Right now, over the next two months The People must gather to assure the message for the midterm election is set by them not by the propaganda machine of the authoritarian administration and the Republican Party that enables it. It is NOT about “She shops in the grocery store.” I don’t know about you, but I was insulted by the shallowness of a slogan that actually simply reveals the abuses and neglect of the current administration, who developed and used it! And they have the audacity to create a slogan that makes it look like it is not all due to them!!! I think we need to add to the “Where is” statements today: Where is the discernment of the voters?

Candidates all over the nation are running on various platforms with backgrounds that range from a first candidacy to a bowed, anointed enabler with the authoritarian sticky sauce to try to shore up the crumbling empire. FEAR mongering is the primary play of this authoritarian administration and the Republican Party. This is why The People must take to the field on Offense. TRUTH dispels fear every time. There is no boogy man under the bed, no socialist or communist agenda. It is plain everyday taking back the governing of the nation by The People. The Offensive play is to detail the truth of the corruption, the abuse of the laws, the nepotism, the abandonment of foreign alliances and treaties, and the overstep of the Executive Branch and that is just to begin the conversation. Get going. Call the neighborhood together, but be sure to use facts in your detailing. Use the scholarship of Heather Cox Richardson, Paul Krugman, Timothy Snyder and other proven truth-tellers, and the reporting of Scott MacFarland to detail the truth. Do your homework, it will not take long to create a starting point of truth telling. The discussion must then revolve around the questions to investigate and how to find the truth about what we see as abuse here in our neighborhood, abuse at every level. This is the slogan of the mid-terms, truth telling revealing the abuse. Then, get this message out everywhere and drown out the propaganda.

The People are the saving grace that our Founders depended on to bring any pendulum swings in our government back to sanity. Yes, The People have shown up for ‘“No Kings” days. Then, in my experience disappeared again into absence and silence. Daily I expect to wake to an all-out nationwide strike, walkout, and protest march to rebell against all the corruption, against the collusion among the executive/ legislative/ judicial branches to turn this country into a dictatorship, and, simply, against the stupidity and corruption of our leadership. Am I missing something? Where are gatherings of The People to discuss what is really happening? Gatherings with facts from the few known rock-solid sources of truth, to figure out the root causes of this chaotic mess the last election brought to this nation and the world, and to enact a strategy to assure everyone knows the truth? Am I missing the traction that must build over the next two months to stop listening to all the anointed media, especially Truth Social, and drown out the untruthful, unsubstantiated, manipulative rhetoric that has dominated the last ten years? Where is the pride in our ability to discern shysters and circus performers? Where are our backbones to demand of other candidates what they plan to do to remedy this chaos immediately? We certainly are not using our critical thinking and networking skills to The People’s advantage.

The Democratic Party is obviously not up to the challenge and not used to being the Opposition Party. I have not seen a nationwide strategy to gather greivances and specific outrages to build a platform for this midterm election. There are, I’m sure, specific local issues, but overriding any local priorities is the elephant in the nation. We are tolerating an obviously guilty pedophile-denying bully who also is a womanizing patriarchal felon and hypocrite who is lost in the Scrooge mentality of self, self, self greed, power, and pride. Time for the offense of The People, the other branch of the Constitution, to take the field. Building a platform of grievances and shared outrage will not take long. The challenge is to get the message out and gather consensus across this great land on assuring those supporting the Trump Administration are voted OUT and those voted in are listening to THE PEOPLE.

This is not the time to compile a list of Trump actions to cancel. It is a time of building the vision of the future that, I believe, must first include incorporating all the arguments of Trump’s lawyers undermining the Constitution to write the necessary amendments to the Constitution to protect us from Trump and from all the shysters who have taken lessons from Trump. Our Founders could not anticipate the electronic tech age that allows voting machine tampering only visible years later and that creates the environment to abuse our Rights at will, nor could Our Founders anticipate the fact that the Legislative Branch cannot keep up with the technology in order to protect The People from its abuse. But, this is for the immediate consideration of the next Congress and Senate with an avalanche of input from The People.

A nationwide discussion of the root causes of the chaos and deception currently dominating our country is underway and growing. It is the necessary remedy for the disease that is epidemic in the public rhetoric today. Take the rhetoric of the last election: Abortion, transgender, and the price of eggs. Really, is that how we determine our future? Now, they are trying to make it: she shops in the grocery store. Really? When all the validity of this statement is dependent on the abuse and corruption of those writing this rhetoric. A rhetoric determined by the oligarchical men’s club that , over the past 40+ years, has systematically bought its way into political, judicial, legislative, journalistic, and public messaging dominance. Clearly, threats of judicial action against any opposing views dominates the decisions of those who decide what is said, written, or illustrated in what used to be reliable and highly respected publications and broadcasts. Time for The People on Offense to take the field. There can be no more absence or silence. And the Offense determines the messaging not those trying to distract with clamoring, chaotic noise or to fill the electorate with a nothingness that will not lead to legal actions.

The People have noticed and polls reflect dissatisfaction with this administration which is creating the administration’s fear of investigation and, potentially, of impeachment. Now, get ready for their next assault; we have already seen it over and over again. Propaganda 101 will again spread lies, fake news, distractions of all kinds, including a war, to keep The People from the Offensive. The administration and the Republican Party will try to fill the airspace with emptiness and nothingness; all to try and prevent The People’s Offensive of truth.

Time to ignore the distractions and propaganda and focus on the truth and spreading the slogan of the midterms: Vote for change and Stop this authoritarian coup.

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“If we must erect an independent government in America, a republic will produce strength, hardiness, activity, courage, fortitude, and enterprise. But there is so much rascality, so much venality and corruption, so much avarice and ambition, such a rage for profit and commerce among all ranks and degrees of men, even in America, that I sometimes doubt whether there is public virtue enough to support a republic.”

- John Adams

The Ken Burns series, The American Revolution, currently running on PBS highlights this quote in Episode 2. John Adams has not been a favorite Founder of many and has often been referred to as more conservative and an opponent of Thomas Jefferson. As we hopefully soon move into repair of this current attempt to dismantle our Constitution, we will all be digging deeper into the debate that surrounded the creation and approval of our Constitution. At this juncture it is instructive to remember an evil within a society is systemic and vilifying individuals may be necessary for justice, but is not near adequate to address the root of the decay that reveals the evil.

“…I sometimes doubt whether there is public virtue enough to support a republic” is a sentiment we can all repeat today. Browsing further quotes by John Adams brings into focus the need for families to instill the virtue, for schools to teach ethics as well as the three R’s, for society to maintain abhorrence toward the moral decay that reveals the growth and success of the evil within a society, and for each individual to pursue knowledge and to think for themselves. All these attributes were thought relevant and necessary in my childhood and in my parenthood. Are they still relevant today? Are they visible to our children lost in the screens of social media, video games, and the ever present fantasy world of pursuing “likes” on their posts? Seriously, the threat is real when put in such stark terms.

Can we continue to ignore the fact, also evident in John Adams quotes, that America was founded on Christian principles and is dependent on these virtues being predominant? Yes, there is separation of church and state. Yes, the definition of what is a church has been stretched while the teachings of Jesus have been abandoned by what we today call the “Christian” Right. The quotation marks are to alert us that this is not Christian. We have to acknowledge there is an assumption made by Our Founders that is no longer true enough to support a republic.

This erosion of Christianity has now become self-evident and many believers no longer call themselves Christians due to the current erroneous connotation of the term. While the dismantling of our Constitution is happening, it is compounded by what I would describe as the Church finally reaching a corner it can no longer maneuver out of. As we hopefully soon dig out from the rubble of this coup, the Church and State must remain separate. But the repair of each will be necessary for success in maintaining a semblance of what Our Founders envisioned for this experiment. My earlier posts begin to describe the radicalization and wildness of the Eccelsia currently staying close to God and abiding God’s commands and the Holy Spirit’s guidance.

Many are documenting the abuse and the dismantling of the Constitution. This substack feed is full of raging discontent and of repeated shock at events. But the shift to actions to correct by removing the coup and to repair the Constitution enough to support a republic is emerging. It is time to dust off Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” and replace references to King George with references to this administration. It is time to study the debate among Our Founders to understand the principles upon which this republic is founded. It is time to debate the factors that have led to this coup and to draft the proposals for repair to the Constitution to repair these factors. This is not the Constitutional Convention being proposed by the Heritage Foundation and the ulta-right of this nation to bake the coup into our government. This is stepping up to the responsibility Our Founders, and all those through the last 250 years who fought so successfully to maintain their experiment, handed us to have public virtue enough to support a republic.

There is no leader emerging with the vision to confront the coup, let alone to lead this effort of correction. The Lord is asking us to contemplate our belief and how it dovetails into this sacred task to repair this experiment Our Founders created. Each Founder had a healthy fear of God and knew enough to keep God and Church out of the halls of government. Each Founder was governed by their conscience and right now in preparation we each must re-establish a Godly conscience first. Then, we may be prepared with public virtue enough to support a republic so we may study and gain the knowledge each of Our Founders had in order to repair our republic and continue the experiment in a form Our Founders would recognize and in a form we can be proud to hand off to the next generations.

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When we presume to know what we actually do not know our conversation is severely hampered and finding the truth of the matter is highly unlikely. For example, we talk about politics, but many do not know what politics means. What is a political system? What is our form of government? How does it work? Many people give their opinion, but very few know what they are talking about.

