Wednesday Wisdom 01-28-26

*** I have to say it these days, no part of my blog is created or edited by AI. These words, grammatical errors and all, are of my own creation and thought. ***

Wisdom shouts in the streets

She cries out in the public square.

She calls to the crowds along the main street,

to those gathered in front of the city gate:

“How long, you simpletons,

will you insist on being simpleminded?

How long will you mockers relish your mocking?

How long will you fools hate knowledge?

Come and listen to my counsel.

I’ll share my heart with you

and make you wise.

“I called you so often, but you wouldn’t come.

I reached out to you, but you paid no attention.

You ignored my advice

and rejected the correction I offered.

So I will laugh when you are in trouble!

I will mock you when disaster overtakes you—

when calamity overtakes you like a storm,

when disaster engulfs you like a cyclone,

and anguish and distress overwhelm you.

“When they cry for help, I will not answer.

Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me.

For they hated knowledge

and chose not to fear the LORD.

They rejected my advice

and paid no attention when I corrected them.

Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way,

choking on their own schemes.

For simpletons turn away from me—to death.

Fools are destroyed by their own complacency.

But all who listen to me will live in peace,

untroubled by fear of harm.”

This passage is a piece of scripture found in Proverbs 1. It had much relevance to what I was feeling this morning as I started my day and the passage was a gift, a revelation given to me in perfect timing.

My daily morning routine includes a moment of silence. A time early in the morning that I sit alone in my living room with a hot cup of coffee and invite clarity and direction. In that silence I allow God’s voice to be the only thing I hear. I don't hear it everyday, but I do pause every morning to give him a chance to answer me.

This month I have been participating in a 21 Day Fast. I decided the thing in my life that is most holding me back from truly connecting with God was social media. The negativity, time warp of scrolling and the negative feelings wrapped into the comments of others was really affecting me. I chose to fill time once occupied by scrolling to a time spent in devotion and meditation––having a conversation with God. I read scripture, pray and for the first time, intentionally listened. And anytime during the day when I wanted to reach for social media I instead said a prayer. Often praying for protection and open mindedness for people in my life and often pausing just long enough to offer a soft, quick, gentle prayer of gratitude. The peace was overwhelming and in a few short days I found a new clarity I have asked for for a long time. 

This very morning I contemplated if and how to proceed with documenting my truth. Asking myself why I have been pulled most of my adult life to writing “it” down. I have written a couple different online blogs and journals mostly about my daily family and farm life but anytime I went deeper into truth I was asked to stop. Writing feels necessary to me becoming my truest form.

The 21 Day Fast is nearly over and I am still deciding if I will return to social media or not. Knowing in my heart I want to write more regularly and continue to story tell my life experiences through photography is something I truly love, but at the same time not wanting to become distracted again into the dark pit of social media. 

As He always does, if we train ourselves to listen and be patient, He will answer. This morning as I was thinking about the best way to speak my truth, to share and offer a record of my experience He answered through a ding from my bible app - “Hey! Read this!” Often time I will ignore the ding and read it later or ignore it all together, but this morning I opened it right away. Proverbs 1 - Wisdom’s Rebuke was there with answers for me.  

It's not enough for me to read something, I need to know what it means and scripture is no different. I love Proverbs. I love the poetic writing and I love the lessons.  So what does Proverbs 1 mean? Wisdom in these scriptures is painted as a women pleading to the crowd in a very open, public setting. The women or wisdom “raises her voice” for all to hear. I sense the wisdom is so important and people are not paying attention she must raise her voice to get her point acknowledged. The scriptures also teaches us that wisdom is readily available to everyone and even for people who aren’t necessary seeking wisdom they will encounter it. The choice remains their’s to completely ignore or not. It also teaches us that sin is easy and sneaky. When we choose or encounter sin or when our pride interferes we must repent and ask for forgiveness. Like sin, wisdom is obtainable, but unlike sin wisdom takes work. God’s love, his grace and mercy is accessible for all who seek it. Through an open heart and a subtle, steadfast acceptance His wisdom is there for all to guide. 

