It's just that We are All Giselle's Now Thing

Dear America,

so yesterday -- watching Joel Osteen -- he told a good story.  rumor has it, it was grounded in the reality of living in the wild.  it centered on the moment when the female Giselle is at it's most vulnerable...

basically, the lion follows her around for as long as it takes; he's banking on bagging not just one Giselle, but two. and he's patient about it, too...waiting in the sagebrush until that little mama gives birth...what could she do then, right? run while her baby is half in and half out?   she is marked with a sign on her back that says 'kick me' -- 'come and get it' -- basically, a bullseye for all the world to see.  [it's simply amazing that 'the Giselle' keeps on comin', huh...talk about a strong girl]

Now Joel's sermon was all about a little sweeter message:  "The Promise Is In Me" and you.  Spending the half hour affirming and assuring us, God gives us everything we need on the inside to give birth to our destiny.

And when we are surrounded with the odds stacked up against us; when it seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel; Joel throws us a lifeline that hangs on the boom of Truth and Faith -- and we're about to set sail on the adventure we were born to make.  As Joel puts it, "you're about ready to see a dream come to pass."   

Our vulnerabilities in America are at an all time high; this IS a sign.

Either America will be destroyed OR we are about to give birth to the promise inside us.

so of course, all of this got G thinking...

perhaps -- returning to a period of gestation for all of us is in order [and a tall one, at that].

...going back to our roots.

...going back to our first intention.

...going back to our foundation -- finding it's cracks and weaknesses, in order to mend us in uterine.


ew.  seriously.  so gross.

yeah, well stay with me for a moment --
I mean, it's not like we are afraid to talk about the birds and the bees anymore, right?  Just look back at the last two weeks -- talking about conception and condoms, intermingling women's rights and privileges and duties so closely, we couldn't even breathe between us, let alone hear each other speak.

[while left-brain-feminists differ widely from right-brain ones -- oh yes -- bet you didn't know we make both breeds...perhaps, if it helps any, picture Bella Abzug and Clare Boothe Luce leading the two teams]

I don't know why I picked these two women in particular ...there are any number of feminine icons on both sides to choose from.  What I like about Luce, is that she was living her dream long before 'Bella and her merry band of feminists' had to rush in to fix everything for us.

Not necessarily in any order -- Luce was an accomplished playwright, an U.S. Ambassador for Italy in the fifties, an editor of a big time women's magazine - Vanity Fair, a U.S. Congresswoman of Connecticut in the forties, and oh yeah -- and a wife and mother (even divorced from her first marriage...oh my).

Now I may be really wrong about this -- but I think conservative women do a better job thinking for themselves.  I mean, how hard is it laboring up against the left machine everyday?  I mean, if you happen to BE left -- its great, right; and yet, if you are coming from the right, God speed old girl, God speed.

While all the feminists need to do is 'lock and load;'  the free thinking feminists simply have to join in with the broadband running current -- a speeding bullet, really --  made up of the entire mainstream media, think tanks and propaganda machines like Media Matters and the Tides Foundation and Code Pink and NOW and Planned Parenthood.

The left-brain woman feels it is necessary to actually attack the right-brain woman just because she thinks differently.

The left-brain woman dares not go outside the boundaries of the prevailing winds -- the activist agenda -- for fear of her own persecution.

The left-brain woman is merely grounded in a human perspective -- academia -- a human wisdom -- consciously choosing this wisdom to supersede that of the Creator of everything, the Intelligence above all else.

Seriously -- it's just not that hard to swim with the tide and run with the herd, now is it?

And all the while, it is the right-brain-feminist acting as the Giselle in the every day.   Everyday she is experiencing the gut-check; everyday she feels the pangs of laboring against the crowd; everyday she feels attacked and persecuted for just being aligned with the principles and values and unalienable rights God made.

Newsflash: A spiritual foundation is how this country was made -- whether the left wishes to accept that as their truth, or not.  The history books speak volumes.  It's all there.  Our founders could see the writing on the wall -- they could sense the proclivities of human nature -- they could foresee our weaknesses and vulnerabilities -- and set in stone a government of the people, for the people, anyway.

The promise in me is not from  man --  or woman.
there.
I said it.

The founders created America UNDER God for a reason.  It was fortifying our spirit -- the people's spirit -- to endure all things large and small in order to protect us from ourselves and give birth to future generations built upon all things decent and good and ageless and independent and strong.

America is being surrounded by opposition forces.

The thing is, we are all Giselle's now.