We watched over these past few months as people gave their opinion on events that happened during the day without knowing the details of what actually happened. This is neither wisdom nor knowledge. It is propaganda. With no patience to await the facts, opinion was given to begin the spin and ultimately to influence the final reckoning of the event to assure it is understood as the opinion stated. Facts are sometimes later publicized, but no one is listening. To finish the job, those with a position of authority who had more facts and stated or wrote something disagreeing with the opinion are then intimidated or told to correct the facts, so the opinion stands as ‘“truth.” The propaganda must become the established “facts” and “final reckoning.” We are becoming very familiar with propaganda and are in dire danger of it becoming normalized. Propaganda is a word not used near enough these days.

If we cannot accept “I don’t know.” as an answer and await further details to determine what we know, it keeps us from finding out what actually is the truth. Even asking the questions of what happened too soon becomes a barrier to the truth. With no facts to go on, our assumptions and ideas take over and anyone with a dogmatic position or agenda takes over. Their propaganda becomes the spin on the event. It is already hard enough to put all our ideas and assumptions aside to hear something new. Admitting that we don’t know what we don’t know, allows us to stay engaged in conversation with others seeking to know. Honest seeking without dogmatic positions and agendas has become extremely rare today. The hatred and divisiveness of dogmatic bullying has closed down conversation and investigation. Not to mention what all the unresolved and uninvestigated conspiracy theories close down. Truth seeking and truth telling present too much risk to those whose primary goal is authority and power. Truth seeking and truth telling simply cannot be controlled. Do you see how free speech and free press become barriers to propaganda and a fascist regime?

The Alaska earthquake in 1964 was my first memory of a level of the devastation that frightened due to its suddenness out of nowhere. The world shifted with the weight of the possibility of random destruction. Security became less certain and a feeling of vulnerability became real. The political, social, religious, and cultural devastations we have experienced over the last eight months bring the same feelings. Daily didactic pronouncements leave us with no room for conversation, no stimulation from digging out the facts around events. No truth seeking and no truth telling leaves us vulnerable, without security, and the weight of this destruction is getting very heavy. Propaganda actually tries to dull us, but what it actually does is leave us with the additional feeling of being used. Has your disgust gotten great enough yet? Mine has.

“How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.” Lamentations 1:1

“Disaster follows disaster; the whole land lies in ruins. In an instant my tents are destroyed, my shelter in a moment. How long must I see the battle standard and hear the sound of the trumpet? My people are fools; they do not know Me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.” Jeremiah 4: 20-22

Perhaps we need to start with humility and learning to admit “I don’t know.” Perhaps the tools of the propaganda being fed to us need to be ignored. What tools? Corporate news, actually entertainment, services; regime loud mouths; predictable spin on daily events; the dominating presence of the regime. Using the experiences of our lives to interpret these tools we gain wisdom and allow ourselves to wait for the investigation into the truth to emerge. Emerge from where if we are ignoring the propaganda tools? From the independent news services growing outside society’s devastation. Find them. This platform is one. When facts emerge from reliable, non-propaganda, sources, knowledge begins to grow. It is growing and the ability to ignore the chaos grows with it. Let the propaganda starve.

Take a breath and give the scriptures above some serious thought. Many discount the Bible. Others abuse it for their own self-serving purposes. In actuality the Bible is a welcome addition to describe our current situation with a welcome perspective to the devastation. This has all happened before. God is saying share these scriptures to expose the exile currently being experienced by the US. Exile from God, from international friends, and, most surprising, from about half of its citizens. Tested to the maximum in this continuing shaking and chaos requires our most solid foundation in faith in God. Not the God of the Church without Jesus, see my last post.

My disgust with the focus of this chaotic culture is growing as what is obviously propaganda continues to occupy everyone. The amazement and pure shock of how depraved our culture is has simply worn off and the time for purity and truth is here. Analyzing the latest ridiculous statements or actions of a depraved culture no longer peaks my interest and I am ready to move on into wholesomeness. I pray you are disgusted enough to join me in conversation and in investigation toward truth seeking and truth telling. Join me in ignoring the tools of propaganda that surround us. If not, the Lord is saying if you are not disgusted enough yet, I will continue to reveal deeper level of depravity and neglect so that you may become fully aware of the need for the shaking required to purify this culture.

Do join me primarily in the spiritual realm listening to God for our next assignment. Amen.

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The Lord filled me with disgust and outrage for all the people who are turning a blind eye to the treatment of those “who are the least of us.” People who consider themselves Christian turning a blind eye to the abuse Jesus warned us to oppose and to redeem. Injustice and coverup are sponsored by the MAGA administration with no adequate opposition in sight. As I journaled my dream and contemplated the images the Lord filled me with deeper peace and I felt God’s Presence permeate me. I understood without asking God that my peace was to grow and to push back the darkness and chaos that surround us. I was to write without malice.

The gift of seeing in the spirit realm is granted to every believer as they are endwelled with the Holy Spirit when they embrace Jesus as their savior. Everyone has the gift of seeing in the Spirit and hearing the Voice of God. We also know that our battle is not of flesh and blood; it is with the rulers and the principalities of Satan. God is currently warning prophets worldwide that the Spirit of Death is partnering with the Spirit of Leviathan to create chaos, to take our spiritual sight away and divide us from God’s revelation to us. Stay strong in your faith and grounded in God’s Presence so you can rise above and fight off these spirits so you can see God and hear what God is saying. We are called to action and to assuring any action we take is guided by God. Build spiritual tools and discipline yourself to practice spiritual sight and hearing the Voice of God. Each day God has tasks for those who are grounded in faith and truth, trustworthy of carrying God’s revelations, and strong in speaking out into this Romans 1 world that is in exile.

Do not be distracted by the battle of flesh and blood. It is the wrong battle. God is shaking the world to enable His Remnant to arise. God is continuing to apply fire to burn the Remnant to enable the Remnant of the Remnant to arise and to be God’s army bringing the Kingdom of God to Earth. If this sounds wildly radical to you, it is. God is asking the refined Remnant to find their position. Grab hold of the depths God only offers in cataclysmic times. Find another level of closeness to God while all the man-made structures are running out of solace and energy of comfort. Nothing man-made gives you dynamism. Cry out for the depths of God in the sea of troubles and immense hostile ways currently surrounding us.

God is reminding us there are always prophets visible with radical acts and with strange prophetic words when profound change is underway. Be in community with others discerning this time of radical change. Speak out when God asks. God’s throne is built on righteousness, making wrong things right. God’s justice is metered out with wisdom. God’s throne is all love and truth. Seek God incessantly.

Satan’s throne is surging right now, but his ways are always fruitless. Satan’s throne is chaos, focused on rights, and is all lies and hatred. The chaotic arms race for superior violence and intimidating power shows result in poverty. Politics out of control results in economic instability that shakes everyone. When you demand rights that demean the vulnerable in the Nation, this is Satan’s methodology of Christian Nationalism because Satan believes he has a right to power over people. Democracy and the West are in chaotic disruption and will build to systemic injustices and prejudices and will be broke.

God is calling the world to turn and move into a post-secular world. This is not a fight to get back somewhere that leads to self-protection, fear, and the sense of rights that offend God. The measure of post-secularism is JOY, not pre-, or post-Christianity. People want Jesus now. Speak about Jesus and the kingdom of God, normalize Jesus. You can no longer argumentatively or logically make a defense of the gospel. There must be prophets who are spiritual signs, who prophecize, and work the signs that come from God, who is spirit. There is no model for where we are. God’s fire is refining us to be spiritual leaders.

Beware of the secular Church that is becoming the Eccelesia without Jesus. Their prayers of faith have become prayers of force. The anger of Satan has entered the Church. Have nothing to do with those who make a political gospel.

The world is crying for leadership. Jesus is the desire of the Nation. People want a priest, a prophet and a King. They want a priest to meditate for them; a prophet which has a sacred leadership and knows the future, the timings of God and when to sum things up; a Kingdom of God that does not play games with the earth realm. Jesus describes building the Eccelesia in Matthew 16. There is an order here. First, we must identify who Jesus is, acknowledge and believe. Then, Jesus can build the Church through us. It is very dangerous that the Church today is trying to get an authority without Jesus. Their prayers to Jesus are actually curse prayers that take the name of Jesus in vain.

It starts with good understanding. The Church today is wrongly aligned with politics, no Spirit of God is needed, no relationship with God is needed, no fire is needed. The harvest is secondary. All you need is an event-based Church that can rally around Babylon as a solution. These people will fear-monger with a post-Christian society and demand we go backwards. God says to this Eccelesia without Jesus, you don’t know what Spirit you are of.

People want a bigger story than they have ever been told. A better story that gives context to suffering, brings life, requires courage, and secures hope. People want days of deeper consecration, deeper conviction, deeper beholding, deeper unraveling, fresh dying, and fresh separation. Those who hear the call to turn, turn to Jesus and away from Babylon. God is blessing the Christian entrepreneurs, podcasters and filmmakers, spiritual mothers and fathers, and spiritual midwives. God is giving you wisdom and revelation.

God called me to write about the abuse of immigrants by the US and to assure Emma Stark’s powerful teaching at the Global Prophetic Alliance 2025 Conference about the war we are fighting is posted.

