“Gen-X Is NOT As Unaffected As Expected” Op-Ed

By Tonja Condray Klein©08/05/2021

I was born in 1972 so I’m a Gen-Xer. I have always been proud to be of that generation that experienced such amazing spiritual, vocational, and technological innovations during my school years then into the 90’s. While I was an anomaly then due to having older parents who were retired and being sick often, I still managed to overcome obstacles that could have interfered with my hopes and dreams. With Faith in Jesus Christ as my Savior, a supportive family who believed I could do anything, and my working hard to excel, I went beyond other people’s expectations then and now.

The focus of this writing is more on Gen-X in general and not just me though. I’ve read historical articles, opinion articles, and ‘expert’ articles concerning my generation, and I’ve come to understand that most of those articles paint Gen-X in a really dark or lazy light about what my generation FAILED to do or TRIED to NOT do. Since I lived through these times and have read the reasoning behind those assertions, I counter that they are either biased or of a small margin of the generation. We might have lost some of the beliefs and backgrounds of previous generations, but we still hold onto many.

WHY am I writing this without specifics of the greatness of Gen-X? I still love my generation but also know that we’ve had moments of floundering in a couple of ways following the Baby Boomers. My sister is still a Boomer, but my brother fell between Boomer and Gen-X depending on which generational model you check so he was kind of between the two. Eleven years separated the three of us with my sister being 22 years older than me and my brother eleven years older. This is why his oldest daughter (my niece) is only 8 years younger than me and a Gen-Xer too but like a sister.

Some of the articles pointed out that some of us seemed to lack ambition or even a path to becoming a productive and self-sufficient citizen, and I sadly agree with that one point when it comes to certain groups from educational levels or career choices that didn’t lead to more opportunities. Wasn’t it that way for certain groups when it comes to every single generation in history, though? I’ve been studying generational trends, careers, educational options, and societal shifts for each one to find that even though things changed dramatically at times, each generation seemed to learn to adapt in ways.

The GI-Generation was my father’s born in 1913. The Silent Generation was my mother’s born in 1931. With two Boomers or Gen-Xers in the sibling ages during the last forty years who also learned from the previous two, I have to say I had an excellent base for life when it comes to making choices from watching my parents and siblings. Now, my Mom, Sister, and oldest Niece are still those who have lived over forty years together, so generational overlaps are high for me, which is why I noted that I’m an anomaly. Still, I’ve met others from Gen-X that also had very similar upbringings.

What is my point? I bought a tee-shirt the other day that says, “Never Underestimate a Girl Who is washed in the Blood of Jesus Christ and Was Born in September!” While there are many in my generation who purposefully fled from Christianity, I did not. THAT is my main concern about what we as Gen-Xers lost when we seemed to run away from the foundation that has kept this country strong and free. In 2021 I’m seeing some Millennials trying to work their way back, but Gen-Xers should be the ones leading the way. THIS is what frustrates me about my generation… WE LOST FAITH.

Current education is trying to reprogram the minds of the Z’s, but Millennials need to watch your kids and guard their love of Democracy in the United States of America. President Ronald Reagan warned that we are always only ONE generation away from losing our Democratic-Republic. He was right, and I’m seeing a rising anti-Freedom alliance that is moving America toward Socialism or Totalitarianism. THIS should not be. We Gen-Xers need to get our heads out of the blasted clouds and GUARD OUR DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLIC CONSTITUTION. WE MUST FOR THE CHILDREN!

I love Gen-X because my memories were of a safe trailer park community, an equal local public school system, and education that not only helped students go to college but also allowed for technical and vocational training for those that wanted to pursue that. We learned how to cook, sew, do a budget, and change diapers in optional classes. Education prepared us for REAL LIFE. I’ve helped my nieces, great-nieces and great-nephew with classes over the years, but what they learn is NOT what we did, and it is a total misuse of the educational system. They can barely sign their own names!

I know I’ve railed about the education system often, but having earned scholarships for college the hard way, I weep for Gen-Z. Generation-Xers must help the Millennials to educate their own children better or we will lose a whole generation to indoctrination that we NEVER would have allowed for ourselves. I think that the educational powers that rule think Gen-Xers won’t stand up to what they are doing to our grandchildren. WE NEED TO SHOW THEM WE ARE NOT AS UNAFFECTED AS EXPECTED by those who tried to derail our generation to use against Millennials and Z’s.

Millennials are the wildcard. Their children are now being programmed to hate America, think anyone different from themselves is racist, and that the government system needs to ‘take care of them’ so they can all be ‘enlightened’ or ‘WOKE’ or whatever term they decide to implant into their vocabulary to counter ALL verified History, verified Science, verified Mathematics, or verified Biology. I REMEMBER IT ALL! I KNOW THE TRUTH! I KNOW REALITY! WE CAN’T LET THEM TAKE IT FROM US, OUR CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, OR THEIR CHILDREN NOW!

Am I making a mountain out of a mole hill? That depends. Is the hill one of just dirt that is no threat or is it really termites that can destroy a home? You MUST check out that blasted mole hill! Speak out at school meetings as concerned parents, grandparents, aunts, great-aunts, or whatever family tie you hold and DEMAND answers for it. If the termites of socialism, totalitarianism, racism, or any other idealism against FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY, OR INDIVIDUALISM are in that hill then you MUST STAND AGAINST IT! We may have failed at some things, but by GOD we must not THIS!

We ALL Need JESUS VISION!

Op-Ed by Tonja Condray Klein©05/27/2021

Michael W. Smith released a song in the 1992 named “Love One Another” that changed my perception of what my mission was to be as a believer in Jesus Christ, my Savior, Lord, King, and the Son of the only Living God Almighty of creation, and it still is true in 2021 – my mission should ALWAYS be about every ONE I meet as an individual that I am supposed to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with so that person’s life can be reclaimed by the Grace of God given through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross at Calvary in place of us to PAY for the cost of OUR SINS.

Now in 2021, I still believe in every part of my Christian faith in the Christian Holy Bible. Jesus Christ still died in place of each human to pay for the sins of humanity so we can be restored to a relationship with God the Father through faith in the Son’s sinless blood sacrificed in our place and with the gifts of the Holy Spirit in this world. So WHY does it seem to be so much harder to get the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the people in a way that isn’t boring religious rules that are dead? We need an exciting RELATIONSHIP-CENTERED connection to the God of the multi-plane Universe!

