:::::::::: Can't Get This Out of My Head ::::::::::

Deuteronomy 28 from the Hebrew Scriptures

Blessings for Obedience

“If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the world. 2 You will experience all these blessings if you obey the Lord your God:

3 

Your towns and your fields

    will be blessed.

4 

Your children and your crops

    will be blessed.

The offspring of your herds and flocks

    will be blessed.

5 

Your fruit baskets and breadboards

    will be blessed.

6 

Wherever you go and whatever you do,

    you will be blessed.

7 “The Lord will conquer your enemies when they attack you. They will attack you from one direction, but they will scatter from you in seven!

8 “The Lord will guarantee a blessing on everything you do and will fill your storehouses with grain. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

9 “If you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in his ways, the Lord will establish you as his holy people as he swore he would do. 10 Then all the nations of the world will see that you are a people claimed by the Lord, and they will stand in awe of you.

11 “The Lord will give you prosperity in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, blessing you with many children, numerous livestock, and abundant crops. 12 The Lord will send rain at the proper time from his rich treasury in the heavens and will bless all the work you do. You will lend to many nations, but you will never need to borrow from them. 13 If you listen to these commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today, and if you carefully obey them, the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always be on top and never at the bottom. 14 You must not turn away from any of the commands I am giving you today, nor follow after other gods and worship them.

Curses for Disobedience

15 “But if you refuse to listen to the Lord your God and do not obey all the commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overwhelm you:

16 

Your towns and your fields

    will be cursed.

17 

Your fruit baskets and breadboards

    will be cursed.

18 

Your children and your crops

    will be cursed.

The offspring of your herds and flocks

    will be cursed.

19 

Wherever you go and whatever you do,

    you will be cursed.

20 “The Lord himself will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in everything you do, until at last you are completely destroyed for doing evil and abandoning me. 21 The Lord will afflict you with diseases until none of you are left in the land you are about to enter and occupy. 22 The Lord will strike you with wasting diseases, fever, and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew. These disasters will pursue you until you die. 23 The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron. 24 The Lord will change the rain that falls on your land into powder, and dust will pour down from the sky until you are destroyed.

25 “The Lord will cause you to be defeated by your enemies. You will attack your enemies from one direction, but you will scatter from them in seven! You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 Your corpses will be food for all the scavenging birds and wild animals, and no one will be there to chase them away.

27 “The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, scurvy, and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. 28 The Lord will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic. 29 You will grope around in broad daylight like a blind person groping in the darkness, but you will not find your way. You will be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will come to save you.

30 “You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will sleep with her. You will build a house, but someone else will live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will never enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox will be butchered before your eyes, but you will not eat a single bite of the meat. Your donkey will be taken from you, never to be returned. Your sheep and goats will be given to your enemies, and no one will be there to help you. 32 You will watch as your sons and daughters are taken away as slaves. Your heart will break for them, but you won’t be able to help them. 33 A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment. 34 You will go mad because of all the tragedy you see around you. 35 The Lord will cover your knees and legs with incurable boils. In fact, you will be covered from head to foot.

36 “The Lord will exile you and your king to a nation unknown to you and your ancestors. There in exile you will worship gods of wood and stone! 37 You will become an object of horror, ridicule, and mockery among all the nations to which the Lord sends you.

38 “You will plant much but harvest little, for locusts will eat your crops. 39 You will plant vineyards and care for them, but you will not drink the wine or eat the grapes, for worms will destroy the vines. 40 You will grow olive trees throughout your land, but you will never use the olive oil, for the fruit will drop before it ripens. 41 You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, for they will be led away into captivity. 42 Swarms of insects will destroy your trees and crops.

43 “The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger, while you become weaker and weaker. 44 They will lend money to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, and you will be the tail!

45 “If you refuse to listen to the Lord your God and to obey the commands and decrees he has given you, all these curses will pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed. 46 These horrors will serve as a sign and warning among you and your descendants forever. 47 If you do not serve the Lord your God with joy and enthusiasm for the abundant benefits you have received, 48 you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. You will be left hungry, thirsty, naked, and lacking in everything. The Lord will put an iron yoke on your neck, oppressing you harshly until he has destroyed you.

49 “The Lord will bring a distant nation against you from the end of the earth, and it will swoop down on you like a vulture. It is a nation whose language you do not understand, 50 a fierce and heartless nation that shows no respect for the old and no pity for the young. 51 Its armies will devour your livestock and crops, and you will be destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, olive oil, calves, or lambs, and you will starve to death. 52 They will attack your cities until all the fortified walls in your land—the walls you trusted to protect you—are knocked down. They will attack all the towns in the land the Lord your God has given you.

