A Saint for Our Time: St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr

St. Agatha by Caravaggio

St. Agatha, one of the early Roman martyrs, lived during a time of tremendous sexual immorality. What is known of her is from the tradition of the Church. Wealthy and renowned for her beauty, many sought her in marriage, but she dedicated herself to God praying, "Jesus Christ, Lord of all, you see my heart, you know my desires. Possess all that I am. I am your sheep: make me worthy to overcome the devil."

A determined young woman, Agatha resisted the advances of a high Roman official, Quintian, who thought he could force her into an immoral relationship. When she spurned him he retaliated. As a judge, he sent her to a brothel where she refused the advances of the customers. Quintian had her tortured, her breasts cut off, and ordered her rolled in hot coals. Nevertheless, she prayed as she was dying, "Lord, my Creator, you have always protected me from the cradle; you have taken me from the love of the world and given me patience to suffer. Receive my soul."

Is Zika Just a Scam?

Zika: vicious fraud: abortions at sea: the war on women

I blogged the other day posting an article about Zika from a holistic health point of view. I knew as soon as I saw the first articles linking Zika to birth defects that Zika would be used to scare women into having abortions and the article above illustrates just how accurate that was.

Pray for women considering abortion and support your local pregnancy help center. We can offer women better options than killing their children!

Don't Put Your Trust in Men! But Do the Best You Can at Election Time.

Under Cyrus, Israel was released from the Babylonian exile.

None of us should become a despairing cynic over the pitiful state of our country, but there's no virtue in being a starry-eyed idealist either. Let's face it.

Politics stinks!
The reason it stinks is that it involves politicians. Most of them are motivated by greed, human respect, and lust for power; and almost all put pragmatism above principle. So I wasn't surprised when an acquaintance sent me these two articles about Ted Cruz and urged me to reconsider my support:

The Oregon Standoff and Its Connection to the Clintons...

Maybe This Is a Lot Bigger than People Think.

Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation

Even the New York Times got into the act reporting on it. Was Bill's $500,000 payoff for a Moscow speech all about brokering the deal to get uranium for the Russians? Read more here.

Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

You've Heard about the Zika Virus - Right?

Well, how much is hype and how much is legit? I have no idea, but here's an interesting article (below) that I read today and, guess what? We have the genetic engineers involved again. Are we seeing the law of unintended consequences at work?  Don't forget to take responsibility for your own health with common sense actions: healthy diet, no smoking, limited alcohol, Vitamin D, and a big dose of prayer and meditation which will help you to de-stress and remember that God is in control. If man would stop trying to play God we would all be much better off!

The Zika Virus 

Where are the Safe Zones for Christian Kids?

Let's raise our grandchildren to love Jesus on the cross!

Gay-Straight Clubs are NOT SAFE for Me!

"Woe to them who call evil good and good evil." [Isaiah 5:20]

We hear a lot about tolerance today: tolerance for homosexuals and lesbians pretending to be married and playing house, tolerance for couples who fornicate freely and kill their babies, tolerance for every kind of sexual deviancy, tolerance for those who shove their sins in our faces and demand we approve them, etc. But there's one group that cannot be tolerated and must be shamed into changing their beliefs or gagged into utter silence:

The Feast of the Presentation: A Celebration of the Elderly

If there were a feast day for old folks, I'd say it's today, the feast of the Presentation. Who do we find at the temple praying and waiting for the Messiah? Two elderly Jews who go to the temple night and day.

The Holy Spirit promised the old man Simeon that he would not die without seeing the salvation of Israel. And when Mary and Joseph bring the child in fulfillment of the law, Simeon is there, called by the Holy Spirit, and he takes the child in his arms and says to Mary, "Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted -- and you yourself a sword will pierce -- so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."

More on LaVoy Finicum: Was this Why the Feds Wanted to Prevent the Meeting?

Resistance to the federal landgrab was growing. As Finicum describes in this video, they were educating people about the unconstitutional land grabs by the feds. Seems a reasonable motive for the feds to want to keep the ringleaders away from the meeting.



The article below incorrectly puts the sheriff at the scene of the roadblock, but, as the comment explains, he was at the meeting as an observer. Apparently he did not arrange the community meeting but was participating until he got the news about the killing when he left to go to the scene.

Was the Killing of LaVoy Finicum an Assassination?

It isn't over as this release from Reuters indicates:

Family Alleges Cover-Up of Finicum's Killing

#WhiteLivesMatter: Eyewitness to Murder - More on the LaVoy Finicum Assassination

LaVoy Finicum and Victoria Sharps

If the eyewitnesses are telling the truth, Finicum's death was a cold-blooded murder! It's a miracle more of the protesters weren't killed.

Eyewitness Shawna Cox says that at the first roadblock the agents began firing. Victoria Sharp, 18, who was going to sing at the meeting was not arrested and she confirms what happened at the first stop. No wonder the protesters fled! At the second roadblock, Finicum got out calling out that they had women in the car. Clearly, the men had no expectation of the treachery in store for them and Finicum was trying to protect the women.

Meet the Real Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger Desanitized

This is an excellent article by Donald DeMarco on the woman who birthed the abortion holocaust.  I suspect her drug addiction to a near comatose state in the last years of her life was an attempt to cover up a guilt-ridden conscience. Happy people don't need alcohol and drugs to get through the day.  Her life reminds me of Christopher Marlowe's play, The Tragic History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus. Faust sells his soul to the devil for a very poor return and, after resisting opportunities for salvation, is carted off to hell in the end. Pray that this sad, selfish, murderous woman repented before she died and avoided the same fate. 

There's a saying that virtue is its own reward. One could just as easily say sin is its own punishment. The history of the life and death of Margaret Sanger, who had so many talents and could have done such great things is, like Dr. Faustus, a tragedy.