America's Choice in 2012

When our founders designed the three branches of government it was patterned after the three legged stool. Three legged stools do not not require a perfectly flat surface to be stable. With the addition of a fourth branch of government, e.g. the media, we now have the same requirement as the four legged stool, a perfectly flat surface, for stability to be achieved. The problem is that there is no

perfectly flat surface in nature. The current system will, by design, never be stable. The irony is that this is exactly what the new "fourth branch of government" needs to self sustain. This, my fellow Americans, is a systemic problem that is not solvable without system redesign, or in this case restoration. We can define the 2012 choice as: Democrats - Redesign as a Progressive Model; Republicans - Restore to Original Founders Model.

What did God Mean?

The verb “be” is the most important verb in any language. It is almost always the first verb that we learn. All that study language recall the joy of conjugation. We all are challenged when we have to learn the proper conjugation of verbs and their placement in sentences.

Just as a reminder, in English a partial conjugation of the verb “be” is:

Present			Perfect
I am you are she is we are they are			I have been you have been she has been we have been they have been
Past			Pluperfect
I was you were she was we were they were			I had been you had been she had been we had been they had been
Future			Future perfect
I will be you will be she will be we will be they will be			I will have been you will have been she will have been we will have been they will have been

I am amazed at how many of us in today’s world do not understand or use verbs properly. Ironically the verb “be” is one of the most frequently misused. E.g. I bees your friend… I is been… I been there…

When God spoke to Moses from the burning bush we were given the most fundamental piece of information about His nature. When Moses asked, “Who should I say the You are?” God answered, “I Am that I Am” (Exodus 3:14) If we take the literal meaning of what is recorded “I Am” would simply say that God is “all”. Moses had to use the answer to deal with the most important challenge of his time, that of competing gods and a lack of acceptance of a single God. Even today we spend a tremendous amount of energy understanding the dynamics of Moses’ problem and ultimately loose site of the “I Am “ answer.

In the context of “I Am” God is not a part of the universe; instead, the universe is a manifestation of being; albeit “I Am that I Am”. Most of us are comfortable with defining God as infinite even though none of us are able to define exactly what that terms means. Science is still struggling with the concepts supporting the “Big Bang Theory”, the edge of the universe, dark matter, what existed before the Big Bang, concepts of time, questions of time being real and propositions that time may be an illusion, etc.

As infinity is not measurable in time, the only verb tense that can apply in the context of an infinite God is the present.

Our past is not undoable thus is our history. I have heard it said that the Bible is a record of the history of God’s revelation of himself to man. Our future is dependent on what we do in the present. Yes, we do live in the moment of now. Therefore “I Am” is God, You are God, She is God, We are God, They are God.

Jesus taught us that God’s Grace forgives the past but demands proper action in the present. The present is our only power. Jesus demonstrated the criteria for dealing with the “present”. Love, humility, acceptance, forgiveness, trust ,….. The lessons are so simple that almost no one understands them.

Remember what is recorded as some of the last words spoken by Jesus from the Cross: “Father forgive them because they do not know what they do……”. Luke 23:24. Interesting that the verse accounts for what Jesus said and then goes on to tell what the people did. Those at the foot of the very cross on the day that Jesus was crucified missed the message.

Jesus’ statement acknowledged that he understood that we (humanity) did not get it. The statement applied to all of mankind not just those at his feet who were gambling for his clothes. Then and now we are incapable of fully understanding our place in God’s infinity and/or the importance of the present.

My prayer is that the “NOW” in which I write this and the “NOW” in which you read this are a proper use of the present. We exist in a thin instantaneous place called NOW. The use of our future “NOWS” is our individual responsibility. The impact made and results achieved from our actions are always a function of the criteria used in making decisions. The fact is that making decisions is unavoidable and decisions always precede action. Deciding to do nothing is still a decision!

The key is the CRITERIA USED!

God, help us all, THANK YOU JESUS!

Thoughts of: David Mims Sr. 10 Feb 2012

Circular Logic or The Answer?

Atheists say that they do not believe in God. God defined himself to Moses as “I Am”. “I am” is one of the conjugations of the verb “To Be”. The fact that people who claim to be Atheists are here to claim to be Atheists defeats their own argument. It is like a wet spot denying the existence of water. We are all a part of God because we “are” although we are not all correct in our logic. I may not be correct but I Am!

