Tag: politics

There is no joy in our society today. Our leaders suppress us in all that we do. The government takes all riches from the poor… and then hands back very little. Our leader takes and takes and takes like the kings of old. And our political leaders bow low to his bombast. And why is it that only one of our high religious leaders stands up and speaks out against him?

That crumb, however received, tastes good; because it does not come from the deceitful government but from the sweetness of God. God’s untainted fields of plenty. We go to our churches and mosques and synagogues. And we give thanks to God for what little we have. Because we know that what we get from God is what is true and honest; and is not the meager allowance permitted by our deceitful, vengeful, selfish, egotistic, self-praising government.

So I say to you: Joy is not made to be a crumb. Joy is something that comes from inside of us, where God lives. And that one very soft voice, coming from the only religious leader to speak out against our government, roars about the cruelty and selfishness, reminding us that God is always with us. That God always loves us.

P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others.
Love is God’s symphony, the perfect beauty!

Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99

We open our newspapers each morning to unwanted violence new every day, Sundays included. There is no peace. Somebody is shooting a gun at someone else every night in my local community every night of the week, making it difficult to show up in our world risking love, showing of truest, God-given selves to our neighbors and the world. This means it is very difficult to follow what John says: ” While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. (12:36)”
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus implored his followers to use nonviolence in their lives. Above all, Jesus preached nonviolence. Jesus was a man of nonviolence; He even cautions his male counterparts to search their own souls for their own sins before casting stones against a woman accused of sin. And in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus says, “but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. {Matt. 5:39)”
So, from one humble brother to all my brothers and sisters, be aware of the violence, but choose Love, God’s Love.

P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others.
Love is God’s symphony, the perfect beauty!
Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99

From the time we are separated from our formal education and dropped into the real world, most of us are assaulted by hordes of real demons that we’ve never faced before. These come in many forms. They are temptations that are dangling in the halls and offices in the world of business and the world of finance. In the world of intimate contact with the people we are forced to work with on a daily basis in the businesses where we are employed. And if we go out into the marketplace and the businesses that we visit on a day-to-day basis. Each person we meet is surrounded by angels and surrounded by demons. And we have to learn to recognize and discard the demons. It’s not always easy to sort the angels from the demons; the smiles and greetings are so sweet.

I know a sure way to be positive in any business or social situation or meeting; enter with a smile and be firm, showing caring love in all that you say and do. Show compassion for others. Those with demons will fall away because they can never win. Love and compassion are the only tools needed in building social and business relations. And demons cannot exist in the same rooms.

P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others.

love is God’s symphony, the perfect beauty!

Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. D.Litt.

If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99.

Lament is one of those old-fashioned words that we really don’t use anymore. But it means to feel sorrow or to feel a loss of something close to us. In times past, we might say that we lament the loss of someone dear to us and then go into a period of mourning for that loss. And people would understand what we meant and take that into account in dealing with us. For the near future, it could be that business dealings be suspended or scaled back, at least until the person is interred or when the funeral is held.

So now we don’t use lament; we just use sorrow or sadness. We don’t have the ease or closeness in relationships that a word such as lament may give us. Hell, we don’t have the variety and usage of vocabulary anymore to use words. Which is why the poet remains the one to use it.

Poets cry lament. It is the cry that is directed more towards God than it is towards man. It’s a cry that expresses the deepest wounds that only God can heal. It’s nothing that individuals can either see or heal. It’s a loss that is going to be forever felt. It is for the closeness of God so She can cover the wounds, and those left behind can heal.

As an example, we read the five letters of Lamentations in the Bible. Written by Jeremiah, these letters of loss are prayers of loss, written to God after the destruction of Jerusalem in the 6th century BC.

So I prayed to you, friends, that you have nothing to lament. And if you do, take them to speak to God. For She is the only one that can truly help you.

