What I say to you now has never been heard before. You know me and recognize my voice. You and I are well acquainted.
The sun rises over the hills at day break and then descends out of sight just past dusk. A secluded forest beyond the distant pastureland produces night time noises of foraging in the dark. My voice is heard both nearby the church and far away. I live in crowded cities and far away in vast reaches and hidden domains. I am beside the great blue whale while gorging and stand with the hiker on a mountain peek. I nest with the eagle, osprey, and the hummingbird; I swim with the salmon, and wait in the white turned rapids with the brown bear and grizzly as they fish. My home is on the African Sahara and far out in interstellar space. I am an author, a poet, and a musician, a hunter, gardener, and inventor. I walk with the aboriginal, the fatherless child, and the widow in war torn lands. I cry tears beside the malnourished and I love the forgotten.
You are aware of my ways Donald when you listen carefully to my voice. We have walked together a while and you are right that we are friends. Today’s evil won’t endure for long. Those who commit injustice upon man will soon realize that their hour is near. Listen to the wind move through the trees. Watch the calm lake as the surface is gently disturbed. Look down into the waters depth hit by sunlight sitting in a dory under a blue sky.
You are part of a great work of art. I am the author, painter, and designer. It is I who introduced into nature the laws of this world, and I alone understand complete reality. I prepared the signs you use and I knew in advance the language you would construct. I prepared waiting for you here the discover of a vocabulary prepared long in advance of the world.
The inventions you've made, the laws you've gradually recognized and brought into usage in ever more sophisticated ways, your advancing philosophical and religious positions on morality, the ideas you dug up, that have lead to your wizening political and legal systems, the different philosophical positions you've developed that investigate the mysteries of existence, the laws of mathematics you marvel at, errorless and perfect, your scientific theories, that test evidence, look for the truth reality, calling a near perfect result a theory, why you try and know yourself, your world, how it came to be, the wonder of where life could go, both up in the eternal sky, and after death, the myths created by the worlds different cultures, your childhood and adult appreciation of story telling, all the speculations you make, your search for answers, your pursuit of truth, the religious systems you construct, the kinds of spirituality you embrace, the way you accept ideas thought to represent good, the wonder and love you have, a love at its best when that love is for everyone, the potential you have to pursue compassion, to act mercifully, with kindness, your appreciation for plays and musical performances, the reason why musical instruments were created in nature, where the design of a sailboat came from, or an airplane, or a bridge, why frogs sit in a marsh peeping in the moonlight, why bagpipes sound like they do, the reason children discover fireflies, political theories thought into existence that end human chaos, stop disordered cruelty, end irrational governance;
The phenomena, all the concepts, ideas, and discoveries in nature, came from planning, a design that has existed long before the world existed, and has not all materialized here by accident; you are somewhere in the great unknown for a reason; the reality you're part of is by design.
You are right to wonder with curiosity where the subatomic realm descends into or where the macro outer universe goes. Who has ventured beyond the gate. Who has scaled the perimeter fence and learned what lurks in the jungle. Who has named and tamed all of creation. Ask the truthteller to tell you what they think they know. When you look into a reflecting pool you see the image of your face. I have known you a long time. Soon you will join me in a garden sanctuary where your heart will finally rejoice. Your fellow travelers on this journey, the generations you have come to know, who walk the earth in the same seasons, will soon pass through the world and discover what waits on the other side also. Like most others who have made the journey they will rejoice when their hearts are finally opened to understand my peace.
When you look upon each other in the garden, by the pleasant pools, in the orchard, sitting beside the ocean shore, or exploring the infinite number of other worlds in search of answers, you will observe faces finally free from judgment and hostility. The grievances you once held toward others will no longer exist when the ways of fairness are made clear. This will make it impossible not to follow what is right. When love defines your every movement, your mind is clear, and your at peace, when God's goodness abides in you, all the guile, backbiting, hate, and hungering for revenge, gets replaced with new heavenly companions, first mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters, grandmothers, and grandfathers, then villagers, neighborhood faces, and friendly strangers.
Like any great story teller I am an artist who works like a craftsman. The time is coming when I'll be more completely known. In that hour rumors will circulate that the sky is about to be pulled back. What you'll experience looking beyond the curtain will be exceedingly good beyond anything good you know how to hope for. This joy will be accompanied by an even greater longing for understanding what is real.
I am creative by nature and so I have presented challenges in life's design. Ask the explorers, astronauts, and sailors who sailed ships into unknown seas about challenges. They heard rumors in ports they stopped in that the ocean miles from shore would drop off the face of the world. Have you read about their frightening voyages. Do you think your life is any easier. Where is here that you belong to really. What waits ahead in tomorrow, or the day after. You too are a great adventurer. Many lives have not faced the challenges you’ve endured; one day you'll receive your reward.
Do not be discouraged in this life my plan for you is a fair one. I have sent my son Jesus into the world to die on the cross for you. What is done is finished and accomplished forever for all. Try and walk in the example Jesus set. Accept what you can from ancient times and dismiss what you must. My ways are fair and in places in the scriptures different from the cruel ancient reasoning written into the Bible in the years of the Roman Empire. Those thinkers unwisely introduced terrifying claims of hell; they frightened the observant with claims of eternal punishment, warning of gnashing of teeth, and unending suffering and torment. They wrote the claims into stone, by cementing words into an accepted Bible, that could never be changed, doubted, or challenged. If a person so much as whispered that they doubted parts of the Bible's manuscript the church would quickly call the person a heretic, arrest the person, and take him/her away to be slowly and savagely tortured to death; this cruelty is not from God who loves you. They set people on fire, ripped people's bowls out of their stomach, pulled people viciously apart by ropes attached to the hands and feet. Because of these cruel threats of torture, and because people have feared God and the plagues warned about in the Bible, for two millennium many ridiculous moral commands have also been taken seriously because they are written in the Bible.
Tell them the truth that I love all my children in all places of the world. There is no burrier that will ultimately stand between me and the people I care for everywhere on this earth. There is nothing that can stop the power of my love I have for my children everywhere. There is no rigid dogmatism, ignorance, atheism, alternative religious belief, or agnostic undecidedness that will condemn humanity in this unclear world.
Take some time to second guess the claims made by the reasoning of man. He has produced a proven notorious track record of acting habitually cruel and unfair. I am no fool when it comes to knowing the thoughts you entertain. Where do you think the possibilities for your choices originate from. Different ways of thinking and seeing the world wait for your discovery in nature. No ideas, free from evil, come from outside who I am. The tribal beliefs people have developed involve many unique paths, and they say only one path can be right, while most paths must be wrong. What if its true and there is a right way, or a path that at least comes closest to that right way, why would I expect all people's loyalty, in a confusing world; why would I demand arbitrarily that humanity find such a fickle path. This ancient reasoning has developed cruelty and masqueraded as unchallengeable truth. A narrow road loses sight of a much wider highway said in ancient times to be the path most people were walking on leading to their destruction. On this crowded highway "leading supposedly to hell" walk the children I care for. Let me be clear, my heart has not abandoned anyone on the shores of this world. I am here with you. I will never leave you.
Remember my peace Donald especially when you are tempted to grow angry.