Possibilities Vs Responsibilities Vs Choices

As we ask those age old questions, "Is there a God?", "Did God create the universe?" and "Does my life mean anything?"; it has occurred to me that one needs to keep things in perspective. God is not a part of the universe. Instead, the universe is one possibility of God. God's Grace defines the limits of our possibilities but our every decision within those limits continually changes the limits for us and everyone else.

by: David Mims Sr, 26 Sept 2011

Knowing is related to believing. Once you know you no longer need to believe.
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Time Quotes

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Saint Augustine

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
James M. Barrie

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault

You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Benjamin Disraeli

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
Henry Austin Dobson

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
Doug Larson

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
Tillie Olsen

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
Pericles

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
John B. Priestly

The Present is a Point just passed.
David Russell

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw

As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!
Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery

Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams

Nature of Infinity

As you read the following think about this question:  "If this idea of the Nature of Infinity is true, how would you explain it to a people who had no scientific understanding of anything?  How would you impart the concept of the quantum nature of reality to a people who only have knowledge of themselves and the small part of the world to which they had access?"

The Bible is the story of God revealing Himself to us, but at the level that we can understand at the time.

The Old Testament tells about The Supreme Being.  (first words: "In the beginning God....." (KJV)
The New Testament demonstrates supreme being.   (last words: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen." (KJV)

Are we ready to understand in a way that ties everything together?  

System of Simultaneity (Quantum View - in which time does not exist)

Infinity is a timeless domain that can be defined as a "System of Simultaneity." In this system time does not exist and all things are expressible as possibilities. All possible events are linked and can not exist without impact on every other possibility. In the timeless domain of infinity all possible events exists simultaneously.

System of Sequence (Our View - Our Time-Line in which Cause and Effect exist)

We exist in the "System of Sequence." We all, in our moment of now, are the expression of one event possibility. Based on the rules of cause and effect our every decision or response branches us into another possibility in the list of possible events available. In a system of sequence the order of events and decisions made to enable events are knowable and recorded as history supporting the notion of time.

So what does it mean? 

The Universe is the manifestation of the interplay of these two systems played from the perspective of us, stuck in the System of Sequence.

God is the verb To Be, The I Am, the sum of ALL in the System of Simultaneity.
We are made in the image of God because we represent one event solution from the System of Simultaneity.

Realize that everything that has happened since the beginning of time is in our System of Sequence and brings me to write this and you to read it; ONE possibility, one event.  This is your moment of NOW.  Everything that exists and has happened until now no matter where in the universe(s) is a part of this event.  How this moment impacts you will in part determine what you do next.  Every Moment of Now has the same power, action becomes history and history becomes us.

Summary

In this logic it can be said that the System of Sequence is a manifestation of the System of Simultaneity and not created by it.  In essence, God has made the possibilities and we make the decisions.

As we live our lives and eventually die we must take comfort in knowing that whatever happens, God’s plan has already succeeded.  Our contributions may not be obvious as we live our lives, but be assured that our contributions do matter. 

We must remember that Gods patience is unlimited.  In essence there are contingencies and resources in His plan to mitigate any risk that our decisions may create.  When time is unlimited all things are possible.  God already has results as He exists in the infinite. 

As we live our lives all action possibilities are known before we choose; however, the evaluation of our actual choices is knowable in the context of the quantum plan as soon as we make them.  There are no choices that we can make that will cause God’s plan to be ineffective, but there are choices that we can make that are wrong. We can and do impact each other.

At the end of our individual lives our evaluation will be based on the choices we made.  Did we appreciate the Grace and Love of God the Father, did we follow the example of God the Son, Jesus Christ and did we follow the inspiration of God the Holy Spirit? 

Someone once said: “Did you love?”

As I say in the header of this Blog:

“The space between yesterday and tomorrow, the only lever that we have!” 

As I live my day to day life the question can only be: "What am I going to do now?"  I must remember that even inaction is a decision.

By: David Connor Mims Sr. (Original written 19 September 2010 - revised 4 March 2013)