FAITH AND POLITICS, IN LORD JESUS' LOVING, RIGHTEOUS, HOLY AND COMPASSIONATE NAME

WE NEED A PRESIDENT WITH COMPASSION AND UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECT FOR WOMEN OF ALL ETHNICITIES IN THIS COUNTRY

YESTERDAY I WAS READING AN ARTICLE ABOUT HOW SINCE TRUMP'S ELECTION, MUSLIM GIRLS AND WOMEN IN THE USA HAVE BEEN BEING ATTACKED FOR WEARING THE BURKA/VEIL AROUND THEIR FACE AND HOW THERE IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH HOW THERE HAS BEEN NO JUSTICE FOR THESE WOMEN BECAUSE IN THEIR NATIVE COUNTRIES THEY ARE JUST AS LIKELY TO BE ATTACKED AND JUDGED FOR NOT WEARING THE BURKA/VEIL, SO THIS IS A NO-WIN, EXTREMELY UNJUST AND UNFAIR SITUATION FOR MUSLIM WOMEN IN OUR WORLD. AS A NATION, WE DESERVE A PRESIDENT THAT RESPECTS ALL WOMEN AND UPHOLDS ALL WOMEN OF ALL ETHNICITIES AND RACES. I REMEMBER VERY WELL HOW DURING THE CAMPAIGN, TRUMP DISRESPECTFULLY CALLED CONDOLEEZA RICE, A FORMER, HIGHLY-REGARDED SECRETARY OF STATE AND A CHRISTIAN, A VERY DEROGATIVE NAME THAT I REFUSE TO REPEAT EVER. AND WE LIVE IN A CULTURE THAT SO WRONGLY TRIES TO TURN WOMEN AGAINST OTHER WOMEN, INCLUDING AGAINST HILLARY CLINTON DURING THE ELECTION. I HONESTLY DO NOT SEE HOW ANY WOMAN WHO VOTED FOR TRUMP IS SELF-RESPECTING AND SUPPORTIVE OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN THIS COUNTRY. THIS IS NOT HOW A CIVIL SOCIETY SUCH AS AMERICA SHOULD BE TREATING WOMEN, ESPECIALLY MUSLIM WOMEN WHO ARE ALREADY TREATED SO POORLY IN THEIR NATIVE COUNTRIES. AND I APPLAUD THE EFFORTS TO RECOUNT THE VOTES IN STATES LIKE WISCONSIN, MICHIGAN AND PENNSYLVANIA BECAUSE WHAT WE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD THUS FAR FROM THIS PRESIDENT-ELECT IS NOT WHAT OUR NATION NEEDS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. AND IF YOU ARE A MALE WITH A FAMILY , IS THIS HOW YOU WOULD WANT YOUR DAUGHTER(S) OR WIFE TO BE TREATED AND SPOKEN TO BY A PRESIDENT OR IN THEIR SCHOOLS BY CHILDREN EMULATING THE PRESIDENT-ELECT'S UNCIVIL SPEECH? I HAVE READ SO MANY ARTICLES IN THE PAST WEEK ABOUT THE PROBLEMS HAPPENING AND ESCALATING IN OUR NATION'S SCHOOLS OVER STUDENTS THINKING THAT TRUMP'S BEHAVIOR AND SPEECH IS OKAY AS A MODEL FOR THEIR BEHAVIORS TO ONE ANOTHER. THERE IS SIMPLY NO JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS AT ALL AND WE NEED OTHER LEADERS, WITH INTEGRITY, CIVILITY AND COMPASSION, TO STEP FORWARD AND ADDRESS THIS PROBLEM. SINCERELY, DIANE

INSTEAD OF WORRYING ABOUT CREATING MORE WEALTH IN THE USA, WE NEED TO COUNT OUR BLESSINGS FROM GOD OUR ALMIGHTY HEAVENLY FATHER FOR THE PROVISIONS THAT WE DO ABUNDANTLY HAVE, BY HIS GRACE AND FAVOR

