STUFF & NONSENSE: From License To Excuse

Inalienable Rights
Were A Curiosity
An Unnatural Sight
Said Upon The Land To Cause
True and Lasting Blight
Which Led To The Law
That Conscience Was 
A Hook
A Claw
And Produced In Modern Men
A Pernicious Flaw
Which Caused
The Opening of The Ministry of License
Division of Excuses'
Department Of Old Saws and Seasonable  Rights
Rightly Seasoned With  Reasons for Seasons' Reasons and
Reasons for Reasons' Seasons!

With This Turn
Turn-Around Came Around
Come-Around Went Along
Went-Along Sang A Song
AND
The Clock Said
Ding Dong Too Long!

Soon and Real Soon Said That
Might and Right
Met At High Noon
And The Big Balloons Were Busting
When The Wind Was High Gusting
While Waiting For 
The Win On The Wing!

At The End Of It All  ...

License to Be Loose
Turned Into
Excuse to be Obtuse!

License to Own A Goose
Turned Into
Excuse To Play Goose Loose!

License to Boast
Turned Into
Excuse to Become Gross!

License To Fun
Turned Into
Excuse to Around Run!

License to Drink A Lil' Gin
Turned Into
Excuse To Boldly Sin!

License For Protections Under Law
Turned Into
Excuse To Explore Expand Every Human Flaw!

License To Be Nice
Turned Into
Excuse For Practicing Vice!

License To Grow Rice
Turned Into
Excuse To Breed Roman Ticks and Lice!

License To Be Funny
Turned Into
Excuse To Overfill One's Tummy!

License To Thrill
Turned Into
Excuse To Constant Kill!

License To Hold Beliefs At The Core
Turned Into
Excuse To Call Doing Right A Boring Chore!

License to Be A Snap Chatter
Turned Into
Excuse To Snipe and People Batter!

License To Open Life's Door
Turned Into
Excuse To One's Evil Inner Core Adore and Explore!

License To Respire and Perspire
Turned Into
Excuse Against One's Friends To Conspire!

License To Pray
Turned Into
Excuse To Ever Always Stray and Replay!

License To Grouse
Turned Into
Excuse To Act Like A Rabid Crab Louse!

License To Own Right Sight
Turned Into
Excuse To Extinguish Holy Light and Insight!

Until,  Finally ...

Knowing Full Well That No One Needed
A License To Know God
They All Turned Way Away
And By No-Excuse 
Went To The Fraud
Maliciously
To Play 
AND
To Pray
Believing That Lie
That God Is Pie In The Sky
That Man Is God
Who Will Not Really Truly Die
For Reincarnation Is True
That Every Man
Has Time Life X-Files Do And Redo
No Matter How Many
Life-Gaskets He Blew
For Earth Is Mother
With No Acceptance Of The Creator
And Thereby
Taking The Fight
Out of Having Sin Fought
And Taking Their  Pleasure
In Living Life To Get Caught
For Freedom - If Monied -  Is Easily Bought
When Through Partnership With Sin 
Active-Attractive Satan Is Explored Excellently 
And Valiantly Sought!

FACTS & CONCLUSION:

To Win 

By Right 

Is To Lose

Onsite Sight!

And

To Lose 

By Blight

 Is To Win 

The Life You Desire 

To Choose To Lose

After Having Acted 

Like Real and Common Refuse!

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Sweet Life Ain' No Life!

and

Easy Living Ain' Easy!

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Wrong Ain' Never Right

and

Glasses Can' Gi'e De

Blin' Man 'e Sight!

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In De Lan' O' De Legless

One Leg Does Lead!

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Butt Backward Can' Go Forward!

TRUTH: Rest In The Lord!

Sin

Death

AND
Destruction

Never Cease Their Labors

AND

Neither Does 

God's Love

Mercy

Grace 
AND

Hope!

With God's Love

We Get Grace and Mercy!

