Prayerful Life

We have passed these last three years amazed, and struck dumb, stunned and befuddled by everything that has happened to us; by all that was done to us. Alienated, isolated, divided and demoralized on a scale that was momentous, we were collectively struck when we weren’t looking, and knocked out before we knew what hit us. And when we got to our feet again, we found ourselves in a battle. We discovered we were at war, inexplicably, against ourselves—brothers against sisters, mothers against sons. Loved ones turned against loved ones, life-long relationships crumbling to dust, and families were set on fire. Love gave way to fear. Truth gave way to lies. Hope gave way to despair. And suspicions arose everywhere.

Distrust and mistrust grew between neighbors where previously healthy acceptance had held us together. Persuasion gave way to coercion, and power was exerted over the weak. Instead of listening and working together against a common enemy, we made each other our enemy; we fought only for ourselves, our tribe against new enemies—former friends and family members. We were thrust, or thrust ourselves, into a deep darkness of fear, and were blinded by it; flailing against one another.

We have been at war now, for three years (perhaps longer), but we are fighting against the wrong enemies. We have turned against our own flesh and blood. But we are deluded because we needn’t fight against flesh and blood; we should be fighting against subtler enemies that are the foundation of our misery. Our battle is really against the very things that have been destroying us these past few years; a virus is our enemy, not those who carry the virus. It is a physical virus and a metaphorical one as well. It is a physical pathogen and a spiritual one too; it is Covid, but it is also very truly the corrosive fear that is eating us away as a people. Division is our enemy, alienation and isolation is our enemy. Coercion and the abuse of power is our enemy. Greed and envy is our enemy. All of these are the true enemies we should have been fighting during this pandemic, and against which we should mount a new offensive now.

Stop fighting man against woman, black against white, blue against red, and vice versa…

Fight for goodness by being good, fight for unity by forgiving, fight for trust by being honest, and fight for reconciliation by your humility. Fight for the human spirit that is in every person, and for the soul that lives in each of us. We need to fight together to regain our nobility as a people, to remember that truth about ourselves—we have a nobility by virtue of being made, and we need to fight for the divinity that resides within our human nature. Fight against dehumanization, against pure materialism, against nihilism and the anti-Godliness of a wholly secular vision. Fight against the subtle powers that try to convince us that we are only beasts, simply animals, and not worth fighting for.

I am only now starting to come to my senses again, after three years of feeling shell-shocked and bewildered. The pain and horror of our collective pandemic misery is only beginning to come into focus for me. We have lost so much; there are so many casualties and so much destruction. But there is hope. We have been down, but not out. There is very much to fight for still, and to rebuild. We can rebuild the spirit of love within our families, between siblings, and re-form old friendships, rekindle love between us, between races, between political opponents. We can rebuild unity, turning away from division, rejecting coercion and saying no to alienation; we can build community in the midst of opposing ideas.

The power behind all of the evils which have beleaguered us is very real, and it won’t go away easily or without a struggle; especially now that it has enjoyed so many victories of late—we are so divided and estranged from one another. Power loves power more than people. I have been in hiding of sorts, to protect myself. I want to live in a place free from all this treachery; just hoping that it will all go away. But it appears that evil is growing and expanding. What hope is there against the fear and hatred which seems to be devouring our world? It makes me cry because I just want to live. Don’t we all just want to live; and not to be used, or abused, fooled or crushed? Power loves power, and devours mankind. But I take solace knowing Jesus Christ; because Jesus embodies all the meekness that devours power, and in Him I find peace to live, courage to face fear, and endurance to overcome hatred.

~FS

Seeking a relationship with Christ yet not finding it, is nevertheless, still far better than settling for a relationship with this world only, and thereby falling into a comfort of sorts— relating merely to what our fallen world has to offer. Our Lord may hide from us, leaving us always wishing for more, and causing us to question whether seeking Him is worth the trouble, but the alternative is worse—leaving us bereft of hope, empty of lasting meaning, and lost in a matrix of confusion and delusions.

~FS

Lord, allow me enough money to protect me from the evil intentions of men who would manipulate me by my poverty; and give me not so much money that I would lose sight of humanity in pursuit of my wealth.

Lord, I fear that I have investments which are not in the cause of good and that do not support the advancement of Godliness or righteousness on the earth. I am certain that I have invested poorly, when seen through the lens of love; even if my investment have earned high returns, in purely economic terms.

It pains me to think that I support companies who have no regard for the true needs of human beings, but are solely focused on how much wealth they can extract from every human unit.

Show me what to do with my money, so that it helps and doesn’t hurt; so that it is invested in the furtherance of your kingdom on earth, and is not invested with those who desire to be kings over the earth; I do not want to be party to their kingdom. It bothers me knowing that I am.

It is certainly better to invest not just wisely, but Godly; and to feast at the table of our Lord, rather than to dine in the palaces of the wicked. Show me the way that I can go, that is not too high and not too low. What can an average Christian, like me, best do with his money?

~FS

This is a tale of two people:

One is a young devoted nurse. Not more than one year ago she was vibrant and healthy and was great at her job. She was voted nurse of the month. Now, following two shots of Moderna and a Pfizer booster shot she is often bedridden and has so many health problems she can’t even recount them all. She is on over twenty medications. She wants you to know her story because she cares. She is still trying to help others; now by sharing her tragic story so that hopefully you and those you love can avoid a similar fate. 

The other person is an attorney general of the state of Washington named Bob Ferguson, who wants to make it a crime for me to tell you this story about this beautiful young nurse. He wants it to be a crime to tell her story because, according to him it is ‘misinformation’. Under his proposed legislation her personal story about what happened to her after taking these shots could be considered criminal because, in his mind it poses a danger to our society. But the only real danger is from those that would try to control and suppress the truth. Our attorney general is the actual danger in this story, not the afflicted nurse, nor me who want to share her story with you. 

Here is a link to the nurses story:

Here are links to Mr Ferguson’s proposed legislation, and information about it:

House Bill HB1333

https://informedchoicewa.substack.com/p/free-speech-and-conscience-rights?

How is the tragedy unfolding around the globe of ‘vaccine’ injuries and deaths, not another Holocaust, but for our own age? How is the accruing human damage and suffering from these shots being given around the world not a crime against humanity? Isn’t this a tragedy unfolding before our eyes much like the one in Germany and Poland nearly one hundred years ago? Our fellow citizens are being maimed and murdered by corporations, with complicity by our own governments, and we pretend not to notice. They told their citizens back then to ignore those trains of people riding off to the slaughter in concentration camps, just as they are telling us now that people aren’t dying from their ‘vaccine’ products; they say that these people don’t exist, they aren’t real, the pain and suffering you hear rumor of, is just a lie. And those who talk about it are liars and criminals. 

We always wondered, didn’t we, how the German and Polish people could have allowed such a Holocaust to happen to their neighbors directly in their midst? Hindsight gives us clear vision. Yet even now we can see this phenomenon with our own senses. Let’s not make the same mistake they did. Speak up and tell the truth, and don’t let them hide behind their so-called science. Theirs is only a science of profiting at the expense of human beings.  

~FS