The Christianville Spirit: Me and The Season of Autumn Rerun

           

                 The Christianville Spirit 

                  The Spirit that Keeps Giving 

September 22nd, 2021 – TCS # 746 

 

 Happy Autumn, My Readers! Oh Yes. The Season of Autumn is here once Again. Autumn, an Old English Term for What We Americans call “Fall” is an Interesting Season. A Season of Change; A Season of Letting Go (I have heard This A lot considering This Crazy Year of 2020 and 2021!); And, Of Course, A Season in Which We can Peacefully Admire Nature! And, Honestly, I think We need to Reconnect with Nature to Reconnect with Ourselves! Anyway, To Explain about Autumn and My Feelings about It, I am going to rerun a Newsletter about It. 

Portions of This Newsletter was written on October 8th of 2014 (Refer to Newsletter 420) 

 

So, The Season of Autumn (or Fall, as it is Normally called) and I have, I guess You would refer to as a Love-Hate Relationship. Autumn is a Season that covers September, October, and November as well as Two Major Holidays, Halloween and Thanksgiving. So, Why do I have a Love-Hate Relationship with The Season of Autumn? Well, I will start with the Happy Side of Autumn. You See, I Love Autumn because of The Leaves. What People call The “Fall Foliage” and I Love It! Unfortunately, I don’t live where There are a lot of Tall, Pretty Trees. To Describe what The Trees are like here, They look like Over Sized Broccoli. So, I celebrate Autumn’s Foliage with Looking at Pictures of and Reading Fall Reports from My Favorite Area of The Country in Autumn, New England. I love seeing those Eye-Blinding Colors! It is Beyond Amazing! Other than The Foliage, The Temperatures are finally coming down but, It is in that Comfort Stage where it is Not too Hot and Not too Cold. Of Course, We can’t forget about Thanksgiving with All The Turkey and Stuffing You can Eat. So, Now comes Why I hate The Season of Autumn. Okay, It is not Autumn’s Fault but, It put, In My Eyes, a Very Ugly Holiday known as Halloween. Halloween means a lot of Things that I hate and I will explain why; Pumpkins, Scary Things, Horror Movies, and Costumes. Now, Pumpkins are not at the Top of My List but, There is a Reason. You See, Back in The “Mr. Jeff Era”, We used to Carve The Pumpkins and That sounded fun..until I found out what was Inside. What is Inside is Pulp but, to me, It looks like Seed Covered Orange Goo coming out. It makes My Stomach turn just looking at it, and At Times, Thinking about it. The Reason being because It Looked Gross to Me. You See, As I have Told You many times about My Texture Issues. Well, I have Texture Issues with The Way Something feels as well as The Way It looks. Now, On The Upside, I would probably enjoy watching Pumpkins being Chunked in a Fun Event known as “Pumpkin Chunkin’”. It would be Interesting to see How far They would go. The Next Couple Reasons are Truly Why I Hate Halloween. Scary Things like Horror Movies, Haunted Houses, and Scary Costumes. I do not like Costumes in General, so making them scary is Much Worse! Of Course, I Hate Costumes, Especially The Scary Ones as well as Any that has a Mask. My Mom actually explained it to a PTLS Family Member once and Now, I know why I don’t like Costumes. “They (The PTLSers) don’t have very good Depth Perception, They Can’t see very well in 3D”, My Mom says. She also explained that We like it when You can see the Person’s Face, not a Scary Mask covering The Face. Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind the Cute Child Costume that is not Scary and I can see Their Face clearly. 

I would never watch a Horror Movie, unless It is a Horror Movie in a Funny Way. Although, It seems like Most of My Friends (including My Brother) like Horror Movies and I don’t understand why You would. It probably pertains to The Fact that I don’t like People and Animals in Distress. To Me, Besides The Movie Scaring The Pants off You, There is usually a lot of People in Distress in Those kind of Movies. Haunted Houses, Definitely Hate Them and Believe Me, I have Tried a Few. Those being Van Helsing at Universal Studios Hollywood, One at Sea World in San Antonio, and Fiesta Texas’ Fright Fest, Most of these with My Dad. So, At Least, I can say that I tried them and I Hated Them. So, I would rather celebrate with The Fall Foliage, Hot Apple Cider with Caramel, and Cool Weather. All in all, I Love The Weather Part of Autumn, Eating Stuffing at Thanksgiving, and Spending Time with Family. But, I can do without Halloween, A Little Christmas Music helps get me through. 

 
 

Thanks for Reading The Christianville Spirit. Cheers to Apple Cider and The Beautiful Fall Leaves. 