In God's Grace and Mercy

We Find Hope!

With The Blessed Hope of God in Our Hearts

We May Live In Peace
AND
Find Rest
From All The Tests
Terrors
Trials 
AND
Tribulations
That Unstintingly Assail Us!

Therefore,

REST
In The Lord

AND

Be At Peace
With - and In - God!

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Need Peace & Rest?

Wellll ...

Don't Walk Around
Holding Your Blanket-As-A-Bed 
To Your Chest!

 Go To God 
For
He's Everywhere 
Always To Be Found!

God Offers Peace and Rest
- Total And Complete -
And 
You Can Acquire Them
Cost-Less 
And 
Fee Free!

All You Need To Do
Is Make The Simple Request
And
As A Beloved Child 
Of 
The Great King
You Will 
Through Abundant Grace
And
By Infinite Mercy 
Receive 
God's Sweet Peace
And
His Blessed Rest
To Allay All Your Fears
And
Dry Up The River Of Tears!

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God IS Always Available
To Me and To YOU!

My Heart's Desire

I have No Desire 
To Be Popular!
I Have No Desire 
To Get Me Outside Of My Self!
I Have No Desire 
For A Faith That Is "Okay!"
On or Off
The What-not 
Misplaced Item
Rubbish Shelf!

I Have No Desire 
For Compromise!
I Have No Desire 
To Be One Of Anybody's Insider Group Clique Gang!
I Have No Desire
To Play At With True Christianity
AND
Thank God
I Have No Desire 
To Pretend Jesus Christ Is Not The Savior
But A Bother 
AND
A Nag!

I Desire 
To Walk As One Holy!
I Desire 
To Know The Lord  Not As My Judge But As My King!
I Desire 
To Walk The Pathway Straight and Narrow
AND
No Longer To With Satan
Go A-Prancing!

I Will Pray!
I Will Pray Without Ceasing!
I Will Sing 
To and Of My God Along This Life's Way!
I Will Heed
The Admonitions Of The Holy Spirit
AND
I Will On God's Holy Word
Each and Every Day
Feed!

By God's Great Grace

As I Live

and

Breathe

I Will Bless My God 

At All Times!!

Rejecting The Urge ...

In Jesus' Name
I Reject The Urge
To Join The Surge
To Accept Sin As The Thing
From Which There Is No Purge
AND
For Which Is Never Heard
The Funeral Dirge!

I Desire 
To Possess
The Wisdom Of The Wise
From The Sage For The Ages
Not That From The Sages of The Technicolor Pages
Whose Deceitfully Wicked Hearts 
Are Locked In "Paid For By Sin" Gilded Cages
And Who Rage Against Him
Who A Man's Heart Gauges
AND
Who Will Give Unto Each Man 
His Earned
AND
Eternal Wages!

I Do Not Choose 
To Run Around
Constantly In A Hurry
Accepting Every Sound
When The Devil's Band Doth Cause A Flurry
Ignoring The Repentance Call
AND
Ending Up As Quarry
Aboard Destruction's Well-used Lorry!

I Have No Desire 
To Be Late
To Suffer The Unrepentant Sinners' Fate
To Be Shut Out Of Heaven's Gate
Having No One But 
My Sinful Self To Berate!

I Desire 
To Attend The King's Banquet
Wearing A Righteous Man's  Robe
Not A Sinner's Blanket
Thankful To The King 
Whose Sacrifice Provided It
AND
The Holy Spirit Who Guided My Way 
On The Path To Claiming It!

Serving God: The God Of All

I Serve A God
Who Has Eyes That See
Everything - Good or Bad -
That Every Single Human Being
That Has Been Or
Ever Will Be On This Planet
Has Done 
Or Will Ever Do.

