I wanna LOVE people more. Love is from the Lord. He loves people more that I ever will, I know that. But in modeling my life after Him. Loving people is something I need to make for a priority. But how do we do that in the fall of 2020 while living in America?
Well, for starters, I'm not DEAD yet! So long as there's breath in my lungs and I have life there is opportunity to love other people. It's easy to love and develop commraderie with people who are like you; but this is not the tact Jesus used. He gave His love freely to people around Him.
You just never know the impact your life can have on other people. Conversely, people impact your life. Some for the better, some for the worse. But instead to focusing on who wronged you. Why not focus on the people who made a change in your life for the better, and try to emulate that in your own life?
Don't know about you, but I have been GRACED with an abundance of good, loving people. Perhaps the biggest shaper in my life was an ex-pastor I had. His name was Bob Kaminski. Bob was a Boeing project manner by day, co-pastor of small church by weekend; lover of Jesus 100% of the time. When I first came to Christ in the early 90s, I did so after contemplating suicide. I had been drinking very heavily after ending a stint working on a fisher/processor boat in Alaska; and was a mess. I remember fearing I was filled with demons, but when Bob looked into my eyes he smiled, gave me a hug and said I was going to be okay. I didn't know if I'd ever be able to think clearly again, but then I started reading God's word, and things changed for the better. Besides showing me the FORGIVENESS of Jesus at a critical point in my life, Bob Kaminski also went down to the streets of Tacoma on Friday nights and ministered to those on the streets. That's right a Boeing executive served the down-and-out in his free time. THAT left a mark in my psyche that never left.
Lately I've been spending A LOT of time on social media. Especially Twitter. Mr. Unpopular (me) is now up to 265 followers! Can you believe that? True most of these people I don't even know, as most of my "followers" are people I picked up who are Right leaning. I figured they started "following" me because I said something in support of the Lord, Donald Trump, Republicans, or just defending someone's honor who I thought was being wronged.
Trump Rallies are good places to find good people
Boy is there ever a contrast in people these days. Right vs. Left. Don't wanna stereotype all Democrats as bad people, but then more time you spend on-line with them the more you see hate and vitriol coming from them. Some posts by Left-wing people and highly slanderous, dirty and pornographic. Most of the slander comes from what I would call FAKE ACCOUNTS. That's where the user takes a false name so they can spew bile thinking it can never be traced back to them. What a WASTE OF TIME it is for someone to take up that approach. These are BAD PEOPLE, but that's not the focus of this post, GOOD PEOPLE are. Speaking of which...
Kaya in electric mode!
The brightest shinning star in America today is woman by the name of Kaya Jones, and she is currently my most favorite person. Kaya is one of the three founders of Conflix Studios, which a talked about a couple posts ago. There are too many things to count of why I like Kaya. I guess the first thing that jumps out at you is that she's GORGEOUS; drop dead beautiful. The next thing you'll come to appreciate about Kaya is that she's a crusader: pro-Trump, against human trafficing, pro-Christian, anti-censorship on social media. Kaya is someone you can get to know online. She is very forthright about who and what she is. I bring this up because a lot of people are very guarded, and you can NEVER get to know them online. Kaya Jones is not like that. What's better is the more you get to know her, the more you fall in in love with her. Kaya is not shy about sharing her faith, and overall has a positive outlook on life.
Kaya Jones is E.C. Henry's most favorite person. She is God's little fashionista!
That said, I'm ALWAYS looking for GOOD PEOPLE to support. This is a tough time we're in, and right now my focus is making sure GOOD PEOPLE are supported and elevated.
So how do you judge who is good and who is bad? Well for starters. God is the ultimate judge of character. E.C.Henry doesn't always get it right. Why do you think I'm ALWAYS editing my epic fantasy series and the scripts I've written. Because I'm flawed and I don't always get it right, BUT I am committed becoming a better person, learning and growing. I don't see myself as the fount of all-things good. I am not the Lord. I'm a CHILD of the Lord; an immitator or Jesus. You be the judge of how close I come to highest standard that we should be striving for: being who God created us to be!
Good people are the hope for America. Not Donald Trump alone, America needs good people. Thankfully I'm finding more and more of them. And I fully plan on blessing and encouraging them.
I'll end with a funny story of something that happened to me yesterday. As you may or may not know, I'm TRYING to get more involved with the Washington State Republican Party so I'm following them online and trying to go events they sponsor. On their site they had an event scheduled for 9 a.m. in a park in Auburn. I didn't what it was about, but when the director tweeteed to me where it was I went. Turns out it was door knocking, pamphlet awareness effort on behalf of Jesse Jensen, who is running for Congress. I knew NOTHING about this candidate going into this. Making matters worse I wore a promotional shirt for my writing and a cape, and had Chimpy the monkey in my pockets. O, AND I forgot to wear my face mask. Still, I went out with a group and even knocked on a couple door, though once I realized what this event was all about, I realized this wasn't about making myself known, it was about raising political awareness, selflessly. Guess there's room to grow there.
If E.C. Henry came to your door, would you answer it?
Still, the group didn't outright reject me; though I wasn't doing it right. The honest truth I don't like going door-to-door for ANY reason, BUT if it helps a fellow Republican win I guess I'll just swallow my pride and do it.
Life is messy. We don't always get it right. And when I was walking with this group I learned a lot. We don't have to be of the same mindset to do the right thing collectively. I am awful representative of the Conservative Party and values. My heart is NOT in politics, it's in entertainment. I am NOT a great political or business mind, I am undiscovered creative talent. That's me, that's where I'm coming from. One of the other guys in our group was running for some kind of insurance office. I talked with the guy briefly and found him to be WAYYY out there. Had a hard time relating to him, yet there he was knocking on door doing a lot better than me. Sometimes you gotta just laugh. Laugh at yourself and the situation you're in. I also met a lady from Seattle who was a real chatterbox. She was nice to me and talked with me extensively. One other person in the door-knocker crowd who really made an impression was in Indian wearing a turban. I just saw the guy from afar. You don't generally think of Indians with turbans as ambassadors of the Republican Party. But why not? If you're a citizen ANYONE can be a Republican, not just white males. Anyway, it does my heart good to see people of other ethnicities being active in the political process. Why not. It's their country too. Good does not discriminate. It's something that we're all capable of doing, and it should be our focus.
So I move on through life, I'm going to try to stumble less. It's just I have a hard time acting selflessly. Being undiscovered SUCKS! Yeah I'm at peace with it, but it doesn't mean I like it. But I will NEVER convert to being a liberal to boast my chances of getting discovered. Gotta be true to yourself and what hold as good. And it's not as though I believe Conservatives have a lock on good, and always do what's right. Good is choice. A decision by decision choice. I am a Republican because they represent good, whereas all I've seen for a long time is bad out of the Democrat Party.
Last takeaway. E.C. Henry is --
In constant search for GOOD PEOPLE to support!
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