IT'S 9:32 A.M. GOD IS IN CHARGE

It's 9:32 a.m. I am struggling to stay awake, not because this political s*** show is uninteresting, but because at 76 years of age it has gotten very predictable. Thank you Jesus for my hero Don and for my other hero Donald J Trump. Fox News is finally watchable although because of my sympathetic tendencies I can only watch the suffering of Democrats for so much when I have to turn away. Included in that is my heroic older daughter whom I have trained to be an independent thinker and I try not to be too harsh with her when I confront her in our debates with her historical stupidity. Indeed, the lessons of history was a weakness of her homeschooled training and I have to constantly refresh her scant historical background with reminders of Pearl harbor and the Nazi Holocaust etc etc etc. 

I am now almost totally open about the current political climate on my Facebook page and my audience is growing so fast, especially internationally that I have to slow down constantly. My percentage of USA readers varies from two and a half to three and a half percentage points. From my blog spot statistics I am consistently penetrating China and Russia. I have been encouraged by upper management to keep up my blogs and have even been blessed with a persistent young female companion who is 35 years my junior. By the time I reach 99 years of age it will be 2049. I have no idea how things are going to go other than I am totally confident that God is in charge. Later Gators. MAD DOGIt's 9:32 a.m. I am struggling to stay awake, not because this political s*** show is uninteresting, but because at 76 years of age it has gotten very predictable. Thank you Jesus for my hero Don and for my other hero Donald J Trump. Fox News is finally watchable although because of my sympathetic tendencies I can only watch the suffering of Democrats for so much when I have to turn away. Included in that is my heroic older daughter whom I have trained to be an independent thinker and I try not to be too harsh with her when I confront her in our debates with her historical stupidity. Indeed, the lessons of history was a weakness of her homeschooled training and I have to constantly refresh her scant historical background with reminders of Pearl harbor and the Nazi Holocaust etc etc etc. 

I am now almost totally open about the current political climate on my Facebook page and my audience is growing so fast, especially internationally that I have to slow down constantly. My percentage of USA readers varies from two and a half to three and a half percentage points. From my blog spot statistics I am consistently penetrating China and Russia. I have been encouraged by upper management to keep up my blogs and have even been blessed with a persistent young female companion who is 35 years my junior. By the time I reach 99 years of age it will be 2049. I have no idea how things are going to go other than I am totally confident that God is in charge. Later Gators. MAD DOG

THE PAIN AND POWER OF A BROKEN HEART

As a man who has been widowed twice I know both the pain and the power of a broken heart. As usual, I try to look at this from God the Father's perspective for as a race, we have broken God's heart when we turned our back not just once but repeatedly. But God and his infinite wisdom has prepared a way back through the death of his son the Lord Jesus Christ. Now the conclusion is that once we as a race are reunited with him in heaven, there will be no divorce nor will we desire one. 

I love it when a plan comes together.

Later Gators. 

MAD DOG

ELON MUSK LIFESTYLE

Finished the 6th blog post earlier than usual this week because at the age of 76 I have semi-permanently adopted Elon Musk lifestyle. I live in my man cave and I sit beside the edge of the bed with my Google pixel 6 AI secretary posting and editing constantly until I'm caught up. I sometimes will get up work and lay back down up to three times in a row until I can quit falling asleep while I'm working. And frankly, I had started working the same way in the last years of factory work which was a heck of a lot more dangerous because I drove back and forth to work getting by on a little as 4 hours total. The scare stories I could tell you. But during the last part, the Lord had moved a fearless and politically astute boss in and that's a long story in itself and I was his driver. So many stories. So little time. It's a good thing management give me a heads up to work on these blogs until I'm 99 which will be in 2047 and that is not a guarantee that I will go home to heaven but just a reasonable goal now for me. 

Later Gators 

MAD DOG

BIRTH OF A NEW NATION ANNOUNCEMENT

 I'm excited to announce the coming birth of a new City Nation, Gaza. 

