Awake sleeper; rise from the dead and Christ will give you light!”(Eph. 5:14)

Just last week I was reminded again of this experience when Hilary heard about a Facebook post of 2 Chron.7:14 being ‘taken down’

The reason given was that it did not meet Facebook’s ‘community standards’

“Well of course it didn’t!” I exclaimed.

For this is the first step in waking up……recognizing that there are 2 communities. – 2 kingdoms. The community of ‘my (God’s) people’ and the community known in scripture as ‘the world’. These are antithetical.

1 Jn. 5:19 plainly states “We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.”

The evil one is also called ”the father of lies’ So of course Facebook and the other vehicles of ‘the world’ will do everything in their power to suppress the truth that sets us free. Their goal is to keep people blind and bound.

I find it significant that this was the verse we saw was taken down. It speaks specifically about God’s people being those who ‘seek my FACE’.

FACE book is an “in your face” counterfeit of the FACE we are invited to seek and gaze into, that alone will fill us with peace and joy.

When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, O LORD, I shall seek.” (Ps.27:8)

The good news is that the Spirit of Truth is being poured out in our day. The internet is giving people more access to a different narrative from the increasingly mistrusted Mainstream. Check out for example questioningcovid.com

Jesus said, “No one can serve two masters……..You cannot serve both God and money.” (Matt 6:24)

Here is a very practical example of how the monied interests that have curated science to enrich themselves are being exposed. Dr. Paul Mason talks about the ‘atrocious nutritional advice’ we have been given for decades leading to common chronic illnesses. We have seen such ‘uncovered truth’ transform Robin’s health and likely save his life. You might recall the interview I posted of Ivor Cummins and Paul Mason on how this ‘bad advice’ is the underlying cause of the mortality associated with Covid 19.

In the vernacular…..if we ‘follow the money’ it helps us know who to trust. That is why I give more weight to an Andrew Kaufman, Ivor Cummins, Sayer Ji, or “an old bloke in an armchair” like Vernon Coleman who do not seem to have financial ‘conflicts of interest’ and do have ‘the ring of truth’, than a plethora of manipulated ‘facts’ presented by BIG Harfung ‘experts’.

The ‘body of evidence’ is more about the humility, integrity and the wakefulness of the body that carries the evidence than about the so called ‘evidence’ presented.

This is another reason I have received much from the bible teacher, Stephen Jones whom I have known personally for many years. He has written some deeply insightful and hope filled blogs over the past few days about the outworking of God’s perfect plan at godskingdom.org

When we begin to ‘wake up’ we may at first be apprehensive because of the evil our eyes are opened to. The psychiatrist Kelly Brogan in her essay, “Why We Stay Asleep When Covid 19 is Trying to Wake Us Up.” describes how we are experiencing a “Global Stockholm Syndrome” This is a condition where the traumatized child is unable to acknowledge an abusive authority because they are afraid of loosing their only hope of security.

However as the eyes of our heart open, we see beyond the darkness….to “the light of the glory of God in the FACE of Jesus Christ.”

I open my eyes …….I see your smiling face

Warming my heart….Good Mornin’ Dad.

Last night as I envisioned this reality for the thousandth time, Dad impressed on me that his smile was not only to do with his delight in me (and YOU) personally, but his satisfied look was in all that he saw taking place around us in our world today. For not only are we invited to trust that “All WILL BE Well’ but that “All is NOW well.” Everything is playing out as it is meant to and everyone has their own unique role in the Divine Drama.

All of us still ‘see in part’, but I believe one day we are all destined to fully ‘WAKE UP’ and with joy or regret acknowledge our role as ‘vessels of honor or vessels of dishonor’ (2 Tim 2:20,21) Then if we have not in this life embraced the purifying fire, we will certainly experience it’s cleansing action in the next. For scripture assures us that “EVERY knee will bow and EVERY tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.” (Phil.2:10,11)

1 Jn.5:9 affirms, that while we are called to be ‘salt and light’ in ‘the world’, we cannot expect to be ‘Main – stream’ with the current ‘world‘ which is under God’s judgement, but as we remain faithful to the name and nature of the humble servant son, Jesus Christ and his gospel, we will continue to be found – in that glorious ‘Martyr – Stream’.

…………..until that sure and certain day when the prayer we were given to pray will be answered, and his kingdom is fully come and his will is perfectly done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Yes, I come quickly!’ Amen! Yes, be coming, Lord Jesus! (Rev.22.20. YLT)

“Listen, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed – in a flash! in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable. and we will be changed.  For the perishable must clothe itself with imperishable and the mortal with immortality.” (1 Cor. 15.51-53.) 

Last week our friend Josie Lewis came to visit with her daughter Gigi. She also brought with her one of her 60 cocoons waiting for their moment to transition into beautiful butterflies. Then just as she was about to leave – it happened!!!

We all, kids and adults, gathered to watch the awesome spectacle of the monarch butterfly emerging from it’s cocoon in the glass jar and then being patiently passed from little finger to little finger until it’s wings had dried enough to launch out into it’s first glorious technicolor freedom flight.

Here is our email exchange the next day

Appreciated your visit with Gigi! 

P.S. The ‘millions’ was not an exaggeration! You too can become one of her half a million Instagram followers at her website https://www.josielewis.com

The phrase, “Think Globally…..Act Locally.” is a noble and wise aspiration.

