New Year

The new year is approaching again. Time keeps moving and i'm moving with it.
i was saying i celebrate my birth annually.
i would say i celebrate my death more than annually.

The Operation Dad Had

Tracheotomy
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Completed tracheostomy:1 - Vocal cords2 - Thyroid cartilage3 - Cricoid cartilage4 - Tracheal cartileges5 - Balloon cuff
A tracheotomy or tracheostomy is a surgical procedure performed on the neck to open a direct airway through an incision in the trachea (the windpipe). (Technically, the former term, with the Greek root tom- meaning "to cut," refers to the procedure of cutting into the trachea, whereas the latter term, with the root stom- meaning "mouth," refers to the procedure of making a semipermanent or permanent opening. Tracheostomy can also refer to the result of the procedure, i.e. the opening itself.)

Contents

1 Indications for a tracheotomy
2 How a tracheotomy is performed
3 Complications
4 See also
5 External links

Indications for a tracheotomy
The indications for tracheotomy are:
Acute setting - maxillofacial injuries, large tumors of the head and neck, congenital tumors, e.g. branchial cyst, acute inflammation of head and neck, and
Chronic / elective setting - when there is need for long term mechanical ventilation and tracheal toilet, e.g. comatose patients, surgery to the head and neck.
In emergent settings, in the context of failed endotracheal intubation or where intubation is contraindicated, cricothyrodotomy or mini-tracheostomy may be performed in preference to a tracheostomy.
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How a tracheotomy is performed
Curvilinear skin incision along relaxed skin tension lines (RSTL) between sternal notch and cricoid cartilage
Midline vertical incision dividing strap muscles
Division of thyroid isthmus between ligatures
Elevation of cricoid with cricoid hook
Placement of tracheal incision. An inferior based flap or Bjork flap (through second and third tracheal rings) is commonly used. The flap is then sutured to the inferior skin margin. Alternatives include a vertical tracheal incision (pediatric) or excision of an ellipse of anterior tracheal wall.
Insert tracheostomy tube (with concomitant withdrawal of endotracheal tube), inflate cuff, secure with tape around neck or stay sutures.
Connect ventilator tubing
You can also make a simple horizontal incision between tracheal rings (typically 2nd and 3rd) for the incision. Bjork flaps may produce more intratracheal granulation tissue at the site of the incisions, making it less favorable to some surgeons.

In my dad's case the vocal cords have been removed.

Church

I feel we need to continually question all the conventions of "the church" and determine which are biblical/godly and which are humanistic.

Intrepratation

So those are some biographies that will lend perspective to the interpretation that the lord god gave me.

He said this was an example of the church, the body of Christ in the western world, he revealed to me that they were captured. The church is captured, trapped; me and you are trapped and captured. 1st we are trapped by education and the knowledge of man that takes on the pseudo of wisdom as illustrated by the Christian school we were being held in. second we are held captive by materialism and pride; this is why our capture was the million dollar man whose motto was “what’s your price” and why he had such a large head. Those are the things that hold me and you captive, the church of Christ captive, in bondage to knowledge, materialism, and pride.

Now let’s look at the captives. As it was from my perspective I noticed that the superheroes could [possible have escaped on their own, but I could not have, that is why I needed their help, and they said they needed my help. So we joined together; by joining hands, we created community. We became one body. This is what the church must do to over come in this day of captivity.

Daredevil was blind, and this aspect of him told of the faith that is need for the church to rely on god and even on each other as the body of Christ. They need heightened senses to be aware of the moving of the spirit of god. I believe there is also significance in the fact that he is dressed as a red devil. This false idea of the devil is a deception that the church needs to face. The devil is real and evil and the powers of darkness are real-not like the guy in the red suit.

The presence of wolverine said one thing to the church in particular. That is that it needs to be healed- more importantly it needs to heal it self. The divisions, the arguments, bitterness, and strife that is in the body needs to be healed by the body as outline in scripture. Notice wolverine was in great pain in the dream as the power of god moved through his body, but the healing that his own body could do made this possible. He also used his skeletal structure as the force that moved the power of god that effected earth. This was a structure that was unbreakable; like a rock that will not be shaken- the church needs to make certain its foundation is set on Jesus the Christ.

Storm pushed her power through the by the firm structure of wolverine and due to the healing ability, the power rested in the physical man, but it was the power of god to effect the very real dream. In the dream I shot out lightening that burned a desk in the room we were in. a very real evidence of the effectiveness of the power.

Next to storm was Nightcrawler. This figure is a grotesque figure by all human standards, but how precious we are in god’s site. We cannot expect things to look as they always have. Night crawler also has two interesting features- one he has a religious tradition in his upbringing- this is telling us to respect the saints who came before us and to learn from them. His other ability is that of teleportation- than k god our prayers are effective here and out from here… and let’s not forget the stories of teleportation in the New Testament.

God spoke some other personal things to me through this as well, but this seems to be for the church in general, it’s not a lone voice, God is speaking this throughout the world.

Dream

I will post the meaning to the dream this week.

Vision Part 6 Million Dollar Man

Biography of the Million Dollar Man - Ted DiBiase
Ted DiBiase has been involved in the world of professional wrestling his entire life. His stepfather, wrestler "Iron Mike" DiBiase, began the tradition and had a strong influence on him as a child. He died in the ring when Ted was fifteen. Shortly after, his mother slipped into a depression and turned to alcohol. Ted moved into a little town in southern Arizona to live with his grandparents. After Ted's junior year in college at West Texas State University
in Canyon, Texas, he stepped into the squared circle to follow in his father's footsteps.
After wrestling in Amarillo, Texas and Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, Ted moved to Atlanta to continue his wrestling
career. While there he met his future wife Melanie and they
were married in 1981. Ted's wrestling engagements kept
him away from her, while ego, pride, and money took
center stage. After the birth of their first son Teddy, the
DiBiase's moved to Mississippi where he continued
wrestling for Mid-South Wrestling. Ted was hoping that the
World Wrestling Federation (WWF) would take notice of his
talent. The WWF did take notice. They had an idea for a
new character and developed Ted into the "Million Dollar
Man" and he was surrounded by money, limousines and
life in the fast lane. Through hard work and much
determination he quickly rose to the top of his profession
where he has remained for the past twenty years.
Ted's career as a wrestler has taken him all over the world; all over Europe, Japan, India,
Canada, and all of the fifty states, including Alaska and Hawaii. Ted has held many
wrestling titles over his expansive career not withstanding, "The World Championship
Title." He has wrestled alone, as part of a tag team, and in recent years as the role of
manager. You may also have heard him at times behind the camera as he often
Million Dollar Man - Ted DiBiase
commentated and did color commentating for World Championship Wrestling.
Due to a neck injury several years ago, Ted was forced to give up the physical side of professional wrestling. He acted as a ringside manager in both the WWF (Andre the Giant, Steve Austin) and WCW (Steiner Brothers). While with WCW, Ted appeared on Ted Turner's cable networks "Monday
Nitro" and "Thursday Thunder" TV programs, and acted as creative consultant to EA Sports for their WCW Mayhem video game designed for the Sony Saturn and N64 game systems. He also traveled the Nascar circuit
as a WCW representative. Ted's WCW contract expired in 1999, and since then, Ted has taken on new roles outside of professional wrestling. He is a spokesperson for the Sunshine Foundation, an organization
that grants wishes for critically ill children, and has founded Heart of David Ministries (for which he travels the world as an evangelist furthering the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Also through Heart of David Ministries, Ted shares his prayer of hope all over America in motivational assemblies speaking out against the results of drug and alcohol abuse - warning America's youth about the trap of being addicted to drugs and alcohol. He also encourages them to stay in school, set reachable goals and pay whatever price it takes to become the best that they can be. But, Ted's speaking ministry is not focused only on youth, but he I actually has an even stronger message for "macho men" out there, and also struggling married couples. He speaks at men's meetings, whole church congregations, and special events. Recently, Ted has been very vocal about the state of today's professional wrestling - speaking against the sex and vulgar language in the
current product. He is currently exploring the possibilities of starting his own small federation which would be run as an outreach of Heart of David Ministries

