I think every politician, member of the news media, and all
teachers responsible for forming the minds of our youth need to step back from
the deadly precipice of fear mongering, polarization and blind acceptance of
someone else’s truth, and seek out their own truth.
As a society, at least on the Internet and news media, we
are to quick to condemn, to quick to judge, too eager to blame and to fearful
to forgive. Look around you and the
result is quite terrifying. Chaos is the only constant. The ability to communicate has been
lost. We have broken off contact with our
moral and spiritual foundation.
Tragically, we have lost our connection to God. Yet even in the shadows of darkness engulfing
much of the world, God has not given up on us.
Look at the price we pay for living. Health care costs are bankrupting our people and
destroying a lifetime of savings intended for the children in a matter of
months. Student debt is causing our
youth to be broke from the minute they get out of school.
Owning a home is too expensive. Consumer goods are too cheap. The nutritional value of food is being
decimated by excessive biogenetic manipulation while most water is to polluted to
drink.
Our institutions like schools, health care, even religions
are more like prisons trying to entrap, or more appropriately to enslave you, isolating
you from the evil lurking in the shadows rather than preparing you to survive
in the world.
Almost everywhere the seeds of doubt, the level of greed,
the lust for power, and accumulation of unfathomable wealth undermines the values
and principles of good, honesty, fairness, justice and salvation for all Souls.
Our obsession with serving ourselves and our own selfish
needs dominates our actions and causes us to lose sight of the most powerful
message of our existence. We are all children
of God. We are part of a shared humanity
created by God. We share responsibility
for each other and for the Earth which God gave us to live upon.
Make no mistake, among the billions of inhabitants of Earth,
there are many who are free of the darkness shrouding our world. They are the seekers, believers, dreamers and
enlightened souls free of the chaos and fear sweeping or world.
They live in a state of grace which makes them invisible to
the evil forces on Earth. I once described
these souls as the Raggedy People in a Dedication for my book The Joshua Chronicles. It went like this.
Dedication
"RAGGEDY
PEOPLE"
Somewhere out there are the Raggedy People, those souls whose
purpose in life is to live in the enlightenment of the Father. They seek only
the riches of the perfect love of God and are welcomed into His Kingdom by Him.
Full of wonder and joy, and empowered with the knowledge they are the image and
likeness of God, the Raggedy People are the silent multitudes upon which a new
and wonderful civilization will rise.
The Raggedy People are everywhere and nowhere, for they
function as silent and often forgotten members of society. There is no gender
differentiation, no classes, no hierarchy, no ethnic purification, even no
preferred form of worship or religion to which they subscribe, for they may be
found anywhere. All believe the Kingdom is for all souls, if you only dare to
seek.
The Raggedy People are truly the children of God. One day all
humankind will discover their secret, and the world will transform. One day the
rich, the powerful, the politician, and the greedy will understand success in
this life is not control and accumulation, but kindness and love.
There are those who read the words of God, teach it, preach
it, and study it, but few who live it. Dwelling in the goodness of God on earth
are the Raggedy People. We should seek them out to help us find the way. As
always, they stand ready to assist.
The Joshua Chronicles tells the story of one of them. The tale
of an obscure soul upon whose broad shoulders rested the salvation of
humankind. How one person befriended a young lad long ago, agreed to a sacred
covenant, and set out on a 2000-year odyssey to fulfill his destiny and his
obligation to the Creator.
Along the way, he faced the relentless fury of "the
second most powerful force in all of creation, the evil Prince of
Darkness." With the unlikely assistance of an attractive young
psychologist, an aging monk, two ancient members of the secret Order of the
Templar and a relic of a doorkeeper, Joshua must overcome the master of the
underworld in order to fulfill his sacred covenant.
The Joshua Chronicles, the most important papers in the
history of humankind, must be preserved and revealed in order for all of us to
find our way home. This is Joshua's story of finding his way back among the Raggedy
People, and his reluctant acceptance of the sacrifices he made so that others
could find their way as well.
This story is of one person's sojourn to rediscover the
perfect love of God for all His creations, and to reveal that love in a way all
could understand. Read this and you will know you can never be alone or
forgotten, everyone counts to the Creator.
Perhaps you may be one of the Raggedy People too...
Jim Putnam
The Raggedy People are out there and they are the key to
our salvation. Through them we can discover
our purpose, seek out the truth, and rediscover our faith in God and
Jesus. They can show us the path to
Grace, redemption, resurrection and salvation, for the Raggedy People dwell on
the path Jesus walks, illuminated by the power of the love of God and Jesus for
each and every one of us.
Pray for help, pray for guidance, pray for inspiration to help others.
We must Help each other to Survive!
