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Monday, December 3, 2018

Remember


Remember
Promise
记住承诺
Jì zhù chéngnuò
約束を覚えて
Yakusoku o oboete
Cant4 

The state for the existence of being
requires knowledge about what we are seeing.



The square jewel wasn't found to be round.
It was used to protect the grain fields as valued ground.

We had learned about the One from the many.
Egypt grew wheat to feed people with plenty.

Israel was about being the light that shines for all.
Many stars glow at night to sub-illumine half the global ball.

Sidon was an icon for trade by the sea.
Productivity produced enough from which the poor could glean.


The Stele of Hammurabi

After Sumer, Babylon enacted protracted writ for law.

A clay tablet was compacted and burned to stele public awe.

Assyria put down disagreement with violent aggression.
Dissent was dispersed as the heat for the hellion in silent concession.

Babylon grew plants and grain for beauty and food storage.
Detainment instead of destruction deterred the threats that were foreign.


Cyrus Cylinder

Cyrus outlawed enslavement by religion for Persia
to convert the excursion of slavery's inertia. 

Greece celebrated education for the public as all
but they allowed enslavement to monarchy as the subjected call  
for security in the democracy of the republican thrawl.

Rome proposed the upper class could rule the world.
They punished the leader when a plan for conservative spending was unfurled.

Judah praised love as the basis for law.
Israel opposed all that was wrong.

Recognition promotes effort and achievement for us.
Redemption corrects bereavement for the indecent thrust.

Faith in the love of provident glory
gives incentive to lead when hardship is the story.



Salvation is praised by the house of the brave
and sung by the mouth of those who would save.

This song has been sung since the world had a start
by the words of the prophets that served as the spark
for the light to leave the cave and the dark.


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The grace of memory served the word in the wilderness
during the sacred service for the answer to the test
before the hollowed rock that held the wet
to wash the dust with the facial caress.

Take off the garment of distress great city for peace.
Put on the beauty of glory for the ancestral feast.

I thank my God every time that I remember you.
You help me find sweetness with the colored hue.

We hope to be saved from our enemies hatred.
Deliverance from hatred serves the friendly abatement.

We will be able to serve with the mercy promised for us
to build remembrance of the covenant as a sacred trust.

The promise that was given through the faith of our fathers
will be passed to us to deliver us from that which bothers.

We will escape the wrath of our enemies to live without fear
to serve God with rightness for holiness with cheer.

The strange promise of a letter by horse
echoed a practice that only used to be the course.

You, child, will be called the prophet from the Most High.
You will go before the Word to speak as the sign
for the knowledge of salvation for those no longer blind
to the remission of sins. Sin will no longer bind.

The Day Spring from on high will have visited with the mercy of soul
to give light to those who sit in the darkness of not wishing to be whole
for passage past the shadow of death with provident control.



The Song of Zechariah
Benedictus Dominus Deus

Luke 1: 68-79
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he hath visited and redeemed his people;
And hath raised up a mighty salvation for us
in the house of his servant David,
As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets,
which have been since the world began:
That we should be saved from our enemies,
and from the hand of all that hate us;
To perform the mercy promised to our forefathers,
and to remember his holy covenant;
To perform the oath which he sware to our forefather Abraham,
that he would give us,
That we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies
might serve him without fear,
In holiness and righteousness before him,
all the days of our life.
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest,
for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord
to prepare his ways;
To give knowledge of salvation unto his people
for the remission of their sins,
Through the tender mercy of our God,
whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us;
To give light to them that sit in darkness
and in the shadow of death,
and to guide our feet into the way of peace.


Baruch 5:1
Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem,
   and put on for ever the beauty of the glory from God.

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Take off the garment of distress great city for peace.
Put on the beauty of glory for the ancestral feast.

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Phil. 1:3
I thank my God every time I remember you.

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I thank my God every time that I remember you.
You help me find sweetness with the colored hue.

