VOLUMINA LUMINIS

The inspiration, the fairness, the transcendent truths nonbelievers feign belief in words, believers live in reality. The heart of a believer is the source and foundation, the bolster, and the stone upon which the great truths of human nature, our dignity, inherent value, rest. What they feign in words, believers know in truth and live according to. So when you face a believer, speaking of your value, your strengths, your greatness, do not say that this is mere civility or fiction, for it is reality, not only in the world God created but in the heart of hearts of the believer speaking to you. The believer can see through you and behold the diadems within your nature, unique to you, only you. 

When cops can make a family or community clamp down on one of its own, it has succeeded against a race. Is that you … pray that it not be. 

Is there anything harder than being a deacon?

Deacon in utter seriousness with arms crossed: Of course not. 

You’re so right!

Athlete: Pick a sport. 

Deacon: No, it’s too hard. Can’t compare. 

Athlete: :)

Deacon: Ok, what is it?

Athlete: Any sport. 

Know that whenever you slander, criticize, say negative things about anyone for anything but moral wrong based on truth, you are 100% inferior to the one you speak of. Those who are derogatory of others for non moral claims, statements, etc. are in fact lesser beings. 

The envious can receive everything from God and receive nothing for they are incapable of knowing its worth, its value, its enjoyment. It is a life encircled by nothingness amidst having all things, yet reaching for all things as a fiend, that which belongs to others. 

Naregatsi: I am bad. 

God: No, you’re good. 

Mimicker: I am bad. 

God: Yes, you are. Go to hell. 

Naregatsi: Why did he go to hell and not I? I am bad and deserve it. 

God: No, you’re good. You’re going to heaven. You may enter Paradise. 

Mimicker: I deserve hell too.  

God: Yes, yes, you do, and you are going there. 

Naregatsi: Look, he’s just saying the words and maybe even believing he’s bad sometimes. But that’s not the point. It’s about the heart, and repenting in anguish and shame and complete humiliation, and doing the right and serving you. I love you, Lord my God. 

God: My beloved, come here, sit at my right side. The truth is, you are good, and always have been so. I love you. 

Doing the “bigger man” as in “being the bigger man” is often seen as Christianity, as in doing what a big man who has nothing to lose would do in a situation. But this is not Christianity, it is worldly and a form of demeaning and establishing and maintaining a sense of superiority by using virtue against people, feigned virtue as a matter of fact, the appearance of it. Christianity is shame, deep repentance, anguish in wrong, tears, self-humiliation, acceptance of it, humility, self debasement, and entrance into heaven as a servant. This is a far cry from the “be the bigger man” framework that is self-centered, ego centric, a form of an evil domination of others. It is of this world, in fact it is of Satan since it is also a show, not in truth. It is a momentary public phenomenon meant to emasculate with precisely the virtues necessary in the situation, but only present in satanic appearances and pseudo feigned form. The Christian can stand tall and say and know that he is a man of God while the “big” man is just strategist to get his way, a small mind and probably small in some capacity that is serious. 

Dexter Southfield is a sex/rape school. Once they hear you know somebody, they lust like ravenous wolves to have what you have thinking that you are somehow in their circles when you haven’t spoken to them in over 15 years. 

We determine the salvation of those who abuse us. 

Abuser: Oh, hey, can you please let me go heaven? God is merciful. Can you be too? 

Righteous man: No. 

Abuser: Oh, look, it says be merciful so that you may receive mercy. 

Righteous man: Go to hell. Your judgement is based on your lack of mercy. Nice try. 

As the man turned back into Paradise having sat on the throne of judgement, God gave him a high five for making such good judgement. “You could have been kinder in your delivery, yet you made the right choice. Just intonate your tone more so they get a taste of the sweetness they’ll never have.” The righteous get judged by God and loved. The abusers don’t get the light of day with God, but face the judgement of those they wronged. 

There is nothing more hidden than truth, nothing more precious than its sight, nothing more noble than its living embodiment, the love of God and of neighbor, the bringing of justice for all people, and the redemption of all lives: a flower blooming from the pit of death, a light emanating like a spark from ashes, water spewing from a rock, the victory of the good by means of its own sacrifice of life, and lastly the binding of our confession with our lives unto death. The Christian mind is the most beautiful force and when lived is the conquest of evil and the triumph of life. 

Those who trust others’ assessments of people are so numerous it is laughable. Let me tell you how few make their assessments of all people: far too few, likely a few hundred in the world. 

Originating in Egypt with hands wrapped in cloth, played widely in medieval era by knights this way, making legends to this day, tennis, from the ancient Egyptian city, Tinnis, along the Nile, was among the original sports of the modern Olympic Games, among wrestling, shooting, weightlifting, and fencing. How? It is a sport that has transformed over millennia, from ancient lands of Egypt to the Greco Romans we know so well in history. It is a sport that will never die, with secrets untold, for it can only transform.