In this day and age there is no excuse to not seek knowledge because it is so incredibly easy to find. But you have to choose it, ask for spiritual guidance and be open to being uncomfortable. Expect to begin to see the world completely unlike the way you were taught. It will feel lonely. You will often feel defeated and you will often ask how does no one else see it, it seems so clear. With that being said, here I am, alone. In the corner of the ski lodge where we come to weekly. Today my son skis while I write. The lodge is not busy on a Wednesday with little very snow cover. Only a few kids and teachers from the school group are milling around. My corner table is chilly, away from the fire and near an electrical plug so I can plug in my computer.  I didn’t wear leggings under my jeans and I am regretting it. I write. I look up scripture and I delve into understanding of what I am reading. For me every opportunity to seek is an opportunity to grow. 

Wisdom is the very thing I have been seeking for much of my life. The search for wisdom and the act of sharing my process has cost me relationships. Being a deeply feeling person every insult, comment, negative reaction and the cuts made behind-my-back hurt bad and sticks with me for far too long. The drive to dive deeper, to stir controversy to get people to think and to direct people to find out for themselves and ask the tough questions is strong - I hear my son quoting Yoda, “The force is strong in you!” I can’t stop seeking. I’m learning to let go of the hurtful reactions and let God handle it, because ultimately my goal and motivation is not to please people or to even change minds, but to find MY truth and to help lead others to the same realization that each journey matters. 

This is MY experience. These are my wisdoms. Convictions from God, reading scripture, asking questions and then finding answers for myself have led me here. I am not asking anyone to agree with me. I not asking anyone to read this. This is for me and for my documented history. I have tried a couple times to write freely. All times ending in a confrontation of someone in my life asking me to stop sharing my authentic truths.  I’m declaring that I am not doing that again. As each time I get nudged back into a hole of insincerity I feel incomplete. I feel suffocated and I feel condensed into a version of myself that is not real. This time I am little bit wiser, older, stronger and more secure in myself.  If you are personally taking issue with the truths I share or if my true authentic self and the way I process my experience affects you in some way you don’t like, then don’t read it! Or even better, honor your own experience and go within and ask why does what I write bother you so much? In that truthful dedication you may find answers to further your own understanding of yourself. Likely what you are feeling has nothing to do with my words, but with issues inside your own soul that are begging to be seen. 

In the past several years, mostly sharing memes or studies or opinions on social media I’ve been called extreme, even racist, I mean come on-- the classic, scripted response to anything that goes against the "approved playbook". The absurd reactions and willingness of acquaintances and friends to put me in a box and berate me is shocking every time it happens. I mean I never thought people cared so much about me! I never once verbally abused anyone for having a difference of opinion online and I could not believe I was being called these names for asking questions about the ingredients of vaccines or for standing up for freedom and wanting to protect my constitutional rights.  I found myself deeply invested for the first time in my life in the political process. I could finally see how naive we are all conditioned to be. How moldable and simple we have become in our thinking. I’ve been called dangerous and delusional for questioning the narrative. I’ve heard close relatives talking about me behind my back (while at the same time smiling and hugging me) and members of my family I grew up with telling other family they hate me. I lost several close friends and work collegues when I first started publicly sharing my concerns surrounding the Covid narrative and lockdowns.  It's all a journey. A journey I am proud of.

A brand new enlightenment has poured over me and living my most authentic self without hesitation or shame is the one of the best ways to honor my creator. I was made for such time as this and my voice will not be hushed. Call me whatever you want, I no longer care. You can say I am premenopausal, she’s 40 and now she’s blunt, because well, all those uncontrollable hormonal changes ––but I am here to tell you my works have nothing to do with any of that petty, cop-out name calling crap, it is much bigger. God has placed on my heart a gift to share, to write “it” down and I am choosing to honor that calling regardless of how any earthly person feels about it. 

I choose to share unselfishly my current understanding because I know it is that important. We are on the presipace of the greatest pendulum swing in history, one that has never been witnessed. I believe that selflessness is an act of love and to live from a place of selflessness and love is to be more like Jesus. Now more than ever we need voices. Selfless voices who are willing to go out on a ledge and speak up when we know something ain't quite right. We need connection to each other and to God. We need our truest self to be a light in the darkness.

This is my walk of my own understanding and my art is writing. Follow it or don’t follow it. I have made the conscience decision to no longer seek the permission or approval of people. I’m not here to ruffle feathers or to alter the world’s orbit in some grand way, I am simply processing constantly to ultimately gain wisdom–– a clear understanding of the life I live. It is a process, an evolution and as I learn more and as I am given clarity I expect new perspectives to form and to also further evolve. For me that is the point. To continually tread the water and to not become stagnant in my own understanding. 