Make it a Good Day, G

The Guardian, the movie, was on yesterday afternoon.  Great Costner/Kutcher flick. Go Coast Guard...
The music at the end is simply inspirational; so this girl had to find a video for you this morning...

So, given the news of the weekend, our troops are in harms way in Afghanistan. The forces are falling apart, inside and out. The mission is unclear and completely vulnerable from all points of light. Do we let Afghanistan go? it's a question clearly above my pay grade to answer.  If only there was some kind of gigantic all-knowing loving force available for us to tap into at times like this...grounding us, centering us, fortifying us at the core, all together...it used to be so easy when we all agreed to live and breathe and create and respond this way under God.

funny, isn't it.
people change, I guess.
...while God... kinda stays the same, millennium in, millennium out.

SURE LOOKS LIKE we need to meditate and marinate on who we are as a people, individually -- fine tuning who we are and what we stand for as a people in the collective.

a good trip back to the womb just might do it.

Dear America,

Happy Friday.

There is some weird stuff circling around us these days; it's like we've jumped into some kind of black hole, one that upon every spiral downward we find stranger and stranger things going on.

In the last week,

we've had a Harvard educated, Professor of Sociology, Dr. Amy Bishop, go on a shooting rampage and kill three fellow professors in the middle of the day, who we assume were just sipping coffee and having a chat at the University of  Alabama biology department. The speculation from the inner circle -- that it was due to her not receiving tenure -- her attorney is claiming insanity;

we've had just hours ago, a press conference with Tiger Woods (yet without the Q & A), who extended his second apology accompanied by an additional 12 minutes of explanations -- not that any of us really needed to hear it.  While within the hour immediately following, we got the tearful "Josslyn James", the porn star (aka Veronica, along side her attorney, Gloria Allred) requesting a personal face-to-face apology for all the anguish he put her through; I mean, he simply destroyed her reputation and she had to go "in hiding" after the news broke...as she really loved him...and she was told he really loved her!

we've had just minutes ago, a press conference on behalf of the Stack family, by a guy who sounds like he just fell out of the sky, Rayford Walker (he just appeared, doesn't know the family, apparently not getting paid -- he's "just here to help" -- but never you mind all that) He stood amidst the crowd of cameras and gave us a quick peek of the level of distraught found in the family left behind of a crazy person, Joseph Stack...you know, after he purposely set fire to his own home and jumped into his plane and proceeded to careen into the second floor of an IRS building in Austin.


All this while our President is on the road stumping for Harry Reid in Nevada, because that dirty Harry is relentless in his pursuit of looking out for middle America and deserves to be re-elected come November --

"Health care has been knocking me around pretty good," Obama said. "It's been knocking Harry around pretty good..."
"...I can personally attest that Harry Reid is one of the toughest people I know, sometimes he takes his licks. But he gets back up. Harry Reid has never stopped fighting."

Oh my.

We are lost souls; we're somewhere between heaven and hell, more caught up into the sensationalism of the day, than the root cause back behind it all -- and especially to that which may actually heal us and correct the error of our ways.
 
We are so taken by fame and fortune; we are so mired by money and the follies of man; we have lost our way and our respect to the laws that truly govern and give great cause to a sound government and a system that supports sanctified, proven. happy human relations -- that being, NATURAL LAW.
 
Our Founding Fathers looked way back when they began to create our Republic -- the one which we unabashedly and ignorantly take for granted today; they, most certainly, would be aghast to see us in this way;  talk about pleading insanity... or falling to human error... or choosing sensationalism over substance... or the inability to come to sound and moral and virtuous choices for ourselves... adversely affecting the lives of others in our wake.
 
Our Founders went to the days before Christ walked the earth to find the real tools to build the best society the world has ever known; one of their favorites was a Roman, Marcus Tullius Cicero, who studied law and philosophy in the days of 106-43 BC!
 

"True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...It is a sin to alter this law,nor is it allowable to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.  WE cannot be freed from its obligations by senate or people, and we need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it. And there will not be different laws at Rome and at Athens, or different laws now and in the future, but one eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations and all times, and there will be one master and ruler, that is God, over us all, for he is the author of this law, its promulgator, and its enforcing judge. Whoever is disobedient is fleeing himself and denying his human nature, and by reason of the very fact he will suffer the worst punishment."  (Quoted from The 5000 Year Leap, who takes excerpt from Great Political Thinkers, Dr. William Ebenstein, Princeton).
   