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When did fear take over our parenting? I laughed out loud last spring when our visit with our grandchildren included a trip to the local playground. There were more adults there than children. It was utterly absurd and surreal to see three children sitting in a play train trying to “play” with their mother on one side of the window into the train and their father on the other side. There were actually six adults outside the train with three children inside - just sitting there. Some of the mothers tried to encourage the children to “have fun.” Well, going playing with your folks is a little like going shopping with your husband or hunting with the game warden. And tell me, why were the parents so concerned? And under what kind of miracle will these children be able to think for themselves as adults? We wonder why young people have no critical thinking skills and expect our schools to somehow remedy our inability to give our children freedom and to allow them enough free time to make choices for themselves. It is not child neglect to see a child outside playing. Is this loss of freedom for our children making us more tolerant of loss of freedom in America?

My whole life I have felt I was playing catch up when it came to my education. I wanted to be able to think like Thomas Jefferson, to be original like Einstein, to speak eloquently like Martin Luther King, to have a store house of information in my brain that would allow me as many degrees of freedom in my life as possible. I approached school as a huge task to be conquered like everyone before me had done. Most of my teachers were WWII veterans educated on the GI bill. They were full of stories, grateful to be alive, and had a love of learning that included a passion for what they were teaching. No one told them they had to be sure I could pass a test. No one told them the school budget could not withstand many being held back for a repeat year. Neither of my parents would ever have gone in for a teacher visit to demand I receive an “A” so I could get into a prestigious college. I would have been horrified and completely humiliated. My father was on the school board for a couple of terms and I remember him discounting the groups who approached the board demanding their opinion of history or of religion or of racial and societal issues be taught. He would also chuckle and say who will teach it and who will assure it is taught that way? The teacher had traction in the classroom, but did not abuse it. The teacher was respected and given authority to teach a subject using a syllabus that was generally followed. No one asked the teacher to be a parent or to be a pastor or to be a therapist, although many had these traits, they were used for the troubled (not troublesome) student. The school gathered with the parents to help the student learn. When did we take the responsibility for learning away from the student and make it the responsibility of the teacher? When did we shift the teachers role from expert in teaching a subject and giving the students the opportunity to learn to the role of influencer in a particular outlook or viewpoint of history, science, or social studies? Is this why so many are ready to be influenced by propaganda and not think for themselves?

I noticed when I worked for a large US corporation that many of my peers were more than willing to allow the corporation to dictate to them how to think on social issues, on political policy issues, on acceptable ways to spend their time off. They were on the payroll for what they expected to be the rest of their lives. They went on vacation with others in the department. Many met and married within the corporation. It struck me that many hoped for a cradle to grave protection from the corporation. A fence around the property gave them a feeling of protection from the drugs, crime, guns, and crazy people out there. As one of the first female engineers, I was always an outsider and had to prove myself many times over to be promoted or given a raise. Maybe that is why I was able to observe those around me so honestly. They were scared. I’m still not sure of what, but, I think, it was of life. I can believe the corporation loved to receive students fresh out of college and be able to shape them into “good” employees. Is it this phenomenon that makes FoxNews so comfortable? So many love being told what to think and what to do. When did we stop teaching critical thinking and allowing people to make mistakes so they can learn from them? Is this why people are so willing to join a hate cult and be protected from the outside with a deluge of lies?

When I was young I was active in 4H, Scouts, swim team (only competitive sport for girls), and my church. I had access to adults in many situations and circumstances. I watched the group follow the most articulate person or the person “in charge.”A few would speak up and question when they disagreed or wanted to present a fresh idea. And I watched as the person “in charge” in one situation was not “in charge” in another. I learned in 4H and Scouts, both academically and personally. I was part of a team in swimming. Church though caused me to have as many questions as it taught me anything that would help me as I lost a brother to a 7-year-old playing with a gun and then my father shutdown in grief. The Church community gave support and love to my family. But, the belief system seemed an ideal that just simply was not lived by the congregation. It was really one of the most critical atmospheres with associations between families very controlled and preferential. From an early age I found this belief system led me to more questions than answers. I have learned since that I needed to experience the spiritual realm and, in fact, if I had been introduced to the spiritual realm at an early age my life would truly have been impacted by the Churth. But as it was the Church missed the mark in my life. I had to dig it all out for myself later as I had to finally deal with my grief. Is it this apparently groundless belief system that now has to be protected by a bully and a liar that clearly has no resemblance to the precepts of the faith? Is our fear so great that we must hate and create devils out of any who think or live differently? Is it this lack of faith that causes so-called Christians to vote for a felon, pedophile, liar, hate advocate, and arrogant tyrant?

These truths I have accumulated over my lifetime and may sound very negative when summarized this way. The observations and conclusions are human. I have no allusions of perfection as I have seen none in my life. Those who have read my posts know I am spiritual and that I have been given so much grace that my gratitude exudes into JOY. I am a truth teller. My observation skills and persistence have been honed in a life in which I had to learn to survive the patriarchy and misogyny of corporate life. My retirement has honed my faith. Now God calls me every day to comment on Substack posts. Often the comment is complete before I have even thought what to write. My inner peace is deep and strong in the Lord. He speaks to me daily. Some would call me a prophet. Yes, this role resonates with me, and I am exploring this gift of the spirit that we all have. I repeat The Lord is saying, “Tell them the truth.” The foundations of our American Dream have been breached. We have abandoned our belief in the three basic precepts: Love God with our whole mind, body, and soul, Love one another, and Care for the orphans, widows, and strangers.

Are you brave enough to hear the truth? There is no wonder why. The movement to stop the exile and transform into a Godly society is beginning. There is a lot of hard work to do and it begins with belief and with community. Come follow the spiritual path so every one of us may be guided every day in our resistance and recovery. Amen.

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Advocating a spiritual life in this culture can be a very iffy proposition. Few experience the spiritual realm for themselves; most are suspicious and think only of Victorian seances that tried to speak to the dead. Read the words of Jesus and learn just how close the spiritual realm is for those who seek it. No Ph.D. in theology is required; in fact, I believe brainiac degrees get in the way of a spiritual life. Add to this the fact that the “Church,” as we know it, is simply not spirit-based. The powers that be in the “Church” throughout its Western history have assured it is ruled by man. The choice was made to worship Christ, rather than follow Jesus. This meant no one was encouraged, let alone taught, to follow the Holy Spirit within them! How would you control what the Holy Spirit is saying or doing anyway? Laws and doctrine were piled on to confine us and control us. Ultimately, we ended up in a “Church” culture that measured attendance and had a purity code of behavior. I weep with God when I consider the debate in 325AD of 300 Bishops deciding what to include in the “Bible.” It is a sign, wonder, and miracle that texts rejected by the Bishops were buried for discovery, and then, almost miraculously, were re-discovered at the time the “Church” is finally grinding to a standstill and has to question why it is failing.

A few believers have been blessed with a seeking heart and a deep feeling of emptiness when attending “Church.” The chaos and shaking happening in this natural flesh-sensed world do not surprise us. We are comforted by the Holy Spirit leading us to a close, personal relationship with God that is coincidentally leading to a radically wild transformation of the “Church.” Revelation is becoming a currency in the Church that is exploding for those with “eyes to see” and “hearts to listen.” Church is becoming an association of the few who are accepting the call God has put on their heart and the anointing God has put on their lives. You simply know your sister or brother by the fruit of their spirit. Welcome home to Christ’s spirit-led Church in which one of the gifts of the Spirit is prophecy. It is available to all believers and for some is a calling and anointing.

As each of us considers our own spiritual path, we must tread carefully as this path is well-worn with good intentions that were simply not able to break away from the Pharisee-based teachings and dogma that has led to the slow death of the “Church.” Jesus revealed the false teachings of the Pharisees and taught His disciples simple, straightforward lessons for His Church. Take care that you listen to the Holy Spirit and gather with those who follow Jesus’ teachings. Today, the seeking and emptiness in your soul is trying to lead you to being spirit-filled, spirit-led, and spirit-sensitized. As Jesus taught us, you will know them by the light that shines and the fruit they replicate.

The Lord is saying the betrayals we are experiencing every day in the chaos and shaking of the natural realm are betrayals of the spirit, betrayals against God’s truth, and betrayals against each other. It means my glory will depart and you will be given over to your betrayal of that which I have said is precious. I say to you, listen carefully. Then, let your heart follow the Holy Spirit. Let the Spirit show you where Jesus is in the room. Jesus is in every room. Let your Spirit soar with the Holy Spirit. We all need the Spirit’s guidance to move to the next step in realizing the Kingdom of God. Amen.

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This has gone too far. Masked thugs on the street kidnapping people with no warrant, no identification, no apparent oversight. And the people disappear! No source of truth for news on what is really going on. From various independent sources with limited audience you can get opinions, usually from people who claim to either know Trump or have worked with him. Certainly none of the former News Services in the US can be trusted. They are corporate owned, but worse the owners exert editorial veto. Journalists are not confronting the lies nor investigating what is really going on. Our legislators do not bring the details of what is actually in a purported budget bill that sounds like it does everything from cut Medicare to increase taxes and the debt; whatever the administration claims. Who knows what is really going on?