Now for the disclaimers. I am not a prophet nor a scholar I have no doctorate of expertise I am simply a bi-vocational retired pastor, musician, factory worker, and international blogger with a reach of possibly 150 countries or more including China Russia India Bangladesh Pakistan Uzbekistan many European countries etc etc yada yada yada. I have had many quiet but spectacular in a quiet way answers to prayer that are very well documented. Read my book THE RAIN PARABLES available on Amazon along with 15 other books. The most spectacular answer to my prayers was my decade and a half or maybe two decades prayer for a president that had a biblical understanding of finances for a nation. I am also a legendary bully fighter and fearless hard worker so that at the place I worked I was nicknamed MAD DOG.

These are my credentials kind of like David when he stood before King Saul and told him the story of how he defeated a bear and a lion. I have also received what I call MEMOS FROM MANAGEMENT, which deserves an entire blog or maybe even a book but suffice it to say my last and possibly final memo had four words. IT'S. ALL. SET. UP. 

Now I'm just a Pathfinder. I see the almost inevitable and exciting possibility of a brand new nation state. 

Do not despise small beginnings. May I repeat that? Do not despise small beginnings.

That's enough for now. Later Gators

NOW vs Tai chi

NOW is the time to repent!!

Now is the time to get right with God.

Now is the time to look to the Crucified and Resurrected Jesus.

but

Don't be in a hurry to...

Grow up.

Be beautiful. Or handsome.

Get married.

Get rich.

Build a house.

Save the world.

Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

Life is like Tai chi. Doing the repetitious slowly deliberately, adding strength and balance to our life.

Health, wealth, friendships, service, marriage, family, wisdom, worship are best built slowly, steadily, working hard at each at their proper time, and often simultaneously, like the Good Samaritan, ministering while on a business trip, setting an example for all creation and the Creator to admire.

Seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Democrats... Left in the wilderness of wokism

 Good morning. Everything is a work in progress. Today's post is a work in process. My story is a work and process. My life is a work in process.

I am an amateur journalist, a bi-vocational pastor retired.

I have been married twice. No divorces. Nor have I dated a divorced woman. I am not sitting in judgment of those who have been divorced. I simply clung to this standard because I really took the heart the scripture GOD HATES DIVORCE. 

Through God the Fathers mentorship and coaching, almost like whispering in my ear, I have learned how to pray effectively. Seems like I vaguely remember a scripture that says the effectual fervent prayer or prayers of a righteous man availith much. Read my book THE RAIN PARABLES available on Amazon.

As my first wife slowly struggled and faded during her last decade with a battle of bladder cancer, a juggernaut type of cancer that morphed into vaginal cancer, she and I worked hard as a tag team ministry.

For the first 10 years or so of my ministry at Family Bible Fellowship, we were incredibly blessed. We were purchasing the house of Lynne's dreams. With my generous income from work where I made more annually than the company president, we were adding handcrafted Amish oak furniture and Lynne was the ultimate hostess for our extended family and our nuclear family which consisted of two Catholic son-in-laws and a growing bevy of grandchildren.

May I stop for just a moment and share a story?

We were having another Sunday dinner after church around the beautiful oak table with me at one head and the hostess Lynn at the other. I had purchased a walking stick and the movie The Hobbit was popular. The older granddaughter Libby decided to take the youngest grandson Liam and teach him a mini skit. We all watched as he pounded the walking stick hard on the hardwood floor then said YOU SHALL NOT STAND!!

Allow me to jump ahead to what I see is the conclusion of what's happening to the Democratic Party. Because of the three death cults fusing together, the Democratic Party and their leadership has become so zombified that the entire older generation is going to have to die off before they can become effective again. 

That's what happened in Exodus. One whole generation had to wander around in the wilderness until they all died off and even Moses himself because he was a little impatient and tapped the rock twice instead of once had to settle on being taken to the top of the mountain and watching the children go into the promised Land. Maybe that's my lot? 

God is not going to kill off the Democratic Party totally because this conflict goes back to Adam and Eve and obviously just because the woman was so quick to get into trouble, redemption is also coming from the woman starting with Mary the mother of Jesus and then the church the bride of Christ.

