Wearing your Mask Backwards.

They say that everyone wears a mask or puts up barriers, protection from embarrassment. We never laugh the same in front of strangers as we do in front of friends. We try not to cry in front of anyone except our closest friends or family. We usually play it safe and reserved  until we know what others will say about our actions or our feelings.

For years I have lived my life thinking I was different then I am. People generally like me, they trust me they confide in me. In school I was often one of the favorites, one year in high school we actually had a cake for my birthday during class. I can't remember this happening on anybody else's birthday. I usually have a better relationship with my bosses then the other employees. The list goes on, parents of friends, friends  and neighbors. I'm not bragging. just stating the facts. But despite all this evidence I have seen myself differently. I thought people were wrong about me. I don't know, I just didn't like me as much as other people seemed to. I've seen myself as lazy and I've been afraid that people would find out how wrong they were about me.

Now we come to recent events. The other day my wife was telling a humorous story about me to a friend of mine. The story so caught my friend by surprise that for just a moment he let down his guard and I could see the real him, I liked what I saw. Now for just the briefest instance I could see what he saw in me, I was flattered, he saw through to the truth. And then it hit me for nearly fifty years I've been wearing my mask backwards. How could I be right about me and everyone else be wrong? I haven't been hiding myself from others I've been hiding myself from me. Well if you think I was nice before look out because now I know I'm nice. I'm going to try and use the fact that people trust me to be more helpful and generally to try and be a better friend and just a better person.

Simplified

Years ago I posted this blog...

Creation

This seems so simple, if you believe in creation you must find away to make it fit.

My thoughts are this, when God created Adam was Adam a newborn  No. I don't know his exact age, but for sake of argument let us say he was 21. Adam was one second old but he was 21 as compared to you & I. His body had a past built into it. His skin wasn't newborn, his hair, we can presume, could be cut, as if it had not just appeared brand new.

Now take that thought & transfer it to all of creation. The universe was created with a past, not a past that actually happened but a past created by God.

The Earth was created with a past. Scientists can say the Earth is such & such old, but only because God created it in that first week with a built in past.

I have simplified it. 

If at the moment of his creation, a scientist were to examine Adam he would declare him a man of (for sake of argument) 21. Same with the universe. Billions of years? Big bang theory? Just a calculation with God removed as a factor. Scientists can't help but come up with the wrong answer because God does not allow himself to be a factor in logic.

New Theories

Today it was theorized by me after practically no research, that Ohio was first colonized by Vikings in 1025 a.d.. I believe they settled in the Sandusky area and if we could excavate enough of the area we would surely find evidence of their settlement.
 It was also theorized by me that deep in the bottom of lake Erie a passage leads to the lake on the other side in the hollow earth.

These theories came to me after spending time watching just as well thought out theories on You Tube.