Vision Part 5 Nightcrawler

Real name: Kurt Wagner
Other aliases: None
Identity: Secret
Occupation: Adventurer
Legal status: Criminal record in the United States, later overturned
by the courts; still wanted internationally as an outlaw
Place of birth: Somewhere in the Bavarian Alps
Marital status: Single
Known relatives: Eric Wagner (father, deceased), Margali Szardos
(foster mother), Jimaine Szardos (Daytripper, alias Amanda Sefton,
foster sister), Stefan Szardos (foster brother, deceased). The name of
Wagner's mother, who was presumed to be deceased, is not known
for certain, though it may be the mutant Mystique.
Base of operations: Muir Island, Scotland
Group affiliation: Excalibur, (formerly) X-Men
First appearance: GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1
History: Kurt Wagner was born with certain unusual physical
characteristics, but his power of self-teleportation did not emerge
until puberty. Margali Szardos, a sorceress and gypsy queen, found
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Wagner an hour after his birth, in a small roadside shelter in the
Bavarian Alps. She found his father, Eric Wagner, dead of a heart
attack on the road outside. Margali is said to have found Wagner's
mother lying next to the baby and dying, but this assertion has been
called into question, and not even Kurt Wagner knows the truth.
Margali took the baby to the small Bavarian circus where she worked
as a fortuneteller as a "cover" for her activities as a sorceress.
Wagner was never legally adopted by anyone, but was raised by all
the members of the circus, who had no prejudices against "freaks."
Margali acted as Wagner's unofficial foster mother.
Wagner grew up happily in the circus, and his two closest friends
were Margali's natural children Stefan and Jimaine. Long before his
teleportation power emerged, Wagner had tremendous natural
agility, and by his adolescence he had become the circus's star
acrobat and aerial artist. Circus audiences assumed that he was a
normal-looking human being wearing a demon-like costume.
Years later, the Texas millionaire Arnos Jardine, who ran a large
circus based in Florida, heard of the circus Wagner worked for and
bought it. Jardine intended to move its best acts into his American
circus. However, he demanded that Wagner be placed in the circus's
freak show. Appalled, Wagner quit and made his way towards
Winzeldorf, Germany, where Stefan was. He discovered that Stefan
had gone mad and had brutally slain several children. Two nights
after leaving the circus, Wagner found Stefan and fought him, hoping
to stop his rampage. In the course of the struggle, Wagner
unintentionally broke Stefan's neck. Then the villagers of Winzeldorf,
who assumed him to be a demon who was responsible for the child
killings, discovered Wagner. They were about to kill him when they
were all psionically paralyzed by Professor Charles Xavier, who had
come to recruit Wagner into the X-Men. Wagner agreed to join the
group, but before they left for America, he and Xavier went to the
Bavarian circus so that Wagner could explain to Margali about
Stefan's death. However, Margali was not there. She held Wagner
responsible for murdering Stefan, but years later, she learned the
truth and she and Wagner were reconciled. Wagner was also happily
reunited with Jimaine, who now lives in the United States under the
name of Amanda Sefton. Known as Nightcrawler, Wagner became a
member of the X-Men.
Nightcrawler remained with the X-Men for years. Eventually,
however, he became a founding member of the British-based team
Excalibur and is now the team's leader.
Wagner has recently been told that his mother is the mutant known
as Mystique. To save her own life, she claims she had to toss the
newborn child into a waterfall, yet Mystique may have wanted to
mislead Wagner and may not actually be his birth mother. Wagner
now believes that his mother is Mystique and when and if new
information comes to light it is not known how Wagner will react to
the news, or to Mystique.
Height: 5 ft. 9 in.
Weight: 195 lbs.
Eyes: Shining yellow, no visible pupils
Hair: Indigo
Other distinguishing features: Nightcrawler has only 3 fingers
(including an opposable thumb) on each hand, and only 2 toes, each
longer than an ordinary human's, on each foot. Nightcrawler also has
a prehensile tail about 3 1/2 feet long, which can carry his own
weight. His body is almost entirely covered with a fine indigo-colored
fur, making him so dark that he seems to blend into deep shadows.
(Contrary to appearances, he does not literally turn invisible in deep
shadow.) Nightcrawler also has pointed ears and pronounced fanglike
canine teeth. His spine is more flexible than an ordinary human
being's, allowing him to spend much of his time in a semi-crouching
position without damaging his posture and enables him to perform
contortionist-like feats.
Strength level: Nightcrawler possesses at least the normal human
strength of a man of his age, height, and build who engages in
intensive regular exercise.
Known superhuman powers: Nightcrawler is a mutant with the
ability to teleport himself, the clothes he is wearing, and, within
limits, a certain amount of additional mass which is in contact with
him. He teleports by displacing himself into another dimension (the
nature of which is as yet unknown), travelling through it, and then
returning to his own dimension at a certain distance from his point of
departure. He consciously determines his point of return. The entire
process occurs so quickly that Nightcrawler is unaware of being in
another dimension at all. Nightcrawler guides himself through the
other dimension by an unconscious, natural direction-finding sense.
Although Nightcrawler controls his teleportational ability with his
conscious mind, his power to teleport is not psionic. Rather it is the
result of an unknown biochemical/biophysical reaction which he
triggers mentally.
When he disappears in teleporting, Nightcrawler leaves behind smoke
with a stench reminiscent of burning brimstone. This is a small
portion of the atmosphere of this other dimension that escapes while
the aperture is open. His teleportation is invariably accompanied by
the muffled sound of imploding air rushing to fill the vacuum left
where Nightcrawler's volume was.The longer the distance over which
Nightcrawler teleports himself, the harder and more exhausting it is
for him to make the teleportational "jump." It is easier for him to
teleport between north and south (along Earth's magnetic lines of
force) than it is for him to teleport between east and west (against
the magnetic lines). Under optimal conditions, teleporting only
himself and his costume, Nightcrawler can displace himself a distance
of about 2 miles east-to-west, and up to 3 miles north-to-south.
Making a vertical teleportation upwards is difficult and dangerous.
Nightcrawler has made a vertical teleportational "jump" of 2 miles by
pushing himself to his physical limits.
Nightcrawler has a very limited unconscious extrasensory ability that
prevents him from teleporting himself so that his feet, for example,
would materialize below the surface of the local ground. Because this
ability is so limited, however, Nightcrawler will not teleport into any
place that he cannot see or has not seen in the past. If Nightcrawler
teleported himself into an unfamiliar area, he would run the risk of
materializing partially or entirely within a solid object. If too much of
his body materialized within a solid object, he would probably be
killed.
Nightcrawler's powers automatically displace liquids and gases when
he arrives in the course of a teleportation. Nightcrawler's momentum
is retained throughout the process of teleportation: he arrives with
whatever amount of inertia he left with. For example, if he were
falling from a great height, he could not teleport himself towards the
ground in order to save himself; he would land with the same velocity
that he teleported with. He can subtract this inertia by teleporting
short distances upwards (as though taking two steps back for every
one forward).
The limits to the amount of weight that Nightcrawler can carry with
himself while teleporting, and the limits to the range of distance over
which he can teleport himself with such additional loads, are
unknown. When he transports a passenger over even moderate
distances, they both feel weakened and ill, to the point of exhaustion.
Teleportation over further distances could be fatal. Through practice,
Nightcrawler has increased the mass he can teleport with him. (He
once teleported himself and Storm from the center of a small island
into the water just off its coast without harming either of them). The
upper limits of this capacity are as yet unknown.
Other abilities: Nightcrawler is a superb athlete and an Olympicclass
acrobat. He can do a standing high jump of about 8 feet. He is
skilled at hand-to-hand combat and is a master at fencing, which he
can even perform with his tail.