A fusion of America and Israel, Jews and Christians, will rebuild and slowly win the hearts of their former enemies just like the USA did after they beat the s*** out of Japan and Germany. The threesome of the death cult, jihad, communist, and abortionist, Will slowly be encased and muted likely tuberculosis bacteria in our lungs only to be released before the end of the world and with Satan freed all the events of the apocalypse will happen but what humanity doesn't understand is that the universe that started with a big bang will end in a fiery crash and collapse and all of the physical DNA that has embedded impurities from ignoring God's example of one man one woman for one lifetime will be burned out of all human flesh and after judgment day where every creature will receive double the pain that they've inflicted on others The mouth of hell will open up and after every day bows and every tongue confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord the former predators will become the prey of the greatest predator prey of all times God the Father and the flashing lights will draw them willingly to their own eternal destruction and the pain will be beyond our imagination and we will be able to see it clearly and our heavenly bodies and when we finally sit down with the children of the future we will all tell our stories and then we will go to the lip of hell like our church did once.

One of the things that changed my life was our church took all of the young people to the Maxwell Street slum where all the rhinos that's funny winos hung out. It was presented as an object lesson to the teens about living a wayward life. Then we concluded with an evening at Pacific Garden missions where we went through the food line with the homeless men after a preaching service with an awesome evangelical piano player like I was to become and then we also went to their radio studio or they did a radio drama about someone's life. 

Ironically, or possibly providentially, my very good friend Pablo who might talk about often in my blog was saved from a deep dive into sin as a drug dealer and married twice and now works as a children's bus director as an outreach person and every time he gets a chance he goes and preaches the gospel somewhere and constantly witnesses to everybody he talks to. I was there and had to pass this on to Pablo when a missionary from the Ukraine??? Told how one of his young man was saved after he heard Pablo's story in the Ukraine. See how God weaves this together?

Later Gators 

MAD DOG

TBN, THE BEST NEWS

 So, I finally can watch Fox News, but my favorite news source is TBN. And of course I have a story about that. 

But before I get to the story, let me tell you why I like TBN. First of all, they're covering the big situation, which is Israel and the conflict with Iran. Iran has embraced a suicidal ideology that is going to result and massive death and destruction for their people and that's because that's a doctrine from the devil himself who is also the king of suicides and eventually if I may speak a little prophetically someday after judgment when he sees all the deaths and destruction and devastation that he has caused, he will willingly walk himself to the lip of hell and fall in, because every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. 

So I told you about how efficient they are they just have a two-man crew to handle international news and I love that efficiency. Anybody that's frugal always gets my vote. 

Now to the story. I met the founder of TBN. I was the youth pastor of Fullerton first Church of the Nazarene, pastored by Reverend Bob Leffel. Bob had hired me cuz he knew he was getting more than just a youth pastor. I am an amazing musician both locally and in my keyboard artistry not because of my talent but because God made me that way. The music minister was Duane Howard.

I really liked Dwayne and he also was our insurance agent but he kind of seemed to brag a little bit about everybody that he knew. Looking back on it I realize he did know everybody including the imperial quartet and Elvis Presley. With my help, Dwayne and I put together a church quartet and we were pretty good and because of that Dwayne made arrangements to go down to the headquarters of TBN and we got the sing on satellite TV actually it was a chain of television stations that the founders were purchasing just as fast as they could raise the money for it. 

I don't remember if it was before or after when we sang, but the founder whose name escapes me right now came over and told us about his vision for expanding TBN and he had 17 stations at that time and he later purchased buco more.