We have insulted our allies. Essentially withdrawn from alliances long held necessary. Threatened tariffs with no apparent trade deals as a result. Used our military might to support what appears to be a want-to-be dictator in the Middle East. Claimed influence over Putin without any success in peace in Ukraine. Claimed egg prices would be reduced; how is that going? Claimed Make America Great Again; how is that going? I could continue...

What we can conclude is the Constitution is being ignored while immigrants, who are employed by American businesses, but have not entered the country using the legal process defined by US law, are racially profiled and rounded up by unidentified thugs who are only counting numbers of humans ‘traffic-ed’ by our government, NOT whether they have actually found people working for American citizens without legal status. And why is it that the thugs are not rounding up the American citizens breaking the law by employing these people? Surely we can logically conclude this is the real root of the problem. Who would risk the dire circumstances of travel to the US, the risk of actually crossing the border, and the difficulties living here under constant threat without the real chance of a job making low wages, sure, but more wages than available where they were living? The Constitution details the responsibility of Congress to make laws to protect the US and that those laws be enforced. Do not blame the illegal immigrant for our laziness in enforcing our laws. Is it really the fault of the poor entering our country illegally that the Immigrations laws are not enforced? TAKE A STEP BACK, WE ARE ALL AT FAULT.

Take a breath and realize we, the voters, have not demanded our laws be enforced. It is our fault not the illegal immigrant’s fault. Round up the business owners employing them. Round up the legislators not passing laws strong enough to enforce legal immigration. Do not round up the illegal immigrants being sent to a gulag and never seen again. Enforce the law and make sanctuary cities unnecessary. Legislators, put the country first and negotiate across the isle for compromises that actually govern the country. Walk into Congress as an American, not as a party member bowing to anyone but the voters you represent. Protect the Constitution by following the Constitution and not leaving the door open to a dictatorial, fascist executive. Voters, demand truth, and not abide the propaganda we have tolerated for far too long. THAT IS WHY WE STRIKE. But be clear, we must have these as demands.

The country is bankrupt. Just say it and realize it. We do not hold ourselves to a balanced budget, so, of course, like teenagers we go bankrupt. The reality is we cannot be the police force, nor military for the whole world. That military budget is not sustainable. We cannot keep printing money for government payouts to alleviate the crashing of our economy, to try to cover up the inequalities of our economy, nor to shore up our potential success in the next election. WE ALL HAVE TO PUT AMERICA FIRST. The programs enacted since 1789 must sustain themselves by laws that assure the tax revenue is adequate to cover costs. If not, these are the issues of an election campaign. We debate them and vote. The representatives then create and enforce the laws necessary to solve these issues. It is not rocket science! Govern the country, do not collude with business to create the wealth that greed and idolatry drive. THAT IS WHY WE STRIKE. But be clear, we must have these as demands.

The country is not educated, which means we cannot, on average, think critically. We would rather be entertained by the news and by every possible and probable distraction the electronic screen can project in front of our eyes. We have lost the motivation our Founding Fathers had in establishing our country. We have succumbed to the lowest and most base instincts of human nature: racism, superiority, greed, idolatry, and self-service, to name just a few. Our families are splintering for lack of faith, lack of love, lack of…you name it. Our schools have become daycare, a battleground for teaching party doctrine and not history, and the replacement for family and faith that they can never be. We keep schools as part of the government and end up having to pay teachers a low wage to prevent higher taxes. The “no child left behind” law has moved the responsibility for learning from the student to the teacher. Curriculum has been watered down and performance standards for our schools reduced to accommodate all the other society ills we try to solve through our schools, rather than assure an educated electorate. THAT IS WHY WE STRIKE. But be clear, we must have these as demands.

I could add further topics: the Supreme Count vulnerability to bride, election campaigns for years and at such outrageous costs the best people do not run, Citizens United, no term limits on legislators and judges, the Civil War is still being fought, electing felons, using the government to take revenge, inequalities in race and gender, outlandish claims of empire to take countries as further states or rename geographical features, insult and abandon allies, and many more. THAT IS WHY WE STRIKE. But be clear, we must have these as demands.

The spiritual realm is raging in battle and the messages are getting clearer: clean up, grow up, wake up, and show up. It is also clear that until this happens a strong leader to lead us is not going to happen. WE ALL ARE IN THIS TOGETHER. It is time to STRIKE. “No Kings” are you ready to organize this?

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As the success of the “No Kings” protest sinks in, let’s consider the opportunity we have. On one level is the battle between the US Constitution and an authoritarian administration. I think we need to acknowledge this is not left vs right, not Republican vs Democrats, not partisan politics. This is a dire fight for our democracy against this attempt to create a dictatorship. We need to drop our differences and the divisiveness cooked up between us to unite in the fight to protect the United States of America.

On another level is our inner life waiting for us to acknowledge we need help to be able to make sense of the underlying forces at work and determine our path. This second level is the basis of philosophy, religion, psychology, and other forms of belief systems developed over the millenniums. For me this second struggle is to live up to the expectation my Creator has for me. I’ve already described my spiritual path in a previous post. What is driving me to write is how alive my consciousness is with communication from God and with the urgency God is conveying to share with you. Many would identify the images and messages as prophecy. Certainly, it is truth bursting at the seams in an attempt to reach those lost in the chaos and distraction of the raging first-level battle.

God is telling me the next step is to establish some basics that are simply not taught today at Church and sadly not in many families either. Do not feel alone if you are estranged from the Bible. The Bible has been attacked for over 1,700 years and the attack continues. (The Bible was not compiled until ~ 325AD.) Yet, the basics for a relationship with God are there for all to read and to comprehend in their own way, on their own time. It begins with shedding all the baggage that religion has placed on you and any prejudices about the Bible. Let the Bible speak to you individually. Let go of all the hearsay and dogma that has given you someone else’s opinion. Read with an open heart and let God speak to you and only you. He wants so desperately for you to truly hear.

Some basics: the Old Testament is the only religious text I am aware of that documents the failures of a religion. The Jewish religion and, as its outgrowth, the Christian religion study the long history of failures in its relationship with God. It is a testament to how much God loves each of us that the Bible exists to teach us and to document the life of the greatest prophet, Jesus, for us to study. As such, the Bible shows us how to make sense of this life and to be the person we were created to be. Which obviously means it is attacked in every way possible by the inherent evil that surrounds us and is used for evil’s own purposes. The Bible includes this fair warning.

The Jews were chosen by God and proceeded to constantly fail as God’s people. The Old Testament is a lesson in psychology and in human frailty, but more importantly it reveals God’s character and plan. In response to the Jews desperate needs, Jesus rose to God’s call and lived a role-model, active life completely aligned with His Father. He taught by His conduct, by direct instruction to His disciples and those gathering around him, and by parables. The New Testament of the Bible is rich with Jesus’ life and teachings, and with what it means to be mature in your faith in God. We are fortunate it has survived 2000 years and that we are one of the first generations to which other writings from the time of Christ and the early Church have been revealed. All provide the basis for our conversations with God.

Once we realize our faith must include a close, personal relationship with God, we open a conversation with God. Controversy over the exact translation of the Bible falls away. The reason for religious wars and conflicts disappears. The Spirit Realm becomes real and erodes our ego, our focus on this temporary world in which we live to learn, and we begin to converse with God. Our ability to BE in the Spirit realm is huge; yet, it is often forgotten or totally misunderstood. It means we have the innate capability to be in the spirit realm with God. Yet this experience is almost foreign to Christians. And today too few know what this means or how to affect it!

Think about it. God does not speak English nor any earthly language. If we want to be mature in our relationship with God, we need to learn the language of the spirit realm, of heaven. We need to learn how to see, to hear, to feel, to taste, and to smell God and to learn God’s ways. Obviously, the ways are very different than the ways of the natural world and our lives spent only in the natural world leave us clueless.

We live in a world today where the Godly solutions we need are discounted and thought naive. 2000 years of misuse, of misunderstanding and of earthly propaganda to advance man’s agendas instead of God’s agenda have made honest belief unfamiliar, and, even worse, passe or thought to be outmoded. I’ve met few who can articulate what Jesus actually taught.

One of Christ’s key gifts to us was to re-open this path to the spiritual realm and make it available to everyone. God writes truth on our hearts. Our spirit is not hidden away, it dwells within us and is there waiting. Do not think of the spiritual realm as out there somewhere. God’s kingdom is at hand and all around us. We are to fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. This is a command and we are to do it! To safeguard us from deception, the gifts of the Spirit provide discernment. We are to mirror Christ, just as Christ mirrored God in all He did during His life on earth. Set your hearts on things above where Christ is seated on the right hand side of God. Yes, we have responsibilities on earth; even more important we have responsibilities in the realm of God’s Kingdom. There is a path to the spiritual realm and it is a personal journey with the many who have walked this path ahead of you leaving their lessons to encourage you.

As we mature on the solid food of God our senses are trained to discern right from wrong, good from evil, what is God from what is not God. As we mature our senses are trained in LOVE and our senses engage with God. We are to eat with Jesus, know His Voice, and live on the freshness of our Godly encounters every day in every circumstance of our lives. Jesus describes the mature Christian in the Beatitudes. It is the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, that will win the first-level battle and bring God’s Kingdom to reality. May this speak to each of you.

