I did not write this message today; the author’s intellects fly far above my capabilities. Yet the words sang true to my heart as I prepared to photograph another sunrise example of HOPE and the creativity and love of God. I decided to go to the exact location and time of day for a few weeks to document that sunrise and sunset will never be cliche, routine, boring, mundane, typical, or without artistry. Yesterday it rained with complete overcast, but the stillness in the air and droplets that washed the dust from the windshield gave thanks and good morning. To all the veterans everywhere, Thank You for Your service!! Thank You! Reasd the message below…

ON A WING AND A PRAYER

God lift me from the intolerable burden of my ignorance, arrogance, willful blindness, bitterness, and resentment.

As I pray that others rise above the same faults and temptations

I watched Fox News release a message this week:

There are terrible things afoot under the surface of our society, and the perpetrators are coming for you.

And coming for us

And then I watched the Democrats respond in panic and anger, saying:

There are terrible things afoot under the surface of our society, and the perpetrators are coming for you.

And coming for us

Are there terrible things afoot, bubbling under the surface?
Is something coming for you?
And for us?

Ask yourself how true that is of yourself and your own life.

Have you addressed all that?

Do you concern yourself with the dust in your enemy’s eyes instead of attending to the filth that obscures your sight?

Do we want accusation, suspicion, discord, scorn, and hatred?

Or the peace and prosperity and happiness that beckons to us at this moment like never before?

Who’s the enemy here?

Is it the basket of deplorables?
Is it the freaks and the queers?

Is it the plumbers and carpenters and tradesmen and managers who work honestly and diligently during the day and the soldiers who stalwartly defend the borders and protect us?

Is it the artists and visionaries whose expressions of unbridled creativity entertain and rejuvenate us and who continually offer us an unending panoply of technological miracle?

Is it the institutions that guide and protect us that so many lived and died to erect and establish which have served us so well for all their faults?

Do we want revenge or justice?
Do we want contempt or mercy?
Do we want war—or peace?

And what are you aiming at in your heart of hearts?

I see even the best of men degenerating into the exchange of blows.
I see even the best of men identifying the enemy in our neighbors and friends.
I see even the best of men falling prey to cowardice and self-righteous anger.

It needs to stop.
I need to stop.
You need to stop
before it’s too late.

Who is the enemy here?

The snake in your heart?
The lies on your tongue?
The arrogance of your intellect?
The cowardice of our refusal to see?

The enemy is that which divides to sow discord.

The enemy is the pride and fear that stops us from lending a hand across the divide.

The enemy is the great and eternal adversary of humanity.

And if we demonize our brothers, our comrades-in-arms, do we not precisely call that dread spirit forth?

Have we not yet learned?

Courage
Trust
Truth
Love

Even unto your enemy
which is you.

God forgive us our trespasses.
As we forgive those who trespass against us
May what is the highest guide our vision
May what is highest open our ears
May what is the highest guide our tongues

And may we pray
Fearful of the hell we could so quickly and carelessly create

Deliver us from evil
Shine a light into the corners of our dark hearts

For thine is the Kingdom
The Power and the Glory
For Ever and Ever

Amen.”

Jordan Peterson—
interpreting the word of God and speaking a wing and a prayer message to all
Jesus
Moses
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
Isaiah
…

It is far to easy to get caught up in the madness and deciet, always remember the Hope in the message. Go out and give witness to the new day, everyday, give thanks.