God sends a letter to Mike Pence - and uses an Idiot Savant to write it.

Dear Mister Pence:

Here is our letter to you, this year.  The Year I was elected I wrote you an article, which became wildly successful.

I kind of hope you read it - but it is not flattering.   It is however, not your truth, but the Truth.

Happy Birthday (mine)  ...  Today is my birthday Mike!  Happy Birthday to ME!

So Happy Birthday Mister Vice President !!  Since I care not nor have the ability to remember the day you slid out of your Mom's body like a slug from an empty container of nuts,  I decided to share mine with you!!  Happy Birthday!!!


I have a present for you Mike! It came to the wrong house (laughing)  It is addressed to you... so This please stop by in person to pick it up.  Don't worry, I've lifted the restraining order that blocks you from getting within 50 feet of me or my house..

So I'm holding at the carton, and the return address says "God in Heaven"   LOL

 Mike Pence, you can't be so evil and believe in heaven or hell, can you?

 And you are such a bad liar!  Your actions make it obvious you don't believe anything but money   Not many people and power. are you claim to understand - and you are limited enough in your knowledge you call it "God" and thinks it has gender.

Mister Vice President, It is not possible to be that stupid, but it is possible to be that wrong.  You are not stupid.  What does that make you?  WRIONG!

I am not wrong.

Here is your letter, Happy Birthday Mike.  Please know this - I me us John Hubertz  I like and respect you as a person - and admire your path, but Sir, you are not a sane person.  Not if you truly believe the things you say out loud.

To quote the Bard, It "takes one to know one." Ex-Governor Pence. 

God Talking to Mike Pence

So here is our letter from God - thanks for trying but you have the wrong job sir.

I talked about you to God!  He knows who you are...  So I said this to God when you were elected.  "If he becomes President, we are in more trouble than you led me to believe."  "Thank you for letting me help you keep him from achieving his stated goal, to spread hatred in the name of truth, and violence in the name of peace." 

"God replied, As you are aware John, that is your current quest - and I will help if I can."

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Clinically Insane writer and theologian writes Mike Pence a "letter from God."

2018 New Hope essay contest winner by John Hubertz,
Zehr Professor of Multicultural Studies and Theology
New Hope Peace Academy (Worldwide).

"God Speaks" - A Message of Hope and Change to the World

AFTERWORD:  Context and study materials for this lesson.

Join us:  Three slots still unfilled for fall Semester at the free New Hope University and Peace Academy (non denominational)

Socialism vs Freedom, Good Government vs Greed

Lately people are pointing at Iran and Cuba, Venezuela and the failed Soviet Union and using them as excuses to fight back against unions, against socialist/government control of key industries, and against human rights.

Let us take the most glaring example - Venezuela, who under Chavez repatriated corporate assets and tore their economy free from control by the international banking community.  Then, as most often happens, they were attacked both from within and from afar.  

These attacks were financed and controlled by the wealthy elite who dominate the world - a world that has suffered for 1700 years under predatory capitalism, a world where 5% of human beings "own" 95% of everything that exists.

Venezuela is thus an example of human greed at work, not socialism or the lack thereof.

There is also the evidence (for example, Cuba and Iran) that any country so BOLD as to take back their agricultural land and their oil wells from the wealthy elite (now in the guise of multinational corporations) will be sytematically destroyed economically and if necessarily bombed into dust.

Predatory capitalism is not individualism - it is the opposite of that.  However, individualism/libertarianism and the American Flag are often the disguise worn by the elite to justify continuation of what has been at least 1700 years of human suffering.  

5% of people own 95% of everything that exists.  This is a fact, and it is simply wrong.  It is both immoral and abusive to all the rest of us, who they set against each other like dogs in a kennel to fight over their scraps.

Millionaires are not the problem - nor is human ownership and control of assets....   Greed, unrestrained, animalistic, legally sanctioned predatory greed is and always will be THE issue.

Like many academics and writers, my continued work and study in the field of economics and culture have led me to embrace and engage actively in a strong commitment to "moral philosophy" - a perspective on economic theory and culture that requires firm choices regarding human rights, community interest and most importantly, the ethical constructs of compassion frequently referred to as "right and wrong". 

I'd love your thoughts on what you call individualism or libertarianism in the context of morality and healthy communities and cultures.