Sadly the culture in which we find ourselves nowadays nurtures the opposite as does our fallen human nature. We have been increasingly conditioned to “Think Locally….. in the sense of think first and foremost about ourselves not in the sense of being self aware, but rather self important, and then arising out of our foolish pride, to imagine, “I can change the world!” – as I Act Globally.”

This has not always been the case. It was the last Century that was dubbed “The Century of the Self” at least by the makers of the BBC documentary series first shown on Channel 4 in the late 90’s (and still available for viewing on YouTube.) This in itself illustrates how far we have fallen in a few decades, when the source of an insightful objective account of the history of PROPAGANDA, the BBC, has now along with most mainstream media outlets, been gobbled up by the Beast it described back then.

In biblical terms we could call it The Century when the Soul of Man, the seat of thought, emotion and desire, has sought to eclipse the Spirit of God, the source of truth. Practically speaking we have been brainwashed to believe that what I think and what I feel and what I want matters, more than what God says. 

Now more than ever do we need to echo the words of the old hymn writer,

O let me hear thee speaking in accents clear and still

Above the storms of passion the murmers of self will. 

……and so one shocking video of a man being suffocated is enough to inflame thousands of Souls to instantly echo ‘the cheerleader’ ominously standing in the shadows hissing simplistically from behind the tree…

“The world would be a better place if we could just fix ‘this’ about ‘them’ “

People’s emotions of fear, grief, anger and hatred are co-opted by ‘the puppet masters’ to perpetuate the separation and destruction of one another, ensuring the subjection and bondage of all.

We didn’t have a lot of money growing up. I remember my embarrassment at school about the (what seemed like enormous) patches sewed over the holes in the seat of my worn shorts.

The Scottish Presbyterian virtue of ‘thrift’ was much applauded in our home. My grandfather had at the age of 13 as the eldest in the family been sent from the family farm in Co.Tyrone up to the big city of Belfast to try and ‘make a living’ and send something back to the farm. He ended up with a small milk delivery business that supported his wife and 6 children.

My father too, had to leave school with a basic education and served his time to eventually be able to own a small furniture store that supported his wife and enabled his three sons to all graduate from medical school. 

He taught us the value of ‘honest, hard work’. He also always had a heart for ‘the little people‘ …….just like Jesus.

I’m often asked. “So how are things in Minneapolis?”

Pretty good for the politicians who want to defund the police while having the little people whose businesses they failed to defend pay for their personal body guards.

Not so good for those little people whose businesses have been squashed by the deceitful one two punch of Covid 19 hysteria and rioting.

Last Sunday one of our group told how she was mugged last week in broad daylight in this increasingly lawless city. 

Then this week the City of Minneapolis leadership decided to again completely deny the true scientific facts about Covd 19 and cancel school this year. The ‘little ones’ once again sacrificed on the altar of political expediency. Jesus words about ‘a millstone‘ and ‘the depths of the sea‘, come to mind.

I’m posting a link below of what you will never see on Mainstream Media. Tim seeking to be an honest ‘independent’ (self funded) journalist began his career with the Mainstream press with whom he has become increasingly disillusioned as he tells what he sees really happening across the nation.

What really grabbed my attention was photos of stores, literally a few BLOCKS away from us, at the end of our street, here in Minneapolis! 

So now for The Good News!……… 

Every crisis brings with it both danger and opportunity……..

In the devastated neighborhood where the rioting began, Source Ministries, lead by our friend Peter, has given out over 120 tons of food to the victims of the violence and destruction.

At the other side of the world, we spoke this week with Paddy and Breda in the sleepy little village of Ederney, buried in the beautiful Fermanagh countryside. They told of how the current Covid ‘crisis’ had brought about an outpouring of loving kindness in their little Catholic community. The tone was set by the godly Parish Priest who a few years ago announced from the pulpit he really didn’t need all the salary he was receiving, so they didn’t need to give as much, but if they continued to give, he would pass the extra on to a needy situation in Africa. The people’s giving increased! When he later announced he was leaving, tough farmers were seen weeping. The fruits of the Spirit of Christ continue to be enjoyed amongst the villagers today.

Here is a short video about how one Black ex-cop sees things. I love where he lands in his final sentence!  “I’m an American who deals with my fellow Americans ‘One on One’. Try it. It works!” 

A few days ago an obviously perturbed One, called John, who lives on our BLOCK, arrived on our doorstep. 

“So how, for goodness sake, are you supposed to get a haircut with this thing tied round your face?!” He frustratingly demonstrated. 

Half an hour later he left with a lot less hair…. and a lot more smile.

“God so loved THE WORLD that HE GAVE his only begotten SON”

This ‘Son-life‘ within us, provides the key to how we can lead by the Spirit of truth, “Think Globally and Act Locally”, and make a difference

……One neighbor at a time

……One BLOCK at a time

……One village at a time

……One city at a time

……until his kingdom comes and his will is done on earth as it is in heaven.

P.S. Just this morning I came across this headline…

Christians Beat Newsom at His Own Game : 5000 People Just Showed up on the Beach for Church Services

California Christians have just beat Gavin Newsom at his own game. They’re heading to beaches and other public areas. It’s the “Let Us Worship” events and they’re stretching all the way from Redding to San Diego………..“JUST NO WORDS!!! Thousands gathered! Hundreds saved and baptized! Unity released! Hope restored! Courage instilled! We are declaring A NEW JESUS PEOPLE MOVEMENT HAS BEGUN!!!!!!”