Jesus Christ reached out to INDIVIDUALS. In groups, He was still personal to each of those who would cry out. That’s what Faith in the sacrificial shed blood of Jesus Christ in each person’s place and His resurrection to restore us is meant to be – PERSONAL! This is for ME, YOU, and EACH ONE who lets Him enter into your heart. HE IS THEN, NOW, AND FOREVER! If each person could only understand that YOUR INDIVIDUAL SOUL MATTERS TO GOD ALMIGHTY, then maybe everything would fall into place for you to see your important part in this life on Earth.

If this knowledge is supposed to be understood by all those who claim to be believers in Jesus Chris then WHY is church no longer personal? Why is the set number of songs, sermon points, and offering amounts the focus now? It seems that only a few years ago we used to know EACH person, EACH need, EACH prayer, EACH salvation, EACH healing, EACH deliverance, and EACH and EVERY Holy Spirit Gift in not only word but also in actual DEED! I’ve been in church services that were so alive with the Presence of God Almighty by His Spirit that I didn’t want to ever leave.

WE NEED JESUS VISION! NOT self, NOT program, NOT entertainment, NOT dead platitudes, and NOT a few memorized talking points. We NEED individual lives transformed from death to LIFE ETERNAL. Those religious things won’t give you anything but more death. True Christianity is ALIVE. When the Holy Spirit touches your soul you will FEEL it and HIM. Not an illusion, brainwashing, emotional overload, or a religious learned ability. The Holy Spirit and His gifts given to believers is part of a spiritual inheritance if Jesus is your Savior. It is also the gateway to Jesus Vision.

What does that mean? Well, Jesus Christ the Son of God Almighty allowed the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove to light on Him as a sign of His anointing. The Holy Spirit still gives signs through the Gifts if a Christian allows Him to work through that person to SHOW that God is still among us. How can we follow the mandate to go into the world and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ if we refuse His help through the Holy Spirit to give the signs of anointing so truth will be accepted? Too many charlatans have been used by the enemy to discount the Gifts but don’t be deceived by that.

Satan always has his false powers that mimic God Almighty’s real Gifts. We can’t go into this final battle while keeping the Power of God through the Holy Spirit from being IN US to work THROUGH US to reach people in ways we can’t do on our own alone. Can you not SEE the lost? Can you not HEAR the pain? Can you not FEEL the chains still binding them? If you can’t then you need to ask yourself, “Why Not?” Be honest with your answer.

JESUS forgave the sinners. JESUS healed the sick. JESUS raised the dead. JESUS told His disciples that THEY would do even greater things than He did! So what is missing in 2021 to make it seem like what Jesus said is a lie? THAT is blasphemy, so why is the so-called church showing they believe a lie every single time the church doors open and the people leave as lost, bound, dying, sinning, and otherwise incomplete as they were when they entered? What are we ALL missing? What is so wrong that we don’t even SEE the truth in front of our faces every week? WHAT?

WE NEED JESUS VISION ONCE AGAIN! Are YOU His disciple? Do you see the needs now? Do you feel the pull of the Holy Spirit that whispers in your heart that there is MORE? THEN WHY AREN’T WE DOING WHAT HE SAID!?! It’s easy to get bogged down with real world problems that we’ve seen in 2021 unlike any encountered before, but doesn’t that reality tell us that prophecy is ticking, and if we don’t move with it we’ll miss being part of it? I refuse to not be a part of the calling of God Almighty through Jesus Christ by His Holy Spirit because someone else doesn’t agree.

WE NEED JESUS VISION RIGHT NOW! Please pray…

“Father God, we come to you in the precious name of Jesus Christ, Your Son and the Savior of ALL who will believe. We believe He called us to continue His ministry here on Earth as He waits for prophecies to be fulfilled for Him to return for ALL believers saved by Grace through Faith as Christians and Messianic Jews when the ‘Church Age’ or Grace Dispensation ends. The signs of the times are pointing to what Your Word states they would in the Christian New and Old Testaments and Jewish Torah, so please unleash a Holy Ghost led Revival of JESUS VISION! Help us to bring in the last souls to be saved BEFORE the Rapture (Calling Away or Spiritual Evacuation) happens right BEFORE the Great Tribulation begins. Show us. Call us. Equip us. Restore us. ENERGIZE US! In the mighty name of Jesus Christ and by the power of the Holy Spirit we pray so YOUR WILL IS DONE… AMEN!”

“When Time Matters…”

By Tonja Condray Klein©04/11/2021

I have been posting Op-Eds for a while now to try to get some things brought to light for those who are believers in Christ as Savior and those who don’t yet but will. While this is still my main focus and will continue to be for as long as I’m alive, this particular post is meant directly for those who are Christ-followers as Christians or Messianic Jews. I finished reading a book a few minutes ago and HAD to write this. I’m not usually so emphatic about certain things, but THIS is something that has changed my perception in VERY wonderful ways that I MUST share with all I can now!

The link above is for the book I’m speaking about called “Giants, Fallen Angels, and the Return of the Nephilim: Ancient Secrets to Prepare for the Coming Days” by Dennis Lindsay. I have studied the Holy Bible for over forty years, listened to countless sermons, and read many biblical commentaries by various writers. I was so moved by this book that after finishing it, I ordered it for my older sister since she still studies at 70 years old. The insights that Dennis Lindsay gives by comparing biblical passages, verified historical content, and present-day science and technology is amazing!

I could point out specifics, contrast them with other views, or cite ten million other things. For now…

GET THE BOOK! I got it in E-Book, but it is also available in Hardcover, Paperback (which I sent to my sister) and Audio-book. Scripture is given in King James Version many times but is mostly in New International Version (NIV). I prefer KJV, but if it bothers you too much then look up the references in your own choice of Bible version too. MOST important thing is to READ it and PRAY for understanding. Some things can be hard to even consider as possible with present situations in this country and world, but this book clears up a lot of things that even I have questioned.

Check out the book, and click the YouTube link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QCBOb22p-Y to listen to the song deftly sung in 1986 that is even MORE true in 2021: WHITEHEART-01 Read The Book Don’t Wait For The Movie.

Your life or those of the ones you love might depend on it! LOVE IN CHRIST ~TK~

“Resurrection of MY Savior, Lord, King, and God Almighty’s Son”

By Tonja Condray Klein©04/04/2021

I don’t just celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ after He died on Calvary for this world’s sin, spent time in Hell to take the keys of death, Hell, and the grave from Satan, or that He came back to life so humanity would be able to be restored through Faith in His sacrifice for every believer. I celebrate the Resurrection of MY Savior Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God Almighty because HE did all of this for ME! He split time and changed our world from B.C. to A.D with His Sacrifice and return to life to reclaim a fallen world and fallen humanity that were bound for Hell.

