Alzheimer's & Marty: One year Later
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IT MAKES SENSE TO ME
It seems that now, in the early 21st century, people of faith have been thrust into the Canyon of Decision. This is a place where a personal decision must be made and only two choices are available. Those choices are Good vs Evil. God is the perfection of all that is GOOD. Satan is the owner of all that is EVIL. Satan hates exponentially. He hates everything and everyone, including his own followers.
He has tried throughout the ages to convince himself that by destroying the God of Love he might find some unattainable and perverted joy. He has been wrong and knows in his deformed and blackened self that he can NEVER destroy God, his own creator. It follows that he can also NEVER feel joy or happiness of any kind. He also knows that he has no one to blame for his condition but himself. So "hate" is his thing. Nothing can "hate" like the Prince of Darkness".
All of those before us, from Adam and Eve on down, have already chosen the side they would follow. Their eternity has been established by their using their God given free will. We, the living and the ones that will live on after us, are still faced with one of the two choices. Do we choose God and His Love, or do we choose Satan and his empty, sugar coated, phony promises? We must consider that the evil wrought by Satan is more powerful than 50 Ebola---no, a thousand times a thousand Ebola viruses. It permeates the very soul of humankind and eats it away with a subtle ferocity that is hard to comprehend. He is the master of disguise hiding his evil agenda under a fake banner of virtue. So many of us fall for it.
We ask ourselves how can a "civilized" person behead a child? How can a "civilized" person invoke the name of a god who supposedly condones and approves such hatred and viciousness? This evil committed can only be demonically encouraged. Yet these are the "shock and awe" methods used to put fear into our hearts. They succeed at striking fear into many of us. Murder, rape, pillaging ,looting and genocide are part of the "shock and awe" method also.
It happened right here in America the other day. In red-state Oklahoma, a follower of all that is Evil beheaded an innocent woman just because she was an American. This was smack dab right in the middle of America's heartland. The same place where a "black mass" was held only a few days earlier. How devious, how cunning, how horrible is this enemy of Goodness.
However, there are many more subtle methods Satan uses to gather new followers. Television, movies, the Internet, social media and social networking and the music industry to name a few. These all promote promiscuity, abortion, euthanasia, ,and denigrate marriage between a man and a woman, and they celebrate the hedonistic lifestyle of self-gratification and personal pleasure, no matter what the cost or consequence. They say it is our RIGHT to pleasure ourselves. Those that say differently are branded as extremists, fanatics, racists, homophobes or advocates of 'hate'. How twisted this is.
You know what? They are dead wrong. It is NOT our right. Yet this message has grabbed hold of many and is now part of our culture. Our young have been indoctrinated into this godless mind set of pure secularism. Satan is laughing as he sees more and of God's children turning away from their faith in Him and Goodness for a world that ultimately leads to personal death and the final loss of one's soul. The war against God and Goodness is now worldwide.
We Catholic/Christians, each and every one, must be prepared to engage in this fight, not only for all of what is Good but for our own souls. Satan is after each of us. He has been successful in acquiring millions of recruits. Many fend him off and cast him away. This could be Armageddon. So love your faith, embrace it, and then fight for it. "Lip service" may no longer be enough. The reward shall be great. Ignore it and you might be lost in the bottom of the Canyon of Decision.
From the Book of Revelations:
Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who is awake, keeping his garments that he may not go naked and people see him exposed.!" And they assembled them at the place which is called in Hebrew, Armageddon. (Rev 16: 15-16
Larry Peterson, a former reinforcing Iron-Worker from NYC, is a Catholic/Christian blogger and posts commentary weekly. His work has appeared in such publications as Aleteia, Zenit from Rome, New Evangelists, Top Catholic Blogs, Big Pulpit, Catholic365.com, and others.
His first children's picture book, "Slippery Willie's Stupid, Ugly Shoes" was published in 2011. In 2012, his full-length novel, "The Priest and the Peaches" was released. His second novel, "The Demons of Abadon," was released in the spring of 2016
Larry's latest novel, "Horizon Homeless," was released in ebook format in May of 2017, and the paperback followed on July 27, 2017.
Larry belongs to the Catholic Writer's Guild, The Catholic Writer's Society, The Knights of Columbus, and the St. Vincent de Paul Society. He has been an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion for over twenty years bringing communion to the homebound and hospitalized.
You can find more at https://cradlingcatholic.com/ or larrypeterson-author.com www.slipperywillie.blogspot.com or contact Larry at petersonlarry6@gmail.com