Add to my list

….one State at a time

….one nation at a time.

“Even when their paths wind through the dark valley of tears, they dig deep to find a pleasant pool where others find only pain.” (Ps.84:6. TPT)

Father reminded me recently that there are two verses in scripture which have the gematria 2721, the number of our house on Parkview. These verses capture the calling we feel we have had in this place over this season.

One of the verses is Ps.51:15 which says, “O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.”

At our home fellowship last Sunday we revisited my song “All Day Long” taken from Psalm 71, with the chorus

Declaring your splendour

Proclaiming your righteousness

Announcing salvation

Singing your praises ……….all day long

I discovered that the Hebrew word translated “shew forth” means to declare, to proclaim and toannounce,

It also means to be “courageous and conquer.”

As one of the group pointed out, as we have in this place, followed the Lord’s instructions to Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles 20:17, ‘Stand still!’ (Park)…. in the position God has given you, shewing forth his praise….. we have indeed as a worshiping fellowship now seen (Viewed) ‘the salvation of our God.’ – at least three times.

Firstly in the Minnesota Criminal Court, secondly in the Health Insurance Court and now in the past week for a third time in the Local City Court as the authorities seem to finally have made peace with us….. and our troubled neighbor is in the process of selling her house and moving on!!!

The word translated ‘lips’ can also be translated ‘edge’

Brian, a biologist then brought up ‘The Edge Effect‘ described in the above video.

It seems that the crucial element to creating a rich diverse ecosystem full of life is to create space for the sun to shine in! We also connected ‘The Edge Effect’ to “the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.” which comes forth from our mouths.

These two images of the sword in our mouths and the sun on our faces are seen in Rev.1:16.“…..out of his mouth came a double edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all it’s brilliance.”

Today as we went on our weekly bike ride this new understanding of “The Edge Effect” made our ride through the beautiful Minnesotan countryside even more interesting and glorious.

When we arrived at the coffee shop, we found ourselves sitting opposite an anxious lady, masked and alone, waiting for her comfort food pizza. We struck up a conversation with her. We spoke of the beauty of her bright eyes, (visible above the mask) and we three shared together about the wonderful blessing of the nearby Parkway running through God’s creation. As we said our farewells, her spirit seemed lifted, by the sword from our mouths and the sunshine from our faces.

When each morning God enables us to ‘open our mouths‘ and we ‘show forth his praise’ as we remain in joyous communion with him ‘all day long’ , our ‘Living on the Edge’ can prove a life giving environment into which those who Father brings ‘across our path’ can enter, as we are

…..“always ready to give an account for the hope that is in you.” (1 Pt.3:15)

As we set off for home, I remembered another Edge Effect, example that was given in the Hebrew Lexicon – ‘the edge of the ocean’ . I thought of the hymn writer’s lines,

“Thou who fullest all things, in thee living moving, evermore are we

Shoreless sea unsounded, mystery and WONDER, sinks my soul in thee.”

I in thee, no longer bound in self’s dark prison

And the life that fills me moves me, Christ arisen.”

…..and of the words of another contemporary jazz icon,

……….What a WONDERFUL world!

We paused on the path savoring more deeply still the endless WONDER of

‘Living….. on God’s edge.’

“Don’t apologize darling, you are a WONDER too !” : – )

Last Saturday one of our men’s group invited us to go with him to the liturgy of St. Basil the Divine at the nearby St. George’s Coptic Orthodox church.

Due to ‘Covid 19’ only five families were invited to attend in the little church building. We were considered Bill’s ‘family’ and so we 5 masked guys were shown to our distanced pew where we participated in the 2 hour liturgy, in the beautiful Orthodox way.

I personally deeply appreciated being once again in the richness of an ancient liturgical setting. The many blessings I received serving as a priest for 8 years in a liturgical tradition came flooding back to me, not least the awareness that I was fitting in to something infinitely bigger and greater than ‘me’.

This truth was emphasized in the short but profound homily about the meaning of the word ‘Way’ (Acts.9:8) in the original language. It is first of all a ‘treading on self’ – a truly revolutionary message for those of us living today, in this, “The Century of The Self”

Returning home I opened an email from a friend with a link to a sensible conversation between two intelligent academics. They used the word ‘Iconoclastic’ to describe the irrational ‘madness’ that we now find ourselves caught up in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfsH3AaoqYM&feature=youtu.be

An Iconoclast is one who ‘destroys statues, institutions and traditions,’ however, the definition of ‘iconoclastic’ also includes, “the destruction of an image”.

As I pondered this in the light of the service we had just attended with a ‘masked’ priest and the instructions ‘Do not touch the icons’ – the very hallmark of the Orthodox tradition, it dawned on me the deeper spiritual significance of the current push by “the powers that (think they) be” toward mandatory face coverings.

An icon is an image, using earthly things to open a window to heavenly realities. In this sense Jesus Christ was THE icon, God become man.

“God…. has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.” (2 Cor. 4:5-6)

As we believe and receive Jesus Christ as the ultimate icon of God, our seeing of others is then transformed, for “We no longer view any man after the flesh.” (1 Cor. 5:16) As a “new creature” we are given new eyes with which to see our fellow human beings.

