James, you have a remarkable ability to write to me, as though only to me, no matter the subject. Hundreds or thousands will read this, each believing it was a personal note from you, just for them, and personally left between the doors at their house by their close friend . A stark contrast from those who write as though for a "wide audience". Yours is a rare talent.
Thank you so much for your kind words. I’m so glad you find my columns inspiring. I was writing to a friend this morning about a Quaker meeting I used to go to many years ago. There was no minister, no one leading the service. Just a small group of people sitting in silence until someone felt moved by the spirit to say something. I was often very surprised by the most profound things coming out of the mouths of the most ordinary people. Not that any of us is ordinary. And perhaps that, above all else, is what learned about people during those meetings. In these columns I’m trying to reflect on my life as a way of reflecting on what’s going on in the world. As I write these, I try to remember how those people at that Quaker meetings spoke. There was no preaching. Just people wrestling with themselves and with God.
Fantastic commentary, as usual. I also read the story about your ex-wife (divorced?/widowed?). It was good to read some of your bio. I totally identify with your post-Covid observations. Will we ever recover from the pain that we (the non-jabbed) suffered from the ‘holier-than-thou’ fanatics who shamed us? I hope that more and more truth comes out about the harms caused by the government’s vax mandates. An interesting time in U.S. and world history for sure.
Hi Karen: I like to think we can recover from the pain that we suffered—and still suffer—under those who got the jabs. That’s a task that’s up to each of us who did not get jabbed. But will those who got the jabs ever wake up to the hoax? That I cannot say. I tend to think not, unfortunately, even as more and more information gets revealed about the injuries and deaths the jabs have caused. C.S. Lewis wrote many books and I’ve only read a few. In addition to “A Grief Observed” I like “Mere Christianity.” And thank you for becoming a paid subscriber! I so much appreciate it. I hope you continue to find my work inspirational.
I'm sure I will always find your work inspirational! I read and re-read your comments. Maybe it's because I was an English major that I appreciate the way some people write. You are definitely in that top tier!
Speaking of jabs, etc., I continue to see people here in "blue" Oregon wearing masks and being fearful. Boggles my mind.
Wow, what a great piece of writing to start my morning off! I found this through a link on Lew Rockwell and the title caught me. For 30 minutes I rode a roller coaster of emotions and learned so much about CS Lewis I did not know.
You completely put into words how I felt and still feel about the corona-doom. How could it happen, and for so long, the insanity grew exponentially week after week. Thank you for the reminder about forgiveness, but oh so tough. I still have a hard-time forgiving the Churches. They shut down, cancelled Easter 2020 and the icing on top - they all took the PPP money, every Catholic diocese and every Protestant denomination. 100's of millions of dollars from an evil source never to be paid back.. Did one Priest or Mega Preacher ask for prayer and petition during this satanic event, no they capitulated and left the flock to flap in the wind. Now its like poof, all good, nothing to see here, move along.
You are a true talent - I look forward to reading more of your writings. Thanks Bill from Florida
Bill: Thank you for your kind words. I, too, was especially disappointed that so many churches fell in line with the government’s diktats and, yes, took the PPP money. There’s a church next door to my house. It caved and was closed for months. I used to go from time to time but now, no more. I’ve started to look around for other churches that did not close and did not take the bait. There’s an old Catholic Latin Mass church not too far from my home that might not have caved. Not sure. I need to find out. There’s also an Eastern Orthodox church nearby that I think might have stayed open. Again, I need to look into it.
You reminded me William! Yes, the utter hypocrisy of the churches. People gather to worship God Almighty but they were told this one is out of God's hands. HE has NO ability to save you now! Only the government can handle it from here. What were the sermons when church was allowed to open once again? "Uhh... hi God. Did you make it okay through the pandemic? We know it was too powerful for you to deal with so we'll keep our begging down to a minimum if maybe you caught it or aren't feeling well lately."