Yes, you are commanded and are being challenged to meet the command. God is speaking in such urgent and concise messages with warnings that He is currently harvesting the Remnant of believers. The shaking currently underway in the USA and most of the Western culture continues as God awaits our acknowledgement of our need, our turn to repentance and transformation. and our simple humility to stop our ego trips and listen to Our Creator. God loves us so much the message has been clear these past few months. We have been given over to our sins of greed and idolatry. Like children in rebellion we have not heard God and this led to our exile from God. Yet God’s love is so complete, we continue to be challenged to awaken to God’s care and love for us. If not, the next step is famine. It’s all in the Bible. The Israelites experienced this and for some reason we are insisting that we have to learn the same lesson. If we do not learn this lesson, the first-level battle will rage on and on. Guidance from God and use of the LOVE given to us by God will be the force that wins this first-level battle. The choice is ours.

Accept the challenge today. May you find respite in opening a true close, personal relationship with God. May you join God’s army and be a warrior in the fight to bring the Kingdom of God to earth. Love is truly the answer. Amen.

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An honest, straightforward assessment of the administration that resulted from the 2024 election is the fatal wounding and possible dissolution of the precious experiment our Founders established. We have a very short time to create the counter offensive to shore up and try to save the Republic from its implosion from within. The failsafe checks and balances our Founders created are failing and take to long to impose. Every action of this apocalyptic administration closes another door on the Republic and locks in the authoritarian oligarchy defined by Project 2025. Trump wants to be the third leg in the chair ruling the world: Putin, Xi, and Trump. What a Frankenstein monster and we have to stop it in its tracks.

We can debate the fine points, but time is short and it is recognition of the mountain that must be climbed before the 2026 election that makes any further analysis and description of the implementation of Project 2025, the propaganda that enables it, and the avalanche of distractions meant to overwhelm the Nation unproductive. We know what is happening. The counter offensive must be much broader than the repair of the Constitution; it must also include policy proposals that compromise and heal the divisiveness the left and right created and causing our Nation of bleed out and die.

The Democratic Party has shown how ineffective it is and that it is not the answer. A grassroots effort must be established immediately to create the Project 2027 plan to unravel Project 2025 and also assure the 2026 election results are based on a solid plan to create a compromise that allows the Nation to begin to heal the divisiveness and hatred that is imploding this Nation. The Claremont Institute and the Heritage Foundation have spent years creating Project 2025 and bet any counter offensive is impossible. I say not impossible, but it will take a monumental effort that must begin immediately. Who is with me?

The scholars who have studied tyranny and how it is implemented know the skeleton of the plan being enacted. The scholars of our Constitution know how it has been weakened over 250 years to allow the inroads that led to the success of the 2016 and 2025 election putting in place this apocalyptic administration and opening the door to authoritarianism and fascism. Social scientists know how to put together a team that can represent all viewpoints of an issue. The key will be a leader who can focus the effort and accomplish this declaration of Project 2027 in time to to save our republic through the 2026 election. The goal is to reach the majority of Americans with a solid plan to fairly come to compromise on the issues of the day while shoring up the Republic. Obviously it also must assure the 2026 election is fair and not hacked in any way.

We know two people who should be included in the Committee creating this grassroots effort: Liz Chaney and Adam Kinzinger. My Question: Who are the moderate Democrats, the Centrists, who can stop the bleeding created by being far left to counter the far right? The best I have seen so far is The Third Way, the centrist Democratic Think Tank, which gathered in Virginia after the 2024 election to plot a comeback. Matt Bennett, The Third Way, helped organize the gathering. I like that Matt Bennett is not a national figure. This grassroots organization must not have political baggage. But, I believe Liz Chaney and Adam Kinzinger have credibility as Republicans who are not bending a knee to the bully.

This effort must have an open communication path for every American to be able to comment over the next few months as Project 2027 is defined. To begin the discussion, here is a quick list of the issues that immediately come to mind:

1. balanced budget and plan to eliminate the deficit.

2. immediately establish a communication network reporting both sides of all issues and events. Not owned by any business interest.

3. repeal Citizens United and bring elections back into the realm of finding every day Americans who can afford to serve their country and run, especially for President.

4. create curbs and firm boundaries on lobbyists.

5. include sunset causes on every bill that establishes budget outlays

6. term limits on Senators, on Supreme Court justices

7. protect ballot issue results to withstand judicial challenge

Please add more issues on your mind in comments. Thanks.

Let’s begin. Calling Liz Chaney, Adam Kinzinger, and Matt Bennett.

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The constant barrage of insults and of ignorant statements and actions by the current administration have an intended goal of creating normalcy. I don’t know about you, but for me it is absolutely not working. I am as incensed today as I was on January 20, 2025. Take care to discern that this is all in the natural, or flesh, realm. (Daniel 2:21) It has all brought me to realize in a far too graphic a sense, what it is to be raped and enslaved. Why are we holed up reading Substack and lamenting these insults and indignities, instead of marching in the streets and engaging in, just as constant, revolt? There are certainly plenty of reasons to incite us to revolt! (Patrick Henry, “Give me liberty or give me death.) In particular, three indignities last week have added so much more fuel to my fire!

One, the “Big Beautiful Bill” removes the final check and balance in the Constitution by requiring court injunctions to be predicated on a paid bond in the original complaint. Hello! Civil suits do not require a paid bond! Two, the rollback of food testing, the FAA cuts leading to fear of airline safety, the NOAA cuts leading to lack of severe weather forecasting, the Medicaid cuts leading to deaths, a President acting like the CEO of a company, not a civil servant and leading to billions in personal wealth for him, and the threat of tariffs at the whim of a bully hangs over us all, to name just a few actions that are leading to the demise of the middle class. Hello! Tariffs are the responsibility of Congress! Three, the blatant corruption of a President opening up a revolving door of pay-for-the-privilege business to benefit himself, whether it’s pardons or citizenship or any other privilege and of a President creating a meme coin business to benefit him, his cabinet and his family. It is just too blatant and corrupt. Hello! The United States of America is a country, not a Fortune 500 company. Are we really going to call this, and more, normal? No, but there is a greater point. We are operating with half a deck, or no deck at all, in this serious game of life. We do not seek and engage the spiritual realm.

Benjamin Franklin’s statement, “A republic, if you can keep it.” is more relevant today than any time in our history. All three legs in the chair of our Constitution must be strong in order for the republic to continue to stand. The Republican Party and its various administrations over the years have been chipping away at the Constitution. The refinement of draft Project documents over the years by the Claremont Institute and by the Heritage Foundation culminated in Project 2025 and has, I’m afraid if we are not careful, dealt too many fatal blows to our Founders’ dream and experiment. We are watching the Constitution being struck down by self-serving, greedy renegades who are only satisfied with billions in wealth and with idolatry from all. As stated in my earlier post, we are in exile and God has turned us over to our sin. (Romans 1) A President and his cabinet are not meant to make billions due to their positions! This type of authoritarian dictatorship is usually the result of the fall of democracy; it is history trying to repeat. Remember, all this is in the natural realm, the “flesh.”.

As I dwell in the flesh long enough to become even slightly familiar with all this constant barrage, I am astonished at how long is then required to return to the spiritual realm. What is even worse, if I do not return to the spiritual realm I am absolutely bereft at the absence of the Presence of God. How does anyone survive this chaotic shaking without time in the spiritual realm? I believe, you don’t. You strive against the Leviathan Satanic demon and wear yourself out to exhaustion and to emptiness.

Yet, God has not abandoned us. God is speaking to many and moving them to reach out with His messages to His people. The history most relevant to the swift demise of the United States of America is the ancient history of Israel. It is a history illustrating the guile of Satan and the failures of an unfaithful people. It is a study in psychology and beliefs as much as it is a study in history. There are several examples of leaders whose actions brought God’s wrath upon the people of Israel.

The Lord is saying to many prophets right now, “I want you to understand the impact of your unrighteous lives. Your lack of compassion and of care for My people have raped and enslaved too many. I can no longer meet you where you are; you must feel the weight of your actions. Now is not a time to negotiate with Me; I want you to feel the full impact of what you have done. It is time to listen, to discern and to understand and then to repent, to transform and to be re-born. Only then, are you ready to be My Bride.”

God is asking you to realize you are first of all a spiritual being. This has always been true. God created you in His image. Adam lost his spiritual sight in the Garden and we all know the reason and what then happened. (Genesis 3) Yet God is merciful and sent Christ to restore the spiritual realm. (Acts 2) It became easy to be in the spiritual realm. Today, what is difficult is to find anyone who knows how to help you seek the spiritual realm, to find a church that embraces the Holy Spirit, and to find how to be in a personal relationship with the Lord. (Christ’s example all through the Gospel) The Church is so far away from the five-fold ministry defined as His Church (Ephesians 4;11) that saying we have a church is a stretch. And do not even mention Christian Nationalism; nations are not saved, individual people, one by one, are. Slogans mixing beliefs with politics (abortion and partnering with Satan) is NOT how the Kingdom of God works!! Do not mix God’s messages and politics!!

Begin by seeking the Lord. He is right beside you waiting for you to ask. Sit with Him until you discern Him. Ask yourself, “Where is Jesus in this room?” Remember He is everywhere. Let Him guide you. He guided our Founders and will guide us as well. Amen.