We are then by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit able to appreciate afresh God’s making mankind “in his own image”.

And so as we look into the face of every man, woman and child no matter what their social, educational or economic status, their gender, their age or their ethnic background, and are able to see them as ‘children of God’ to be valued and respected even as we all are, ‘broken’ image carriers of our Creator.

This spiritual truth rather than the physical health pros or cons of ‘face coverings’ is the primordial issue.

It is the “enemy of our souls” who wants to ‘Cancel’…. every last vestige of our loving Father’s image whom we bear, quintessentially in our faces………..especially in a smile that reveals the beauty and benevolence of our Creator

This year, in the Hebrew calendar, is the beginning of the decade of the 80’s (5780). The Hebrew letter Pey with the value of 80 is represented by the mouth, and by extension, speech and breath. This follows the Ayin of the 70s, representing the eye with which we see.

I believe people are being awakened to see and then speak the truth

I wrote a few weeks ago about why the phrase, “I can’t breathe” resonates with so many. Do the desperate Queen of the Underworld and the Giants of Harfung want to cover our mouths, to also silence the voices that dissent from the toxic, Main-sewer narrative?

Here is an example of someone whose videos have repeatedly been ‘taken down’ by the Harfung Tech Giants. As another doctor turned artist. I appreciated the wry English humor of this ‘down to earth’ observer, describing how he believes we are currently, victims of, “The Greatest Crime in History” perpetrated by an iconoclastic medical and political elite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhYX8RzyMC4

It was in the May 17th blog, that I first wrote about how Father had shown me that The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis was a prophetic template for understanding the days in which we now live. As I’ve said before, I try to avoid giving my ‘opinions’ and to share what I believe I’ve been given as ‘revelation’ from our Father for your discernment.

The Silver Chair has a wonderful ending. Against all odds, Aslan’s “strength is made perfect” in the midst of the weaknesses of Jill, Eustace and Puddleglum, the three chosen adventurers, and the plans of the evil Queen and the Giants of Harfung are thwarted!

Last night Father gave me the word ‘Iconoblast‘ to stand in contrast to Iconoclast. I discovered this morning there is no such word in the English dictionary! ‘Blast‘ however as used in biology e.g. lymphoblast, is from the Latin for ‘BUD’ referring to a precursor cell.

He also highlighted to me another well known Orthodox icon (pictured below) that hangs in our Upper Room. It depicts Christ ‘the firstfruits’ (precursor) having blasted through death, taking the hands of Adam and Eve, from whom all mankind are descended, drawing them up, to in turn, share in His resurrection life.

A ‘rocket’ seems to be blasting through the overarching earth.

This reminded me of how the three in the story, escaped with the ‘missing’ Prince Rillian along the tunnel that the evil Queen had been constructing, in preparation for how she, and her bewitched prince, would conquer and rule the world of Narnia.

But now the spell that had kept the true Prince of Narnia bound had been broken. He is once again in his ‘right mind’ and on the side of good.

The four finally blast through the thin cover of earth remaining at the end of the tunnel to emerge from the dark Underworld and set foot once again in the magical world of Narnia…… even as the other Underworld captives, are at the same time being set free….. for Jesus Christ ‘led captivity captive.” (Ephesians.4:8)

The Queen’s and the Giant’s efforts will in the end prove futile, for as God affirms….

“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it BUD and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” (Is.55:11)

Lord, please make me your BUD, an ICONOBLAST, not an ICONOCLAST : – )

Probably one of the best known prophets in recent times is the late Bob Jones.

The first time I came to Minneapolis I ended up that evening ministering alongside Bob to a small group. He said to folk, “God has sent you two loaves of bread. tonight.” referring to my singing and his speaking, bread representing the truth of the prophetic word that feeds and gives life.

I remember the two songs I sang were Good Mornin Dad and What A Dad. The heart of Bob”s calling was also to reveal the loving heart of God our Father or ‘Papa’ as Bob would affectionately call him. ……..the FATHER from whom every FAMILY on earth is named. (Eph.3:15)

At one point Bob said to me. “You’re a prophet and you know it.” I did, and
the way this calling has worked out over the years has often been to do with recognizing God’s action and subsequent commentary on things in our personal life.

A biblical example of this is the prophet Isaiah. He was told to marry, and then to have children and then to give his children certain names. Those names ended up embodying the prophetic message he had been given to deliver.

The final prayer Hilary and I pray every evening before going to sleep is from Psalm 127, “Lord give to your beloved sleep and in their sleep what it is you want us to know that we might best serve you tomorrow.”

As I woke from sleep a few nights ago Father wrote on the blank page of my mind, the scripture from 2 Cor.12:13, “Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.”

He then began speaking to me about the name and nature of our first born son, Robin. (a little easier to say than Mahershalalhashbas!) We have been sharing some of Robin’s story with you in recent blogs.

The name Robin as I said previously, is from Robert which means, “bright fame”. Other sources give the meaning “illustrious one” and “brilliance”. It is to do with light.

Father then connected and contrasted our Robin with another Robin who has recently risen to fame. In fact if you search the internet with the Harfung Giant called Google the first person they will present to you that they think you need to know about will be a lady called Robin DiAngelo. Her name translates to angel of light.