Vision Part 4 Wolverine

Real Name: James Howlett, now
goes by Logan
Identity: Secret
Occupation: (current) Adventurer, member of the X-Men, (possible
former) Samurai, (former) CIA operative, member of Canada's
Weapon X program, leader of Alpha Flight, bartender on Madripoor
Other Aliases: Weapon X, Patch
Place of Birth: Unknown, presumably in Canada.
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: John Howlett (father, deceased), Elizabeth Howlett
(mother, presumed deceased) "The Old Man" (unnamed grandfather,
presumed deceased) Windsong (wife, deceased)
Base of Operations: (current) Xavier Institute for Higher Learning,
(former) the Clan Yashida compound in Japan, Department H in Canada.
Group Affiliation: (current) X-Men, (former) Clan Yashida, the Weapon X
Program, Alpha Flight
First Appearance: THE INCREDIBLE HULK #181
History: In the late 1880's a child by the name of James Howlett
was born. As a child James was a frail and sick boy. His allergies
didn't allow him to go out and play much. His father had requested
that a twelve year old girl be brought to their estate. That girl was
named Rose and she was to be a friend and play mate to James. She
read to him and looked after him. Along with the grounds keeper's
son, Dog, James and Rose were the only children on the hill where
the estate was. They had become close friends and played together
as much as possible but Dog slowly grew away from them. Dog's
father, the grounds keeper was named Thomas Logan, he was an
alcoholic and abuse his son.
Over the next few years Dog started to follow in his father footsteps,
becoming cruel and heartless. James was given more responsibilities
by his father and grandfather. After a big fight, Dog killed James's K-
9 companion which resulted in the Logans getting kicked off the
Howlett estate.
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In a fit of rage and anger Thomas Logan and his son entered the
estate armed. They then took Rose hostage and demanded that she
take them to the masters' bedroom. There the elder Logan tried to
persuade James's mother, Elizabeth, to leave with them. Before they
could leave John entered the room and discovered them together. In
a rage of hate and dislike Thomas shot John as James walked into the
room. Seeing his father shot and killed shocked him so much that it
triggered his latent mutant abilities. His claws extended and
continued through Thomas. After his mother
shunned him for his unusual abilities he
fled the house. Rose followed to see what
she could do. She found James outside
the house on the ground and cold. She
brought him to the barn in order to try
and warm him up. Not knowing what to
do Rose brought James to his
grandfather house. He ended up giving
them cash and told them never to come
back again. Rose took James and
went to British Columbia looking for
a place that they could live in peace.
Rose remembered her father talking of quarries in the Northern
frontiers and she figured that would be a good place for them to start
looking. Making it to a quarry, they met a man named Smitty who
was the foreman. That is when Rose gave James the name Logan to
hide his true identity.
By the second summer there Logan was providing for both Rose and
himself. He had trained himself to be a fine hunter and he also
worked hard at the quarry. Smitty even gave him a new job in
demolitions. Shortly after that Smitty asked Rose to marry him. The
proposal upset Logan but he finally realized that Smitty did indeed
love Rose. Logan then helped Smitty get money for tickets away from
the quarry.
Before Smitty and Rose could leave Dog showed up. At the request of
Logans grandfather he was to kill Logan and Rose for what he
believed they did. In the fight that followed Rose tried to break it up
but was struck by Logans claws and died. After that, not being able
to live among people for what he did he left the camp and went off
into the wilderness to live alone.
It wasn't until his first recorded encounter with the Hulk, as an agent
of Canada's Department H, that anyone had heard of him or knew
that he was interacting with people again.
Logan possesses memories of being a Samurai in Japan, a mercenary
operative for the Central Intelligence Agency, and a "wild man" in the
Canadian wilderness. Due to the extensive memory implants given to
Logan through the Weapon X program, any and all of these memories
are suspect. Logan has at least one memory of meeting Captain
America in World War II which was verified as true. It is possible that
Logan's healing factor grants him an extended life span and has
granted him the physical condition of a man in his prime, despite his
age.
Sometime after World War II, Logan was taken by a group
of scientists led by Dr.Cornelius as part of the
Weapon X program. Cornelius was hired to perfect and use a
technique that would bond the indestructible element
adamantium to human bone cells. Logan's skeleton was
bonded to the adamantium, and he was indoctrinated into
the Weapon X assassin program.
After his encounter with the Hulk, Wolverine was
conscripted by Department Hto join and lead Alpha Flight,
Canada's government-run super team. During his leadership of Alpha
Flight, Wolverine was approached by Professor Charles Xavier, who
was looking for mutants to help his students, the X-Men, escape from
the island-being known as Krakoa, which had captured them.
Wolverine left Alpha Flight to accompany Xavier and rescue the
captured X-Men. After Krakoa was defeated, Wolverine decided to
stay with the X-Men, for reasons which included that he had fallen for
the X-Man known as Marvel Girl.
Logan remained with the X-Men for quite some time, at one time
being their field commander, and encountering adversaries such as
Proteus, Magneto, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the Brood, the
Reavers, demons from the dimension of Limbo, the Marauders, the
Morlocks, and even Dracula on one occasion.
After his encounter with the mutant assassin Omega Red, Logan
began to question the memories he possessed, but his searches to
find his true identity and memories proved fruitless.
During an encounter with the mutant Magneto on his space station called
Avalon, Wolverine attempted to defeat Magneto using the claws presumably
given to him by the Weapon X project. Magneto retaliated, using his powers of
the magnetic field to tear the adamantium out of Wolverine's
skeleton, causing extensive injuries. These injuries shorted out Wolverine's
healing factor for a time, and Logan also discovered that the claws that he
believed a result of the Weapon X project were in fact a natural mutation.
The claws he now possesses are bone, and a natural part of his skeletal
structure.
As a result of his injuries, Logan left the X-Men for a time, returning after he
was asked by Xavier, who also asked the mutant Cable, to rescue the X-Men
in Tibet, where they were captured during the Phalanx invasion.
Recently, Logan was kidnapped by Tyler Dayspring, calling himself Genesis, who wanted to make Wolverine one of his new Horsemen. Genesis had acquired
adamantium by destroying the body of the mercenary known as
Cyber, and had planned to recreate the bonding process used on
Logan years ago. This time, however, Logan's body rejected the
adamantium, and he regressed for a time to a feral-like state.
Logan regained his lucidity, rejoined the X-Men, and is now
supervising the team while Cyclops and Jean Grey are on leave. Still
without his Adamantium, Logan was kidnapped by the would-be
conqueror Apocalypse, perhaps the world's first mutant, and forced to
fight the savage assassin Sabretooth for the mantle of the Horseman
Death. Viewing himself as a more merciful candidate than his fellow
mutant, Logan fought hard to win the battle. As a result, his skeleton
again was laced with Adamantium. Under the control of Apocalypse,
Wolverine fought the X-Men ferociously in his Death persona. But
with the help of his teammates, he eventually broke free from
Apocalypse's control.
Height:5 ft. 3 in.
Weight: (without adamantium skeleton) 200 lbs., (with adamantium
skeleton) 300 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Strength Level: While Wolverine may be of an advanced age, he
possesses the normal human strength of a man in his prime with his
height and build who engages in intensive regular exercise. While
possessing the adamantium skeleton, Wolverine's strength was
increased to the human maximum, making him capable of lifting
(pressing) 800 lbs.
Known Superhuman Powers: Wolverine is a mutant with a number
of enhancements to his physiology. Wolverine possesses heightened
senses, making him capable of seeing things at a maximum distance
greater than that of a normal human. His hearing is enhanced in a
similar manner, and he is able to recognize people and objects by
scent, even if that person or object is hidden. Logan can use these
enhanced senses to track anyone, with an impressive degree of
success.
He possesses retractable bone claws that are housed in his forearms,
they are part of his skeleton system. At will Wolverine can release
these claws through his skin between the knuckles on each hand. The
skin between the knuckles tears and bleeds, but bleeding is quickly
halted by his healing factor. The claws are naturally sharp and
tougher than that of normal human bone structure. This allows
Wolverine to be able to cut through most types of flesh and natural
materials. (Note: While Wolverine possessed his adamantium
skeleton, his claws were able to cut through almost any material
without any fear of damage to the claws.)
Lastly, Wolverine possesses an accelerated healing factor based on
his physiology. While most normal humans heal injuries over a long
period of time, Wolverine's healing factor speeds up that natural
process. Wolverine's natural healing has been advanced to the point
where he can heal extensive injuries (such as broken limbs) in a
matter of hours to days. This factor gives him a higher resistance to
poisons and toxins, and he can recover from almost any injury. The
more extensive the injury, the longer the healing time will be.
Wolverine is not immortal, however. If the injuries are extensive
enough, especially if they result in the loss of vital organs, large
amounts of blood, and/or loss of physical form (such as having flesh
burned away by fire or acid), Logan can die.
Wolverine, again due to his healing factor, has an enhanced
resistance to disease, as well as an extended life span. Despite
Wolverine's chronological age, he is still as healthy and physically fit
as a man in his prime.
Abilities: Due to his extensive training as a CIA operative, a
Samurai, and as a member of the Weapon X program, Wolverine is a
master of multiple forms of martial arts, weapons, and vehicles. He is
also a trained expert in computers, explosives, and assassination
techniques.