My Faith is PERSONAL. While I believe in the Christian Bible, both Old and New Testaments, I also have felt the Holy Spirit touch my heart, mind, soul, and body over the past 40 years. It’s PERSONAL. I don’t follow a set of rules or regulations to be SAVED. I accepted Jesus Christ as MY PERSONAL SAVIOR when I was 8 years old. That restored me to have a relationship with God Almighty through His Son. That was enough to keep me from losing my soul to the price of the power of the air, otherwise known as Satan who was once Lucifer, the angel who led worship in Heaven.

It was enough to regain my place to go to Heaven, but then the Holy Spirit touched me in church service in a way that only those who know Him and His gifts can explain. The service suddenly became completely quiet, and I called out to the pastor and asked to receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of Speaking in Other Tongues. He smiled and said, ‘Come on down!” to the altar to pray for the infilling. The pastor prayed with and for me, and when he simply touched my forehead, the feeling of absolute love and acceptance filled my entire being and overwhelmed all else.

I have allowed the Holy Spirit to give Messages in Tongues and Interpretations in Tongues through me in church services whenever the Lord ordained it to be. These are facts. No one programmed me, trained me, or brainwashed me to believe any of this. I’ve studied proven history, I pray in English and the Holy Spirit, and I know the Presence of the Holy Spirit like I know my own existence. You can be SAVED by accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior, and you don’t have to seek the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, BUT those Gifts were given so we can know that we know that we know.

If Jesus Christ hadn’t been born of His mother Mary through the Holy Spirit placing the cell of God Almighty in her to make Jesus be born without sin then NONE of us could be saved. If Jesus hadn’t given His life to die on the Cross, die in the flesh, visit Hell to claim what Satan had taken by sin, and then come alive again in a glorified body then NONE of us could be SAVED either. BUT IT HAPPENED! That glorious RESURRECTION MORNING changed the course of humanity once again. The Holy Spirit was sent to help believers to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

We each have a choice. We can believe the lies of this fallen world and people who refuse to believe in even a Creator OR we can accept Jesus Christ as Savior, Lord, King, and God Almighty incarnate as the Son (in the flesh). It might seem like one of the superhero or Japanese Anime stories that always have the one character who saves the world. That’s because even those who refuse Jesus Christ all know somewhere inside that they need a Savior. We are ALL in need of THE ONE TRUE SAVIOR. ALL of the fictional stories are based on the need we feel but keep refusing.

You KNOW you NEED a Savior. You KNOW you NEED Restored to the Creator. You might follow other gods or deities that are false and will only lead to destruction. Jesus Christ is as real as I am. I could have died so many times in my life without His Touch, His Grace, His Mercy, His Holy Spirit, and His Promise for an Eternity with Him IF I keep on believing in spite of the craziness of this world that is trying to change history and everything I know for sure happened or is real right now. NO ONE can make me change my mind, heart, or soul. I BELONG TO JESUS CHRIST FOREVER.

Jesus Christ gave His life for ME. He knew I’d fail Him often. He knew when I would fall short. He knew when I would need His blood to fall on my name every single time I sinned even after I became His. He KNEW. He STILL did it. He also knows about you and how you will never be perfect because NONE of us can be. HE IS because HE IS “I AM”! Jesus was born on Earth, but He was also in the beginning when this world was created and that aspect of God Almighty KNEW when humanity was created that HE would have to be born as Jesus Christ, die, and resurrect for ALL OF US.

Each one simply needs to believe He did it for them and then try to become the restored one for Him. Not to be an automaton, a clone, or a mindless puppet. This is PERSONAL. He will have His Holy Spirit rebirth your spirit that was dead when you were born due to sin in your blood, but Faith reclaims you. THAT is Salvation. The Holy Spirit came to bring more abilities to use as you preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ as His believers and joint-heirs to God Almighty as He promised with HisWord who became flesh and dwelt among us to die and then live again FOR US to KNOW HIM!

“He lives! He lives! Christ Jesus lives today! He walks with me and talks with me along life’s narrow way! He lives! He lives! Salvation to impart! You ask me how I KNOW HE LIVES… HE LIVES WITHIN MY HEART!” The words are more than words, they are a proclamation of the TRUTH we KNOW. I watched the History Channels; THE BIBLE and cried and spoke in the Spirit as the Holy Spirit was shown as coming to the apostles as the Bible said it did. This movie was made by man, and it has flaws just like we all do, but it has an anointing, and I celebrated with it.

This world might try to silence me, and it might even try to kill me, but Jesus Christ is ALIVE, sitting on the throne in Heaven, praying for every believer, and waiting for the time to return in the sky to then remove Christians and Messianic Jews from this world before the Great Tribulation begins. Times will be hard before even the first judgement comes, but His people will be taken to safety until the last trumpet, bowl, and vial are done, and then Jesus Christ will return WITH all of US who serve Him, and He will defeat the anti-Christ and sit on the throne in Jerusalem as KING.

These are the future prophecies yet to be fulfilled, but the only present prophecy that still needs to be completed BEFORE Jesus Christ returns is the last person to accept Jesus as Savior in this time period known as the Church Age or Grace Dispensation. Will you be one of the last? Will you help others that still need Him? Will you follow Jesus Christ as one of His believers in His Grace for all who are willing to accept His blood for their sins? Saul of Tarsus became Paul the apostle to begin churches and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ. ANYONE can accept Jesus as Savior and change!

Accept God Almighty’s Grace through Jesus Christ and allow Him to SAVE you, give to you His Holy Spirit and Gifts to reach the rest of the world, and do what you can to be one of HIS. No other religion or belief system has the very one worshipped also be the one who saved those worshipping. Jesus Christ did and still does. His Holy Spirit is waiting to give you a new life, new abilities, and a new purpose. It’s not going to be that easy, and it might get hard to deal with the world when they turn on Christians the way Rome did so long ago, but Jesus is WITH US. FEEL HIM. KNOW HIM!

“Father God of Creation, I come to you in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe Jesus was born sinless, died for my sins in the cross, and rose again so I can be accepted by You as I believe His blood paid the price for the sin in my blood by birth. I accept Jesus Christ as my Savior, Lord, King, and Son of God Almighty of Creation. Forgive me and send me to do what You would have me to do for others, and help me to believe in the times I fail to see Your path for my life. In the name of Jesus Christ I ask, Father God Almighty of Creation, and give Your Gifts of the Holy Spirit anew. Amen.”

