Here is a story about a little boy and his little zippered Children's Bible. I am thinking of it because I now own a lovely zippered study Bible, and I am quite happy with it and it made me think of:

"The Confirmation Bible"
(A Story About A Little Boy, His Favourite Little Zippered Children's Bible! Some Very Real Monsters, A Real Evil Witch, and a Dark Prince!)

So there was this good little boy who for Confirmation got a brandnew zippered childrens Bible with a little cross at the end of the chain that was on the end of the zipper, and there were pictures of Noah's Ark and all kinds of Bible story scenes inside the little Bible that the little boy loved so dearly, and there was a picture of Jesus blessing little children on the front and they were all sitting under a tree together, and that little boy used to wonder at those lovely pictures and at the front cover picture of Jesus and all those little beloved children that Jesus loved so much, and was blessing all the time, and enjoyed being with! And that little boy used to take that little Bible most everywhere and read to himself from it, as well as read to others from it everywhere he went, and he also used to go about singing all the little different Jesus songs that he knew from Church and he did that everywhere he went as well!

But one day he found that the evil monsters that also lived in the house where he lived for a while in his childhood, had taken a pair of sowing shears to his little precious Bible and cut it all to pieces! Well he began to cry and ran off to tell the mum of the house (who was really a ugly and evil wicked witch only dressed to look like a female human being), and she yelled at him and told him to shut up and that he was always whining about something!

And there was the lovely little Bible all cut to pieces in his little hands and the mean witch did not even care! But she even actually seemed to delight in the whole matter as well, and even had a smirk on her face as she scolded him!

And do you know that that very witch was even allowed to be a Sunday School teacher at her local church, and was herself a church-goer?! And why she never melted when she entered that church we may never know!

And when the dark prince, whom she was married to, returned from his day at work, she told him how much trouble the sweet little boy was that day, so the dark prince took off his belt and beat and beat that little boy and kept telling the little boy how much he hated him and that the little boy was just a little sissy-queer always complaining all of the time! And when the dark prince was tired of using his belt because it seemd that it was only slowing him down, he impatiently threw it off to the nearest corner and finished off the little boy into another corner of the room for the night by using his big hard fists!

And that little boy grew up into a man that is still very much that little boy, through all of his many experiences, who still misses that little Bible and the times of joy that he had with it before the evil monsters in his childhood destroyed it and the evil witch and her dark prince robbed him of his some of his innocense as well!

But through it all, he still loves Jesus very much as well!

(Jesus loves me this I know! For all the cut up pieces of my little children's Confirmation Bible tells me so! La la la la la!)

So according to the writer of the book of Hebrews, if God does not take one to task, or reign them in, or discipline them when they do wrong, then they are not His legitimate offspring, but are only spiritual "bastards"? Sounds intense! Well I am pretty sure that the LORD never let's me off on anything! So I guess I am still His child!

King Solomon says that if you close your ears to the cries of the poor then God will not listen to your prayers either!

So funny thing!

There was this poor man telling a Sister in a Church court yard about a bit of his sadness, and someone in the Church Office went over and closed their window off the court yard... and for whatever reason they did this... does not really matter, because in a funny way it reminds me of that Proverb about the poor, and it kind of tickled my funny bone thinking about that Bible verse and the closing window...

Things remind me of Bible verses all the time, even when the instance isn't for real related!

Peace out!

I would go to Mass to celebrate the Baptism of Jesus our Lord but we shall see how I do first?

I have been prescribed these following medz...

Cephalexin
Clonindine
Hydrochlorot
Metoprolol

And taking them makes me feel odd and tired, but not taking... as before they were prescribed for me means certain death, and I felt odd in the other way that one feels when Heart Attack and Stroke symptoms are setting in.

I told my retired nurse friend that people seem to think that I am only being melodramatic when I mention how ill I am at the present and what the diagnoses is, and that even doing little things are hard for me at present, and make my chest hurt more; and the ER doctor and my regular physician says "No Stress", and that I am told that I may soon be a gonner... and they laugh! Let them all laugh then aye?

Laughter is good for the soul! And I am glad that I am doing them such a good thing all through this then aye? No big deal!

