7/4/14
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Can a poem hate
if it speaks about a 2 year old girl
executed, shot point blank
and how the young man
late 20’s while speaking to the dad
reached his arm up, aimed, and put a hole in her forehead?
can a poem feel disgust
when it asks wasn’t that young man once
a child himself
and didn’t he once laugh and play?
did his troubles start in family or school
an excuse to get angry, resentful?
did he boast to friends
and they agreed he was big and bad
mean enough to actually do it
without remorse
without feeling?
what made his
human face turn inside-out?
was such a monster created by bad luck
bad evil
bad people
or good people who didn’t ever care
that one boy’s slow mixed up hateful walk towards adulthood
would cut out a tiny wee life?
some poems can only ask and never complete
Note-I couldn’t resist putting the poem here. Usually I put new poems on my poetry page but didn’t finish editing the others yet.
Flowers from my yard
7/7/14
I have been thinking about what Jesus said about five digits on hands and the humanoid form as common on rocky planets. The implication is staggering. A small knowledge of evolutionary theory is enough to make me realize the complications of the same form repeating on different worlds and the billions of similar steps that must have occurred in the environment. I suspect that we are missing something of major importance in our knowledge, that perhaps the form is preordained. Well, of course it is according to Geneses. Science can’t use the bible for information because it isn’t precise enough with investigative facts. (Jesus tells me that we will see how accurate it is one day). Still, directed evolution notwithstanding, evolution repeating itself on millions of worlds astounds the mind.
And even in math. Five digits on two extremities implies that intelligent beings everywhere would, at some time in their history, use base ten, which also says their intelligence is similar to our own and perhaps their rise through calculus and beyond is also analogous. In other words, we have much to talk about if we ever contact people on other planets.
I write the this from a scientific view point because i have already visited many different people when traveling with Jesus. I have learned about different cultures in many diverse places with Jesus the teacher and myself the student. These travels have the effect of helping me see my own world in a different light. A few times Jesus took me to places that were so strange I couldn’t handle it. So he keeps visiting rocky planets for my sake, though there is life on other types of planets as well. Like on earth, life takes hold where ever it can.
Life is precious as well as precarious. The universe is God’s garden, and like any garden, some crops can fail. We here on earth see human life as so numerous we don’t give it the value we should. We kill babies in the womb thinking that they aren’t worth much until they have a personality. But we also kill ourselves in multiple wars. We allow people to waste away from hunger and want. We confine and torture and kill. The more I visit other worlds who’s people are not mistreated the more horrified I am as I drop back to earth. And don’t think just because we have the knowledge of science that we are mature. We are not. We won’t be even close to mature until we put as much value on the mind and spirit as we do our physical selves and our machines. We have far to go. Yet…
Yet, Jesus loves watching us grow. I liken it to a parent who delights in everything their child does when they are young and growing children. We can also thank this great love for the undeserving tolerance we have been shown. Jesus has faith that we will eventually grow up, that this crop will not fail. I will try to keep this in mind when I watch the news.
Also, I tend to forget what I learned from Jesus even five
and ten years ago. Ah, the fragile human mind. I remember Jesus and Mary
talking me to view the Source of everything. It was like watching the Big Bang
but in a constant never-ending flow of exploding light. Everything, life
mountains, planets, trees, etc poured from this Source. Considering what we
know about time and space, or have yet to know, what I witnessed is not
unthinkable. We and everything around us are images in the mind of God.
7/13/14
Jesus took me and two friends back to the world with all the cabbage growing on the ground. If I keep going back I think I should give the planet a name but cabbage doesn’t sound right so I’ll call it Rubber World. This is what the tree leaves Jesus showed us looked like, a giant rubber plant growing tall into the sky. The scattered stands of these trees looked like a normal, green forest from a distance. Jesus showed us these trees specifically because I asked how the people stayed alive in the driving weather when they were young and evolving.
Jesus explained that the toughness of the huge leaves when low lying were their first shelter. Also the planet is small with only one large continent in the northern temperate zone. Sharp ice storms are common all over the continent during different seasons and the animals and people have evolved to deal with the hard weather.
As Jesus has explained many times, all worlds have slightly different pasts and all life learns to live within the limits of their planet. Still, I think the human form wins out because of its intelligence and it is part of God’s plan.
Jesus told us so much I can’t remember it all to write down now. One thing I remember is the nest of dinosaurs. They didn’t have feathers but leathery skin like everything else on the planet. They looked like fat alligators on long legs, about the size of cows and looked almost comical until they opened their mouths. Jesus told us they are quick and dangerous. He also told us that the people drove the very largest dinosaurs to extinction by gathering up the eggs. Now only medium size and smaller remain.
“Are there any birds on this planet? I asked.
In answer, Jesus took us into a stand of the rubber trees where there were short trees growing amid the taller ones. The tall trees looked almost like palm trees and the smaller like plants we would put in our living rooms. As we watched, we saw small, colorful things gliding from place to place and a few seemed to have downy feathers, but not all. We did see a few small insects hopping from leaf to leaf too. I imagine that nothing flies on this world because there is no area that doesn’t get the ice storms and this would make flying inconvenient.