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Luke 3:2
The word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas.

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John-  gracious
Zechariah- remembrance
Annas- answer
Caiaphas- hollowed rock

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The grace of memory served the word in the wilderness
during the sacred service of the answer to the test
before the hollowed rock that held the wet
to wash the dust with the facial caress.

12.9.18


John Malkovich 12.9.53 Christopher, Illinois
Simplified 约翰马尔科维奇
Traditional 約翰馬爾科維奇
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约  Yue   covenant             約  yaku   promise           Jon    じょん  ジョン       Jon    존   zone
翰  han   writing                 翰  kan     letter               Ma    ま          マ               Mal    말   words
马  Ma    horse                    馬   ba       horse              ru      る         ル               ko       코   nose
尔  er      that                       爾  ore     you                  ko     こ         コ                bi        비   ratio
科  ke     family                   科  ka       section            bi      び         ビ                chi      치   tooth
维  wei  preserve                 維  i           fiber              tchi   っち     ッチ
奇  ji       wonderful             奇  ki        strange

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The strange promise of a letter by horse
echoed a practice that only used to be the course.

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Christopher is located in the southern part of Illinois. The United Coal Mining Company opened the No. 1 mine near the town in 1906. An explosion at the mine killed eight men on July 27, 1915. The mine was sold to the Old Ben Coal Corporation, and renamed Old Ben Coal Mine No. 1 in 1916.

Five men were accused of being "pro-German" by a mob of over 300 people on March 22, 1918.  Three were taken to the square, made to kiss the flag, then were tarred and feathered. The Polish pastor was stripped to the waist, tarred and feathered. A lawyer was made to kiss the flag and praise president Woodrow Wilson.

The mine closed in 1929.

Malkovich was born in Christopher on December 9, 1953. His paternal grandparents were Croatian. His mother was of French, German, Scottish and English ancestry.

He grew up in Benton, Illinois. His next door neighbor was future basketball star Doug Collins.
His father was Daniel Leon Malkovich (1926–1980). He was a state conservation director and publisher of Outdoor Illinois, a conservation magazine.

His mother was Joe Anne (née Choisser; 1928–2009). She owned the Benton Evening News as well as Outdoor Illinois. Malkovich has three younger sisters and an older brother.

Malkovich attended Logan Grade School, Webster Junior High School and Benton Consolidated High School.  He appeared in various plays and the musical Carousel during his high school years.

He was active in a folk gospel group, singing in area churches and community events. He co-starred in Jean-Claude van Itallie's America Hurrah in 1972 as a member of a local summer theater/comedy project. He entered Eastern Illinois University upon graduating from high school. He transferred to Illinois State University where he majored in theater.

Malkovich became a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company along with Joan Allen, Gary Sinise and Glenne Headly in Chicago in 1976.

Malkovich starred in the 1992 film adaptation of John Steinbeck's award-winning novella Of Mice and Men as Lennie alongside Gary Sinise as George. He was nominated for another Oscar in the same category for In the Line of Fire in 1994.

He played a slight variation of himself in the title role in the Charlie Kaufman-penned Being John Malkovich. The character's middle name in the film was "Horatio".

John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor, director, producer and fashion designer. He has appeared in more than 70 films. He received Academy Award nominations for his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire.

He appeared in such films as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Johnny English, Con Air, The Sheltering Sky, Of Mice and Men, Rounders, Ripley's Game, Knockaround Guys, Being John Malkovich, Shadow of the Vampire, Burn After Reading, Red, Red 2, Mulholland Falls, Dangerous Liaisons and Warm Bodies. He produced films such as Ghost World, Juno and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.



