From one scare to another.

DAY TO DAY POLITICS: The past returns. Tuesday 26 February 2019 The PMs Environment policy. It’s all under control. After 5 and a half years the environment becomes important. From one scare campaign to another. Labor are lying, you cannot trust Labor. It’s all Labor’s fault. I’m beginning to think that after listening to the Prime Minister we have had the most astonishingly good Government in our history. But I keep on asking myself why they needed to change PM’s so frequently. Remember a couple of years ago we went through a period of everything’s on the table, we have a plan, a blueprint etc. Well it’s back. All the plans are working and we now have a “Climate Solutions Fund” it’s a plan that will work it’s not a blueprint. Tasmania also has a plan “A battery to the nation” Wow were they asleep for 5 years now they have all the solutions. And no mention of the black stuff. A significant announcement you’re thinking. Yes but no Minister. Bloody hell I hope she hasn’t drowned in all that stolen water. All of a sudden they have become sensible and practicable. Amazing how they can become so nearing an election. We can trust the LNP. WE ARE BACK TO TONY ABBOTT’S DIRECT ACTION. More trees, more money for the polluters with no accountability that I can see. It doesn’t even address transport, agriculture or manufacturing. We all incur a cost for the upkeep of our health. Why then shouldn’t the polluters not be liable for the cost of a healthy planet? And we are back to the size of the reductions. They can achieve theirs in a canter but Labor’s is unachievable, will cost 35,000 jobs and destroy the economy. That’s what he said. MY THOUGHT FOR THE DAY. On the subject of climate change. Think about this. If we fail to act and disaster results, then massive suffering will have been aggravated by stupidity”

Poetry

Negative Neil

Negativity

It seemed to follow him

in his every thought

In silent ways

Offensive ways

Pessimistic words

he spoke

That critised his family his friends

Acquaintances

People he had not yet met

His dog copped it

without doing anything

He loved sport but the teams

he supported were hopeless

He lived in suburb

that had little future

As were his future

employment prospects

Nothing he could think of

had any redeeming features

Except for……no

He would have to

it some more thought

My Quotations

“Never be afraid to step over the shadow of your negativity”

“You can go back to the place but not the time”

“Life is about perception. Not what is but what we perceive it to be”

“We should do everything possible on our part to live in peace with everybody”

“I will have to stop reading all these books. It’s affecting my brain”

“It takes three seconds to say I love you but the effect lasts a lifetime”

“At some time in the human narrative…..in our history, man declared himself superior to women. It must have been an accident, or at least an act of gross stupidity. But that’s men for you”

“Life is about doing things, not having things”

“The pathway to the riches of knowledge is in the reading……..and the doing”

“Our lives have become controlled by the noise of the mass media. The sad thing is that we accept it”

"There are three kinds of people. Those who know. Those who know when they are shown, and those who don’t know at all”

“Perception interpreted unwisely can result in a mistaken conclusion of reality”

“History is just an ongoing commentary on the incompetence of men”

“We dislike and resist change in the foolish assumption that we can make permanent that which makes us feel secure. Yet change is in fact part of the very fabric of our existence”

“There is no such thing as an original idea because there is always a preceding pathway of thought”

Poem

I Wonder When The Seed Is Planted

I look upon the child’s face and see

Innocence - unblemished purity

Translated in looks virtuous

How sweet how incorruptible

Then it happens with measured subtly

The distortion of youthful thought

Insinuated into free

And immature minds

I wonder when the seed is planted

When evil first takes hold

And intolerance evolves

To become scum on the pond of life

Who grants permission to damage the child?

Of youthful purity

The wonderment of adventure

Unfiltered creativity

Is it the sin of the father?

That makes a child loathe

That makes them xenophobic

Racist just like him

When does it take root this hatred?

That enters the child’s mind

To be carried with them always

Fermenting as they grow

Are parents so imbued?