I respect that my voice echoes here in the United States - as our media and our leaders are very effective in demonizing and making fools of anyone so perverted or insane as to think "sharing" is both a good idea and the core of good government and human rights.  

If you are a person who thinks it is perfectly OK for our nation to use force to starve other countries and steal their resources, I am sad for you.  

Right is right, and wrong is wrong.  America and indeed most developed countries quite literally encourage the wealthy to build castles on the graves of the poor.

Unions - A Necessary Evil

Unions:  Are they Necessary?  Are they Evil?

In a short answer, yes - they are very necessary, and No, they are not inherently evil. 

What is evil is the near-universal human greed that expresses itself in everything from selfish hoarding to overpopulation, in gluttony and in rich countries with homeless problems.

You see, Unions must exist to counter the near-unbreakable power and corruption of employer over employee.  Since most large firms are now soulless, immortal, unseeing uncaring beasts called corporations, Unions had to rise up to protect the working person.

If a "boss" was bad, mistreated his employees, starved his worker's families, denied care after injury, people could simply stop working for him and choose elsewhere.  No more is this possible.

Non-Union Corporations often,  like Wal-Mart,  harvest the lives of their poor employees like bacteria consume flesh - always devouring, never ceasing, never giving the poor employee even a shred of a chance of thriving under the oppression of "rules" and "policies" and profit motives.

The average Wal-Mart store employee makes less than $10 per hour - and in February 2018 the three children of Sam Wall pocketed over 12 billion dollars.  The president of Wal-Mart makes 22 million dollars a year, and here in Fort Wayne we are working with a young man, 20 years old, who can't pay his apartment or his car note because Wal-Mart piss tested him - on his $8.60 per hour job, while he was working...  cleaning bathrooms.

Evil, faceless, soulless, immortal corporations - vs the working man.

Unions give the worker a fighting chance.  Are they evil?  No - not automatically.  Can they be evil, work with organized crime, and be predatory toward the market and the employer?  Well...  yes!

If a country buys tanks and guns and bombs for defense, they can be used wrongly.  That is what unions are.  They are the weapons necessary to defend the weak and the helpless against these slathering beast corporations and the anonymous wealthy who pull the strings.

A Conversation With A Young Man - April 20, 2018

Originally I was going to do as I usually do, which is "make a mess, clean it up".  I write and type like the wind - and I once met a man named E.B. White.  Yes, it was "that" E.B.White, the author of Stuart Little, and Charlotte's web - and countless other stories and books.

The one thing he told me, when I with a group of other young award winning youth met the famous writer, was that phrase.  "Forget writers block - just make a mess, and clean it up."  "Write every day if you can."  "The difference between writers and everyone else, is that writers write."

E.B. White, also told me when I met him as a young writer, that he had learned his craft from a man named McGuffey, a famous citizen of Ohio and professor from Miami of Ohio.

This shaped my life, as when I was offered the opportunity to study at Miami, I accepted without hesitation.

Miami of Ohio - the oldest school West of the Allegheny mountains, Miami of Ohio at Oxford - near the Ohio river, and Cincinnati.  He always claimed he learned to write from a man long-dead when I came along, 

EB wrote "Charlotte's Web", and like most real books, it contained truths embedded in simple words - terrible, real truths about life, about human greed, deliberate ignorance and injustice.  

From the moment I met Mr. White, I knew I would write - and speak, and words would be life.  Thus, this short story.

So as usual, I let the words flow to my young friend Rainer Shea - a 17 year old man, a very mature man, a man of power and incredible influence, who in our opinion here at New Hope is destined for either a Nobel Peace Prize or a bullet....

I described my yesterday to Rainer Shea - and then as I so frequently do, prepared to condense and edit, and craft a well-rounded document using the skills I've gained in a lifetime of writing on the topics of peace, equality, human greed and institutionalized injustice.

And then - I stopped.

I thought.

I listened to my heart - and remembered I wasn't just talking to the wind, I had written these words to Rainer Shea.

So here you go - screenshots, warts and all.

"A Conversation With a Young Man"

Discussion. The Divinity of Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna and the Buddha

It is important to embrace that at no time did Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna, Confucius or any other of the noted "Saviors" of early history claim that belief in them, and them alone, made a man or woman worthy of the love of God.  Historically, none of these men (and there are women) ever demanded "fealty of worship" which is the groveling, the kneeling and the elevation of them above any other person.