An angel is a messenger. (Heb.1:14) Father showed me how the message that Robin DiAngelo was bringing through her book “White Fragility” was flawed, and that Satan was using this lady in the guise of a messenger of light, as an agent of darkness, by utilizing Satan’s weapons of Condemnation and Fear to foster hostility between a shamed white race depicted as VILLIANS and a fearful black race depicted as VICTIMS.

God sends his Holy Spirit to convict us of sin. Conviction is different from the spirit of Condemnation which we are told we are now freed from.

“There is therefore now NO condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Rm.8:1)

The Conviction of the Holy Spirit is specific, you know exactly where you went wrong, whereas Condemnation from the devil brings a vague sense of guilt and unworthiness.

Conviction brings hope with the promise of forgiveness and the confident expectation of transformation,

“If we confess our sins (this includes sins of discrimination for God is “no respecter of persons”) God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all iniquity.” (1Jn.1:9)

Condemnation by contrast keeps us bound. It leaves us hopeless. No forgiveness is granted, no change expected.

In the case of White Fragility the author asserts that because some are born of a particular race, they are doomed like Lady Macbeth to cry forever, “Out damned spot!” …..the spot however is not red blood but white skin!

Your only hope of salvation as a white person seems to be to hire the Harfung Diversity consultant promoted by the Harfung Tech Giant to train you how to manage your inexpugnable guilt.

Protesting, “Black Lives Matter” with a sign put in your window – real or virtual, might help salve a guilty conscience, ease that shame, and calm the fear – that a brick might, put your window in – real or virtual!

(Yes, you’re right. I did slip into satire there 😊)

Robin Di Angelo peddles her lucrative message from the rarified atmosphere of a pseudo scientific ivory tower.

Robin Kyle lives out his costly message from the trenches of real life.

He is a father raising three children of color, to whom he is a shining example. His earthy wisdom and insights about current racial tensions has been acquired the hard way through honestly trying to support his wife as a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement.

In the last year Robin did in fact suffer two painful amputations. One was having his left leg cut off through surgery The other was having his wife cut off through divorce.

Hilary and I have learned a lot by listening to and observing how our son has handled his suffering. He has returned blessing for cursing, going the way of Jesus to become a true “son of light”

Living together even more intensely over the past 7 weeks, we know he is not perfect, none of us are, but we see Robin striding out along “the highway of holiness” refusing to assume a victim identity his eyes fixed on Christ who became The Victim for the whole world that we might share in his Victory of love over hatred and forgiveness over bitterness.

He has with resilience and self control taken personalresponsibility and weened himself off the pain relieving medications and onto a healing diet and excecise regime, and has with selfless love continually cared for his children and reached out with compassion and acceptance to all, without exception.

Listen to another knowledgeable and wise spokeswoman from the black community..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPioIXGQjy0

No one should dispute that black lives do matter, however in practice the Black Lives Matter Organization do.

The God given building block for every society is the family, beginning with a father, a mother and their children. It does not end there, as we have demonstrated throughout our married life. This nuclear family is meant then to open it’s arms to be a place of acceptance and stability for every single person who is sent to become a part of that family, no matter what shape, size or color.

The Black Lives Matter Organization on it’s website however, states that one of it’s main goals is to “disturb” i.e. to disrupt and destroy this “family”, the most basic element for health and welfare of the black, or any other community.

I am reminded of a second evil Shakespearean Queen, Gertrude, in Hamlet, who uttered the self incriminating lines about the queen cast to portray her own betrayal in the counter play, “Thou dost protest too much methinks!”

Those who shout the loudest at others through the Harfung Main – scream media may be the ones who get heard……. but they are likely the ones who, hypocritically, are most guilty of the very thing they accuse others of.

This phenomenon demonstrated in the Black Lives Matter Organization and the book,White Fragility was addressed by Jesus 2000 years ago when he spoke about those who point out the speck in another person’s eye while a huge log, made of the same material, is sticking out of theirs. (As so humorously illustrated above!)

Ha! So Jesus used satire too!😃

I was directed to one more link embodying the two names I have been focusing on over the last weeks. It is an interview by PETER ROBIN-son.

This lady, like ourselves, came to “The land of the FREE and the home of the BRAVE.

The very last question PETER ROBIN-son asks is why she agreed to do the interview. The answer she gives, is the same answer I would give about why I take the risk to write these blogs.

Yesterday we flew back to Minneapolis from Boston.

As we boarded wearing our masks at half mast, so we could nose breath, we were chastised by a frightened looking man saying,

“Put your masks up. That doesn’t work. It’s against the rules!”

Of course we happily complied for his peace of mind.

An hour later on our sparsely peopled flight one of the flight attendants walking passed noticed I was no longer wearing my mask and said to me.

“Could you please put your mask on?”

“Could you please give me the reason?” I enquired politely.

“FDA regulations.” she replied pleasantly.

“OK” I replied, “I’ll certainly comply, but I’m a doctor and you know I don’t believe it is helpful.”

“Me neither!” she chuckled.

Later on in the flight she quietly approached me and gently touching my arm whispered,

“We’re on the same page. I think herd immunity is the way to go.”

Everyone else having left the plane, as I waited for my guitar at the door, we connected once again.

“You know what disappointed me most was that I wasn’t able to see your beautiful smiling face.” I joked.

Whipping off her mask, she give me a smile from ear to ear..

