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Paula Deen comes clean…

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In the incredible-but-true category comes news that Paula Deen–queen of the high-sugar, high-fat diet–was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes three years ago, but has kept the news under wraps until now.

(Apparently, she needed to first redirect her business venture so she could make money from the disease before letting her followers know that the advice she has been dishing out may just kill them.)

Interviewed on the Today Show recently, Deen says “I’m going to be there for you.” She forgot to add, “for a price.”

Forgive my vindictiveness here, if you will. With diabetes growing at epidemic proportions, it is difficult for me to smile at Deen’s over-played southern charm and chalk this one up to “ain’t she cute.”

With her new gig as spokesperson for the pharmaceutical company that supplies her diabetes medication, it may be that Anthony Bourdain was correct in his assessment of Deen as someone who “revels in her unholy connections with evil corporations” and is “proud of the fact that her food is (bleep) bad for you.”

There are times when the Occupy Wall Street slogans make sense to me. This is definitely one of those times.

Don’t worry. Keep shopping and cooking with Paula.

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October 31st is . . . Luther’s 95 Theses Day!

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In an attempt to grease the path for pagans to convert to Christianity, early Church leaders attempted to insert Holy Days (holidays) into time slots sacred to the worshipers of other gods.

Consequently, we now have Christmas–ostensibly a celebration of the birth of the Christ–intertwined with pagan traditions concerning trees and mistletoe and parents lying to their children about Santa Klaus (the Winter King).

Easter is meant to celebrate the resurrection of Christ–that is if you can get by the Easter Bunnies and egg hunts. I know it is precious to see children dressing up and having fun. Isn’t it odd, though, that every Christian holiday is colored with a paganistic brush over?

Halloween is the celebration that most amazes me. It is an outright glorification of all that is macabre. Dress up the evil nature of this pagan new year celebration all you want, put smiley faces on the skeletons and make them dance –but it is impossible to hide the dark side of it all. The Church, of course, tried to switch the revelry to a celebration of the Saints, yet few folks know about All Saints Day on November 1st. [Read more...]

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It is Possible

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He’s taken some hits, plenty of them. Born on the floor of an abandoned building near Miami to a mother who didn’t want him, raised poor and hungry, labeled mentally retarded in school… he’s worked hard to get somewhere. He’s worked real hard.

Fifteen years ago, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He wouldn’t accept the doctor’s prognosis of “terminal.” Rather, Les said that the doctor’s ability to help him had terminated. He’s a survivor.

But now the word is that the cancer has spread beyond his prostate, into his back and other parts of his body. The situation looks grim from the outside. Friends and family are gathering around him. Has he been hit too hard this time?

What would you do, given that same medical diagnosis? Have you ever thought about it? What if the doctor said you were on the way out? Would you quit your job and travel? Would you go on the bender to end all benders? Would you cash in your savings and try to do everything you wish you would have done earlier? What would you do?

If you want to know what Les Brown is doing about it, tune in to his live radio talk show on KFWB, Los Angeles. He’s there every weekday from 2-4 p.m., Pacific Time. He’s not moaning about his condition, though. He’s doing what he’s always done–reaching out to help others. Give him a call. He’s listening.

If I had heard this news about any other person, I might be shopping for flowers. But Les Brown is no quitter, and I’m not quitting on him. Les says that there are times when the odds seem so stacked against us that we need to fall back to the position that is always solid: It is possible. And with God, all things are possible.

I’ve been praying for Les every day. I’ve been speaking health and restoration his way. Would you join me in that pursuit? Would you?

Here’s the intention that I and several other folks have been claiming for ourselves and for Les. Sit with it. It is powerful…

The healing power and love of God flows through every cell, bone, blood vessel, muscle, and organ in my body; restoring, renewing, and revitalizing me to wholeness, wellness, and complete health as God created me.

It ain’t over until it’s over… and it ain’t over. It ain’t never going to be over. Les Brown is alive and well.
That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.

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Rabbi Kaduri, Ariel Sharon and Jesus (Yeshua)

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In the “very interesting” category comes this video concerning the famous Jewish Rabbi, Yitzchak Kaduri. It is told that the Lubavitcher Rebbe foretold that Rabbi Kaduri would witness the coming of the Messiah. That got my attention, because quotes from the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson) comprise one of my favorite books, Bringing Heaven Down to Earth: 365 Meditations of the Rebbe (good luck finding it.)

Anyway, Rabbi Kaduri’s thoughts were centered on the coming of the Messiah, during his final years on Earth. He passed on in January of 2006. Before leaving us, though, he apparently left two hints about the Messiah (Mashiach.) First, that He would appear after the death of Ariel Sharon. Next, that the Messiah’s name is Yehoshua, Yeshua, Yahusha… you got it, the one that most English speaking moderns call Jesus. Very interesting . . .  [Read more...]

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