Scandal

The scandal of particularity is a God scandal that looks human. It is a scandal for any human to say to this world of multiplied billions of humans that somehow, God has noticed me. Some would say such a claim is craziness and that may very well be. However, is such a claim only Tom foolery? Does or can God scandalously influence the particular individual?

Some say that God does so influence the individual, one on one, and that religion most times is at war with these same individuals. Religion and God are not always comingling because religion is about control and God is about freedom. Those who have been impacted by God do not talk about it, they just go on about their God directed business. They are not broadcasters, they are doers. They are not virtue signalers, they give virtue away.    

The ultimate scandalous question needs to be asked. Could God likeness be advanced among men through the life of an individual as seemingly undeserving as that of a bastard individual? You know, those of us who did not ask to be born at a particular time and place but born they were, born to live their lives in the midst of a very real social stigma and the resulting turmoil. Such a notion would even be a bigger scandal. Some of us believe that God did just that when he scandalously chose to influence Jesus.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

December

What are you 31/ATLAS? Are you an interstellar object on a parabolic orbit through multiplied solar systems to return again in thousands or millions of years? Better yet, are you an interstellar life probe from a distant solar system looking for others of us? We are about to find out in three months. Will our world be a stopping point or will the interstellar object merely wave to us from its orbit, 168 million miles from earth? Hold on to your hats.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Fun

The Bible as in every word is either, truth from the lips of God, or none of the words of the Bible are truth from the lips of God. We believers cannot have it both ways, picking, choosing and ignoring the words that are discomforting. The Bible has been passed to us as a hand me down from God but it is not true blue God. That supposed Bible is an idol, along with the other everyday idols of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

Every writer of every book is a unique interpreter of God with unavoidable blind spots and expressed God clarity. All the words of the Bible have value but only as they are put into the context of their historical time, made relevant to our time and the 5000 year God narrative. All Scripture has value but not equal value, that is where you and I come in. The complicated can be fun.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca. 

What if?

Good morning Mr. Westman, welcome aboard. You are dead before your time and so are the children, do you feel any better? Looking up, Robin responds, well, no. 

Could it be that believing a mother’s lie can have eternal consequences? What say you? Dejected, Robin looks down and is silent. The prosecutor says, “God don’t make mistakes!” The Judge says, "Please go to the back of the bus".

Court of no appeal.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.  

 

Hope

There is absolutely nothing we can do or confront in this life that would warrant the taking of another life or the life that God has given to us. God will always have our backs in the midst of all of our suffering because hope is so much more than wishful thinking, hope is God given permission to journey on.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Sick

America is sick. We are a nation of hypochondriacs, obsessed and disengaged from living by an overwhelming concern for how we look and feel. Big Pharma and the cosmetics crapola are racking in the dough treating our wrinkles, pains and aliments.

Look around among us, what do you see? Those of us who are taking street drugs are sick. Those of us who buy supposed healthy gimmicks are sick. You folk are the reason some of us have to tolerate the druggy, gimmicky commercials. Go on, get your needed exercise by peddling a machine while sitting in the easy chair. Sickness is craziness.

Maybe, it’s a death wish. Maybe, it’s a cry for interpersonal attention. In any case, stop talking about your sicknesses and start looking in the mirror, get a life. Stop talking about your inabilities and start doing for the betterment of yourself and those around you. Better yet, get a backbone and live regardless of your age or supposed pain. 

Sorry, there are more important things in life than how you feel. No sympathy here. Knock on wood.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.     

Freedom

Forget all the Trump hate pundits on Fox News and Newsmax. They are lily livered. Please tell the people what’s really going on. The radical leftists of America are not just obsessed with Trump, they are filled with America hate. They will hate with equal intensity anyone who gets in their way. For now it is Trump, tomorrow it will be whomever. The freedom loving people of America cannot relax with a few Trump wins, as miraculous as they are, the wins must be bigger than Trump.

The wins will be bigger if the radicals are exposed as the frauds they really are. They are not about the freebees for the people, the Democrat radicals want to be the new American power center, the people be damned. 

The America haters will never completely go away but we the people can make them practically powerless in the midterm elections of 26 and the presidential election of 28. When that happens, whoever is buying their hate will then go broke but as they say, never relax, freedom will never be free.

Maybe, nothing can be won without a real January 6!

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.