It would appear that Americans are coming around to doing the right thing.  We are living in very dangerous times and the foolishness of failure to comply with common sense has already taken too many lives.  As one whose physical condition places me smack dab in the “most vulnerable” catagory, may I say, “God Bless You Who Care”!  Politics and Personal Rights aside, if we are to lick this turkeybuzzard, we must comply.  Wash Hands and Keep Away.  And to those who are the most panicked, “Since there’s not much else to do, read God’s Word”.  If you don’t have a Bible, download for free from the internet.  Just look for “Bible”.  Now, was that so difficult?  It’s the first day of April and we don’t hear much “April Fools” anymore.  That’s because we’ve been living it for too long.  David wrote this a long time ago. It’s in the Bible,  Psalm 14:1,

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.

Thank you for not being ‘one of these’.  Playing “Keep Away” is very wise now and include the wrist when washing.

And that’s what I get from My box of Chocolates.      AMEN

Art Bell, taken at his home studio in Pahrump, Nevada, 1997.

It was back in 1988, while working for a west-coast powerhouse radio station, that I received a phone call around 10pm from the Program Director, “Hey, Jim!  Art just called and he is stranded in Pahrump and can’t come do his show.  You’re the only one he will allow to fill in, would you please?”     Art Bell was on-air from midnight to 5am, Monday through Friday with a fledgling all-night talk show that would soon become one of America’s most listened to phenomena.   I had only spoken to Art as he arrived prior to beginning his show whenever I was filling in 6pm to midnight when I first started ‘filling in’ at KDawn.   I was somewhat surprised that he would make such a request, but I did so and for a year, as his show was taking off, adding stations as “West Coast AM”, I filled in for Art numerous times.  We never were close at all.     Some years after leaving KDWN, my wife and I were having dinner at Marie Callender’s Restaurant in Vegas, when Art and his wife, Ramona, were seated near us.  As we were leaving, I stopped to say hello (I had taught Ramona when she was a student and I an instructor at Nevada Broadcasting School).  Ramona greeted me warmly, but Art didn’t say a word!  That didn’t surprise me since I knew him to be a rather strange fellow.   He was brilliant, but bent.  His claim to fame was due to his ‘totally-off-the-chart’ delving into the dark side with focus on the bizzare.  Art passed away, supposedly from a Drug Overdose, at his home in Pahrump, Nevada about two years ago at the age of 72.  His life would make a very interesting novel.  Filled with mystery and strange occurrences.  He has been featured on many of the television programs that deal with UFO’s and Aliens.  Interesting that we both smoked and ended up with COPD.   Even with all his idiosyncrasy, I liked Art.  He created drama with just his voice, and that made him unique.  I wish we had taken time to talk about Jesus, and it is also my opinion that whatever Art and his fans talked about, well….it may not be so ‘farfetched’ at that, donchaknow.

And that’s what I get from My box of chocolates.      AMEN

(Audio for Meditation and Driving only, Please)

Not a pleasant way to say, “Good Morning”, but in all actuality, totally true.  We are all born in SIN, thanks to our first couple back there in the Garden of Eden.  Adam and Eve’s SIN is our inheritance from our very first breath.  Paul wrote this along with many other letters to the Church in Rome, probably during his last days on earth.  It is fair warning, but it also offers a way out.
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6: 23)

We are human and have ‘human nature’, easily tempted to go against God’s Will by the ‘Ruler of the World’, Satan himself.  I have given him the additional name. “SIN”-ister minister.  Without Jesus Christ and Salvation through him only, we work for the devil and he pays us regularly with “IOU”s.  Once we have lived as long as our life is the be, we pay our way into HELL, just because we never took advantage of the Eternal Warranty of Life with Jesus Christ and all the Saints in Heaven with a Holy God.  We may have never made headlines in life, but we still will reap the same benefits that Paul and Peter and Abraham and Moses and Jacob and Joseph and Mark and Luke and Matthew and John and James and Joshua and David and Caleb and Gideon and Mary and Martha and Ruth and Esther and Dorcas and Rahab and Isaiah and Jacob and Malachi and Samuel and Job and Isaak and Enock and Noah and Jerimiah and Jude and Solomon and Elizabeth and Zacharia and every other human being in the “Hall of Honor” who accepted God’s Greatest Gift to Mankind, the Soul-Cleansing Blood of the Lamb, My Lord Christ Jesus. Only Christ is the “Gift of God for Eternal Life” and only those who BELIEVE and LOVE everyone in His Name, will sit at the ‘Family Table of God’, Heirs to everything, needing nothing, forever.  Now, that’s something to shout about, donchaknow. Really. And that’s how you too, get a box of chocolates to share with others.

