I wonder how many people will read this when they see Angry!
I would like to believe a lot of folk would show up. But hey, I have been so depressed that death looks a whole lot brighter for me than life. That isn't right! You see, I have been reading different articles on our president, who does not deserve a capitol p. And also about what different people feel is wrong with this country. How would they fix it. And as I read, I found that I became angrier and angrier. It has to do with Wealth, and those who have not.
Wealth runs this country upon the backs of the poor. It has done it forever. Europe has done it. The English I think of right at hand, being Scots Irish as I am. But I am talking about now. Has there ever been more poverty? Are the soldiers families still getting food stamps if they depend on the soldiers money only. They did when this horrible self grandizing war started. Does Bush get food stamps? Then someone commented on the worst thing in this country is welfare fraud. Bush spends Trillions to kill people including our own young and a single mother gets three hundred maybe four to raise one child? And she is to feel shame?
The wealthy of this country send much of their money into banks without paying tax on it. It goes overseas. The interest on a trillion dollars would take care of the poor. And what about the programs to help the poor get out of poverty?
I came back to Maine after going to college, and then spending time in the trenches, on the streets in inner city areas in Massachusetts. I had a youth theatre going. Which by the way was sold out inorder for the hospital I worked for to advertise it's teen detox unit. Suddenly these kids that I had worked with for two years, who had started a new life away from their familys, were going to high school to finish, staying clean and sober, and the hospital, out of greed, used these kids, on national media, to advertise a detox unit. Look what it can do for your kids! Their faces were on the front of newspapers. A television show did a spot on them. I eventually quit.
I move back to maine thinking that I will put a riding school together for neighborhood kids and we make money teaching riding and taking trail rides with other people who could afford it. And I got used again. Only this time, I lost everything. And tonight, I looked out the window at my three beautiful horses that are left and I know I have to find homes for them. I live in a house where snakes come in. I freeze in the winter. I go hungry. In good ole usa. I am depressed, and I want to die. All I ever wanted was a little farm, beable to give what I could to those around me. Wow, big flipping dream! and a wealthy person stole that from me because they that's how they got wealthy. And they are friends with the bushes. Oh yes they are. The wife who brought me here, saying that I was the best horse trainer and instructor there is and that's why she asked me to come, told me one winter when I had no heat...In maine...while she was in her estate in Florida...that I needed to use the chainsaw and go out into the woods to get wood. These are the type of people who worked hard to get bush in the white house to stay in the white house.
And the sad thing is, is that I want to die. They don't feel guilt. When I was raising my son, alone, we took other kids in. I had friends say to me that I was barely making it myself, because I was going to college and being a welfare fraud. I don't have it in me to allow someone to live on the damn street as long as I have a roof and enough food to keep us going. If I have money and someone needs help, I share. I will never regret giving to those in need. But nightly I have bad dreams about losing everything to those who want for nothing, except maybe...a heart, a brain and some damn courage.
I ask God daily. Why is such a small dream unattainable. Why do I have to give up three precicious horses because of other's selfishness and their inability to see beyone their own wants. And it is getting worse. Tonight I am hungry. Fortunately it is summer time. I have no family here. My mother died in dec. And I am so tired. Bone weary tired. The last piece I wrote....Well, Johnston is me. I have spent too long on the back side of the tapestry. Nothing could surprise me for long.
Sometimes it is like Job, in the Bible. He was hit by every blight that came down the yellow brick road. And his friends, what did they do? Help him? No, they blamed him. He must have done something wrong to be where he was. Only bad people, or people not living the will of God get boils like that. We teach in America, that poverty is due to a lack in someone's charactor. Not that maybe someone is stealing the very life blood from those who are trusting. Job kept trying to tell them he hadn't done anything to deserve what happened. They wouldn't listen. Perhaps because that meant that suffering was not a thing a person could control. So rather than help, he was shunned. It says at the end of that story that he finally faced God with rage, and was overwhelmed with the face of God. He understood. It was also found out that the last of that story, the happily ever after was written by a different author.