Kei Yasuda 12.6.80  Futtsu, Japan
保田圭
鬼呀速度啊
Morning Musume graduate
Never Forget (2003 Graduation)

鬼  Gui      clever              保   Ho    protect                       Kei    けい   ケイ          Kei   케이    Kei
呀  Ya        surprise           田   ta     rice field                    Ya     や      ヤ                Ya     야       hey   
速  su        quick               圭  Kei   square jewel                su    す       ス                seu    스       switch
度  du        pass                                                                   da    だ       ダ                da      다             
啊  ah        Ah!

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The square jewel wasn't found to be round.
It was used to protect many rice fields as valued ground.

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Futtsu is located on the southwest coast of Boso Peninsula in the Chiba Prefecture. It is almost due south of the capital city of Tokyo at the southern end of Tokyo Bay.

Futtsu has a mixed economy based on commercial fishing, agriculture, tourism and electrical power generation.

Yasuda Kei was born on December 6, 1980 in Futtsu.

She was chosen to be a part of the second generation of singers to be recruited into Morning Musume along with Yaguchi Mari and Ichii Sayaka in 1998.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Healing


Others,

Melqart (translates as King-City) was the god for Tyre (translates as Sour), a coastal city in Phoenicia (present day Lebanon) that was under Roman jurisdiction during the time of Jesus.

Melqart was assimilated with Hercules after Alexander conquered the city. Sailors valued physical prowess as the sea provided demanding challenges that required strength and courage to overcome. The competition among sailors produced some men that were “god-like” in terms of physical conditioning. This general regard for strength contributed to commerce with other people and settling in other areas.
http://www.ancient.eu.com/Melqart/
http://www.ancient.eu.com/Tyre/
http://tyros.leb.net/tyre/


“I, I wish you could swim
Like dolphins, like dolphins can swim.
Though nothing, nothing will keep us together.
We can beat them forever and ever.
Oh we can be heroes, just for one day.”


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Sidon translates as fishing. The men of the city-state were reputed to be the first to sail at night and navigate by the stars. Melqart was associated with Hercules during the Seulcid period and Hercle with the Romans.

http://bibleatlas.org/sidon.htm
http://www.sidonexcavation.org/ht/ht_excavation.html
http://www.middleeast.com/sidon.htm


Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Fishing in the Dark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVL2NGpkUGE

"You and me going fishing in the dark
Lying on our backs and counting the stars
Where the cool grass grows"
The following links connect to stories that are relevant to Lebanon in the present. Right now, the crisis in Syria is a cause for concern.

Lebanon to Preside Over Arab Foreign Minister Council
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArchiveDetails.aspx?ID=433407

This re-write is about how Jesus continued his ministry for healing during a time of tyranny. Life under the imperial domination was threatened by torture or death for insurrection under a code of law that was characterized by cruelty towards the dominated and laxity for the dominators. A major part of the "healing" required the realization that the way of destruction was not the law of nature according to the benign plan of Nature's God.

g/sidon.htm
http://www.sidonexcavation.org/ht/ht_excavation.html
http://www.middleeast.com/sidon.htm

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Fishing in the Dark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVL2NGpkUGE

You and me going fishin in the dark
Lying on our backs and counting the stars
Where the cool grass grows

Lebanon to Preside over Arab Foreign Minister Council
http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=433407

Lebanon Feels Threatened by Violhttp://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFBRE8840TH20120905TheTh
Healing
Mark 7, Proverbs 22, James 2, Ps.146

Herod Antipater ruled
Galilee and Perea
during the ministry of Jesus.
He had been appointed
as a successor by his father
who had been named
the king of Judea
by the emperor in Rome.
Reports of miraculous healing
had reached the tetrarch.
The popularity of the healer
stimulated the fear of insurrection
in the unpopular leader.


Jesus left Galilee
and traveled to a location
near Tyre.



God shows mercy to those
who speak and act with respect.
Even those who come from a land
enmeshed in a history of battle
whose children have been brought up
in the midst of rage
can experience
the healing power
of forgiveness.

A woman said,
“Please cast the hatred out of my daughter.”

