Aurora: Love Will Prevail
God is love, and as Jesus reveals in the Bible, the greatest commandment is to love one another because love heals. Love is the engine that instills true dignity into the human race. In this time of the Aurora tragedy, the healing power of love will prevail.
America and Americans are familiar with this edict. Through many failings, America and Americans have risen to higher ground by embracing the innate goodness of righteousness and love. This has been the inherited blessing of the American people — seeking the truth, the light, and the right thing to do, which is enveloped in the principle of love.
Arising out of the ashes of sorrow of the massacre in Aurora are stories of bravery and brotherhood. God does not create evil, but God is there in the midst of evil. Why there is evil, we do not know. We do know that love is the saving grace — the grace that is manifested by God’s love and our love for one another.
This attribute has kept and keeps America virtuous. We come together when times get tough.
As the families of the victims walk through the valley of the shadow of death, may we aid in their recovery with prayers for their healing. May we honor them by exhibiting that same healing power of love in our everyday lives. May we seek to live, and leave, a legacy that reflects such beauty.
Several people threw themselves in the path of bullets to protect the loved ones in their life, they gave their lives instantly and without hesitation. There is a line in a movie; humanity is at its best when the things around us are at their worst.
Thank you for a thoughtful and pure response to this tragedy.
Thank you for your brave article. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness will not overcome it. There is so much suffering in this world and that fact will never end. Never a cause for cynical unbelief but rather a cause for a fuller confidence in Christ. God is not evasive, but he is counterintuitive to our limited understanding. “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” -Paul, Romans 12:21
Thank you again for refeshing our hearts and minds!
so worth a listen ~ detailed account by young man who had been an intern at one of our local radio stations here in CO who was wounded horribly at the shooting and thought he was dying but was at peace because of his faith…told emergency teams to help others instead: http://siteadmin.alice1059.com/listen/bj-howie-jamie-interview-pierce-ofarrill-724#.UBAMxNdC4z4.facebook
We don’t hear much about the true Americans from the media, they’re too interested in promoting themselve and their causes.
Thanks Janine,
As always, your focus on this tragedy is right on the money. Americans can, and still do, come together for the best of reasons in the face of pure evil. I join you and all of those of good will in praying for the victims and their families and friends. May God grant them the peace of the Holy Spirit now and always.
Beautifully said, Miss Janine!!!!
The Bible is correct. The meek shall inherit the earth. And the means to this end is an obscure proof in public finance that none will touch. I offer $50,000 to anyone who can find the flaw in it, but none ever have.
Perhaps those at PJ Media might take an interest in it.
Regards,
Gary Marshall
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The costs of borrowing for a nation to fund public expenditures, if it borrows solely from its resident citizens and in the nation’s currency, is nil.
Why? Because if in adding a financial debt to a community, one adds an equivalent financial asset, the aggregate finances of the community will not in any way be altered. This is simple reasoning confirmed by simple arithmetic.
The community is the source of the government’s funds. The government taxes the community to pay for public services provided by the government.
Cost of public services is $10 million.
Scenario 1: The government taxes $10 million.
Community finances: minus $10 million from community bank accounts for government expenditures.
No community government debt, no community government IOU.
Scenario 2: The government borrows $10 million from solely community lenders at a certain interest rate.
Community finances: minus $10 million from community bank accounts for government expenditures.
Community government debt: $10 million;
Community government bond: $10 million.
At x years in the future: the asset held by the community (lenders) will be $10 million + y interest. The deferred liability claimed against the community (taxpayers) will be $10 million + y interest.
In a theoretical tax collection, the government would collect all outstanding principal and interest from the community taxpayers, and then hand the same right back to the community lenders whilst canceling outstanding government debts and corresponding assets in the form of government bonds. Therefore, the value of all community government debts when combined with all community government IOUs or bonds is zero for the community. It is the same $0 combined worth whether the community pays its taxes immediately or never pays them at all.
If a community borrows from its own citizens to fund worthy public expenditures rather than taxes those citizens, it will not alter the aggregate finances of the community or the wealth of the community any more than Taxation would have.
Whatever financial benefit Taxation possesses is nullified by the fact that borrowing instead of Taxation places no greater financial burden on the community.
However, the costs of Taxation are immense. By ridding the nation of Taxation and instituting borrowing to fund public expenditures, the nation will shed all those costs of Taxation in deterrence and squander for the negligible fee of the administration of public debt.
Regards,
Gary Marshall
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. – Matthew 5:3-10 NIV
these words I have read over 40 years maybe about 5000 times. When have they helped? When I have been a victim of someone else then I imagine the hungry people many following Jesus and they did not eat for three days why Jesus did the miracle of feeding them by CREATING food for the mouths of the poor.
When these words have reached me into the deepest parts of me when i saw God speaking here and then the Revelation god loves me more than i could ever love myself
The healing takes place to really know you are loved by God that much and then you can become a cup of love pouring divine love in secret upon all those you pray for and in person serving the person in need as if you are serving God and see this as a great gift to serve the needy God sends your way although this can become burden some when there are too many needy sent your way and as SainT paul say: ” the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak and even the spirit may need a rest from so many needy people that come our way but then you see you are not God in need of God’s Divine love and pray for God to send millions of angels to the needy and God will move the mountain because you had the mustard seed faith, I believe