Each said specifically - I am of the same flesh as you, and if you follow my path, you can do miracles also.


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Gandhi walks alone to the sea to make salt, and is joined by 1 million people.

TWhen we began the walk of faith that became first a family charity, and then gradually evolved into the New Hope Anabaptist Faith and the New Hope School, it began when I met a small cluster of nuns while I was helping maintain a Catholic Church that was scheduled for demolition, but was still being used for a poor Hispanic congregation in downtown Fort Wayne.

At the time I was deeply troubled, quite insane - and riddled with addiction and the kind of self-hatred and doubt that walks hand in hand with Doctor Phil "Tough Love" philosophies and America's cruel and sadistic "War on Drugs".

But, I am my Father's son, a Catholic then, now and always - and I am good with tools. On days when I was not knee deep in my own crepulence and problems, I would visit that beautiful church, and fix things.

Sister Rita approached me after mass, a towering person - one of the most intimidating people I've ever known (yet she is tiny ). In her soft voice she asked if I could fix a record player at the nun house a few blocks away.

I was not aware that moment would change the arc of my existence - and begin to restore my hope, and my ability to walk among people without shame or fear.

Two years later my friend Mike Benedict and I were beginning Right Hand Enterprises (Helping People Help Each Other), and I was sweating

o ask for help honestly honors both self and God, and it feeds the world - for to ask for and receive help provides the giver with the fruit of human kindness - a spiritual banquet

When we began the walk of faith that became first a family charity, and then gradually evolved into the New Hope Anabaptist Faith and the New Hope School, it began when I met a small cluster of nuns while I was helping maintain a Catholic Church that was scheduled for demolition, but was still being used for a poor Hispanic congregation in downtown Fort Wayne.

At the time I was deeply troubled, quite insane - and riddled with addiction and the kind of self-hatred and doubt that walks hand in hand with Doctor Phil "Tough Love" philosophies and America's cruel and sadistic "War on Drugs".

But, I am my Father's son, a Catholic then, now and always - and I am good with tools. On days when I was not knee deep in my own crepulence and problems, I would visit that beautiful church, and fix things.

Sister Rita approached me after mass, a towering person - one of the most intimidating people I've ever known (yet she is tiny ). In her soft voice she asked if I could fix a record player at the nun house a few blocks away.

I was not aware that moment would change the arc of my existence - and begin to restore my hope, and my ability to walk among people without shame or fear.

Two years later my friend Mike Benedict and I were beginning Right Hand Enterprises (Helping People Help Each Other), and I was sweating

o ask for help honestly honors both self and God, and it feeds the world - for to ask for and receive help provides the giver with the fruit of human kindness - a spiritual banquet.

Questions for People of Faith - A Serious Discussion

These questions matter greatly to we of New Hope.

Sorry for the long post - but we need to think about these three things. In summary, we would like to learn more about your opinion on these three points of misunderstanding.  The detailed discussion topics point-by-point follow this brief contextual introduction.

1. We believe God is universal, and reaches out to all people everywhere equally - and was not selfish with his truth.

2. The 4th commandment may forbid going forth to convert.

3. The original bible has survived, and is being ignored on
purpose, perhaps to justify for-profit religions and predatory greed by the corporations and the wealthy.

Yours in Faith,

John Hubertz, Foundational Elder, 
New Hope Anabaptist and Peace Academy,
Fort Wayne (worldwide)

The discussion in detail:

1. How do you react to the concept (that we believe) that God was not selfish, and has reached out to man in all places, at all times, and indeed - continuously does so.

In other words, for a person from India or China, is it actually appropriate or even morally correct to imply belief in Jesus is required for access to God's grace and truth?

2. How do you feel about respecting the fourth commandment (honor thy father and mother) in the context of discouraging the almost universal modern Christian culture pushing of our Christian beliefs into other people's lives?  

These people of Hindu or Islamic or Buddhist or Primitive faith have perhaps thousands of years of family ties and faith traditions - traditions that at the heart are not different than our own.

We are concerned this violates the fourth commandment by failing to encourage our brethren of other cultures and faiths to "Honor their father and their mother."

Is it not true that leading someone into grievous sin is sinful?  Of course, if someone approaches us hungry for our truth, we share, but only then.