Vision Part 3 Storm

Real name: Ororo Munroe
Other aliases: (current) None, (former—in Kenya and Tanzania) "Beautiful Windrider"
Identity: Secret
Occupation: Adventurer, (former) "Goddess" to an African tribe, master thief
Legal status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record. (She probably has a record as a juvenile offender in Egypt, but not under her true name.)
Place of birth: New York City, New York
Marital status: Single
Known relatives: David Munroe (father, deceased), N'Dare Munroe (mother,
deceased), Ashake (ancestor, deceased)
Base of operations: (current) Xavier Institute, Salem Center, Westchester
County, New York State, (former) Cairo, Egypt; Kenya and Tanzania; X-Men
headquarters, Australian outback
Group affiliation: (current) X-Men, (former) Leader of the Morlocks
First appearance: GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1
History: Storm is the descendant of an ancient line of African priestesses, all of
whom have white hair, blue eyes, and the potential to wield magic. Her mother,
N'Dare, was the princess of a tribe in Kenya. She married the American
photojournalist David Munroe and moved with him to Manhattan, where Ororo was born.
When Ororo was six months old, she and her parents moved to Cairo,
Egypt. Five years later, a bomb destroyed their home. Ororo's parents
were killed, but she survived, buried under rubble near her mother's
body. This traumatizing effect left Ororo with the severe
claustrophobia that still afflicts her today.
Homeless and orphaned, Ororo, came under the tutelage of master
thief Achmed el-Gibar. She became his prize pupil in thievery and in
picking locks.
Years later, feeling a strong urge to go south, Ororo
journeyed alone across the Sahara Desert and finally
reached her ancestors' homeland, the Serengeti Plain,
which lies in the modern nations of Kenya and Tanzania. By this
time her mutant power to control the weather had
emerged, and she used them to help the local tribes, who
worshipped her as a goddess.
Ororo remained with the tribes for years until Professor Charles
Xavier recruited her into the new team of X-Men he was
assembling. She was given the code name "Storm" after her
power to affect the weather.
Except for brief periods away from the team, Storm has
remained in the X-Men ever since and shares leadership of
the X-Men with Cyclops.
Height: 5 ft. 11 in.
Weight: 127 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: White
Strength level: Athlete
Flight speed: Subsonic (when
propelled by winds)
Fighting skills: Excellent hand-tohand combatant, trained by
Wolverine
Special skills and abilities:
Extraordinary ability at picking locks, excellent marksman with handguns
Known superhuman powers:
Storm has the psionic ability to control the weather over limited
areas. She can fly by creating winds strong enough to support her weight.
Storm has limited immunity to extreme heat and cold.
Special limitations: Storm's psionic powers over the weather are
affected by her emotions; hence, if she does not maintain control of
her emotions, a fit of rage might induce a destructive storm. Also,
Storm suffers from severe claustrophobia.
Other accessories: Storm carries lock picks.

The Vision Part 2 DareDevil

Each Post will contain another part of information to understand the dream all of which god revealed to mein a 5-10 minute peroid....

