Balance

Dear Friends,

In writing this blog exploring the "1776 decision", I am not advocating re-uniting with England, overthowing our current government or in any way undoing the physical-world events that have flowed from those 1776 decisions on the part of the colonists. I also remind you and myself of Joseph's attitude as spoken in Genesis 45:4-7 and Genesis 50:20: " . . .but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives." (What does God have in mind???)
Rather, I ask that we Christians look objectively at the direction Jesus and Paul gave by example and words, temporarily setting aside the weight we have historically given to the events surrounding the birth of our republic. (Have we American Christians equated the American Revolution with the will of God?)

God bless us, each and every one.

Rethinking 1776

My reason for choosing this name...

Dear friends,

In this blog, I will be "publishing" my beliefs, which I think are not expressed often, and are perhaps minority views.

I will write mainly on how western Christianity's (unspoken or unconscious) currently -accepted values differ from what (in my view) God and Jesus set forth or taught in the New and the Old Testaments.

The title of this blog invites readers to rethink how the decision of the "founding fathers" to fight the British in the American colonies in the late 1700's, to gain independence fits with Jesus' teachings. Some blog entries will be on that subject: some on other things that affect us.

My name is Joan. I'm a Methodist in my 50's, college-educated, Bible-knowledgeable, I think. My parents were born and raised in Canada and Trinidad, West Indies (which might account for my Tory views somewhat.) I lived in Jackson, Michigan (idyllic town of aprox. 60,000) 'til I was 14; and mainly in Houston, Texas from 1969 'til now.

I'm the youngest of 4 siblings, got my degree in agronomy from Texas A&M, but had started out at U of Houston in general studies (in a time when Texas public college education was less expensive and therefore more conducive to learning more about fields not related to one's degree area.)

I hope you will "tune in" for later installments.

Yours truly, Joan M.