3. Why do traditional Christian faiths, including our own Anabaptist brethren (amish, old-order mennonite) consistently ignore and even argue over the Dead Sea gospels known as the Nag Hammadi?

How do you explain that people think our King James Bible, which sprang from an early Pope and Emperor Constantine's choices to assemble a "bible" and a religion/government partnership is superior to recently (1947) discovered Gospels - which are original Aramaic texts that emerged from a cave intact?

How do you explain that the original Jewish Talmud and Torah, the roots and wellspring of the faith Jesus practiced, are ignored except in heavily edited form within the traditional Christian/Catholic Biblical traditions?

If the Gospels are sacred, why was it not cause for celebration in the streets and our houses of worship when the originals were finally found, and 1700 years of "corporate" faith and government abuses of believers could be no longer justified, and thus cast aside in favor of Jesus' unaltered words and instructions?

Marriage - Gay and Otherwise in Historical Context

Marriage is an institution that originated from the concept of lineage and separated the land owning gentry from the common man. 

Then as now, 5% of people possessed 95% of all land, money and other resources. 

To assure that these possessions would never fall into the hands of the teeming masses of "lesser" humanity, marriage assured unbroken bloodlines, regardless of the fertility or lack thereof of the original families.

For 1700 years, since a Roman Pope and the Emperor Constantine formulated the church/state alliance of power and established rules of possession and deeded property, this institution has allowed predatory capitalism to allow the greedy and those of great wealth to die - leaving soulless, immortal family "corporations" that would assure the resources were lost to the rest of us for eternity.

 Robbespierre and the French Revolution, and France's ongoing commitment to protest to achieve immediate compliance by the wealthy elite are the only known successful opposition to this system.  As human rights and human liberties require a sufficiency of food, water and shelter for all people, and a lack of these cause unending conflict and profitable wars - the system of land "ownership" and denial of resources is self sustaining.  

Human greed and desire for reproductive success tap into our genetic hungers, and those who reach the top of ladder of human "success" make self justication into a fine art.

Please click HERE if you wish to learn what and why, the Hope Project exists.  "What is New Hope" (short essay)

Please click HERE if you wish to confirm that we are quite literally, a "message from God" - foretold in prophecy.

And for fun....

Clickable Link - Hilarious dog story/link, as even our DOG was X-files (new family a couple years ago, old video)

Clickable Link - What is the "Hope Project" and why. Congratulations! Peace on Earth, Goodwill (forever) to Man and Woman, Beast and Butterfly. Vamoose Mike Pence, it is over, and you are already dead, for your type shall never EVER be "born again"

"Ambition" You Can't Buy Hunger (author unknown)

AMBITION (clickable link)

While your corner is full with a boat-load of people, and a team of supporters behind you...  I'm over here in my corner, all alone.

Just listening to the echoes of my inner grind whisper.  

You might have more education over me and a degree, but you can't learn AMBITION.

You may have more money than me, but you can't buy HUNGER.

I'm not asking you to be scared of my presence, But you should perhaps be terrified

More about the New Hope project

After 500 Years of Silence, the Anabaptist Must Speak

You know us and we know you.  We are the "ordinary" Anabaptists, and we have lived and worked among you in silence for nearly 500 years.

You know and respect our Brethren in the foundations of faith, the Amish and Mennonite.  While we spring from the same root - we are vastly different in terms of our execution of Anabaptist values in both the historical and modern world.

There are similarities - similarities in spirit and faith in action.

Whether in Europe and throughout North America, we see you driving past traditional farms, watching good work on the land, the joy of lives of toil, listening to the laughter of  happy children.  

The hunger you feel for simple effort and traditional lifestyles exists, whether the farms you pass and the people you observe are of Anabaptist or other faiths.  It is the toil itself, and the traditions of effort and community that draws you to traditional life and work

Our word for what you are seeking is "Avodah".  

An Ancient Hebrew word, Avodah is Work, Life and Worship, woven together into lives that express the human experience as a divine and inspired whole. food, purchase our produce and the products of our work from our factories homes and farms.  

Frequently you vacation among our more open and visible Anabaptist brethren.

Your modern life challenges and frustration draw you to the simple ways - and your curiosity often extends to joining us at table or in commerce - and you are welcome.

We are the Anabaptist and after 500 years of silence we must now speak.  We seek neither to convince nor convert, and worry not - this is not about religion nor faith.  This is however about our shared future, and about truth.