53 “The siege and terrible distress of the enemy’s attack will be so severe that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you. 54 The most tenderhearted man among you will have no compassion for his own brother, his beloved wife, and his surviving children. 55 He will refuse to share with them the flesh he is devouring—

the flesh 

of one of his own children—because he has nothing else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your enemy will inflict on all your towns. 56 The most tender and delicate woman among you—so delicate she would not so much as touch the ground with her foot—will be selfish toward the husband she loves and toward her own son or daughter. 57 She will hide from them the afterbirth and the new baby she has borne, so that she herself can secretly eat them. She will have nothing else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your enemy will inflict on all your towns.

58 “If you refuse to obey all the words of instruction that are written in this book, and if you do not fear the glorious and awesome name of the Lord your God, 59 then the Lord will overwhelm you and your children with indescribable plagues. These plagues will be intense and without relief, 

making you miserable 

and unbearably sick. 60 He will afflict you with all the diseases of Egypt that you feared so much, and you will have no relief. 61 The Lord will afflict you with every sickness and plague there is, even those not mentioned in this Book of Instruction, until you are destroyed. 62 Though you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, few of you will be left because you would not listen to the Lord your God.

63 “Just as the Lord has found great pleasure in causing you to prosper and multiply, the Lord will find pleasure in destroying you. You will be torn from the land you are about to enter and occupy. 64 For the Lord will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship foreign gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods made of wood and stone! 65 There among those nations you will find no peace or place to rest. And the Lord will cause your heart to tremble, your eyesight to fail, and your soul to despair. 66 Your life will constantly hang in the balance. You will live night and day in fear, unsure if you will survive. 67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were night!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’ For you will be terrified by the awful horrors you see around you. 68 Then the Lord will send you back to Egypt in ships, to a destination I promised you would never see again. There you will offer to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will buy you.”

New Living Translation (NLT)

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

((("...WHAT does theLORDyourG-d require of you? To love him and serve him with all your heart and all your soul... Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of YOUR HEART and be STIFF NECKED no longer...")))   

...let others go first. Simple. so SIMPLE.

Enough, Planned Parenthood

CIVILITY IS AN OLD NOTION THAT MUST BE BUILT STONE UPON STONE,
BRICK BY BRICK, FROM THE GROUND UP,
EACH PRECEDING GENERATION HONORING THE NEXT,
 BY PRESERVING THE SOUNDNESS OF THE FOUNDATIONS
AND THE INTEGRITY OF THE ARCHITECTS

The purpose of Planned Parenthood is preposterous.

Telling women they will be better parents if they design children around a career sounds so erudite. Sound's so 21st century; so independent of the constraints of reality, of real life.

I am afraid, however,  no such performance improvement correlation exists. A jobless mom can be every bit as good a mother as a fully employed millionaire Marissa Mayer, probably better; because income level does not predict for outcomes of genuine love and integrity toward a child, no matter what mindless soap-operas tell you; and though the clothes will be second-hand rather than couture, a child can know security from a parent's devotion, not from the status of said parent, or the dollars spent on diaper wraps.


         A child learns integrity not from his surroundings, but from a parent's prayerful practice of selflessness. From a parent's daily cries to heaven for patient leading, provision and wisdom; from the intersection of hope and trust: Hope in G-d, not in a bank account; trust in Holy Promises, not in     parental hubris, pride or good breeding.            


As if this band of renegades wasn't ridiculous enough, now they've proven themselves capable of the worst human conduct. The dismantling (evil enough) and selling of human bodies, tiny though they are, (both) for financial gain, AGAIN proving that possession of money and possession of integrity do not absolutely go hand in hand.

Why they were ever allowed to take money in exchange for destroying a SINGLE tiny fellow Zygote is beyond me; and in eternity, pro abortion MEMBERS OF CONGRESS will all be called to answer.

So, Dear Gd, arrest and prosecute those who steal, kill and destroy*, even as we understand that they were merely misled by the follies of fantastical good intentions and a whoring American Medical Association; by their highly soap-operatic mission statements (and permission from Congress, and Popular Culture's approval...):

... to convince the world that income levels produce better people.


Sorry my dears. I do pray and hope you might soon grow up and out of your Sangeresque mythologies. A few months in stripes and a few chapters into a Prison-Fellowship-provided RECOVERY BIBLE  may do the trick.


All my compassionate understanding,

~ ~ Baby Zyg


(PS:

Dear Congress, 

What   is   t a k i n g   s o   y o u   l o n g?  

The good intentioned women at Planned Parenthood are waiting for their much delayed instruction in civility and polite society...  Now,  please be compassionate, grace filled and gentle, as they're still not sure of what they did wrong. 

