November 30, 2002 journal, a very special wedding, living Christian, painting visual art with a message. The day is challenging and the mind is important to keep clear. It is not the end if your mind or body fails you. If you eat right and sleep right you can recover and your mind will function when the body is properly nourished and with daily good exercise.

Today we have a special wedding and reception for Susan Quinn Powell, the great grand daughter of Walter and Minnie Quinn Gassaway who built this house in 1919 and it has always been called the Gassaway Mansion. The bride is very beautiful and the reception was gorgeous with a comprehensive menu of food including chicken cordon bleu.

Let the thoughts of my mind and meditation of my heart be holy and acceptable unto thee.

There is no question about poverty in Britain when it costs $3 per hour to park a car and a large percentage of people ride bicycles. In most areas, street meters run all night. You may think they would stop at 6:00 p.m. but they do not. What would it be like to live in a place where no one could come or stop to see you for fear of being fined at least $100 for parking within walking distance of your own home. A people that is charged seventeen % to spend their money is a poor people and stricken with abusive taxation without mercy, without reason to collect with force other than greed. Poverty is relative to living cost and taxation. When it takes 17 1/2% tax to spend a dollar or a pound, people are already poor. $3 per hour to park your car day and night, then people are already poor and oppressed.

There is within me great inspiration to paint the appropriate message for all to see.

The young lady in the art-supply store said that she did not go to church because of the hypocrisy. Most preachers would condemn her for that but it is true. If a majority of the congregation are hypocrites in their Christian life, then true Christians will find no spiritual food in that congregation. If a pastor protects a hypocritical congregation then he or she cannot feed those that are genuinely committed to true worship of the living God. I see many people everyday all around me that live one-way at home and another way when at church. A hypocrite is one that lives a life for the devil except when in church they pretend to live for God. Without a true experience with God, one has no idea what a Christian life really is, that it is wonderful and the only way to go. Hypocrites or prolific in most of the churches and it is not a good reason to stay home if your church is seeking the true God and praising God properly. Hypocrites have no place in the church because they belong to the devil. If your pastor is a hypocrite than he has nothing for your spiritual nourishment. The devil loves hypocrites and applauds them to high heaven or to the pit of hell. Can a Christian be a hypocrite? I would say no. A hypocrite pretends to be Christian but is not. God will not dwell in a hypocrites heart according to the Scripture. The Pharisees were hypocrites. Some hypocrites are in plain view and obvious but others are complicated in secret, clergy and individuals. A true Christian could live in the modern church and never think of the hypocrites because a true Christian stands alone like a rock on the rock and want to be a member of the body of Christ. However, many churches are not the body of Christ, they are more like the body of the devil and fuelled by the social elite and economic benefits. In the case of the Catholic priest being revealed in their crimes as pedophiles, the church in their services are often fueled by seeking abnormal sex in the molestation of the same flesh as they take advantage of those they rule over. Major denominations that were formed years ago with righteous intent have become greedy and self righteous with pride no longer acquainted with God. They become like the Catholic, their own God and force of power in number. Some few escape but most are hopeless for them to come out of this.