Angelorum

 They know who they are.

Sugar

 Toot sweet!

You don't want sludge, just a touch.

A pinch of sugar to flavor some pasta, sauce, many items.  It is hardly noticeable.  It gives substance.  Otherwise taste might be flat.

Those things sweet should not overwhelm either..  There is a touch of salt in fudge.

Freedom gives you the responsibility to risk the recipe.

Awash

 Lies told often enough can seem to become the truth.  Josef G was right about that.  Either collectively or individually, the world gets upside down.

Bearing false witness plays a major part.

Frequently such lies involve projection.  

I want to deal mostly with the personal.  Many of us are familiar with the broader aspect of political brainwashing.  We wend down the well worn road of commie tactics which bend and make green blue/orange.

Personally, very personally, conditioning intensifies.  The heat is on.

And back to projection.

Say, a stepfather is child raping a daughter.  He manipulates her mind and the barely there bovine mother.

He needs a scapegoat.  And the perfect one is the absentee noncustodial father.  To his detriment, staying away is a bad way to go.  More presence would have demolished the stepfather's machination.

If applied steadily and villainizing continues, the stepdad projects his crimes on the real Dad.  Said Dad is unaware of this manipulation, not thinking anyone would stoop so low and of course stepdad hid his crimes.

Eventually Dad suspects something.  He has managed to establish communication with his daughter.  It was slowly building til stepdad finds out and puts the kabosh on it.  Him, not the mother.  

More inroads continue with the support of Dad's current wife.  And Dad's lawyer who actively legally defended Dad's interest and the interest of a healthy relationship for the daughter.

The stepdad was aided and abetted by the mother's family, eager to revenge against the Dad.  Ungainly and illogical, they believed the lies.

Until the mother divorced the stepdad.  Why?  It's posited she had had enough and like a stopped clock was right this time.

However, the fix was in and the damage done.

As Dad's counsel observed, the daughter had been turned.

It's like an infection which, when truth is applied, evinces a diseased reaction, replete with pain and fever.

Is there an outcome?

As with much of life, there is no clean cut denouement.

It may sit where it is/was or progress to a realization of all the pain of yesterday in bitter resolution.

Such damage is insidious.

It must be dealt with truth and love and concern, not some 'gotcha' revenge.

Even adult kids deserve such truth and love.

The above is partial supposition based on a factual case.  

All hopes for healing and truth are intended.

Stringing

 Business endeavors are pursued with as few strings as possible.  Even little or no.  They have to be MY strings.

We all, or should all know about strings pulled in world events, including the US.

It is a matter of turning the tables on the stringers.  

As for strings attached to people/events, we note them and out them.  

In a personal vein, something appears on the surface as legit, when in reality it is not so, even a complete opposite of what appears to be so.

It might take years of steady reinforcement and folks accept an intricate lacing of happenings and shrug if anything outside the narrative surfaces.

There can be a central figure who manipulates.  But also there are often 'allies' who do the central's bidding without them knowing.  Or they might be conscious and wholeheartedly support the liar.

Strings can be bribery, blackmail or threats.

They are puppetry as well.

A false front villain may take center stage, while that vile central figure remains in the background.  And a target might live complacently, accepting circumstances and even thinking right will win.

It won't unless the perfidy is exposed.  It is truly war.  And war demands action.  

A support base has to be established.  That's uphill when most of it has been removed.  Pray and seek.

Say many inheritances are stolen or thwarted.  Thieves revel in their ill gotten gain.  One can have an attitude of acceptance or rejection of this.

''Well I'm above this and better than they are'' could be a reaction.

Or, you get po'd and seek justice.

If immediate justice fails, it might be long term.

The thieves/ne'er do wells forget they can't take it with 'em.  What we have is to be used while here and honestly enjoyed.  Then, it gets passed on.

I tell you 'the diamonds must be returned/restored' is truth.  

It may not be in the same form or might be so.  

The diamonds WILL be returned.

Snip the strings.

