"Today Dec 1 Is World AIDS DAY: A Reflective Lesson" By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

http://blog.bioethics.net/2008/12/world-aids-day-how-far-weve-comeand-still-how-far/

Dear Ones:
     You may have 'heard me' say this before; "If HIV AIDS were easily transmissible, I would be dead by  now". 
     I say it because it's true.
     I was 'in' biomedicine in the years immediately preceding the full 'out-cropping' of this horrific disease, during which time I literally handled and processed as many as twenty liters at a time of pooled human blood serum for 'cell culture' at Sloan-Kettering.
    We all knew what we were exposing ourselves to potentially and we all knew what the risks were.
     Prior to the full-emergence of 'AIDS', our main concerns in the lab were the usual blood-borne infectious agents such as hepatitis, reasonably well-understood and accepted 'risks'. 
     My technique was always excellent, but one can never discount the occasional bad-luck, unavoidable 'accident', such as a slip or spill or 'needle stick'. 
     Thank God I never suffered one of those, although in those late-70's/early 80's years I didn't do much praying (or any) for I was yet a proud atheist-agnostic back then.
     Coincidentally, a few years later, AIDS as a 'community concern' was just rearing it's head where I was living in Stamford, CT and a 'new Christian'.
     You can believe that few 'knew' about AIDS and HIV in those days and even 'fewer' cared about it, if they did.  And NO ONE wanted to 'work' with HIV+ patients if they could avoid it.
     But my universe was working with homeless individuals, female prostitutes, male prostitutes and many i.v. drug users. 
      So there was no escaping anything related to that emerging terror known as 'AIDS'.
     In my capacity first as a 'secretary' and then as a Soldier in The Salvation Army...I was there on the front lines. 
     I didn't want to be and I didn't ask to be, but I was immersed up-to-my-eyeballs when 'AIDS' first reared it's head in our area.
     I was there when the first few clinic patients walked into my office for a counseling session, test results in hand and 'collapsed' in grief, misery, fear and disbelief. 
     These poor souls were amongst the first to be diagnosed as 'HIV Positive' and who were struggling to know 'what does that mean'?  And they were amongst 'the first' to be modern-day 'lepers' as far as society was concerned.
     I write about this in detail in my upcoming book 'ENTERTAINING ANGELS' LINK:  http://dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/2010/01/entertaining-angels-book-by-former_27.html
     You will read about those 'first' heart wrenching months when we began regular HIV testing.  You will read how exposed I was to the body fluids and substances of HIV+ individuals who were 'acting out' due to concurrent psychiatric issues.
     No distinction was made back then between 'HIV Positive' and 'AIDS', but you can imagine where my biochemist's mind was going each time a situation presented itself.
     You will read how I clutched a dear HIV+ lady to myself, resulting in my having a soaked-to-the-skin tear-drenched blouse and slip as I consoled her and she asked me to 'explain her test results'.
     In those early days of AIDS, you will read how I managed to get my own personal physician (a Stamford doctor many of you know!) to volunteer in our Clinic downstairs and how he monitors me to this day.
     And you will read how I 'gave permission' for the very first 'AIDS SUPPORT GROUP' to meet in the 'conference room' across from my tiny Salvation Army office on the first floor on (the old) Beehler Street HQ (Headquarters).
     Finally, you will read about my 'crisis pregnancy work' of many years wherein I was just as likely to 'send a gal for a pregnancy test' as I was to send her for an 'AIDS test' and the agony of waiting it all out. 
     You will read of the shock and disbelief of those early days when few acknowledged, let alone understood, the vagaries of this multi-faceted, multi-formed Human Immunodeficiency Virus in all its 'incarnations'.
     No one wanted to 'be involved' back then.  Everyone was 'afraid' and those who say otherwise are not being truthful. 
     My story needs to be told of the emergence of AIDS in Fairfield County, CT.  The 'early days' of this socio-medical saga must not be forgotten or glossed over, or, worse still, ignored.
     It is a tale of fear turned to hope, and of prejudice turned to compassion.
     And in it lies hope and guidance for dealing with what the future may hold.
God Bless You this World AIDS DAY 2010 & every day
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
http://www.dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/



