Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:01:08 AM

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Eternal Day

 

 For There Shall Be No Night There

Revelation 21:25  

Images taken near the Arctic Circle by AL7MI on the summer solstice. The images was taken the old fashion way using a single piece of film in a camera without advancing the film each 20 minutes interval between exposures. Taken in 1989 before the advent of digital photography that made it necessary to collect and edit images outside the camera; this multiple exposures image was finally captured when the cooler atmospheric conditions associated with the low angle sun allowed these clouds to form and eventually obscure one or more images as had happened in previous years.

 

Friends are friends forever when they show you exactly how you will be together forever. In this world true friend are definitely like precious diamonds, rare, hard to find, beautiful in a timeless way and made of a substance that withstands the wear and tear of time. After a little more than half a century in this sad pathetic world, I find solace in retreats to the pristine nature of Alaska's back country where the extremes of light and dark as well as temperatures and vastness provide a formidable barrier against man's efforts to disrupt a beauty and peace that few friends reflect.

Today is less than 24 hours after the earth achieved its polar parallel position with the sun; the above image was taken 91 days after this astronomical alignment when the earth's pole is tilted toward the sun in it greatest angular difference from the Spring Equinox. Why do I post an image of and event that still waits three months in the future? Perhaps it is due to the fact that I look forward to seeing this place where there is no night sooner than June 21st.

The last month has been a very intense time for me as I have flown to the other side of the planet to the Far East to deal with a matter which required me to understand just how much I must have an absolute trust in the One who guides the sun and stars. Not unlike running around the house to make sure that everything is in place for a special visitor and being sure that I have visited every possible place on earth that is needful for me to visit before leaving on the vacation of a life time; everything seems to be in place.

There is only one thing that is truly needful and that is to be in the arms of the One who loves you so much that they have died to save you out of a world ruled by the sad reality that everything here is only temporary, a fleeting cloud of dust and a fading dream. There in is nothing more pitiful than to see people clinging to the decaying decrepit bodies they have under the sad delusion that it all they will ever have to experience this world.

I have been blessed to find that I have been looking in on this world for quite sometime now but the window is being closed to protect me from the sad events that lay ahead. I teach children and they can't understand why I say to them that I feel so sorry that they have to live so many years more before they may get a chance to go home. The majority of people live with this delusion that this would is all they will ever have; unfortunately for the majority of people who never reach the place where life in this would is ripped from their hands, they go through this life taking all they can, only to finding they can't take anything with them when they reach the end.

I'm very grateful that I can only remember the people who made sacrifices in their lives to make sure I completed my journey; the people like the truck driver who picked me up hitch hiking and shared his only sleeper with me as he slept in the drivers seat; he went out of his way to make sure I was fed daily and given a ride to the major road that lead to my fathers house.

There was only one time in my entire life that a Christian picked me up while hitch-hiking and began to sweat when I told him I never met a Christian in my life who ever helped me along the highways and back roads of the world. Every Christian I ever met was quick to quote some Bible verse, thump their thick leather bound dash board Bible and say to me, "Yep, God's Word is the only sure way to go." then open the door of his car and drop me off in the middle of nowhere saying, "God bless you and keep you warm." Well God did bless me and keep me warm but no thanks to any church grown Christians. Yes,. I did attend church in Korea where Confucian beliefs made for a more real experience of Christian family love, but my arrival in the United States was a shock to find the church here is the once a week "hymn sandwich" where you take a few hymns and a thick slice of sermon the layer it with a few more hymns, season it with an obviously seen tithe all sang in the most blasphemous way to the song "I Surrender All."

Yes my meeting with western Christianity was replete with finding out that a pastor's daughter commit suicide and a week later the church carrying on as if nothing had happened. If the church is suppose to be any hope for life in the west, then there is no doubt that the west has no hope at all. The only reliable hope I have ever found is in the above image where the Sun is always there shining His light for all to see and the only true church I have found in the west is the reflection of the Sun in my friend from Bible School in Canada.

If your looking to find out the reality of God, I would highly recommend that you don't go looking in some church because so far the only people I have found who go there have a religion they will try and get you converted to but they don't have a relationship with the One they claim to believe in.

For me to find out the truth about the Son of Man it took a long time of carousing, fooling with drugs and having organized crime come to enlist my help in their efforts to purify cocaine. There is nothing like being at the end of a gun carried by people who see other people as means to perpetuate evil to make you fall to your knees. Yep, way back when I was 25 years old my Father found me asking for help and He gave it instantly and my life as a drug producer changed over night to that of a high school educator.

There is no doubt that the Sun of Righteousness is real, it's just that all these buildings that claim to be churches have no clue as to what God wants when it comes to gathering His family together. So here I stand at the top of the hill where the winds of heaven blow. After all this time and all the miles and all the tears, sweat and pain, I can say I have one friend in Canada who reflects the Son very well; he's my friend and younger brother who forded the icy rivers of Alaska with me twenty years ago. I thank God for him for he has been the one and only person to remember our meeting so many years ago.

 

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Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.--MATT. vi. 32.

 

 

All as God wills, who wisely heeds
To give or to withhold;
And knoweth more of all my needs
Than all my prayers have told.

J. G. WHITTIER.v

 

 

 

Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of Thee; Thou only knowest what I need; Thou lovest me better than I know how to love myself. O Father! give to Thy child that which he himself knows not how to ask. I dare not ask either for crosses or consolations; I simply present myself before Thee; I open my heart to Thee. Behold my needs which I know not myself; see, and do according to Thy tender mercy. Smite, or heal; depress me, or raise me up; I adore all Thy purposes without knowing them; I am silent; I offer myself in sacrifice; I yield myself to Thee; I would have no other desire than to accomplish Thy will. Teach me to pray; pray Thyself in me.

François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelo

 

 

 

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