I want to go home........(vanity)

3-22-06 | Rca2000

[HitmanLV]

Actually, 2000 census figures show that there are 60,000,000 married couples in the USA, not 40,000,000. Elsewhere I have seen that there are 2 million new marriages a year, and 1 million divorces a year (from the entire pool of married couples).

[4U2OUI]

Stop making sense. Your brain will hurt less.

[Nowhere Man]

I'll drink to that! Makes me wish I could build a machine to escape this parallel universe. B-P

[mrs. a]

As Thomas More said - the times are never so bad that a good man cannot live in them.

Take heart...

[Mom MD]

absolutely, I just don't think we will find the way things used to be here on Earth. I also think if we went back to the good old days, they wouldn't be as good as they seem. (a lot better than now, I grant you)

[Mom MD]

I can long to go home without taking my life. I pray every day for Christ to come back for his own, but am in no way suicidal. I will wait on his timing, but I can long for it!

[humblegunner]

The rapture could be anytime!

Raptors are scary!

[Mom MD]

Only if you are not taken along!

[Enterprise]

I think many of us who read the post have thought the same thing. We look around and are appalled by the contradictions. Our creator knows and understands. He gave us free will. But remember the powerful example of the incident when the mob was given a choice between Jesus and Barabbas. The mob, when given the chance to release a good man, or release an evil man, chose to release the evil one. Yet, in the midst of all that cruelty, one man stepped forward and volunteered to help carry the cross for Jesus. Imagine that! No one expected him to do it, no one paid him, and other than Jesus, I doubt that anyone thanked him. Yet, Jesus knew who helped!

That about sums it up for the rest of us. Jesus knows the contradictions around us. Yet, I think he would want us to do what we can, within our resources and abilities, to help others. He knows we are often like the blind man who helps the lame man walk, who in turn helps the blind man get around. That's what we are here for. We have a choice. We can join the crowd that celebrates evil, or we can lift a burden, if even for a short time, for someone else. You may not hear it, but from the softness - a voice: "Thank you friend. Inasmuch as you freely do this for another, you have done it for me."

[Rca2000]

May I SUGGEST YOU GO TO DU AND SEE HILARY??

Just couldn't live without flaming me, could 'ya?? Shows just how SHALLOW YOU are!!

[Rca2000]

Looks like one of my "friends" here, came to offer his "wisdom".

Now, THOSE are flames, guys!!

[pcottraux]

You'd better stay off this thread.

[ovrtaxt]

"Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be Your Name.

May Your Kingdom come,

And Your will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven."

Lift up your eyes, Rca. His Kingdom is to be established here first, and then the end shall come! Every believer is already home, because we presently have eternal life. It will progressively manifest more and more in the Earth as we follow Him.(Matt. 24:14)

Don't forget the big picture. If you're tired of what you see around you, draw close and listen to His voice. Remember that we are much better off than we were 2000 years ago. Sure, Satan is trying to get his New World Order, but Jesus will have his first.

Keep your eyes on the Lord, not on the slanted version of reality that the media would have you to perceive. He is still on the throne, those who rage and scream are not.

Dominion is our destiny!

[Supernatural]

Leon Russell's song "Stranger in a Strange Land" comes to mind.

The devil has everything turned upside down; that is, on its head. Evil passes for good. Good is almost unknown.

God will sort everything out when we get to the other side.

Meanwhile, we have to endure here. And we do.

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

In this strange land, Churches are no longer teaching the true word of our creator. Rather, they teach "tolerance and "diversity" and that "we must be inclusive of all other religions". At the same time, they no longer preach about sin, do not protect the unborn and sit by and allow marriage to be forever destroyed.

You must not be catholic. (/semi-sarcasm)

[pcottraux]

I think he pinged us here because he was about to get flamed by killjoy.

[Paul_Denton]

Might I suggest you leave this thread?

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

I see that now. Killjoy, huh? How appropriate.

[pcottraux]

We've been in flame wars with him before. We were just waiting for him or one of his buddies to show up and try to start some trouble.