Real name: Matthew Michael Murdock
Occupation: Lawyer
Identity: Secret
Legal status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal
record
Place of birth: New York City
Group affiliation: None
Base of operations: New York City
First appearance: DAREDEVIL #1 Vol. 1

History: Young Matt Murdock saw a truck about to hit a blind man,
and hurled himself in front of it. This good deed changed his life
forever, when a can of radioactive waste fell from the truck, broke
open, and irradiated Murdock. The accident blinded the young New
Yorker, but also mutagenically heightened his other senses. He
later met a martial arts master, Stick, who taught him how to use
his newly augmented senses – and trained him as a fighter. Murdock
went on to college, and fell in love with Elektra Natchios. When
Elektra fled, Murdock threw himself into his law studies. When his
father, a boxer, was killed by mobsters when he refused to throw a
fight, Murdock sought justice in vain. Finally disillusioned by the legal
system, Murdock assumed the guise of Daredevil. Further fueled to
vengeance and crime-fighting by the death of Elektra, Daredevil uses
his radar senses to forever seek justice, whenever his law degree
fails him.

Height: 6 ft.
Weight: 200 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Red

Known powers: Daredevil possesses the normal human strength of
a man his age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular
exercise. Daredevil's five sense are heightened to beyond that of
even superhumanly enhanced sense. Although Murdock is blind, he
can "see" by means of his "radar sense", which acts not unlike sonar.
Daredevil is an Olympic level athlete and gymnast, possessing
extraordinary agility, endurance, skill and balance. Daredevil's unique
fighting style (a blend of ninjitsu, judo and American-style boxing)
makes effective use of his Billy Club, which is used as both a baton
and grappling hook.

Vision

You may have heard about the dream that I had a couple weeks ago. Let me retell it.

There wasn’t much to it, but this was the setup. Myself ,Daredevil, Wolverine, Storm, and Nightcrawler (from the marvel comic books) were being held captive at the New Life Christian Academy Building. We wondered who could be keeping us captured, since they were super heroes.

I looked down the hall and saw the man. It was the million dollar man; Ted DiBiase. He had a bobble head.

We all decided that we need to combine our strength if we are going to be able to get out. Everyone decided to channel there energy into me, so we held hands. The order was Daredevil, me, wolverine, storm, and night crawler. Storm shot lightening through wolverine’s adamantum skeleton and used his healing factor so I would be ok to handle the electricity. I was able to think and lightening would come down and strike the earth; I accidentally toasted a desk.

For several days I told people this dream; I thought it was quite funny and unrelated to anything I knew. However today while resting in the presence of God the dream was brought back to my remembrance and God revealed to me what the dream meant. It was an allegory of the state of the church. Each characters role and characteristics play a major part in the interpretation, so I have included them below before the interpretation.

Community

• Section 4:
  
  Avoiding conflict kills community.
  The restoration of community as far as it is up to you- live at peace with everyone as far as it relies on you.
  We must all learn to manage conflict constructively if we are to live as Christ wants us to.
  Death and life are in the power of the tongue
  The advice to suffer wrong for the sake of a greater gain really is part of Christian behavior, but it doesn’t come easily.

Dead

so today i went to a funeral home. So someone i know had someone they know die; their brother. i went there to greive with them and offer support. i don't think i did, but he's dead; he was 32 years old, i have know idea if he was united with God thru Christ...

Community Part 2

Section2:

This is friendship.

• Friendship makes your heart bigger.
• It helps keep you steady in a storm
• It ends aloneness
• It s key to personal transformation
• Philippians 2:1-11
• Friendship is seeking the interests of the person you have befriended.
• Question: how are you doing? Really.
• Isaiah 41:8
• John 15:15
• Matthew 11:19
• At some point during the day take time doing something you love to do. Invite Jesus to join you in this activity. Simply be aware he is with you.
• When anything good happens thank god.

We all need a breathtakingly basic talk.

About Spiritual Transformation

• invite god into all aspects of your life, event he everday routines.
• spiritual life is just life- the one you live moment by moment.
• Spiritual transformation: is essential, a process, and God's work.
• god is intrested in life-all of it.
• spiritual transformation.... takes place in community
• is available right now
• brings an increased capicity to love god and others.
• community is god's dearest creationgod is community-father, son, and holy spirit-he creates community.
• god's supreme acheivement was not the creation of a solitary man but he creation of human community (see genesis wording of "them")
• jesus hopes that we may be reconciled to one another , forming one body in his embrace of love.

we love god with all we have and we love our neighbor as ourselve, that's community.

Another Dream ...this one about work

Last night i dreamed i was at work, and i let the kids alone up stairs, when i returned they were paired up and in bed together. they were just laying together. i was very upset and threw things and stomped and yelled; it was an intresting dream.

D r e a m

Last night i dreamed that i was at the cornerstone festival. i rememebr looking at the band list....

Tribal Music Tribal People

Last night at the blue water house of prayer the lord was good in the present.
at some point the music took on a tribal edge, which was intresting considering we have virtually no tribal instruments (maybe you can consider the congas tribal). But with all our electricinstruments the music took on a tribal edge. This carried to the spirit of the people and the work that the lord was doing in breaking his people free from anything that held them back from his presence and his plan of community.

I like this one definition given on www.dictionary.com. it says this of a tribe.

a collection of families descending from one ancestor. The "twelve tribes" of
the Hebrews were the twelve collections of families which sprang from the sons
of Jacob. In Matt. 24:30 the word has a wider significance. The tribes of
Israel are referred to as types of the spiritual family of God!

God is good and so are his people. if you are in the Spirit of God i am so glad to be your brother or sister.

Dreaming More

I was captured. Captured with company that seems they could be of help in a capturing. these people were from comic books they were: storm, wolverine, daredevil, and nightcrawler. it seems that with this company one would not be one that would be prone to capturing. However, we were trapped in the new life chirstian academy building; the thrid room from the end of the south wing.

how could we be captured, well i looked down the hall and it was a wrestler. not just any wrestler; it was ted debeosy, the million dollar man, and he was wearing the championship belt. not only this, but his head was a bobble head. we knew we were introuble. so one of the superheroes suggested this eleborate plan that would transfer each superheroes strength to me. so we lined up and held hands. the order was daredevil, me, storm, and then nifght crawler. storm was passing lightening through the metal in wolverine, in dont know what the others were doing, wolverine was passing his healing through me so the lightening wouldnt kill me. i was hoping i didnt get daredevils blindness.

so the proces was almost done and i tried shooting the lightening and toasted a desk. storm warned me to be careful. it was rather uneventful other than this for i woke up.

Briskness

This is a little different then usual.

It is already 10:05 am. I hae throughally enjoyed the day so far. I did some pretty serious practicing living in the moment today.

These are the things that seemed to be nice while living in their moment.

• I woke up and turned the light on then i slept for another half hour, but not real sleep.
• after showering (which wasnt that pleasant really) i made some cofee and let it cool
• i took a significant amount of time putting all the things on that people put on, myself particulally -all the different smells....
• then when i went back upstairs some oatmeal was made.
• i put honey and cinnomon in the oatmeal.
• i drank a few sips of the coffee.
• then i went outside to enjoy th brisk weather... 56 degrees F it said.
• so i turned the ehat on in my jeep.
• i thought about how briskness is nice becasue you can get warmed up.
• and the drive was wonderful as wel.
• i didnt pass anyone; this made things go a bit slower... alot slower actually, but much more relaxing.
• then i stopped for gas and gave exxon mobil more money to make bombs, but it was brisk out and i was able to reenter my jeep to warm up again.
• so the rest of the ride was also relaxing as i didnt pass anyone again.
• the music that i listened to this morning consisted of The Postal Service, Ani Difranco, and Iron and Wine. This may be a large part as to why things were so relaxing this day, this morning.
• Thus i pulled into the school and parked where i usually do, not too close, but it's always open.
• Currently the moment is taking place in Statitics.... where appararently there are no statistics to work on.
• As simplee as those facts seem, and un exciting, and un romantic, and basically bland, they were a peaceful and harmonous experience, and it seemed all the world shared this view... for a moment.

