The healing journey of a widowed, unschooling badass in Delaware.
I didn’t take many pictures today as we woke in our tent to rain and waited out the storms before heading out on the water at Lums Pond State Park.
The water was cold and the wind was warm. We saw herons, gulls, ducks, cardinals, and an eagle and the boys played on a little beach like it was June.
We joined homeschooling friends back at our camp for burgers and brussel sprouts on the fire.
After an exhausting day I love lying in my tent and listening to the sounds of the night.
Libertarians believe that taxation is theft (we believe that because it is). Some stop there. Others are willing to take their stolen property back.
The government has captured certain services by force and distorted the market, it is impossible to know their price.
I am increasingly becoming an agorist, learning to live outside the government-captured system. However, while I’m here, I’m going to try to recover my stolen property.
When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?” Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!”
-John 21:21-22
Gossip, comparison, and envy distract us from our true callings.
God wants us focused on Him. With our eyes turned toward the Highest, we can become our best selves.
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The US backed slaughter and destruction in Yemen is bigger and crueler than anything the US media covers. And it is something we could change. Covid measures created more harm than good and attention to Ukraine is very conveniently covering the tracks of the US devils who wrecked the lives of so many.
I took Journalism and Education courses in college. Coming out of high school those were primary interests for me. I saw then the fantasy of those disciplines vs. the reality.
The media has been lying us into war and covering up US crimes my whole life. Madeline Albright said tens of thousands of dead children in Iraq were an acceptable cost. Condoleezza Rice just said invading a sovereign country was a war crime.
We can’t do shit about Putin, but these monsters are given prominence? The corporate media has blood on its hands.
I wandered from our group today and witnessed why I like this time of year so much.
Crocus and snowdrop blooms start to color the forest floor.
Snowfall good enough for sledding is still a possibility.
Indoor soccer playoffs happen as spring leagues open.
Evenings increasingly brighten as we gather around fires into the night.
Easter approaches, reminding us of Jesus’s sacrifice and His remarkable return to life as the world comes alive around us.
Bridget Phetasy is my main source of news comedy. Her Youtube show is suffering from throttling that has capped her subscribers there. Rumble is a video platform dedicated to free speech and Phetasy’s show, Dumpster Fire, is available there.
I’ve got a small voice here, but I abhor censorship in any form and will endeavor to elevate voices that are being suppressed.
Two weeks ago there was a statewide mask mandate and state employees were being forced to choose between an experimental pharmaceutical product and the salaries they used to take care of their families.
Now, by decree, it’s all gone. No data is presented and the order comes on the same day the governor was facing a lawsuit over his illegal extension of his State of Emergency.
How many employees were forced into vaccinations they did not want? If this was so important, how can it be dropped so abruptly?
I hope this opens more eyes to see that public offcials, including those labeled “health,” do not have the interests of the governed in mind, nor heart.
He said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and look at my hands. Put your hand into the wound in my side. Don’t be faithless any longer. Believe!”
“My Lord and my God!” Thomas exclaimed.
-John 20:27-28
Jesus was patient. Some of his students needed more assistance in believing than others. Each individual has a particular path to faith and it is beyond any human to know what that path will look like or need.
All we can do is model Jesus and be patient with ourselves and others as we journey.
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“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future.”
-John 16:13
After an exhausting day, the prayer that goes along with this Scripture speaks to me:
God, continue to fill me with your Holy Spirit. Lead me into truth: the truth of who you are, as well as the truth of who I am.
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“This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
-John 15:12-13 KJV
No one realized that Jesus was going to follow through and lay down His life for them. His students became His friends and the loss they felt must have been intensely personal.
Jesus asks us to have the same commitment to our friends. He asks us to love so deeply that sacrifice is as natural as breathing.
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