I AM YOUR DISEASE

I hate meetings.I hate Higher Power.I hate anyone who has a Twelve Step program.To all who come in contact with me,I wish you death and I wish you suffering.Allow me to introduce myself.I am the Disease of Alcoholism.Cunning, baffling, and Powerful.That's me.

I have killed millions, and I am pleased.I love to catch you with the element of surprise.I love pretending I am your friend and lover.I have given you comfort, have I not?Wasn't I there when you were lonely?When you wanted to die, didn't you call me?I was there. I love to make you hurt.I love to make you cry.Better yet, I love when I make you so numb you can neither hurt nor cry.You can't feel anything at all.This is true Glory.

I will give you instant gratification and all I ask of you is long term suffering.I've always been there for you.When things were going right in your life, you invited me.You said you didn't deserve these good things and I was the only one who would agree with you.Together we were able to destroy all the things good in your life.

People don't take me seriously.They take strokes seriously, heart attacks, even diabetes they take seriously-fools that they are.They don't know that without my help, these things would not be made possible.I am such a hated disease.And yet, I do not come uninvited.You choose to have me.So many have chosen me over reality and peace.

More than you hate me,I hate all of you who have a 12 step program.Your program, your meeting, your higher power:All weaken me and I can't function in the manner I am accustomed to.

Now I must lie here quietly.You don't see me.But I am growing, bigger than ever.WHEN YOU ONLY EXIST, I MAY LIVE.WHEN YOU LIVE, I ONLY EXIST.But I am here.Until we meet again,If we meet again,"I WISH YOU DEATHAND I WISH YOU SUFFERING" !!

I AM YOUR DISEASE

I hate meetings.I hate Higher Power.I hate anyone who has a Twelve Step program.To all who come in contact with me,I wish you death and I wish you suffering.Allow me to introduce myself.I am the Disease of Alcoholism.Cunning, baffling, and Powerful.That's me.

I have killed millions, and I am pleased.I love to catch you with the element of surprise.I love pretending I am your friend and lover.I have given you comfort, have I not?Wasn't I there when you were lonely?When you wanted to die, didn't you call me?I was there. I love to make you hurt.I love to make you cry.Better yet, I love when I make you so numb you can neither hurt nor cry.You can't feel anything at all.This is true Glory.

I will give you instant gratification and all I ask of you is long term suffering.I've always been there for you.When things were going right in your life, you invited me.You said you didn't deserve these good things and I was the only one who would agree with you.Together we were able to destroy all the things good in your life.

People don't take me seriously.They take strokes seriously, heart attacks, even diabetes they take seriously-fools that they are.They don't know that without my help, these things would not be made possible.I am such a hated disease.And yet, I do not come uninvited.You choose to have me.So many have chosen me over reality and peace.

More than you hate me,I hate all of you who have a 12 step program.Your program, your meeting, your higher power:All weaken me and I can't function in the manner I am accustomed to.

Now I must lie here quietly.You don't see me.But I am growing, bigger than ever.WHEN YOU ONLY EXIST, I MAY LIVE.WHEN YOU LIVE, I ONLY EXIST.But I am here.Until we meet again,If we meet again,"I WISH YOU DEATHAND I WISH YOU SUFFERING" !!

THE ONLY ONE PULLING

The Only One Pulling

An out-of-towner drove his car into a ditch in a desolated area. Luckily, a local farmer came to help with his big strong horse named Buddy. He hitched Buddy up to the car and yelled, "Pull, Nellie, pull! Buddy didn't move.

Then the farmer hollered, "Pull, Buster, pull!" Buddy didn't respond. Once more the farmer commanded, "Pull, Coco, pull!" Nothing. Then the farmer nonchalantly said, "Pull, Buddy, pull!" And the horse easily dragged the car out of the ditch.

The motorist was most appreciative and very curious. He asked the farmer why he called his horse by the wrong name three times. The farmer said, "Oh, Buddy is blind and if he thought he was the only one pulling, he wouldn't even try!"

