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I offer to you Doc one of the many songs I use as a close perspective on my thoughts, me beliefs and opinions. I have many in my mind. Listen to the words of the song from decades ago probably from the seventies or the eighties to see how I see it EXCEPT I have never believed God is dead but lives with multiple proofs I have seen in my own life's existence. Weller does speak of God who had died and thta is the only thing I do not agree with.

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...and it is interesting how you realize words are critical to be used in a strong application to communicate the urgent messages needed to touch the inner hearts of people devastated in life's events.

I sought in this case to lift up Amy and partake of what I believe could well be a life where like anyone else who tells the Truth, they are attacked. Women especially being God's most beautiful and precious creation and having the nobler and deeper noble traits are more sensitive to imposed hurt from others. What did I say to a woman who broke me when she told me point blank her abuse starting at three years of age. I looked into her misty eyes and said, XXXXXX, you are beautiful on the inside and that sublimity flows out of and over you, over me and into my being, communicating to me the substance of your incredible worth and character. I cannot speak of her past without breaking and this was noted by my minister in a session talk on hate.

One does not know how close girls and women especially are to hurt and the possibility of suicide. Turned out she had tried and failed. I loved and love that girl and telling her these things I knew she was not to be fooled by the manner in which she held my gaze when I spoke those words. She had been lied to too many times and hurt, misjudged and manipulated. We are far apart in distance but not in mind, soul and spirit. We talk several times a week.

There is a point at which a connection can be made in spirit with others and this is especially so with women who are sensory and intuitive far beyond men. That connection was made, she saw me as genuine, and that was the beginning of a close and everlasting friendship that grows stronger as time passes and it has been close to three decades. These are NON ROMANTIC friendships. Most of them are younger than I.

If one really means what spoken words say, it will also touch the spirit of the other and it will break them and the person trying to be of comfort. That tie which binds also has behind it the command given by Jesus to be beneficient to others and to fellowship in the sorrows of the sufferings of others. To do that one must be touched by and affected in a Spirit of love that creates an atmosphere where one will reach out and can empathize with the hurt to the depth it will be as if one was suffering the same. The other person can see the sincerity and genuine concern but more importantly if it is real will feel it themselves.

I do not publicize this as it is personal to the person but I do receive private emails from those I seek to encourage telling me of how they cried as they read the words of encouragement and how those words lifted their spirits. This is not of me, I have not that ability. We know that both God and Satan work through people. I look around here and see people far better than I. It is scriptural that He does and will use one to communicate His love for those hurting and while some would scoff at this, I do not. I have lived far too long to be fool enough to deny and/or ridicule the living God who is a mystery to me even with the thought He would use a rough man as I for His purposes. I have been doing this all my life and it is a "rote" to me. The best I can give to the really hard cases is my understanding and having done that, I often hear the words, "Edward, I trust you." I usually reply to that commonality by saying, "Having the trust of a woman is but a hop, skip and jump to her love." It is not a physical/sexual love. Love is made by familiarity and a faithful friendship where discretion and privacy are required in such cases.

The best gift one can give to a hurting woman is your respect, understanding, proper affection, and friendship. I dare say at this point there are nine women in my life here and all asked me to be their friend. Why? I am not a prize but they all love the exact same thing about me. They all know that whatever comes into my mind will ALWAYS come out my mouth whether it gets me into trouble or not. I have no time or energy to waste on pretending to be someone and something I am not. In short, they really love transparent and open men. I get away with murder relative to some of the comments I make but it tends to draw them closer because it is an honest comment. Note that none of these are wokist wankers! A warning here. Women are all the same but all different but that is not an oxymoron. And to all you gals reading this, God was truly in earnest when he made woman. He eliminated the errors he made in creating Adam first.

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