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Christ is the “C” Word

More and more, our world is split into the secular and the spiritual. We are asked by employers, friends, government and other general segments to keep our spirituality separate from their realm, as if there are domains that God has no business in. What a disgrace it would be to accept their propositions. Just because I walk through their storefront door, I am expected to leave behind, my God and Creator, my Savior, the Spirit that lives in me? I don’t think so.

I can’t practice my faith as I work? No one’s been able to stop it yet. Yes there is darkness and evil prowling the streets, and lurking in corporate boardrooms and executive suites, but the Light of the World will not be darkened.

Christmas is not a holiday season. It is a celebration of the birth and a homage to, the manifestation through Jesus the Christ, of God’s love for humanity; all of us, great and small, and everywhere in between. John 3:17 states, "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."

I will be busy a great deal of the remainder of the year, as will most readers. I don’t know when I will post here again. But, from beneath the Carolina moon, I wish for you all a joyful, Christ filled and centered Christmas.

Dread

Beauty is a "B" word

Beauty advertising has been around for a long time, promising potions, powders, and paints that will make and keep a person beautiful. Those ads and products are designed for one thing only; to make their manufacturers a profit. Those ads are about money, not beauty. It’s all a slight of hand trick. If the product does indeed help paint a picture of beauty on the purchaser, they will buy more thinking they are creating beauty. How gullible we humans are.

Last night and this morning, has been a full moon. Yes, the loonies have a head start on the day. I awoke at 4:00 AM myself. Of course I went back to sleep for almost two more hours. I’m not saying that I’m not a bit touched, and I’m not saying that I am. I’m just saying that the influence of the moon is at a peak. So, beware. At its fullness, both the influence and beauty of the moon are well known. The moon is a natural occurring beauty, and even then has evidently some negative effects. All the more cautious we should be of fake beauty.

In our society the body becomes a canvas on which to paint a picture of beauty. But that is all it is, a picture painted on, a flexible mask; like a framed picture, only a representation of real beauty. There seems to be much to do in our world about creating beauty and maintaining it. But, beauty that is only skin deep always fails. In the end it cracks, fades, washes away, or simply is gradually swept away a grain at the time by the winds of time.

The old adage that true beauty comes from within is true. Fake, thin, painted on beauty only lasts for the moment, and is truly only a mask over reality. A person’s true nature will show through at any age. True beauty created out of the love carried in one’s soul radiates to those who are receptive to it. It’s not in the least ironic that those who radiate that beauty from within that is love, are also the most receptive too it, and recognize and appreciate it, while others rush about clamoring over the latest layer of painted skin.

Of course the moon itself last night was beautiful. I noticed it as I went by to see the divine Miss N, who herself is a radiant beauty. She has that beauty that fired by love, radiates from within her soul. To find and experience such beauty and fortune right here beneath the Carolina moon is, well, beautiful; simply beautiful. God has blessed me richly to love and be loved in such a beautiful place, by such beauty, in so many beautiful ways, that I know I am a part of a greater beauty. We all are when we open ourselves to it. And, you don’t necessarily have to be beneath the Carolina moon.

Posted by Dread who taking Mr. Og’s advice, greets this day with love in my heart.

April is an "A" word

Every day someone passes that was widely known, that is famous, but not really a great person. Every day many others pass that were little known beyond a close circle, but they were really neat people. Those people should be acknowledged, and their lives celebrated. Such a person was Raymond Kane McLain.

I had never heard of him until about a week ago when I stumbled on his picture while searching Google for something totally unrelated. He had an interesting face, so I clicked on it. It turns out, he was an interesting man who led an interesting life, and left the world a better place for his having passed this way. That kind of person, and that kind of life, deserve mention.

I invite you to have a brief look at the life of Raymond Kane McLain, and find joy that there are people like him in this world. It’s a bit odd I suppose that the man had been dead for over three years before I even became aware that he existed, and now I pay homage to his life on my blog. April was the month of his birth. And that’s today’s post from beneath the Carolina moon.
Posted by Dread who finally just made time to get this posted.