Do let them know that some of us have been praying for them at least thirty five years. En utero of course.  And avoiding all hair and skincare products containing collagen from sources other than animal, stated or otherwise...)

*And while you're at it, give yourselves zeroed out paychecks for allowing AND funding child killing these past long 45 years, because you, who are called to represent and lead the rest of us,  YOU ABOVE ALL PEOPLE, should've known better.

I wouldn't watch this...

Levatino Means Buoy

Levatino, Anthony.

A buoy.

That which is

Levitated above the

Double Speak liars who are

Naral,

Planned Parenthood,

Family Planning Associates,

and umpteen other 

Death for Profit Centers

that populate 

once sacred ground.

Best Zygote Hope Since Nathanson

His Excellent Delivery at Congressional Hearing

Thank you, sir,

For only dreamed of integrity 

That

We,

The voiceless

Have waited our whole

Gestation

To hear.

STRIVE

When madness descends
Zygote's can't flee, only
Beg Holy Hallowedness
Defend her hollowed space

Safely;

When harvested parts truth finally abounds
And old Rushdoony's long last proved right,
She can hope this beam of heav'n might pierce
Old dark lies out of being, but

night

Has pushed it's hard edges and habits
Onto this rare light of day, leaving our heroes
Again, spare and mute,
Though shouting and pounding

away...

I'll stick to my hiding place, thank you.
My zygotish thinking holds sway
That it's still just not safe for my accosted self
To yet yearn for the hoped for

birthday.

4.28.15

[ Calendar log taped to the headboard. Learned
how unfaithful I am at daily intercession ]

For this day I've knelt since January;
For a team of legal minds
Called upon to sweat and bleed and
Sow unearthly wisdom
So that rows of black and
White Truth
Might emerge for
Harvest time this June.

Their purpose was
Unthinkable a
Few short seasons ago; so,

Besides tough mental prep, scouring
Briefs and sparring
States of mind,
Research, counsel, and divine epiphanies
Beyond mere common sense,
They stand down scorn and threats of scorn
The likes of which few men have ever known.

Might there be anyone on earth
So prepared to Stand
Up to such an ever widened gap,

Against so enormous a foe as
Everyone Else in The World
of
Man birthed power?
Who are these few who hold the destiny of
An entire nation within the folds of
Accordioned case boxes?
And
Where does your courage come from?

Whomever you are, know we're glad it's you
Instead of us who wither
At the smallest hint of hate.

[ Huzzah to Bursch and Whalen ]

Armanian Yield

My Dear, Dear Armenian,
Instead of mania after 100 long years since injustice meted out your bitter dispersal, instead of remaining a bitter, abused people, instead of outcry and just demands,

imagine with me, a different scenario:

Imagine that, after enduring horrific atrocities mercilessly inflicted and then ignored by all the world, teams of God invested and God fearing Armenian survivors determined to lock arms with the entire world in an unusual display of concerted obedience, setting up prayer pods aimed to intercede for the nation of Turkey; purposing to heal by means of something hitherto unheard of (unless you sit alert and attentive in a Christian church every Sabbath Day); a long term method of praying for those who persecute you which finds comfort in actually blessing those who despitefully use you.

Imagine, without so much as an uttered word about harm done and trauma suffered (and nothing about genocide, because that iron word hadn't yet been invented), a new idea sprang up from the dirt and dust of heartbreak and despair in 1915.

Imagine some unprecedented pursuit bent on a 100 year long strategy to counter hate and bile and anger.  Imagine ignoring the passionate need for retribution that we all suffer from when we can taste nothing but the hoped for flavor of justice exacted right before our eyes, and instead, dying to all that out of obedience to scripture?

Let's say this drive to dismantle these demons of fallen men and angels became an orchestrated response through the setting up of merely ONE prayer pod in every nation of the world, wherever Armenians find themselves, organized to meet weekly, albeit weakly, and to replenish its members every few months so that it would spread; and before long, every city in every nation had one. Prayers for the government of Turkey would be multiplied.

Let's say this effort went off silently, pacing itself week by week, month by month, until years passed, and then slowly, imperceptibly, the Church, The Body of Christ, began to take note ... and

BAM. Organic change: a generosity of spirit manifested by these holy saints leaks out onto the heart of Christianity across all cultures, nations, and denominations. Then,

suddenly, after 100 dutiful years had elapsed, all the world has unknowingly been schooled by the power of the long since animated Holy Spirit who is quickened by such an inordinate, uncommon and truly unheard-of determination to remain obedient to the Word of God.

History would be changed. Turkey would have been changed. This world we now face would not be as it is and Western Christianity would not, I daresay, be a hedonistic exercise in entitlement and material acquisition. 