Fast forward from the early 1970s to October 7th 2023. If you haven't figured this out yet I am a news junkie since I was in grade school and I started watching the news avidly if not rabidly. And to my surprise the best news source out of Israel was not the gigantic CBN on the East Coast but TBN which originated on the west coast. Instead of having the big table and a big staff they were getting all of their news from two guys year pinto that's where the p for his name anyway we'll we'll work that out later and another guy and they were right on top of the news all the time. The funny thing about these guys is they are Christians and Jewish and soldiers and now it is becoming evident why Israel is going to be christianized kind of like right now the world is being trumponized. God has a way of turning important people in his plan not ours into a weapon of God so much so that the people that godly people hang around will find themselves becoming godly too and this is now happening with Israel. Christians are rushing to the aid of Israel and United States because we who were founded on godly principles finds itself in alliance with Israel and also because America cannot stand a bully. I'm not talking about the psychological bullying that Trump does to defeat foes that try to defeat him. I'm talking about true blue head chopping stab you in the back bullies that are a danger to civilization.

So am I making a prediction? Nope. I'm just sharing my thoughts as I watch events unfold. 

Later Gators. 

MAD DOG 

THE BED BUG DRAMA

I am honored to be able to be the first comment on this epic journey through history with the guidance of the historical Oracle. Just some brief personal news. My new wingman, Chris, is a piano mover by trade and I of course am tied to my Yamaha upright grand, so this will be an interesting friendship. 

Meanwhile, poor Chris is battling alcoholism and got a life altering stay in the hospital which is going to affect his mental health, some of it for the better. I call Chris frequently Martha Stewart because he is the cook and bottle washer in his domain. His wife was a bartender and they had a wonderful and delightful marriage but unfortunately all good things must come to an end in this life and in 2016 after 2 years of Chris being her personal one man hospice, she passed away. To show you how things are intertwined right now in the Plymouth South bend Notre Dame etc area, Shirk's Piano, which specializes in Steinways, also was the main supplier of pianos for Notre Dame. My son-in-law's are both Catholic and are very well acquainted with Notre Dame football and Tim, the policeman, met my daughter Rebecca, in Roseland, when she became the first female officer of Roseland. I think I'll call it quits for the moment because this is going to be a running narration of why Plymouth Indiana through the influence of a crazy preacher, me, is going to be the new center of the internet universe as my congregation which is now several thousand and growing expands through the shepherd's Journal on blogspot and now substack. 

Well hold on. I can't conclude this story until I tell you the dilemma of the bed bugs, and how that's influencing my love life. When Chris was hospitalized, Martha Stewart alias Chris came home with bed bugs. Chris is a cleaning freak but considers it not a mental illness but a good thing. Missy and I were getting back to a regular schedule of coffee daily when the bed bug crisis struck. Missy's parents, and especially her mother, are keeping track of Missy's whereabouts through secondhand information, which explains why they have persuaded her not to come and visit for a while, even though Lana and John the bed bug expert have cleared both Chris and me.

And now you know the rest of the story. Later Gators MAD DOG 

ETERNAL LIFE VERSUS ETERNAL SUICIDE

 Everything is a work in process. For example, this post at this moment is going to start off as a log of ideas on this same subject. Whenever I sit with my AI secretary pixel in my hand and she diligently takes my dictation this necessitates that I use a phone instead of a laptop. 

Since it's 3:21 a.m. I'm sitting in the dark on the edge of my bed and it has occurred to me that the most important topic I can address is where will we spend eternity. 

Our current situation on January 29th, 2025 is there is a massive shift in political alignment and part of this is as my Baptist second wife said part of the Providence of God. 

There are forces at work trying to destroy the Jewish people and the nation of Israel. There are many levels of consciousness involved in this but the most dedicated have chosen to be suicidal warriors. 

I am convinced that they are disciples of Satan. Satan has been changed at his own choice from a skeptic to a full-blown critic and resistor of God, and doing that puts him in the mental nuthouse and his thinking is highly contagious. 

There are several brands of suicidal warriors. The communists formed themselves to combat rabid forms of greed which comes in many guises but all of them have a kernel of ambition which may or may not be legitimate. 

Patriotism is a good thing but carried to its extreme becomes a mental illness. Ambition is a good thing but carried to its extreme can be a mental illness and cause untold damage to the children and women or men who love these ambitious people. Capitalism or the formation of infrastructure and organizations designed to make money is a good thing but carried to the extreme where workers' lives are put at risk and all the competitors are swept away is a mental illness. Thus you have the fascist nationalistic full employment movement called Nazi Germany deciding that they need to conquer Russia in the winter as their predecessor Napoleon also made that same mistake. 