We have answers to questions you have dared not ask.  Addiction, suicide, families divorced father from son, mother from daughter.  We watch and suffer with you as you live alone, and die in nursing homes or under bridges.

We are the ordinary Anabaptist - who have lived in your midst for centuries.

Now is the time to answer your call for help.

 

This world we share is suffering.  We fear that war is on the horizon.  Toxins choke our air and water, and the insects, the birds and the fish in the sea become scarce, and people starve.

We have answers.  We have solutions for many of the problems now plaguing the modern world.

Read on, Learn about our pattern of living - yes, we are faith based, but do not let that push you away.  Many of us in the New Hope project are Arab or Jew, Catholic or Protestant, and some are Atheist or have no opinion at all.  To you also, we extend a hand of friendship and welcome.

About us:  We are a new international movement, multi-denominational, of concerned people familiar with the Anabaptist way and the Anabaptist path.  We are thinkers and philosophers of many faiths, genders and countries all around the world.  

We started in a small way in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA about 20 years ago, but most of us are convinced our lives and our one true path has been directed to this moment, and this purpose since the day we were born.  

Some of us are of Anabaptist faiths, many are not, but we all share the same passion, the same dedication and the same commitment to try our best, to make a difference, and to share the truth with the world at large.  

Man or woman, gay or straight, believer or not - we welcome and embrace you all.  

The pain and suffering we have experienced personally and that we witness in your lives will no longer be abided in silence - and we have solutions.  

So often your doctors and psychiatrists approach us to learn why we do not suicide, why we have so few addicts and chronic alcoholics, and our families are so strong, so productive, so happy.  Perhaps we have remained silent for too long, for war clouds are looming all over the earth - but now is the time, and we are here to help.

We are the people and the international movement that is called "New Hope."  We are not a religion in any traditional sense, and like all true Anabaptist communities, we seek neither to convince nor convert.

Ours is a pattern of living, a set of rules about how to treat others, and a method to address the illnesses, the addictions, the anxieties and the fears that beset the modern world.  

The Prophecy is Now Fulfilled

Illusions, Chapter one, By Richard Bach, 1977

1.  There was a Master come unto the earth,
    born in the holy land of Indiana, raised 
    in the mystical hills east of Fort Wayne.

2.  The Master learned of this world in the 
    public schools of Indiana and he grew, 
    in his trade as a mechanic of automobiles.

3.  But the Master had learnings from other
    lands and other schools, from other lives 
    that he had lived.  He remembered these,
    and remembering became wise and strong, so
    that others saw his strength and came to him
    for counsel.

4.  He believed that he had power to help himself
    and all mankind, and as he believed so it was 
    for him, so that others saw his power and came
    to him to be healed of their troubles and their
    many diseases.

5.  The Master believed that it is well for any man 
    to think upon himself as a son of God, and as 
    he believed, so it was, and the shops and garages
    where he worked became crowded and jammed with 
    those who sought his learning and his touch, and
    the streets outside with those who longed only
    that the shadow of his passing might fall upon 
    them, and change their lives.

The Shantytown Project - Low Cost Housing with a Difference

Background:  The bottom 1/3 of American retirees live on under $1000 per month.

Standalone Home

Have you ever heard the term "rent slavery"?  It is when people are forced to pay more than 1/3 of their monthly income on housing and utilities.  By definition, it restricts their freedom and fails to provide them with safe and secure shelter, a human right.

Imagine this:  A small cluster of homes on the edge of town - each is steps away from parking and within 50 feet of a large luxurious "community center" with every modern convenience.  There are 16 small homes, some stand alone, some share a wall with neighbors.  Everybody owns their own place, there are people of all ages - some homes have toys on the porch, some have wheelchair ramps.

The cost?  $500 down and $50 per month for your house - for 15 years, then you own it.  Monthly cost for the community center and shared land?  Capped at a maximum of $200 per month.  Utility costs?  Passive heating/cooling for a few dollars a month, each house has its own solar panel for TV/phone/lighting.

Property tax - $25 per month.  

Or Attached

Fiberoptic wi-fi, cable TV with widescreens (community center), 110 electric outlets near every house for powering tools or other necessary things you might need.

Why is it necessary for New Hope to do this?

