Sparing the Fire

Sparing the Fire

Each night I spare the fire,
my last act before retiring.
I bury two fresh lumps of peat
Deep within the embers.
Then tomorrow when I wake
I can poke the fire to life.

At death may God spare me.
When they bury my body
Deep within the boggy peat,
May my soul continue to glow.
So when the last trumpet sounds
I can rise with Christ to life.

~ Celtic Poem

Heaven Now

Heaven Now

If I were in heaven
I would play my harp,
     and sing songs of praise
     with the angels.
If I were in heaven,
I would dance with joy,
     and fill the air with laughter.

Let earth be like heaven,
     and people like angels;
Let all sing songs of praise.
Don’t wait to die,
     enjoy heaven now;
Don’t argue or cavil –
     just dance.

~ Celtic Poem

"It's always better to talk with each other than about each other"

Merkel in US for talks with Trump

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to meet President Donald Trump in Washington, with transatlantic trade and Nato ties high on the agenda. . . .
Ahead of Friday's talks, Mrs Merkel told a German newspaper she was looking forward to her first meeting with President Trump.
"It's always better to talk with each other than about each other," she told Saarbruecker Zeitung.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39300452

What does that word really mean?

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride

Can Man Live Without God? No! But we try all the time....

following quoted from http://www.apuritansmind.com/apologetics/steveturnercreed/

An excerpt from Ravi Zacharias’ book “Can Man Live Without God?”
Steve Turner says “No!”…But we try all the time….

Creed - by Steve Turner
a satirical poem on the modern mind

We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin
We believe everything is OK
as long as you don’t hurt anyone
to the best of your definition of hurt,
and to the best of your knowledge.

We believe in sex before, during, and after marriage.
We believe in the therapy of sin.
We believe that adultery is fun.
We believe that sodomy’s OK.
We believe that taboos are taboo.

We believe that everything’s getting better
despite evidence to the contrary.
The evidence must be investigated
And you can prove anything with evidence.

We believe there’s something in horoscopes
UFO’s and bent spoons.
Jesus was a good man just like Buddha,
Mohammed, and ourselves.
He was a good moral teacher though we think
His good morals were bad.

We believe that all religions are basically the same-
at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of creation,
sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.

We believe that after death comes the Nothing
Because when you ask the dead what happens
they say nothing.
If death is not the end, if the dead have lied,
then its compulsory heaven for all
excepting perhaps Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Kahn

We believe in Masters and Johnson
What’s selected is average.
What’s average is normal.
What’s normal is good.

We believe in total disarmament.
We believe there are direct links between warfare and bloodshed.
Americans should beat their guns into tractors .
And the Russians would be sure to follow.

We believe that man is essentially good.
It’s only his behavior that lets him down.
This is the fault of society.
Society is the fault of conditions.
Conditions are the fault of society.

We believe that each man must find the truth that
is right for him.
Reality will adapt accordingly.
The universe will readjust.
History will alter.
We believe that there is no absolute truth
excepting the truth
that there is no absolute truth.

We believe in the rejection of creeds,
And the flowering of individual thought.

If chance be the Father of all flesh,
disaster is his rainbow in the sky
and when you hear
State of Emergency!
Sniper Kills Ten!
Troops on Rampage!
Whites go Looting!
Bomb Blasts School!
It is but the sound of man
worshipping his maker.

Steve Turner, (English journalist), “Creed,” his satirical poem on the modern mind.
Taken from Ravi Zacharias’ book Can Man live Without God? Pages 42-44

quote above is from
http://www.apuritansmind.com/apologetics/steveturnercreed/

"History repeats itself, has to, nobody listens"

"History repeats itself, has to, nobody listens"
~ Steve Turner

"They only differ on matters of creation sin heaven hell God and salvation"

quote:
This reminds me of Steven Turner’s satirical observation of this sort of thinking in his poem “Creed.” “We believe that all religions are basically the same, at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of creation sin heaven hell God and salvation.”
This is, as C. S. Lewis called it, “patronizing nonsense.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/reza-aslan-doesnt-get-religion-cnns-tour-de-farce

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

The Merchant of Venice  William Shakespeare

SCENE III. Venice. A public place.
Enter BASSANIO and SHYLOCK
SHYLOCK
Three thousand ducats; well.
BASSANIO
Ay, sir, for three months.
. . .
SHYLOCK
I cannot tell; I make it breed as fast:
But note me, signior.
ANTONIO
Mark you this, Bassanio,
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/merchant/merchant.1.3.html

“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.”

“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.”
~ Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton, the first female mayor of a major Canadian city

"the story that we tell is the one that becomes truth"

“[Jackie Kennedy] is such an amazing woman… Really having the understanding of history to very strongly and quickly define her husband’s legacy after the assassination. She knew that the story that we tell is the one that becomes truth.”
~ author unknown