SelahV Today by hariette petersen

Twitter's 140 Character Mindset Won't Fix This Mess in America

But there is a message that can.

Millions upon millions tweet everything from surly snarks to amiable epithets, all in hopes of gaining something in life.  Not sure what folks are truly seeking. Following? Notoriety?  Status? It may be as simple as an audience to support their own thoughts.

It may reach farther into the human psyche than this simple blogger can discern, but...

I think it illustrates the depth of our loneliness-- the desperate abyss of our souls.  Such need there is to connect to life beyond ourselves, don't you think? 

Truly touching are some tweets that parade across the Twitter feeds each day.

The tweet encourages soldiers in foreign countries and lets them know they aren't forgotten by their countrymen. To worn spirits, a well-chosen phrase is like apples of gold for their hearts.  To embattled citizens who seek strength when the world seems against them like the Romeike family, the Seattle bakers, the mother who lost a son in Benghazi and receives no answers.  Tweeters take up the cause.

Twitter's fascinating.  It's an explosion of genius to say something brilliant in 140 characters and have dozens or more people retweet the profundity of our hearts, minds, and yes-- egos. 

Opinions abound.  Check in on anyone's Twitter feed and you'll soon see how to solve the situation with Putin in the Ukraine, fix the American Educational System, defund Obamacare and get rid or Piers Morgan.  You'll meet Patriots and Traitors, Trolls and Moles-- you'll find hatred, camaraderie, enemies and alliances. 

This, my friends, is our world.  Follow me!

Twitter is a snapshot of all that's good and evil in our world.  There are encouragers and discouragers, slayers and naysayers, critics and judges.  There are wits and whiners and powerful designers.  There are framers and founders and wisdom expounders.  And it's absolutely scary to think so much influence can be given in reading the tweet which is not even considered a coherent sentence.

But there it is.

Communication in nano-seconds.  From Bejing to Podunk Hollow, Tennessee. From D.C. to Vegas.  From Wasillah, Alaska to Moscow.  Links upon links, connections and reflections.  Extractions and retractions.  Diversions and perversions. The stream is boundless-- the ripples ever-changing, as the simple confound the wise.

Can we ever rise above such miniscule thinking--away from the sound-bite evaluations? Can we find our way back to a world of contemplation, understanding, and personal introspection?  Or are we beyond grasping the art of comprehension and communication?  Are we ruined?  Spoiled?  Can we not see ourselves?

Sometimes I wonder what a world like this will be ten years down the road.  Will we cease to speak at all?  Will we be one long continuum of letters, numbers dots and symbols?

Will we lump ourselves inside a #hashtag and forever brand ourselves by labels?  It's collected, you know?  Our words and conversations-- if you can call them that-- are stored forevermore in posterity. 

It reminds me of a Scripture verse wherein the Lord warns of judgment day-- a day of accounting.  In that day we will answer for every idle word we've uttered and every mindless thing we've done.  What will my portion be at that moment? 

I have but one thing worth saying at all.  God came to earth one day; He lived among man to show mankind how the Father loved us and how the Father wanted us to love one another.  Then He died on a cross to pay the penalty for all our devious, deceitful, prideful, debaucherous, licentious, perverse, hateful and rebellious schemes against His holiness.  He knew we couldn't live up to His holiness. He knew.  So He gave the sacrifice of His only begotten Son to pay the fine for our sin. Our get-out-of-jail-free card. Jesus died, then rose again to life and conquered the grave.  He did that for you. 

Eternity will be spent with Him or without Him.  Surely we'd rather spend eternity in peace than in everlasting hell, wouldn't we?

Won't you trust in Him today?  Before it's too late to believe?  He promises that all who come to Him in faith believing, He is faithful and just to forgive you of all unrighteousness.  All.  As in every single thing you've ever done against the Holy Creator.  Now that's worth tweeting, any day of the week.

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What exactly did the lady mean with her reply to Jesus that compelled Him to say she had great faith?  Why was this such a meaningful statement from her?

"And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.  And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.”  But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.” He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” And he answered, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.” Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly." Matthew 15:21-28

What example could we give regarding our own lives which would bring similar affirmation from our Savior?  selahV

 

Faith In Rocks, Fossils and The Burckle Crater

Last night before I went to sleep, I flipped over to the History Channel to get a bit more mesmerized by the monotone narrator.  Today I turn on the "tube" and they happen to be talking about what wiped out the dinosaurs.  Nematodes?  Super novas?  Asteroids?  Comets?  Saw-blade red fly infestations?  My attention is piqued when the narrator says that all this gives information that we may find, "what finally made humanity."  "What" not Who.