Rather,

all the world would clearly see The Way to Christ through a humble preference to love one's enemy. The example set by the persecuted among us would have given all of us new eyes for what genuine forgiveness looks like. And genuine repentance. And genuine everything.

And I would be changed. Instead of licking my wounds and clinging so much to my victim status, I would realize a larger purpose for my pain.

AmZyg might be a cheery puddle of sunshine, not the Eeyore cave she so delights in. Her DnA would refract different hues altogether.

And therein lies my dream.  To at last see offenses as if they were committed against God himself, instead of against me. For He is where my final justice comes from. I can be certain that, as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, a just God will have his day.

I, and you, too, little AmZyg, must stop forever taking offenses personally. Sin, ALL sin, is an offense against the Almighty. Not you.

So get over yourself?

Thus is the essence of our PRO-Life ideal.

To WAIT for the justice we know is coming, even if it takes 100 years. or 1,000.

Times ten.

And to hope, meanwhile, for our enemies to see The Living Christ through our longsuffering, and embrace Him.

"With God, there is no injustice..." 

~ Jehoshaphat in II Chronicles 19:7

(i.e., He will see to the job of avenging the weak. In due time, He will do it. 

It is not our job to exact it ourselves.)

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Juan The Pirate

Remembering my Dad on Thanksgiving.

Juan The Pirate, who early dreamed of becoming a sailor in the Mexican Navy...

...or, not.

Because our Family Secret is that much of what he pontificated about every night at the dinner table during the 50's, 60's and 70's was, well, embellished; and all the stories told about his Mexican childhood were probably more a grand fiction than a grand survivors tale (did Mexico even have a Navy in the 1930's?).

Grander still was that bigger-than-life place in the world that my dear Dad occupied in his own mind. Yet, despite that overbearingness, we all endured his ego well enough; and mostly recall his memory with fondness all these years later.

As I ponder and plan the purposes and blessings of the Thanksgiving Feast, I keep harkening back to the promise that was "Sir Juan The Great."  Were his purposes on earth mostly met? Did he accomplish what he set out to do?

What did God put him here to do?

Purpose One was to discipline and hone his gifts in the chemistry lab. Pegged to be an MD, he reconsidered the plan once he transferred from his home in central Mexico to two Catholic colleges here in the United States, 1945.

He came to love the intellectual rigor of the research lab, and before too long,  he was all about the study of entomology, pesticides, herbicides and plants; patents, published papers, a stint in Sittingbourne, England, and a dream-come-true retirement all folded together to make a keen and tidy all-American life.

And that's all well and good (if you're not a Rachel Carson fan), but what remained once he was cremated and gone?

There was his man-cave study (oh, goodness, NO TV for Juan); his mountains of slides and photos; a collection of sporty British hats and sweaters; a faith tradition that mostly meant church on Sunday bunches of assorted prayer cards in drawers and closets; a few patents and even a published paper I found on the web that was so technical I became bleary eyed within the first paragraph.

But there was one more element to Juan The Great.  Purpose Two was to reproduce a faith in his progeny.

What legacy remains for his six offspring?  Would the proof be in 13 grandkids? Are they picking up the mantle of faith he lived? Uh, not really.

A tidy stack of monthly Magnificat devotionals only materialized in those final years, when he knew his imminent departure would come from a heart condition he would not treat; but this was long after the grandkids were grown. Nevertheless, LIFE with GOD got suddenly real in those latter days.

The Magnificat is put out by a slice of Roman Catholicism which actually subscribes to genuine Jesus talk. Born Again Faith teachings. RELATIONSHIP with CHRIST assumptions. It might even teach ideas about how Christ alone saves you rather than depending wholly on a life well-enough lived, generous donations or a well funded patronage. That time honored reliance upon any old priest or parish or pope to get the job done is mostly missing from The Magnificat, and Dad relished each one.

That is what finally inspired me about Sir Juan before he died: the way he allowed God to humble him during the last five years or so of his life on earth.

IF ONLY HE'D KNOWN SOONER THE DIFFERENCE CHRIST MAKES on one's temperament, time, talent and treasure.

THINK what a difference his grand kids might now be making.

I once told him that when he is gone, I would tell people what a GREAT man he was, and I meant it. The earlier disrespect I had for him that so marred my childhood, took an about-face in those final years; because he truly did become great, no longer as a figment of his own ego-filled imagination, or by virtue of his rags to riches life story, but because he lived out a vibrant RELATIONSHIP with His Lord and Saviour by repenting of sin, forgiving others, and faithfully reading the Scriptures; all of it leading to authentic life-change...

... by the Grace of God.