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"Prelim 7.5 Indonesia Earthquake; Texas Tonadoes & Wyoming Quake" By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

Dear Ones:
     Recently there has been a great deal of 'space weather' (solar activity, more specifically) which is affecting the earth.  The energy from the sun 'affects' us in the form of earthquakes, among other things, and a preliminary magnitude earthquake of 7.5 has hit Indonesia.
     Given that the USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) has determined a 'depth' of 14.2 km, this is a quake which could produce tsunami problems.  In general, the 'shallower the quake', the worse the surface damage.
MAG UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s LATdeg LONdeg DEPTHkm Region

MAP 7.5 2010/10/25 14:42:22 -3.464 100.084 14.2 KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
LINK: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php

     There have also been powerful tornados and storms in Texas today...not surprising when we look at a map of the Kp (planetary Kp index, that is) which is a reflection of the energy hitting the earth which manifests itself as a 'geomagnetic storm'.

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html

  

      You will also note that the Auroral Power Input Oval (a visualization of the energy hitting the earth from the sun) is a substantial 7.0 today:

http://www.visi.com/~brainiac/solar/aurora.shtml

      The sun's energy takes many forms (i.e. solar energy is detected as electons, x-rays, radio waves, protons and in other forms) and below is a 'map' of the ever-increasing electronic energy of the sun today:

  http://solarmonitor.org/goes_pop.php?date=20101025&type=electron

     If you'd like to understand exactly how space weather causes geomagnetic storm weather on earth, check out my 'Tutorials'.  You can check out the 4.6 WYOMING earthquake at either of the appropriate links above.

     Let us keep all those souls subjected to the powerful forces of 'nature' in our prayers for their perseverence, safety and recovery.  AMEN.

For you in Christ,

Reverend Barbara Sexton

"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

"Series Of Mexican Earthquakes Today: Up To Magnitude 5.8" By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

From: http://www.iris.edu/seismon/last30.html
20-OCT-2010 06:58:18 24.69 -109.00 5.8 23.7 GULF OF CALIFORNIA

20-OCT-2010 05:51:22 24.35 -109.11 4.2 10.7 GULF OF CALIFORNIA

20-OCT-2010 04:30:38 24.28 -109.27 4.7 10.0 GULF OF CALIFORNIA

20-OCT-2010 04:15:39 24.50 -109.12 5.5 26.9 GULF OF CALIFORNIA

20-OCT-2010 04:09:44 24.60 -109.10 5.9 13.2 GULF OF CALIFORNIA

20-OCT-2010 03:39:29 24.76 -108.86 4.7 8.1 GULF OF CALIFORNIA

Another great link is the USGS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php 
Smaller quakes are also listed on the link above.  For more information, check out my 'Tutorials'
Blessings,
Rev. Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

'I Endorse Tom Foley For CT State Governor & Mark Boughton For Lt. Gov.' By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

