IRONY OF LIFE

D.H. Lawrence presents one of the most profound ironies of life man can ever experience in his “The Rocking-Horse Winner.” I like to think of it as the growing up irony. Lawrence presents the seemingly backwards scenario’s of life in that the child was the mature entrepreneur and the parents were the naïve life wasters. In life, we expect the child to be the naïve passive person who accepts with whatever is handed to him while the parent is expected to take control of life and make things happen.
One would expect the parents of a child who is a minor with economic struggles to take control of their circumstances and make life better than it has become. One would expect that the parent should be the responsible one to speak faith and optimism that generates security for his or her child. One could easily accept a child to speak insecurities and question his or her future. However, in Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” we read the Irony of Life where the roles of responsibilities are reversed.
Paul’s mother is always speaking failure, fear and faithless words that generate fearful imaginations in Paul’s life. Such disparaging words from Paul’s mother caused Paul to hear voice from the house and their home life of never having enough. Such faithlessness normally causes children to become fearful neurotics wasting away in insecurities. However, with Paul, he took on the role of responsibility and overcame poverty while his parents passively surrendered to the failure of the whatever.
Paul, the seven to ten year old in Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” took upon him the role of making an income to pull the household from ruin while his parents only grew worse in economic failure. Paul appear to remain a child in insisting to ride his baby rocking horse while all along he developed a winning strategy to win the bets at the horse races from the childish saddle. Ironic, a child seated on the back of a toy takes life in his own hands and generates over a half of million dollars for his mother in a few short years, while his parents do little to nothing but complain about financial “bad luck” (Literature, DiYanni, McGraw Hill, 2002, pg. 97).
Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs explains that “Irony refers to language and situations that are inappropriate or opposite from normal expectations” (Literature, Roberts & Jacobs, Prentice Hall, Englewood, 1992, pg. 64). The irony of life seems to never hand us what we expect. If it did, I must say life would be too boring and predictable. Success and heroes would not be the aspired goal, but rather maintain the status quo. Extra ordinary people are those who define to us the true irony of life. They do the unexpected and accomplish the unbelievable. Ironic isn’t it that a child would be the responsible adult and the parent would become the whining child?

545 PEOPLE

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes? You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does. One hundred Senators, 435 Congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices -- 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party. What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.
Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red. If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ. If they do not receive Social Security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way. There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do. Those 545 people and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power. They and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees. We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

EVERY SOUL COUNTS

Since the beginning of the 90’s, the proportion of the adult population that is Non-churched has risen significantly to 32 %. That may not sound like much, but 32% of 300 million adults in America is over 95 million people. Add children of those adults in America and the total is more than 150 million human beings.
To put this statistic into perspective, the non-churched population of America would be equivalent to the 10th largest nation in the world!!!! Larger than every nation in Europe. Three times larger than the population of Canada. That would equate to over 40 states in the USA. Almost all of South America.
What is the center heartbeat of Jesus? He died on the cross for 150 million un-churched men, women, boys and girls. He died for 300 million Buddhists in the world. He died for half a billion Muslims. He died for the 6 billion men, women, boys and girls who are lost in this sin, evil, cursed, abomination filled world - who is, I might add, desperately wanting someone to love them like Jesus.
You can make a difference. You can allow Jesus to use your hands, your feet, your eyes, your arms to reach, touch and love others who have no one to love them.
Ps 142:4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

