The Story... Keep on Keeping on!

Thank you to all for showing up, waking up, and resisting all the ways the Trump administration and DOGE are working to dismantle our democracy. 

Thank you to all who show up to town meetings with your elected officials, even when they don't show up. Thank you for calling, writing, emailing, and pestering those who are forgoing the oaths to defend the Constitution and represent the people, not kowtow to  the wanna-be authoritarian president donald j. trump. 

Thank you to all who support the men and women and all genders who serve our country in the armed forces and the government offices and the bureaucracies that keep us safe and help everyone live and have better lives. 

Thank you to all who are reaching out to their neighbors and relatives, checking in to see if they are alright while services for the vulnerable continue to be slashed and more road blocks are put in place like cutting phone services for social security, closing offices, and laying off thousands of government programs whose job it is to see while watching out for fraud and abuse, to make sure that those who need and those who deserve help and their social security retirement benefits get them in a timely manner. 

Thank you for all the lawsuits that are calling out the illegal actions of the administration, DOGE, and those who seek favor by blindly (maybe willfully) following the wrong way to make American better. 

Thank you to all who are standing up for the rights, the recognition, and the promise that all are created equal, not just white men and their ignorant female parrots. Thank God that we are all created in God's image no matter our skin color, gender, family, religion or beliefs, language, nationality, and anything else on this planet that would put America First. All humans deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, not just those who donald j. trump deems worthy. 

Thank you for the journalists, the preachers, the prophets, the speakers, and the protesters who show up and answer Jesus' question to John's disciples "What do you see?" Do we see life, healing, compassion, unity, abundance, reconciliation, justice, or truth for all with trump and his policies and actions. Or do we see divisions, violence, misinformation , lies, greed, pettiness, retribution, immoral behavior, felonies, and imperialism in wanting to obtain Canada, Greenland, Panama, and Gaza. 

I hope in the coming days we can thank the Democrats (besides a few like U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Jasmine Crockett, and Governor Tim Walz) who have missed so many moments to show that they are straight up against what is happening without trying to poll the best response. Democracy is at risk. The future of our country is at risk. It's messy, roll up the sleeves and fight. If you lose, go home, take a shower, get some sleep, and fight again tomorrow. 

Thank you to all who voted for trump and realize what a mistake it was. How you thought it would always be others who have felt the pain and not yourself, your family, or your state. Let your elected officials know why you voted for him and what you didn't vote for. All politicians are supposed to work for the citizens of this country, not a political party, not an ideology, and not any one person, whether elected or not. 

Thank you for your time in readying through this all. You are loved, you are worthy, and you are enough.

A Tale of Two Females

In a book called, "The Year of Living Biblically" by A.J. Jacobs, he tried to follow all 435 commands found in the Torah or Pentateuch. One of those commands was that you couldn't touch a woman while she was having her period so he wouldn't hug, kiss, or hold the hand of his wife during her cycle. She learned that he couldn't sit where she sat, so when she became frustrated with him she would sit on every piece of furniture in the house so he would have to stand or sit on the floor the whole day. We don't know what kind of hemorrhaging this woman in the crowd was suffering, but for her to be so afraid of Jesus and the crowd that she didn't ask for healing, but just touched his cloak and had faith that she would be made well, we have to assume that she has spent twelve long years not being able to hug, kiss, or hold hands with her family and friends. This physical and social isolation seems to be more damaging as she persisted with this illness for twelve ...

Do not be Afraid!

There is a plan for the future of this country that is posed to be a '2nd American Revolution.' It is called, "Project 2025." The authors of this 91 page plan are mostly former staffers of the last President and the Heritage Foundation. It is so bad that as the word is getting out about it the actions that are set to be taken, even the current Republican Presidential candidate is trying to put some distance from it, because he knows he can't sell it. The highlights are taking away abortions and contraceptives for all our nation, getting rid of marriage equality, allowing the President to fire any government employee and put in their place someone whose only qualification is loyalty to the President, and getting rid of the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency. Basically to turn our Democracy into an authoritarian regime ruled by the oligarchy. We, as a church, are not supposed to be dipping our toes into politics for the most part. We ...

Covenant of the United Church of Christ

That they may all be one! This was the dream of the these different denominations and churches coming together in 1957. That they may all be one! While many denominations were splitting and continually finding reasons that they couldn't be siblings with those Christians over there, a group of mainline Protestant leaders came together that united and uniting was the future of the Church. Yes, it was mainly four major denominations which are: 1. Congregational 2. Christian 3. Reformed (German) and 4. Evangelical Synod (Lutheran). There were many other smaller groups that joined as well, that included Back, Native, and Hungarian. But if you look at the first General Synod picture, it was pretty much white, middle class men. With global communication becoming easier, travel, television, and the United Nations, they had a dream and vision that all Christians could live together, worship together, and be one as we are one in God with Christ. That they may all be one! is the United Churc...

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