Yes James, this is a complete and uncanny description of the volcanic anger and loss that I experienced, which is only now ebbing into acceptance. Of course, some was anger and grief at what was done to me (loss of my business and alienation of my two children, the two biggest investments of my life) but even more an overwhelming sadness at the massive harm done to our society, and all its innocents (and innocence). After all, our human character must always have been vulnerable to such manipulation, but that didn’t make us bad people. A few of us have always played the necessary but thankless role of sentinels, but that does not make us better than others. It is the lies and liars that are to blame, profoundly, and who must all be rounded up and destroyed. Only then, I believe, can we truly heal.
Thank you so much for this, your writing is a tonic, and I will certainly re-read. Also, here is my all-time favorite substack essay, by Mark Bisone, Being Unconquerable. It is pertinent, and incredibly inspiring.
Hi Karen: Thank you for this comment. It sounds like you really lost a lot to all this insanity. What I’m trying to do these days is to make some sort of discernment between acceptance and surrender. They are related yet different. I think acceptance is of one’s own choosing. Surrender is forced, like when one side in a war overpowers the other. And surrender I will not do and it appears that neither will you given what you’ve already lost—and have survived. I think you’re right about the human character always being subjected to manipulation. It’s been going on for decades for sure and the more I look into history, I can see it’s been happening for centuries with all the wars between this empire and that empire, and one population conquering another. This most recent assault is particularly vile because it encompassed the entire world. When the jabs were rolled out, I remember seeing a video of a Australian thugs chasing down aborigines in the outback to inject them even as did their best to fight them off. Such cruelty makes me think that the forces behind this entire scourge was not human, but rather those evil powers I mentioned in my essay quoting from the Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians. I hope and pray that justice is served to the creatures that inflicted this on us all. And thank you for the link to Mark Bisone’s Substack. Really great. I just subscribed.
Hello again, Jim. We've written back and forth a few times pondering what caused most of the human population to believe, obey and submit to the commands hurled down from on high. I'll repeat my conclusions for those visiting your excellent C S Lewis article and his words in the aftermath of losing someone so beloved. Phase 1 of my big goodbye was shortly after 9/11. The buildings disintegrating into powder, massive steel beams turning to dust without hitting the ground, a smoking hole in Pennsylvania strewn with luggage, passports and baseball caps but no people nor airplane, a 16 ft. diameter hole in the Pentagon but no airplane, Building no. 7 tumbling down into its own footprint... and then my many friends who believed everything they were told. If I asked someone what happened on 9/11 and they said, "Well, there were these 19 hijackers with box cutters...." then I didn't know those people any longer. A lot of goodbyes transpired. A new insult was invented... "truther"... and the surreal nature of being reviled because I insisted on the truth. It was okay and doable not knowing them any longer.
Phase 2 of my big goodbye was the fake pandemic. What really sucked everyone in was THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL! They didn't know those people leaping from the windows to their deaths and pulverized to ashes. But they were told there's a deadly virus floating through the air. It's everywhere and you don't have an immune system. You probably have the virus and though you can't feel it you are spreading it to everyone. You will stay inside until further notice. No school or church or restaurants or gyms, but Walmart, liquor stores and tattoo parlors are safe. Miracle of miracles... we have a vaccine in a few months time!! And they took it! You see, it was personal. For me this wasn't a line in the sand where I stood, it was the Grand Canyon. The believers were so far on the other side I couldn't even see them. I'm a breather, not a believer. And I still don't see them, just like your visit to the pub recently. I mean, I might see them but a wave is all I can offer. What's really shocking to me was how many of my friends didn't believe the official stories regarding JFK, Vietnam, the moon landings, 9/11, Sandy Hook, but they believed THIS ONE because now it's personal. As truthers you and I must live in the truth, our truth. We are separated from so many we once admired but the Grand Canyon is so wide and I cannot deny that. One of my favorite quotes, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed; and hence clamorous to be led to safety; by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” -H L Mencken
The reflections of C S Lewis and the grief he experienced was caused by a physical death. His wife was very ill and died. My family members, friends and neighbors who chose to believe and obey committed suicide. It's a different kind of void they created. I'm still here, they aren't. Here's further pondering of who believed and why.