Imagine my dismay when just before they went to commercial...they say this [super novas, etc.] could all happen again to our world as we know it and wipe out the human race.

"Maybe we can learn some lessons from their [dinosaurs] mass extinction." one said.  If it had not been for all these things, dinosaurs would still rule the earth, they say, and, "...the human race may never have had a chance at life." 

"The truth has been elusive."  

Dinosaur extinction was a probably a mixture of things, they said.

"MAYBE this is the true answer."  "May have been."  "Could have been."  "It is possible that..."

Falling seas.  Massive meteors.  All these "experts" said they do not know.  Either way.  "If we're not ready, we are doomed to repeat history."

It's up to us, folks.  We must prepare.  

Mega-disasters.  Comets.  "We may be due for another devastating impact."

"We should be due for another comet strike within the next thousand years."

"Evidence may be found in the oceans."  Reason?  Well, we have more water than land, and so we haven't been able to look at those craters to determine.  Yada, yada, yada.  My open mind closed the door when one scientist said:

"One universal myth, was the great flood."  Some Dr. Massey believes the great flood was caused by an "oceanic comet impact".  He studied all the "myths" about the great flood and came up with possibilities of how the dinosaurs disappeared.  "All the myths around the world may point science in the right direction to what happened in the great flood".  A massive comet, three miles wide, "may have" hit the earth creating a mega-tsunami.  Flooding our worlds.  He suggests that "fifty percent" of the human race was wiped out.

"Mythological events are not proof"--they say.  BUT...in the Indian Ocean, scientists have found proof of a comet that "could be", "might be", the "mega-comet" that caused the world to tailspin into what wiped out the dinosaurs.

Some scientists believe comets brought water.  This is what we teach our children in our schools.  Could have become the first cell membranes on earth.  Could have.  Might have.  "We owe our very existence to these objects," one man said.

Okay...I'm done.  On and on and on.

Man thinks man came from comets hitting the earth.  Monkeys.   Etcetera, etcetera.

"Could have been."  Coulda, shoulda, woulda. They have all this "evidence" that is not proof of anything.

Burckle Crater.

"We don't know enough about comets to be sure." Dr. someone said.  Again and again, the evidence is speculation.  Interesting and undeniably mind-boggling.  But speculation, just the same.  Occasionally the scientists talk about "Mother Nature" who causes this or that to the comet's nucleus.  Has anyone met Mother Nature?

I watch my granddaughters play.  I watch them giggle, chatter, and dance in the rain.  I think back to when my daughter was their size.  I remember when I discovered I was pregnant. Seven short months later I gave birth to this tiny little being with itty bitty fingernails, toenails, and eyelashes.  I sit and stare at her tiny pink lips as she suckles her first meal at my breast.  How could this be?  Such sweetness.  Such perfection.  Such a marvelous creation of bone, skin, gland, tendon, muscle, and mostly made up of water.  I cradle this little bundle of squiggly limbs and satisfied coos.  I am mesmerized.  I fall asleep and dream.  I wake up and live life with purpose as I understand it.

Scientists do the same.  They have inquisitive minds.  They marvel at the layers of stones and earth.  They rejoice in fossil finds.  Carefully they cradle the lifeless, now hardened evidence of yesterday. They too are mesmerized.  They too are amazed at what they see.  Some see God's creative hand, others just see more hard "evidence" of greater "speculation".  Theory.

I think if God wanted me to have evidence He'd plant it in my heart, soul and mind so deeply that it would be indisputable.  Ah ha!  He did.  When I opened the door to Jesus and His Holy Spirit fused with my spirit, He came to stay--not to visit.  He gives me the evidence of things not seen, of things I hope for.  He gives me faith to trust God.  Faith only wavers when I look to things of this world to assure me, protect me, amuse me, entertain me, inform and conform me. It's when I yield myself to God, and study His Word, that my faith is strengthened, deepened, renewed--that I find I do not need the answers that men seek in this world.  I have the evidence I need.  I need nothing else. "Truth" is not "elusive" to me.  Praise God for Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth, and the Life.  Amen?  selahV