Insightful Musings on the Scriptures

by

Raymond P. Sparre
Northwest University class of '67

Hello there, nice people.

Becki and I were wearing our walk/jog stuff—but never did a walk/jog. It simply became too late, and the weather too ugly. We decided to first drop the car off at our mechanic’s shop for a brake job. We burned up a lot of time there by talking too much. By the time we were free to do our excursion, rain was coming down like crazy, almost horizontally.

The list is getting bigger all the time. A friend just called to add to it—reporting that a couple trees are threatening damage to his house in all this wind. I’ll be checking that out early afternoon.

Our creek (Milk Creek) is definitely more than a creek at present. I was trying to download a photo and send with this as an attachment. But I can’t seem to make it work so far. Maybe later.

May your day be blessed.

Love, Dad/Ray.

We all know that sleep dulls the senses and causes one to become desensitized to reality. The danger of spiritual sleep is the main idea here—a condition that causes one to become insensitive and out of touch with spiritual reality, and its relationship to physical reality. I’ve acquired enough real life experience to know that this is a serious danger along the course of living my life. To help me avoid such a condition, I’ve taken time to process these special messages to the churches at Thyatira and Sardis (today’s reading), added a few other idea, and have formulated several novel, practical, and revolutionary axioms—never before conceived by humans (tongue in cheek). After each statement it could be appropriate to pause and add the comment, “Duh!” (I’m sure you could add some of your own.) Maybe I should write them out and tape them to my bathroom mirror just to help me remember...

• IF YOU’RE ALWAYS AWAKE—YOU’LL NEVER BE CAUGHT SLEEPING.
• IF YOU’RE ALWAYS READY—YOU’LL NEVER BE UNPREPARED.
• IF YOU’RE ALWAYS HOLDING ON—YOU’LL NEVER LET GO.
• IF YOU’RE ALWAYS STRONG—YOU’LL NEVER BE WEAK.
• IF YOU’RE ALWAYS WELL FED—YOU’LL NEVER GO HUNGRY.
• IF YOU’RE ALWAYS HYDRATED—YOU’LL NEVER GO THIRSTY.
• IF YOU ALWAYS REMEMBER—YOU’LL NEVER FORGET.
• IF YOU’RE ALWAYS CLEAN—YOU’LL NEVER BE DIRTY.
• IF YOU’RE ALWAYS IN LOVE—YOU’LL NEVER BE OUT OF IT.
• IF YOU’RE ALWAYS MOTIVATED BY POSITIVE PASSION—YOU’LL NEVER BE NEGATIVELY BORED.
• IF YOU ALWAYS OVERCOME—YOU’LL NEVER BE OVERCOME.
• IF YOU’RE ALWAYS ALIVE—YOU’LL NEVER BE DEAD.
• IF YOU ALWAYS HAVE PEACE—YOU WILL NEVER BE RULED BY FEAR AND ANXIETY.
• IF YOU ALWAYS DWELL IN THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH—YOU WILL NEVER DWELL IN THE PUBLIC PLACE OF THE MOST AVERAGE.
“Sleeping at the wheel is a good way to keep from growing old.”