Hi Tom: You’ve pretty much summed up the past 25 years of my life, too. But the entire covidmania campaign really pushed things over the edge for me into a whole new territory of abuse. The 9/11 lie was just as obvious as the scamdemic was, in my eyes. But in the eyes of so many others, “facts are facts.” There were 19 hijackers with box cutters and if you don’t believe that then you’re a kook. Yup. Okay. Bye. But with the scamdemic, the true believers seemed particularly vicious. Perhaps this was because they were all whipped up into a kind of frenzy about a deadly virus and unless everyone got jabbed and wore a mask, well, then everyone was going to get sick and die and it’s all your fault. The more vicious the attack the greater the divide. And now we have that Grand Canyon between us.
The believers were wearing masks but were convinced their masks were rendered useless if I wasn't wearing one. Weren't the masks supposed to protect them from the virus? When I invited my entire neighborhood to my house for the HOA meeting, telling them they didn't have to wear masks because all were vaxxed, such outrage and insults were hurled at me that it was mystifying that such accomplished and intelligent people were incapable of asking themselves, "Do the vaccines work?" When I wrote them with the obvious conclusion, "This proves your vaccines didn't work" they went into further convulsions and the meeting was called off. Months before the meeting a neighbor drove up beside me as I was walking from the mailboxes. She rolled down her window and asked with a cheerful voice, "Hey Tom, have you been vaccinated?" I said, "Bill Gates became a billionaire building computers fraught with viruses that required constant vaccines to keep them running. I'm not going to take a Gates-endorsed vaccine into my veins, thank you." She got pretty grumpy and said, "It wasn't in my veins, Tom, it was in my arm." I'm not in grief not knowing this idiot and I'll wave to her if she waves to me, and that about how it goes these days.
I never read such an explanation of my emotional state for the last 5 years. This is profound. Thank you for so articulating the monstrous gaslighting.and attempted smothering of the truth. Churches were complicit and are still complicit because none have come clean about the payouts they received to comply. i looked up every church I used to attend and the thousands and millions of PPP money they received. Without telling the church members. Betrayal of churches is my grief. 2020 exposed them. Until they fess up I will not be part of their cowardice and falsehood. .I am still grieved to the core. They act like nothing has happened. Personal attacks on me for not masking or telling me to put it over my nose by big hulking men! what the media can do to people . I warned everyone about the bioweapon. They ignored me except 2. This article I will Have to read and reread. I read all CS Lewis years ago. I will reread a grief observed. What a great analogy.
Hi Barbara: Your comment and the others here are so inspiring for me to read. I’ve been hoping with this column to connect to other awakened souls and to offer some kind of support and solace as I try to put into my own words (in the context of related words of others who have come before us) what has been happening to me the past five years, as well as to so many others. I totally relate to your outrage about the churches falling in line with ruse and taking all that blood money. It is that sort of hypocrisy that Jesus spent much of his short life calling out for all to see—and for which he paid dearly. We might not have paid with our lives but we have paid in so many other ways. And sometimes I think we need to give ourselves a big pat on the back for having the courage to stand up to so much abuse and having the good sense to know exactly what sort of malfeasance was—and remains—at hand.
"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." (2nd Corinthians 2:9) There is so much unnecessary grief and sorrow inflicted upon us, by our own desires to want to naturally avenge ourselves from those that harm us. What great strength Jesus displayed, in stating; "Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do". You have chosen the best role model for overcoming that grief, as it is only for a season, but while in these bodies, it seems interminable.
The accuser attacks with philippic angst against those who they had no quarrel with until they invented one. Reconciling oneself to the reality of God and his only son is an anchor to the soul of sanity, something this world seems to avoid like the plague. Thank You James! Reflections of life from within, brings about a introspective few seem to be willing to face, but face it we must.