“WHEN I WENT TO SCHOOL…”

By Tonja Condray Klein©03/21/2021

When I went to school from 1977 through 1990 there were several subjects taught as FACTS to ALL students, NOT for a certain color, race, religion, community, or income: Biology is a SCIENCE invented by Aristotle in 384-322 B.C. through empirical investigation and has been the standard for medical research and development since; Mathematics began in GREECE during the 6th century B.C. with needed CALCULATIONS that are now used for the safety and proper production in many occupations of the past and the present; History may have different viewpoints depending upon their source or speaker, but they ALL are necessary to learn for complete understanding of our diverse country and the world, which is why there is local history, United States history, and World history. Opinions can vary but FACTS DO NOT.

1+1=2. See that period there? IT IS REALITY. It is NOT racist. It is NOT a point of debate. It is NOT something meant to confuse anyone working a regular math problem at any place in the known world. IF you have one (1) piece of gum and you add (+) one (1) piece of gum then you will have (=) two (2) pieces of gum. I’m 48 years old and have times of sickness, confusion, and even slight memory lapses, but I KNOW how to ADD (+), SUBTRACT (-), DIVIDE (/), and MULTIPLY (x) in real time. This is SIMPLE mathematics and FACT! ALGEBRA is a FACT. GEOMETRY is a FACT. TRIGONOMETRY is a FACT. CALCULUS is a FACT. Now when you get into theoretical mathematics with negative numbers or other calculations used for Quantum Physics then things change. THE OTHERS ARE ALL FACTS!

Why am I writing this? Well, have you looked at the homework of your kids, grandkids, or great-grandkids lately? I have helped my oldest niece and her children with many subjects over the years, and the changes of known methods that actually HELP do all the occupations we need done in this country are not only astounding but done on purpose to STOP children from learning basic skills that they need for the budget of their income. I took typing and business accounting in High School that helped me to get my first secretary jobs that didn’t require any more college training until I needed to make business websites nine years after high school graduation. I’m for education that helps student be trained for certain fields, but the education of 2021 is COMPLETELY INEPT compared to that of 1990!

Yes, I have had this mentality expressed in other op-eds I’ve done, but this one is full of absolute rage. Yes, I know you can’t fight the system or stop the machine either, but I DARE to BEAT the System and also RAGE AT the Machine! Will it do any good? Maybe not, but at least my typed voice could be heard and help people to see what we HAVE lost, what we are losing NOW, and what we COULD (GOD FORBID!) lose in the near future. I’m not being negative or against change that is proven as needed for the good of humanity. I AM against SCIENCE being lost as a PROVEN FACT that has been used against Christianity for centuries and any other ‘belief’ system of religion. I knew Science was NEVER against God Almighty who CREATED it to begin with. This reality is WHY it’s being tossed.

No reality is proven according to the academics in 2021. We CHOOSE what we want to be even if a Science formerly proved it without any doubt with empirical evidence that used to be demanded by scientists and inventors of disciplines needed for understanding, excelling with, and overcoming through any problem that could be solved if the right algorithm, calculation, timing, or lesson learned from the past could be used correctly. There is now NO right or wrong answer to a question for many subjects that used to have the student CRITICALLY THINK BY SCIENTIFIC COMARISON to come to the PROVEN FACT. PHILOSOPHY is NOT a Science but a Humanity study that has the opinions if different teachers or inventors to explain life questions of existence or thinking. It is ONLY opinions.

We’re facing academic totalitarian rule in classrooms. Critical Thinking is being dismissed. You either accept everything taught or you will fail the class or be labeled as someone who should be ‘re-educated’. This is the path to indoctrination of any premise of many different types of government that we have been fighting since this country’s creation. Men and women have fought and died to protect us FROM these horrible mind-controlling studies that are AGAINT EVERYTHING the United States of America stands for and WHY people around the world have tried to immigrate for centuries for the freedom we expect to have every day. Our Freedom is ending. The academics are no longer TEACHING or children; they are PROGRAMMING our children with things we DON’T want for them!

I’m not a parent, but I don’t want my two nieces’ children and grandchildren to be taught lies, conditioned to accept everything without the right to question or see proof for any given absolute taught. WE are not allowed to have absolutes, but THEY are allowed to give absolutes that they want future generations to accept as truth when their own absolutes are blatant misperceptions, absolute misdirection away from proof of the opposite, and down- right LIES. It used to be that academics USED to demand PROOF before teaching any given subject that is supposed to be proven FACTS. Used to be – a past tense past my own patience as someone who took my education very seriously! I studied these subjects and KNOW the TRUTH. I can’t be re-programmed! I also don’t want anyone’s kids to go through it!

Parents should NOT allow this to be happening! Go to your school’s board and make your own DEMANDS. They are teaching material that has been used to promote Marxism, Communism, and Totalitarian regimes that are all AGAINST the AMERCIAN models of legislation and government. What is happening RIGHT NOW is beginning to display it was an attempt to not just change the political party in power but an actual overthrow of Capitalism and our Democratic Republic. The Covid-19 pandemic made it possible for local, state, and federal government to gain almost total control of our rights. This has disenfranchised American citizens of their rights given by our Constitution and for longer than was stated. This was under the cover of ‘safety’, was maniacally planned, and then was blithely executed.

Now it’s already March of 2021, and we still don’t have all of our rights back even though we were promised it would only take weeks to ‘end the spread’. Ohio is doing better than other states with regaining rights, but we also don’t have as many as others at this point. I publishing my second book Christmas 2019 but was denied any opportunity to do book signings anywhere. I barely got Eirinth book 2 into the Library, but at least they didn’t stop that. I know any loved ones have been lost, and I don’t want to demean anyone still dealing with that. My husband had verified Covid-19 and recovered. I had the same symptoms first and survived. My mother almost died with a ‘virus’ that wasn’t verified, but symptoms she had later correlated to Covid-19. This is not about avoiding being affected by this pandemic. We were,

The main FACT is that government officials, media moguls, and academics are all trying to destroy the subjects that students need to be taught with FACTS instead of propaganda for government systems that generations of American soldiers fought against for the safety of OUR American citizens, OUR freedoms, and OUR way of life. This should NOT be allowed! Parents need to check out your schools and demand these types of lessons be STOPPED. IF they had tried to do this at Northridge when I was in school, my mother who was 41 when I was born would’ve been a FACT force to be reckoned with over something like this being allowed. We MUST maintain the integrity of Mathematics, Science, and History. If we don’t protect Fact-based lessons then this country will fall to ignorance and ideology worse than death!