“Me too!” she laughed, pointing to her two perfect rows of pearly white teeth. “These are my best feature!”

I was reminded of a piece I wrote about an encounter with another flight attendant on the outward bound flight 7 weeks before.

DIRECT TRUTH by Paul Kyle

(A reflection on being the only unmasked ones on an AA flight to Boston)

Would you like a mask sir?

No thank you.

We are asking everyone to wear a face mask.

Medical condition.

Oh. I see. Alright we do allow an exception for medical conditions.

Yes. I’m immunosuppressed 

Oh! I’m sorry to hear that. Chemotherapy? 

No 2020.

I’m sorry. I don’t understand?

I live in 2020

Sorry. I still don’t understand?

Our world is a toxic soup…..hormones in the water, pesticides on the food, arsenic in the air, mercury in the vaccines……

I see!

That’s why I’m immunosuppressed

I see. And how would the mask harm you?

It would further immunosuppress me.

How so?

By raising the carbon dioxide level and also reducing the oxygen in the breathed air behind the mask to a dangerously low level, it would put stress on my body, further compromising my immune system.

So is low oxygen a bad thing?

Yes. It’s like if I developed sleep apnea. I would then go to the doctor and he would treat me to prevent the development of heart disease, Alzheimer’s and so on….

Oh! I wouldn’t want that to happen!

Well those things would take some time to develop. It’s more an acute condition I would be concerned about

Acute? Is that like a coronavirus infection?

Correct. In fact that is the reason people are dying from coronavirus 

Really?

Yes, they are finding that it is the lack of oxygen that causes cellular death and organ shut down

So by wearing a mask you would be creating the same conditions that cause Covid deaths!?

That’s right.

It might be true , but it certainly doesn’t seem right!

No. I agree. Viruses too.

What do you mean ‘Viruses too’?

The mask hinders your expelling viruses and means they are recirculated in that moist environment increasing the risk of activation and infection!

You mean you could get a viral infection?

Yes, and with my immunity further suppressed and oxygen depleted as well…..that wouldn’t be good for me!

But hold on a minute….I live in 2020 too!

That’s right.

So I’m immunosuppressed as well?

Correct.

Oh my God!! …….Well at least I’m saving someone else’s life by reducing their chance of getting infected!

Not really.

What do you mean ‘Not really’?

It’s not airborne spread like Ebola. It’s surface spread.

Really?

Yes. And it’s not an untreatable grade 4 condition but a treatable grade 1

You mean I’m not saving anyone’s life ……….and I might just be – killing myself!!!??

Yip

(Ripping mask off and running down the aisle) ‘Everyone, get your masks off!!……Get them off! …….Right Now!!!’

With thanks to Dr. Russell Blaylock, Prof. Dolores Cahill and the OSHA regulations. Links are in previous posts

The first 5 lines are factual, the rest fantasy😊

P.S. God of course works all things together for good and one example was the new friend we connected with over mask wearing, seated outside a cafe in Boston. I posted about this on June 6th “Basking, Not Masking”

The above video was his farewell to us in Boston. Below is my response from Rivendell in Minneapolis.

You know what I’m talking about?

These of course are the words of George Floyd uttered as his life was literally being squeezed out of him when just a few weeks ago a police officer in Minneapolis kneeled on his throat until he was dead.

The incident was like “a shot heard around the world”.

Now where did I hear  that phrase before?

Ah yes.  It was the shot fired at Concord just a few miles from where we have been living for the past 7 weeks, the shot that began the first American Revolutionary War destined to birth the United States of America and usher the world into a new era where for the first time in the history of humanity a new nation would aspire to be founded on biblical principles in what became known as the American Experiment.

Last night we read the words from Haggai, “Once more  I will  shake the heavens and the earth.” It seems we are living in those days, days akin to the first American Revolution, when in the face of tyranny something revolutionary and of worldwide significance needed to and did happen.

I believe those words carry such power, far beyond that isolated incident in Minneapolis, in these days, because they strike a chord  deep within everyone, because we are all beginning to feel, “ I can’t breathe”

This is a spiritual reality that is being played out in a physical reality.

Yesterday Robin went to the hospital for his final appointment with the physical therapist. He emerged, his face red  and sweating after being put through his paces……..with a mask on!

This nonsensical mask madness is clearly seen by some, but it is being felt by all.

We identify deeply with George Floyd’s words because we have all had that frightening experience, when for some reason as a child or an adult we found ourselves in a situation where we couldn’t get enough air and felt like we were suffocating.

That is the fear that is literally being induced today, by the enforced wearing of a mask that has the effect of  reduciing the oxygen content of the air we breath and increasing the carbon dioxide content stimulating the sympathetic nervous system to release adrenaline, the stress hormone, enabling us for “fight or flight”: because we are loosing our freedom…. as that Sabre tooth tiger closes in, ready for the kill,

It feels physiologically speaking like we are being set up to die.

This time our feelings are to be believed. These physical measures that are being instituted worldwide depriving us of our physical freedom and meaning metaphorically that when we can no longer run, we must turn to face the Sabre tooth tiger that is ready to pounce and kill us, reflect a spiritual reality!

That is why a second American Revolution needs to happen, not the revolution we are currently witnessing in the images subsequent to the George Flood image that are filling our screens, a revolution in the name of anarchy with the removal of all law and order, but a revolution similar to the first American Revolution to establish in a way that never fully happened with this Experiment the first time around, even though it was the intent, 

ONE NATION UNDER GOD.