Jesus mentioned on our last trip
that there were flowers on the planet too but I forgot to ask to see the
flowers close up. We saw another ice needle storm and noticed how it changed
the color of everything by blocking out the sun. The weather seemed oddly warm
before the ice storm, more tropical than cold.
I asked about the oceans and Jesus
said there was life in the oceans too. He also explained that there were few
mountain ranges on this planet because it didn’t break up in the past. The
movement of continents is what makes earth so unique and full of a variety of
life. Most other planets have variety but not near as much as earth.
We each nodded good-by and I tried
to write down what I could remember. The problem is that I see too much and
need to select what to write about otherwise it would fill volumes. Also, I
don’t write about every travel experience. We took a group of children to Mars
the other day but I have written enough about that subject here.
7/19/14
Jesus walked with me through the
forest and then watched as I climbed over huge rocks on the side of a mountain.
I have never actually climbed anything but imagining the struggle to climb
helps focus my attention so I can meet with the others. I called children from
around the world to come climb with me today. Then all of us gathered with
Jesus atop the mountain and called upon God to send us love-energy. I showed
the children how they could focus God’s light in front of their bodies like a
flashlight. Then with Jesus in the lead, we walked here and there around the
earth. We didn’t take children to any war zone or other serious disaster
because children shouldn’t see pain at their young age and I wonder about the children
who are caught up in war. We did take them to a few villages where people were
in need of food or other kind of aid. The children shone their light on people
and spread peace to those who could accept it. We felt that we accomplished
some good this day.
Finally, as a treat, I took them to
the moon to watch the world turn below us. I told them that other children
before them had never seen the world as a whole in space. Their faces showed
wonder at the glow of earth and I asked them to keep this great beauty in mind
when they grow into adulthood. Children are
innocent and able to find peace easily. My hope is that when they grow older
they will remember how they carried the light of God within themselves and
shared it with other people. Perhaps the need for peace will stay with them.
Much of the anger and hate of war seems to be handed down from generation to
generation, a fact which I find unfathomable, perhaps because I am not in the
thick of things or very social.
7/21/14
The flow of hate and anger through
generations really bothers me because I can’t understand the depth of such
anger. I am reminded of a verse in the bible where God says the curse will
follow through 7 generations (can’t find the exact scripture). It reads as
though God is harsh and unyielding, but now I wonder if fate or genes were the
caused the curse. Like DNA handed down through the generations, it may be that
even one strong act of hate and anger can flow through generations too, and not
just by effecting the environment around people, but inside the eggs and sperm
too. This idea seems impossible, but just a few years ago we didn’t know that
DNA drove inheritance and we are only now learning about epigenetic factors
such as chemicals can attach to genes and effect the following generations, (I
don’t understand the subject well enough to write more).
If all this is true, then at some
point, we need to consider what our emotions do to not only our own children
but to their children as well. Certainly, as in the
7/21/14
With Jesus in the lead, we took a
short trip to the world with the curling cabbages that I call Rubber World. It
was beautiful looking at the sun and sky through the tall flapping thick
leaves, but not as beautiful as earth. Jesus reminded us once again, “Earth has
everything.”
This day he showed us one of the storms
close up. I had thought it was icicles falling from the sky but Jesus showed us
that it wasn’t ice, that the weather was too tropical than that. I had wondered
why I didn’t see snow or ice on the ground. If it isn’t ice then what is it?
Jesus didn’t say and I didn’t ask. I thought of carbon dioxide but that would
seem impossible with people living on the planet.
Jesus also explained that they did have writing but not a lot of technology, just what they could make out of reworking the cabbage leaves, but what they did with it was amazing. The planet doesn’t have many metals and few deposits of oil like earth. The people use something else for light, maybe candles.
We saw the world as if from space and it was strange with one continent all wrapped around the northern hemisphere like a broken and cracked donut with all the sea at the bottom of the world except for a small area of sea at the top. The ring of land was broken up by small mountains, lakes and streams and that is how the people divide up their society.
One thing I noticed, have often noticed on many worlds, the
absence of war. I hardly ever see large conflicts like we have on earth. On
this planet, it may be because they don’t use metals? They have weapons like
spears or arrows they use for protection. The person I saw hopping over cabbage
plants had a weapon in her hand. This makes me wonder what is wrong with
earth. I decided to ask Jesus. In answer
he just looked at me as if it was a silly question and it was.
I like to think that most of our problem is because we are still primitive and have so much to learn. But I guess it is more than that. We didn’t need to forge swards. We don’t need to covet land and power so much that we kill or push other people down to acquire it. We make the choice to want what we don’t have. Something is different on earth. So there you have it. Perhaps, because I already had generations of war in mind, this is what Jesus wanted me to notice this day--the absence of war.