Jim May | living at His place

One of the guys at our Thursday morning breakfast began promoting the latest men’s program coming to town. We had heard it all before. Then one of the guys said, “I already got the tee shirt!”  

I have had, I believe, a healthy skepticism about apocalyptic prophecy since hearing of at least seven Antichrists, who were not. Books crying wolf like “Eighty Nine Reasons Christ Will Return in 1989” followed by another in 1990 have fueled my cynicism. But something is different today. I have learned to trust my spirit over the years. When my spirit says something is wrong, it usually is. Some call it a "gut feeling."

It was in the middle of a very hard week, taking care of my dying 94 year-old mother in her home in Kansas City. There were tedious financial documents to tend to, lots of clean ups and life ending decisions to make. The contradictions of good memories and bad, regrets and accomplishments, emptiness and fulfillment filled my thoughts. I had emotionsI didn’t even understand myself, let alone explain them to others – even my wife.

When people say we don’t have to suffer, they are speaking for Satan, not God.

None of us make it through life alone. We need help. I have not made it this far without mentors, friends, and a loving wife and daughters who have helped me mature along the way.

It is two days after the 2008 election. Depending on our world view, many are dancing in the streets, others are mourning. We all are thinking beings, and our thoughts determine how we act. Our world view determines how we see the truth of what exists and is the basis for our values and votes.

No matter your political affiliation, it is clear that seventy years of secular humanistic education has become the consensus of the American culture. The latest election was the tipping point when the ship of state began to list in the waters of secularism, socialism, materialism, and relativism. Judeo-Christian values are no longer the consensus.

September 8, 2008

I am not a negative guy, pretty upbeat most of the time, but I went into a very dark place.

In the Post Modern world, opinions have replaced truth as the source of our value system. “Everyone is entitled to his opinion” is the mantra of pundits, talk shows, politicians, and citizen. We all are entitled to our opinion, but to equate opinion with truth is to step into darkness. As Tolstoy said, “Some people live and act according to their own thoughts, and some according to the thoughts of other people. There are no guides more false than the opinions of other people, because people do not have a constant opinion about what is good.” A Simpleton is “wide open to every opinion.”