FOR NOW, MAY I PARK THE FOLLOWING STORY-FILLED CONVERSATION I HAVE BEEN HAVING, IN FACE BOOK, WITH A TOM WISEMAN? LATER, I WILL FIGURE OUT HOW BEST TO HANDLE AND EDIT IT, OK? .....The FaceBook link is:
https://www.facebook.com/messages/100007720577960
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TOMMY, MAY I ASK, ARE YOU A READER?
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To Tom Wiseman, from me: RevLindsayG King
www.lindsayking.ca
You said in your post in FB:
That's strange? I got the first letter I had written u back.dont know how that happened?maybe u just don't have time.thats ok I understand u gotta b a busy man.
sorry if I bothered you.
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BE ASSURED: It never bothers me to HELP people needing HELP. If you are willing to take the time, I am willing to keep trying.
Tom: AS WE CONTINUE, LET US TALK about
LOVE, and what it TRULY means.
I PREFER TO CALL IT
THE-PRINCIPLE-OF-AGAPE KIND OF Love! --SIMPLY PUT: IT IS
THE GIVING OF GOOD WILL TO ALL CIRCUMSTANCES AND, ESPECIALLY TO ALL PEOPLE--THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY, AND THE NOT-SO-GOOD.
Feel free to QUESTION anything that I write.
BTW, Do you know how to use the VOICE VERSION of GOOGLE CHAT? I have it on my 'puter. Do you know a friend, or a person who knows computers and who might be willing to AGREE TO help you get in touch with me?
YOU ASK:
1. is it wrong to be afraid of what they do?
WRONG? OF COURSE NOT! In my opinion,
WHEN IRRATIONAL PEOPLE DO IRRATIONAL THINGS, BEING AFRAID IS A NATURAL human reaction. I have felt it, often.
2. is it wrong of me to not want to change my traditions to please them?
Again I say: YOUR REACTION IS A NORMAL ONE.
3. i am the last survivor of my family. my last uncle just died two weeks ago, I could always talk to him, but now I have no one.
IN 2015, I HAD A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE WITH THE YOUNGEST MEMBER OF THIS KING FAMILY OF 8, A SISTER. NOW I AM THE LAST SURVIVOR.
BY THE TIME I WAS 5, IN 1935, WE LOST OUR OLDEST BROTHER (born in 1906), OLDEST SISTER, HER HUSBAND, THEIR TWO NEWLY-BORN CHILDREN AND OUR MOTHER (she was 50)--THE ENEMY WAS TB--the dreadful scourge of the time.
BY THE WAY, DO YOU HAVE ANY HELPFUL PRIESTS OR A MINISTERS IN YOUR AREA? IF SO, PLEASE COPY THIS RESPONSE AND SHOW IT TO ONE OR MORE OF THEM, OK?
TOMMY, YOU SAY my wife doesn't like to talk about it she knows I am a soldier
for Jesus Christ, my king I love so much--the son of my God. i'm 52!
BY THE WAY, WHILE DOING 9 YEARS OF STUDY, I DID do TWO YEARS OF ARMY TRAINING AND ONE YEAR WITH THE NAVY--a great experience and part of my education. I qualified as a chaplain with the rank of Captain.
I almost forgot to mention:
In 1942, When I was 12, Bell Island--AN IRON ORE MINING TOWN--was attacked TWICE by enemy subs, which sank FOUR iron-ore CARRIERS; THE LOADING-PIER NEAR OUR HOUSE was also destroyed, and I saw the well-over 60 bodies of merchant seamen which were dragged ashore and laid out on our beach. Yes, war came close to HOME.
TOMMY, you add, And I have been in lots of war! And I've seen a lot of awful things just would like a friend--
and Did you notice what I said above, about being close to the front lines in naval part of WW 2?
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I REPEAT, you got it (a friend) and: MAY I ASK, ARE YOU A READER? What do you read?
KEEP IN YOUR MIND. YOU DO YOU HAVE A FRIEND, HERE--IT, FOR ONE, IS ME!
WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO DO MY BEST TO PUT YOU IN TOUCH WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD AND JESUS? --WHO CERTAINLY LIVED HIS SHORT EARTHLY-LIFE BY living out what LOVE truly IS!
AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE, ESPECIALLY IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, OK! TELL US WHAT THINK OF CHAPTERS THAT GET YOUR ATTENTION, OK?!!!!
i would like a man of the cloth to give me the advice I'm looking for--THEN JUST KEEP ON thinking, BE AWARE and KEEP ASKING.
i hope u understand what I mean,
and I hope I hear back from you. yours truly......ARE YOU TRULY HEARING WHAT I AM NOW SAYING?
Tommy Wiseman. Chat Conversation Ends here.
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TOMMY, I REPEAT MAY I ASK: ARE YOU A READER?
LET ME ASSURE YOU, TOMMY:
NOT ALL CHRISTIANS--PAST AND PRESENT, WERE AND ARE GOOD and, WISE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME!
CERTAINLY THE FIRST CRUSADERS--OVER 1000 YEARS AGO--WERE NOT ALL WISE, GOOD AND SAINTLY SOLDIERS. READ ABOUT WHAT THE GREAT OLIVER CROMWELL DID TO SOME OF HIS FELLOW CHRISTIANS IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND. I think he lost two of his own sons in one THE vicious battles.
AND THE
GREAT MARTIN LUTHER? NEITHER WAS HE--an avid anti-Semite--A SAINT.
FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, CHRISTIANS ALL OVER EUROPE HAVE ATTACKED, KILLED AND OPPRESSED ONE ANOTHER--even to the point of making many of their own people their slaves--and not all slaves were black slaves.
AND LOOK AT WHAT MANY NAZI CHRISTIANS DID TO THE WORLD, INCLUDING their own GERMAN PEOPLE, IN TWO WORLD WARS, ESPECIALLY IN WW 2.
And let us not forget this:
THERE IS GOOD NEWS!!!THERE were and ARE GOOD MUSLIMS--SOME of WHOM I ALREADY KNOW WHO ARE ALWAYS WILLING TO OFFER THEIR FRIENDSHIP.
FOR EXAMPLE,
Farah--THE WIFE OF MY SON, she is also the mother of our two wonderful grand daughters and a grand son--IS A LOVING AND FRIENDLY PERSON, and a fine MUSLIM, who practises meditative SUFISM, similar to Christian MYSTICISM. If we focus on this kind of FRIENDSHIP, IT WILL SURELY CONTINUE TO GROW, GROW & GROW, OK! SO LET'S DO IT,
FOCUS!