I had the most amazing swim out in the Gulf of Mexico this evening. I’ve got just a few weeks to go before the Augusta Ironman 70.3 race and I’m trying my best to put a few quality hours of training in, but frankly the workload and this mission have consumed all my time so the training’s just not there. So rather than hammer away, I’m slowing down the training swims, bikes and runs and really appreciating the time to think things through. Tonight’s open water session was one of those times when my breath is literally taken away by the sheer beauty of what is around us here in Florida.
You never know what kind of water you’re going to get, but tonight the Gulf was as smooth as silk, the water iridescent blue. And just a few yards away from where we started the 1.2 mile swim was a huge party of dolphins rollicking and rolling and darting around in the water. I don’t know what kind of bait line they were running through, but the whole crowd of them, babies and all were going nuts. As I hit the water and started the long glide back to the start, I turned back to notice the most amazing full rainbow over the water. Not exactly the picture above, and no picture on this screen could capture the full beauty and magnificence of what was above. And what was below was equally magnificent. Some nights the water is dark and murky, roiling and rough, like swimming in a milkshake. But tonight the water was crystal clear blue and with all the fish around it was like swimming in a fish tank.
And at the end, another treat, a fully developed waterspout. From the sea right up to the heavens, God’s finger pointing down through the clouds to touch the earth…a reminder just how small and insignificant we all are. After all that, a little run through the rain felt like reincarnation….what a way to recharge from a long day slogging along in the trenches.
Speaking of the trenches, at some point in time I got to wondering…”Just how much pressure is being placed on the banks to conceal the full extent of the foreclosure debacle that is still coming?” I’m not talking about fraudclosuregate or robosigning or the attorney general investigations (or lack thereof) that’s so 2010. I’m talking about the fact that the lenders are not filing foreclosures at anywhere near the rates they could be filing. New foreclosure filings have slowed down to a trickle…and they’ve been slowed down for more than a year. But why? Has the economy improved? No, it’s gotten worse. Has unemployment decreased? No, it’s gotten much worse. Has anything at all in the national or international legal and economic scene changed to make the foreclosure environment any better? No way, things have only gotten much worse.
I have heard for months now that the foreclosure mills have tens of thousands of new filings that they are just sitting on. And sit they better. Because what’s going to happen when Chase or Wells or Bank of America or US Bank gives the instructions to file any recognizable percentage of the delinquent files they are sitting on? What will all the analysts and industry hacks and realtors say about all this flooded inventory? And just think about how this would force all the bean counters to finally account for all the defaulted loans sitting on the balance sheets of all these financial “titans”.
How is Warren Buffett going to make out with his $5 Billion Dollar Bathtub “Gamble”? How is Obama going to make out with his grand bargains with the Wizards of Wall Street? And where is anyone who is willing to apply 5th grade economic analysis to our country’s larger economic picture?
Times are bad people and reality is being masked by fraud, fiction and fantasy. Truth has a way of revealing itself eventually. We’ve all been shielded from the truth for a very long time. To what end?
Getting in touch with Nature and marveling at what the Creator
made, makes us realize how small and petty our problems really are.
We need to all read Genesis and then the Ten Commandments to truly see where we are and why. It is nothing new, sinful man brought about his own destruction in the Flood four thousand years ago and a new beginning was made. If we would all compare our own
behavior with the Creator’s Ten Commandments and Repent, then He would send The Holy Spirit to counsel us and show us the way out of this mess which actually began in 1963 with the Coup D’Etat against
JFK and Satan’s seizure of the US Government,media and educational
system.
I can look back to the Sixties and see exactly how Satan and his
offspring did it in order to bring about a Satanic One World Order.
First, they started the “God is Dead” propaganda in the media and
forced the “evolution curriculum” into the Public schools. I know,I
was a biology teacher in the public schools of NY when they pushed it into the curriculum. I used to dive in the Carribean, and when I observed all those brightly colored fish, I realized the Creator was an artist in living flesh. This did not come about by Evolution.
I resisted teaching it and was reprimanded for it. Evolution
was designed to destroy belief in the Creator and reduce the Human
population to mere animals. Is it any wonder that corruption among
this generation is so widespread when the idea of a Creator has been
drummed out of their consciousness? When the concept of sin has been
destroyed and everyone is “free” to do their “own thing”?
To restore this Nation, we need to return to the faith of our
ancestors and realign our government with the rules in the Ten Commandments, otherwise, this time it won’t be a Flood, it will be
Nuclear Fire! “Fear of the Lord, is the beginning of Wisdom”. Let’s
get back to it!Repent! And then kick Satan’s butt out of America!
It is time for the Jubilee Year. No human solution exists for the current crisis. Divine Law provides a solution which is set forth in Leviticus, Chapter 25:
8 ” “˜Count off seven sabbath years””seven times seven years””so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years. 9 Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land. 10 Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan. 11 The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines. 12 For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.
13 ” “˜In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to their own property.
14 ” “˜If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other. 15 You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops. 16 When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops. 17 Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the LORD your God.
18 ” “˜Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land. 19 Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety. 20 You may ask, ” What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?” 21 I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years. 22 While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.
23 ” “˜The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers. 24 Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
25 ” “˜If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative is to come and redeem what they have sold. 26 If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves, 27 they are to determine the value for the years since they sold it and refund the balance to the one to whom they sold it; they can then go back to their own property. 28 But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.
Be blessed my friends and stay well.