Back Again

Had to change providers, because I ended my on line experience with the phone company and now have my internet on my notebook computer again.  Without all that telephone expense, I decided I could budget in some internet and basic cable TV.  So, I now get my EWTN and Daystar on my TV, and I can get the rest of it on line, with the option to run my computer, on my TV, by moving the modem, so I can watch all my TV, on the big screen.

I don't use wireless connections, because they tend to get interfered with, in this neighborhood, by the free wireless, offered by the condo association and their wireless isn't good enough to run free TV off of.  I'd be hogging it big time, if I did that.

Listening to some wonderful native american flute playing, at the installation service of a new North Dakota Bishop.  He's already a Bishop and is greeting well wishers right now.  Native drums were playing earlier. They played something to honor the new Bishop.  It was a rare treat for me.  I enjoyed  this programming very much.

TV won't be restricted to Daystar now.  I can see all my favorites on TBN's many networks and several others that offer streaming Television live and/or on demand.  Love the price, at this point.  Hope it stays down.

My journey will be greatly aided, now that I can get Catholic TV, EWTN and many audio stations for Catholics, along with all the many and varied Christian offerings.  There are some ministries I thoroughly enjoy, because of their Biblical soundness.  That's the standard I use to decide whether I view a ministry's offerings or not.

 A second criteria is how well they play with others.  That means I care whether they are bashing on other denominations or traditions or not, and it doesn't matter to me which denomination or religion they bash. Recently, I've had great grace given to me and guidance in that those things that were theologically unhealthy for me were clearly revealed.  I praise God for that.

Christianity is a pretty much all the same and all theologically sound, with the exception of those sects and cults that see others as lost, simply because they don't agree with every theological tenet of their particular interpretation of  parts of the Bible.  If they aren't reading all of it, and aren't considering all of it, in their interpretations, I have a problem with that. If I hear anything that can not be verified as historical of theological fact, I move on, and hope to have the grace to do so more immediately and obediently than I have in the past.

I am seriously concerned for any persons, considering themselves Christian, who are not with a major, orthodox, denomination.  Anyone who is not, is best cautioned not to drink the Kool Aid.  And, while I believe we should make every effort to understand and be kind to others of different traditions and religions, including Islamic, Bhuddist, and Hindu, we are not supposed to be practicing those other traditions and relgions as part of our Christian faith.

Jesus told us clearly, that He is the only way to the Father.  We need to take God at His Word.  As for Mary, I honor her and seek her intercession, along with that of the saints, but she is not an object of worship in the Catholic Church anymore than in any other Christian Church.  She deserves the honor of a Queen Mother, as Jesus is King, after all, and she is His mother, and ours.

My assumption is never that any soul is bound for Hell, but I am aware of those things that the Bible teaches are a path to that destruction.  We don't as Catholics consider a soul lost, because that person is not Catholic.  We don't presume to judge, because judgement is God's alone, and we are by our humaness, not qualified to judge another human being, not even Judas Iscariot, according to one priest I heard recently.

Since God has yet to vacate the judgement seat and put out a notice that He needs someone more wise and all knowing that Himself, to judge mankind as a whole or individually, I am hereby resigning from my own judgement seat, and, along with obedience issues I still have to work on, going to work on not looking down my nose in judgement of others.

That doesn't mean that I will spend my time watching amoral sources of entertainment and filling my head, heart and soul full of trash.  What goes in, after all, is what will come out.

He guides me well.  My fasts have been long and strict and have actually slowed my weight loss and diabetic control, but they have been well worth it and I feel greatly blessed in Wisdom and Understanding and His Grace.

I am on my way Home.  Home is still where my heart is.