Hi Clyde: I like what you say about having chosen a good role model for overcoming my grief by embracing the forgiveness with which Jesus forgave those who persecuted and eventually killed him. It's a very tall order. I am hoping that time and patience and prayer will bring me some sort of peace sooner rather than later. Because, as you also say, it's actually unnecessary and brought about just because we want to avenge ourselves for the harm that's been done to us.
Jim, I'm late to this party, but I'm glad to see you're getting response and recognition, via Lew Rockwell I presume. This one is another strong expression, balancing personal vulnerability with scholarship. I was glad to learn about C.S. and Joy. Looking forward to more!
WHO, NGOs and government agencies are calling for RFK, Jr's head because he is slashing the FDA to tiny pieces. However, the facts are undeniable that the vaxx rollouts have caused an enormous rise worldwide for injuries and death.... which was entirely the plan of these agencies.
All of this connected. I find myself referring to everything pre-Covid as the before times. The anger is always just beneath the surface and trust in anything or anyone is beyond my ability. Thank you for articulating so well what many probably feel.
You have precisely written what I've experienced. Now I am trying to undo the physical results of my depression, over what the world fell for. My body aches with tension and pain. I thank my Father in Heaven for the wisdom he gave me to trust in common sense, if only to have multiple siblings fall in line.
Marcianne: Thank you for your comment. It’s been a tough time for so many of us. At first, I could not believe what was happening (denial) then it kept on going and going. I was soon really thrown off by it all and, as I write in this column, I’m still rather in shock and, yes, grieving about it.
James, you have a remarkable ability to write to me, as though only to me, no matter the subject. Hundreds or thousands will read this, each believing it was a personal note from you, just for them, and personally left between the doors at their house by their close friend . A stark contrast from those who write as though for a "wide audience". Yours is a rare talent.
Thank you so much for your kind words. I’m so glad you find my columns inspiring. I was writing to a friend this morning about a Quaker meeting I used to go to many years ago. There was no minister, no one leading the service. Just a small group of people sitting in silence until someone felt moved by the spirit to say something. I was often very surprised by the most profound things coming out of the mouths of the most ordinary people. Not that any of us is ordinary. And perhaps that, above all else, is what learned about people during those meetings. In these columns I’m trying to reflect on my life as a way of reflecting on what’s going on in the world. As I write these, I try to remember how those people at that Quaker meetings spoke. There was no preaching. Just people wrestling with themselves and with God.
Fantastic commentary, as usual. I also read the story about your ex-wife (divorced?/widowed?). It was good to read some of your bio. I totally identify with your post-Covid observations. Will we ever recover from the pain that we (the non-jabbed) suffered from the ‘holier-than-thou’ fanatics who shamed us? I hope that more and more truth comes out about the harms caused by the government’s vax mandates. An interesting time in U.S. and world history for sure.
P.S. C.S. Lewis was an interesting and brilliant author. You have inspired me to read more of his works.
Hi Karen: I like to think we can recover from the pain that we suffered—and still suffer—under those who got the jabs. That’s a task that’s up to each of us who did not get jabbed. But will those who got the jabs ever wake up to the hoax? That I cannot say. I tend to think not, unfortunately, even as more and more information gets revealed about the injuries and deaths the jabs have caused. C.S. Lewis wrote many books and I’ve only read a few. In addition to “A Grief Observed” I like “Mere Christianity.” And thank you for becoming a paid subscriber! I so much appreciate it. I hope you continue to find my work inspirational.
I'm sure I will always find your work inspirational! I read and re-read your comments. Maybe it's because I was an English major that I appreciate the way some people write. You are definitely in that top tier!
Speaking of jabs, etc., I continue to see people here in "blue" Oregon wearing masks and being fearful. Boggles my mind.
I look forward to reading more of C.S. Lewis.
