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Who's got the wheel

      There’s a stunning scene in Steven Spielberg's movie “Lincoln.” He is in the war room with his cabinet re-emphasizing his insistence of passage regarding the 13th amendment, the abolition of slavery. His cabinet is in disarray. Congress is divided. In frustration of the malaise from his own secretary’s inability to lobby congress signaled the likelihood of failure in the legislature. Lincoln saw the beacon of righteous light dim in their eyes. This impasse had reached it’s fevered pitch. What Abraham Lincoln did in this moment altered the history of the world. I n the drawn sunlight of edens day, President Lincoln slaps his palms firmly on the table as he rises from his seat. With his Secretary's and Congressional leaders impaled by his shadow, a solemness enveloped the room as Lincoln spoke with the voice of thunder.          I am the President of these United States of America cl...
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L O V E

On love There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give Clive Staples Lewis  1950 I'm sure I fit in the 2nd category of the stupid. It's good to be loved 😎 Pastor / Chaplain  John Mark Thomas  iPhone 
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A Thousand Points of Light

"You ask about The Pursuit of Happiness at a good time in my life.  I have pursued life itself over many years now and with varying degrees of happiness. Some of my happiness still comes form trying to be in my own small way a true 'point of light.' I believe I was right when I said, as President, there can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others. SO I do that now, and I gain happiness. I do not seek a Pulitzer Prize. I do not want press attention. I don't crave sitting at the head table or winning one of the many coveted awards Offered by the many organizations across the land. I have found happiness. I no longer pursue it, for it is mine." President George H W Bush Pastor / Chaplain  John Mark Thomas  iPhone 
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Gods Love

    "...Man does not exist for his own sake. 'Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created' [Revelation 4:11]. We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the Divine love may rest 'well pleased'..." - Clive Staples Lewis             1940 Pastor / Chaplain  John Mark Thomas  iPhone 
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In our house .pdf

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Nobody's Fool

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1 John 2:13   I am writing to you fathers because you know Him who is from the beginning.                                         I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.                                                                                                                                                                                                  ...
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Worldly Shame & Godly Shame

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Self-Preservation is an aspect of unhealthy shame that defines itself. The extent of preserving "you" means you will go to great lengths to justify the most heinous sin or act, by saying, "I know what I did was wrong but it was your projection upon me as a person that made me do it." Its understandable, in theory; the human instinct of needing to blame others for your own personal failure, crimes, infidelities etc.. It's an inherent default setting . To appease the conscience of Unhealthy Shame, the human mind will subconsciously seek out co-conspirators which enable the self-preservationist to transfer blame. This is a key aspect of the fight or flight syndrome. Enablers assist in s edating the shame, n umbing guilt, and transferring responsibility. Everything becomes a target of the"unjust" argument. The home environment, the workplace, the classroom; practically anything one is tied to, becomes the target of - "everything i...
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