Jesus replied,
“Let the children be fed first. It is not fair
to take their food and throw it to dogs.”
She said,
“The dogs under the table eat the crumbs
that fall from the plates of the children.”


He said,
“You have spoken with respect
for faith in healing.
The hatred has left your daughter.”
She went home and found her daughter well.
The raging anger had left her.

We are the daughter.
We have been liberated
because we have chosen liberty.


Freedom is chosen.
Rights for one
are implied in the declaration
of rights for others.
The rights that are earned
are owned by showing respect
for those of others.
Liberty within the law
reflects the state of nature.
Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity.
The rod of destruction will fail.
Those who are generous
are blessed with generosity.
They share their bread with others.


Do not blame the poor for poverty.
Do not attribute affliction to the afflicted.
Do not condemn the victim for victimization.
Do not trust the rule of cruel aggression
nor the domination organized for greed.
The rich and the poor have
this in common. The economy
forms status for our society. Changing
the economy with respect for basic needs
changes our status.

When those who are lacking provisions
feel that basic needs will be satisfied,
ability grows with faith in capacity.


Say to those who fear,
“Use fear to build strength.”
Judgment will be without mercy
for those who have shown no mercy.
Mercy rules judgment.
Speak and act as those
who are to be judged
by the law of liberty.
Then, the blind will read and work;
the deaf and mute will use signs to speak;
the lame will rejoice in what can be done;
the disabled will celebrate ability;
the prisoners will be redeemed and set free;
immigrants will be shown respect;
orphans and widows will be sustained;
the way of destruction will be destroyed;
repairs will be made for the damages.
Waters of love will break forth for the thirsty world.
Streams of joy will run where there was no fun.


Praise the LORD, O my soul!
I will praise God as long as I live.
I will sing praises while I have my being.
Jesus journeyed further north to Sidon.
He was avoiding the cruel scrutiny of Herod.
He was taking the long way back home.
He traveled to Decapolis,
the league of ten cities
loyal to empire,
east of the Jordan River.
The region did not have
a single ruler. It was an alliance
of city-states.


A man was brought to him who heard
nothing, but imperial dogma.
His mind was closed
to the law of nature
by belief in the way of destruction.
He had been so convinced that nothing
could be affirmed for goodness that he could not
agree with anything that was agreeable.
The people begged Jesus to heal him.

Jesus took him aside, looked in his ears
and examined his throat. He had the man
clean his ears with the spit from his mouth.
Then, he looked up to heaven, sighed
and said, “Ephphatha,” meaning “Be opened.”
His ears were opened. His tongue was set loose.
He began to speak plainly.


Jesus told them not to speak of the healing.
They were astounded beyond measure.
They could not help but to exclaim,
“He has done everything well.
He even makes the deaf hear
and the mute speak.”
Praise the LORD!

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The healing of the deaf man was reported to have taken place in Decapolis.


Much of Decapolis was located in the country now known as Jordan.
An American woman was recently murdered in Jordan.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57508517/jordan-u.s-teacher-stabbed-to-death-by-teenager/


Raging hormones can feel like madness to the person who is experiencing them. Was the teen who was accused of killing the American woman feeling a raging desire to possess her? Did he feel that he had to take something from her in order to control her, rather than his feelings for her?
“I can’t get these memories out of my mind
and some kind of madness has started to evolve.”

How is it that the feeling of love can be so strong? This song by Muse represents a process of grappling with that which is overwhelming about love for another.

The feeling is not about possessing the other person.
It is about admitting to the value of the feeling. As with any feeling that is overwhelming, the person can sublimate the energy to find constructive ways to build relationship with others. It is the recognition of that which is general about the special relations that builds social status with good health and happiness.

Often enough, that which is new about love, anger or other strong feelings can be used as a prompt to change the way of looking at knowledge as the means for working with that which is believed to be known.
Sing a new song or sing the old song with new life. It will change your life for the better.

Steve K.