1963 NO BULL
Let’s talk a little about this
past week- and if I have time maybe hit on today’s House [of Rep’s] vote on the
millionaire tax increase [which should be an Obama dream come true!]
Okay- over the weekend I had one
of the street guys stay over.
Huey fell and probably broke a
few ribs- he’s been struggling in the camp and called around 4:30 pm on Friday.
I was sitting at the halfway
house- which I helped start with Huey's brother- John David.
I was talking to my friend who
has terminal cancer- and was getting ready to go home and take the weekend off
from ministry stuff.
That’s when Huey called- so to be
honest it was a sacrifice to bring him home- and give the weekend to ministry
stuff.
But- earlier in the day Henry
mentioned the story of the Good Samaritan- how he put the man up- paid for his
bill at the hotel [Inn] and went out of his way for the man.
When I got the call- I knew I was
supposed to do it.
It’s funny- every time Huey comes
over- if he leaves some type of trinket- there is always a sign to the thing.
Because he’s homeless- he has his
stuff all over the area- maybe some clothes at another friend’s house- he’ll
leave his guitar over here [hanging on the wall].
So- when I came back from my trip
to N.J. - I brought back a walking staff/stick that I found in the park where I
grew up.
I stuck it here at my house- in
the room I use for the street guys.
I have all types of biblical nick
knacks in the room- verses on the wall- stuff like that.
So- I was looking for a couple of
little angel pins a few weeks ago- was going to use it on one of these walking
staffs that I made [not ‘girly’ angels- but saint Michael the Archangel- you
know- tough stuff!]
So- Huey spent the night a while
ago- the next day I go I to clean the room- and sure enough- he left a hat on
the stick- and the hat had 2 angel pins on it [I could not find them on my own
by the way].
So- after this last weekend stay-
before I clean the room after the guys spend the night- I usually write and do
my blogging in the morning.
That morning I read some of the Psalms
and wrote down a verse about Bulls.
It’s a common theme in the bible-
it actually fits in with the posts I did last week.
The Psalm says God is more
pleased with the sacrifices of praise and worship than he is with the offerings
of ‘Bulls and Oxen’.
Okay- the point is God did not
really want animal sacrifices- he wanted our hearts.
Today- in the New Covenant church
that we all belong to- we have no more animal sacrifices- Jesus died for us on
the Cross and he was the final sacrifice for the sins of man.
The apostle Peter writes we now offer the sacrifices
of praise to God- the same theme we read in the Psalms.
So- I write down the Psalm on a
piece of paper and hang it on the wall.
I start cleaning the room- and
Huey must have broke a belt buckle- he left the 2 pieces of the broken buckle
in the room.
They were 2 Bulls.
After I hung up the Psalm- I stuck
the bulls to the wall.
Yeah- true story- no bull.
[Actually ‘no bull[s]’ means we are now living
in a new age of grace and praise- no more need for animal sacrifice- get it?]
Okay- I have not written much
about the news lately- though there is always stuff going on.
I mentioned a few weeks ago it
looked like the president was really not looking for a deal with the House Repubs-
not like in the past.
He seemed to have abandoned the idea
of serious cuts to entitlement programs- and simply wanted to win a political feud
to raise taxes on- quote- ‘millionaires and billionaires’.
Now- in reality- the president
and many other Dem’s have said that they just want to raise taxes on the ‘rich’
and not do any cutting.
But the Repubs have never agreed
to this.
So- the last few weeks that’s
what they have been haggling over.
It looked like Obama was gonna go
over the ‘cliff’ and let the Repubs take the blame.
So- as a counter punch- the Repub
house is going to try and pass a bill today that will raise taxes on
millionaires- and that’s it.
Huh?
In essence- the bill would let
the Bush tax rates expire on everyone else- except ‘Millionaires and Billionaires’.
Look- I have watched this stuff
for years- if Obama really means what he says- this is looking a gift horse in
the mouth- this is what has said he wants- and in the past he would never- ever
get a deal like this- without entitlement cuts.
Is he going to take the deal- by
making the Dems in the senate vote yeah?
No.
He said it’s a game- a ploy- and
they are already saying it’s no good.
This tells me he really does not
want what he told us- ‘millionaires and billionaires’.
No- at this point- he wants to
win the game.
Sure- we all know just raising
the tax rate on millionaires really won’t raise enough revenue- but he has not played
it that way this last year.
He has the average American
thinking all he wants is to raise taxes on millionaires.
Well- if that’s what you say you
want.
Then Merry Christmas Mr.
President- from John Boehner.
NOTE- in Revelation chapter 4 we
read about a beast vision that the Apostle John saw- the image had 4 things to
it- 2 of them were a Calf [bull] and an Eagle.
One of the church Fathers taught
that these images are types of Christ- sort of like the 4 gospels can be seen
in these images of 4 beasts.
I find it interesting that Huey
has left me 2 of these 4 images already [Bull and Eagle].
Let’s see what’s next.
Note- Do me a favor, those who
read/like the posts- re-post them on other sites as well as the site you read
them on. Thanks- John. Don’t forget to scroll down on the timeline [Facebook] -
I have posted lots.
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