Everything is owned by God. The earth, and the fullness thereof, and all that dwell in it.
Out of the goodness of God, things were entrusted to each of His servants in different capacities. One had been given five talents, to the other  two, and one.  Not all have the same number of talents entrusted, but they were given talents  according to their capacity. The Lord give them option or preference to merchandise or use  the talents for the benefits of the master’s plan.

The one who received five,  he made it  doubled  upon the day of reckoning. The other who received two, do the same. Meanwhile, the one whom the Master entrusted one talent didn’t do anything but hide the means entrusted to him and brought the same with no profit or gain before the Master. He was cursed and outcast, and the talent he had was taken from him and given to the one who has many. 

Yes, the parable of the talents reminded us that the property belongs  to the master but entrusted it to us to be managed and not owned. The property was not distributed equally, but equal commitment and faithfulness were required. Both faithful servants were commended by the master to enter in the joy of the master.

 We must be faithful to whatever things that God hath entrusted to each one of us  He will surely require and account these things to us, on how we used it.  Serve the master, use and develop  the talents that He entrusted you to have.

There is no sin that is unforgivable except grieving the Holy Spirit, why do you think that is? I like to think it’s because it’s the Holy Spirit that lives within us and to grieve the Spirit is to grieve all of us and therefore all feels the hurt. God knows us by the spirit with which we walk. Those of us that still believe and do our best to do things as God would want us too anyway, without the evil spirits of cynicism, revenge, gossip and hate just to name a few would know the truth for it is written in our hearts which the world would like to destroy.

Michael Jackson was the voice of those of us that, like him, are just passing through this world, and wanting to make it a better place for our children and their children some day. His gift to the world was the same as God keeps telling us but few will listen, ironically just like Jesus Christ God’s only son, Michael Jackson’s messages set to song  was of peace and loving self and neighbor and that our neighbor is everyone everywhere. Michael Jackson was no god and no Son of God, so don’t get me wrong!  He was a messenger of God to remind us all of God’s will in our lives and ironically enough Michael Jackson was treated with the same ill will by his own  country and people that Jesus suffered to an extent. Remember now, before you condemn me for this it is Biblical, Jesus did say in the New Testament “They hated me before they hated you.”

Michael Jackson’s peace as is God’s peace; that we accept each other’s differences and fragilities help one another to grow in harmony. To accept is not living as they do nor is it forcing them to live as we do, but love them for their differences and in some cases in spite of their differences. Only this unconditional love will heal this world 

Michael Jackson suffered great abuses and not just from his father but from his country he loved and cherished so much and it is greatly reflected in his later works for those who are really willing to listen,  “Why”,  “Earth Song”,  “Stranger in Moscow” and “They Don’t Care About Us” to be specific. For those of you that are not Michael Jackson fan’s it wouldn’t hurt you to listen to the lyrics of those songs and to see the real life humanity shown in the videos either, it might teach you something about actual humanity. Those abuses he experienced helped to make him the man he became but the continuation of massive abuses cause his final heart break.

Everyone feels they need to place blame of Michael Jackson’s death, well ok let’s start with me then. I grew up watching first the Jackson 5 as a child and more often than not my television was turned to another station with stern warnings that I shouldn’t be watching “blacks,” they weren’t our kind. The minute they left I turned the station back, now if I had used that same perseverance later in my life instead of allowing my own insecurities to get in my way, I might have actually joined his fan clubs and written to him as I wanted to so many times, or made something tangible out of my own life..

Instead I let my egg donor, who was the only actual biological parent I knew and her parent’s who were so afraid of her to go against anything she demanded, constantly tell me that I was a no body and not his color anyway. Passion and that kind of love was never in my mind, I just thought he was neat but they convinced me that I was a nobody. Certainly not worth being noted by anyone special and constantly in the spot light. So it was when those damn allegations started against him I should have wrote to him my support, but I didn’t and even though I did defend him to all that had something bad to say I could have done more, and just when I was going to write to him a letter I found myself going through the same damn thing and couldn’t believe it. I didn’t dare write him then, I didn’t want to do anything to hurt him and I wouldn’t have hurt him for the world.

I wanted to make my case public though and my attorney forbid it, saying it would only hurt me. I know all about the lies they contrive to make a person plea bargain, make people sound like monsters, create hatred of you from those around you or near you, and I remember well their pre-conception of guilt even if you are totally innocent. I was hated big time once they learned I was a Christian and they contrived to continually verbally abuse me when I’d inquire of my children. I never saw them again and probably never will, but I remember! 

