Thursday, September 21, 2017

The Start of Healing a Nation!

As i sat with my children, tonight eating a good meal, we had plenty to drink, air conditioning, a dry bed and home, my heart was squeezed, remembering what i witnessed this very day..Thinking of those that are in attics, and houses no power, no water no food, not knowing where loved ones, friends and family were.Trapped by the very essence of life...WATER; a dear and essential friend water normally is; that had turned into an horrific foe! That which sustained life now was taking lives.. Abba help us...Those in shelters, wondering how is thier home, is my mom and dad ok?, hope Uncle Fred and Aunt June got out in time. Then the report comes in, a vehicle with 6 people slide off into the torrent waters into eternity, gone, myriads of folks with looks of intense distress ponder, as they hear the news, asking was that Bill?. The man next to me ponders, was it Nancy and the Children?..Praying it was not thier cousins, family friends, yet as we now know, it was someone’s Children, grandchildren, Aunt, Uncle, Dad, Mom, Grandpa, GrandMa..Then as we sit together we notice a tear running down each our faces, we find ourselves hurting over the same events unfolding in front of us.
We see we are working together for a common goal, save life. We see were alike only in our focus on the goal of the hour, while conversing with this man whom i have just met, i find that he is not of my religion, and i see he is not my race, neither is he as poor like me, and i'm not as wealthy as he.....Yet he weeps just like me, and he hurts just like me...He has been wondering about all those in peril and he does not know what has happened to them, just like me..He was favoring his arm and i enquired, he said as the water rose he was cut, trying to crawl out of his neighbors attic with a 18 month old in his arms. The mother had perished in the flooded waters, below. As i wipe the tears from my eyes i notice, as i hand him my handkerchief his blood running down his arm, the arm of a hero, i marveledand then it hit me, his blood is red, just like me.. While we waited for a boat in 4 foot of water, praying for a rescue, me and my new found “neighbor” we spoke about things, he wants a house, and car, and a good job and his family and himself to live in peace , and live the “American Dream”, just like me! It was then that i noticed my new found neighbor; was created in the Father’s image, IS just like me.....his memories flooded him, just as mine silently raced through my mind, as i prayed Father, Mercy..and i wept i noticed that my new neighbor was praying just like me. We pray with belief and conviction of soul for those that are trapped homeless and hurting , asking Father, Mercy............save them just like me... Many were rescued, and out of the hundreds of live feeds, i watched on my computer,, i saw, neighbor helping neighbor, not like a short time ago when i saw what hate interjected into our lives can cause, neighbor destroying neighbor, in Charlotteville. When anyone, anybody is “dehumanized” they can be easily destroyed, not unlike abortion, we have been and are being sold the LIE that that is not human life, that baby is a “fetus” a glob of flesh, and not human, so then we can destroy it now, is not human, just a clump of cells, therefore the constitution has no rule over cells..right?? All atrocities against man, and the destruction of the given life by our Creator must be shown to others as not human (DEHUMANIZED)...WHY? athen we can destroy it throw it out like trash that has NO value...I digress... When we sit, talk, fellowship, eat with our fellow, we will start to realize, he loves, he lives, he bleeds, he weeps, he laughs, he is in fact - IS JUST LIKE ME! Yah help us, especially those of the household of belief, we can only win our neighbor when we do as Father’s instructions shows us and we know Torah is Truth! Hebrew word Torah (instructions) tells us to love you our creator and love our neighbor as ourselves..HalleluYAH< i never saw any ungrateful person rescued, hours on Computer, youtube, FB live, etc praying and posting Requests for prayer, and informing of events unfolding, and warning of peril etc., most all were humbled, and the ones being rescued were humbled. Many of the ones rescuing others wept at the humbleness, and the gratitude the ones being saved. They were were showing thier “heros; PEOPLE from all over Texas and other states; just how much they appreciated and were truly grateful someone cared enough to came to thier rescue, even tho strangers. Those who wre the Heros of the day certainly knowing they themselves, could be the one next time in need, rushing into danger out of the love for others...is that not what our Father expects, and the example our Messiah walked?? as our "reasonable service"...yes i think it is.. This moment of tragedy, a Hurricane called Harvey, in time, can start a wave of love across this Nation, we can use this as a starting point of healing..Charlotteville showed us at our lowest point, showing that the same people when motivated by hate for one another will evolve into violence and pain and suffering, yet when we unify with one goal and one purpose to love our Creator With all our hearts and our neighbor as ourself, we see in HOUSTON, we can alleviate through love the horrific suffering of others....our Neighbors...not causing suffering of our Neighbor through hate..
I pray we can find a way, out of this tragedy, out of this suffering, all of us remember how to be humble and LOVE our neighbor as ourself, to put others first, to give of ourselves and to love as Messiah taught us.The GREATEST AMONG YOU WILL BE THE SERVANT, and HE being the Messiah washed thier feet in humility... To come to our senses and notice our NEIGHBOR is just like us; JUST LIKE ME! love your brother Barry

There were no statues of bronze thrown down this day, no monuments to glory of man, nor cause of hurt inflicted on humanity, all laid aside.What i saw tore down in front of my eyes this day, was prejudices, and hatred , bigotry, and every evil work of man's flesh; thrown to the flood waters under their feet, and drowned in the river of tragedy, and swept off to the sea of forgiveness, this very day in Houston, Texas; so that living water may flow from the Father's humbled servants giving a hand to those that were in desperate, dire life threatening need, what LOVE can produce when all humble themselves and put others first....There may be hope for this Nation....we shall see, for in the humbling of a NATION is where we find the Powerful words penned: If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
My prayer is that we, before it is everlastingly too late, we can see;
MY NEIGHBOR IS JUST LIKE ME!