Tudes Aplenty

 I've had a variety of jobs in my travels.  Whatever the conditions I never had a hand out, just ready.  It has given me perspective about myself and others and texture where there might have been flatness.

Beyond my college background in clinical psych, I've always been interested in people.  I guess 'people watcher' sizes me up.  As Antony said 'note the qualities of people'.

I generally accept others as they are, no matter what, save for the darksiders.  Even then, they are what/who they are, though there is no camaraderie -s-.

Just on a social level, I've experienced some shifts in attitude.  Let me explain.

I had a temp job as a sexton at a particular church in a well to do area, not far from where I was raised.

I was treated well enough by the staff, more or less, though there was a trifle bit of surprise at my education level and the way I comported myself.

We were setting up for a big Christmas shindig and it was my turn to be surprised.

I was chatting with a woman I think was on the committee.  There is always a committee lol.

It was merely chit chat with no heavy emphasis.

Her hubby took offense at this.  He remonstrated me to tend to my job.  OK.  Guess I didn't 'know my place'.  Supposed Christians acting in this manner is nothing new.  Sad.

One should treat others well just because it's the right thing to do.  It could be angels unaware or some other factor, but the bottom line it is a way of life.

One other small one.

I partially house painted my way through college.  I was working on a house which was to be a wedding gift for a woman's son; a first home.

The son pulled up one day and chatted.

He showed some surprise when he found out my background.

Never take anything nor anyone for granted.

Why I can talk to homeless or presidents -s-.

Some are gifted with something.  Or they are given an opportunity.

Live and learn.

Saved

 ''Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the first and great commandment.  The second is like unto it.  Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.''

This was an embroidery framed on the mantel in my Great Grandma's parlor.  

It's the essence of being saved.

I remember the 70s, the socalled Jesus freaks, a sort of nuvo Christianity.

There was talk of a personal relationship.  

I think it was a response to organized religion, a getting back to basics.

As for worship, some favor more liturgical and some go for a loose organization.

I'd say it's like shoe/clothing size.  The old cliche if it fits wear it rings true.  

It comes down to what's inside.  Knowing re the war between light and dark, good and evil.

Personally, I'm pretty earthy.  No sitting on a cloud with a harp.  I'm where the rubber hits the road.  Not shock value, just eye to eye.  Make sure honesty takes you through the trip.

Backsliding is the 'sinning again' falling off the wagon.

Terms.  Just don't get caught up in them.  Utilize them and do.

Each day there are the ups and downs.  We see how good and evil wend their ways through life.

Do.

False Witness...

 Murder.  

Of reputation.

It certainly relates to the previous post.

I/we can relate personally as well as nationally and worldwide.

To harbor such hatred that one would go to any length to ruin people is almost unfathomable.

It's akin to that ancient and ongoing war between good and evil.  It's real and far reaching both outwardly and inwardly.

There is a kind of karma that targets certain individuals.  Just think of it as a pattern within the aforementioned war.  If one is serving Light, then it follows there is darkside opposition.

8 billion is quite a lot of personal stories, yet many intertwine.  I leave it to you to discern your situation.

One of the darkside's chief weapons is bearing false witness.  They rely on financial and social weaknesses to eliminate support.

It tests the ingenuity of certain of us as to how we can vanquish such formidable opposition.

It may well be that diversion can lead to a true alternative.  Chess?  Kinda.

I can only tell you to be true.  Don't take the bait.  And turn their manipulation against them.

Karma can change.  God gives us that capacity.  It flounders the enemy, for they think like the criminals they are, that we all are like minded as are they.

Watch what happens to them as they twist events.  False faces crack and fall.  Deterioration sets in.  Beauty is only skin deep?  Yes and no.  

Spiritual beauty shines in places the enemy overlooks.

As for forgiveness, release hatred.  Don't let it fester because that leads to the trap of becoming like them.

Silence frightens them.  Decide when and where and how to counter them.

Even vast wealth can turn.

Think wars and battles.

And truth.