Life

IF THERE IS NO GOD, 

THEN THERE IS NO WHY! 

G. Goslaw

Landers, ca

Patience

 Our solar system, some say is over 6 or 7 billion years old.  There are millions of other solar systems that are much older and more that are younger. The first signs of life on earth dates back 3.7 billion years as microbes left their presence in rock strata.  Our human ancestors emerged a paltry six million years ago while modern forms of humanity have only been populating our planet for some 200,000 years.  Human civilization, as we know it, is less than 6000 years old while the industrialized world of human kind has only been around a short 200 years.  What are we to say about these numbers?   

If the age of the earth can be equated to a trip from Los Angeles to New York City, recorded human history then began no less than half way across the George Washington Bridge into Manhattan.  Go figure!

One explanation is to accept the Godless evolutionary philosophies of the intelligentsia.  Those of us who believe that life can not be explained apart from a divine directive would simply say that our creative God is patient, our time is not God's time. 

What does a patient creative God say to you and I?  Our tomorrows may be better or worse but our struggles and our victories will somehow fit into the creative plan of our patient God of the galaxies. 

G. Goslaw

Landers, CA  

Sad and Scary

 President Biden is a senile buffoon. Sixty Minutes Sunday asked Joe if our country would send American troops to defend Taiwan in the case of a Chinese’s invasion. The President said yes!  

Immediately the state department and the shadow president (unidentified source) corrected Joe, the threat to send troops has never been U. S. policy toward Taiwan and is not now. 

Poor Joe, got it wrong again. How can we feel secure with this man’s finger on the nuclear button?  The more important question, whose finger is on the button?  Joe will just do what he is told.

G. Goslaw

Landers, CA  

 

Choice

 

ARE YOU AN AMERICAN OR A DEMOCRAT?

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA

Popularity

The following quote is shared by Professor William Barclay, probably the most quoted bible scholar within the American evangelical community of Protestantism.  His work was wrongly pointed to by others as giving the "heaven and hell" theology biblical credentials.  Shortly before his death in his "Spiritual Autobiography", he says the following.   

“But in one thing I would go beyond strict orthodoxy-I am a convinced universalist.  I believe that in the end all men will be gathered into the love of God.”  p. 58

One might ask, why does the Professor wait to the hour of his death to clarify such a heart felt opinion?  Was the delay because his reasons for this break with orthodoxy are best addressed in a philosophical argument?  Could it be that the Bible does not demand an eternal punishment theology?  Could it be that to say so would complicate the heaven and hell preaching of Billy Graham?  Such an outing would have affected book sales, would it not?  

Being popular does not make it right, in fact, popularity is a red flag.  Jesus said something similar.  

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA  

 

Wisdom

“Being right is not the main issue, getting the conversation going is what matters most.”  gg            (wisdom taken from somewhere?)

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA 

 

 

Trees

Trees have been at the center of my history at 1990 Gibralter Road, Landers, California.  The trees and I have celebrated 12 years, 13 summers and 13 birthdays in the high desert since buying in February 20012.  I was retiring broke, alone and with medical issues but for some unknown reason, I was still looking to buy a house.  How and why such craziness entered my thinking, I do not know.  Anyway, a very helpful real estate agent was kind enough to show me around, he probably did not share my optimism yet he never let on.

After looking at four fixer uppers, we stumbled upon the newly renovated house on Gibralter.  At least I stumbled, Herb may have had a plan.  An investor was rehabbing this 55-year-old one-bedroom shack that looked eastward toward Goat Mountain.  They had added another bedroom, a toilet room and a front porch, for a grand total of 1000 square feet of living space.  The house had not yet been painted but the owner was, as they say, motivated.  The sale was for $75,000 and the owner paid all my closing costs. With a no down government loan, I was a new and proud home owner with nothing out of pocket.  Miracle is a word casually thrown around but I have come to appreciate this one miracle.

The 2 ½ acre property is mostly sandy soil with local desert fauna. What attracted me most was not the house, the 1000 square foot garage, the sandy soil or the desert fauna.  The trees were the attraction.  There were three majestic Joshua trees surrounding the house, the largest one behind the house is a huge unique specimen.  Twenty yards behind the garage are the two trees that for me sealed the deal.  One is a sprawling California Pepper tree that I have come to name “the wild thing”. The other is a huge Eucalyptus, over 100 feet tall. Both of these trees, and the Sycamore in the front yard were probably planted by the original owners.  

Together we are all becoming old fogies. 

G. Goslaw

Landers, CA