With experiences of the past

That forgiveness is impossible

Bad memories seem to last

So they pass it onto their children

And intolerance lingers on

Licking at the finger of hate

It seems to have no end

I can only pray to you Lord

In the hope that you will hear

The cry that is inside my heart

Please - let understanding in

Feb 08

Poem

Truth

Of truth we can say, we are all in need

How we use it creates God’s division

Between good, evil, right and wrong

Truth is never fragile but does require delicacy

It can be black or white or different shades of hue

We can misuse it, abuse it, distort it and with it cause despair

In discussion we can eliminate it altogether

Too suit our own need

We can manipulate it to bring about sorrow

We can leave it open to interpretation and disguise its real purpose

But we can never ignore it

Together with love it is an ingredient of faith

It is pure only when it is exempt from desires of self justification

In its purity it is the basic essence of reason

When used to clarify decisions, it is the ultimate influence

Truth is not dependant on age or experience

Truth does not compromise or need illusion,

And never needs to justify itself

It can only be wise when used wisely

But is there a truth absolute? Yes

It’s called God’s truth and it’s found in the

Word’s of Jesus

You see, without truth, we cannot hope too understand faith without faith we cannot understand truth

And without both we cannot comprehend love

Easter Narrative

Quotation

Portrait

This is my portrait of Anni Giannarelli who sings one of my songs "If You Could Look Into His Eyes" (See video clip on this page)

Poem

Quotation

“If you read the Bible with literal intent it becomes the only text book on living never updated. On the other hand, if you read it with the reason of an exploratory mind all manner of truths are revealed”


John Lord

Poem

Faith

Faith is the insight of truth hope and love
Those who don’t acknowledge it don’t see the human condition for what it is
A complex mixture of reason and emotion
They devalue the emotive ingredient
in the recipe of what we are
Faith surpasses the human condition called logic
It’s the residue when questions have no answers
Faith is God’s gift to those who see without seeing and know without understanding
It forms the missing link between what we know of God and what we don’t
It’s the gap in our inability too comprehend his actions, or often the lack of.
It’s more understood by those who have suffered and retained it
Than those who have suffered and rejected it
It can never be grasped by those who are not open to the experience of it
The reality is that faith cannot be obtained or appreciated without giving into its existence
For without faith doubt becomes the seed of disbelief
True faith is trusting God

Quotation

“Only faith resolves the irresolvable question
of the mysteriousness of God”

John Lord

 

Portrait of Beau

Comment

Some years ago, in answer to a question, my son gave what I considered an unsatisfactory, response and suggested he should look” beyond the answer”. At the time, he did not understand what I meant. In reading Barack Obama’s, book “The Audacity of Hope I came across a typical example of what I was suggesting. He was writing on the subject of abortion and stated that he was on the pro side of the debate, but then went on to say that common ground could be found, in that when he was asked . Are there to many abortions? he simply answered, of course. By looking beyond the answer he opened up a whole new, and perhaps more reverential debate about the need for abortion. One where both sides could find common dialogue, and perhaps better understanding.

Poetry

Doubt

Doubt be not our fear
Truth be our desire
Critics don’t condone us
Our contradictory thought

Doubt makes us wise
To question not a sin
Doubt be our journey
Enlightenment within

Questions be inspired
Answers revelation
Integrity walk beside us
Truth will always win

Faith be our companion
Doubt our inner voice
Truth be the search
That brings us close to him

Poetry/Art

Quotation

“History is just an ongoing commentary on the incompetence of men”

John Lord

Quotation

“We dislike and resist change in the foolish assumption that we can make permanent that which makes us feel secure. Yet change is in fact part of the very fabric of our existence”

John Lord

Portrait

poem

The Boat

Based on this painting by John Tunley

The tranquil water illustrates

The passing of a storm

The boat tells its story

The journey life’s sojourn

The picture is of stillness

The ocean calm serene

The clouds they look over

The sea that has no end

The boat is not perfect

The hull in need of work

The boat it seeks calm waters

The sand its final rest

The boat is at its journeys end

The boat has had its day

The boat seeks its place in heaven

The boat no longer sways

The people who have rowed her

The journey has an end

The resting place is near the shore

The waves they come and end

The boat will sail in heaven

The people will row on

The horizon meets the sunset

The work of God is done

Photography

A portraiture study in black and white of Beaumont Coleman Lord. Our eldest grandchild.

Quotation

“the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages… It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom or our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.”

Robert Kennedy 1968

Quotation

“At some time in the human narrative…..in our history, man declared himself superior to women. It must have been an accident, or at least an act of gross stupidity. But that’s men for you”

John Lord