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Posted by Bijbel Spreuken on Friday, 27 February 2015

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Most all the refugees, asylum seekers and truly poor economic immigrants that I've known and worked with in America (since the immigration reform and control act of 1986),in Great Britain, and in Belgium are not only willing but desperate to learn the language, take the classes and sign in and fit in with thier new society.

Having personally been an immigrant in two countries I can say that it is a very complicated difficult process that is often not user friendly.

These people come often with post traumatic syndrome, because they were victims of extreme abuse or war Having seen families and property blown up, having lost everything, having no food, jobs or safety - come looking for a place to cope.

Many needing serious psychiatric and medical help from wars or economic situation our country started, funded, supplied arms to and we're even funded through literally truckloads of cash from our governments. Sometimes we were involved in the hope to free these people but more often than not it makes them victims of another even more radical regime.

Many of them have had no chance for school most of thier life because war /poverty /unrest or oppressive regimes. Governments have not allowed them to go to school or learn to read and write in thier own mother tongue. So signing in and following a course is a huge hurdle especially since they still are actually not free in our countries some for as many as 6 years waiting for status. So 10 years war or more in thier land with no rest and then waiting for years here.

Being an immigrant is hard work.

They need real loving lasting patient friends every step of the way.

But sadly often they are shunned and can only find friendship among other refugees. So they become intrenched in their own subcultures.

Ask any expat how hard it is to find places to integrate. Even the rich and educated well adjusted find it a emotional trek through rejection, discouragement, misunderstanding and prejudice. Trust me the majority of immigrants of all kinds want to do what is asked of them to integrate. But we don't make it easy.

But they also seek freedom. Freedom to live, love believe and act as they want. A basic freedom they have been denied. We speak so proudly of having these freedoms but then want to deny them once they arrive.

So do we live in free lands or not?

Do we espouse freedom of religion? Do we allow freedom of speech and expression? Can we not extend these freedoms to others? Don't we still want them for ourselves?

The fact is that in the history of all three countries in which I've lived immigrants came seeking freedom and safety. They organised against an oppressive regime and set down laws to protect freedoms they were denied. Why is that not still the case?

Curses and lies: pursuing the spirit of man with passion and truth

Get off the ride.

Warning I've been thinking! You probably won't want to read this.



We spend a lot of time taking care of our bodies. Washing, dressing, feeding, resting, exercising, sexing, working and it feels good. There is nothing wrong with it. But often we must admit that our bodies are controlling us.

Then there is the constantly ready and willing slavery to the masturbation of our emotions. And wow does entertainment allow an unprecedented opportunity to rub our emotions raw. We can see TV and film now on demand and all the time, get lost in games that feel more real than the world in which we live and breath and read something on every subject and fantasize a life that will never be ours.

But the mind has unquenchable thirst for knowledge drives many of us to learn, read, experiment and research the minutia of detail in the nichest of subjects until we begin to relax, lost in the quest for dominance and meaning over our world.

BUT when do we have time for our spirit. When do we challenge our lies concerning value and beauty? When do we cultivate the experimenter in truth and confront the dark lies of right and wrong. We live in a world screaming lies all day long! LIES, lies, lies lies lies, untruths, twisted meanings, and deceptive intentions. We want to believe many of these lies. These lies feed our ego, they caress our sense of worth. Lies about what is important, lies about how we should spend our time. We live in the lie that something we don't have will make us happy. We expend unbelievable hours of wasted time and energy and money selfishly masquerading as if we are the centre of the world. We think we know what is true and what is good and what is of value and what is wrong and what is false and what will make us happy. We act as if everything is all right and we hide what is wrong. We surround ourselves with yes-men and mock our dissenters.

How do you build character? How do you invest in discernment of worth and value? What ways do you cultivate hope rather than the feelings of wishing. When and where are you able to be real with yourself and correct your wayward bearing? How are you developing your inner peace? How are you rooting out the lies that have you trapped? What do you do to break free from the stranglehold of addiction, self adulation, and empty time wasting pointless pursuits? What is your plan for less mental selfies and more giving of love.

Are you more loving? Are you living sacrificially? Can you spot the lies being mainlined into your ego? Have you given up a false belief that has held you captive?

Curses, Curses, spirit courses.
Train my inner man.
Let me see the path before me and not be my biggest fan.
Curses, Curses I've wasted my energy
I've starved my spirit dry
because I fed my body now my spirit dies.
Curses, Curses I'm feeling till I'm tingliy
But now I'm numb and I ask my self why
Why did I waste away with feelings on things  that won't matter when I die.

Psalm 109 NLT (listen and feed your spirit)

6They say, “Get an evil person to turn against him.

Send an accuser to bring him to trial.

7When his case comes up for judgment,

let him be pronounced guilty.

Count his prayers as sins.

8Let his years be few;

let someone else take his position.

9May his children become fatherless,

and his wife a widow.

10May his children wander as beggars

and be driven from their ruined homes.

11May creditors seize his entire estate,

and strangers take all he has earned.

12Let no one be kind to him;

let no one pity his fatherless children.

13May all his offspring die.

May his family name be blotted out in the next generation.

14May the lord never forget the sins of his fathers;

may his mother’s sins never be erased from the record.

15May the lord always remember these sins,

and may his name disappear from human memory.

16For he refused all kindness to others;

he persecuted the poor and needy,

and he hounded the brokenhearted to death.

17He loved to curse others;

now you curse him.

He never blessed others;

now don’t you bless him.

18Cursing is as natural to him as his clothing,

or the water he drinks,

or the rich food he eats.

19Now may his curses return and cling to him like clothing;

may they be tied around him like a belt.”

20May those curses become the lord’s punishment

for my accusers who speak evil of me.

21But deal well with me, O Sovereign lord,

for the sake of your own reputation!

Rescue me

because you are so faithful and good.

22For I am poor and needy,

and my heart is full of pain.

23I am fading like a shadow at dusk;

I am brushed off like a locust.

24My knees are weak from fasting,

and I am skin and bones.

25I am a joke to people everywhere;

when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn.

26Help me, O  lord my God!

Save me because of your unfailing love.

27Let them see that this is your doing,

that you yourself have done it, lord.

28Then let them curse me if they like,

but you will bless me!

When they attack me, they will be disgraced!

But I, your servant, will go right on rejoicing!

29May my accusers be clothed with disgrace;

may their humiliation cover them like a cloak.

30But I will give repeated thanks to the lord,

praising him to everyone.

31For he stands beside the needy,

ready to save them from those who condemn them.

Who is not real in this list

Beginning with Jesus and tracing his lineage through to Adam and God, Luke records fit us the names of Jesus' family tree. Most people believe there was a real king David or a real Abraham. So which people in this list are fictional? I believe they are all real