ELECTION 2020: Debate and Updates 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

 

"Lead with Love thy Neighbor"

Walmart has dropped front door mandated mask-wearing at either entrance of the store.

They have chosen profits over allowing a minority of citizens to refuse mask-wearing in lieu of their "rights" or religious "beliefs"..Christ would wear a mask!

And a society of free democratic ideals does not mean doing what I want even if it harms others! 

Freedom in the USA is not the individual right to infect, harm, or kill another citizen. This is radical behavior.

I have chosen to boycott all companies that chose this route in defiance of state mandates. We are close to a quarter-million deaths(10/09)  and the third cause of deaths in the US.

Is our Political Climate a Hoax?

To let Love lead is not to accept lies and fears that will define our country,  especially in our year of a presidential election. Anything or anyone that divides and alienates us from our "neighbors" is not about compassion and being "in a loving relationship"..

 God's true plan for us..Amen

"As I say, I always like to play it down, the scientists don't know! I don't want anyone to panic."

White House Announcement: as of tomorrow a new and permanent residence for POTUS

Trump Tower

409 N Wabash Ave

Chicago Ill

( Furthest location from the eastern coastline. Trump Tower Manhattan not suitable)

"Rioters sticks and stones can't reach my bones and name-calling will never hurt me!"

"Fake News vs Fake Days"

Email sent to me on Oct 1, 2020, If he has added a day to September, the 31st, to collect quarterly donations  on October 1st, then maybe subtracting November 3, 2020, will make up for that additional day....so...nightmares galore, we won't have an election day this year!?"

As long as we look to the world, its leaders, and political bandaids, we will be under its spell.  It is an illusion that will only confuse and continue our suffering. Yes to participating as our freedom in this country demands us to do and vote! I have chosen to look for the LIGHT, even if only a glimmer,  and love wherever it shines. For I know now more than ever that Jesus is not just wearing a mask to love his neighbors, HE IS OUR MASK.

Art as Mask..Mask as Art

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THE 2020 ELECTION IS OVER

We the people have voted and the aftermath is coming.

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"Cocomoe"

Some of us my feel that politics has" gone to the dogs"!? Well, this collection from Anderson Island community can have my vote of support anytime!

"Gracie"

"Tia" RIP.

"Sheltering in place"

As August first approaches, the "Stay at home, be safe" mandate from Gov. Inslee is relaxing a bit...with reopening in some areas causing spikes in cases and deaths, not unlike other areas in our country. The US holds the highest numbers for cases and deaths in the world. [25% of deaths worldwide and USA only 5% of worlds population].

I live in a small coastal tourist town on the northern coast of the Olympic Peninsula. As summer arrived with warmer weather, there is an ongoing influx of non-resident visitors filling the main street of town where I live in an apartment. A strong avoidance of social distancing and mask wearing is evident in only 50% or more of people on the streets below my  second floor window.

Being a high-risk target for the virus, I wanted to return to a southern Puget Sound island, only 5 by 6 miles in size..not even one stoplight! A small full-time population and ferry access only.

My goal was to be "safer". Both fear and a desire to "thrive" were my main two motivations..Fear of isolation far from my friends in distance and wanting to thrive with a beautiful wooded landscape and gardening to fill my hours..

As my plans slowly dismantled , one by one, my heart searched for an answer to..

"What has love got to do with it?"

 When the fear of living in this chaotic world with a pandemic , note being led by my own country, I  made a promise to find and express LOVE for GOD, myself and others.

My answer came quickly and the source was clear.

"I long to dwell in your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of your wings" Psalm 61:4. .. " nor the pestilence that stalks the darkness..a thousand may fall at your side.(  Death toll currently averages 1000 a day in US)..nor the plague that destroys at midday"..Psalm 91 6-7.

God's gift of deliverence is not a vaccine looming in the distant future against my own and others physical pain and possible death.

I have chosen with some courage to be present each day and open each day as a gift from God.. " I am leaving you with a gift, peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give you is a gift the world cannot give so don't be troubled or afraid." John 14:27

And at the end of each day in the evening.."In peace I will lie down and sleep for you alone, O Lord, will keep me safe.." Psalm 4:8

His promise, "Be still and know I am God" , Psalm 46:10 , keeps returning to my mind and heart and what follows is "Joy". Fear has no strength in the face of Love. This lamb's face is full of joy as she was carried in the right hand of the attentive Shepherd, shielded by the Lord's wing forming in the sky overhead. Only the emotions of Love and joy in this world stamp out my covid-19 fears .

 As God's word washes over me, like a rolling ocean wave, I will walk through each day as my true heart is slowly revealed by God's grace...

Amen.

EARTH DAY 2020

 The Father creator formed a planet we all call home, and we have been given an ability to respond to this relationship with the earth.

It is out of the matter of this  floating orb that we were born into the garden home we were given to live and thrive in.
   Genesis 1:1-2 , 2:7

•  Our garden home has been neglected and in need of desperate renewal. The skies above are saturated with fumes from car emissions, coal burning factories, gas fracking drills and deforestation practices world wide. The rivers, lakes, oceans are polluted with toxins from waste disposal, run off from over logging, tanker spills , garbage dumping and pipeline breaks. The demands of the species called Man/Woman has been beyond our garden home's ability to renew itself and sustain us. We are threatening our own survival. Our ignored interdependence and mandatory moral stewardship has been abandoned .

We are now facing, as one of many species, a pandemic viral disease that reflects our over consumption of natural resources and habitats. The population of the world has increased from 3 to 7 billion in one generation. Resulting in animals being forced to live closer to humans and now sharing a virus. We have also promoted GLOBAL relationships that have catapolted commerce in hopes of meeting the needs of ALL and  even to promote more WANTS  in our world. I see our time of great technology creating the vast computer/phone age, not unlike a vital nervous system, reaching almost every corner of the Earth. With this has come a feeling of interconnectedness. Yet created is a vast commercial wasteland of unessesary products ending up in landfills. Behind this global surge in commerce is an ever increasing demand for jobs for us to just to buy the necessities of living.

 Our garden is now, with this pandemic virus, being  given a chance to heal and become an Eden again. Those who have caused this, primarily US (USA world's largest polluter per person) have been given a chance to renew our relationship with our home's environment. The skies are clearing, the waters flowing clearer and the many animals being given a chance to thrive again. We as humans have become the carriers of a VIRUS COVID -19(HUMID-19?). We are being shown how  quickly nature will recover and be revived when we change our priorities. With mandatory quarantines our behavior has changed. We are slowing our lives down, wanting less, giving more, loving our neighbors and giving wildlife and our environment some rest is the result. Currently we have entered a 6th era of mass exstinction of animal species. This time we could be included in this era unless we wake up. "Our Father who art in Heaven" , also awaits our decision to "return" to a compassionate way of life in this garden.

My favorite quote, I remember from the 1970's concern for the population explosion at that time.."I live simply so others can simply live", Ghandi. This has been my choice to live this way and will continue to do so.

 The skies over Beijing and Los Angeles have almost cleared in a few weeks.  What will we all chose to do? How many more natural disasters and plagues will test our faith and duty to care for this fragile garden?

I chose, in my heart to believe that God's hand will lead us back to love and the wisdom to be better stewards.  To be grateful. Beautiful horizons are an inspiration now to heal and be transformed from our brokenness.  There is always room for more love in this world. Amen. Genesis 1:28