Leslie and Tom FOLEY

Dear Readers:
     It is without reservation and with a great deal of hope and optimism that I am unabashedly endorsing TOM FOLEY for the GOVERNOR of the State of CONNECTICUT and MARK BOUGHTON for LT. GOVERNOR. 
   Tom is my choice after a great deal of fact-finding, fact-checking and endless research...a course I have taken for each and every candidate that I have endorsed to date.
     As a political 'newbie', I am determined to not fall into the habit of merely endorsing candidates because of party affiliation. 
     Neither am I a 'one issue voter'.  I try to be flexible enough to understand that the world does not 'revolve around' JUST ONE ISSUE.  I'm referring to things like gay marriage, immigration and pro-life lobby-lovers, for instance.  Many of them see only through the lens of their personal lives, all others be damned.
    The sad truth is that part of the reason our country is SO messed up....and Connecticut in particular as the 'Gold Coast/Academic Beacon/High-end Socioeconomic area that it has come to be--is due to the shenanigans of the progressive-lib Dems.
     I happen to live in what I call 'Liberalville'.  For all the years I've lived in Southwestern CT, I have been the 'quiet one' politically, even as I made waves in the social service/church communities.  I have kept a low community profile in the past, though my 'political awakening' calls, now, for the exact opposite.
     From what I see, Tom Foley is the one to get Connecticut back on track.  Now don't get me wrong, Dan Malloy and his family have been my neighbors for many years--first across the street and then through our abutting backyards.
     Our kids grew up together-God bless them all-and I adore all the Malloys to pieces.  You can't live in one of Stamford's neighborhoods for 29 years with your kids in the public school system and involved in community activities without getting to know each other.
     Granted...I was the 'odd-mother-out', perhaps.  Not one for the Yacht Club, I was more interested in being a homeless advocate and being a Soldier in The Salvation Army.  
     Not one for politics, I basically 'didn't belong' and have gratefully done my work independently, coordinating with (the old) Fairfield Hills (mental institution, for those unaware), Middletown Facilities, Hall-Brooke, DuBois, the shelters, Newtown, all the prisons, Rocky Hill and all the Southwestern CT mental health/dual diagnosis facilities.
     I guess you could say I got around.  My mentioning all these mental health/prison facilities by name is not in vain.  I've noted that Dan Malloy has chosen to BLAME our BURGEONING PRISON POPULATION on the CLOSING of Connecticut's MENTAL HEALTH FACILITIES.
     I plan to 'help' us remember just what role Dan Malloy, Christel Truglia, the Reverend Richard Schuster (God rest his soul) and cronies had to do with the 'de-centralization' of mental health care in Connecticut.
     I plan to remind a few people of how they pimped 'SCATTERED HOUSING' and 'ASSISTED CARE FACILITIES' as abysmal SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS which have seem to have BACKFIRED on ALL OF US!
     Do any of you, dear readers, remember the plan DAN MALLOY and others had to 'spread those in need of assisted living for 'dual diagnosis' issues (that means being mentally ill and being drug-dependent) in places ALL OVER Stamford, including SHIPPAN, NORTH STAMFORD, SPRINGDALE and the COVE, among others?
     Do any of you, dear readers, remember how the populace BALKED at the plans?  Do you remember how all the 'touchy-feely progressive-lib Dems' wanted to make everyone feel all warm and fuzzy over trying to 'integrate' any and all into one koombayah society.
     I do.  And I can tell you that as much as some neighborhood people weren't too crazy about having 'post-rehab subsidized housing for those with prison records and mental health and drug problems' in THEIR neighborhoods...there was ONE GROUP who hated the idea even more.
     Don't let me surprise you too much here, but it was the disenfranchised themselves.  'Clients' stuck up in North Stamford were terrified about having to suddenly use public transportation (buses) to get to their counseling appointments, the soup kitchen and or to the Salvation Army or elsewhere on 'Cheese Day'. 
     Clients were uncomfortable and felt 'out of place' as they were moved to higher end neighborhoods than they were used to. 
     I could go on and on with these stories and will later, but all these problems and those we have today stem from a cockamamey plan known as 'THE GENTRIFICATION' of STAMFORD.  I do believe I wrote my 'one and only' letter to the Stamford Advocate on that one, for I was so incensed at how the mentally ill and homeless were being portrayed.
     You see, Dan Malloy and Co. wished to 'rid' downtown of the prostitutes and drug dealers and so forth and 'clean up the South End'.  There used to be a big project there known as 'Southfield Village' (the old one) for those of you readers unfamiliar with these issues.
     So, someone came up with the brilliant idea of spreading housing out for the disenfranchised, starting with the closing of Connecticut's big, central mental health facilities.  Malloy 'forgets' that he loved this idea!  He 'forgets' his part in this 'progressive-lib Dem SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS in the '80's and early '90's. 
     He wasn't alone, by any means...and 'today' he is very right about people being thrown in prison--where they do not get treatment or rehab.  Dan Malloy is just failing to mention that HE is part of the reason this is so.  Did he forget?
     This is but ONE issue I will be discussing with Gubernatorial Candidate TOM FOLEY.  It is my hope and in fact it is my prayer, that Tom is victorious and will help 'my guys' get the help they need and that we need.  We live in such a rich and generous area.  I know we can do better than to let our mentally ill and substance abusers 'just exist' without help in prison.
     Things have progressively deteriorated all over the country under the 'tutelage' of the progressive-lib Dems and it's time for a change.
     Let our change here in Connecticut begin here with TOM FOLEY FOR CT GOVERNOR, MARK BOUGHTON FOR CT LT. GOVERNOR and with MARTHA DEAN as Connecticut ATTORNEY GENERAL.
      Dan, I love you, man, but I just can't vote for you.
God Bless You and God Bless America,
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
http://www.dearoneshealingministry.blogspot.com/  

