Have you heard the one about the psychotic and the neurotic? The psychotic knows that two plus two equals five. The neurotic knows that two plus two equals four, but he worries about it. There’s an education is this bit of humor!
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Always Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
How does one arrive at a disturbed character? This is not a rhetorical question. One arrives at a disturbed character by continually ignoring three things:
1. The Genuine Existence of God
2. The Authentic Character of God
3. The Justice System of God
The Bible tells us clearly that every human is equipped with a conscience and that the conscience is there to point him or her toward God; to reveal His very genuine existence as well as His authentic character, and to make obvious His definition of right and wrong- His system of justice.
The Scriptures also tell us that the man or woman who does not see any benefit in retaining this knowledge of conscience will eventually be possessed of the depraved mind that is left to him or to her. The Bible tells us that this depraved mind is capable of all types of evil- probably beyond what some who have thoroughly nurtured the conscience are capable of imagining.
This depraved mind is the one that displays the disturbed or disordered character; this mind is held captive by a system of belief that has developed a set of core values (to direct the soul) that is selfish to the degree of being diabolical. This mind is the antithesis of the mind of God, if you will allow, an anti-Christ.
How does one keep himself or herself from arriving at this reprehensible state?This also is not a rhetorical question. The answer is evident. One must continually nurture belief in the three things one’s conscience has been designed to bring to attention:
1. The Genuine Existence of God
2. The Authentic Character of God
3. The Justice System of God
From the beginning, each and every time one is situationally placed so that it is necessary to purposely acknowledge these three things one must be made to do so- forced by his or her own will to acknowledge the conscience or by the will of an earthly authority figure such as a parent, a teacher, or other official to do so as the conscience must be the arbitrator of what many theologians refer to as common grace; and the truly converted under specific grace if momentarily and specifically submissive, shall be aided further by yielding to the will of The Holy Spirit of God within the self so accessing the wisdom and power available to him or her.
The person who consciously and continually engages in an effort to refute or to silence the conscience will naturally digress to the condition of the disturbed character. The disturbed character will appear as having no conscience and will yet be a “functioning” member of the community. A disordered character is displayed by one who was once only disturbed but has now slipped into the realm of the surely dysfunctional (rendered incapable of carrying out the requisite responsibilities of society).
The failure to nurture the conscience is the failure to nurture Truth and will surely result in the demise of the individual and the eventual destruction of any general population in which these individuals are prevalent.
Notably, George K. Simon, Jr., Ph.D., has done a beautiful job of further explanation, and in giving socially acceptable as well as academically responsible language to the subject matter found here and in our Bibles (particularly in the book of Romans), in the book he authored: Character Disturbance, The Phenomenon of Our Age.
We must take seriously the view of ourselves found in God’s Holy Word for the protection of ourselves, our loved ones, and for the benefit of humanity as a whole. May God help us!
Copyright 2017. L.L. Shelton
The Story
You are the first page and the last.
You are the future and the past.
You are the epitome of every view.
The Story belongs to you.
You are the reason and the rhyme.
You are the space and the time.
You are the old and you are the new.
The Story belongs to you.
You are the whole and so the part.
You are the mind and so the heart.
You are the One; we await your cue.
The Story belongs to you.
Copyright 2017. L.L. Shelton.
Chryptochrome, I’m Coming Home
The string is the wave.
Hallelujah He saves!
Seven point eight three,
The frequency,
That transfigures you and me!
Absorbing Light,
My eye can see Right!
The frequencies
Man made to see
Interfere with You and me.
Copyright 2016, L.L. Shelton
From Mother-In-Love (Rhyme For Jamie)
I was your second mother,
Her arms held you first,
And every time I think this through
I think of you from birth;
I think of how she must have loved you,
Wrapped up in her arms,
Of how she must have felt each time
She kept you safe and warm.
I think of all she gave in hopes,
Your life would be sublime,
Of how she never dreamed there’d come
This awful space in time.
I long for her to know,
That I too loved you Dear,
That every time you came to me
I kept you very near;
For her to know I shared her love,
And now do share her pain,
My heart will ache until that day
We do hold you again.
L.L. Shelton, Copyright 2016.
American Election Day 2016
Coming To You
You were meant to have my heart.
No one can compete.
There’s no One can fake your part.
You are The Place
Where all is good, where I long to be.
Where truth is spoken
Always by choice;
Coercion’s no necessity.
There’s no need of force,
Where kindness is the rule.
Where I am you and you are me,
Where we are we, and
Everyone’s a fool
For You.
(1 Corinthians 1:25, 3:19-20)
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God Rest The Queens
Mary and Elizabeth,
Both required to reign;
It appears that the two
Desired the same thing:
To believe as one will
Leaving all to God until
A harm is done another,
Then crown must interfere.
Despite the common interest
In their subjects well-being,
Brewed a never-ending tempest
Among those believing
The way of the right
Should be the crown’s achieving.
Pop sentiment in sight,
Tensions had to be relieving,
Cousins thrust into the tide
Of the crowd’s lustful screaming,
Lost decency as guide,
Sent sentiment careening
Round the curve of Mary’s neck.
Faithful dog at feet lay curled
In death would not reject
His beloved mistress hurled
Into the after-life.
Her end was her beginning,
Blade lifted her from strife,
In death she knew her winning.
Elizabeth remained to toil
With the issues of the earth
Eventually would meet the soil
Freed from position of her birth.
Copyright 2016. L.L. Shelton.
Welcome To Perfect
(This one is for my beautiful young friend, Elizabeth Grace.)
Perfect is you.
Perfect is He who made you.
Perfect is you wanting to be new.
Perfect is Christ making you the who,
He desires for you to be,
Throughout eternity.
Perfect is you.
Welcome
Home.
Copyright 2016. L.L. Shelton.
By His Grace Made Blind
In earth a cold harsh path
Had been mapped to feel my feet,
Carved especially for me the ruts,
Groove often ran most deep.
Residing in a violent storm
Black sludge encased my limbs,
Offering to smother me,
Yet He produced a hymn.
Attuned only to that song
Anchored firmly in my heart,
Shadows might have overtaken me.
But I was meant to whistle in the dark.
She says I tend to stir the soul
Unaware the spoon within my grasp,
Noticing too late the moments,
Tangled solidly within my clasp;
As a murderer stands heedless
To the blood upon his hands,
As a lover lies his passion spent,
Incognizant the thorns upon the land.
Oblivious to markers obvious,
Simply noted by an ordinary mind,
Mid-event I’m visionless,
Maybe I was by His Grace made blind.
Experience lies fixed I find,
Dwelling soundly in my being,
As I am rendered only feeling,
Sightless I am seeing.
Impetuous is flip side
Of spontaneously kind,
Fanciful a weakness
Until one must escape the time.
Copyright 2016. L.L. Shelton