Thanks for your writings! You never disappoint.
Wow, what a great piece of writing to start my morning off! I found this through a link on Lew Rockwell and the title caught me. For 30 minutes I rode a roller coaster of emotions and learned so much about CS Lewis I did not know.
You completely put into words how I felt and still feel about the corona-doom. How could it happen, and for so long, the insanity grew exponentially week after week. Thank you for the reminder about forgiveness, but oh so tough. I still have a hard-time forgiving the Churches. They shut down, cancelled Easter 2020 and the icing on top - they all took the PPP money, every Catholic diocese and every Protestant denomination. 100's of millions of dollars from an evil source never to be paid back.. Did one Priest or Mega Preacher ask for prayer and petition during this satanic event, no they capitulated and left the flock to flap in the wind. Now its like poof, all good, nothing to see here, move along.
You are a true talent - I look forward to reading more of your writings. Thanks Bill from Florida
Bill: Thank you for your kind words. I, too, was especially disappointed that so many churches fell in line with the government’s diktats and, yes, took the PPP money. There’s a church next door to my house. It caved and was closed for months. I used to go from time to time but now, no more. I’ve started to look around for other churches that did not close and did not take the bait. There’s an old Catholic Latin Mass church not too far from my home that might not have caved. Not sure. I need to find out. There’s also an Eastern Orthodox church nearby that I think might have stayed open. Again, I need to look into it.
You reminded me William! Yes, the utter hypocrisy of the churches. People gather to worship God Almighty but they were told this one is out of God's hands. HE has NO ability to save you now! Only the government can handle it from here. What were the sermons when church was allowed to open once again? "Uhh... hi God. Did you make it okay through the pandemic? We know it was too powerful for you to deal with so we'll keep our begging down to a minimum if maybe you caught it or aren't feeling well lately."
Yes James, this is a complete and uncanny description of the volcanic anger and loss that I experienced, which is only now ebbing into acceptance. Of course, some was anger and grief at what was done to me (loss of my business and alienation of my two children, the two biggest investments of my life) but even more an overwhelming sadness at the massive harm done to our society, and all its innocents (and innocence). After all, our human character must always have been vulnerable to such manipulation, but that didn’t make us bad people. A few of us have always played the necessary but thankless role of sentinels, but that does not make us better than others. It is the lies and liars that are to blame, profoundly, and who must all be rounded up and destroyed. Only then, I believe, can we truly heal.
Thank you so much for this, your writing is a tonic, and I will certainly re-read. Also, here is my all-time favorite substack essay, by Mark Bisone, Being Unconquerable. It is pertinent, and incredibly inspiring.
https://markbisone.substack.com/p/being-unconquerable?utm_source=publication-search
Hi Karen: Thank you for this comment. It sounds like you really lost a lot to all this insanity. What I’m trying to do these days is to make some sort of discernment between acceptance and surrender. They are related yet different. I think acceptance is of one’s own choosing. Surrender is forced, like when one side in a war overpowers the other. And surrender I will not do and it appears that neither will you given what you’ve already lost—and have survived. I think you’re right about the human character always being subjected to manipulation. It’s been going on for decades for sure and the more I look into history, I can see it’s been happening for centuries with all the wars between this empire and that empire, and one population conquering another. This most recent assault is particularly vile because it encompassed the entire world. When the jabs were rolled out, I remember seeing a video of a Australian thugs chasing down aborigines in the outback to inject them even as did their best to fight them off. Such cruelty makes me think that the forces behind this entire scourge was not human, but rather those evil powers I mentioned in my essay quoting from the Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians. I hope and pray that justice is served to the creatures that inflicted this on us all. And thank you for the link to Mark Bisone’s Substack. Really great. I just subscribed.