I Serve A God
Who Has Ears
Not Just For Decoration
But To Hear
And Does Hear The Loudest Wail
Or The Softest Call
Of Any One Who Chooses
To Call Him Lord
Or Wants To Know If He Is God
Or Needs To Know That He Is Near
Of Just To Utter His Name
To Cast Away Very Human Doubts and Fears.

I Serve A God
Who Has Real Hands
To Soothe The Weary
Or Even Sorrowing 
Or Even Worried Brow
To Shield From Destruction
To Shepherd His Children On The Way
To Beckon The Seekers
To Hold His Own Safe ... and Secure From Spiritual Harm!

I Serve A God
With Living, Feeling, Full-Body Blooded Feet
Which Same Feet Walked The Lonesome Road
Walked Amongst The Sick and Suffering
The Hopeless and The Helpless
The Hungry and Self-Satisfied
The Seeking and The Sorrowful
The Angry and The Hateful
The Betrayed and The Betraying
The Heaven-bound and The Hellbent
Climbed Mount Calvary
Were Nailed To The Cross
Walked Out Of The Cold Grave
Stood On The Cloud On The Way To Heaven
Which Will Stand On The Cloud On The Way Back To Earth
To Claim And Carry All His Children Home
Which Feet Also Hold The Perpetual Marks
Of The Sacrifice For My Shame
Which Feet I Will See With My Own Eyes
And Be Able To Touch
Because The Very God That I Serve
Is Not A Plaster Saint
A Paper Dragon
Nor A Comic Folly!

I Serve The God
Who Cries
Who Is Hurt
Who Helps
Who Heals
With Whom Is Hope
AND
Who To All Humans Never Fails To Appeal.

I Serve The God 
Of All Graces
My Hope For Glory
The Servant King
The True Shepherd
AND
My Way Home!

I Serve The God 
With The Beating Heart
Who Is Touched By My Griefs
AND
Who Came To Earth 
AND
Was Tempted As I Often Am
BUT
Never Sinned
So As To Serve As My Example 
On How I May Live A Victorious Life.

I Serve The God 
Who Loves Me
Who Created Me
Who Desires A Relationship With Me
And Adopted Me
For His Own Child
And Made Me An Heir
To The Heavenly Realm.

I Serve The God 
Who Lets His Holy Spirit
Abide In Me
To Comfort Me
To Teach Me
To Chide Me
To Keep Me 
In The Right and Holy Way.

I Serve 

The Holy

Eternal

All-Seeing

All-Knowing

Ever-Present

In Whom Is All

The Beginning

The Ending

Can't Be Usurped

Nor Back-Raised

Unrelinquishing

Living God!

The Lamp!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: Mark Marked, Remarked!

MAN
Born Marked!
Born Marked For Destruction
Living A Destructive Life!
Born Marked For Destruction!
Who Will Help Cause The Mortal Soul 
To Survive and To Thrive?

JESUS CHRIST
Born Marked!
Born Marked For Destruction!
Living The Life - Yet Without Sin!
Born Marked For Destruction!
Destroyed For Me And You!
Destroyed?!
Yes! Destroyed!
And Right On Cue!

Fully God And Fully Man
Teaching The Holy Way
Tempted But Never Sinned
Sacrificed For The Willing Sheep Flock
AND
Even For The Stubborn Goat Herd
Even Though They Refuse
To Let Him Be Heard!

The Willing Sacrifice
Got What He Did Not Deserve
To Spare All Sinners 
That Thing They Truly Do Deserve!

But ... He Is Right Now, Alive!!

Even Though Mortal Man
Is Born Marked For Death
ONCE
By His Acceptance Of 
The Sacrifice For Sin
He Negates
The Mark "Marked For Destruction!"
TWICE

BUT ...

All Who Choose
For Their Own Sin To Pay
Rejecting The Sacrifice
Of Him
Who Once For All
Did For Sin Pay
Have A Fixed Appointment
On That Soon Coming Day
When Once Dead
Will Be Twice Dead 
Completely Destroyed, and
Sin 
Forever Burned Away!