As my Aunt Myrtle used to say, “HEELAWSY!“

And that’s what I get from My box of Chocolates.       AMEN

  (For Driving only, please)

“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” This verse comes from the Book of Jeremiah.   “Blessed is the man who does not walk nor sit among unbelievers.” This verse begins the first chapter of Psalm.  Why are we troubled today?   What is missing in our lives?   What hope is there for America and the World? The Bible covers everything that we may have happen and it does in both the Old and the New Testament.  That should convince us of the majesty and power of a loving Creator.  That should be all the proof we need in following what God, The Father of All Mankind, says, but to know what He says, we need to study His Word.  The reading material America has been publishing has led us in the wilderness of dark moon.  Our behavior speaks much louder than anything we can say.  Our constitution is a perfect document, inspired by God.  It isn’t alive and open to edit.  It says what we should do as a nation.  It gives us TRUTH!  It must be totally followed.  Otherwise we will be just like all the rest of the world.  Are you certain you want to be like the rest of the world?  If that’s the right course, why is the rest of the world so anxious to join us, by any means?  WAKE UP, America!  These Bible verses have the answer to what ails us.  TRUST and OBEY!

And that’s what I get from My box of chocolates.   AMEN 

Gary Stearman and Bob Ulrich

If you really want a complete picture of the time we are living, you must check out “Prophecy Watchers”, free on the internet.

These men have been close friends and collaborators in the Bible’s revelation of end times for over 20-years.  They just completed the purchase and refurbish of a television studio in Oklahoma and have a great ministry of internet video and publishing by today’s most celebrated ministers of prophecy.  With over 80% of Americans claiming to be Christian, but with over 80% of these believers doubting some of what God has inspired in the Holy Bible, Gary and Bob are vehemently attempting to bring America and the world, ‘back to the Truth of Scripture’.  I have become a fan of their ministry and urge your perusal of same.  What you will learn is that a very small percentage of sermons delivered from pulpits in our nation will ever delve into ‘End Times’ as revealed in the prophetic scriptures that total one-third of the entire Holy Bible.  Why is this not taught today?  Why are preachers failing to preach the truth of America’s lost love of God’s Word?

Find out for yourself.  Watch Prophecy Watchers at http://www.prophecywatchers.com and make up your mind as to just what is really going on in our lives today.  I’ve said that the spiritual clock is dripping zeros….look Gary and Bob up and see why.

And that’s what I get from My box of chocolates.   AMEN

As a nation, we are producing very little of lasting importance.  God created us for a holy purpose, but he also gave to us, Free Will.  We’ve been Freeing Will for centuries, but have little worthiness to show for it.  One time, that wasn’t so, but we’ve modernized and transformed into creatures of habit and self-adoration.  We glory in looking nice on the outside, but what is on the inside is detritus, unworthy of interest.  Comedy and Entertainment has led us to believe in nothing–Nothing of lasting value, but God’s Truth still remains, regardless of how we may perceive it.  I’ve said all along that we’ve lost our “First Love”.  The Love spoken about in Scripture and here’s proof!  How much of the following ‘life ingredients’ can we say exist in our hearts?

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” (Galatians 5: 22-23)

LOVE

JOY

FORBEARANCE

KINDNESS

GOODNESS

FAITHFULNESS

GENTELNESS

SELF-CONTROL

How many would others say were evident in our lives?  Who do you know whose life is such an example?  I’d be interested in knowing the names on each list, wouldn’t you?  How many reading this can say that about yourself?  Now, that’s Tough Love!

And that’s what I get from My box of chocolates.     AMEN

“Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.”
(1 Peter 2:2-3)
I believe too many ‘babies’ have been fed the wrong ‘milk’, don’t you?   I’ve heard about the ‘milk of human kindness’ all my life, but in retrospect, that IS not the milk that brings about spiritual change.  As a matter of fact, what the world really needs is not milk, but ‘water’.  “Living Water” that only comes by Faith in God’s Greatest Gift to mankind….Forgiveness of all sin through belief in the sacrifice paid for everyone by Jesus Christ.  The great hymn written by Robert Lowry years ago says it all: 

Here is the entire Hymn of  four verses of Pure Truth, copied from the Internet-