Sometimes it never does get right. I watched my mother choose death. She needed oxygen to live. She had the nursing home take her off of all life support. ANd it took her almost a year to die. A YEAR! You won't see a bUsh or any other rich person having to live such indignities by themselves. I could't bring her home. I don't even have hot water, or a heating system for winter that isn't dangerous. I've had two electrical fires. And I told the owner. I even looked for a lawyer, for help to at least get the money back I spent and enough to move graciously out of here. But there is no lawyer that I could find who would go up against these people. The husband is a lawyer. He was one of the many who made sure all went swell for Bush in fla. during the elections, or rather after.
And if I die at my own hand, it will not be seen as murder, but that I had just not done 'it' right. But it is murder. The theft of a person's well being, the theft of their dreams, the sucking of their soul....none of that is seen, yet the rich do it every day. And people take their own lives every day. I know the old addage....Money cant buy you happiness. But that isn't the issue here really is it. It is power over another. The need for someone to have more than they need no matter how many people suffer and die for it. It was said to me by a friend of mine, 'A Republican feels best when he or she eats a big meal, just knowing other people can't afford it." I think that goes for wealth all around. Or even the simply, well to do. How many people give to charities, and save on their taxes but won't give money to their next door neighbor who they know.
Yes, I am angry. Perhaps turning the anger outward will help the depression. The doctors can't.
I will put photos of my horses on here tomorrow. And there is a wonderful story that goes along with my Thoroughbred Josephine. AKA Chaotic Avalanche. She has been in my life since she was a zygot. And now she is thirteen. She gets depressed when she doesn't see me for a while. I just have to not think of that right now. I still have to believe that a miracle will happen. It will won't it?
Though of course, miracles work through people. I am finding that to be sad.


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Matthew 10:40-42 "Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward: and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous: and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple--truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward." You already know that God keeps His promises. We may not always understand His ways, but He will provide for us everything we need and He will never leave us or forsake us. Rest and be comforted, God is working for you. You are loved, by God, and by many others. I may be able to only send my prayers, and hopefully this scripture for your comfort, but I pray it helps to ease the pain and anger in your heart, so it won't hurt you any longer. I pray you feel His arms holding you right now, while your Gather family is here with you online as we can be. Amen
And Yes Lisa, that does help. Prayers are powerful.
I wrote a story before this one, beware, the language is a bit tough. But the main charactor is me in so many ways. I am going to take out the wearker parts, smooth it out, and see if Johnston, who needs to find meaning in a life that continues to haunt him, will help me find my own answers.
You have my wishes and prayers that the way opens for you. Feeling stuck and powerless is no way for anyone to have to be.
I wish there was more I could do for you and your horses.
Memories ~ Grace Among Thieves
I'm trying to figure out how to word a thought without sounding trite or cliche...
forgive me if it's painfully inelegant: I think this negative situation has a gift for you in its core, and that is to propel you, even if painfully, to a place where you can and will be happier. How, is the trick of it, and perhaps that's not yet seen because events still need to unfold a little more. I think, too, that anger is not only natural at being treated shabbily, but valid and sometimes necessary to be that energy that moves us, mentally or physically, down our path, at times.
I'm off to send you a connection request now, I don't want to lose you in this sea of people nor to miss any of Johnston's adventures should you publish more. ;)
You are blessed and highly favored! I don't want to hear of you doing anything rash, ok? Please promise me? Who else will turn in 10+ articles to ReTales?
When there you at at the very bottom there is no where else to go, but up
When I have felt like you have, (and I have) I put my eyes on God, why?
Because He is the only unfailing uplifting promise we have. If we place our eyes on humanity we will take that knife and slit the wrists, no doubt about it.
That is why we CANNOT look at man, because the promise cannot come through man, but through a God that promises to NEVER fail us.
You were so correct in your assessment of Job.
God allowed Job his time of sorrow, but I want you to focus on one thing -- there is a difference between you and Job. (Did you read the article I wrote, "Unlimited Power") This statement will make more sense then.