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Terrorism on US soil visible for all to see. We all remember where we were! That morning I was attending a business conference call with my colleagues from Canada, UK, Denmark, Germany, France, Japan, and, of course, the US. We were all stunned, but little did we know we were about to have a very object lesson on how breaking news is handled and shared with the public. Putting our business agenda aside, we decided to stay on the phone until we found out what happened! There was no hesitation. It was immediately a worldwide affront and we all felt a camaraderie and empathy, as if it happened to all of us.

Within two hours, the Danish news service was sharing on TV the video of the hijackers, of the first plane to hit the Towers, passing through security in Boston, and informed us that there were three known hijackings and one was still in the air, and that the hijackers were Saudi. (Wait a minute, why did we invade Iraq?) Within the next couple of hours BBC shared the same information with Japanese news service soon after. Meanwhile back here in the US, all we were told was the FAA had shutdown all US airspace. I was embarrassed that it was two DAYS before the same video and information was shared here in the US!

It should be no surprise that the Danes were the first to show up and offer help under the NATO accord. If I was proficient in languages, I would have learned Danish to be assured I was always “in the know.” Among all the lessons on that pivotal day, the one that changed my life and remains with me today is: DO NOT TRUST US News. I stopped listening, reading, or watching US News programs. I would watch for headlines and, if interested in the story, check it out on BBC.com. For almost 25 years, I have been MIA from US News programs, yawn… (I did not know Jim Acosta until he showed up on Substack.)

In addition, after the 2016 election I never visited Facebook again. Why everyone did not drop Facebook is beyond me. Where is your pride, America? Think about the Facebook replacement we could have today if we had demanded integrity and accountability. I know, your first thought is that’s a fantasy. I believe our Founders would have abandoned such a sham to information and made a boycott a reality.

During this pivotal time of chaos, of an attempt to usurp the US Constitution, and of the rise of an authoritarian reign, is it a surprise that the US News services are in abject failure mode to share the truth of what is happening? Really? I’m sorry, where is your thinking cap, America? I have been watching for media platforms that assure freedom of expression, especially of those posting, AND that attempt to assure accuracy and truth in its content. Substack was a welcome relief and remains so today.

What strikes me today is the realization that without alligence to truth, responsible reporting, and accountability, what used to be the legacy media has become an avenue of propaganda. I have studied the evolution enough to know that this began during Regan’s administration when it was no longer required for the US News to give both sides, or all sides, of the news item. Somewhere along the timeline, US News programs became part of the Entertainment division of the conglomerates that own them. Emphasis shifted from the integrity, truth, and accountability of the news to advertising income from viewership/readership. Entertainment is a ratings game. Today all of the US News services reflect the opinion and bias of their owners and their business plan to play the numbers game. Add to this the effect on the News of the billions that are now allowed in political campaigns after the tragic Citizens United SCOTUS decision and I have enough of the history to convince myself that my decision to abandon US News services in 2001 was a good one.

Those who follow me know that my focus is on the MASSIVE impact our spiritual reality, or more the lack thereof, has on what is going on during this constitutional crisis. The Spirit of the Lord said to me, how can my people make good decision when truth and integrity are not priorities? The Lord has led me into the realization that I do not understand how Donald Trump was elected because I have not participated in the last 20+ years of US News propaganda. I am probably even more amazed than you at his election, let alone his re-election. Believe it or not, you can have an informed vote without watching US News services.

I do listen to hear who the candidates are for the various offices I am being asked to chose who I want to serve by voting. I usually use Wikipedia to obtain the basic information about them. Then, I do a Duck Duck Go search on their name and look for what I consider reputible sources of information about them. Way back in about 2015 I studied Donald Trump. His bankruptcies, reputation for never paying his subcontractors, instead waiting for law suits before paying, confessions of molesting women and his arrogance in saying he could have any woman he wants were enough for me to say I don’t even need to listen to what he has to say. My vote is NO. And it continues to be NO, even before the addition of felony convictions and the results of the Mueller investigation and the Congressional investigation of the Jan 6th Insurrection. What do people see in him? Believe me, it is too much of a price to pay for me to go watch the propaganda of ABC, NBC, CBS, FoxNews, MSNBC, NPR, etc., etc. to begin to comprehend how anyone could vote for him. I am wondering how we expect to have an informed election in the future? And how do we have a free, non-hacked election? Any one else ready to go back to paper ballots?

The Spirit of the Lord is saying we are out of sync with Him. (God is non-gender and inclusive. So, when I write Him, I mean Him/Her/It). Truth is foremost. Truth in God’s Word and listening to the truth God gives us in our relationship with Him. This truth also applies to earthly concerns. Without truth you are simply aligning with Satan’s agenda. It truly is this simple. God’s priorities protect us in the Spiritual realm as well as the natural realm. Seek God and His Kingdom first.

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I have been contemplating my Easter experience all week. At sunrise I was on our dock wrapped in a blanket singing “Worthy is the Lamb”, reading the Word, and contemplating. Like many, I no longer pray the way I’ve been taught. It just seems selfish to have a relationship where I constantly focus on me and my needs, never asking or hearing about the needs of the other in the relationship, God. I now contemplate in the hope of reaching God’s Presence and of having a two-way conversation. It often happens, and on Easter my blanket wrap became cozy with the Presence of My Lord. My inner peace soared.

As I entered the house, my husband asked if I wanted to go to Church! We do not often attend and in fact find the Church empty for our interior lives. I asked where? He wanted to visit his childhood faith in a neighboring town, not the Church he grew up in. It was a lovely drive up the shore of the Lake and we arrived early. Watching the families arrive everyone dressed in their finest, I was thankful we came to join in the festivities. The Church was packed. The officiant was overjoyed and did everything but stand on his head with his enthusiasm in an attempt to engage with those so seldom in attendance. I felt the earthly JOY and became curious what was happening in the Spiritual realm.

The awe of the spiritual realm and my experiences in this realm are recent additions to my faith journey. As I sat on the pew at Church last Sunday I realized I had never sought the spiritual realm in any church, whether during a service or in solitude.

As soon as I sought to be in the Presence of God, I was surprised and overwhelmed with the roaring, discordant noise and the roaming, seemingly lost spiritual behavior that surrounded me. My deep inner peace remained solid, but my physical energy and loving emotions for God were quickly drained and I became exhausted. I was not prepared for the immediate sapping of my energy and emotion, nor for the pandemonium of spirits released, but untethered. My first thought was if it is this hard for me to reach the spiritual realm, how can God reach anyone here? As I looked around me, I became aware of all the restless children and crying babies. It was a resonance for what was happening in the spiritual presence in the room! For me, the room then went silent. The spiritual experience turned silent. It was a watershed moment for me!

Asking God what the deeper meanings of this Easter moment are, we discussed the surface meaning of unawareness of the Spirit and spiritual realm. The untrained spirits and the inability to settle enough to perceive any message, let alone “see” or “hear” in the spirit, prevail. It is chaos. More important, the spirit part of being human is unknown and not acknowledged. The Spirit of God told me, “When I asked Adam in the garden, ‘Where are you?’, it was his spiritual presence, not his physical presence I was missing.” God helped me realize it was the spiritual part of humanity that died in the Garden of Eden. The spiritual companionship with God was lost and humans became susceptible to sin and to all the evils in the world. Our spiritual death created our vulnerability to sin and to all the degradation of our potential relationship with God. Clearly, the trials and tribulations of the Israelites in the Old Testament were the result. God did not abandon humans, God had to illustrate the consequences for us. AND, back to Easter, God sent Jesus to redeem our spiritual life and mend our spiritual companionship with God.

Even more stunning for me was the realization of how our unawareness of our spirit and our lack of acknowledgment of this eternal and most sacred part of our being are affecting our interpretation of the world. We think of our lives in body, mind and soul aspects. Some include emotions in the mix. Few include a spirit in their description of life. A spirit. Stop and think about it. There is another realm in this reality of life, and another part of us! Whether we acknowledge it or not, it is there. With no understanding of spirit, all the spiritual issues and aspects of life get mixed up with our lives in an ad hoc manner with potentially disastrous results.

The prime example and particularly germaine to the current chaos, is we take spiritual issues and expect to solve them in the physical world! We build the campaign for the election of our next President as a referendum on abortion, gender identity, and how we treat strangers among us. These are spiritual questions and issues. Why take them to the political systems of the physical world and, even worse, expect just solutions! You cannot legislate morality, religion, or, more especially, inner peace! Might as well have added inner peace to the election rhetoric! These are spiritual concerns and only solved by change of hearts, not laws!

The Founders had some understanding of this and separated Church from State. This is far more than a nonprofit designation or whether prayer is allowed in Congress or in our schools. Spiritual matters belong in the spiritual realm and earthly matters belong in the physical realm. The problem is the Church has not held up its end of the bargain and has not protected its authority. Slowly over 250 years, the US has mixed spiritual issues into the political arena partly because the Church was not adequately addressing the issues. But, also because the Church abdicated its authority and was busy creating division, man-made doctrines, and religiosity, rather than leading with Godly authority to create the five-fold ministry church and to create the bride of Christ in its congregation. It enabled political campaigns to usurp spiritual issues and attempt to solve then with man-made, arrogant laws that affront God. And now, the Church has aligned with the government to try to legitimize and to legislate a brand they call Christian, which is based on the greed and idolatry of the culture, not based on God’s kingdom. Is there any wonder why God is angry? We are here partly because government did not stick to governing issues; and partly because the Church is not stepping up to its authority, mission, and call from God.