THE PRESIDENT-ELECT NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND THAT RATHER THAN WORRYING ABOUT CREATING EVEN YET MORE WEALTH IN THE USA, THAT WE NEED TO COUNT OUR BLESSINGS FROM GOD OUR ALMIGHTY HEAVENLY FATHER FOR THE PROVISIONS THAT WE ABUNDANTLY ALREADY HAVE IN THE USA, BY GOD'S GRACE AND FAVOR. AND THE MOST SIGNIFICANT OF THOSE BLESSINGS ARE NOT THE MONEY THAT WE HAVE BUT RATHER THE FREEDOMS THAT WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN BY OUR CONSTITUTION, THE UNIQUE ABILITIES AND GIFTS THAT GOD GAVE EACH OF US WHEN HE MADE US IN THE WOMB, AND THE ABUNDANT RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE ALREADY HAVE BY VIRTUE OF LIVING IN A WELL-DEVELOPED DEMOCRACY.  RATHER THAN WORRYING ABOUT CREATING MORE WEALTH -- WHICH OFTEN LEADS TO MORE PROBLEMS -- WE NEED TO STOP AND EXAMINE WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING WITH THE ABUNDANT RESOURCES AND BLESSINGS THAT WE ALREADY HAVE IN THIS NATION AND HOW WE CAN ASSIST AND SERVE THE PEOPLE AND CHILDREN OF LESS-DEVELOPED NATIONS WHO OFTEN SUFFER WITHOUT MANY OF THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE IN THE USA.  EVEN MANY PEOPLE IN THE WORKING-CLASSES IN AMERICA HAVE BEEN ABUNDANTLY BLESSED IF YOU COMPARE OUR LIVES AND FINANCES TO THE LIVES AND FINANCES OF THE WORKING-POOR IN OTHER COUNTRIES, WHO SUBSIST ON FAR, FAR LESS THAN THE WORKING-CLASSES IN THE USA.  INSTEAD OF THINKING ONLY OF OURSELVES AND OUR OWN FINANCIAL WELFARE/ACCUMULATION, WE NEED TO REACH OUTSIDE OF OURSELVES AND LOOK AT THE NEEDS OF THE WORLD AND PEOPLE AROUND US AND IN UNDER-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES AND HOW WE CAN MEET THOSE NEEDS WITH THE RESOURCES AND BLESSINGS THAT WE DO HAVE.  JESUS SAID IN THE GOSPELS, TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH WILL BE EXPECTED, AND WE CANNOT FORGET THAT EVERY GOOD THING THAT WE HAVE IS NOT WHAT WE HAVE EARNED BUT RATHER WHAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO US AS A GIFT BY THE GRACE AND FAVOR OF GOD. OUR LIVES AND OUR BELONGINGS ARE NOT ARE OWN -- WE COME INTO THIS WORLD WITH NO BELONGINGS AND WE LEAVE THIS WORLD WITH NO BELONGINGS -- RATHER THEY BELONG TO GOD OUR ALMIGHTY HEAVENLY FATHER WHO HAS GIFTED US WITH AMAZING LIVES IN THE USA  (WE MUST ALSO REMEMBER AND BE GRATEFUL THAT WE HAVE ONLY BEEN BORN IN THE USA BY THE GRACE OF GOD, OUR CREATOR, WHO IS THE ONE WHO DECIDES WHERE WE WILL BE BORN. BY THE WILL OF GOD, WE COULD JUST HAVE EASILY BEEN BORN A REFUGEE  IN AN UNDEMOCRATIC COUNTRY AND THAT IS WHY WE NEED TO HAVE COMPASSION ON THE REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS WHO DID NOT CHOOSE THEIR SITUATIONS AND PLACES OF BIRTH ) AND GOD WILL CONTINUE TO GIFT US WITH ALL THAT WE NEED TO LIVE A LIFE OF SERVICE TO OTHER PEOPLE.  