my desert

The other day amongst sushi rolls and bento boxes, a close friend and I conversed over our recent spiritual journeys or perhaps lack there of. Sitting here now it is funny to me how egocentric I can be as it relates to my own personal journey of holiness. Because surely I am alone, drudging my way through this vast wasteland of spiritual isolation wandering aimlessly as a blind man. And yet there we sat side by side, wind blown from days in the desert, our faces chaffed from being beaten by the sun and blowing sand. Our lips cracked and bleeding repelling any desire to speak. Yet not alone….not remotely alone.

Perhaps it was a shift in the gusting winds that began to change the formation of this desert I found myself in, but with each gust a dune was removed and a fellow journeyman was revealed. A hurting soul in need of counsel, a wanderer eternally lost with no compass, a warrior paralyzed with fear. Each one in search of “Living Water”.

Without questions there are vast spiritual deserts we can find ourselves in while living life. Some much more desolate and deadly than others. Some we are driven into resulting from circumstances well beyond our control. Yet in common they all are isolating, lifeless, spiritually dehydrating, PLACES OF GROWTH.

It’s all too easy to associate a feeling with our spiritual walk, much like we do with love. Yet our Lord command us to Love Him with “all of our heart, soul, and mind”. Not “Love me if and when you feel like loving me”. I believe it is our time in the desert that sifts through the baggage of emotion and roots out our commitment to Love Him, or red flags our Love of CONVENIENCE.

So I suppose my desert was one of work rather than joy. Much like my athletic career, there were many times I had no desire to practice or train, but it was the commitment to success that drove me to grind through. And so my commitment to loving Him forces me to grind through His word daily and commit to Him my struggle of joy. For He is our source of living water. Water that will bring us up out of the mire of our desert and into joyful fellowship with Him.



Rev. 7:17
For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

homosexual indoctrination of kindergartners

And were back. As you can see, I was enjoying a much needed hiatus with some very close friends. We did our best in no uncertain terms to make it clear to our buddy Al that global warming was the last thing he need be concerned about on our little expedition. I guess DUCK means different things to different people.

I found the following little gem while combing the pages of my monthly edition of the National Liberty Journal. Although aware of this issue prior I thought I would share it with you along with a short clip of my own commentary regarding it’s content:


In February, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by Christian parents who challenged a school policy wherein their children were being taught about homosexuality in their classroom and bringing home gay-themed books from school.

U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf, noting that other federal courts have protected schools’ rights to teach topics that counter parental teachings, said in his ruling, “In essence, under the Constitution public schools are entitled to teach anything that is reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens in our democracy.”

Two couples, David and Tonia Parker and Robert and Robin Wirthlin, brought the suit. The Parkers sued after their five-year-old son brought home from kindergarten a book featuring a homosexual family. The book, Who’s in a Family? was brought home in a “diversity book bag.” The Wirthlins joined the suit after a teacher read a fairy tale about two princes falling in love in their child’s second grade class.

WorldNetDaily.com reported that Judge Wolf “essentially adopted the reasoning in a brief submitted by a number of homosexual-advocacy groups, who said ‘the rights of religious freedom and parental control over the upbringing of children … would undermine teaching and learning ….’”

“The ruling goes to extraordinary lengths to legitimize and reinforce the ‘right’ (and even the duty) of schools to normalize homosexual behavior to even the youngest of children,” said MassResistance.org, a pro-traditional family Massachusetts organization. “In the ruling, Wolf makes the absurd claim that normalizing homosexuality to young children is ‘reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens in our democracy.’ According to (Judge) Wolf, this means teaching ‘diversity,’ which includes ‘differences in sexual orientation.’”

The families say they will appeal the judge’s ruling.

So, this concerns me on a couple of levels. The first being that I fear we spend far too much time consumed with politics on the federal level, when the real battle is being waged very much locally. The truth is that once social issues such as this reach the federal level, they have already infiltrated and permeated social perception through local grassroots venues, such as the education system. It has to be stopped on the local level. As a traditionalist and a matter of conviction I will always vote social conservatism over fiscal conservatism each and every time.

The second is the unconscionable effort of a judge to “normalize homosexuality” and legislating that by doing so it will aid in preparing them for becoming engaged and productive citizens in our democracy. How can this be?