I'm listening to Ol' Waylon sing "Lonesome, On'ry & Mean" now it's "I've Always been Crazy" two of my signature tunes and I feel that way this morning. I'm on my second cup of Joe so, I'm barely civil but, they ain't nobody around. Boy gets home in a little over an hour. Anyway I got a lot to do today so, I may miss prayer time but, y'all will be conversin' with Jesus all day. Ah Son House, all is well. Delta Blues, sweet.
  1. I'm getting behind on my bike and need to catch up. One reason, 
  2. The ball of my right foot around and into my big toe is swole up, pricklin' n red started yesterday. This is the third time and worst. I'm thinking gout. If I have time the next time it attacks I will go to Urgent Care and read. 
  3. I hobbled around and got some work done but, they ain't nobody ever satisfied with what I do, boo hoo. The other biological units of Helton Familial High Tension Heavy Manufacturing Concern Inc. each have demands on Prime Biological Unit: Parental Unit-Male. So I have much to do. "He'p me Lawd"
  4. I'm gonna with a humorous delivery drop the boom and tell them how God has ordered reality within HFHTHMC Inc. and see how they react when I tell them getting my wheels back on the road is our first priority, they are being obtuse and need to get over it. That'll do, I need to get goin'.
  Blessings sent "woooosh!" Heaven Postal Service "We're infinity G !"

Happy Wednesday!

We are participating in our weekly corporate prayer time at 5pm EST. Check out the prayer request forum for some prayer topics, but feel free to lift up your own.

This week I'm mostly taking short bike rides to prayer chapels. There are plenty of things we experience in prayer that cannot and should not be shared. But there are some things that can help other souls.

Yesterday's prayer session was on the south bank of the North Canadian River at the mouth of Crutcho Creek. One of the things that came to me in that quiet time was a fresh reminder that my future mission is not based on something I know, but simply who I am. For now, what that means to me is that I remain a military man. My mission field has always been the military. It won't matter that I have very little to offer the military bureaucracy that they could use; this is who I am. I can't pretend to know how I might find myself among military people again, but for now, it's the only thing I can see as the most plausible mission field still.

Today I'll be going to another place on the river, farther upstream at a dam. There I'll start praying about all the missed opportunities. Too long I was under bondage to the idea that "evangelism" meant I had to make a sales pitch. And I remember all the times when it simply wasn't possible to do that, so I didn't try to witness at all. I bore with me the same unspeakable spiritual powers that I bear today, but I never knew it. Granted, it was all because of very bad teaching, but I still regret all those times when I could have done so much more to help people see the power of God. Instead, I frittered away those moments in distractions of the flesh. If we regret nothing, we learn nothing.

I still see the shining vision of a parallel society, something not too far different from the Brotherhood in my fictional writing. Certainly their fancy technology wasn't the point; it was their cohesion and grip on the truth of things. I envision a lore of teaching and experience that people simply cannot forget, that they share meaningfully and yet subtly by the divine power of the Spirit working through them.

Our part in this is to establish the first steps along that path. We have been marking those boundaries that separate us from the rest of the world. We have begun building the lore of what it means to live from the heart, pulling that great life back from the ruins of forgotten truth. I still have the vision of helping just a few folks in each generation to find their true identity in Christ. I want to build something that will far outlive me, but without the encumbrance of plastering my name all over it.

Egad! I watched the Notre Dame Cathedral fire feetage today and I had the same reaction to it as I did on 9/11. I worked second shift and I got to sleep in that morning because Nana and Papa had our then 9 month old son, I woke up around 11:00am and turned on the TV while I got my coffee. The FNC was showing the towers collapsing etc and I thought I was watching a movie at first and then it started to sink in. Anyway, it gave me the same surreal feeling when I saw the spire collapse and thought "mmm... ain't that symbolic of the collapse of Christianity in Western Europe over the last century" well that sums it up, my actual thunk rattled around a bit before it coalesced. I'm incapable of organized critical thinking without pen and paper or discussing it out loud with the me's. I quit Reason as a guide, it's a big fat liar pbssshw! It's okay to have the trait of being reasonable or being rational obeying God's commands that originate from Him to ones heart. Like using arithmetic. To obey an irrational, from the human viewpoint, command from God is altogether reasonable. Such statements make Reason Christians livid. I know because I used to say stuff like that on Wednesday nights knowing that it would trigger a response from one particular dude, every time. Mmm... I haven't been in a while, I  think I'll go just to raise Dwight's BP, yes definitely. He could use a good apoplexy. It may just be coincidence but, it's statistically provable that; 1919 was the beginning of the end of C in W E. Christianity is dead in Europe and it will never be back. Europe is the religion of Europe. The dominant Faith in WE is Islam. I know of one person that I went to school with who I can say is one of us in practice, although I am not sure he is aware of it. God says so. The Last Christian in Britain, now there's a BBC documentary title for ya! I can hear it in that weird English TV speak "The Lahst Christian in BRItain" emphasis on the first syllable of the lahst WIIIRD or on the last word if the lahst word has only one SYLLable.

I took this photo last night, in the local mall parking lot, after a mini-golf game with my sun. The weather varied throughout the day, from sunny to cloudy to a little rain, all of which I think helped with the color somehow--I'm not good with meteorological details.

I wanted to get a photo from one of the nearby mall exits, that sit atop of a nice hill, but there was construction and traffic there at the time. Not the greatest situations to get out of the car.