Mark Boughton for CT Lt. GOVERNOR

"Acquitting the Guilty & Condemning the Innocent" By Reverend Barbara Sexton www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

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"ACQUITTING THE GUILTY & CONDEMNING THE INNOCENT"

PROVERBS 17:15--No matter which version of the Bible you read...the message is the same!
"Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent--the Lord detests them both."

(New International Version)
"He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD."

(King James Version)
"One who justifies the wicked and one who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD."

(New Revised Standard Version)
"He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, Both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD." 

(New King James Version)

Reverend Barbara Sexton

"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

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'PRAYER of St. Theresa For All Of Us In Our Imperfection' By Reverend Barbara Sexton www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

St. Theresa- "The Little Flower of Jesus"

Saint Theresa's Prayer

May today there be peace within.

May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.

May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.

May you be content knowing you are a child of God.

Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.

It is there for each and every one of us.

AMEN.

A Blessed message for all of us!
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com

'When Winning Is Bad--Sherrod & America's 2010 Race War' By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9NcCa_KjXk
Dear Ones:
     There's a 'race war' going on and whites are winning.  Since President Obama captured the White House, whites are the winners, hands down.
      I say that we 'whites are winners' not so much because they triumphed in anything, but because non-whites....blacks especially...are back to being so darned anti-white and hateful. 
     Here's why I say that: We see now, again, the open disdain of dark-skinned people for those not like them to the point that if they're not actually threatening to kill white babies, they at least are standing by and letting it 'be said' with nary a statement to the contrary. 
      We witness captive tapes of NAACP meetings, wherein the 'get whitey' mentality flares and manifests itself in chuckles and chorts of disdain and derision.  Then we witness Black Panthers (the 'New' ones) spewing the kind of hate against whites that is starting to sound pretty good to 'nice' black people. 
     We hear nary a word from the 'nice blacks', countermanding the racism we hear from their brothers and sisters.  And whitey responds appropriately: those who hate blacks make their points--now suddenly quite valid, unfortunately and the 'polite whites', especially the Progressive-libs are receiving a 'crash course' in 'How to Get Over Your White Guilt But Fast'.  While still not having the moral core necessary to be a 'valid movement', the new 'race war' certainly is changing things.
     And here are some 'changes' that may not be so evident to everyone:
1- Keep 'dissing' whites and watch whitey's donations to black-centered non-profits go waaay down.  Yes, now that 'blacks are in charge', you may think you don't need whites' money, anyway or anymore. Maybe this will turn out to be the case.
2- Keep thinking that 'whitey will put up with it and not really be offended by what is being said and is going on' and you will be surprised to learn this is not true.
3- Keep thinking that 'whitey is sympathetic to the point of allowing any and all blacks to vent any way they wish' and again you will be surprised to learn that this is not true.  Threats of baby-killing are like threats of lynching--no good and not good for anyone involved.
     I have been observing a few things in the USA today, and have come to the conclusion that with all things racial, whites are winning to date.
     The whites' hesitance to totally revert to the 'old ways' in general is what allows me to declare undeniably that 'whites have won this new race war'....so far.  A lot of whites really will not go back to pre-Civil Rights mentality, perhaps because they are 'dreamers' such as myself. 