Hello again, Jim. We've written back and forth a few times pondering what caused most of the human population to believe, obey and submit to the commands hurled down from on high. I'll repeat my conclusions for those visiting your excellent C S Lewis article and his words in the aftermath of losing someone so beloved. Phase 1 of my big goodbye was shortly after 9/11. The buildings disintegrating into powder, massive steel beams turning to dust without hitting the ground, a smoking hole in Pennsylvania strewn with luggage, passports and baseball caps but no people nor airplane, a 16 ft. diameter hole in the Pentagon but no airplane, Building no. 7 tumbling down into its own footprint... and then my many friends who believed everything they were told. If I asked someone what happened on 9/11 and they said, "Well, there were these 19 hijackers with box cutters...." then I didn't know those people any longer. A lot of goodbyes transpired. A new insult was invented... "truther"... and the surreal nature of being reviled because I insisted on the truth. It was okay and doable not knowing them any longer.
Phase 2 of my big goodbye was the fake pandemic. What really sucked everyone in was THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL! They didn't know those people leaping from the windows to their deaths and pulverized to ashes. But they were told there's a deadly virus floating through the air. It's everywhere and you don't have an immune system. You probably have the virus and though you can't feel it you are spreading it to everyone. You will stay inside until further notice. No school or church or restaurants or gyms, but Walmart, liquor stores and tattoo parlors are safe. Miracle of miracles... we have a vaccine in a few months time!! And they took it! You see, it was personal. For me this wasn't a line in the sand where I stood, it was the Grand Canyon. The believers were so far on the other side I couldn't even see them. I'm a breather, not a believer. And I still don't see them, just like your visit to the pub recently. I mean, I might see them but a wave is all I can offer. What's really shocking to me was how many of my friends didn't believe the official stories regarding JFK, Vietnam, the moon landings, 9/11, Sandy Hook, but they believed THIS ONE because now it's personal. As truthers you and I must live in the truth, our truth. We are separated from so many we once admired but the Grand Canyon is so wide and I cannot deny that. One of my favorite quotes, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed; and hence clamorous to be led to safety; by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” -H L Mencken
The reflections of C S Lewis and the grief he experienced was caused by a physical death. His wife was very ill and died. My family members, friends and neighbors who chose to believe and obey committed suicide. It's a different kind of void they created. I'm still here, they aren't. Here's further pondering of who believed and why.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/2020-lockdown-planned-pandemic-split-society/5882608
Hi Tom: You’ve pretty much summed up the past 25 years of my life, too. But the entire covidmania campaign really pushed things over the edge for me into a whole new territory of abuse. The 9/11 lie was just as obvious as the scamdemic was, in my eyes. But in the eyes of so many others, “facts are facts.” There were 19 hijackers with box cutters and if you don’t believe that then you’re a kook. Yup. Okay. Bye. But with the scamdemic, the true believers seemed particularly vicious. Perhaps this was because they were all whipped up into a kind of frenzy about a deadly virus and unless everyone got jabbed and wore a mask, well, then everyone was going to get sick and die and it’s all your fault. The more vicious the attack the greater the divide. And now we have that Grand Canyon between us.
The believers were wearing masks but were convinced their masks were rendered useless if I wasn't wearing one. Weren't the masks supposed to protect them from the virus? When I invited my entire neighborhood to my house for the HOA meeting, telling them they didn't have to wear masks because all were vaxxed, such outrage and insults were hurled at me that it was mystifying that such accomplished and intelligent people were incapable of asking themselves, "Do the vaccines work?" When I wrote them with the obvious conclusion, "This proves your vaccines didn't work" they went into further convulsions and the meeting was called off. Months before the meeting a neighbor drove up beside me as I was walking from the mailboxes. She rolled down her window and asked with a cheerful voice, "Hey Tom, have you been vaccinated?" I said, "Bill Gates became a billionaire building computers fraught with viruses that required constant vaccines to keep them running. I'm not going to take a Gates-endorsed vaccine into my veins, thank you." She got pretty grumpy and said, "It wasn't in my veins, Tom, it was in my arm." I'm not in grief not knowing this idiot and I'll wave to her if she waves to me, and that about how it goes these days.