Dream with Points

A couple nights ago i had a long and fast paced dream that dealt with the characters from predator and tremors; Alot of open mouths and sharp teeth.

Some Scratchings About The Power of God

I dream of History

Dream 9.20.2005

It was at some VFW hall, but there was a long hallway and stages on both sides of the hallway. Stages and the curtains were drawn. Where there were no stages there were white doors all which appeared to be locked. I had the sense that I needed to do a project for something, I don’t think it was for school but none the less a project needed to be done.

Well I found one of the janitors, he was wearing a white jumpsuit and had back hair, he also had paint on his jumpsuit. He looked like a painter. I told him I was going to be making a sculpture and needed 50 lbs of clay. He said that it was no problem and there was a 200 lb order coming in and he could easily add 50 lbs to it.

The next day I can back and one of the whitedoors were open (there were random other people out in the hall now). I went in the white door and it lead to back stage. Here I found two wood crates, on very large the other half the size. I figured they were the caly and both were to heavy for me to move. I decided to go and get my brother aaron to help me move these things.

Whne I met him, on the streets of a carnival, I told him I was making a sculpture of Mr. Sharrad (he taught history in my highschool some 10 years ago). He seemed impressed but seemed to wonder why I wanted to make a sculpture of him. Isaid he was a historic figure…..

Well when we got there and went through the open white door the boxes were gone. We looked around a little bit but could not find any wooden boxes. I had a sense that I would now not be able to complete the project and I felt worried. I’m glad I woke up because the feeling of worry only grew.

Fire Dream

9.17.05 dream

This dream was in a four hour period of sleep and doesn’t end because I was waked up.

I was living in Niagara Falls NY in a two story yellow house. There was a van in the garage. The streets were paved. The surrounding houses were white and all looked somewhat similar.

I seemed to be working n the van in the garage. The van had a riding lawn mower inside of the back of it and a red plastic gas can. Well something started on fire. It was the back top of the van (which was baize in color). I think we may have tried to se water to put it out but it didn’t work. Well I looked and the fire had gotten the roof of the garage on fire, the roof had brown shingles. We had called the fire department, but when giving directions I went to the street corner. There were street sign s at all four corners, but each sign had a different road name on it, that was 8 different names, so I just guessed which it was. At this point I noticed some fire near the gas tank of the riding lawn mower and the plastic gas can was burning so I was afraid of an explosion.

Well we moved out to the corner on the road, just then an army truck pulled up full of National Guard soldiers. A woman came out.she had blond hair and a black suit on. She told us all the firemen were busy. She opened a brief case and as the national guards got out of the truck they each took a name badge from the briefcase and clipped it onto their uniforms. They then got out guns from the same brief case and proceeded to load them…. All this while the fire raged on and I was expecting an explosion at any moment.

Next each national guard member had to get the pocket knife from the brief case, well they couldn’t tell them apart and were holding them up to the light and passing them around.. Just then… I was awoken from my sleep by my brother.

Dream

So this last dream is barely rememberable. i was at some type of army , but it was at the building the life in christ fellowship meets in. noonewas in army clothes but i had the impression that it was an army run place. i can remmber little else then ben zwolinski was there and some girls who were speaking french (who i had seen at college that day). not sure what else it was about...

A Great Diagram of a Person

Dream.. Needs Intrapretation

I had a dream again, this might be the 100^th or so i'm really not sure. But they’re all different any way. This is what happened.

We were in a type of school. I’m not sure who we were, but I remember that I knew everyone and they knew me, but not every face was the same, or even recognizable for that matter. One of them was a client at work. A client who has been diagnosed “crazy” because she sees people and talks to them they says. Well we were doing something and I was pounding my hand on this oak coffee table I did it once and twice then when my hand came down the third time everything started moving slower and things had those streaky lines in them a little like the matrix when things move so fast its slow.

Well as this was happening my hand went through the table…..

And the “crazy” girl said to me “you’re in the spirit world”.

I came back quickly to this reality and fell back onto a couch. I immediately got up and said lets go find out what happened. I thought that this class might be some type of voodoo so I thought I should go see someone knowledgeable in the ways that God moves so I could be sure which “spirit world” I was in. so the crazy girl and Johnny went with me. We drove in a red car, i’m not sure what kind I just know it was a red car. We went to Brian wak’s house. We pulled in and no one was there. He shortly pulled up in a small blue ford escort. That isn’t what he drives in waking life.

He got out of his car and was wearing fisherman’s hat. We greeted each other with a hug and he invited us in.

The inside f his house was enormous, though not overly clean. Most of it was a shade of green, all different shades of green. We walked around as if we were getting a tour of the place, Brian was talking to john.

After some time we came to a room with a bar and stools. We leaned against the bar. The room had a dark green floor and light green ceiling that rose nearly 100 feet in the air. Here we began to tell him about what happened to me. I don’t remember any words only that sounds came out of all our mouths and he understood and shook his head up and down. At times our conversation transported us to some couches or cushion chairs; we never got up we simply ended up in the chairs, and back at the bar again standing up leaning against it. He sounded out some stories about his encounters with god.

Our conversation was ended and I only had the sense; the feeling to be careful and check the spirits before I believed one way or the other. As we about to leave, yet still inside the house that was green it happened again, I sorta entered the spirit world, things were moving slower in the physical and I was outside of it the colors sorta bended yet were more florescent.

I know we headed out to the car and left his house. I know I did not get an answer either.

Bicycles... Discernable?

"BICYCLES"

men you go out to the garage - or to the street and ,::~ into your automobile you find it a very simple proce­:~:-e. You just open the door and sit down and wait for =- ~ car to start.

:~'s the same with an airplane. Even a horse will stand

,,:: and let you mount without much maneuvering.

But a bicycle! Of course you can lean it against a fence - - :z. tree and have little trouble getting on it. But that is ~.' ~ ~he way to do it I

Yau have to LEARN to get on to a bicycle. It is almost

_..~ trying to mount a colt that has never been ridden.

'\\hat fun for those who watch you I What bruises you

.::-: trying to master that thing! Learning to ride a bicycle.

_\ bicycle has to be moving when you get aboard, other­T ~~ :'ou are right off again, flat on your face with your .:~~~ tangled in the wheels and the saddle on top of you I ~- ~ second you are on - even before you actually get ~£ ~ed. you have to start pedaling - and then the faster .,. _ pedal the surer you are of staying on.

: - fact it is very simple to ride a bicycle when you are r~ ~g fast, and actually it is much safer - except in the c-tet or sidewalk when you might hit someone who is Tl:L'1g.

