Morning glory glorious

I have some morning glories growing up the left side of the threshold to the front door. They have climbed pretty quickly op the wrought iron trellis -like shelves I have hung there, and meandered across the top of the door. Actually, I had no idea that they would grow so fast and so lushly, and the top of the screen door now shuts on some of the hanging blossoms that have overgrown the space between the top of the door and the roofline. I need to cut them back a little.

They are gorgeous flowers. I see them every day whenever I go in or out...they're variegated lavender and white. I love how the sun shines on them in the early morning, and the petals are so delicate I can almost see straight through them.

The other day I was leaving for work and I noticed a movement on one of the lower flowers. I paused to see what had caught my attention, and there was a wasp that had crawled straight into the deepest part of the flower tube. It was then I noticed that this morning glory itself was blue. Blue.

How is it that one can look and look and look at something every day and still miss what is right in front of our face? The pop of blue and the gorgeous surprise of a different colored morning glory from all the rest did several things for me. First, I mused on the difference between looking and seeing. "And Jesus said, For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind." John 9:39

Also, I mused on God's creation, and how it continues to surprise me with its variety and its hidden secrets and its plain sight surprises that tickle the aesthetic and spiritual depths.

"Isaiah 42:5 This is what God the LORD says--he who created the heavens and
stretched them out, who spread out the earth and all that comes out of it,
who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it:"

"JER 27:5 With my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its
people and the animals that are on it, and I give it to anyone I please."

Last, I took a fresh look at the vine, and saw anew that they grow fast! I need to re-direct them or soon I will not be able to close my door!

He is Risen!

He is risen indeed!

Matt 28:5-6 "And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. Matt 28:6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay."

Easter Sunday marks the epicenter of the Christian's faith. Many people around the world would acknowledge that Jesus was a fine teacher or a prophet and therefore may celebrate His birth day in December with no qualm. Resurrection Sunday though, that is the final line over which many will not cross. To believe that this man (who was Divine) came to us on earth, preached, loved, rebuked, and died...then rose again, is the difference in where one will spend their eternity.

Don't wait any longer. If you have questions about what this day means., who Jesus was, why the sound of the nails being hammered into the hands and feet upon the cross rings down to this day! Please find a bible believing Christian to ask and discuss, and pray with. Today may be the day: the day your eternity begins...or the day your death comes. Do not delay!

In His precious name.

Does your soul need fixing?

Obama wants to help. Here's Michelle Obama interview by Ed Morrissey:

"We have lost the understanding that in a democracy, we have a mutual obligation to one another — that we cannot measure the greatness of our society by the strongest and richest of us, but we have to measure our greatness by the least of these. That we have to compromise and sacrifice for one another in order to get things done. That is why I am here, because Barack Obama is the only person in this who understands that. That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation."

Ed's response:

"Government doesn’t exist to save souls; it exists to ensure domestic tranquility and provide for the common defense. If I feel my soul needs saving, the very last place I’d look (in the US) for a savior would be Washington DC or Capitol Hill. I’ll trust God and Jesus Christ with my soul, and I’m not going to mistake Barack Obama for either one."

I think the fundamental problem is that we have forgotten what government exists for. Thomas Jefferson said in his first inaugural address:

"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity." So what were their ideas about the core functions of the government? The Federalist Papers contain those thoughts and debates.

In the paper "Determining Core Functions of Government," Bob Williams writes, "The Founders established twenty specific federal powers for the named purposes of providing protection from foreign invasion, domestic peace, justice under the law, necessary and clearly defined public works, and foreign and interstate relations. They believed government existed to bring cohesiveness, legitimacy and protection to a nation declaring itself sovereign. They were repulsed by a government that would take its citizens’ wealth, exploit its people, and send its youth into wars birthed from ego."

They would be further repulsed by the ego of a Presidential candidate who promotes himself as desiring to serve because he, not God, is a fixer of souls.

Call me Baal

Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden. Deuteronomy 4:23

Gather together and come; assemble, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save. Isaiah 45:20

They lift it to their shoulders and carry it; they set it up in its place, and there it stands. From that spot it cannot move. Though one cries out to it, it does not answer; it cannot save him from his troubles. Isaiah 46:7