As law-abiding American citizens, we are tasked with the protection of our freedom and that of our youth. We are responsible for the next generation, and as I’ve stated before, my generation failed their children in ways I grieve it. Their grandchildren might face even worse because of our mistakes in protecting all of the things that our parents did protect for us. As Ronald Reagan stated, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” This is frightening but very TRUE as we are witnessing it happen firsthand in 2021.

I don’t agree with any political party completely, but as a Christian American I have to vote my conscience. What is being systematically overthrown now is not only political but also academic. This is DANGEROUS. If our schools now only tell one side of History then that is indoctrination. If only one side of Science is shown then that is omission. If there is a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-racial community that is told that Mathematics is racist instead of offering help for anyone needing it so they can excel then THAT is racist! It’s NOT the equations that can give them the real possibility of providing for a future family with better skills for a better life. THAT is the American Dream no matter what color, race, religion, or background you are. It is WHY Americans need to STOP the infiltration of LIES in this nation’s schools!

When “How Can I Not” Becomes “Why Should I” – Part 3

By Tonja Condray Klein©03/11/2021

First of all, I’d like to make it perfectly clear that every opinion of action is not only towards all others who claim to be Christians but also to me. I read the Bible study by Anne Graham Lotz in the DECISIONS magazine from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association March 2021 and was humbled as I read the scriptures she noted, saw the true beauty of the meaning to the Church of Jesus Christ, and wept as I repented of the times I had failed my Lord and Savior. THIS is how Revival truly begins. Judgement begins at the House of God! We need to listen to the Bible and the Holy Spirit.

It must have been increasingly depressing for those in captivity in the times of Daniel, Nehemiah, and Jeremiah in their land of Israel. How could they even think about speaking the words the Lord gave to them when their very lives were at risk? Yet they did. Over the course of history in this world, people of Judeo-Christian Faiths have had to do the same in the time of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and Tao. Now in 2021 America, we might come to the point we will have to stand in the midst of possible punishment if we hold true to what the Torah and Holy Bible says we have to speak as being truth.

Americans have enjoyed Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, and Freedom of Religion since its creation. I personally have never had to fear sharing what I know the Holy Bible says about any subject in discussion, but now? This might no longer be allowed by American citizens even in discussion if views are opposite those of special interest groups that will be ‘protected’ from anything they view as ‘hate speech’. Opposing views that don’t use degrading metaphors or titles should NEVER be tagged as ‘hate speech’. Freedom of Speech protects speech we don’t agree with for a reason.

If we lose the ability to discuss, debate, and agree to disagree while still allowing people to express their views as safe personally then our country WILL NO LONGER BE FREE. This should not only upset those of faith or any religious belief but also those of different backgrounds and groups that want the right to open representation. “No taxation without representation” was the cry of patriots before the American Revolution. Why should we be forced to not speak what we believe is truth because someone else doesn’t agree? We EACH should have our voices be heard and openly allowed!

“How can I not?” is my cry in 2021. We have so many in groups that call themselves churches that live by ‘Why should I?” since it is convenient to not give friction between others who might not agree with them. John the Baptist was a non-conforming individualist who prepared the way for Jesus Christ to then stand against the religious groups in His time for the TRUTH that HE IS. Christians need to understand that we are not called to be silent. Jesus made a point that if the ones praising Him were silenced then the very rocks would cry out. I WON’T LET A ROCK TAKE MY PLACE!

One of the latest bills that has already passed in the House of Representatives recently and still needs to pass in the Senate would be very negative to those who have conservative views by actually making it illegal to express those viewpoints. THIS is DANGEROUS to our FREEDOM. I might not be able to even post links to my personal op-eds on social media sites like I do now if this happens. While some wouldn’t care about it happening to me, how would YOU feel if something YOU believe in was on that list of things no longer allowed to even be spoken about publically?

This seems Orwellian, right? Welcome to 2021 in America! If ever Christians began to pray against these things, speak out to our leaders, and come together as a united front then IT IS NOW. How can we allow our own freedom-loving Democratic Republic to turn into the land of the bound and home of the repressed? WE CAN’T. Freedom of Speech needs to remain protected for ALL AMERICANS! That has been one of our pillars of society since 1776. Even a historical date is being hit with the freight train of biased lies. Students are no longer being taught documented facts of history.

I’ve mentioned my disregard for present-day teaching mandates, and I will continue to do so for as long as I have rights, but I don’t do it because I disdain education. I was going to college with Teaching as my Minor! I had the grades in high school to get grants and scholarships to go for a Major in Computer Science and a Minor in Teaching if I hadn’t been ill and had to withdraw. Education in important, but only if facts are represented in curriculum. I have read different grade homework that my great-nieces would get me to help them with, and I knew the facts I’d learned were replaced with lies.

I’ve also mentioned the non-fiction novel LIVE NOT BY LIES: A MANUAL FOR CHRISTIAN DISSIDENTS by Rod Dreher. If you are as concerned for America in 2021 as I am, I suggest you get this novel and read it for not only historical facts all over the world but also the parallels we need to be aware of with what is happening in our country. I’m actually angry. My father fought and bled in World War II, and his brother died in combat that had my father being sent home. The changes happening now are not only a slap to every single veteran then and now but to military families too.

I don’t want socialism. I don’t want communism. I don’t want an oligarchy. I don’t want an authoritarian state. I WANT THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC MY UNCLE DIED FOR AND MY FATHER FOUGHT TO KEEP! I won’t sit by and stay silent anymore just to ‘get along’. The Facts are the Facts. Our way of government has been the envy of others in this world for generations. IT WORKS. The only time it doesn’t is when egomaniacs in government try to take control over WE THE PEOPLE, and THAT doesn’t work for long. Americans have always been FREE-thinkers.

Why has this ‘free-thinking’ suddenly deteriorated? Brainwashing students from grammar school through college with non-factual classes, forcing workers to be re-educated at work on non-work subjects, and constant media coverage of every single possible social stance that goes against every single spiritual leaning of mankind – yes, that would do it. It’s been going on for YEARS behind the curtain, but it’s now being thrust front and center in our own living rooms. Hey, if we want free stuff with free money and free time from not working to do whatever we want then NO free-thinking!

