Grandma’s Stories

Sep 20th “Our Nation Founded on Torah”

Dear Ellen, Recently, I was speaking in Florida, applauding the efforts of conservative citizens to flip their school boards in favor of new members who will uphold and advance the truthful teaching about America’s history and heritage. Liberal watchdog group the Right Wing Watch grabbed a clip from my speech and spread it abroad as if I were a danger to society. My inflammatory statement? “Our nation was founded on the Torah.” The fact that I have received such scathing treatment for such an obvious truth has caused me to pause once again about the future of our great country. Were the founders of the United States influenced by the Bible? Did the Old Testament, and specifically the first five books of the law, known as the Torah, impact their thinking? It only takes a quick search on the Internet to discover that answer, which is a loud and clear, “Yes!” In his first draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson began not with the word “self-evident” when describing the nature of our inalienable rights, but with the two-word combination of “sacred and undeniable.” This same document goes on to describe these rights as belonging to all men “created equal and independent.” Imagine that. Mr. Jefferson, known as a leader and trailblazer of liberty, is also regarded as a deist by historians. He famously struck through every mention of the miraculous and supernatural in his own version of the New Testament, which he called, “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.” But even this notorious cut-and-paster acknowledged the truth that man is created and his rights to freedom and choice are “sacred.” “Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?” Jefferson wrote in his Notes on the State of Virginia. Very true, Mr. Jefferson, counter what many on the left are saying these days. This quote can be found on the northwest wall of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. On June 28, 1787, Benjamin Franklin, then the governor of Pennsylvania, spoke to the Constitutional Convention and challenged them with these stirring words: “In the days of our contest with Great Britain when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for divine protection,” he reminded them. “I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, it is probable that a new Nation cannot rise without his aid.” A new nation cannot rise except by the power of God. A powerful and stirring idea. And where might Franklin and the other founders have been inspired by such an amazing notion? The answer is found in Franklin and John Adam’s recommendation for the first national seal, which features at the center the crossing of Israel through the Red Sea, found in Exodus 14. Franklin and the other founding patriots were fortified in their resolve by the story of the Exodus and Israel’s delivery from their Egyptian oppressors. “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God” encircled the image of Moses and the children of Israel walking through the Red Sea unharmed. The founders took this important message from the Torah: God hates tyrants and oppressive government. In 1778, speaking to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, James Madison stated clearly and unashamedly, “We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We’ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity … to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” And of course, we must ask, where do we find the 10 Commandments? That would be Exodus 20:2–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21, the second and fifth books found in the Bible, and both part of the Torah. And while the following citation comes from the Nevi’im, or the prophets, rather than the Torah, it is important to remember that our division of government into three branches—judicial, legislative, and executive—was inspired by James Madison’s application of Isaiah 33:22: For the Lord is our judge, The Lord is our lawgiver, The Lord is our king; He will save us … And while God can be trusted to perform all three roles in the affairs of man, the founders were painfully aware this was not the case for humans. This is where another citation from the Nevi’im bears remembering, especially in these days of increasing confusion about who we are as a nation: The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; Who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17:9) As I consider the assault on the origins of this country and the influence of Torah and the rest of Scripture on their thinking, I am reminded of another statement from Jefferson: “Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.”   Blessings, Laurie Cardoza Moore President/Proclaiming Justice to The Nations

Sep 19th “Planning to FLY Over To See YOU”

Some days you just receive,  that extra special feeling… you just know…  that there is something… right NOW… that you just got to get  your  whole body … soul and mind in gear  to receive … and wait for no dilly dally delays of any kind … you are feeling it all the way down and into your bones… you gotta  just get  to that  going… just as fast  and faster than ever before…  as you can!

Just take a look at my hair… the wind is blowing me  almost off my feet… just a real good thing… that I have my heavy boots  on… just  so good, to keep me on the ground, when the wind takes a notion to get so wound up…  as if it were a hurricane … and or getting my attention to get a much  faster move on!

When you just love to be flying… you see all of these obstacles as top priority challenges and you just have to start working faster and keep your mind on  just exactly that which  you are doing… watching out for something  off base… coming in a hurry and just so off base… makes  for you to start to wondering… am I taking any unnecessary  challenges or what?

Just letting everyone know… that I am up and  way up and above and doing… all of that which I was taught… from day one…

Just keep your eyes up and looking for me… when I fly by    and wave!

Sep 18th “On Sunday We Go Flying All Day”

Here we are…

We are just so excited … because all three of us…  are going flying and…  we are going FLYING all day long!