Never have the forces of good and evil been so obvious. Yesterday I watched an interview. You can view it below unless of course it has been “censored” which is very likely. A doctor of standing describing a foolproof cure for COVID 19. The reason why in Taiwan  only 7 people out of a population of 24 million have died.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDSDdwN2Xcg

 

The fact that the Giants of Harfung under the direction of the Queen of Underland have been aggressively trying to censor this clearly life saving news is yet one more proof that despite their protestations that you join them for the feast, their intention is to devour you and your children.

Thankfully we know that there is another King who has a kingdom that cannot be shaken and that is coming even as I type.

Let us each do our part as American Revolutionaries this second time around, to fill the Revolutionary Spaces that have been left empty by those who have retreated in fear, and with faith, hope and love,  stand for Freedom of speech, Freedom of assembly, and Freedom of religion, and for the Greater Good, “breath the free air again“ to speak out courageously for the Truth as it is in Christ , that will set us, and the whole world truly free!

P.S. Here a couple of practical ways to stand for medical Freedom if you are so lead.

https://standforhealthfreedom.com/

https://medicalfreedompac.com/

The evil wind I have been describing is not a new phenomenon. In fact it first turns up in the oldest book in the Bible.

In Job we read about how Satan sent an evil wind and how Job’s children were all killed when their house “gave way” (Job.1:18,19)  Not only did Job loose his family but he also lost his wealth and his health, all that we hold dear in this life.

However we also read how Satan was only able to do this because God gave him permission. He’s like a dog ……on a leash held by God, or as one of my friends puts it. “He’s only middle management.”  In other words he is only able to do what he has been given permission to do by our Father God whose essential nature is love and who is also all knowing, all seeing and all wise In other words he knows where we are at, knows where he wants to get us, and knows how to best get us there, by allowing adversity through the Adverary into our lives. God uses the evil wind for his good purposes.

Proverbs 19:23 says “The fear of the Lord leads to life. Then one rests content, untouched by trouble.”

This does not mean that trouble will not touch a man who fears God, but that when a man who fears God is touched by trouble it will not destroy him, it will define him because of the way in which he chooses to respond’ ……..as a VICTOR not a VICTIM.

Job’s wife who took offense on his behalf wanted her husband to play the VICTIM role.

“Curse God and die.” She said.

But he would not cave in to self pity, and to FEAR of what else the future might hold, refusing to complain, he said,

“Shall we receive good from God and not receive evil?”  (Job.2:10) 

Next he was tested by his, so called “Comforters” who were anything but true “friends”  as they piled on the CONDEMNATION, telling Job he was being punished by God for his wickedness.

Again Job asserted his trust,” Though  he slay me, Yet will I trust in him.”  ( Job 13:15)

The debate went back and forth for 40 chapters!….. but in the end God intervened, lifting Job  to a whole other plane by giving him a transformative spiritual revelation.

“My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.” (Job 42:5)

I believe that revelation was a vision of the cross, where Job saw the son of God, the spotless Lamb who had never been touched by evil, bearing the suffering that had come from that evil, that had stalked not only Job’s life, but the life of every man, woman and child, who has ever seen the light of day.

Grace through faith is imparted to Job as he emerges from this fiery trial cleansed and whole, his house now no longer built on the sandy foundation of his own words and works but on the solid rock of that PETER revelation of the finished work of The Lord Jesus Christ, the “Lamb of God  who takes away the sins of the world”……. ‘who was slain from the foundation of the world.’ ( Jn.1:36. Rev.13:8)

Someone has said that a religious man spends his life trying to avoid hell, a spiritual man is one who has been to hell and back

Last week we listened to Jordan PETER-son being interviewed by his daughter, Mikhaila about his last year. It can only be described as a journey to hell and back. It was the testing and (im) proving of a spiritual man who has also chosen the path of VICTORY over VICTIMHOOD. After listening, my respect for him (them) grew enormously!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLWgVpmo1e0

The fruit of Job’s suffering was that he was then able to be an immense benefit to his friends. Instead of saying the prayers of a religious man, as he had done at the beginning of the story he had become a true intercessor carrying in his person the power and authority of his suffering Savior, the one who had chosen to become a VICTIM on behalf of all men in order that all men might share in his VICTORY over sin and death.

We have over the past weeks, and years watched our son Robin make the same journey.. As he has chosen to trust in the midst of loosing health, wealth and family, he has also been changed, growing in the wisdom from above…..

“……. first pure (morally and spiritually undefiled) then peace loving (courteous and considerate), gentle,, reasonable ( and willing to listen) full of compassion and good fruits. It is unwavering, without (self – righteous) hypocrisy (and self serving guile).” 

Robin is now back with us in our Boston apartment so graciously provided by Father through the instrumentality of Hospitality Homes. It is perfect for our needs, spacious, centrally located and well equipped.

It is however sparsely decorated with just two pieces of art.

The first picture is of a sun rise through a wood  just as we have over the past month, watched our son rise through a wood known as the Harvard  Arboretum, wealthy in magnificent trees from every land..

The second picture is of wind and water.

In the 1800s Boston prospered as the iconic clipper ships were built and then blown from here full speed  across the oceans, trading in the bounty of every land.

