Farrah Fawcett is NOT Dead!

I had mentioned a couple posts ago that I had gone over a picture of members of the audience at the Oscar Awards with a magnifying glass and Farrah Fawett was not in attendance. Why then, I reasoned, should she be kicking up a stink about not winning any kind of award. That is when a couple guys (I think they’re atheists) tried to tell me that Fawcett is dead. THAT is a dirty lie. And here’s how I know.

This morning. THIS VERY MORNING I heard Farrah Fawcett on the radio. So there! She was singing her hit song. I can’t remember what it’s called but the key line goes, “You’re so vain. I’ll bet you think this song is about you.” I’m convinced that it’s about her husband Robert O’Neil but that’s another issue. The point is, she can’t very well be dead if she’s singing on the radio, now can she.

That’s what you get from people who believe in evolution.

"I'd love to be a Muslim"

That's not quite the whole quote. The whole quote was, "I'm a Christian woman who would love to be a Muslim." Well of course she would. It is such a religion of peace. Don't believe me?

Click on the video at the following link and watch Mohommed’s followers of “peaceful” Islam carrying out his instructions - direct from the Quran.

http://somalisforjesus.blogspot.com/2009/01/mansur-mohamed-sfj-martyr-of-year-2009.html

Nothing for Fawcett?

That was the complaint in some article. I didn’t read the whole thing but it sounded like Farrah Fawcett’s people were whining because she didn’t win an Oscar?

For what?

She hasn’t been in anything of note for years. In fact, I looked carefully at pictures of the audience and I don’t think she even showed up for the Oscars.

Listen lady, just because you have big hair doesn’t make you qualified for anything, much less being a good actress; which I might add applies to all women. In fact if any women wins anything more than best actress for anything, ever, I’ll quit blogging.

Existentialists and Reality

“The existentialist finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend on within or without himself.” Jean-Paul Sartre.

He couldn’t have been more correct.

According to fools:

We all come from nothing and are headed to nothing.

We have no inherent destiny

We have no inherent purpose

We have no inherent reason for our existence

We have no inherent meaning

The universe and everything in it is an accident

With no purpose comes no duty.

With no purpose comes no value

With no future comes no worth

Fools mock Christians who, the fools say, invent a "sky daddy." And then the fool goes right out and invents meaning and purpose and value for h/herself as though that should count for something.

A fool can of course claim x amount of worth for himself. But your secular neighbour can say you have no worth and in a secular world your neighbour will be just as correct as you are.

As is clearly seen in things like the Oscar Awards and other entertainment celebrations:
. Based on the value system of fools, human kind elevates the body and degrades the soul.

. Based on the value system of fools, human kind idolises the outside while polluting the heart.

Of Tears and Rainbows

I was with a guy yesterday. A middle-aged man who sobbed tears of sorrow over the loss of his mother to cancer more than ten years ago. He was worried that there was something wrong with him to feel this much pain.

I envied him.

To be able to feel deeply is, I believe, part of the abundant life that Jesus promises to those who follow Him. So many, too many spend their lives numbing themselves. Either through work, or relationships, or mood altering chemicals, a fear of feeling is a common theme in people’s lives. Not so for those whose writings have been included in the Bible.

Did you know that seventy percent of the Psalms are Psalms of lament? David wrote, “Sorrow is better than laughter, for sadness has a refining influence on us.”
A New York Times magazine article entitled Depression's Upside confirms this as it explains that the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) is the part of our brain that controls what we pay attention to. This area is activated when we are sad.

“Tears are the material out of which heaven weaves its brightest rainbow.”
So wrote G. M. Meyer

I must admit that for a good portion of my life, I too looked for ways to escape my sorrow as quickly as possible. I now know that it is in the depths of sorrow that we ask the most important questions about life.

What’s the point of life?
Why am I here?
Why did God allow / cause this to happen?
How can I help others who have had similar experiences?

“Every night tears drench my bed; my pillow is wet from my weeping.” Ps.6:6
“I am dying from grief. Misery has drained my strength.” Ps. 31:10

The beauty of being in a healed relationship with Jesus is that “we do not grieve as those who have no hope” 1 Thess. 4:13.

For those who have been called according to God’s plan and purpose, sin and evil do not have the last word in our lives.

For those who have rejected the forgiveness offered by Jesus, this life is as good as it gets.

For those who have accepted the forgiveness offered by Jesus, this life is as difficult as it gets.

It’s Impossible

Have you noticed that it’s impossible to hurt those who love you without hurting yourself even more?

satan is the archetype of this dilemma. his hatred of his Creator has sealed his fate, as is the case for all those who follow his lead.

Jessica sucks John

Jessica Simpson, when talking about how disappointed she was that former boyfriend John Mayer told people about their sex life, said, “That’s not the John I knew.”

I've seen that in clients over and over and over and over. People become attracted to someone, usually for their looks or fame or money or charm or “S/he will make me look / feel good,” and immediately they imagine good traits that aren’t there and ignore harmful traits that are there.

That is why as the relationship matures what was once attentive is suddenly recognised as controlling. Carefree becomes irresponsible. Relaxed is later seen as lazy. Outgoing shows up as flirtatious. Oh so in love is really obsessive / desperate.

People like Simpson and Mayer and others that people seem to admire (and I do not get why that is) are in fact so relationally dysfunctional that they go full blast into relationships based on nothing but assumptions and wishful thinking. Simpson laments the fact that John speaks about their sex life when for most of those people, sex is all they have to offer a relationship. There is simply nothing of substance below the surface.

So, Yes Jessi. That WAS the John you knew. You just weren't willing or perhaps able to recognise it. And I know it sucks, but because emotional health attracts emotional health and emotional sickness attracts sickness, this isn't the last schmuck that you'll be with. Not by a long shot.