The Daily Paine

You strive for justice, you move toward the light when you can, and you shake off the darkness that clings to you from living on this fractured planet of lost dreams and sharp heartache.”
–Steven James

“No, it’s not hypocrisy to have high ideals and fail to live up to them–it’s called being human. Even saints have their imperfections and flaws. The only people who aren’t hypocrites are those whose moral are so twisted, whose consciences are so seared, that they don’t believe in any ideals higher than those they actually live out.”
–Steven James

There are a few things that seem to be forgotten, and one of them is justice. There are many who cannot perceive what justice is, as they have been given cotton-candy all of their lives. If they did wrong in school it was never their fault and in came the parents to take their side. If they can’t work and get fired it was unfair.
Whiners and creampuffs tend to never have learned that their are consequences for their actions. The same is true with the high and mighty. There are some who believe they are above the law. The decry the actions of others, but when the light comes on them they cry “foul” or “unfair”. Plenty of examples of that now in the media.
How did we get to this point? Why do we see so many murders, say in Chicago? Why is there a cry for sanctuary cities to protect the guilty and the immoral? I’m sure there are myriad answers we could give, but the basic one is the we have gone away from God’s Word and sin is not tolerated.
Ah, but what is sin? You say it to the wrong group and it’s either a hate-crime or racist. Sin is doing things contrary to what God says is right and good. It goes against the moral standards set up in His Word. It is the fallen nature that needs a Savior, whom people are rejecting. Reject the Savior, Jesus Christ, and a person is in sin.

“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.”
–Galatians 5:16 (NASB)

Coffee Percs

A fire glowed in the huge sheet metal stove, and there was a coffee pot filled with boiling coffee.”
–Louis L’Amour

Mornin’ to yuh, pard. Hope you had a good week. Goodness, two weeks into the new year already. Time does move along.
Busy weekend, have to get on the steel mount and do some travelin’. I see we have some liquid sunshine out there. I had a pleasant surprise on Friday, a former student brought a cup of coffee by for me. Some of them have figured out how to please me.
Drink up pard, I have to be a-movin’ along. Hmmm, what is it that pleases? I see that this new generation is making less than their parents and they not really concerned. I also read that if they need money they will just put it on a credit card or borrow it from their parents. Is that “baboonish”?
Say, by our next meetin’ we’ll have a new President in office. Sure have a feelin’ that it’ll be interestin’. I’m not weepin’ with the other fellow leavin’. How about that, he and the Vice-President are now medal winners. What is that big word–narcissistic? I can’t remember who said it, but when we get to heaven “God will not look at medals, but at scars.”
Well, you take care, and don’t worry, I’ll make sure I have my cinch tight.

Echoes from the Campfire

This man had a pride rising from convictions that would never let him step aside when trouble came, rising from an intense sense of honor, from a warmth and a need of warmth unseen by others.”
–Ernest Haycox (Trail Town)

“Who are those who fear the LORD?  He will show them the [trail] they should choose.”
–Psalm 25:12 (NLT)

The Daily Paine

Your ears are not yet closed to the sublime language of truth; your heart is made to feel its charms.”
–Fenelon

“What we are is God’s gift to us; what we become is our gift to God.”
–unknown

Ha, ha, ha, now it all makes sense. All of the gibberish that we now hear there is a scientific answer for it. Ha, ha, ha, I just knew it. Read below from the Associated Press.

“The barks, yacks and wa-hoos of the Guinea baboons reveal distinct human-like vowel sounds, according to the study published Wednesday in the journal Plos One by scientists from six universities in France and Alabama…
“‘Language is a key difference between humans and the rest of the natural world, but the origin of our speech remains one of the greatest mysteries of science,’ the scientists wrote.”

The “woahs” that we hear sung, is simply the song of the baboon. I used to laugh at it, but now I know it comes from the language of early man. Our language is just a modern form of baboon. But, what a minute. Is the baboon Slavic or Germanic? Is it Chinese or Bantu? Hmmm, maybe there is a baboon that speaks the ancient language of the Cheyenne or the Cossack.
This reminds me of what Paul wrote, “Claiming to be wise, they became fools [professing to be smart, they made simpletons of themselves].”(Romans 1:22 AMPC) The Phillip’s translation puts it this way, “Behind a facade of ‘wisdom’ they became just fools, fools who would exchange the glory of the eternal God for an imitation image of a mortal man, or of creatures that run or fly or crawl.” (1:22-23)
Perhaps they have been watching too many “monkey movies” (in fact, I think there is another one coming out this summer.)  Man was made in God’s image, therefore, he has dignity.  Why, oh why, do we want to digress and become a baboon?  Now I fully understand that so much of what we hear from the politicians and from the media is pure gibberish, so maybe there is some truth as to the baboon talk.  Or maybe, it is just that particular species of man that is baboonish.
Hmmm, that is a new word to add to my massive vocabulary.  I normally use terms that are no longer allowed to be used in our society:  moronic, idiotic, imbecilic now there is a new term that must surely be politically correct–baboonish.
At least there was one thing correct, “The mysteries of science.”  Science doesn’t know it all and is not absolute.  It continues to change.  To the Secular Humanist it is all they have for the answers to life.  Shame.  Why is it they do not want to believe in a Creator?  In it, they have become “fools.”