AND ...

The Believing
One-time Marked For Death
BUT
Rewarded By The Life
With Eternal Life
Will Live 
Free
Immortal
Glorified
Blessed
AND
Beloved
With Their Savior
Who Absolved Redeemed Them
- Because of Enduring Faith -
From
Destruction's Unquenchable Consuming Fire!

Each Man 

Chooses

His Own Destination:

Hell

and

Its Unquenchable Fire

Or

Heaven

and

Its Glorious Attire!

Just Remember ...

There Is No Second Second Chance

AND

There Is No 

1,000 Years Of Peace On Earth

and then

Evil-Life Re-Do!

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God's Unquenchable Fire

No Hand Can Put Out

AND

All Who Enter There

Will Be Consumed

Until They Burn Out!

THE END OF THE STORY!

I Choose Jesus Christ

FOR

Crying Foul!

Why Do Humans Always Cry:
"Fowl! Foul!"
When Their Goose Gets Picked?

Mother,  Your Daughter Cutting Class!

Not True!
She Left Home For School On Time!
She's A Good Girl!

Mother,  Your Son Ain't Acting Right 
And He's Doing Some Things That Will Get Him In Trouble!
Right Now He In A Street Fight!

Not My Son!
He's A Good Boy! 
He Don't Never Even Raise His Voice In The House!

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Daughter?

Where You Get All These Expensive Clothes From?!

Aren't They Lovely, Mum?!  
Mary-Beth's Dad Took Us Shopping!

Three Months Later ...

Daughter?!
How You Get Pregnant When You Ain't Got No Boyfriend?!

Well, Ahmmm
Welllll, You See ...
Muuum, Mary-Beth, uhh, Jane's Father ...!

My Son!
Not My Son!
How He Get Dead?!

Sis, He Hung Himself!

My Son?!
Dead?!?!
How?!

Ma'am, He Held Up A Liquor Store 
And The Security Guard Shot Him Dead!

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Suicidal Homicidal Children
Looking For Parental Love
Parents In Denial
Looking For Their Own Happiness
And, Sometimes
Even For A Lil' Grub!

Mother's In Denial
Father's Tempting Fate
Children Are Emotionally
Physically Hungry
And Are Loose
Outside Safety's Locked Gate

The Children Never Hear: "No!"
The Parents Always Say: "Yes!"
So Now
There's Nothing To Save The Children
Not Even Bullet Proof Vests!

AND,  Then ...

Why Me?
Why My Child?
Why Did It Have To Happen To Them!?!

Now Daddy 
Now Mommy, Too
Want To Lie Down And Die
For Having Neglected Duty
For Abrogating Responsibility
Preferring Private Personal "Me Time!"
To Parenting Responsibly!

Children Are A Blessing
A Gift From The Holy God

BUT ...

BUT ... Satan
Lying Satan
Perpetrator Of Innumerable Frauds
Has Convinced All ...  And Sundry
That "To Thine Own Self Be True!"
Means Responsibility Is An Inconvenience
AND
"Do What Thou Wilt!"
Is The Guide For Living 
The Successful Life
The Fulfilled Life
The Life That Self Built!

BUT ...

Like All Things In This Life
Runaway Chicken Always Comes Home To Roost
And The Food That Caused Yuh Sweet Mout'
Often Burns In The Waste Coming Out!

Just As God Teaches And Chastises His Children
Who Are Not Bastards
But Are Of The Blood
We Parents Must Lead By Good Example
Correcting
Directing
Anchoring Our Children
In The Good Book Of God's Love!

Children And Parents Cannot Be Best Buds
Doing Their Own Thing Together Apart!
Parents Must Remember To
"Bend The Tree While It Is Still Supple!"
Or End Up Hollering
"Where Is Almighty God?!"
When Their Children Get Into Real Trouble!

A Self-Centered Life

  

Always Ends

 In Self-Made Disaster!