Well, because churches get special privileges under the law.  This is why the Amish and "buggy Mennonite" faiths are allowed to build their homes and workshops without the high costs and oversight of corporate-sponsored building codes that add tens of thousands of dollars to even the simplest construction project.

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The New Hope Faith is an extension of the Anabaptist tradition of separate culture, nonviolence, and living with a distinct difference from other people.

There are three "branches" of the Anabaptist faith.  Amish, Mennonite, and New Hope.  New Hope is more closely similar to old-order Amish than modern Mennonite, as we do not build large buildings to pray in, and we follow our own codes of conduct and law.

For example, with or without draft, we will not fight in war or take employment that requires carrying a weapon that might be used on others.  We are nonviolent.

We do not fully embrace modern technology, but pick and choose.  Economy, thriftiness and common sense, not traditions, define how we build buildings, and how we choose to live.

We seek to feed hungry people, comfort those hurting, and live in communities, not alone.   We tend to open our doors and share our homes - a full house is a house of life.

We believe in sharing expensive things, and not wasting money.

The two most offensive things in Modern America is the culture of the $10,000 funeral and the fact that an average house costs over $150,000.  That is ridiculous.

Houses must keep us warm and cool, they must provide shelter, they give us a place to live within our human communities.  Thus this - Our most important project - the reason we became a "licensed" church, The Shantytown project.

This name is in the honor of safe humble communities of tarpaper shacks and salvaged lumber that were a fixture in America before World War II.  Then came "zoning" and a commercial building industry and tax code that demands huge houses, on oversize lots.  This is nonsense.

Old people, poor people, hell - just PEOPLE do not require a large home.  They require a warm, comfortable home somewhere that is fun to live.  It is impossible for a person making $1000 a month to be comfortable paying $500 plus a month on housing.

That is rent slavery - even if you have a mortgage, because good housing must first and always be affordable.


We believe we can supply new, comfortable, energy-efficient housing for older and poorer people.

The bottom 1/3 of American retirees live on under $1000 per month.

As Mennonite/Amish, we qualify to build modest, off-grid housing without the expenses of building "to code".  As long as the structures are not plumbed or have wire-wall electrical, they are considered sheds, and can be built efficiently and simply.

Under $4000 per home, Three room with loft.

16 units on 3 acres, Large well-equipped central "community center" with every modern Amenity....   but in each home, bottled water and chemical toilets for nights you just don't want to walk 20 feet to the nice warm modern bathroom.

Monthly payment under $100, you own it in 15 years.

Here are some examples of similar homes/neighborhoods:

We are considering begging for funds at traffic lights.

Begging is an honorable and honest way to make a living. 

Sister Rita Musante once told me that a beggar exchanges something of great value for your dollar bill - because the person who is able to give receives a full measure of the fruit of human kindness.

It matters not what the money is needed for. 

In our case, we need money to live, and money to purchase the land for our low-cost housing project.

We also provide shelter tarpaulins and waterproof blankets to the people who live under bridges here in our city.  "Zero Tolerance" policies do not allow the town drunk to go to the mission any more.... this is a great cruelty and a great sadness.

Since addiction is essentially incurable by modern science, why would you deny the afflicted basic needs?


So - we need money, we don't gather in big groups or "pass the plate", and we believe in the rich traditions of the beggar of the streets and markets. 

That is how poor people can get money to do important things.  Ask rich people to help.

Something to Ponder - An Essay by George Carlin

Something to Ponder

an essay by George Carlin

1/2/18 - update and Note:  This essay is rather widely known, but the attribution to George Carlin is suspect at best.  It is however powerfully written, and in the Carlin style.   Thanks to reddit user jnichols5 for bringing this to my attention.  JH

This may be the last published work by George Carlin, American Author and Humorist, who is now deceased.

George Carlin died in July 2008.

Something to Ponder

by George Carlin

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life. We’ve added years to life not life to years. We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We’ve done larger things, but not better things.

We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete.

Remember to spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn’t cost a cent.

Remember, to say, ‘I love you’ to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

And always remember, life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by those moments that take our breath away.

George Carlin

Read more from the New Hope Project by clicking the link below.

Thinking Out Loud - Living With Compassion and Hope
"Always Think Out Loud" The words inside your head, the ones you do not speak, will often lead you astray. They are…saintjosephrcc.blogspot.com

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