GOD OUR ALMIGHTY HEAVENLY FATHER DID NOT PLACE US HERE ON THIS EARTH TO EARN MONEY AND BUILD-UP WEALTH BUT RATHER TO SERVE AND CARE FOR AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER, AS JESUS COMMANDED IN THE GOSPELS, AND GOD OUR ALMIGHTY HEAVENLY FATHER PROVIDES FOR THOSE OF US WHO DO FOLLOW HIS LOVING AND COMPASSIONATE WILL.  IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, WHERE HUMANITY FIRST BEGAN, GOD OUR FATHER MADE SURE TO PROVIDE ADAM AND EVE WITH ALL THAT THEY NEEDED TO LIVE A BEAUTIFUL, HEALTHY LIFE AND GOD COMMANDED US, FROM THE BEGINNING, TO BE GOOD STEWARDS OF ALL OF THE RESOURCES AND BLESSINGS THAT HE HAS GIVEN TO US, AS HIS DEARLY LOVED CHILDREN.  THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT WE SIMPLY DO NOT NEED WEALTH TO BE OF SERVICE TO OTHERS WITH THE GIFTS THAT GOD OUR HEAVENLY HAS GIVEN TO US, AND IF MORE AMERICANS WOULD TAKE ASSESSMENT OF ALL THE TRUE BLESSINGS THAT THEY HAVE IN THEIR LIVES -- OFTEN NON-MATERIAL BLESSINGS SUCH AS FAMILY, FRIENDS, ABILITIES, TALENTS, ALL GRACIOUS GIFTS FROM GOD -- THEY WOULD SEE THAT THEIR TRUE WEALTH DOES NOT COME FROM MONEY BUT FROM THE BLESSINGS BESTOWED UPON THEM BY GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER.  AGAIN, THOSE GIFTS AND BLESSINGS ARE GIVEN TO US BY GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER SO THAT WE CAN SERVE THE WORLD AROUND US WITH THOSE GIFTS, WHICH IS FAR, FAR MORE IMPORTANT TO GOD THAN WORKING SIMPLY TO ACCUMULATE WEALTH AND BEING CONCERNED WITH ONE'S OWN FINANCIAL WELFARE/ACCUMULATION. GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER AND JESUS WOULD RATHER THAT WE GIVE-AWAY EVERY MATERIAL THING THAT WE HAVE AND DON'T NEED THAN THAT WE KEEP ACCUMULATING THINGS WE TRULY DO NOT NEED TO LIVE THE SERVICE-ORIENTED, GOD-CENTERED LIVES THAT GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER ENVISIONS FOR US.  WE DO NOT GROW INTO A GREAT NATION BY WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE POSSESS BUT RATHER BY WHAT WE GENEROUSLY GIVE BACK TO A WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE THE ABUNDANT RESOURCES AND BLESSINGS THAT WE HAVE IN THE USA.  IN JESUS' COMPASSIONATE, LOVING, GLORIOUS AND HOLY NAME. LOVE ALWAYS, DIANE 

THE DRAMATIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GOD OUR ALMIGHTY HEAVENLY FATHER'S PLANS FOR AMERICA AND THE PRESIDENT ELECT'S PLANS

TODAY I HAVE BEEN THINKING BOTH ABOUT THE BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF JESUS AND THE COMING PROBLEMS WITH THE PRESIDENT-ELECT AND HIS WEALTH OBSESSION AND THE HARSH REALITY CHECK THAT IS COMING FOR THE WORKING CLASSES WHO VOTED FOR HIM. WHEN GOD OUR ALMIGHTY HEAVENLY FATHER SENT JESUS TO EARTH OVER TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO, GOD ALREADY KNEW THE PLANS THAT HE HAD FOR JESUS -- TO SAVE, REDEEM AND HEAL HUMANITY BY