What is truth? One definition: the quality of being in accordance with experience, facts, or reality; conformity with fact.
I hear often, “this is MY truth,” or, “that is YOUR truth.” However, eternal truths cannot be disputed. They just are. When we allow ourselves to entertain falsehoods or speak lies to others, it chips away at our foundation and brings uncertainty and confusion. For example, there are those out there now that are female and say they identify as male or males that say they identify as female. Many in politics, media, and now the general population tell us that we must call a person by their preferred pronouns and allow them to participate as the gender they say they are. When a person calls out the lie they are called all kinds of names and humiliated publicly. You cannot dispute the truth in this matter. No surgery, hormones, etc. will change the fact that a biological male or female is determined when they are born. It is wrong to force these lies on young people who are not fully developed and still growing physically, emotionally and spiritually, and yet many are. If a 40 year old man says he identifies as a 17 year old and has sex with a minor is he now legally treated as a minor just because he said it? It sounds illogical and it is, yet a biological man is competing in the Olympics as a female weightlifter. Many biological males are competing as females in track and taking scholarships from women. Some prisons are allowing for a person to be in the prison population according to the gender they identify as. Can you imagine a rapist saying they identify as the opposite sex and what harm that could do?
There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.
C.S. Lewis
When I was a teenager, I became fascinated with World War 2 and the circumstances surrounding it. One part that I just couldn’t wrap my head around was how people could not see what was really happening around them and how they believed the propaganda they were being fed. I understood a bit more as I watched the movie, “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.” One young boy is in a concentration camp and another lives outside the fence not far from the camp. The one outside sees film that depicts the camps as a wonderful family place with an area to play and eat, families happy and together. He befriends the boy inside the camp and although he is right outside the camp, he cannot see what is really going on. I won’t share the ending but it’s worth watching. I still didn’t understand how the propaganda was so far reaching until this past year or so with Covid-19, the masks, and the “shot”. Is there a real virus? Yes. Have deaths occurred? Yes. Is there a “shot?” Yes. Just about anything beyond those questions cannot be answered truthfully no matter what side you believe. Why? Because only one point of view is allowed.
I’m going to share an experience to illustrate what I mean by this. Quite few years ago, it looked as if one of my children had an autoimmune disorder, celiac disease. Modern medicine left little options except to not eat gluten. I decided I wanted to see if I could find more out there and decided to study herbology. My sister is a Master Herbalist and has helped her family out of many a health crisis. I learned that herbal preparations are just as powerful and often more effective than drugs. That most drugs are made from plant constituents. When done right, herbal preparations are very safe. Different parts of the same plant balance the other parts out which means very few side effects. The active ingredients in a drug are often highly concentrated and while effective, can also have many side effects. Herbology came before Pharmacology and only lost it’s favor because Pharma makes more money. Herbology aids the bodies immune response while Pharmacology does not. You can see I am biased to Herbology. However, I believe that Pharmacology is beneficial to many and at times the better option. My point in sharing this is that I have the benefit of seeing both sides of treating a condition. I have learned that if something is going on in my own body or a family members, I can look up many methods of treatment and choose what will work best for my family. If I hadn’t looked for other options, I wouldn’t know there was a choice.
Now fast forward to C-19. Any attempt to share an alternative to masks, “shots”, treatments, etc. is suppressed. It is claimed as false information. There are many who do not want to be forced into getting the “shot”. You may say that there is no force and yet many colleges and universities are requiring it. The virus and the drug have been incentivized. Logic and reason are not a part of the conversation. For instance, no one that had the virus needs or should get the “shot” but we cannot talk about that. Children have very little risk of the virus but we don’t know the risk of the “shot” since it is experimental and drug companies have no liability. There are several successful therapies out there that include drugs that have been safely used for many years, vitamins, herbs, etc. but we cannot talk about those without being called idiots. Do you ever ask yourself why? Anyone with an opposing view on masks was shut down although the information on why they don’t work has been out there for many, many years. The “science” didn’t change but the narrative did. THIS is how propaganda works. Fear, manipulation, force, are used to only allow one point of view to be expressed. Every time an opposing view is stated it’s easy to just say, “follow the science,” even if it’s not being followed. Or, “don’t you want to stop people from dying?” even though we are not God and do not have power over life and death. Do they show you what the “cure” is doing to people? No. Do they show that in MANY instances the “cure” isn’t even working? Nope.
This is just one aspect of what’s going on in our culture right now. Remember the riots that were called, “peaceful protests?” Those “peaceful protests” ruined peoples livelihoods without repercussion. Remember when a drug addict and criminal had a statue made in his honor while many true heroes statues were torn down? Or when police were defunded, spit on, called horrible names and even killed without hardly a word? Have you seen the CRT that wants white children to be shamed because they are automatically racist because of their skin color? What about cancelling products, changing mascots and names of schools, changing history because it is messy? All of these things are happening because, for many people, they are not seeing the truth.
What we need to find is TRUTH! Every human individual has the ability, if they choose, to receive the gift of discernment AND personal revelation. We can study out all sides of any given idea and pray to know what is right and true. We can seek truth in scriptures and a living prophet. Truth comes from God and is not subjective. Picture yourself in a room. In the middle of the room is a box. If the room was totally dark and there was a light in the box, any crack in the box would reveal the light. Your eyes would automatically be drawn to that light because light penetrates darkness. Let’s now say the room is filled with light. The box is dark inside (no light this time) but even opening the box would not bring darkness into the room. There may be a shadow but you will not be drawn to it. Truth and light will penetrate lies and darkness. Shine the light of truth!
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
John 3:21
Permission to Love 
Totally true!!!
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