There are quite a few really BAD words that I’d like to use right now – FREE SPEECH, LEGAL GUNS, OPEN FAITH, PAYING JOBS, PERSONAL HEALTHCARE, ATOMIC FAMILY, and BIBLICAL MARRIAGE. Oooh… REALLY BAD WORDS! At least they are for those currently trying to destroy our country. While a couple of those are terms used during my Generation-X or earlier, if you have read, listened, or watched conservative news then you’ll know each of them by now. The point is that we NEED to realize what is happening and what is at stake NOW.

Blow ye trumpet in Zion! Sound the alarm in thy holy mountain! As Christians we should be spiritual Watchers on the Wall of our country the way those in the Old Testament were physically for Israel. I’m not trying to incite panic or a need for fear, but we do need to be MINDFUL of reality within the confines of Biblical prophetic possibilities. America has kept other forms of government from overtaking us for decades, and it’s up to US of legal age and citizenship to make sure we do everything legal to oppose what leaders are trying to do to our country in 2021 to deny Americans our rights.

What can we do? PRAY. Intercessors for America (IFA) is a great source and meeting media for Christians to pray together digitally online or on the phone first Friday of the month, Tuesdays and Thursdays too right now. VOTE. Even though they are trying to pass bills that will make your vote no longer count, do it while you still can. SHARE. No matter what way you use to spread the Gospel and love of Jesus Christ, do it while you can with the understanding that time is of the essence like never before in this country. We need the ELIJAH of each generation to STAND now. ~TK~

When “How Can I Not” Becomes “Why Should I” – Part 2

By Tonja Condray Klein© 03/01/21

One of the things that troubles me the most about the current situation with the Christian Church in 2021 is the absolute sense of complacency. While I have also been discouraged, upset, and even angry over current situations, I still seek to DO SOMETHING when I can for who needs it with what I have. I look around and see many churches seeming to sink into a sense of unimportance, trying to weather a storm that is overwhelming any fortress of worldly protection now. Where is the POWER OF GOD through His Holy Spirit in supposed believers of Jesus Christ and His shed Blood on Calvary? Where can a lost soul FIND SALVATION when churches are preaching a bunch of hackneyed platitudes that have NO SUBSTANCE and NO HOPE of doing anything for God Almighty? I’ve PERSONALLY seen the POWER OF GOD fall on Christ believers as ministers, singers, and musicians yield to an OUTPOURING of the Holy Spirit to the point of people being slain in the Spirit, healed, filled with Gifts, saved, and transformed! This is NOT a trick. This is NOT an illusion. This is NOT some plea for money. THIS IS A TRUE TOUCH OF GOD ALMIGHTY WE NEED!

When I graduated from high school I became a youth sponsor before I was even eighteen years old, but I saw the pews filled with young people, and many prayed at the alters to receive the filling of the Holy Spirit with any Gift God wanted to give to them to preach, testify, heal, mend, and lead people to the knowledge of Salvation in Jesus Christ. It wasn’t something you learned by rote. It wasn’t given as a pamphlet to memorize. It wasn’t a brainwashing exercise to get people emotionally integrated into a religious affiliation. IT IS REAL! I know because I was THERE, I experienced HIM, and I SAW what He did for anyone who sought HIM! No one can ever make me doubt it because I WAS THERE AND I KNOW JESUS AND HIS HOLY SPIRIT PERSONALLY!! Anyone who says anything else is a LIAR! I WAS THERE! I KNOW THAT I KNOW THAT I KNOW THAT I KNOW!!! I’ve been so blessed to have the Lord give Messages in Tongues through me and Interpretations in Tongues also through me. I pray in the Spirit every day, not because I have to but because when the Spirit touches my heart I can only praise my Jesus! This is not hysteria but Holy Fire!

In 1990, I was sure the greatest revival was going to break free and that I would probably be leaving soon. It’s now 2021, and I’m wondering WHAT HAPPENED? Did good spiritual soil get polluted by worldly comforts to tame us and false teachings to dull us? I recently listened to Andrus, Blackwood, and Company’s “Jesus, You’re So Wonderful”, R. W. Schambaugh’s “God Is God”, and DC Talk’s “Jesus Freak” and am still wondering, WHAT HAPPENED TO US? Generation-X, WHAT HAPPENED? Are ANY of you looking for Jesus? Are any of you feeling the need for MORE? Do any of you feel as useless as I do right now as we watch our country and world barreling towards Hell at an alarming rate? DO YOU!?! What else needs to happen to make us WAKE UP!?! We have failed the children of our generation, and now we’re failing our grandchildren! How many more generations do YOU want to give to Satan? HOW MANY MORE??? Do you want your grown children or grandchildren to go to Hell? Do you?!? I have my nieces and nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, and now great-great-nieces and great-great-nephews I must reach NOW!

With all that is going on, where is the need for sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in any way or media we can? I’ve tried to do it with music, novels, and written or audio blogs. The NEED is there. The TRUTH is there. The HEART is there. How can anyone ignore the people who are crying out for what we already have that they need EVERY SINGLE DAY AND NIGHT? Can you even hear them anymore? Have you allowed you heart to harden against anyone who isn’t in your group or denomination? Even though I’m full-Gospel and believe in the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, anyone who has accepted Jesus as Savior is my brother or sister. If you are hurting, Jesus Christ is right there with His Holy Spirit ready to comfort, protect, inspire, strengthen, and call you according to God Almighty’s Divine Will! You don’t have to go to any building, confess to a priest or pastor, or even join a church. YOU JUST NEED TO SEEK JESUS AND HIS SPIRIT! It really is THAT SIMPLE. Salvation is through believing Jesus Christ died for your sins and accepting Him as your Savior, then asking the Holy Spirit to overflow you with God’s Gifts. God Almighty promised it to ANY who BELIEVE!

I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior when I was eight. When I was thirteen I called out to the pastor that I needed to receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of Speaking in other Tongues and was filled by praying for Jesus to use me as He would through His Gifts by His Holy Spirit overflowing me. You can do this where you are right now without even having another soul with you if you don’t know believers who have accepted this. Some refuse to believe that this Promise is still happening today and think it died out with the original apostles. IT DID NOT. Peter wrote in the book of Acts that this was for you, your children, your children’s children, and those afar off, as many as the Lord shall call.” That is NEVER ENDING until after the Church Age ends, which will include the Rapture of Christ believers that include the Messianic Jews that have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior too. You don’t have to accept any of the Gifts. You don’t have to speak in tongues. You don’t have to do anything but accept Jesus as Savior to be SAVED. The Gifts are just an added benefit to help those willing to do MORE, especially in the Last Days. We are getting CLOSE.