Ironically I grew up believing in justice within our government system too, so I know well Mr. Jackson’s disillusionments. The love and respect of our government we were taught as children no longer exists because that system no longer exists. in its place is something foreign and evil leaving me cold and lonely inside with no friends left and no where to turn for guidance, spiritual wise because most of the churches today are very like the ones in the days of Jesus’ time, full of sin without repentance or so political they left the people behind to fend for themselves.  Michael Jackson’s warning in one of his latest releases, “They Don’t Care About Us” is a wake up call people “Look to Heaven to Fulfill its Prophecy.”  If you don’t know what that means you need to study your Bible because all of the great speakers of our time are leaving us before their time should be up. 

Now we can blame the medicines, the doctors, the lifestyle of an entertainer and any number of other causes but the real blame belongs with each and every one of us that are so damn willing to believe the worse in others instead of looking for the best, so damn willing to be led by the nose for whatever the reason in any direction a politician takes you and there are those like me who felt that we are nobodies and no one will listen anyway.  Well even if no one listens at least I will have tried and while I have at least tried it is more than some others will do.

My memories of my own low self esteem, my own fears, my own self worth, of how and when my life may end and the nothingness I leave behind me; know this, my strength right now comes from the passing of the one man I would have loved to have met in real life because he was love in it’s purest of form and was condemned for it. My memories of his wonderful works of art, of love, his legacy to the world and the ways in which he expressed the truth to the world. Do not let his memory or his works be forgotten, his work upon this realm is finished and it’s time for ours to begin. It’s time for action!

If you think you are perfect and live a perfect life you live in a fantasy world. Not one person on this planet is perfect. Just because you make less mistakes than others doesn’t make you a better person or a better Christian, you may be wiser than others and therefore you should help others with your wisdom. But you are no better than anyone else on this planet.

Who is at fault for the degradation of the churches and Christians today? When did the faith start falling apart? Probably about the same time as respect, obedience, and the true love for family and life itself began falling apart in the early nineteen hundreds. About the time when self expression meant total disobedience and disrespect for the parents, family, values, and high morals. Women wanted the freedom to marry for love not security. Women wanted to enjoy sex without regard for the consequences of their acts. Many placed blame everywhere but where the blame really belonged, their own poor choices placed them in the position of having children they weren’t ready for. Their decisions to disregard their parent’s warnings and teachings about sexual promiscuity, sex before marriage and the importance of a good solid marriage.

Oh men were just as bad! They loved the wiles of women’s new found freedoms never once taking into consideration what kind of women these would turn out to be. All they could think about is the ability to have sex without having to pay someone anymore every time they had an itch to scratch. Men have changed too over the years, fat, lazy, non mannered, and either overly arrogant abusers or weak sniveling led by their unmentionables.

Why not? After all no one likes to see a parent sad, crying, complaining, hurting, in pain, etc. all through their childhood. They were the children that decided they weren’t going to end up like their parents no matter the cost. No one has yet to see the problems with what happened back then. If they did see the problems no one was willing to help make things right. Many of these young people went to drugs and sex for release or to forget the life they were leaving behind. No one could have envisioned the vast problems that would come out of all of that “expressing themselves” we have today. Those were children who grew up with parents who went through the great depression in the early nineteen hundreds and survived it. Many of them didn’t have an education because they had to work to help the family make ends meet. Many came from large families so only a select few in the family got the chance to go to school and college. Because of their own hardship they wanted the best for their “expressing themselves” children, which meant a good education and a chance to make something out of them that the parents felt themselves robbed of. And if anyone thinks there were no bitterness in the parents that went through the great depression you are very wrong.

Here we have parents that did whatever was necessary for the family as a whole unit, even if it meant they lost out on something themselves to selflessly give so others, usually younger could have the greater opportunity; who’s own children can only see others with better lives than they have deciding to not only disrespect, but to put an end to family units as we knew it then. If that wasn’t bad enough many of those “expressing themselves” children wouldn’t accept responsibility for their own poor choices in life, blaming others including unwanted, unborn children they conceived during one of their moments of poor choices.

Unfortunately many of these “expressing themselves” children took out their anger, frustrations, self disappointments, etc. on their own children for things that wasn’t their own fault. Mother’s blaming their sons for perceived sins of their fathers; father’s blaming their daughters for the mother’s desertions of the family to seek some other mans bed and leaving him to raise their child alone, and so forth.

If you think those children weren’t bitter from the mental, emotional and in many cases physical abuses they sustained at the hands of their own parent you are really living in your own fantasy world. And so began a new pattern for those that never realized that they had the power to end the cycle right there.

In the beginning the family units would attend church and church functions together, during the great depression the churches tried to help their congregations as much as possible but even they weren’t as prepared as they should have been, so many closed their doors permanently.

Over the many years since not only have those churches reopened their doors under new leadership but now we have so many offshoots of the parent churches because people became offended by the teachings or something within the church. Instead of working together to right the wrongs of the churches now we have partially filled churches teaching only bits and pieces of the Bible; and we have many versions of the same Bible!

