I have completed the series on the Rajneesh - at least as of now. You can go into the archives and read them all, they began on 3/25/2015; or, if you wish I can e-mail them to you. Art :-)
Blaze, our Miniature Schnauzer, in many ways is doing
better. He is still afraid of people and
noises that he doesn’t recognize he is trying to come out of his shell.
He will often pounce of a cat
and sometimes even make one run – but he is all bluff and they know it. Sometimes one will sit in the doorway,
knowing that Blaze wants to go through it.
Blaze will whine because he can’t go through – when we finally coax him
into going past the cat he will run as quickly as he can to accomplish the
pass.
He still doesn’t understand how
to play – but he does know how to let us know when he wants out. If we are in the living room, he will go into
the kitchen, stand on a mat and watch the door.
Doesn’t go to the door or scratch, just sits their patiently looking at
it until we let him out.
In the morning though, it is
different. Around 0600 if I am not up he
will stand on the couch and bark; just a time or two with a few minutes in
between. If that doesn’t work he gets a
little noisier.
Depending on how I feel, I will
either just open the door and let him out – then go back to bed, or get up and
get something's done. If I go back to
bed, he will come in and wait.
If I am in more than an hour or
so, he will bark. He knows that when he
goes out first thing in the morning and the last thing at night he gets a treat
– he is patient, but he wants to let me know it is time.
It is going to be a trial for
him over the rest of the month and well into July. One of my daughters is going to Europe for a
while, Carla, the cats – Blaze, and I will have a house guest in the form of her
dog while she is gone.
We are pulling the fence out
farther and we have cordoned off another area for her dog. I won’t leave her in that area all the time,
but I don’t want her disturbing the other animals too much. In time it will work out, but it will take
time and poor Blaze will have a challenge.
I’ll let you know how it is working out.
2 Chronicles 20:2-7 Then there came some
that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from
beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which
is Engedi.
3 And Jehoshaphat feared,
and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast
throughout all Judah.
4 And Judah gathered
themselves together, to ask help of the Lord: even out of all the
cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.
5 And Jehoshaphat stood in
the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the
Lord, before the new
court,
6 And said, O
Lord God of our fathers, art
not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the
heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to
withstand thee?
7 Art not thou our God,
who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and
gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for
ever?
The country of Judah was being
threatened by an overwhelming force, one that could destroy his people and
either enslave or drive them out of Judah.
Jehoshaphat did what God wants
all of us to do: And
Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord,
and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
As I read
this I got to wondering – Who is America’s God?
One of the saying in Germany
when the Nazis took over was ‘God is with us.’
But they were not talking about the God of the Bible – they were talking
about an ancient God that supposedly ruled over the German people at one
time.
So if Americans say, ‘God is
with us’ who are they talking about?
Most of us would say the God of
the Bible, the Creator of all things.
But not everyone, and the past
few years they have driven a wedge deeply between Our Lord God and their own
interpretation of who God is.
To some, he is
non-existent. Period.
To some, he is man who controls
his own destiny.
To others it is work.
To some it is their hobby.
To others it is evolution.
To others technology is the all
important thing.
To some it is a certain sport –
some have said that the church they go to on Sunday is the NFL stadiums.
To still others it is a man – a
man who may have charisma and could be in any field, religion, politics, media
or business.
While America has never been
perfect in its function or treatment of all people, the base, the foundation of
our country was on biblical principles.
There are those that deny that
and say that was never the case, yet looking at the Constitution, Declaration of
Independence and other documents written by our fore fathers do not support
their case.
The world is in great
turmoil. America has many enemies that
would love to destroy us – and they are becoming more strident in their
manner.
The radical Islamic groups such
as ISIS and even moderate Islamic groups want to replace our laws with their
own.
The resurgence of Russia and
planes that now fly over the Caribbean Sea along with their leaders animosity
towards us is becoming more vociferous.
Korea, who has vowed to destroy
America.
China, who owns much of the debt
America has encumbered and is getting more aggressive in both statements and
actions.
Iran who has vowed to destroy
America and has been challenging American ships in the Mediterranean.
Our allies in fear of America
falling and no longer being able to assist them are building armies and
coalitions with other governments against America’s downfall. Their attitude is not necessarily
anti-America as it is for self-protection.
Who is America going to turn to
when it suddenly faces all its enemies working together against us? Who can we depend on to stand with us against
those enemies?
Will out leaders do as
Jehoshaphat did and stand before God and in all honesty and humbleness of spirit
recognize that God is the only answer and ask for His help and guidance –
leading the country in fasting and prayer?
And if they do, what God will
they be addressing?
Up until Hurricane Katrina
devastated New Orleans I always said that Americans will rebuild. We watched, for years, the devastation of
other areas, tornados, hurricanes, fires earthquakes all kinds of natural
disasters hit the places and even before the storm was gone the people were
helping each other and starting to rebuild.
That didn’t happen in New
Orleans – they waited for help, and for some it didn’t come. They fled the area instead of working with
the rest of their citizens to rebuild.
Workers from outside the area were brought in to do the work.
The government became the ‘god’
for many of them and they had nowhere else to turn. And their god let them down, it couldn’t help
them in the way they needed to be helped.
Always before men and women
stood solid, but as we see more and more around the country, it is not
happening. Instead of condemning
violence we give excuses for it.
As America has moved away from
God, so has the downfall of our nation.
I am saddened. Yet, we see men and women hungry for the One
and Only God.
We see men and women coming to
Him and being relieved of not only their sins, but their afflictions.
We see men and women who may be
undergoing persecution, but standing up for God’s Word.
While we see the rhetoric
against God coming from the mouths of man, we know that the author of that
pomposity is coming from the mind of satan.
God is waiting for us. He wants to move among us, He wants to
provide the protection He gave to the Israelites when they obeyed Him.
2 Chronicles
20:29 And the fear of God was on all the
kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that the Lord
fought against the enemies of Israel.
May we continue to pray that His
hand will move upon our country once more, and we shall acknowledge Him as the
Lord.
May those countries that are
ready to pounce of the decadence that America has become, have to acknowledge
that God will fight on our behalf.
May God be exalted about all the
earth, and may America be the mechanism He chooses to use to bring others to
Him.
Later, Art :-)
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