Babel

Once, as the story goes, the human race spoke one language.  

But God became angry when people tried to build the Tower of Babel.  

The Lord scattered the people all over the earth and confused their languages so they would not understand each other, so they would stop building in Babel*.  

Do not let the differences in language and human scatterings around the world confuse the point that we all belong to the human race and are children of God.  

Changes in skin color from adaptation to different climates does not change the fact that we are all of the human race, created by the Lord. 

Hate stemming from fear or exploitation of others in slavery are but trappings in superficial differences.  

When we die, we present not our race or skin to the Lord, but our hearts and souls; hopefully full of love, peace and purity- free from hate, fear and depravity.  

Therefore, to understand another beyond our many differences, we have to learn to speak in the universal language of love.  

*From Genesis 11:1-9

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

 

Today, we mourn the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.  

Her life and her legacy will long be remembered in the chapters of world history.

A life dedicated to duty, the service of her people and to making the world a better place for all  

We will miss her guiding light.

  

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was a pioneer that moved, encouraged and inspired the progress of humankind.  

"It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.” 

              

               - Queen Elizabeth II

 

It is a fallacy that we are sinners and have both good and evil within us.  

We are capable of both good and evil, of doing good and doing harm, but it does not mean everybody is both good and evil.  

In the beginning, we are created by the Lord; therefore, holy.  

When we pass our tests of character, we remain holy with deepening enlightenment.  

If we fail a test of character, recognize our failure, confess, repent and atone, then retest and pass, we are good.  

It is the ones in continuous failures of character in perpetual harm and sin that become sinners.  

Just as those that lie excessively become lairs.  

The problem with being groomed or raised into thinking that we are both good and evil, is that not only do people become complicit and accepting of sin and bad behaviors, people give footholds to sin and bad behaviors, thus becoming corrupted and compromised.

We cannot serve both the Lord and Satan for we shall hate one and love the other*; 

Which is why sinners will delight in evil and relish in the unholy power of hate forsaking the Lord and the Lord's commandments to love in fellowship.

*“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money."

Matthew 6:24

 

Dear eSnowflakes,

Our lifetime is but a moment in the infinite moments of time.  

There are moments in the course of human events that live in infamy or rise above the rest in honor and virtue.  

These events are etched in written history and live on in legend or legacy long after we are gone.  

In these deciding points in history, these defining moments, are how we will be remembered.  

Whether we are vilified or revered, scorned or honored by succeeding generations depends upon long term consequences and outcomes yet undetermined. 

Generational hindsight ten years from now will be much different one hundred years from now, especially when reverberations of consequences and outcomes become fully determined and recognized.  

Whether we, in those pivotal moments, rise or fall, depends upon choices to bravely serve the Lord and humanity or give in to the selfish desires and temporal gains.

No matter what happens in the end, how we are remembered matters not as much as how we are Judged by the Lord.

At every juncture and every point in life, what matters most is your ability to pass your tests of character and choose wisely the course of your history.  

The path of salvation cannot be seen or taken without purity of heart and redemptive soul.

In the course of a lifetime, mistakes, failures in character and lapse in judgements are bound to happen.

Redemption must be part of your journey process, otherwise problems in failures and sins remain and stain.

In the end, what you present of yourself in heart and soul to the Lord, must be acceptable to the Lord.

The consequence of not passing the Lord's Judgement is not spelled out in the history books, but in the eternal fates of eternity.

 

When you are sexualizing and objectifying you are not spiritualizing, nor are you intellectualizing.

Seeing through the eyes of lust, you will not see the Lord or the other person, let alone read that person with any kind of understanding.

You are in a relationship with your own body, not with another person or the Lord.

Always walking the walk of shame, leads ever nowhere but into the sins of lust.  

You will never find happiness having relationships with your own lustful desires in unclean minds and impure hearts. 

Treating your future love upon first meeting in disrespect and dishonor will not be a good way to start a relationship and is a sure way to end one.  

Distancing yourselves from the Lord and the Lord's commandment to treat people the way you would want to be treated in shame and dishonor, only lead you on a path further away from salvation.  

It is worse if you are practicing sexual abuse, because it means you are on the path of unholy damnation with heinous crimes against humanity and harm against a child of God*.    

* "See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him."  

       

1 John 3:1