     Blacks, however,  are now ALL RILED UP AGAIN and are fulfilling the polarization which started way back when all blacks voted for a brother, President Obama.  We all know that no matter what any blacks may have said to any whites, the fact is that essentially all blacks voted for Obama.  Whitey knows it and we get it and now you know that we've known all along, even if we didn't say so. 
     Your once-private joke, when everyone was still trying to be all polite and decent--you know, that one where you tell your white friends that you're 'not sure about Obama and you'll 'actually' probably vote for McCain' and then joke about it... is over.  The ever-present 'internet' has allowed us windows into 'black peoples' souls' with a slip of the video or audio tape here and there.  These are windows every bit as 'clear' as the ones we've had for years into the hardcore 'white supremicists' souls...No secrets, now, for anyone, anymore, are there?
     Personally I find such candid behavior refreshing, if not comforting.  The infection of racism must be uncovered if it is to be cleaned out.  And once cleaned, it must be aired and lovingly tended to, so that as much healthy 'tissue' as possible may be saved and restored.
     But we're not there yet.  This 'race war' I speak of is only just begun, this 2010 phenomenon. Born of secrets in the highest levels of government, and suffused into the hierarchy of the world's religions, it is endemic in these United States of America today.  There's no doubt in my mind that America's 'infection of racism' in 2010 is most definitely one of the 'pestilences' referred to in the Scripture of the Holy Bible.
     I only mention 'religion' because by fluke of some kind of cosmic absurdity, I happen to have been an active member of President Obama's controversial 'denomination', the UCC (United Church of Christ) while he campaigned and got elected.  I've thanked Mr. Obama elsewhere for being the liberator (from the UCC 'mentality') I didn't know I needed.  If not for all the campaign brouhaha in the news, I might not have known exactly how much anti-white/anti-American actions and sentiments I'd been 'inadvertently supporting' at my very own church.
     But that's water under the bridge.  Like many whites and especially as a Christian, I will not allow some bad apples to totally undo all the progress I think we whites have made with our black compadres.  I realize that I am hated as a white woman (and have written a number of pieces including "Don't Call Me Snowflake" and understand that hatred, having been 'outnumbered racially' for many years of my life in various capacities, including as a Soldier in The Salvation Army'.  I get it...really, I do.
     And I understand my fellow whites.  Some are inwardly enraged, but won't show it and are holding their 'outrage' in obeisance for whatever the future holds.  I wish I could say the same for blacks, but this is not the case.  You see, the 'advent' of a black President and the overwhelming overlording of American politics and even industry (thanks to an absurd overuse of the 'Affirmative Action paradigm') has SO emboldened blacks, that they are 'rising up'. 
     Blacks are ready for action, not demanding 'equality', but 'domination'.  Blacks are not demanding 'respect', but 'reparations'.  And worst of all, they seek to 'punish' those of us who are non-black.  I see it as clearly as all the anti-white and anti-America videos I've seen and heard of.  I see it in all I've personally witnessed.  I know that I am considered to be some kind of wicked 'slave owner' in the minds of many blacks.  So be it.  Their minds are made up and that's that.
     Experience has taught me that those who 'win' are the ones who manage to maintain control over themselves and have as little -infighting, as possible.  So far, whites are winning this contrived 'race war', precisely because of these two factors.  So far, whites have managed to control their hurt and rage.  White racists are pretty open, but are not so dumb or arrogant as to video themselves at 'hate rallies' and then get caught at it.