I'm watching how governments and big corporations are restricting the Net. On the one hand, so long as there are nations with governments, there will be corporations trying to influence regulation to their advantage, and full freedom of the people is not to their advantage. On the other hand, as our civilization debauches and grinds to a halt, too much freedom means there are some things we won't miss. But you should know that this problem with the global Internet splintering into multiple nationalized internets will become a propaganda excuse to call for a global government.

We have been seeking to spread our faith for a few years now in the twilight of the wide open Internet. There are a lot of things pointing to this being just a passing situation, something we were called to do as a community, but now the mission is about to change. It won't be today or tomorrow, but slowly we will be redirected in other directions. We began as just a handful of outsiders building our own religion from scratch and clinging to the fringes. I am certain that pretty soon there will be a lot more folks driven out of the mainstream system.

I believe this is what we are being honed for, as Linda put it. Insofar as folks following our blogs and this forum have been faithful to our message, they should be ready for the umbilical cord to be cut. Whatever promises and miracles God has for us all are stored up for release in the coming days, and they can seize the opportunity or they can miss out. We've done about as much as we can do for them.

So here I am at the pinnacle of all the computer and Internet stuff I've been doing, and I know it's going to fade into the background. My fleshly self hardly knows what it will do next. My heart tells me that it will work itself out. My prophetic gift tells me it's a good time to remind folks that this is now camping on our doorstep. Yes, I know that our communion here will continue for quite some time, but the nature of our work will shift because the audience will change. The context will change, too.

Saturday, all of us are riding to visit the campus of Campbell University which lies halfway between Raleigh and Fayetteville, NC. Graham will be going there in the fall. In an act of gross negligence and disobedience he "forgot " to tell me a  check engine light came on in his Toyota Highlander and his rear brakes started squeaking.  I'll forgive him because he is a young dumbass. I'm not sure the round trip distance but I'm sure it will be enough to make a relatively inexpensive brake pad change into an expensive pads and rotor change. I found out about it Wednesday but, wasn't informed about the trip until yesterday evening. I'll do a scan today. The worst part is his car is/ was the most reliable and has the fewest miles. Kids are morons when it comes to stuff like this and I've told him repeatedly to tell me immediately when anything like this happens. 
  I've had my mc chain soaking in kerosene for a week, I'm going to clean it them check for stretch and weak links, a new one is around $110 for a good one and going cheap on bikes is not a good idea so, I pray it's in spec. Everyone bitches when I buy parts for my choice of main transportation. They just don't get it. I'm waiting for a $200 check to arrive, which, you guessed it, is going on bike parts. When I pretend to be someone I'm not just to please others, an unfortunate thing, I was trained to do from birth, I'm miserable and really just can't swallow anymore. When, I act naturally it pisses off the people who thought I was the other guy. They didn't mind my misery apparently.

Weekly greetings, folks. 

We are participating in our weekly corporate prayer time at 5pm EST. Check out the prayer request forum for some prayer topics, but feel free to lift up your own.

Keep these two in your heart please.
 1. I'm still hoping to make the Congregation Show on the 13th, if I don't then the time ain't right. It was always gonna be tight. All I can do is continue to work and according to the weather forecast, one day will have the right mix off temperatures and humidity to apply a gloss clearcoat over the current satin on my gas and oil tanks. Last year, I used Satin clear and although it protected the sticker bomb, it didn't "POP" like I wanted it to. I still have a lot of work to do. 
2. I'm in a lot of pain.
 
The Hillbilly Way. 
 Hillbilly Engineering (Injuneern')
   I was taught from a young age certain principles.
1. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
2. When a thing is no longer in use, don't throw it away. Store it, at a later date the thing or it parts can be repurposed for another use.
    Example, in our old place my son's bedroom was the original master br. I made him a toilet roll stand to use and when he outgrew it, I repurposed it as a fan stand. When we cleared out the old joint, I stored it outside. It was made of pressure treated lumber so it withstood the weather. On Saturday, I took it apart (using screws makes it simple) and rebuilt it wider than original and added a 2by4 to the top. Voila! A stand to hold up the rear of my bike after I took the wheel off.
  Sunday, in spite of the pain I cleaned the rear fender so, I achieved something.
 Monday; build a front stand, take off the front wheel and start rebuilding the forks, if I have a good day I'll get the forks rebuilt. 
 Tuesday; Inspect wheels and tighten the spokes, after that take wheels and new tires to bike shop and leave them to be mounted and balanced.
  Wednesday; reassemble the bike and do a little sheet metal fabrication. 
  Thursday;  spare day because nothing ever goes according to plan there will be work to do.
  Friday ; rest and recuperate, hopefully before my long ride to the show Saturday.


Final request, I promise. I'm looking at video editing apps for Galaxy Tab A (2017), pray the Lord guide me to the right one. I've taken stills and will take more and shoot video. My idea is germinating but, I will give you what I have so far, idea wise. A YouTube video showing the build, kinda like a stop motion and video that distills the process of the build into a short section, the finished bike, a section on the ride and ending with video of the show. 
 Working title. One week build, ride to and sights of the 3rd Annual Congregation Show, Charlotte NC. That's too long. I'll figure it out.
 Thank you in advance for your prayers. Let His Glory Shine!

This bike show I'm going to is in a warehouse in one of Charlotte's high crime areas. Great, I'll make sure to tote a pistol.