Blog 783 – 10.03.2017
I Find It Quite Amazing

I find it quite amazing, I have typed that three times now and I still do, that my words are being read around the world. A hundred years ago authors thrilled to have their works published around the world and printed in many languages. Today with instant translating computer programs and smart phone apps, just a push of a button and you can read my posts in your mother tongue. I am so glad to be alive now and to have found my niche. I was telling a friend that I need to add “dancer” after writer, speaker, singer, songwriter, and teacher to my card. I am no trained dancer to be sure but nevertheless quite expert at Snoopy’s happy dance. But that I will explain in another piece coming soon to a computer or smart phone near you, called Song And Dance.

I would like to take my time today sharing with you some things that I find quite amazing. Most amazing of all to me is that in spite of all the cues and clues so many people, at least in the movies, do not recognize that the mild mannered Clark Kent is Superman. Even more amazing the way, many of us live an entire lifetime, maybe several, without seeing through our own clever disguises and recognizing Who and Whose we really are. Hint for you slower ones: “Thou art the Annointed, the child of the living God, who is God.” We even miss the whole point of the good news the angels sang, or of Jesus’ whole life story really. He is not just with us, he is us, and we him.  And, Baby, if we can’t see that and get excited about it that song about being sedated should be our theme song.

What else amazes you, Crazy Dave, I mean besides babies and boobies? Babies love boobies and Baby is my favorite name. I even have Siri on my IPhone programmed to call me Baby. “I will check on that for you, Baby.” She is such a helpful girl.

I am amazed at how gullible we are to all the powers that be that make and keep us “consumers” in spite of all the damage that unchecked consumption does to our bodies and to our world, and to people everywhere. I heard just this morning that childhood obesity is greatest in my home state of Tennessee. Chubby kids have always been around but they used to be few and far between, now it is the thin kids that are the exceptions. What changed, I mean beside our diets, and our not letting our kids play outside, and our fear of withholding any sweet or treat from them or ourselves? The puppet masters do not think we are consuming enough so they keep upping the sugar content in everything. “The most widely used legal drug,” the villain, in the new Kingsman 2 movie, says. I love sugar as much as the next person, probably more, but as good as sugar and fat tastes, we need a little green stuff, Popeye, to stay strong, fit, and healthy and also a lot more exercise than most of us are getting.

It amazes me that we allow our lives to become so boring or stressful that many of us spend our evenings and weekends in a drug or alcohol stupor or filling ourselves and our children constantly with comfort food aka high calorie, high fat, and high sugar content meals or snacks. But why? Because we want to be sated and sedated lest we face up to Who we truly are and become quite overwhelmed with our own potential. The children’s Sunday school song said, “God can do anything, anything anything. God can do anything but fail.” So we can – we have only to try. Take off those fake glasses, Clark, let everyone including you see Who you really are. “It is hero time, boys and girls.”

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White