The One Thing

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 Nothing is more sacred to God than Human Life including our own lives.  I really don’t have to say much more than this.  God will forgive any other sin but this.  It is the only thing God cares about.  But Jesus said 2,000 years ago that there will be wars and rumors of war.  Warriors study wars about how battles are won or lost.  Does God include wars?  I tend to think so.  

This is why I have chosen to avoid warfare believing in Peace at all costs.  But Jesus knew something about humanity that is true today.  The world is frought with bloodshed of all kinds.  This is what causes people much like myself the most stress.  But God kept me from war.  I could have enlisted out of high school as I was only 17 during Vietnam.  The draft was on hold until the lottery that December.  In September I registered for the draft and got a college deferment.  

But the lottery had no deferments.  I had to wait until December to find out my fate.  My number was 313 out of 366’. They never drafted much beyond 250.  And when we pulled out of Vietnam in 1974 it was all over.  I decided then I could rid myself of my draft card.  My kids wished I had saved it so they could see a bit of history.  I didn’t give much thought to saving it then, but looking back it would have been a bit of history worth saving.

My thinking then as it is now that God didn’t want me in the military.  And I have lived a life of peace my entire life.  Did I have an inkling of knowledge them of what I now know?  All I can say is maybe.  I have said my life is divided in two distinct parts with the first part influencing the second part.  My experience with the Divine which I celebrated yesterday is now 31years.  The first part being darkness and the second part being Light.  

But the darkness prepared me for the Light to come.  And I have lived in the Light ever since.  I never knew what to do with the Light.  I never belonged in a church after having tried for two years.  Until I did my videos discussing this event only a very few people knew.  I feared unbelief the most.  So I was quiet.  But I had to learn how to share it.  Now that I have shared it I have become the most relaxed about it I have ever been.  

Now it’s as if I simply don’t care.  Now my Spirituality is just a natural part of me whereas before it was hidden.  But I had to learn how to share it with it with others.  Now that I have it’s just natural.  And it feels natural.  It is what defines me.  It took time and patience.  And it’s not forced as it was before.  This is how I have changed and grown.  Now I relax with my pipe not caring much about what others think.  I let my Spirit Guides work and I can simply relax about it.  Today it is my Dunhill pipe with my Balkan blend and my coffee is Stumptown Hiller Mountain.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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