"The Thinkers" today dismiss the credibility of the Law set in motion by our Founders, referring to the abundance of Christian principles as having grown obsolete according to the ways of the modern world; when in fact, the very roots of our system run far deeper than the age of Christ and his followers -- albeit making that which was masterminded by our founders, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, all that more astounding and rich.
 
Cicero noted that Natural Law supersedes all others -- whether already devised, or any law to come; and connected that the Law of Nature and Nature's God is universal -- eternal -- basic goodness in motion from one to another, and as one stands alone.  We are connected to this Universal Spirit back of all things created; yet as humans, we are ultimately set apart and above all that exists due to our incredible mind, and  more importantly, it's ability to reason.
 
Remember now, this knowledge and foresight comes before the days of Christ; this is the mindset discovered and cultivated through the gatherings of "thinkers" and "revolutionary men" who made it their mission to create a country of unprecedented liberties, and in so doing declaring provisions and universal truths in order to create a more perfect union and outlive all time.
 
Cicero wrote:

"But what is more divine, I will not say in man only, but in all heaven and earth, than reason?  And reason, when it is full grown and perfected, is rightly called wisdom. 

Therefore, since there is nothing better than reason, and since it exists both in man and God, the first common possession of man and God is reason.  But those who  have reason in common must also have right reason in common.  And since right reason is Law, we must believe that men have Law also in common with the gods.  

Further, those who share Laws must also share Justice; and those who share these are to be regarded as members of the same commonwealth.  If indeed they obey the same authorities and powers, this is true in a far greater degree; but as a matter of fact they do obey this celestial system, the divine mind, and the God of transcendent power.

Hence we must now conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members." (again, from The 5000 Year Leap)

God's Law is "right reason" -- grounded in the one love system of justice shared by all under heaven.
 
If I'm not mistaken, isn't this really what most liberals rant and rave and protest about every day?  Are they not the party of the kumbaya -- this one world -- this one people -- gathered together for the good of the whole?  For goodness sakes, this very idea is centuries old and created long before Harvard had ever seen the light of day;  the irony, if they only knew of it's inherent connection to God's Law!   And to be sure, Natural Law is the only set of Laws we should ever really be concerned about -- if we want to grow good people, that is.
 
Where was "right reason" within the sensational stories of the last week?  Where was reason at all, let alone whether it was right or wrong; for if any one of these people ever "reasoned" the choices before them, wouldn't they have soundly and rightly come to another action(s)?  The Law is not to blame; undoubtedly, the individual separation from the principle of right reason is at fault.
 
Many of the "certain unalienable" rights of man, called upon as the foundation of this country, were not spelled out for us by our Founders -- for they assumed we would never wander very far away from them.  They had more faith in us than is conceivably possible -- given how they could see into the future with such vision, subsequently knowing us better than we know ourselves, yet still leaving our personal responsibility of our duty free to decide for each and every one of us.  

If only we had the foresight to recognize these truths all along the way; our society would never have grown into worshiping short term gains and desperate, quick-fix solutions over long term sacrifice and generations of prosperity and blessings.

"Right Reason" is what we have in common with one another, as a planet of men and women -- and yet it is this one thing we mess up on time and time again.  How do we teach "right reason" to our children if not going explicity and often to where the teachings can be found -- whether it be found in the Bible, in Fables and Fairy Tales, and in the spiritual teachings of all faiths which encourage, correct and support a moral compass and right minded thoughts?  How does our ability to "right reason", or not to right reason, affect the outcome of our lives, as well as the lives of our neighbors and countrymen -- as if we don't already know from current events?

In the end, and from the very beginning -- right reason only comes from one place, doesn't it.

What comes from the one place that truly matters -- at the start of all things good or bad, right or wrong -- is our one mind, which is naturally connected to the whole.  This one mind must be cultivated with right teachings -- that which we must become acquainted with right from the start -- and likewise must be supported with in times of trouble and despair; in both cases, firmly planted in a loving family and a faith in something greater than ourselves, call it whatever you want -- God, Allah, Mother Earth, Universal Mind, Yahweh, Spirit, First Cause...

We have a moral obligation to hold ourselves to this One SOUND RIGHT REASONable MIND in order to keep the peace -- the peace that passes all understanding, rooted in the principles that recognize our pursuit of happiness and the liberty to do as we so please in this world which is equally and proportionately connected to the "Right Reason" back of all things great and small...

...And like Dr. Amy, Joseph, "Josslyn" and Tiger -- our free will makes it so.


Make it a Good Day (as nobody else but you can), G