P.S. I love you, and I pray you love others.
Love is God’s symphony, the perfect beauty!
Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99

Earth! A mere rock hurtling through space
At a speed we know not how to measure
Though we pretend to understand how
We amass knowledge at the speed of sound
And pretend to know the why and the how
And prove to others how great we are

But alas with every turn we find change
Our paths change as quickly as our emotions
When in our sacred spaces can we pray
And remember those forgotten by others
Forgotten by ourselves in our rush for riches
May God forgive us for our egotism

May we remember that although Earth is a mere rock
It is our sacred rock upon which we were placed
And made shepherds of Your great creation
There are those deniers who protest saying it is too late
But certainly not; for You alone are eternal
And You alone will determine the future of Earth our Rock

P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others.
Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99

Life Itself Becomes the Path

I remember the times that people would tell me that it’s too bad that life sometimes gets in the way of having a good time. Is that mismanagement of time or trying to stuff too much into an otherwise productive day? Every moment of life is a dress rehearsal for true life. And our life is a play that doesn’t quite make it to Broadway. “Hamnet” we are not! (Although the book IS better than the movie).

Our blessed God, however we name Her, placed us on this rock in space to nurture it as caretakers. And we have done a terrible job! We pray to Her daily asking for forgiveness and then leave our churches and continue to destroy our planet with no remorse. We fear flushing the toilet in which we live.

But we do have one saving: “Grace.” “Love.” Love abides in God, and since God abides in us, Love thusly abides in us. This has been true since time immemorial! When we accept that God lives within us, God becomes our life and it comes down from God and embraces spirit, soul, and body, and LIFE THEN BECOMES OUR PATH.

P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others.
Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99.

I apologize if I offend people, but I am very disappointed in our political leaders and many of our religious leaders who talk a good game but live a life much different from that which they preach. Throughout the history of the United States, there has been an undercurrent of pure hatred of the other… just simmering, waiting for an evil leader to allow it to surface. We are in the midst of one of those times now.

When we stop and pray and really listen for God’s word, we hear Her words in Lamentations: “Let us test and examine our ways and return to the Lord (3:40).” Our true relationship with God asks us to love the other as ourselves, care for the forgotten by society as if they were kin, and not allow them to feel thrown away.

P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others.
Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99

I quote from Genesis 9:6, “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man.” And earlier in Genesis 1:27 , God directed man to write: “ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.  There are those in Christianity who believe that God made man to be a god. this is ludicrous; nowhere in any religious writing does man write God allowing man being a god, or even godlike. Except of course, Jesus the Nazarene, whom God did elevate to that status. And whose Godly resurrection we just celebrated.

And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (Gen1:27)

I sometimes wonder how and why God puts up with mankind. The Old and New Testaments that are used as the Christian Bible are filled with instances of mankind outright killing God! in my current version, including the Apocrypha, there are 70 stories {books} that comprise the Christian Bible. That excludes many of the relatively newly discovered Gospels found from the deserts in northern Africa or the caves in the mountains of East Asia referred to as the Dead Sea Scrolls.

So, now that we have taken the time to bless ourselves for recognizing the sacredness of the resurrection of Jesus we can return to our professions of war-making, dropping bomb on other societies, killing their people, making death count. And why, for oil of course. Money, or some other reason God didn’t  make us for. Jesus asked us to do two things: Love God and love one another, I know it may not seem like it but I must leave by saying that I love you and I love God.

Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.

If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99

We strut around with our heads held high thinking that we are the greatest thing in the world. Maybe this is because we earn the most money, drive the biggest or classiest car, or live in the most luxurious home. If we stop and think about our lives, we should realize that everything we have was in some way or other was given to us. We may have sweated to get it but in the end, it was given, not truly earned.

If you are inspired, read my latest book. Kindle eBook $3.99

We really need to celebrate the miracle of being alive and reach out to those who are suffering in our midst. We can use our voices as a force for good and use the courage to do what is right, not what is easy. May have the strength to shine a light in the darkness and not distance ourselves from ourselves. This way we will always be present for others, realizing that what we have is a gift to be shared and a blessing to have for the community of man, not just for ourselves.

Teachers get it! They commit to a lifetime of learning new teaching methods to allow their students to learn. For instance, I learned to stop talking from the front of the class as the teacher and allow the students to carry the conversation, so I wandered around the classroom. It’s amazing how much my students taught me!!! We have to rethink our modes of operation and our own importance. We might learn something.

Happy Easter

Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.