DYING FOR OUR SINS ON THE CROSS AND THEN FAR MORE REACHING, AWESOME PLANS OF BRINGING JESUS BACK AS A LORD AND AWE-INSPIRING, TRUTH-BEARING AND PEACE-BEARING KING SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE. BUT WHAT IS SO AMAZING ABOUT GOD'S PLAN IS THAT HE SENT HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON JESUS TO ONE OF THE MOST HUMBLEST, POOREST PLACES ON EARTH TO BE BORN -- IN A MANGER STALL IN BETHLEHEM TO A TEENAGE MOM AND WORKING-CLASS CARPENTER DAD, NOT AT ALL WHERE YOU WOULD THINK A FUTURE KING WOULD BE BORN. BUT THINK, TODAY AND IN THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON, WHAT GOD OUR ALMIGHTY HEAVENLY FATHER WAS TRYING TO CONVEY TO THE WORLD IN WHERE AND TO WHOM HE HAD HIS SON BORN AND RAISED. WE HAVE AN ALMIGHTY HEAVENLY FATHER WHO REJECTS WORLDLY WEALTH AND RICHES AND VALUES THE HUMBLE AND THE POOR AND THE MEEK AND THE WORKING CLASSES, AND WE ALSO HAVE A LORD AND SAVIOR IN JESUS CHRIST WHO ALSO CAST THE MONEY CHANGERS OUT OF THE TEMPLE AND LIVED ONE OF THE MOST HUMBLEST LIVES POSSIBLE, EVEN AS HE PERFORMED ASTOUNDING MIRACLES OF GREAT COMPASSION WHEN HE WALKED THE EARTH. AND DON'T THINK FOR A MINUTE THAT GOD OUR ALMIGHTY HEAVENLY FATHER AND JESUS CHRIST DO NOT SEE THE PROBLEMS THAT ARE HAPPENING WITH THE WEALTH-CONCENTRATION IN AMERICA TODAY -- WEALTHY ON THE OUTSIDE BUT SOME OF THE MOST BROKEN PEOPLE ON THE INSIDE --- AND WITH THE PRESIDENT-ELECT'S FALSE PROMISES TO THE WORKING CLASSES AND POOR. GOD OUR ALMIGHTY HEAVENLY FATHER SAW THE PROBLEMS IN JESUS' DAY AND HE MOST DEFINITELY SEES THE PROBLEMS TODAY, AND WE MUST REST ASSURED, WITH TRUST AND FAITH, THAT GOD OUR ALMIGHTY FATHER AND JESUS HAVE A PLAN OF RESTORATION AND HEALING THAT FAR SURPASSES ANYTHING WE CAN IMAGINE,MOST ESPECIALLY INCLUDING THE PROMISED RETURN OF JESUS AS AN ALMIGHTY, RIGHTEOUS AND PEACE-BEARING KING. TODAY, MORE THAN EVER, iS A TIME WHEN WE, AS CHRISTIANS, AND OUR NATION NEED TO BE IN PRAYER TO GOD OUR ALMIGHTY FATHER AND JESUS ABOUT THE PROBLEMS WITH THE OVER-CONCERN WITH WEALTH IN OUR COUNTRY AND THE BROKENNESS AND PROBLEMS THAT WEALTH CREATES. BECAUSE WHEN JESUS RETURNS AS A KING, WE SHOULD KNOW FROM HIS HUMBLE ARRIVAL ON THIS EARTH THAT GOD OUR ALMIGHTY HEAVENLY FATHER IS NOT GOING TO ALLOW THE WEALTH AND CORPORATIONS TO STAND BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT PART OF THE GLORIOUS, PEACEFUL VISION THAT GOD HAS FOR THE EARTH AND HIS CHILDREN. SO, RIGHT NOW, MORE THAN EVER, WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE HUMBLE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST IN A MANGER THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON AND LEARN FROM THAT BIRTH AND THE HUMBLE (YET AMAZING) LIFE THAT JESUS LED IN THE GOSPELS, WHAT GOD HAS IN STORE FOR OUR WORLD, WHICH IS NOTHING AT ALL LIKE THE PRESIDENT-ELECT'S FALSE PROMISES OF WEALTH FOR THE WORKING-CLASSES. THAT IS NOT WHAT GOD ALMIGHTY AND JESUS VALUE NOR WILL THEY EVER VALUE WEALTH OVER CHARACTER, INTEGRITY AND SERVICE TO HUMANITY. IN JESUS' COMPASSIONATE, LOVING, GLORIOUS AND HOLY NAME. LOVE ALWAYS, DIANE

