Maybe a Voice of Reason?
If you cannot be a responsible gun owner, then perhaps you should NOT be responsible for a gun. A similar caution can be said for words. The difference being it’s a lot easier to apologize than to take back a bullet, or worse. Perhaps now, in this New Beginning, is a good time to reevaluate and possibly change the old ways of communicating and resolving problems and issues.
Is it possible for you to see God as a still grieving Father for what “man” did to His Son, Jesus? Has anyone ever apologized for man to God for that evil and agreed to go and not EVER do it again (maybe not to His Son, God made SURE of that), but to all the other Christian Spiritual sons and daughters caught up in unreasonable disagreements?
On Earth, can anyone ever truly run from evil? Right now is it any different to seek permanent protection from despots in another state or in another country or nation?
Do oppressed good people honestly and truly want to make a major change to give up the only home and culture they have ever known in one country just to find out the new country has its own very different culture and its own set of problems?
Could you believe it might be possible, in order to be good neighbors, that we, as a nation, could begin to objectively find more proven, reasonable, new Biblical solutions to suggest to help people of other nations who are having difficulties? And that, in having helped our neighbors safely, we might just find, for ourselves, possible answers to other of our own problems and issues?
While initially the “easy” way seems to be to take others in, that can only be done for so long. While it isn’t easy for those in positions of reasonable safety to shut the door on victims of any type of abuse (From personal experience, I can say it disappoints and hurts both parties.), it can only be a temporary resolution; and could ultimately subject the sheltering party to the same offenses. There’s plenty of history to validate that reasoning.
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Where your heart is in this New Beginning, there will your treasure be also. For me, that means I have learned there is NOTHING to fear from True Love or Christian Tough Love: it’s all in one’s perspective. Not an easy lesson to learn, but I have a strong suspicion (just my luck!) that perhaps my own personal experience could be that of “a canary in a coal mine” (only with a better conclusion).
I have learned that, yes, while what I call Christ’s Way takes longer and includes experiences and suffering of different types than He experienced, these are not insurmountable for us, either. Biblically, Jesus gave us His Words and God’s Words, with the Help of Holy Spirit, to protect us and to provide new Answers and ways of sorting out one issue at a time for us; with Jesus Christ’s Words being the last Words on the matters, no matter what the subject.
From my own personal experience (with the help of others to support a sustained nonviolent, focused persisting) I have learned that, no matter what it takes, the very bottom righteous reasons for a right and permanently Peaceful outcome are finally revealed, because all the other less than complete reasons and failed resolutions have been sorted out over the one long period of time, rather than with the starts, stops and possible temporary resolutions of many small conflicts, or one conflict that just increases in violence and possibly comes to a physically harmful and permanent end. If the parties, at that time, do not arrive at a harmonious, traditional resolution by reasonable minds properly dealing with unreasonable minds, then this is when it appears Holy Trinity become personally involved.
With the now ongoing strife in Ukraine, and the memory of where similar past violent events have gone, it appears the time is ripe to possibly try to take a different and more creative proactive approach to help, and to maybe develop Biblical Reasoning to use, along with whatever contemporary measures that are necessary, to help them find their bottom line answers; and to lay a better and more solid foundation to help bring about the best long term and truly peaceful and permanent resolution for Ukraine.
Whatever happened to true, well thought out “objectivity” being the first line of reasoning? And then, if that doesn’t work out, perhaps a possible Christian form of Tough Love for a Second Type of Reasoning?
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No matter what, with any possible loss, God always Restores. Maybe not in the ways we have always thought of “restoration”; but, because we may choose new reasoning and skill sets, in new ways of His Best for us that we have never received before. Perhaps this time in ways that guarantee we, our neighbors, and the children (as well as the Earth) will benefit from what is initially Restored and then maybe go on, in time, to even better ways of living life than we have ever thought to allow possible for ourselves and others. Considering humanity’s history, who are we to consider ourselves the experts on what True Restoration honestly means? With this reasoning, is it possible to at least try to understand something different?
As a woman (only half of God’s “whole”) I can only suggest, again from my own personal, hard won perspective, my “weapons” of choice for this New Beginning and to help Ukraine: the Holy Trinity, my Bible, a good dictionary, and a new, tried and true, way of reasoning and skills. What do you gentlemen suggest?
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“And there was a cloud that overshadowed them. And a Voice (God) came out of the cloud saying, ‘This is My Beloved Son (Jesus), Hear Him.’” Mark 9:7
“I (Jesus) and My Father are One.” John 10:30
“When the Spirit of Truth is come, He will Guide you into all Truth, for He shall not Speak of Himself. Whatever He shall Hear, that shall He Speak. And He will Show you things to come.” John 16:13
“We have let others do our thinking for us; we have gone through fire and water; but You (God) bring us out into a Wealthy Place.” Psalm 66:12
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“You are my (Jesus Christ’s) friends if you do whatsoever I Command you.” John 15:14
“Henceforth I call you not servants, for the servant knows not what his lord does. But I (Jesus Christ) call you friends, for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you.” John 15:15
May 1, 2022