All this from trying to reach the spiritual realm in a Church. Actually all this from NOT being able to reach the spiritual realm in a Church and from a week of contemplation and conversation with God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit. It has been an intense week and I will be back soon with more from our conversation. In the meantime, seek God.

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Some have asked for more of my story and how I found my faith. This is my story, but your story is every bit as important and germane. Quickly, I can relate to the childhood trauma proposed by psychologists to explain or to excuse the US march into this chaos and exile. But my trauma was not the abuse described in the Alisa Writes substack post; rather, it was loss of a beloved older brother to a gun accident and the resultant shattering of our family in 1960. No Hospice grief program existed. No therapy was available, or even thought of, in rural Montana. As my therapist said, 30 years later as I turned to face my dragons, “You escaped into the one productive choice you had.” I was abandoned at 9 years old, YIKES! Scared and anxious, I chose to build on the foundation of love I had experienced and use the gift of intellect God gave me. I could control how I did in school: I excelled. I developed an analytical mind and drove myself to Valedictorian, first class of female engineers from the Montana landgrant college, then later a career as a chemical engineer in Corporate America. It exhausts me to remember… My therapist and I did good work to go back and parent myself to adulthood and to learn to cope with the anxiety buried deep in my subconscious that was driving me. I had to change!

It was during one particularly brutal, raw week of therapy that Jesus visited me. I had not slept for several nights realizing how empty and frantic my life had been. How could I abide any choices or decisions I had made? I saw clearly the need to heal well enough to be able to make the hard choices I needed to make to regain my life. I was collapsed inside and at the bottom of one of my children’s closets. Collapsed and with no further self, no further coping games, no further anything to go on… I was crying uncontrollably and screaming “I cannot do this alone.” Somehow out of the depths of my childhood I turned to what little I then knew of belief and asked from the bottom of my empty soul for help. THE BRIGHT YELLOW LIGHT that surrounded me blinded me and I could feel myself being lifted and carried to my bed. I was told later that I slept for two solid days. I awoke with the gift of inner peace, an experience I had never had and will never take for granted. A peace that surpasses understanding does not adequately describe it and is a gross understatement. To this day I cannot adequately describe the JOYful anticipation this peace allows me every morning to face the day. To this very day, I awake with complete and overwhelming awe.

Looking back I realized I dedicated my life to God and to developing a close relationship with Christ. At that time I could not articulate what it meant to be a Christian. Yes, I had grown up in a Protestant rural church community. Sometimes spending every night of the week at the Church, not just Sundays. But I could not comprehend how to be thankful enough, or how to know what I was supposed to be, to do, and to grow in the Lord. I somehow knew I would overwhelm a Pastor or group of Church elders with my deep, probing, seeking of answers. The failure of the Church community to help my family so many years before helped me to turn another way.

Over fifteen years of study and discussion leadership in Bible Study Fellowship gave me familiarity with the Bible and the arc of God’s story. But I found I could not walk away from evolution nor believe the earth is 6000 years old. I also sensed I did not need a group of scholars evaluating the credibility of the choices I was making in my spiritual growth. I realize now that I applied the drive I had used to escape my anxiety to a determined seeking of a close, personal relationship with God, Christ and the Holy Spirit. I wanted nothing in between. Several other Bible studies, studies of other wisdom philosophies, study with a Native American Elder, fellowship with close believing sisters and brothers sharpening me, reading the Bible over and over again, but MOSTLY Christ’s Presence in every trial and struggle of my life brought me to where God wanted me to be about seven years ago.

My Native American Elder had introduced me to so many new concepts, including the writings of Bishop John Shelby Spong. I believe the Native concepts resonated deeply with the trace of Native American heritage in my blood. My overwhelming interest and need to study Monasteries and the people who chose through the centuries to build their relationship with God in quiet contemplation, and several studies of female visionaries in the Church brought me to a realization that God had acted throughout my life preparing me for Him/Her/It to be able to anoint me in the spiritual fight to bring the Kingdom of God to Earth. This was a “just in time” realization as our family began a seven-year journey to support our precious son and brother in his personal crisis, which added the grist mill of letting go and releasing a dear son to the Lord’s care and surrendering my mother’s love to God’s love. It was every bit as brutal as my childhood abandonment.

In the midst of the realization of my powerlessness, God’s mercy introduced me to the prophetic movement, more particularly to what is now called The Global Prophetic Alliance, Glasgow, Scotland. God’s gift was their Training in Holy Spirit Ministry. Yes, I discovered I am a prophet, but also learned everyone has the possibility of hearing the Voice of God. Yes, I learned to enter a room and “find Jesus in the room”, to always be aware of what is going on in the Spirit realm to be able to relate to what I am experiencing in the natural or physical realm. Jesus was with me every minute and in every crisis of our son, often standing next to me with his hand on my shoulder. I often fell asleep at night putting my head in Jesus’ lap. My seeking has brought me to being in the gifts of the Spirit every day in every circumstance. I now know I am maturing into Jesus’ teaching of the Beatitudes, into understanding the five-fold ministries God expects of His/Her/Its Eccelsia, into being the Bride of Christ, into continuing to seek the gifts and anointings God has for me, but especially, into a close, personal relationship with God leading to being in the Spirit realm with Him/Her/It, at least some of the time. It takes developing God’s trust in you and the stubborn determination to retain your focus on the Kingdom of God, and not be distracted by the kingdoms of this world.

There are several, what I believe to be, desperately needed messages swirling in my head every day. I do not know how to begin to put them all to paper, or to my laptop. But, I now often wake in the night to a Voice of patient anticipation saying, “Lynn.” Even though I have not written anything but technical theses in my life, it’s time for me to write. It’s time for me to take paper and pen to hand so I can write as quickly as I can to capture the words the Lord has for you and the world. I know beyond a doubt that there were two changes to my last post that speak to several of you. Why? Because the Lord prevented its posting the first time I tried. Wondering why it was not up on Substack, I went back to the draft to post it. Moved to reread it, God had one change and one addition for you.

May God bless you. Amen.

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The chaos Jesus was experiencing at the time of this prayer far exceeds the chaos we are experiencing in the US today. A dramatic reminder during this Holy Week, Jesus was always assuring He was in sync with His Father and keeping the lines of communication with His Father wide open. Many of us can quote several parables Jesus shared with His disciples, but how many of us have adequately studied His actions while on Earth enough to know anything about how to proceed when faced with chaos, with distractions attempting to overwhelm, with a loss of inner peace, with so many situations that are becoming way too familiar and daily happenings.

Stop to think a minute, when did you become aware of the vast divide being dug among Americans. For me, it was watching Newt Gingrich obviously disrespecting his colleagues and screaming at the camera to get the attention of the public. It was odd and as I look back I realize he was taking a shovel of dirt out of what makes us American. He was digging a trench to divide us, not discussing or debating an issue. I now realize the American psychic was built on the premise we all have the right to our own opinion. I will listen to you, but not necessarily agree with you. I expect to be respected by you, able to walk away and that you will not try to intimidate me, and be assured you will not exude hatred of me and speak ill of me to the point of wanting to seek revenge because I disagree with you. At the time of Newt Gingrich’s rhetoric I did not see this end game as clearly as I do now. I could not have described it, but I sure can now. The shovel of dirt Newt was taking out of the American psychic was beginning the construction of a divide deep enough and wide enough that today we cannot even see across it, let alone bridge it. Many have used shovels, others backhoes, to deepen and widen this divide. Are we really going to allow this to continue? Are we really going to walk away from what makes us American?

It is time to take a stand and say what makes us American is more than what divides us. Not just say it, but believe it. Not just say it, but live it. It is time to mend the divide, mend family, mend friendships. Each of us, one step at a time… How do we even begin to do it? Why do you think Jesus came to Earth and gave us the model for every trial and crisis we can possibly experience on this Earth?

Convincing the absolutely astonished American people that this chaotic battle is not about partisan politics is a tall order. But the evidence is clear. Astonishment says we no longer recognize ourselves. We are broken as a civil society. We can no longer debate ideas or hypotheses, no longer consider compromise, no longer disagree and still be friends. Where is the revolution our Founders fought for and envisioned in this? This is the same old history repeating itself that the Founders fought so well they defeated it. Let’s take a page out of our Founders book.

Let’s all walk away from the divide. Take a page out of the good book and truly say, from the bottom of our heart, the prayer, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. For many this action of forgiveness will have to be invoked daily, faked at the beginning, then built. The extreme effort will succeed sometimes and the transition will last for the same period of time that we have been divided. That’s a long time.

There is another way. I’m not saying walk away from the fight for our country, I’m staying let’s take a completely different approach. Let’s partner with God in this fight. How? We have a mountain to climb. I mentioned in my first post that God is shaking the US, in particular, but also the rest of the world. Think about it a minute. In truth, Americans have not only walked away from God, they have refused to bring the Holy Spirit into their lives, and now they have arrogantly embraced the plan to bring people back to God by law! To those who have studied the human frailties and failures so prevalent in the Old Testament, this sounds oh so familiar. Hey, God, we have a better idea and we are building man-made structures and call them our government and our Church. Totally of our re-creation, so we will now control the power, not you. Oh, should we be surprised at God’s anger? First, we put the Kingdom of God first priority.

