SOMETIMES I CHECK OUT THE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN COMMUNITIES WHERE I ONCE LIVED. I noticed one of my Aunt Juanita and Uncle Will's houses was for sale. Aunt Juanita hosted a bridal shower for me 49 years ago in this house. Curious as to what the house looks like these days. The magic of the internet allowed me to take a peek.
As I looked at the interior pictures of the house, it looked nothing like it did 49 years ago. I remember feeling so special that day sitting in her lovely living room for the Bridal Shower where my Mom, my Grandma, Aunts and Cousins gathered to honor me with Wedding Gifts to start HOMEMAKING and HOUSEKEEPING.
I received a roasting pan, a cookbook, a green flowered tablecloth, I can't remember everything, but I was a HAPPY BRIDE. Oh to turn back the clock for a few seconds and soak in their faces and hear their voices once again. Just to be there for a few minutes to refresh my memory would have been up lifting. I think I would have thought, they all look so young. Look how beautiful they are.
The room now is in very sad repair. All the work this couple did was completely undone. TIME had done a number on this once lovely HOME.
Aunt Juanita would have cried. She always decorated her HOMES in a very well kept manner. Color coordinated and neat as a pen.
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I shouldn't stay stuck on this for very long as time has a way of undoing what we once did to remodeling a house.
The Jenks, Oklahoma house we overhauled isn't even there now. A DAY CARE FACILITY BUILDING stands where the once very junky rental was.
I can see every room in my mind as if we were still living there. It was demolished. Completely gone and the terrible LANDLORD had died.
I viewed on the computer the Liberal, Kansas Ranch Style house that was for sale that we lived in back in the late 80s as someone completely went overboard in dark grays and whites throughout the entire house.
Properties completely exchange hands and the new owners have every right to decorate the way they see fit. And do.
I sometimes roam the streets of my childhood town as if I were actually there via internet. I can see the houses, the businesses, the churches, etc. The people are gone.
Like a vapor we are gone. Make this day count for the KINGDOM of GOD, for our families and friends. As I recover from surgery, I continue to think deep thoughts about what I need to do and it is becoming way easier to think about getting rid of unnecessary clutter. There's not going to be a struggle to declutter. I can. I have gotten rid of much already, but still much can be done away with.
During the co vid lock down, I watched and continue to watch videos on how to declutter, how to organize, living in tiny houses, decorating, hacks, cooking, health issues, some political, not so much religious videos as I have detoxed from the word of faith movement years ago. What I have discovered about human nature is that we can be fooled. If even the elect. The elect can still be easily fooled and persuaded to go down the wrong path thinking it's the right path. How easily one can be misled and deceived. With the political stuff, I still see the ease that's there to easily follow a political personality that mesmerizes their victims. A self hypnoses takes place in the political realm and the religious realm. How a person stands, what they are wearing, hand signals, certain words that are spoken, subject matters discussed can all lead to a type of mind control. Sounds kind of out there doesn't it?
It wasn't until recently that I came to an understanding that some peeps use techniques to hypnotize others into doing their harmful deeds. They actually aren't the ones doing the deed, it's their minion and when they get caught, the minion is the one that gets hung with the punishment, not the one that wanted the deed done.
Speaking for one that had their eyes opened, I can't come on too strong with others that are still drinking the Kool-ade. It's a powerful thing to be held in a trance and it takes the Holy Spirit to wake one up from it.
Buzz words can trigger a chemical reaction in the brain which affects the masses in certain ways. The dummying down of people is in the water. Now, I'm sounding weird. Before you tune out, perhaps you know what I'm talking about.
A multitude of people can be persuaded to believe a certain way if the subject matter is presented just so-so. Public relations isn't a new thing, but it still is in use. If an idea is sold to someone then they are willing to change their opinion about a matter. There are experts in the world that know exactly what buttons to push to start a change in motion.
WHAT ON EARTH am I saying? Can you be persuaded to think a certain way? As I age, I can see where I went down some wrong paths. I was persuaded to dress a certain way, eat a certain way, think a certain way, act a certain way. The way in which I was suppose to go wasn't always the way I journeyed. I have some regrets and put it at the foot of the cross. As for politics...this is a realm that has many in over their heads deceived. The politicians can be held at a position of a being a savior instead of a public servant to the people.
The media promotes this way of thinking until we are worked up into a frenzy. I cannot go along with anything they deem as being alright having no consequences as alright. It's a dangerous stance to take. Turning a blind eye to their personal crimes and proclaiming that it's alright, is burying ones head in the sand. Their wrong doing being viewed as having done nothing wrong goes against the grain of morality.
Why would good christian people think their leaders can be immoral and it won't have an affect on them? I heard many say, I'm not voting for a preacher. If that's the way you're thinking, then what are you voting for? If being immoral is deemed as alright, then you'll be affected by it in one way or another. Don't be deceived.
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