Once again, this is not to alarm you to do something stupid like stockpile goods or riches. This is to OPEN YOUR EYES to what God Almighty in Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit wants you to be equipped with to finish ushering in the actual FINAL GREAT REVIVAL! I want to see people SAVED. I want to see people HEALED. I want to see people DELIVERED. I want to see people FILLED. I want to see people SHOUT. I want to see people SING IN THE SPIRIT. I want to see people DANCE IN THE SPIRIT. I want to see people FREED! Don’t you want Jesus Christ through His touch with the Holy Spirit to SET YOU FREE? I DO!!! Not an emotional turmoil or some pretend spiritual act. I WANT THE REAL POWER OF GOD ALMIGHT TO FALL AGAIN! I’ve felt Him. I’ve had Him flow through me as I fell out under the honest Spirit of God Almighty. No one pushed me down. I felt the Presence of the Holy Spirit RUSH over me like a mighty wave! It was liberating! It was empowering! It was soothing! It was mending! It was God Almighty able to flow through Tonja Renee Condray to restore what I was meant to be since before I was born again through Jesus Christ.

Many of the present so-called ‘churches’ who claim to be Christians don’t seem to be anything but dried up empty meetings with bagels and coffee. No Spiritual Gifts. No Biblical Teachings. No Life Changes. No Personal Growth. Just NOTHING! When you have to get a ‘consultant’ to tell you exactly what you can and can’t have in your church to get the ‘right kind’ of members then you better just STOP. If there is no REAL ANOINTING OF GOD ALMIGHTY’S HOLY SPIRIT then you have NOTHING. All the money in the world that your members give will burn one day in the crucible of God Almighty at the Judgement Seat of Christ… if you make it there and don’t end up at the White Throne Judgement. Each of us need to REALLY INSPECT OURSELF! Revival begins in the House of God! I don’t care how long you’ve been sitting in a pew or using the same hymnal, if you don’t have a LIVING relationship with Jesus Christ then YOU ARE NOT SAVED. The Gifts are a separate thing, so don’t misunderstand me. Gifts are secondary, but SALVATION is the MOST IMPORTANT thing you need to analyze for yourself. WE NEED TO BE SAVED FIRST!

All of this really is Christianity 101. I want the REVIVAL with the GIFTS, but SALVATION is FIRST. All the rest will fall in line once we realize that God Almighty has more for us than dried up pruned rules and boring council meetings to figure out what kind of pews to buy for comfort. WE NEED OPEN FLOORS TO LET US SHOUT! WE NEED GOSPEL MUSIC TO BREAK OUR PRIDE! WE NEED BIBLE WORDS TO PIERCE OUR HEARTS TO GAIN SALVATION THROUGH A RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST! WE NEED SHEETS FOR WHEN THE WOMEN GET HIT WITH THE POWER OF GOD AND FALL IN THE SPIRIT AS THEY PRAISE IN TONGUES! WE NEED THIS! One time at the church where I received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, we had a service where the Holy Spirit interrupted it with a message, the pastor stopped preaching, the people started shouting, and the whole congregation went around the pews shouting with joy since GOD WAS WITH US! We didn’t plan it. We didn’t interfere with it. We didn’t turn away from it. WE EMBRACED HIM THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST AS OUR SAVIOR! That is God’s POWER.

The Gifts of the Holy Spirit are meant to verify our Faith with believers, show the Power of God with unbelievers, and break the shackles of the world away from anything that God Almighty is doing at that time in people’s lives. THIS IS WHY. It’s not rocket science, people! It’s God Almighty Proof. People have tried to pretend it, but real believers know a fake. People have tried to sell it, but it is without price through Faith in Jesus Christ that is FREE. It doesn’t have a list of expectations, but once you accept the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, He will let you know when something isn’t right, when it IS right, and when you need to just let Him be there with nothing more but His Peace. I still mess up and sin at times even though I pray in Tongues at least once a day. I’m not perfect, but that’s why I need Jesus as Savior in the first place. The Holy Spirit will reprove you if you try to wander down the wrong path, but you can keep NOT LISTENING and end up in a heap of trouble. You can always repent, turn away from what lead you off, and come back to the foot of the Cross where Jesus is always WAITING to FORGIVE and RESTORE you! PRAY AND ACCEPT HIS GIFTS TOO! ~TK~

When “How Can I Not” Becomes “Why Should I” – Part 1

By Tonja Condray Klein – 02/24/21

Within the seven churches mentioned in Revelation of the Christian Bible, the one I most abhor and pity would be Laodicea. Each church except Philadelphia have at least one vice or shortcoming to account for at the Judgment Seat of Christ that occurs after the Rapture of the Church of believers who are saved by Faith in the blood of the Lamb of God and rescued to Heaven before the Great Tribulation begins on Earth. Most in biblical study have concurred that this will be the last church in the chronological phase of the Church Age that is also the Grace Dispensation for eschatology.

I’ve been a born-again Christian since I was eight years old and accepted Jesus Christ as my Personal Savior. I began singing at church when I was eleven and also writing songs. I was filled with the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of Speaking in other Tongues when I was thirteen. I began teaching children’s church when I was fourteen. I have always wanted to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with my testimony and singing for forty years of my life. I began writing stories while in middle school, but my calling began with writing my first Eirinth Fantasy novel in 2009.

Fiction writing has been stated as a waste of time and energy in some academic and even Christian groups, but I hold up my writing of this as an example of trying to reach some with the Gospel of Jesus Christ in a way that can keep them from using their pre-conceived ideas of Christianity to lock their hearts away from letting the truth of Jesus Christ even find a way to give them what their heart, soul, and body needs more than anything else in this existence. Jesus Christ used ‘parables’ that were simply ‘stories’ to get into the weary hearts of men and women closed off by dead religion.

The One True Living God Almighty as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is longing for His Church to SEE what’s going on around them, REPENT from hard-heartedness, and FIND all the ways to reach this dying world for HIS GLORY and THEIR SALVATION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST! We have TOO MANY pharisaical churches now that make the ones that crucified Jesus Christ seem like milkweeds. We are supposed to ALL want people to KNOW JESUS! ALL!!! Not a few. Not those you want. Not those who can help your position in men’s eyes. ALL who can be SAVED!

