humor

You have to admire that humor will get you through some disappointing times better than other things. So today, I tried humor in a speech about myself and the phrase "bumbye pau" I told the story of my growing up poor and philosophical. A little girl who asks God to help her not to hate. I think that all along God has created in the human race a think to worship him. It is not malevolent in anyway, but our sin has made us all skeptics. Our sin has blinded us to his generosity and benevolence. It's so sad that this is funny. Last year Lynne was working at Victoria's secrets and this year at the Food Bank. I know you know this but I just love Lynne. I find myself growing a tad particular about who I say this to in my old age. But I said it to several people today. And I said this to someone that I was once really angry with.

I know that I prayed to a God I did not know at the time, but now I pray to a God that I do know. So well in fact that I call him father. That's not funny, it must be God.

irma

The Nativity Story

I am listening to "the Nativity Story" sacred songs, something that I really have reverence for. I think that I am beginning to understand the words 'sacred' and 'holy'.

Rejoice, Rejoice

There are so many things that come to my sometimes wandering heart

What makes sense in this life? That it indeed seems destined to go on. For a reason God knows people come into the world.

Good people are taught to share and to give and to love. And bad people are not taught anything. I was watching the movie with my lover, my friend, the best person that I have ever known, my husband Ray.

I know that people think that belief is a lot of bad things, but in my heart I know different.

I know that I was a person that could not believe in anything and then my heart changed. And all the things that were taken from me were given back. I found them in my lover, my friend, my father Jesus. I don't think that I even knew that I was looking for anything. I was frightened by this temporary life. I was disillusioned by what I saw adults doing all the time.

I was 20, and I knew that something was so desperately missing from this thing that I called my life. Like the excuses that peel away from a rotting vegetable, or the infection debreeded by the gentle surgeon...every so carefully to the girl that never smiled...God became real, about 25 years ago. Not only real but dimensional, so that I could never tire of Him or forget Him.

Along with Him and very soon came a husband and two small children.

Sometimes along the way Satan would deceive me that I thought and would think that I was not worthy or right to be this person that God called me to be and depression like nothing I had ever experienced would fog into my world unexplainably.

And moments of an insidious sadness would threaten the edges of my soul, till I remembered like Christmas that He loves me, no matter what I think. Oh to own that I am safe and kept by the Prince of Peace.

Loved.

O little town of Bethlehem by Jackie Velasquez

Redeeming social values

I think that it is both the right and responsibility of every generation to redeem social values. What are these values, that is up to time not us to decide.

We should understand history, the past wants to teach us what we are and are not capable of. I know that there are lots of people out there trying to determine the nature of humanity, particularly if it is good or bad intrinsically. I vote for both, I believe in the fall and I think that there is more than enough evidence to convince the logical that humanity exhibits both the moral and perverse.

What imspires this blog is the upcoming movie "The Nativity Story" starring Keish Castle-Hughes, brilliant young lady from Maori culture. I understand that she is the youngest actress ever to receive a nomination for her role in her first movie "Whale Rider"

I for one can't help but relate to her struggle in the male dominated society. Her father and her grandfather figures in the movie are very realistic to me.

Movies seem to take a life of their own on in some cases, and they are not always recognized for what they are in the beginning. Remember "the Passion" and please no references to the human frailties of the producers, that's cold and old.

Keisha will play the part of 16 year old mother of Jesus Mary...I cannot think of better casting, she will be brilliant.

Last night I bought the soundtrack in advance of the movie. You have to understand the significance of the birth of Jesus to appreciate how much the world longs for this movie, unknown.

We will not be cynical, and we may only be curious, but I dare anyone to watch this movie and not see something new.

Thanks Keisha, I pray and believe that you were born to do this, God Bless You.

irma