This seems like it's a good place to pause. Thank you for your kind attention. Which reminds me of my first pastorate in mulhall North Dakota where I addressed the church. Everybody was talking and the ladies had asked me to have prayer before we ate so I started to announce MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE? After everybody quieted down I spoke to the next line. Thank you. I just love attention. 

To be continued.

I YAMS WHAT I YAMS

 My strong tendency to be sarcastic made me pick the choice of the EPA in California banning fires, very similar to the Democratic solution of gun-free zones signs to protect schools. But remember I am not bitter for I have a very long perspective. I see this division between men and women and Democrats and Republicans etc etc etc going all the way back to Adam and Eve. If I have time I will flesh out this thought on my next post of THE SHEPHERD'S JOURNAL. As usual it will be a work in process. I will post it and then take my time and it may take a day or a week but I yums what IMS. Popeye... Sound it out.

AM I BRAGGING?

Am I bragging? Remember, I have been widowed twice, locked down n a subsidized senior apartment, unable to enjoy basic social needs such as attending a worship service on a regular basis, and I've been told I'm delusional because not only did I vote for Trump three times, I am convinced that God has spoken to me in one word proclamations and lately a forward that's 1 2 3 4 words. It's. All. Set. Up. And it is highly coincidental that my first job in Colorado springs for 2 years or more was a setup man. And my last manufacturing responsibility in a factory that many will verify I was a key part in setting up its design even though my position was lowly was as a master operator which is just a glorified way of saying I get to set things up and then run a machine at the same time. meanwhile and again usually verified by dozens of Facebook friends I pastored a white church building visible by a large gaggle of travelers on US 6 between Walkerton and US 31 a series of events that can be verified again by dozens or if not hundreds of living witnesses that can still be reached on Facebook a series of small miracles, quiet miracles of people praying or asking me to pray for rain or the reverse which is to not rain during events and again the witnesses abound in the final spectacular though I was not there it can be verified The lady and people that know about this are in my current Sunday school class that is led by probably a millionaire real estate mogul? By the name of Jim Masterson. I could go on with more evidence easily verifiable here in this community but I think I've made my point. Is my bragging premature? And while I'm on the subject, am I not the most awesome piano player and group arranger that you have ever met again I have multiple witnesses that will attest to that. Would you go ahead and cry and moan and weep and say oh my pity me because I've been a Republican and we can't trust the Democrats as far as you can throw them yada yada yada yada. God is doing a great work right now and it's not for America it's for his beloved people of Israel and the Christians the true Christians who love them. REMEMBER OCTOBER 7TH That is all for now. Later Gators. MAD DOG

Note to Ann Downing

Originally published in December of 2022. Watching the Gaither Channel nonstop while taking care of 2nd wife Mary afflicted with Alzheimer's. Memories of you, Ann, and your husband Paul coming to our concert in Colorado Springs early 70s with Dave Royer and my late wife Lynne. Later we met Sue Dodge and Harold Lane at Southern California Nazarene District Camp then saw Gaither Trio at Long Beach along with ELVIS??? My first wife was saved at a Billy Graham film. What an adventure!! Thank you and thank you God. #maddogandqueenmary #amazinggrace

Carbon based

Political clarity: are they spying on us?

Yeppers. Maybe by inference rather than directly spying. Scary but useful at the same time. I don't think they're going to haul me to the camps... this year.

Bipartisan problem solvers keep their heads down to keep from being whack-a-moleyed by the extreme partisans. They're there because God is there. He is at work in the hearts of men.

Don't look for waves. See as God sees... into the hearts of men. Look for realignment. We're carbon based. When heat and pressure are applied black carbon realigns and becomes transparent... a jewel. Welcome the adversity. All things work for us who are called. #maddogandqueenmary #amazinggrace #Alzheimers