A second  “cloister walk” our Father has given us here in Boston is around a small body of water called Jamaica Pond.

There, inscribed on an old wall that has stood the shaking test of time, writ in moss, I noticed this well worn but timeless wisdom…….in answer to that desperate appeal by the Psalmist when the foundations are being destroyed…………

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sail.

This is what Jordan and Greg and Robin have chosen to do,

……not to look backwards with anger

nor to look outwards with bitterness

nor to look inwards with self pity,

nor to look forwards with fear

…… but instead

to look upwards with

faith,

hope

and love,

and allow that wnd that was sent

to blow them

Heavenward.

……wih a wealth and bounty gained

to bless every land

where the Spirit takes them

……with wisdom and comfort to offer those handling benzodiazepine withdrawal, war wounds or amputation.

Last night Father woke me to insert an additional blog, interrupting my further answer to the question “What can the righteous do?” ……or maybe giving another perspective on how that question can be answered?

He brought to mind someone I have not thought about for many years. A man called Stewart Black.

Stewarty as we knew him was a very attractive person. Physically his handsome looks were topped off by a very distinctive head of thick white hair that he must have had from a very young age.

His character was also admirable. He was an “elder” in our church, and when the Holy Spirit was poured out and all sorts of rumors began circulating about the strange “Unpresbyterian” things happening in the youth group, Stewarty was the only member of the Kirk session who came to see for himself…..and ended up staying! “

Another reason everyone loved Stewartty was because of his sense of humor.He always had a funny take on things which would bring a smile to our faces and help us young people not take ourselves too seriously.

Father, then said to me…… pairing Stewarty’s name and hair

“it’s Black And White”

Now I realized that you can take this in two different ways. Firstly when the expression is used to indicate that something is OBVIOUSLY right (and something else is obviously wrong) ……“It’s so black and white!!!’

This might be described as somehing becoming  ‘politicized’  or ‘weaponized’ where we have taken a side. It could also be described in biblical terms as having eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Someone sent me an article recently from a Christian magazine entitled” Why I am Wearing a Face Mask to Church.” The author argued from scripture why he thought this was the right decision he had made now that church services were starting up again. I have written a few times and linked you to the medical references as to why we think medically speaking wearing a mask does not make sense, and could mistakenly be thought to be taking a side in a debate….where at the end we take a vote and one side wins and the other looses.

That however is not my intention and would I believe be missing the “Soft Stand’ point I wanted to make at the end of the last blog

Father said to me this morning, “ It’s not about the mask .It’s about the smile“  In other words it is not about taking a side, it’s about giving a smile, because we are no longer living from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but from the tree of life.

It is not about your choosing between something that you believe is right as opposed to something you believe is wrong. it is about choosing to follow what the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus is showing you will bring life to others.

The first tree produces the fruit of self righteousness ……..I’m right (and by the way you are wrong)  The second tree produces the fruit of joy .

It’s not whether or not I have transmitted a virus or not, it’s about whether I have transmitted life and health or not and it centers around whether my motive is loving from a pure heart when I am on everyone’s side, or living from a political heart when I am on one side and not on another.

And so what Father was emphasizing was that it is not

BLACK  and WHITE

but…….

black AND white.……….like Stewarty!

The name Stewart (which happens to be the maiden name of both my mother and Hilary’s mother) means a servant. Our goal is, like Jesus Christ not to take a political side, but to be a servant of all, not by trying to please everyone, but by following in his footsteps, not as a moral teacher but as a living savior who has given us His Spirit that, as I said in the last blog, we might out of a place of rest, having surrendered up our “ political/tree of the knowledge of good and evil ‘’ opinions, hear instead his word of life in any and every situation.

As these thoughts were coalescing in my mind today, Hilary and I were staring out over Boston Bay from the harbor wall. The sight and sound of the sea awakened a longing  in me for, as my father used to say, ‘ a dip’

“ I wonder if I would be allowed to have a swim here or not?“ I said, tongue in cheek to Hilary.

”Well it wouldn’t do your health any good.” She replied, eyeing the dirty water.

It dawned on me I had just asked my question from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and she had answered from the tree of life.

The wind of evil I pointed to in the last blog seeks to kill. Under the guise of protecting us from something that will harm us it is in fact I believe hindering us from receiving something that will heal us……..a life giving smile, This is the reason why in public I  continue to, from a respectful distance, give an open faced smile to everyone I meet.

In taking a stand in this loving way I have found many people literally disarmed by the smile.  That shaming look from behind the mask which might have been an initial response quite often yields to acceptance if not full smile. And in the unmasked I encounter whose first instinct is to nervously grope for their fig leaf lest they be shamefully ‘found out’ my smile invites them to ‘just chill’.

This is how I have been lead. How you are lead is for you to discern.

In this simple and practical way I find an outworking of Colossians 2:15 as the devil is disarmed of those two weapons I mentioned in the last blog, scaring and shaming, as with a simple smile I convey the love that casts out fear and the acceptance that counters judgement and rejection.

And so Stewarty I salute you with the finishing flag, my beloved BLACK and WHITE brother who is now in a perpetual state of staring into his Father’s face, having heard the words,

”Well done good and faithful Stewarty. Enter into the joy of your Lord.”

………..and  with an open face, he reciprocates that smile, as a true ‘chip off the old block’😊