I must seriously share with you and give you visibility or a window into the spiritual realm. The Spirit of the Lord is saying, the USA is now in exile. We are in a Romans 1 time, which means we have been turned over to our sins: greed and idolatry. God is allowing the consequences to play out. The greed is evident, but the idolatry may be more subtle. The majority of the current Church in America is teaching cultural Christianity. That means teaching what the culture wants to hear, hatred, suspicion of other denominations, a prosperity gospel. It has now degenerated into idolatry of Pastors and the President and into a political involvement to try to legitimize this brand of Christianity. Forgotten is the one-on-one relationship between a believer and God. Christianity is not a national phenomena. God’s kingdom is not political and cannot be created by man. This is a very damning assessment by God and the patience to meet us where we are has been used up.

We are also going through the third round of Isaiah 43 in a handful of years. The Spirit of the Lord is saying, I will be with you going through trials, I am promising the ability to find/be in My Presence, I am calling a tribunal to judge leaders, and I will release a new thing on earth. We are about to see a third refreshing of the judgment of leaders, those with eyes but are blind, those with ears but are deaf. The Lord is saying I’m going to be with My Remnant, but I will judge those who did not witness well, who pointed the way to your idolatry rather than Me. Again, a very damning action by God necessitated by our rebellion and abandoning of God.

Do not panic, The Spirit of God is also saying, I am removing some because I am about to drop more of My Presence on others. Be ready for the accelerated pace of My sovereign moves on Earth. When? Get close to God and get into the picture. Let’s all walk away from the divide, turn and re-enter our community with compassion and love in our hearts. Can you recognize this approach to life? Compassion and love equate to the message of Jesus’ life. In fact, any time you see the word Jesus, think love. Any time you hear about, read about, or experience the divide so evident and so prevalent today, recognize it for what it is: a battle of the flesh, a battle of the natural realm, not an eternal battle and not of the spiritual realm. Then, reach for and seek the spiritual realm. Take the higher ground. Find out how you can align and fight the battle in the spiritual realm that will lead to if and how to fight the battle in the natural realm.

Do you want an adventure in your life? There is nothing in the Lord’s Prayer that Jesus taught us about joining the political fray on earth. He taught us to pray for His kingdom to come, on earth as it is in heaven. There are very few Churches today that will lead you here. This is now God’s war, and joining in the battle requires the hearts and minds of humans to overcome their own free will and surrender to belief and faith in Christ. It requires compassion and love in every instance of divide, forgiveness and forgetting. Thy kingdom come today on earth. It is God’s greater agenda. He/She/It wants you, all of you. Awaken and seek God’s Presence every day in every circumstance of your life. What an adventure and what an adventure to share with others! The chaos of the natural world falls away when we discern the raging battle in the spiritual realm. Listen, listen, listen carefully, individually. Find your tribe and share, share, share fully as a community. Sharpen each other in your faith. Ask how is God anointing each of us? You must be in God’s Presence to know. Amen.

So, how do you begin again or begin for the first time? I can only humbly share my way. Slow down and find silence in your life. Open your heart by forgiving yourself and others to relieve your burden. What remains of your burden, hand it over to Christ. Truly believe, act, declare, and live the change. Worship the Lord in all the Glory and Might of His/Her/Its Sovereignty. Be in the Word, Surrender and Obey. Share with your tribe, sharpening each other. Spend time in contemplation or prayer, whatever feels right to you. Await God’s Presence and then be with God. Have a conversation with Your Creator. Let it flow. Let God prepare you for the battle; fully ready for the fray in both the spiritual and the natural realm. Repeat every day. Amen.

Some of the Voice of God I share in this article, I have heard myself. I have also included what has been heard by Emma Stark and others of the Global Prophetic Alliance, GPA, Glasgow, Scotland. Thank you, GPA.

What force undergirded our Founding Fathers courage and bravery? What force have we walked away from to our peril?

God is pissed. And there is no way to sugarcoat it. I will not quote chapter and verse to illustrate God’s anger. I will not point you to any church to explain it to you because the current church, and I don’t care if it’s a conservative, evangelical, charismatic, Mega, or a little church in the glen, is one of the reasons God is pissed.

Understand that 2,000 years is just a blink of an eye to God. Christ gave us a very simple theology. It is not complex. Love one another; the people you say you love and the ones you interact with every day. Love your neighbor; the people you see once in awhile or maybe never, but you still respect and would come to their aid, if need be. Care for the widows and orphans; the people who are often forgotten and are not easily able to care for themselves. Welcome the stranger; the immigrants, unknowns, racially or otherwise different, those who walk into our lives locally or from afar. Remember Jesus saying, “What you do to the least of you, you do to me.” It is not complex. How would you assess our success with any of these simple concepts? I would say, we have simply failed and our patient, merciful God has simply had enough.

I am not here to debate theology. We may do some debating later. Right now, I am here to tell you God is tired of trying to meet us where we are. God is calling some of us, a very small portion of us, to become the voice of God. We can also debate and discuss this later. The point is we, and I mean the USA, in particular, but it also applies to all of Western culture, have degenerated into a cultural Christianity that preaches a prosperity gospel and is centered on man, not Christ. The basic premises of being a follower of Jesus Christ are no longer taught, never mind understood. And don’t get me started on Christian Nationalism, religiosity, revival, or end times prophecy. Again, we can talk about any of these later. The point is none have relevance if you do not, first, know Christ and, second, if Christ and the gift of the Holy Spirit are not real to you. Jesus simply asked that we believe in Him and have a close, personal relationship with Him. How many of you were ever taught how to even begin to have this type of relationship? I know I never was, and I grew up “in church.” But, I have been blessed. God gave me a seeking spirit and I have had at least two miracles in my life and I’ve seen and been with Jesus several times.

I pray I have your attention. Please allow me to spend a few minutes on a brief tutorial. One I’ve developed for myself with help from Christ mostly, but also several Godly wise people as well as the illustrations people centered on themselves and their prosperity, and not centered on Christ, have taught me. Few of us have ever totally appreciated the fact there are two realms in this life: the physical or natural and the spiritual or supernatural. We use our five senses to perceive the physical, natural realm and make sense of it with our brain and our egotistical thinking. But how many of us use a close, personal relationship with the Trinity (God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit) to perceive the spiritual or supernatural realm and understand the small part God allows our mind to “know in part”, if we have Christ-like thinking? More importantly, how many of us know that this leads to being guided by the Holy Spirit?

In the physical, natural realm the enemy reigns. The battle is against the darkness, the evil forces, the enemy, the Devil. Several names have been used in 2000 years to describe this force. In Native American and most indigenous thinking, the physical natural world is where mistakes are made and lessons learned to become a more whole individual. The spiritual supernatural realm teaches us the battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the principalities, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places. There is a fierce battle going on above our heads, or wherever you “know in part” the spirit realm is, and it is red hot with God’s anger. Many of us are listening intently and I have been told, by the Holy Spirit endwelling me, in no uncertain terms to write about it.

All of the Founders came from a Christian heritage, all had an appreciation and several respected and studied the Iroquois Alliance and its philosophy and success. This continues to be the atmosphere in which the Constitution needs to be understood. Now, we are faced with at least a Constitutional crisis; at most a fascist coup. When asked what type of government the Constitution created, Benjamin Franklin famously answered, “A republic, if you can keep it.” When responding to the Shey Rebellion, the first rebellion of this young republic, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote from his position as ambassador to France, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

The Founders knew no democracy in history had lasted more than 200 years. The fire of rebellion that had converged long enough to fight back all the world’s forces against government of the people, by the people, and for the people goes out after 200 years. People become complacent, the government programs to support the population become sustenance for more than 50% of the population (2016 for the USA) and people vote for the continuation of these programs and the government goes bankrupt. Are we able to learn from history?

We also have the privilege to know from the correspondence Abigail Adams initiated between her husband, John, and Thomas Jefferson near the end of their lives that they realized they had not adequately preceived and considered, nor adequated protected the Constitution from the eventual collusion between business and government. John Adams shook with the knowledge of its impending doom to their precious experiment in democracy. They could not conceive of all the challenges: collusion between the judicial and executive brances, definition of a business as an individual allowing unlimited donation to candidates, the size of the government which ultimately would bring it to be the biggest game in the nation for gangsters and gamers, let alone all the potential hidden undermining forces the hacking of technology brings to “free” elections and to access to the government resources of money to the greedy.

God has been telling me and several others that He/She/It wants His/Her/Its Voice heard and understood. And God is an even more determined task master than any in the forces of darkness. God is saying TO YOU build a close, personal relationship with Me. Then, listen carefully. For God has been telling us for at least the last three years that He is shaking the Earth, to prepare a solid foundation on which to survive this shaking and to listen to my commands for you. To me, it is to be a watchman. I found BBC and now Substack as solid sources for “knowing the strategy of the enemy.” Now, I have also been told to climb the mountain of how to publish on Substack and get this message to those who need it most.

I know the Lord is not done with me. Watch for further posts as God wakes me at night to write what He/She/It has put in my mind; and I figure out how to get it up on Substack. Amen!

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