Prophecy

The traditional Democrat and Republican American politics is dead, haven’t you heard?  This election is now about the Obama, Biden, Harris fundamental change, yah or nay. No longer is the welfare of American people controlling the political agenda of this new federal government. The controlling agenda is now the Obama, Biden, Harris governmental control over all of our lives. Those of us who disagree go directly to jail.

It is so simple, why are the minds of so many thinking Americans, according to the polls, taking this election so casually?  Are you afraid or protecting your nest?  How are you dealing with the dramatic rise in the cost of everything?  Why are there no longer unfilled job opportunities awaiting the American unemployed?  Why is there a shortage of affordable housing?  Why is the real-world economy tanking?  If you are at all awake, the answer is obvious.  All is crumbling because of the Obama, Biden, Harris fundamental change that is out to destroy the middle class.

If you the voter want to green light the Obama, Biden, Harris fundamental change, vote accordingly. Be advised, however, should the gutter politics of Obama, Biden, Harris win the election in November, the double down Democrats will make the last four years seem like a Sunday School picnic. Should the double down democrats win the White House, and a majority in the House and Senate, they will do as they did after sweeping the 2020 federal election, double down with more of the same. 

Big spending will cause double digit inflation. They will double the number of justices on the supreme court freeing the federal government from any Constitutional checks and every federal election will become meaningless. The deed will be done forever, the old America will be no more. The new America will not be either Democrat or Republican, it will be the Obama, Biden, Harris fundamentally changed federal government. This is not just election talk, it is fundamental prophecy, are you awake?

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.  

       

  

 

Evil

Why are we here?  Why do bad things happen to good people? Why is evil just around the corner?  Historic Old Testament God thinking says that evil in our world is our doing, evil reigns upon and within us as the deserved fruit of our sin. This understanding is rooted in the Genesis story of Adam and Eve and the first bit into that dammed apple. Evil is a daily occurrence among us and it is our fault, as humans we have earned our sad evil state.

The story is, however, Plato language and may not be the whole story. If the presence of evil in our world is a God judgement, this sinful miserable sinner of a hominoid would have been dead long ago. Another Old Testament God thinker, Job, also disagreed. In his story, Job experienced the loss of everything in this world except his next breath while maintaining his innocence before God. He demanded of God to know why he was experiencing such crushing evil? No answer.

While reading on this subject, I was again driven to the google search bar by the fancy word, theodicy.  A theodicy is our God thinking about the presence of evil in our world. The understanding that God could not or would not get His hands dirty creating a world with even the possibility of evil is ancient storytelling. Why was there even a tree of good and evil in the Genesis story at all?  Could it be that evil is a necessary part of God's plan for us. Maybe, God put together this world to accomplish His goal for His creation and not our petty goals. 

Maybe, God did not birth His creation in a puff of magic; maybe God is a bottom-up construction engineer. Why should we then complain?

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

 

 

Life

“Is the future open or closed? Does the freedom God has granted us include the freedom to affect how things will turn out, or is the end point set and our only problem, how to get there?  Is life a journey or a dance?”

Taylor, Barbara Brown, “The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion”, Cowley, 2000, p.72.

Why not both, a journey and a dance? gg

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Conversation

“While science disputes religion’s certainty that purpose is built into creation, religion challenges science’s certainty that such purpose is impossible.”

Taylor, Barbara Brown, “The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion”, Cowley, 2000, p.73,74.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca. 

 

Bound II

My parents didn’t talk or share about family history. It was as if all appeared in a puff of smoke, the only significant history was their now.  One of my father’s brothers spent 30 to 40 years in prison for armed robbery and I found out about it only through extended family scuttlebutt when I was close to retirement age.  My mother had a brother, a Navy Corsair fighter pilot in WWII and Korea. He died near El Centro when his plane didn’t pull out of a diving run. I learned of this from scuttlebutt when I was in my forties. What else was going on that seemed not to be important enough to share with the kids?

Was the fault of silence their inheritance or was the fault mine?  Maybe I was in a fog myself? The family history began in a small town in northwest Poland named Goslaw. Our name first appeared in Canada when immigrants from Poland must have changed their name to the town of their origin to better fit in with their new world.  Then our name popped up in upstate New York. All of this history I dug up with searches on the internet, not from a shared primary family history.

My father was a young preacher boy who deferred from WWII to attend college to prepare for an evangelical ministry.  This must have been a heavy and honorable decision but the humanness of such a decision was never shared with his children, why not?   Would we not have been better equipped to make such significant decisions in our own lives if we had a better understanding of the severity of decision making? How does one make such large decisions?  There is a consequence to every decision.

If my parents were still living, I now have many questions to ask. Would I have the courage to ask, maybe?  Simple stuff, mom and dad, how did you meet?  What attracted you to each other, physical, mental or spiritual?  I am guessing but my mother was a gifted musician and soloist who complemented the soon to be ministry of my father.  Was this the basis of their relationship?  While reorganizing the personal effects of my parents, I found a small box with school books and papers from a female personage of long ago. There must have been a very personal story in that box, why was it saved for sixty years? Mom when asked, would not answer.  I trashed it without inspecting.

The most difficult question would be, what were my early years like?  My memories are few with significant gaps. How do you remember those preschool years?  Can you make sense of my snapshots?  

                            - to be continued -

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca. 

 

 

 

 

Death Divide

From my extra-orthodox reading, eternity will be a homecoming (unity) for all we humans or a blank dark space for all we humans, to await the homecoming (unity). Sin as defined by how we fail to contribute to the well-being of others is of this world but will be an embarrassment to be carried with us into eternity.

Either/or: it is good and not our choice.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Silence

Those of us who find it necessary to deny a life circumstance are themselves in an emotional state of denial. Maybe, silence is golden or said another way, of God. Jesus was accused of all manner of craziness yet he remained silent to the point of death, guilt or innocence was and is not the important issue, the bigger issue is our personal trust in the beyond of God.  (gg)

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.