Why do I doubt this administration, the numbers and their hype? The Anchoress passes this on for clarity :
Ace of Spades HQ turns on the light with thanks to Jack Shaw:
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Somewhere Nebraska – Somewhere Springtime
Getting to Nebraska, we passed a lot of dry, brown land. Colorful Colorado was a grayish tan. But here and there bright green fields told you things were ready to burst out at the first fall of rain.
On the surface things can look bleak. Beneath the surface, they are ready to pop. What I have to keep reminding myself is that life is thriving on planet Earth. God is in His heaven and that makes all the difference. Somewhere the bountiful and beautiful is happening, maybe not here, perhaps in distant, hidden places, but it’s happening and its abundant! While, there are dry spells, and dormant periods with things that go wrong, other things are so very right.
Change, for all my discomfort, is as ordinary as air. I know that if it’s happening, at very least, God is permitting it. He always has a plan and I don’t understand simply because He hasn’t run it past me. That does make even the present dilemma a work in progress – mysterious design and all that.
In the world or in the Church, it all hangs together. We are waiting for rain. John Paul II spoke of a Springtime for the Church and I believe that now, in this very dark hour, we are actually living it. Beneath the materialism and relativism and all those other ism’s, is a harvest in the making. It waits, perhaps, on laborers and a rain of prayer, but it none-the- less is hanging fire.
I find my Springtime in my prayer. Whether my experience of prayer is dry or consoling, doesn’t matter, anymore. I am praying. Day by day, I’m just doing it…. and I’m not alone in this. Whoever is waiting on change can actually move the hands of God in His heaven, turning the dreary grey of their waiting, into a poppin’ Springtime.
For me, it’s hidden but it’s happening. For each of us, it’s a “Just do it!” thing, hanging on a decision. What you don’t see, none-the-less, is building beneath the surface of our day to day. Days past, present and to come, days for forgiving, repenting, and imploring; all prayer, all the time. Springtime will come without me, but don’t want to miss it. I want to run through the fields and feel it in my soul.
Joan of Arc – A Prayer For Lent
Asked at her trial if she was in God’s grace:
“If I am not, may God put me there, and if I am, may God so keep me! I should be the saddest creature in the world if I knew I was not in His grace.”
Mark Twain said of her:
“She was truthful when lying was the common speech of men; she was honest when honest was become a lost virtue; she was a keeper of promises when the keeping of a promise was expected of no one; … she was full of pity when a merciless cruelty was the rule; she was steadfast when stability was unknown, and honorable in an age which had forgotten what honor was; she was a rock of convictions in a time when men believed in nothing and scoffed at all things; she was unfailingly true in an age that was false to the core; … she was of a dauntless courage when hope and courage had perished in the hearts of her nation…”
Lenten Reading Plan – Day 22 – Mar 21
Day22 Church Fathers Lenten Reading Plan 3/21/09
St. Athanasius: Life of Anthony: 11-20
Day 22 Lite Version
St. Athanasius: Life of Anthony: 10-16
Compilation of Lenten readings
Printer-Friendly Version of Outline: Church Fathers Lenten Reading Plan PDF
Who Is the Mystery Man In the White House? & What Will It Cost Us to Find Out?
I’m still can’t get beyond Bernard Goldberg’s “A Torrid Love Affair- The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media”; a must read for sheer horrendous incredibility.
Here’s some of the scary stuff that got us where we are today. [My comments in brackets.]
Tom Brokaw appearing on the Charlie Rose Show a few days before the election:
Rose: I don’t know what Barak Obama’s world view is.
Brokaw: No. I don’t either.
Rose: I don’t know how he really sees where China is.
Brokaw: We don’t know a lot about Barak Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.
Rose: I don’t really know. And do we know anything anout the people who are advising him?
Brokaw: You know that’s an interesting question.
Rose: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational speeches, two of them. [Count them folks, two of them!]
Brokaw: I don’t know what book’s he’s read.
Rose: What do we know about the heroes of Barak OBAMA?
Brokaw: There’s a lot about him we don’t know.
[Really? And you are the journalistic elite whose job it is to investigate, discover and report without bias?]
Goldberg includes this by Rush Limbaugh after playing the Charlie Rose show tapes:
“These guys are looking at Obama and they’ve seen him the exact way we have, all of this time. They only now, after they think they got him into office, are starting to talk about their fears, about how nobody knows anything about him; his resume is thin, he’s only written two books, and they’re autobiographies; we don’t know what books he’s read…We don’t know anything about him. It’s creepy, never seen a victory speech with nobody on stage…Look at all that they refused to report. They had plenty of chances to write editorials at Newsweek magazine, and they didn’t write one reflective of what they really saw and know and fear about Obama.”
Goldberg states:
All this raises an important question: Who the hell did we just elect president of the United States?
[What’s trully sad, is that we are now finding out.]
No Perspective – No Compunction!
Does the Mainstream Media feel any guilt for the media basis that is now part and parcel of its product and its legacy? Do their heavy-hitters feel any compunction for putting Barak Hussein Obama, a relative unknown with little experience and a shady past into the White House as President of the greatest Nation on this earth. The answer is “No!” and “Hell, no! respectively. Perspectively, they have no perspective!
Bernard Goldberg of “A Slobbering Love Affair” fame, reminds us of the “bubble” in which these guys live. A “Vast Left-wing Conspiracy” has not been organized, but they live and move and have their being
as though there were one. According to Goldberg, “The problem, in a word, is group-think.” An “institutional bias,” that is insidious because it is “too comfortable” and “dulls the senses,” is turning “even well-
educated journalists into narrow-minded provincial rubes.”
In a time of national crisis, those the 1st amendment intended to protect the Nation by
manning the watchtowers, are in denial and worse. They are in lockstep, much as the spaced-out fictional
Borg, zombies acting, but not thinking critically.
Be Holy! 