The medical professionals do not know that I do not fear death, only I much dislike the inconvenience of it! Funny me! I will go to heaven anyway! But I do claim healing for this as I plan to live and do some more things that are proper and right for those aspiring to following the true path that the Saints before us have already trod and have all invariably left us all plainly and clearly to see, their own foot steps printed in red, the red colour of their own sacrifice that marks their full and complete trust in Jesus the Lord!

The Message with a Double Whammy!!

Today Jesus is Baptized by St. John the Baptist!

Have you yet gone to the water of your own repentance and for complete forgiveness from all of your wretched sins against society, against your friends, against your family, for lying, stealing, and for the hatred you harbour for those created in God's image, and against God Himself, Who is ever-loving but Just, and demands Holiness?

True repentance and the water of baptism can lead you to the holiness that God so desires from each one of us, through Jesus Christ our Lord and through His sin-washing, saving-cross-shed-blood for our all of our sins!

Come be baptized with Jesus today!

St. John the Baptizer still calls everyone to come and repent and "be baptized for the forgiveness of sin"!!!

Will you?

Will you come now?

Will you fall to your knees in sorrow for all of your sins, crimes and vices and ask Jesus to forgive you?

If you do then Jesus' shed blood from His cross of crucifixion will wash all of your sins away and cause you to be a new person! A true person! A Christian person! A person ready to follow Jesus to heaven by a life that will surely reflect His own life through you!

Come! Come to the water and be baptized!

Come now! And wash all of your sins away in the saving blood of Jesus and in His great love for you! <><

(If you have already been baptized into the Faith, then this message is only a wonderful reminder and highlight of what good things God has already done for you!)

I do not think that it is so humourous to miss my favourite 'God thing'... attending Holy Mass!

And being too weak to go would be very non-humourous to me!

I have been in ER several times this week and it was serious and painful... and is truly, very serious!

They sent me home after each visit only because I will not stay away over night anywhere from my cat! I have no family... just my cat!

And we also have Meth-related robberies in our neighbourhood to think about as well!

Could you just imagine? A robbery overnight and my cat here alone to go through that or get injured or lost in the process?

I am on serious Medz but I am also believing for another healing, and I am suffering, weak and ill, and I am ordered to have "No Stress!" But I must do for myself in the meantime as well! Laundry, errands, driving... what else can I do? Who else would do it?

And I was late for Mass because I can no longer rush about and my Medz are strong as well! But I was happy to hear that wonderful, wonderful Homily about Jesus Himself! What insights into the Gospel were spoken today!

The Doctor says that I am about to be a gonner! But I told him that I am believing for yet another healing! And I am!

But I hear people tell me not to expect healing but that because God loves me so much more than just healing me, that He will invariably inflict me with more illness and probably even a sure death by a very painful illness just to show me how much more that He actually loves me than if He simply performed a miracle and healed me!

And because God loves me so very much, He might even have my beloved cat get out into the street one day and squashed to a bloody death by a large speeding vehicle, and while I was helplessly watching! And in that light too, if I had children and truly loved them as God so loves me, I would never take them for medical care even when they needed it most! Nor would I have their teeth properly cared for by dentists or orthodontists! But because I truly loved them so much I would just make sure they could really know that by the miserable but blessed way that I treated them!

Do you know that Catholics believe in healing? Well I certainly do! Its in our history and our doctrines and when our Saints do it (heal), they are cannonized for it; and healing is of course in our Bible as well!

And some Protestants and Evangelicals believe in it and some even go so far as to experience it as well! And Father anointed me with Holy Oil in the prayer of faith already last week, so that is a good link to looking forward to another healing!

And some have even testified of being healed receiving the Body and Blood of Jesus! "Lord, I am not worthy to receive You but only say the Word and I shall be healed!" And that reminds me of the verse that tells us that "God, sent His Word and healed them!"

And how can I get to Mass if I am too weak and too ill? My favourite 'God experience' is attending the Holy Mass! Why would God rob me of that?

So I think that healing would be better than not in my case.
I will yet live and not die! In Jesus' name, Amen!