Beginning a New Year can be a traumatic experience, don't you think? At least it has been for me... Have you noticed that companies in America try to sell you anything and everything, but, when there is a problem, they aren't willing to make even a small effort to help their customers? I've had several issues that have exploded--or maybe it's been me who has exploded--at present I'm experiencing much introspection... Is it me? Am I the problem because I expect that "the customer" should be better treated than we are being treated? Without going into detail on any of these, I will just give an update on a former post. It has been since October 9th, last year(!) that I have not had an operational washing machine!
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This book is by individuals--Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware--who work within the Council on Foreign Relations which is what I would consider as a Think Tank. A group who investigates and presents a report on issues that are affecting the world, without regard to partisan relationships. You might want to check out a short presentation on the book, which is just out... "The book is terrifying and elucidating..." is how the introduction to the authors discussion was identified. And that's exactly why I stopped reading... I knew that this was a detailed, well researched book that I could accept to be absolutely documented Truth! And it scared me! I will get back to that book at some point....
What immediately hit me was that I could possibly be seen as one who claimed to have direct guidance from God... This book talks about an entire set of actions that are supposedly directed by God... Was I misleading my readers by sharing about my own connection? Was I using God's name to support my own agenda? The next morning after I had stopped reading, I bowed my head and asked for guidance and quickly the words came, "This is your story..." accompanied by the flush of warmth over my face as I listened to His Spirit... It seemed like He was saying that I was to not be afraid of sharing the gifts that He has given me... But, because I'm the doubting thomasina who seeks confirmation of even my own connection, I needed further assurance... I was led to a Christmas program that I had earlier taped... and found four songs I'd never heard, that spoke of all that I was feeling... Music is, for want of a better word, generic. It is written by somebody who does not know you. Yet, when you hear it, it speaks, often of God... This, to me, is a confirmation of my own world.
So, I began to look for the next book to read and liked the title of a book by Gourish Bakhshi, For the Good to Do Nothing. Again, I read a little... It is an alternative fiction story where the author describes what is happening between Russia and Ukraine, only with the countries being India and China... No, I'd come back to this one. There is already too much reality on needless wars...
Time is meaningless to somebody who lives alone, so, when I awoke in the middle of the night, fully awake and remembering, I got up and wrote the above, which I've now have proofread (I always proofread before I post...anything...)