Confusing? You better believe it! What’s even worse is the Headship of the parent churches isn’t even screening the applicants of many of the new churches so now we have churches full of abominations! Just last night I was informed that Gays and Lesbians can actually get married in any church and could actually get married in a local Catholic church (but cautioned me not to tell the Pope.) Where is the church leadership? This isn’t the first I’d heard this, and while not all of them will do it; but the fact is they will do it for what, money? So long as no one can prove it? God knows or are you out there preaching God’s word without believing what you are saying? I would call that hypocrisy wouldn’t you? How can we the believers be called upon to speak with conviction when even the leaders of the congregations won’t?

If there was any time for God’s true Christian people to speak up and speak out it’s now! We need to put an end to all of this madness before it truly is too late! I don’t care what denomination you are! “Let he who has ears let him hear.” God needs His arms, legs and voice to do His work and to ring through the world. It is time to stand together and be accountable. Come out of your comfort zones and strike down the demons of fear, greed and any number of other demons you have residing in your temple and let God’s light shine forth.

We as God’s people have had ample time to prove our positions through the various fields, such as pro life issues; prove a fetus can sense, feel and has enough cause to make a believable case irrefutable that a fetus is in fact a living being and from what stage as a fetus is this factual? Not to prove to me, I believe from time of conception but the non believers and those who would destroy life because they made mistakes need to see factual irrefutable proof. Remember non-believers believe in nothing that can’t be factually proven and will always wage war against us believers and push for everything against us and our beliefs to continue that war.

I think it’s funny that every time non-believers go out of their way to prove us wrong they only succeed in proving us right, even then with the proof they’d uncovered they refuse the facts making them look petty and combative. So why do people believe them? Simply because they scream louder in their indignation of the proof they can’t accept; Christian believers remain silent.

Now we are in another Recession where the churches need to provide for their congregation and community and again the churches are ill-prepared, so what’s going to happen when this Recession turns into another Depression similar to the one in the nineteen thirties or worse? You can’t say God didn’t warn us! How many Believers have: 1. their own gardens? 2. The knowledge and ability to can home grown products? 3. The materials and ability to create sheets, blankets and clothing? 4. The knowledge and materials to create crude shelters without the use of electricity, nails, etc. today? 5. The ability to create candles from raw wax to see by at night when there may be no electricity available? 6. Modified diesel generators to run various necessary machines like breathing machines for people having to use them or to operate a communications device to keep in contact with the outside world for information? I know the Mormon’s do but they aren’t known for helping anyone but their own believers. So where does that leave the rest of us? Just what have God’s people been doing with all this time for preparation?

If you think the times are hard now it’s not going to get any easier real soon here. We need to do the things God told us all to do and that is to be prepared, are we? Are any of us in a position to help others when push comes to shove? How many of us will be there to help others not just ourselves when that time does come? This is one of the biggest tests coming how many will pass it?

I can hear the questions and the scoffers as you all read this and question my term test. Yes it is a test! A test of preparedness, a test of faith, a test of walking the walk as well as talking the talk, a test of honesty and truth, a test of selfless giving, etc. In other words will doctors, nurses and pharmacies be willing to heal and help for little or no money to insure the health of others during this time? Will contractors and supply houses be willing to build temporary shelters for little or no money during this time? Will those with gardens share their food during this time? Will those with the knowledge to can foods be willing to work with the growers to can foods for others to use? If for some reason the schools should shut down will those with teaching credentials be willing to teach in a make shift facility to continue children’s educations for little to no money during this time? Morale will undoubtedly be low so all who can supply uplifting performances teach faith and so on must all do their parts as well. Many things may have to be done on a barter system or just in a giving spirit because it’s something needed. Survival as a community is the name of the test, how well do you think you will fair?

You don’t have to proclaim yourself or even be a Christian to do the right things, but it is something commonly known as Christian acts to do the right things. In this day and age it is pretty well inconceivable that there are those that do not know right from wrong, therefore those willing to do what is right stand a better chance of survival and is at least closer to the Christian belief than those willing to do wrong which can be evil. Christianity is hope where there is little or no hope. Christianity is where once we as individuals or as a group do all we can do standing in faith that the Higher Power, Creator, Jesus or God as many of us call Him, will pull us through the rest of the way.

God never intended His people to sit on their bums and complain about all that is wrong in their lives but to act, getting out there and helping your neighbors through their problems. The old saying of the Old Testament is true even to this day, “Give to Caesar that which belongs to Caesar,” meaning give to the government that which belongs to the government because God will take care of and take back anything belonging to Him! Complainers will remain in the wilderness until their faith is complete or they turn from God, which will you be?

Again I ask, with so many Christian’s in the United States of America, where are God’s arms, hands, legs, feet and voice? Why are Christian’s standing silent instead of proclaiming (singing) God’s love and grace through the rafters of the highest roof tops to be heard by all people everywhere?