THE PERSECUTION OF JESUS, THE PERSECUTION OF HILLARY CLINTON, THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN OTHER COUNTRIES

YESTERDAY, I WAS READING AN ARTICLE ON NPR.ORG ABOUT A POST-ELECTION RALLY BY TRUMP IN OHIO, AND I READ WHERE THE CROWD SHOUTED, ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON, "LOCK HER UP" AND IT MADE ME THINK OF A SIMILAR CROWD, OVER TWO THOUSAND YEARS IN JERUSALEM, IN THE DAYS BEFORE JESUS' DEATH ON THE CROSS, THAT SHOUTED "CRUCIFY, HIM, CRUCIFY, HIM" AND IT ALSO MADE ME THINK, WHERE IS COMPASSION IN OUR NATION TODAY AND HAVE WE NOT MADE ANY PROGRESS IN OUR HUMANITY IN TWO THOUSAND YEARS? HAVE WE NOT LEARNED FROM JESUS AND THE GOSPELS ABOUT HOW WE ARE TO LOVE AND CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER AND FORGIVE ONE ANOTHER IN THE SAME WAY AS CHRIST FORGIVES US? AND WHY HAVE WE FORGOTTEN THAT HILLARY CLINTON WROTE A BOOK CALLED "IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHILD," AND IS ONE OF THE MOST CARING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES THAT WE HAVE HAD IN A LONG TIME. AND YET THEY (TRUMP FOLLOWERS) WANT TO PERSECUTE HER, LIKE THEY PERSECUTE CHRISTIANS IN OTHER COUNTRIES AND LIKE THEY PERSECUTED JESUS ON THE CROSS. BUT THE GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPELS IS THAT GOD OUR ALMIGHTY HEAVENLY FATHER DID NOT ALLOW THE PERSECUTION TO STAND BECAUSE THREE DAYS LATER, ON EASTER, HE RESURRECTED JESUS FROM THE GRAVE AND BROUGHT HIM BACK TO BE WITH US AS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR. AND THE FURTHER GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPELS AND REVELATIONS IS THAT THE PERSECUTION HAPPENING TODAY, WILL NOT STAND EITHER IN THE FACE OF GOD OUR ALMIGHTY HEAVENLY FATHER AND JESUS CHRIST BECAUSE JESUS IS COMING BACK AS AN ALMIGHTY, PEACE-BEARING AND TRUTH-BEARING, AWESOME, LOVING KING AND THE WORLD WILL BE MADE RIGHT AGAIN, ACCORDING TO THE GLORIOUS VISION THAT GOD OUR ALMIGHTY HEAVENLY FATHER HAS FOR THE EARTH AND HIS CHILDREN. GOD OUR ALMIGHTY HEAVENLY FATHER AND LORD JESUS SEE EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING ON THIS EARTH, AND THEY HAVE A GLORIOUS AND COMPASSIONATE PLAN -- AN AMAZING, BEAUTIFUL PLAN FILLED WITH AMAZING GRACE -- FOR THE RESTORATION OF THIS EARTH AND PEACE ON EARTH THROUGH OUR SAVIOR AND COMING KING, JESUS CHRIST. IN JESUS' HOLY, COMPASSIONATE, GLORIOUS AND LOVING NAME. LOVE ALWAYS, DIANE