:- ou see, actually, a bicycle is of little use unless it is r- -g somewhere, unless it is active.

- Y; you stop and think about it, the bicycle has a good .c- ~ ~~ for you. God gave you hands and feet, not to be

':..~ or to be harmful in any way to others, but to be active L-': ~c have a purpose - to so live that others will find

~:-~:..!1~ss because of you and may be led into right ways

.- ~~mce.

~ ~s taught us all that kind of leadership, when, accord­

r:.: -:'0 a statement by Paul:

He went about doing good." ACTS 10 :38.

VERNES Message

bringing in the sheaves

5.22.05

verne harris

preach christ daily when n needed use words.,

• romans 12.1-2

• john 4.26

it matters more that you do your task than what it is.

• luke 3.9

• 2 Corinthians

god wants to bring people him

• colisians 1

he will save anyone,

The Church - A Crisis

As i continue to understand what the church has become, or rather how the church has become many " churches" i stumble upon many readings.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopica94.pdf
this is a legal definition of "a church" by the IRS.

http://www.bible.org/page.asp?page_id=3220
this site shares God's heart for the church, yet is uses church with multi-meanings as the church and "churches".

Dream

What a dreamthis was.
All i can rememeber is that iwas in an italian restaurant ith a lot of italian people. eating spaghetti, and then i wasat work. and people from life in christ were there. i woke up.

What Kind of Bread? The Same?

1Co 10:17

(ALT) Because we, the many, are one bread, one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

(ASV) seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake of the one bread.

(BBE) Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in the one bread.

(CEV) By sharing in the same loaf of bread, we become one body, even though there are many of us.

(CUV-S) 我们虽多，仍是一个饼，一个身体，因为我们都是分受这一个饼。

(Darby) Because we, being many, are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of that one loaf.

(DRB) For we, being many, are one bread, one body: all that partake of one bread.

(EMTV) Because we, though many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake from the one bread.

(ESV) Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

(GB) For we that are many, are one bread and one body, because we all are partakers of one bread.

(GNB) Because there is the one loaf of bread, all of us, though many, are one body, for we all share the same loaf.

(GNT) ὅτι εἷς ἄρτος, ἓν σῶμα οἱ πολλοί ἐσμεν· οἱ γὰρ πάντες ἐκ τοῦ ἑνὸς ἄρτου μετέχομεν.

(GW) Because there is one loaf, we are one body, although we are many individuals. All of us share one loaf.

(HOT)

(ISV) Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body, because all of us partake of the one loaf.

(KJV) For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

(KJV+) For3754 we being many4183 are2070 one1520 bread,740 and one1520 body:4983 for1063 we are all partakers3348, 3956 of1537 that one1520 bread.740

(KJVA) For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

(MSG) Because there is one loaf, our many-ness becomes one-ness--Christ doesn't become fragmented in us. Rather, we become unified in him. We don't reduce Christ to what we are; he raises us to what he is.

(Vulgate) quoniam unus panis unum corpus multi sumus omnes quidem de uno pane participamur

(YLT) because one bread, one body, are we the many--for we all of the one bread do partake.

Something more for the Church

I passed a road sign that read CHURCH.

i was suprised to find the lord jesus christ's church all in one place. the think is a bit further up the road there was a building that also had a sign on it that read CHURCH; there was not a soul in sight. Read this church...

1Co 10:1 Friends, I want to remind you that all of our ancestors walked under the cloud and went through the sea.
1Co 10:2 This was like being baptized and becoming followers of Moses.
1Co 10:3 All of them also ate the same spiritual food
1Co 10:4 and drank the same spiritual drink, which flowed from the spiritual rock that followed them. That rock was Christ.
1Co 10:5 But most of them did not please God. So they died, and their bodies were scattered all over the desert.
1Co 10:6 What happened to them is a warning to keep us from wanting to do the same evil things.
1Co 10:7 They worshiped idols, just as the Scriptures say, "The people sat down to eat and drink. Then they got up to dance around." So don't worship idols.
1Co 10:8 Some of those people did shameful things, and in a single day about twenty-three thousand of them died. Don't do shameful things as they did.
1Co 10:9 And don't try to test Christ, as some of them did and were later bitten by poisonous snakes.
1Co 10:10 Don't even grumble, as some of them did and were killed by the destroying angel.
1Co 10:11 These things happened to them as a warning to us. All this was written in the Scriptures to teach us who live in these last days.
1Co 10:12 Even if you think you can stand up to temptation, be careful not to fall.
1Co 10:13 You are tempted in the same way that everyone else is tempted. But God can be trusted not to let you be tempted too much, and he will show you how to escape from your temptations.
1Co 10:14 My friends, you must keep away from idols.
1Co 10:15 I am speaking to you as people who have enough sense to know what I am talking about.
1Co 10:16 When we drink from the cup that we ask God to bless, isn't that sharing in the blood of Christ? When we eat the bread that we break, isn't that sharing in the body of Christ?
1Co 10:17 By sharing in the same loaf of bread, we become one body, even though there are many of us.

A Letter I feel Prompted to Send Out

Brother or sister in Christ;

I am writing you out of a passion to see God’s Church be one. To see God’s kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. I have prayed and searched that this will come to you in clarity and in peace. I have written similar letters to every body of believers in St. Clair County. This entails the power of language in the creation of division in the church as a whole and its unity.

Acts 2:42-47 gives this description of the church:

42 they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.

44 And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

47 Praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

Over the past 15 years I have seen the church of Jesus Christ that I read about in the Bible very differently then it seemed in my reading. I have rarely heard the church called the church, but rather in terms of churches. People refer to their church, our church, and that church. When in truth there is but on church; one church that God demands remain as one body; with Christ as the head.

The origins of the word "church" is such: Middle English "chirche", from Old English "cirice", ultimately from Late Greek "kyriakon", from Greek, neuter of "kyriakos" meaning “of the lord”, from kyrios meaning lord, master. This means when the word church is used in the Bible it speaks of those people who are of the lord Jesus Christ, Christians. The Greek word ekklesia, which is translated church as well, is a combination of the Greek word kaleo (which means to call) and ek, a preposition meaning out or out of. Therefore, ekklesia is properly translated as "called out ones".

So, while the common contemporary understanding of the word "church" is focusing upon a gathering or building, the actual meaning of the word is on our status as followers of Jesus. Within the context of His teachings that we are to be "in the world", but not "of the world"; the application of being "the called out ones" is appropriate. The common usage which empowers the system of “churchianity” is not an appropriate interpretation of "ekklesia" or “kyriakos”. For, the focus is not on the group, nor on the gathering of the group, but upon our status as belonging to the Lord and being called out of worldliness and self life.

Although the Christian Bible says that the church is actually the body of believers, in Jewish times, the temple at Jerusalem held the presence of God in a place called the Holy of Holies. After the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Bible says that the Holy Spirit / presence of God dwells within each believer.

I understand that each denomination has particular beliefs that have been passed down throughout the ages. The below chart shows a basic summary of this.