I never read such an explanation of my emotional state for the last 5 years. This is profound. Thank you for so articulating the monstrous gaslighting.and attempted smothering of the truth. Churches were complicit and are still complicit because none have come clean about the payouts they received to comply. i looked up every church I used to attend and the thousands and millions of PPP money they received. Without telling the church members. Betrayal of churches is my grief. 2020 exposed them. Until they fess up I will not be part of their cowardice and falsehood. .I am still grieved to the core. They act like nothing has happened. Personal attacks on me for not masking or telling me to put it over my nose by big hulking men! what the media can do to people . I warned everyone about the bioweapon. They ignored me except 2. This article I will Have to read and reread. I read all CS Lewis years ago. I will reread a grief observed. What a great analogy.
Hi Barbara: Your comment and the others here are so inspiring for me to read. I’ve been hoping with this column to connect to other awakened souls and to offer some kind of support and solace as I try to put into my own words (in the context of related words of others who have come before us) what has been happening to me the past five years, as well as to so many others. I totally relate to your outrage about the churches falling in line with ruse and taking all that blood money. It is that sort of hypocrisy that Jesus spent much of his short life calling out for all to see—and for which he paid dearly. We might not have paid with our lives but we have paid in so many other ways. And sometimes I think we need to give ourselves a big pat on the back for having the courage to stand up to so much abuse and having the good sense to know exactly what sort of malfeasance was—and remains—at hand.
Thank you for your writing about the Grief that COVID has caused you (or rather not COVID but the response of those around you to it).
"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." (2nd Corinthians 2:9) There is so much unnecessary grief and sorrow inflicted upon us, by our own desires to want to naturally avenge ourselves from those that harm us. What great strength Jesus displayed, in stating; "Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do". You have chosen the best role model for overcoming that grief, as it is only for a season, but while in these bodies, it seems interminable.
The accuser attacks with philippic angst against those who they had no quarrel with until they invented one. Reconciling oneself to the reality of God and his only son is an anchor to the soul of sanity, something this world seems to avoid like the plague. Thank You James! Reflections of life from within, brings about a introspective few seem to be willing to face, but face it we must.
Hi Clyde: I like what you say about having chosen a good role model for overcoming my grief by embracing the forgiveness with which Jesus forgave those who persecuted and eventually killed him. It's a very tall order. I am hoping that time and patience and prayer will bring me some sort of peace sooner rather than later. Because, as you also say, it's actually unnecessary and brought about just because we want to avenge ourselves for the harm that's been done to us.
Jim, I'm late to this party, but I'm glad to see you're getting response and recognition, via Lew Rockwell I presume. This one is another strong expression, balancing personal vulnerability with scholarship. I was glad to learn about C.S. and Joy. Looking forward to more!
WHO, NGOs and government agencies are calling for RFK, Jr's head because he is slashing the FDA to tiny pieces. However, the facts are undeniable that the vaxx rollouts have caused an enormous rise worldwide for injuries and death.... which was entirely the plan of these agencies.
https://drsircus.com/vaccines/the-fda-is-finished/
All of this connected. I find myself referring to everything pre-Covid as the before times. The anger is always just beneath the surface and trust in anything or anyone is beyond my ability. Thank you for articulating so well what many probably feel.
It sometimes helps to remember that many of us went through this. We're all in the same boat. Thanks for the reminder.
It sometimes helps. Other times, not much can.
You have precisely written what I've experienced. Now I am trying to undo the physical results of my depression, over what the world fell for. My body aches with tension and pain. I thank my Father in Heaven for the wisdom he gave me to trust in common sense, if only to have multiple siblings fall in line.
Marcianne: Thank you for your comment. It’s been a tough time for so many of us. At first, I could not believe what was happening (denial) then it kept on going and going. I was soon really thrown off by it all and, as I write in this column, I’m still rather in shock and, yes, grieving about it.