     Whites take another lesson from blacks when they witness how much 'black on black' crime there is.  White observe how Haitians don't get along with Jamaicans who don't get along with 'American blacks', etc, etc.  And then there's the blatant anti-Hispanic sentiments I see espoused by many blacks in the social service circles I am familiar with.  Maybe blacks feel like Hispanics 'compete too much' for goods and services with them?  I don't know.  All I do know is that 'a house divided' ends up on Youtube and with endless press conferences like the ones on 'the Sherrod circus', today.
     Whereas blacks are ginned up with the heady power they think they have in today's government and industry, whites are 'miller lighted up' with getting some kind of weird satisfaction in seeing all the hatred blacks have for non-blacks FINALLY being displayed in the open.   Politeness of blacks for whites, for the sake of 'politeness' is dead. 
     Whites also take this lesson from blacks:  it is a fact that in some uber-Progressive-lib circles, a kind of funky 'alliance' is in play between blacks and the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual for those of you who have been living in a cave for the last twenty years) contingency.  This alliance helped get President Obama elected and has helped both blacks and LGBT get their social engineering agendas if not implemented, at least on the 'table'.
     No where else is this black-LGBT alliance stronger than in the UCC of President Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.  Personally, I believe this is a marriage made in hell, for most traditional black Christian groups are not in accord with gay marriage, etc. 
     But, hey.   This quirky black-LGBT alliance won the White House, so it must be good for something, at least some would say.    I just think that these groups will ultimately 'go at it' based on both moral and ethical as well as on racial grounds.  White babies are white babies and when they're threatened, that's a concern for both heterosexual and homosexual parents.   And this is yet another reason why whites are winning the 'race war' of 2010.
     When whites 'get mad', they 'get going'.  When blacks 'get mad', they try to 'get even'...or based on current events...'they try to get you!'  Unfortunately, whites are less and less inclined to be sympathetic to the 'race card' nowadays and blacks have but little choice but to either 'act out and threaten' or try to behave in a decent, sentient manner like 'nice whites' do when they are threatened.
     How's about we all try to act in a more decent, sentient manner?  The real 'Truth' is that he or she who stays in control and acts decently for the betterment of all, is the 'winner' here.
     There's a 'race war' going on, let there be no doubt.   It may well flare up into another 'civil war' at the rate we're going, especially when we add the 'illegal aliens' into the mix.  The one who maintains the most self-control and who is most willing to cooperate with others will 'win'.  It's that simple.
     I agree with certain black pundits who call for endless conversations on race and here is my contribution:  Don't call us 'whitey'.  Only 'we' can call each other that.  And I am henceforth declaring that 'cracker' is considered to be as offensive to us as 'nigger' is to you.  Yes, whitey has 'not gotten the great insult you have intended us over the years'... but we sure do now. 
     So call us 'cracker or Snowflake or white rice' if you must and we will construe it as the 'hate language' that it really is.  Personally, I've got no use for this 'race war' of 2010, especially as a member of the TEA PARTY PATRIOTS. 
     Good luck, Ms. Sherrod, latest example of racial conflagration.  I do pray you are good for your words as portrayed in your lengthy video above.
Yours in the color of Christ,
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
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'CALLING ALL AGNOSTICS/ATHEISTS/SPIRITUAL SEEKERS Re: A Forgiveness We Cannot Fathom' By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