On “SUNDAYS” … there is… just something extra special about “SUNDAYS”… for the three of us, something like us three,  being those “three musketeers” you may have read or heard  about… a long time ago.

We just get together and make plans for something exciting to do, and or  for the three of us … to go somewhere and do something that will  be… by the end of the day… ending up being just  a big maybe … and or  most probably, a for sure being most exciting for us and sometimes even more so  for others!

This is our most wonderful Alyssa, and she takes to flying… just as if she were a “bird with wings” that can take you where ever you want to fly…

Up and beyond the highest of high places to see and inspect  everything … over and over,  since it is just  so much fun, and  to keep on flying, all just  for the  fun of flying so high…  as you can see forever and ever… it is being  so much fun!

Now is that time… for the three of us to take a flight all  over the area and really take a second look or two…  and or maybe even a third look…

While you are up and enjoying the scenery as the day begins  to turn into evening, and the lights all  over the earth… start to turn on… just adding a different dimension to the beauty of   our earth and the evening sky …

And now… for us to see… someone is adding a twinkling star or two…  for us to fly by, and give to them…  a wave to… just in case there is more  than we know … that also enjoy this very late  hours flying…

There is just so much more to see and for us to enjoy… while we do this very late hours flying,  and…  we are  surely enjoying these late hours out,  and our flying  over all the earth below…

Just a flying as a very good watchman  would … just making sure that all is just right… all around the earth this night!

Sep 17th “I See You and You and You”

“Photos are worth a thousand words… and worth millions!”

                  WOW eeee….

                                   XOXOXO    XOXOXO….

xxxxxxx       OOOOOO      xxxxxxxx       OOOOOOO

“Sometimes you just  gotta  talk to,  the PHOTO…

                               then…  sit back …

                            and you will receive messages…

                            more than you can remember …

                   as those vibes … just keep a coming!”

Sep 16th “Birthday Week and Still including Old Memories”

“DADDY and ME!”

You can tell   – just by looking at this old PHOTO  — that this is when the world was in some much “better times” …

When you are able to  take some free time to  just think about the past  – and start doing  a little thinking  of the NOW and THEN comparing  – putting some real thought into the how and what we were doing… way back in the 1930’s …

And  then… just give a thought or two  about  everything going on today… just makes one wonder… about a few things and… so I ask you the reader, what  in this world …do you think??

Looking at me –  – in the strong arms of  my “DADDY” …

I am sitting on top of the world!

 Being the first child in the FAMILY – -I am taken everywhere – -I am getting to meet all of the FAMILY  and FRIENDS …

and from what my MOTHER told me – everyone liked me and wanted me to visit them – evidently –  the one thing that which –  I do  even  NOW – 

I was doing then – – and that  was  asking questions

–  asking  “WHY” … was the one word – that I used more than any other…  just wanted to know  “WHY ” everything was the way it was?

One story that –  my MOTHER told me  – was  that  when  she had the refrigerator  door open – she was  getting something  out  –   and walked  away just long enough – and I was just the right size to stand there –  looking in at all of that food …

and what a “mystery”  it was to me – just seeing things…  that I did not  know, what they  really were… as I  was  thinking  some things were toys, such as  that… wire basket full of “FRESH EGGS?” 

 I had round balls –  that were small – about the size of those eggs –  and must have been trying to make a connection  – as to “WHY” my toys would be put  in there??

So…  before she knew what I was up to doing…  I had taken hold of one  of those eggs…  and threw it down on to the floor –  and  now… just looking at the broken egg on the floor, and not   able to figure out why…  

This  little “ball”  didn’t   bounce   up and back to me.

The mess…  just did not look right…  so I am guessing  and or thinking  that something was wrong , and so I had to see what was wrong.

I grabbed another egg, and threw it…  also down to the floor!

As my MOTHER turned around,  and saw the mess.

I started to cry, as   there was something happening here – – and I did not know about eggs, and  also… that these were not little  balls for me to play with.

I am guessing that after that… someone would be telling me more  about  that which… I could touch and also … what to keep my little nosy hands off  – of…  before there was too much damage done…  and all done  by ME!

This…   “PHOTO” of me and  my DADDY is just one of my   favorites!

You can see that I have my shoes and socks on, and I always knew … I was then, ready to go somewhere.

And as you can see, my “HAND”  is busy pointing to where we should be going, and it sure was good to be up so nice and  high,  so as to see and  also… be able to be  the “director” of where we were going, and what we would be doing!

“It sure does pay… to be  DADDY’s”  little girl!”  

It was always FUN… to get to travel in style … just  being carried in the arms of …  your  “DADDY!”