 

 

 

The Christianville Spirit: Texting God Rerun

                 

                The Christianville Spirit 

                 The Spirit that Keeps Giving 

September 15th, 2021- TCS # 745 

 

We need God, My Readers! Boy, Ya Know that is The Truth! This is a Very Meaningful and Very Direct Greeting because It is Very True. All of Us of Humanity need God Right Now. Well, We need God all The Time but, Right Now, We Really need God. God is Testing All of Our Faith in Him and Let Me tell you, It is not an Easy Test to take! Funny Thing, I never that A Test of This Sort would happen in My Lifetime. Now, Yes, I realize that Everyone says that, “Why in THIS Lifetime?”, In whatever Numbered Lifetime This is for You. I would take Shot Guess that say that This is My 12th Lifetime. Seems like a Good Number of Lifetimes! Then again, I am an Old Soul, so It miiight be more than 12 Lifetimes. I just thought that 12 was a Good Number in This Context. Question thoug? If You were to Shot Guess, How Many to Do You think You have lived. Answer in whatever Avenue of Social Media that You have for Me (Facebook, FB Group, Comment, or Email). So, Speaking of God and Lifetimes, In Each Lifetime; On Earth, We call it “Generations”, We have an Idea of God. Ranging from God is a Harsh and Merciless Person to God is Love and Accepting of All. The Second One is The Most Pure and Simple View of Him. At least in My Opinion anyway. The View of God is Very Opinionated, so I try to tread lightly in Opinionated Topics. I have written a Newsletter that I am going to Rerun about My View of This Topic. I hope that You keep an Open Mind about This View of Mine. Enjoy! 

 

This Newsletter was Orginally Written on  

September 12th of 2012 (Refer to Newsletter 316)  

 

Now, I’m going to let you know that This Week’s Newsletter to most people may sound a bit unconventional, but I promise you it will make sense in the end. So, for those Christians of all ages out there, have you ever seen or heard the phrase, “God is Cool!” in a church or ministry? Well, don’t get me wrong, God is THE most awesome God in the World, but to be honest, it has always been hard to make God sound cool. You See, when people think of God, Jesus, Mary, and Other Angels; People know that there are 3 ways in connecting with God, through Praying, Fasting(otherwise known as the original meaning of Lent), and following his Commandments. Often Times, when People are wanting or needing something, they will pray, “God, Send Me a Sign or Something!” But to God, when it comes to Signs and Communicating that’s often how he does it, but to Young People it may seem a bit old fashioned, especially in this day of Technology. Now, most people who have lived on Earth for a while will tell you that you can communicate via Praying or sitting in a quiet place and try really hard to hear him speak to you. But, to people who are My Age, that doesn’t always make sense or really work out for them. I talked to My Mom, the other night, about an easier way of communicating with God and Spirits. Well, most people know that there are Signs (like Lights flickering on and off, Miracles, or sudden Anxiety) and then, there are the “Confirmation Codes” which are a sequence of numbers like 111, 222, 333 and other numbers like 2,3,7,11,12 just to name a few. But, what if God decided to get on the technology bandwagon and become a bit more Modernized. You Know, Where You and God can have nightly conversations whenever you want or just need to talk via something like Text Messages, Facebook Message, or Phone Calls. My Mom and I got a good laugh talking about this and she told me, “Can you imagine If your Ipad rang with harp sounds and it was God, Skypeing or FaceTiming You?”. Honestly, I personally, would rather work with Text Messages or Facebook Messages. But, she asked “Would you answer his call?” (now, this is a Serious Question). So, whenever your doing right or wrong He’ll send you a message either encouraging you to keep going or stop what your doing; also, maybe God gets a little bored too and maybe he wants to talk to you about the stuff going on in his life. I mean, God’s Life in Heaven, isn’t perfect, you know. Of Course, it would be a little weird when a Text from God says, “We need to Talk. Now!” Then you know your in trouble. But, I believe though, that it certainly helps Young People like Teens and Young Adults communication with God in their way, of course there’s always Praying in between but, when you really need Him, just Text Him at 333 or Contact Him on Facebook under “Your Lord, God”. And, if you want there’s always, Skype and FaceTime, or Twitter; the list goes on. So, I don’t mean to sound sacrilegious, but it is an interesting thought, if not, funny to envision God sitting in Heaven with His Computer, Ipad & Iphone, checking in on everyone. But, the real question is when God calls “Would you answer?”. All in all, God is with us all the time, whether He’s modernized or not. and, He is Cool!  

 

Thanks for Reading The Christianville Spirit. Go Ahead and ring God up, He’ll always answer.