PIED PIPER

Your life, success or failure, happy or anxious, Energetic or docile, Going the right way or the Wrong way greatly depends on Who or What is Influencing you. Please hear me today: Your life will get no better than the people you hang out with. This past week, you could turn nowhere without seeing, hearing or reading about Michel Jackson. Sad,
Sad, after $100’s of Millions and this is who he is? And the corrupt media who damned him, attack him, scorn him a couple years ago, now they want to let us think they LOVE him. “O such an Icon.” They destroyed him and now they want to take credit for him. Filthy devils! Look around at what a twisted, perverted and corrupt life Hollywood, Washington DC, Paris and the rest have to offer. I would never want their $100’s Millions if I had to live that kind of life. None of them know what LOVE is. The bar songs, Rock, Country, Pop, etc. all offer so much depression. Is it any wonder “The wages of Sin is Death?” As I pondered these thoughts this past week, my personality wanted to rebuke, while my intellect wanted to teach and my passion wanted to encourage. After pondering this, my passion won out. Please, hear my heart:
Why do we blindly believe what the Masses do, say, think, act? The disciples came to Jesus and said, “The Pharisees were offended when you said that everyone is defiled by what he says & what he does. Jesus said; “Every plant that my heavenly Father doesn’t plant shall be plucked up. Let them alone, they are Blind leaders of the blind and both shall fall into the ditch” (Matt 15:12-14). Why is it cool just because everyone else is doing it? Hey, someone ask, why is getting drunk cool. Hey, someone needs to ask why pushing dope your only way out. Why can’t you push a business? Why do you believe what you see on TV? Why is it that we are told to follow the crowds only to find our lives STUCK in traffic? “Shut up and punch the clock, they say. Mary, you are not coloring in the lines. Charles, you didn’t write about the story I gave you.”
Isa 56:10-12 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, dumb dogs who cannot bark; sleeping, stuck, loving to slumber. 11 They’re selfish and teachers who don’t understand: they’re all about themselves. 12 Come they say, I’ll get wine, whiskey; we’ll get drunk and tomorrow we’ll do it all over again. STUCK
Many of us are Desiring & Dreaming one thing, but Listening & Watching another. We can’t pray for a happy marriage and hang out with people who destroyed every relationship they’ve been in. We can’t dream and hope for prosperity and listen to family bash the wealthy. We can’t wish for health while confessing your sicknesses and showing off our pill collection like it’s a badge of honor. Stop listening to the media’s mantra trying to program your mind to be against success, prosperity, health and purity. For example, they bemoan; “Is that one of those get rich schemes?” OK, let me ask, If you had a choice to work HARD for 50 years to accumulate $500,000 extra in investments, or you had a choice to work HARD for 5 years to accumulate $500,000 in investments, which would you choose? Of course we all would chose the five year choice. Isn’t it corrupt that the media and government will slam entrepreneurs who devise a plan, idea, system, or product that helps a person make money on their own, saying, “They are trying to scam the public.” At the same time the media and government set up a State Lottery and STILL $billions from the public. Hey, shake yourself, stop, get out of the line of the Pied Piper. He’s taking you down to the end of the road to dump you off in the river to drown.
Let me encourage you to turn off the News, become extremely selective to the shows you watch. Never watch a movie the media “Critics” praise (they’re usually perverted, twisted and evil). Yes, and turn off the stupid radio filled with some of the worse depressing, demoralizing songs any human could hear. Please hear me, make a commitment to be very selective to watch, listen to and read only the kinds of stuff that will grow you, succeed you, bless you, encourage you, make you healthier, happier and wiser. Find the people that ARE where you want to go and make friends with them. Back away from the “so called” friends who’s lives are messed up. Step back long enough and see what the parties, drugs (streets or prescription), alcohol, and promiscuity leads you too. On the other hand, take a good look at the passionate business minded, entrepreneurs, philanthropist, missions minded people are doing and see how their lives have turned out and go there. Stop, look around at the traffic jam you maybe in and make a choice today to GET OUT OF THE TRAFFIC JAM.

Get Rich Quick Scheme

Have you ever heard or have said, "Oh, is that one of those Get Rich Quick Schemes?" Of course you have. Let me ask you, did you make that quote up? No? Where did you get that? You heard someone else use it? Let me ask you, if you had a choice to work HARD for 50 years and accumulated a sum total after all your bills $750,000 - OR - work HARD for 5 years and accumulate a sum of $750,000 after bills were paid, which would you chose? WHAT, you'd chose the 5 year plan? Does that make you a "Get Rich Quick Schemer?" Of couse not. The "Get Rich Quick Scheme" saying was comprised from a corrupt shrud "Slave Traders" who wish to keep you poor, ignorant and weak. The same crooks who slander against those who chose to become wealthy fast are the one who "play the lottery." Now who is the "Get Rich Quick Schemers?"