The Profit Prophet

In Gethsemane, . . . he assembled us all, and  [Jesus] said, “Before I am delivered to them, let us sing a hymn to the Father, and so go to meet what lies before (us).” So he told us to form a circle, holding one anothers' hands, and himself stood in the middle . . . “Answer Amen to me,” [he said] and began to intone a mystical chant: “To the Universe belongs the dancer.” Amen “He who does not dance does not know what happens.” Amen “Now if you follow my dance, see yourself in Me who am speaking . . . You who dance, consider what I do, for yours is this passion of Man which I am to suffer. For you could by no means have understood what you suffer unless to you as Logos I had been sent by the Father . . . Learn how to suffer and you shall be able not to suffer.” —The Acts of John (a Gnostic document)

Here is an article by a Jewish Rabbi from Teaneck, N.J. It is far and away the most succinct and thoughtful explanation of how our nation is changing. The article appeared in The Israel National News, and is directed to Jewish readership. 70% of American Jews vote as Democrats. The Rabbi has some interesting comments in that regard. Rabbi Steven Pruzansky is the spiritual leader of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, New Jerse y. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "The most charitable way of explaining the election results of 2012 is that Americans voted for the status quo - for the incumbent President and for a divided Congress. They must enjoy gridlock, partisanship, incompetence, economic stagnation and avoidance of responsibility. And fewer people voted. But as we awake from the nightmare, it is important to eschew the facile explanations for the Romney defeat that will prevail among the chattering classes. Romney did not lose because of the effect...

St. Patrick’s Day (the patron saint of Ireland) is fast approaching, so I thought Irish humor would be appropriate for this post.  Erin Go Bragh  ________________________________________  John O'Reilly hoisted his beer and said...  "Here's to spending the rest of me life, between the legs of me wife!" That won him the top prize at the pub for the best toast of the night!  He went home and told his wife, Mary, "I won the prize for the Best toast of the night."  She said, "Aye, did ye now. And what was your toast?"  John said, "Here's to spending the rest of me life, sitting in church beside me wife." "Oh, that is very nice indeed, John!" Mary said.  The next day, Mary ran into one of John's drinking buddies on the street corner. The man chuckled leeringly and said, "John won the prize the other night at the pub with a toast about you, Mary."  She said, "Aye, he told me, and I was a bit sur...

Everybody wants to "be" happy, but do you know what it takes to be happy?  Really, happiness is not found, but discovered through a little be of effort and work.  Most of that work is on ourselves and sadly we often do not know where or how to start on getting happy.  Lucky for you  I love short lists, and lifted many of these from 30 Traits Happy People Have in Common (if you want more info)...  Here they are..Happy People... 1. Find Good in EVERY Situation 2. Create Their Own Happiness 3. Are Ambitious 4. Have Clarity in Their Wants 5. Ask the Right Questions 6. Rarely Complain 7. Do Not Procrastinate 8. Face their Fears 9. Do Not Blame Others 10. Maximize their Potential 11. Avoid Toxic People 12. Take Calculated Risks (lots of them) 13. Deal with Problems Quickly 14. Are Solution Focused 15. Take Action When Needed 16. Are Life-Long Learners 17. Have a Sense of Humility 18. Manage Their Emotions 19. Work Through Pain 20. Work and Look...

If you were born prior to our Country’s Bicentennial, you might find this quite, um illuminating and funny? When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways...yadda, yadda, yadda And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!   But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty five, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.  You've got it so easy!  I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a dang Utopia!  And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it! 1) I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet..  If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and l...