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     How good it is to Christian believers to know that God has a forgiveness so 'complete' that it includes that which we can't ever completely understand!  Witness this exchange between Jesus and the men on each side of him:
"39One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: "Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!"

40But the other criminal rebuked him. "Don't you fear God," he said, "since you are under the same sentence? 41We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong."
42Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.[f]"
43Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."
                                                                                            Luke 23:39-43 (NIV)
LINK: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+23&version=NIV
     What do you think is the 'story' of this 'suddenly forgiven' criminal?  It is the fact that he accepted Christ as the Lord that he was 'saved' at the last minute. 
     And God's forgiveness goes beyond even this.  We are told in Scripture that God so thoroughly 'forgives our sins' that He is actually able to 'not remember them'!  You can read this in a book of the New Testament written especially for 'Jewish Believers', in Hebrews 8:1-13 (NIV)
GOD says: "11No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."    Hebrews 8:11-12 (NIV)
LINK: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+8&version=NIV
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     I am not saying that there is no such thing as 'unpardonable sin' (that is, attributing to Satan the works of the Holy Spirit) and that everyone can get a 'free pass' one way or another.  But only the Lord Himself--with or without the intervention of either an angel or a human prophet--can make a call like that.  For myself, I would be extremely hesitant to broach the subject unless I had 'direct orders', so to speak. 
     There's no second-guessing the Lord on matters of judgement and religious leaders who do so--well let's just say that they and only they will be judged for their words and actions and their influence on others.
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    So be wary, dear ones, of any religious leaders who declare either wholesale condemnation or wholesale forgiveness.  That is like saying that one completely knows the mind of God, and that is just not  impossible unless one has received some very direct orders. 
     I pray what I've written here gives you all--Christian believers, spiritual seekers, agnostics and atheists--cause for reflection and reconsideration of some very important things in this day and age.  There's a 'New Covenant' a-coming these days....to be 'completed' in God's good time.  The Bible outlines the gameplan and gives us plenty of hints and warnings of events that look strangely similar to events in the news today.
     If current events in any way prompt you to reconsider things you have previously cast aside (like believing in a Creator and/or believing in the writings of the Bible), this just might be a good time to take a second look.  What can it hurt? 
     But if you belong to the 'these things happen all the time' brigade, you'll likely think this is all nonsense and will just keep on keeping on with whatever you're doing anyway.  No matter-Scripture has you covered to, so that believers can understand you better and be there to help you in the event...you know.
      I will pray that if you are reading this, you will listen to that 'small, still, BOOMING voice' inside you mind, heart, body and soul when 'it' speaks to you.
      Please, oh please, do pay attention to it!
God Bless & Keep You even those of you who don't believe in Him just yet  : )
Reverend Barbara Sexton
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VANDALIZED CHURCH SIGN Courtland Ave, Stamford, CT June 14, 2010 By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

Gee, I wonder what THIS is all about?

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Something tells me this may not be the best 'spellist' in their class...

Seen and photographed 6/14/10 on Courtland Ave in Stamford, CT

 I don't know 'where they are now', but this is from the church website:

Thanks for Visiting!
Grace Evangelical Free Church exists to glorify and worship God by enjoying Him and serving Him with joyful and glad hearts. We have been called by God to join Him in the work of building His kingdom. The process of building His kingdom includes:
Worship: Celebrating God's presence through contemporary and creative worship
Witness: Communicating God's message through our words and actions
Edification: Commitment to encourage and mature God's people through discipleship
Community: Caring for one another with love and fellowship
In practical terms, we live out these motivations through a heart for young people and racial reconciliation.
Dear Ones: Please join me in praying for this congregation and for the graffiti artists-at-large. 
May the Lord have mercy on us all.
AMEN,
Reverend Barbara Sexton
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BLACK FOUNDING FATHERS WE RARELY HEAR ABOUT By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