Job said,
"For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me."
-- Job3:25
See, PeggyAnn, words will get you into trouble every time. Chapter 3 of Job. Chapter 3
I do not believe you were saying those kinds of things, but Job was, and that is the difference between you and he.
Anger? Jesus got angry. Sometimes anger is righteous. He wanted to whip the hell out of the money changers when they were committing unscrupulous acts in the temple. That whip/scourge he put together was no joke. It was meant to slash the flesh right off your bones. I think you have every right to be angry PeggyAnn.
You are a strong, woman, PeggyAnn. You are a fighter. You have spirit. You have determination. You have tenacity. You have love. Oh, but you have love.
We have talked, outside of these threads -- nobody's business, but I know you have love. A person like you is a champion, and when there seems to be no way, well, oh yes there is a way.
The people that you mentioned in your article have no wealth -- not true wealth, PeggyAnn; THEY ARE THE DEAD ONES. They are so empty inside. If you could see their true insides you would see nothing, absolutely nothing. They are zombies, walking, dead, and all they are doing is walking around -- mindless, empty, megalomaniacs, waiting for someone to throw them in a coffin 10, 20, 30, maybe 40 years from now, but PeggyAnn, they are already dead.
But you, you and I, what we have? It's priceless. What you gave those children? What you give your horses? How do you put a price on that? How in the world do you put a price on YOU? The fact that you even feel, something that those idiotic megalomaniacs CANNOT do, cannot even conceive of, let's you know just how ALIVE (I wish I could underscore that) you really are). This thread is already long enough, forgive me, but I would like to share just one more with you, what Jesus had to say about the megalomaniacs -- the idiots! Their day is coming. I want a center, front row seat.
But, you, PeggyAnn, you don't give in. You are the victor, not them. You stay strong, even when you don't feel like it, ESPECIALLY when you don't feel like it. Am I just spouting off. No. I have been there.
Nalita.
Read, and consider. Then tell me, if Jesus wasn't also talking about those of our day who hurt, use and abuse people:
1Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:
2"The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.
3 So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
4 They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
5"Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries[a] wide and the tassels on their garments long;
6 they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues;
7 they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them 'Rabbi.'
8"But you are not to be called 'Rabbi,' for you have only one Master and you are all brothers.
9 And do not call anyone on earth 'father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. 10Nor are you to be called 'teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ.
11 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
15"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
16"Woe to you, blind guides! You say, 'If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.'
17 You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?
18 You also say, 'If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.'
19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
20 Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.
21 And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it.
22 And he who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it.
23"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
25"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
27"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
29"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
30 And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
32 Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!
33"You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.
35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36 I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation.
37"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
38 Look, your house is left to you desolate.
39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord."
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Santa Maria, Santa Teresa, Santa Anna, Santa Susannah
Santa Cecilia, Santa Copelia, Santa Domenica, Mary Angelica
Frater Achad, Frater Pietro, Julianus, Petronilla
Santa, Santos, Miroslaw, Vladimir
and all the rest
a man is placed upon the steps, a baby cries
and high above the church bells start to ring
and as the heaviness the body oh the heaviness settles in
somewhere you can hear a mother sing
then it's one foot then the other as you step out onto the road
how much weight? how much weight?
then it's how long? and how far?
and how many times before it's too late?
calling all angels
calling all angels
walk me through this one
don't leave me alone
calling all angels
calling all angels
we're cryin' and we're hurtin'
and we're not sure how this goes...
and every day you gaze upon the sunset
with such love and intensity
it's almost...it's almost as if
if you could only crack the code
then you'd finally understand what this all means
but if you could...do you think you would
trade in all the pain and suffering?
ah, but then you'd miss
the beauty of the light upon this earth
and the sweetness of the leaving
calling all angels
calling all angels
walk me through this one
don't leave me alone
callin' all angels
callin' all angels
we're tryin'
we're hopin'
we're hurtin'
we're lovin'
we're cryin'
we're callin'
'cause we're not sure how this goes