Wednesday Wisdom will be a series for me to speak my truths, understand something about the world and current events that I find interesting and to understand together the words of God. I am begging you stop being afraid of knowledge. Stop being comfortable and most importantly stop being distracted by the world. Stand up, speak out and embrace wisdom — before it's too late.

My Wednesday Wisdom series will not always be this long, but I had to catch myself up! Each week I also plan to share a Farmlife Friday and share all that we did on the farm that week. I also plan to add to my Wednesday series something I researched that week and also something related to what I am currently reading. 

Go into your week with a confidence that your voice is from God and it matters.

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What I am currently researching:

1666 - Sabbatai Zevi & London Fires, Comet, Issac Newton

Nathan of Gaza - claimed Sabbatai Zevi was the messiah, forged a letter and sent it all over the world 

Smyrna - Zevi’s hometown, appointed followers as kings to rule the world

Imprisoned by Ottomans

Converted to Islam, when given the choice instead of being put to death by the Ottoman

The Donme - means “turncoat” - Secret society that formed from Sabbatia Zevi followers  after his direct following/movement fizzled - Muslim/Jewish, took root in Greece

100,000 members by end of 1800s, for 200 years lived in complete secrecy 

Underground tunnels, hidden rooms, passages. Prayer books, own cemeteries

1917 - Solinka burned down, group moved to Istanbul

The book “The Burden of Silence” - claims 3,000 still exists

The London Fires of 1666

1665 Plague, 100,000 died in London alone - still trying to rebuild after

9-01-1666 - Fire began in a bakery

2nd war of Englo-Dutch

What I am currently reading: 1913 by Oliver DeMille

The course of American freedom drastically changed in 1913. Three major events, now overlooked, never taught or talked about, changed America forever. This book explains the events and the effect they had.

The first two events that took place in 1913 were the radification of the 16th & 17th amendment to the American Constitution. There are twenty seven constitutional amendments. Most people hopefully are least familiar with the first ten amendments - our Bill of Rights. Many of the other amendments have to do with regulations regarding lawsuits and legal proceedings, equal rights, abolishment of slavery, right for women to vote, ect –– the big ones, right?! But the 16th and 17th seemingly are unknown and equally important for those of us who enjoy freedom. For me I find it odd that I have no recollection of learning about the giant changes that the 16th  & 17th amendment caused in our country. Coincondence? I doubt it.

The 16th allowed Congress to directly collect income tax from citizens and was ratified (voted in as an amendment) on February 3, 1913. This was a huge move away from the constitution because it originally states that no citizen shall be directly taxed by the federal government, that all taxes must pass through the states. Welp - not anymore.

The 17th amendment, ratified on April 8th, 1913, changed the way our senators are elected. Now, being elected by popular vote in each state instead of by state legislatures choosing them. Some will argue that allowing the people to directly vote for their senators gave more control to the people, but it also assured that the wealthy, influential can and do buy their way into the senate. Taking away the opportunity for Joe Smoe from small town to be chosen to represent the state.

With these two changes government spending sky rocketed and big government and big money corruption crept in and poisoned everything. 

The third major event of 1913 was the creation of the Federal Reserve, the new national bank of America. This lead to our fiat (fake) money system, a system no longer backed by gold, resulting in unending inflation and wars and a central banking system that altered any ability for the middle to escape the slave system of fiat money and endless taxes.  It left the poor poorer and the fitly rich, richer.  If you are someone who asks any sort of questions related to liberty you may already understand the magnitude of this event, if you don’t please research it! It's the perfect place to get lost into a rabbit hole. 

Also you may want to look into how the sunken Titanic of 1912 is related to 1913 implementation of the American central bank. I’ll circle back to this as some point, because it is HUGE -- and just the tip of the iceberg in understanding the central banking system scandal. (wink, wink! - I can be funny)

The end of the book outlines simple things us citizens who care about preserving American Freedoms can do. We must understand our history, our true history, and develop an ability to recognize patterns and critically think, or else be okay with slowly and surely losing our sovereignty. 

I highly suggest you read it!

I’ll leave you will a quote from the beginning of chapter 7: 

"There are two primary choices in life: 

to accept conditions as they exist, 

or accept the responsibility for changing them.” 

- Dennis Waitley

xoxox, B