As christians, followers of Jesus Christ, we need to make sure that the body of Christ in in one piece. Paul says in Ephesians 4:1-7:

1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

3 Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

I am writing this with the same passion that Paul had. I urge each of you to identify with the green line on the above chart; the line that comes directly from the early church that was established by Christ; that is not the creation of man. I urge you to take action in your life and in your fellowship.

I would ask that to begin you use the word “church” as it was intended. The church is you and me, your congregation and all of our friends who trust Jesus Christ as their lord and Savior. Don’t use the word to say my church, our church, or at church. Language is powerful; Look at what the human baby has become by being defined as a fetus. God created the world by speaking. Help create the church as it was intended. And if you are bold change your fellowships name to exclude the word church.

I love you brother or sister, God loves you to. Be blessed.

Heath Achatz

And god is teaching me...

some ridiculous truths. i forgive them.

Poem for the .... THIS IS XPLICIT!

DON'T READ IF YOU ARE HAVING A GOOD DAY. IT WILL RUIN IT. ALL FACTS IN POEM ARE TRUE.

Pains a Piss Off

When I was in Bible College I sometimes

Wrote in a code language

That was made up by me and a friend

When we were in our teens.

I used this language to write down

To put on paper the thoughts and feelings

That I did not want others to know

That I chose to hide from all but god.

One boy I knew at Bible College couldn’t understand

So he was made both mad and jealous.

So across my page he penned in his own unsteady hand;

Unsteadied from too many days of injecting the word

(His word was ganja), and from this combination he wrote

“No pornographic writings”.

A thought of the pain inside

Of the pain inside of their shared

Yet unknown pain so prolonging

And propagating the proliferation of

Pain in the lives of the prey and

The pain inside the pawns used as

Persuasion, used as perversion a perpetual

Penetration infesting and festering the pain

Pushing both prey and predators

Pushing them to pervert the populace

With performances of perversion pacifying

Their pain.

Today I met with five victims,

Victims of various sex crimes.

One child was thirteen, her variety was rape

And she vented in systematic sex from similar souls.

Two was a child of fifteen who had been

As the term is molested. A fifteen year old who’s

Natural father had betrayed his role by

Soliciting sex from similar girls

Fifteen and under; she thought they were baby sitters.

So she sought safety with some one similar, an uncle,

Who secretly video taped her having sex.

Three was thirteen sickened by the pain

Of sex she molested her siblings and sexed her relatives.

She tried to cease the existence of her soul;

She couldn’t succeed.

Four was sixteen but seemed to be seven.

She was seized and forced to have sex with

A slow relative at the age of twelve.

She has since had sex several times.

She thinks she’s crazy.

Five sought after significance in sex as well

But she was soiled from birth by a mother

Who forfeited her role and had gainful employment

As a whore who gave her daughter the human immune deficiency virus.

I’m not in Bible College anymore

So now I’m writing pornographic writings

But I’m not using code.

I’m using real words and real characters

That I hope make a sound.

For everyone to read for anyone to perceive

The pain that pursued these five souls.

This five lovely people to be used as prey by predators

As pawns of pain inflicting souls who did not find healing.

God help them.

Heath Achatz

8.16.2005

A Thought i had after not sleeping 24 hours

As we prayed at church we layed hands on a man and asked got to heal his back (he had a pending surgury). Then we asked god that if he chose not to heal him that he would guide the doctors hands. This was my thought at the time.

God heal this man's back- and just incase you can't lets say you helped the doctors.

God please heal this man, but if you don't we don't want you to look bad so well say you used the doctors instead of a direct healing.

of course i know that all good and perfect things come from god, but let's say what the spirit would have us say and let's not cover for god- he can handle it.

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"Stopover in a Quiet Town"

Starring: Barry Nelson, Nancy Malone
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
Production Manager: Ralph W. Nelson
Art Direction: George W. Davis, Wlter Holscher
Film Editor: Thomas W. Scott
Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Robert R. Benton
Casting: Patricia Rose
Assistant Director: Charles Bonniwell, Jr.
Sound: Franklin Milton, Philip N. Mitchell
Mr. Serling's Wardrobe: Eagle Clothes

Filmed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios

A couple wakes up, and both find that they are fully dressed. They joke each other about being drunk, but most of the joking stops when they realize that they are not in their own apartment room in New York City.

They recall the night before and try to figure out their circumstances, but their plotting is interrupted many times by the woman's constant joking about the man's drunkenness the night before. She then recalls that "somewhere about Riverdale", something came over the top of the car (we now know that she was driving because the man was too drunk to drive) and, it, whatever it was, was dark. The woman doesn't remember anything after that. The man suggests that possibly a wreck occurred, but she doesn't believe that to be even possible.

The man finally suggests that "another car" plowed into them and that they had been taken in by the owners of "the other car", and that breakfast would be waiting downstairs for them.

They both walk downstairs only to find an empty kitchen! When the look around, all they can find is fake "stage" food. Surprised by this, they attempt to open the drawers, only to find that they too are fake! Finally, the man tries the phone, but learns that it isn't even wired into the wall! During all of this, they hear a little girl's laugh occasionally in the background.

They exit the house, and hear the same little girl laughing that they heard while they were in the kitchen. It is really starting to bother them now.

They wander around the town in hopes of finding someone (another person) in the area. Finally, without any luck of finding a person, the woman sees a solitary squirrel, and goes over to touch it. But when she does . . . the squirrel falls off the limb! They realize that it is a fake, stuffed squirrel!

The couple finally decides that all the neighbors must be at church since it is Sunday. But when upon arriving at the church, they realize that it is completely empty, just like all the houses in the neighborhood. The man rings the bell, but still, nobody comes. They hear the girl again.

They now begin their search for anything that could be real. The man points out a tree, and explains how it must be real. They both rejoice at finally seeing something that is real and not a prop, until the man pats the tree and it falls over on it's side! It was a prop too!

As they go to sit down and light a cigarette, the cigarette that is thrown onto the ground ignites and sets the grass on fire! When the fire is stopped, it can be seen that all the grass was actually paper mache!

The couple keeps wandering through the streets of the town, finding a car with a mannequin inside it. The man begins to think that it might be some kind of test or joke. But, he gives up that idea eventually.

They both sit down and discuss the events of the previous night. And then, the girl begins to think that possibly, theey are both dead . . . and that they are both in hell. But then, both of them hear a train whistle!

They run to the train station, and hop on the train immediately! Theys ee the sign for the town before the train departs . . . it says, "Centerville". While they are on the train, they discuss the crazy town, and also talk about how great it is going to be to be back at home.

But then . . . the train stops at it's next destination. The same sign for 'Centerville" is again visible! The train went in a complete circle!

Desperate, the two decide to walk along the main road until they reach the next town. But while they are walking, a giant shadow comes down out of the sky and moves down towards them!

A giant arm can be seen picking the couple up and holding them in it's hand! The little girl that had been laughing is now visible, and it is now clear that the whole town is actually just a "play town" for the little girl!

A woman comes into the room (we cannot see her face, only hear her voice), and tells the girl to be very careful with the playthings, simply because the girl's father had brought them all the way from Earth!

The girl sets the couple down back in the town, and they run off.

Review By Eric Burke