Christianity is NOT a closed group, a member-only club through church acceptance, or a religious wheel of propriety that shows how holy they are and how evil everyone else is. THAT IS NOT RIGHT! JESUS SAID ANY! I will LIVE AND DIE by that mandate… ANY!!! If you have been made aware of your sin, you understand that Jesus Christ died in your place for them, and you ask HIM for forgiveness and offer your life to HIM to cleanse, heal, and empower then YOU ARE SAVED. No church has the right to disown you. JESUS CHRIST accepts you if you make HIM yours.

Why do I despise Laodicea so much? I despise it since I see it EVERY SINGLE DAY. Our world is living in the Last Days specified in the biblical prophetic texts. I’m not a scholar. I’m not a clergy woman. I’m not even degreed by any school for biblical studies. I read. I pray. I watch. I compare. I know. Could there be more years than I think? Yes. Does that mean I’m going to let my “How can I not” become a “Why should I”? NO! I should and am trying to keep sharing all I know for as long as I can. Does that mean I can reach millions? No, but if just ONE is reached, it matters.

Laodicea is one of the greatest fallacies of faith in the span of time for this entire world. Seeming to be wise, they become fools. Thinking they have everything they become poor. Lying to themselves and each other that they are all holy they become blind. Look around! How many churches do you see in your home area, but how many are showing the Love of Jesus with Truth of sin and Need of the Savior? NOT THAT MANY. Thousands, nay millions fill our streets, but how many are trying to reach people’s hearts? They are DEAD churches with DRY bones that need NEW LIFE!

I wrote Eirinth to try to get those claiming to know Jesus Christ to see that the Gifts of the Spirit are REAL in our world even if the world of Eirinth is allegorical. I thought that people would understand and embrace the reality of the gifts to empower His Church in these last days now more than ever. I at least thought it could be used to reach those in certain reading groups to give Christianity a chance with this different approach. These two books so far in 2021 are my HEART! My complete LOVE OF JESUS AS MY SAVIOR is also pain for the lost as His Ambassador of Hope.

I know that many in the true church of Jesus Christ are tired, worn, discouraged, depressed, powerless, and even angry. I am all of those things too right now. I just have a fire burning in my soul that will not let me stop sharing what I know that I KNOW. Not fiction, but a story that leads to Life Eternal, especially in Book 2 with a very dramatic Salvation in Eirinth with references to Christ to reach the souls of those still searching for what I ALREADY HAVE – JESUS! He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. I’m living proof in 2021. SEEK HIM. FIND HIM. KNOW HIM. HE NOW WAITS!

It’s About WHO You Know – Op-Ed 01/29/21

By Tonja Condray Klein©01/29/21

As Americans plunge into the new year of 2021, changes are happening that many may not even realize the significance of when it comes to our freedoms, our rights, and our responsibilities. I’m the daughter of a deceased U.S. veteran of World War II born in 1913, so I will probably react very differently than most of my generation since my dad was already 59 years old when I was born. Yes, I will be 49 this year, my mother turns 90, and my sister will be 71. We each have her own viewpoints of how to live her own life, but all three of us know the fundamental truth in the title.

During different decades the truth in the title never really has faltered – whether in places of employment, groups in society, or even at school it always was about WHO you knew to get the best position, the best material goods, or the best clubs to add skills to your academics. There was a time when I was younger and in church that I didn’t think that it mattered there, but I’m seeing a disparity even in those places where it should never be about ‘who’ as far as people, but more about the WHO as in God Almighty through Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case.

I believe in Grace through Faith and that not of myself. I believe that my standing in church should be about the love that I show others to express the Love of God the Father as His child. While I work to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the infilling of the Holy Spirit, I don’t ‘earn points’ or get a higher ‘ranking’ with God for any of it. While I sometimes doubt that Truth and try to PROVE that I am spiritually minded I usually fall flat on my face when I feel so good about what I’ve done that I forget what Jesus Christ already did for me and through me for you. HE is the WHO!

I have always had too much pride in my abilities at school when it came to my grades since I was so sick it was truly a miracle that I got good grades at all. I try to give Jesus the glory since He was the One to save me then give His Holy Spirit to me for help in this world. Yet still, I might try to write more enigmatically (big word that perhaps shows intellect) than I should to prove that I’m not a blonde idiot. Yes, the blonde thing is another issue I’ve dealt with in life though my mother says I didn’t, but she wasn’t at school or work with me. What I’m learning now is NOT the WHAT.

I have heard some of the most prevalent educational people say the DUMBEST things in my almost 49 years. I am aware that you are supposed to spell out the age, but I’m trying to be more honest, open, and less vernacularly high. For anyone who knows that word then you know I’m making a joke about that adjective. I LOVE the English language! Grammar, adjectives, and complex sentences always got great grades in English class, and since I’m a writer by choice now I’m not going to apologize for wanting people to look up what some words mean. There is a point in stating that.

Jesus doesn’t want you to memorize the statutes in Leviticus, the genealogy of the church fathers, or the main feasts celebrated in ancient times. Jesus doesn’t want you to quote scripture for the sake of impressing those at the church you attend either. Jesus wants you to know HIM. Reading the Holy Bible helps you to know HIM. Praying each time you need to helps you to know HIM. Going to church to fellowship with fellow believers in the Salvation He bled to give to you helps you to know HIM. It’s not about us. It’s always about HIM – Jesus Christ, Son of God and Savior.

Do you KNOW HIM? Even when doubt slips into my consciousness after 41 years serving Jesus Christ as my Savior, Lord, King, and God, I still have to remind myself of the simple Truth I will believe with my dying breath – I KNOW HIM. Not a religion. Not a principle. Not a philosophy. When I hear a Spirit-inspired song play and cry, I do it because I KNOW HIM. When I read scriptures and think about how He was even before those words were, I KNOW HIM. When I feel the Holy Spirit move inside my heart and soul during the rough times then I KNOW HIM.

It’s personal. It’s passionate. It’s poignant. It’s more than I’ll ever deserve, more than I can ever repay, and more than I will ever be able to truly explain. The Bible says He sings over those He loves. I sometimes think I can hear a song now one else ever has, and though I may be imagining it, I will still try to listen to just a moment to catch the words to use for a song I might write to share with others. It truly is something worth living for, worth dying for, worth giving for, and worth everything. Do I ever want my books to be known and enjoyed by readers? Sure, but I’d rather YOU KNOW HIM.