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Dear Ones:
     I have to admit that my knowledge of history isn't extensive.  I've always concentrated on math and the sciences....and then later on on theology.  As such, learning my history 'better', or even for the first time, is an ongoing vocation for me now, especially in this season of my awakened political awareness.
     I was raised as and have always been a 'civil rights advocate' and supporter and advocate for gay and lesbian persons.  
     However,  when members of my own church denomination pronounced me to be 'a racist homophobe' a few years back, I lost a great deal of initiative to 'fight for and with them'. 
      Granted, this is the denomination, the UCC, of Reverend Jeremiah Wright and his cadre of Black Liberation Theology minions.  But even I was surprised how 'unpopular' I suddenly became once it was clear that I was not  absolutely militant on BLT and LBGT/gay marriage. 
     The thing that 'clinched' my blessed rejection was when I dared to speak of holding some conservative views which I'd previously kept to myself.  I was silenced, shunned, reviled and rejected. Yes, I still seem to 'grouse and grumble', but it's to make a point.  I am grateful to have had such a front-row seat to intractable American History as bred in my very own 'church'. 
     The negativity started several years ago.  It was then that I learned that the group I had so strongly aligned myself with totally and utterly violated a tenet of Martin Luther King.   All blacks voted for Barack, period.
     While I was not surprised, I know I was lied to by some close friends who said they did otherwise, but surely they 'voted for the brother'.  Actually, I can understand that and if President Obama had turned out to be a good and uniting President, I probably would be applauding the whole thing.
     But the Obama Administration is creating racial and religious tensions in the U.S.A. and internationally, the likes of which I can't remember seeing since the 1960's.  Everywhere I go, people confide that they are 'leery' of someone or other due to 'race'.  It's really very disheartening and as I've said before, "I don't want no race war".  But I know we are all being dragged into it one way or another.
     Still, I'm an optimist.  I look to the better angels in people.  I want to cling to the things that provide us with hope, such as this latest Founder's Friday piece done by Glenn Back on 'Black Founding Fathers'.
     A little note here: if you are the type who is SO turned off to Beck for whatever reason, don't waste your time here.  Your mind is too closed to benefit from anything here. And if you are not willing to take the time to do a little research of your own to follow-up on this...likewise, just ignore this 'newly revealed' (publically, at least) bit of American History. 
     But if you would like to help seek 'our common ground as Americans' and to maybe avoid the upcoming inevitable 'race war', hang in there.  Maybe this Glenn Beck video and related material can serve as a common beacon of hope for those of us 'five times cut, and never broken'.  Please join me in this quest, if you can. 
"NOT GOD DAMN AMERICA, BUT GOD BLESS AMERICA"
With Love in Christ,
Reverend Barbara Sexton
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'I Don't Want No Race War' By Reverend Barbara Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"

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Like Auntie Vera once said, "If we Ukrainians didn't CRY so much...how would anyone know when we're happy?" By Rev Barb Sexton www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com Mar 8, 2010

Like Auntie Vera once said, "If we Ukrainians didn't CRY so much...how would anyone know when we're happy?"
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FIRST LOOK PHOTO 'ENTERTAINING ANGELS'-THE STORY OF A FORMER SALVATION ARMY SOLDIER BY REVEREND BARBARA SEXTON

Dear Ones:

For some time now, I've been telling you about my upcoming book, "Entertaining Angels"-An Agnostic Meets Christ Midlife, By A Former Salvation Army Soldier (that's me) Reverend Barbara Sexton. To say that I've had an interesting and rocky road in my faith journey is an understatement. But God does not leave 'fools' such as myself to their own devices...In my case, He has blessed me with a profound and fecund sense of humor and a good mind, if I do say so myself.

While I will not say that my entire sojourn at The Salvation Army, as a Soldier "Saved to Serve" (ergo the S's on the shoulder epaulets or 'ornamental shoulder pads' on our uniforms) was all pleasant and rewarding, it did have it's 'moments'. I thank God that my daughter was also embued with a great sense of humor,for all that she endured during those years and since with Mama's perpetual quest for spiritual enlightenment.

Here's a FIRST LOOK PHOTO for you to get the idea of what I mean. My charming daughter, Jen, is in the front freely expressing her 'true self'...And what a TROOPER she was and still is! Behind her, left to right, is my C.O. (Commanding Officer, usually a Captain, but in this case a Lieutenant), myself in the middle with dark hair up-do and standing next to me, far right, my sister-in-law at a Memorial Day Parade in Stamford, CT.

I thought you might get a kick out of seeing this photo in all it's glory as I set the stage for my 'big story'. Stay tuned for a December 21, 2012 release date of my book "Entertaining Angels". It's not what you think it is!

Blessings To You,

Reverend Barb Sexton "The Biblical Biochemist--Where Science Meets the Cross!"

'ENTERTAINING ANGELS' --A BOOK BY FORMER SALVATION ARMY SOLDIER REVEREND BARBARA SEXTON EXPECTED COMPLETION/RELEASE DEC 21, 2012

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