We're a lot like Buddy, aren't we? We don't like to do something if we think we're the only one pulling. Need an example?

Ever said, "Why should I pour my time and effort into the work of the church? No one else seems to care!"

Or, "Why should I put forth the extra effort to do a good job at work? No one else does, and it wouldn't be appreciated anyway!"

Or, "Why should I be nice to him? He's certainly not going to make any effort to be nice to me!"

See what I mean? Like Elijah in the cave, we often find ourselves saying to God, "I alone am left." (1 Kings 19:10) Nobody else is faithful. Nobody else is trying.

But God told Elijah he had 7,000 people on His side that Elijah didn't know about. Like Buddy and Elijah, we may be blind. Blind to what others are doing around us. But, even if we are the only one doing what is right, we need to continue.

Galatians 6:9 says, "And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart." Don't give up! You aren't alone. Keep moving forward in Jesus' name!

ELDER'S MEDITATION OF THE DAY MARCH 1, 2011

Elder's Meditation of the Day - March 1

"The beginning is purification, that's the first step. And purification means purification of body and mind. You don't purify the body without cleansing the mind; that's the way it works."

-- Rolling Thunder, CHEROKEE

If we have bad thoughts or poison in our minds, they will eventually show up in our bodies in the form of headaches, pains, and stomach problems. It works this way because we are interconnected. Our minds and our bodies are one system. So when we start to grow, or commit to the Red Road, we need to start cleaning up our thoughts and start showing respect for our bodies. We start purifying our minds by prayer and meditation, and we start cleansing our bodies by getting the right amount of sleep and developing good eating habits. Today, I'm going to observe my thoughts. Will my thoughts be clean today?

Great Spirit, let me focus on Your love today so my mind will be pure.

DEVOTIONAL FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Tozer Devotional
Saturday, February 26, 2011

OUR LIFE IS IN CHRIST

Certainly not all of the mystery of the Godhead can be known by man-but just as certainly, all that men can know of God in this life is revealed in Jesus Christ! When the Apostle Paul said with yearning, "That I may know Him," he was not speaking of intellectual knowledge. Paul was speaking of the reality of an experience of knowing God personally and consciously, spirit touching spirit and heart touching heart. We know that people spend a lot of time talking about a deeper Christian life-but few seem to want to know and love God for Himself. The precious fact is that God is the deeper life! Jesus Christ Himself is the deeper life, and as I plunge on into the knowledge of the triune God, my heart moves on into the blessedness of His fellowship. This means that there is less of me and more of God-thus my spiritual life deepens and I am strengthened in the knowledge of His will!

Verse
Thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ. 2 Corinthians 2:14

Thought
All that men can know of God in this life is revealed in Jesus Christ!

Prayer
Lord, let me decrease that you may increase. Let me learn that to know you is to live life more fully.

SUNDAY'S QUOTE OF THE DAY:

Sunday's Quote of the Day:

"If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a
cockroach."
-- Willie Davis

PETITION AGAINST MONSANTO OWNERSHIP OF NATIVE PLANTS

Please prayerfully consider signing this petition. Being in the environmental consulting business, I have seen first hand how destructive human beings can be in their thinking they know better than Creator how things should be done. Let us in our own way join Creator in "restoring all things" to harmony and balance!

This from Richard Zane Smith:

No Company has a right to CONTROL or take OWNERSHIP of our Native plants

especially corn and beans and squash and tobacco which should be OUR patented plants.

Monsanto never asked Native Americans for permission to create GMO food

monsters from OUR SACRED SISTERS . We hold patent and should insist on it.

Monsanto is seeking to control the world by infecting seed with their own strains

of untested hybridization lab processed seed. This stuff spreads by pollen and

infects seed that has been generationally sufficient.

I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed:

"I support NOAH Uganda/No to GMO Maize Testing"
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/noah-uganda/