Stephen Harris, I’m coming full circle with you since 1989 when you pondered, as I recall, who I was and what I believed I was here to do. Perhaps you’ve forgotten. I haven’t. I was surprised at your acute interest. I’ve done what I’ve had to do since then:
– Counter the MR Executive’s illegal, political, and real estate speculation stunts during the golf course debacle in 1989. When I spoke to the Crown Prosecutor about the situation, he warned me that the executive’s action of speculation on real estate without informing the community about the pending golf course was illegal according to the Alberta Memorandum of Association. He also made it clear that if I mentioned any names, he was obligated to prosecute them.
We prayed and God moved us to not report the names and that we needed to let things happen and let the executive have their way at the meeting of November 10th. Which we did, and the whole enterprise fell apart. God put an end to it all.
For more details of that fateful night, see https://www.thepathoftruth.com/what-the-lord-has-done-with-me/part5/p4.htm#nov-meeting.
– End the peace-disturbing, environment-damaging, and illegal dirt and motor bikers in 1989 and onward.
– Prevent the Creighton and Orr/Derricott golf course circuses in that year and following. Both were loser events to be put away.
– Prevent the Olafson/Mandel/Belly River Farms feedlot fiasco in 1993, which the Lord told Marilyn we would win if we fought it. We joined the Moon River residents to fight the feedlot now looking like a sure deal. The developers withdrew even after being approved on the second reading. Imagine that. So nice when one has an Almighty “Hitman,” Steve.
Reports of these past events can be found at https://www.thepathoftruth.com/what-the-lord-has-done-with-me/introduction.htm.
– More recently, we addressed the Warren and other outrageous dog dramas where dog owners permitted their dogs to run unleashed and were allowed to trespass and mess in others’ yards and even attack citizens and their pets; they attacked me. I was told they attacked your wife Marquise on the path, yet nobody said anything. Leave it for someone else to deal with.
– Expose and address the recent Moon River Community FB page membership policies, rules, and other incidentals. For example, people can report poor missing kitty-cats, pooping foxes, 3-legged deer, sunsets, northern lights, lost and found, and other trivia, all good and well, but when someone wants to support people like James Tapp sacrificing themselves to fight offending, outrageous, socialist, detrimental, even illegal governmental policies, well, let’s not go there, right? Too political. Support shitting foxes instead.
Yes, truth in politics and religion is not for the faint of heart. Stick to sure soft fur and purr.
– And now, the paddock playpens for the wannabe higher society privileged.
All the while, as I addressed these issues, enemies have despised me for standing against selfishness, lawlessness, and injustice. Speaking sense and justice is a thankless job, as you all know. Isn’t that why almost nobody speaks up? Either that or they don’t know right from wrong or serious from silly or important from trivial.
However unpleasant, I’m fine with the opposition; it comes with the territory of openly speaking the truth to all, for all. Opposing might with the right is worth the fight, at least in my sight. (There I go waxing poetic again).
I’m humbled and consider myself privileged that God should count me worthy of His duties as His servant. The enmity I experience only serves to confirm the justification and need for His intervention and to fuel my resolve.
Stephen, you say these things aren’t up to me, but I tell you you’re wrong; it’s been my job all the while. It’s why I’ve come, it’s why I’ve remained against stacked odds, and it’s why I’m here now with many adversaries, continuing to deal with selfishness, ignorance, and downright wickedness.
Fine. I’m here in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, not in presumption, false piety, or derangement, but by His Divine Anointing and Appointment. Scoff if you will; believe it or not. And I’m beginning to wonder if this just now isn’t finally the beginning of the end of things for many, dreadfully so. The indicators have been there and nobody’s paying attention. It doesn’t take a prophet to discern them. But it is judgment for sin, both personal and public. That’s where prophets have a job to do.
Terrible firestorm clouds are swiftly upon us. Death and Hell are on the left and the right. Sadly, you’ll see soon enough, and many already have. But who will listen and change their minds and ways? When have those warned ever listened? They much preferred to stone the messengers.
Stubborn fools would rather disengage the car oil light when it comes on instead of addressing the problem to prevent potential serious harm. They mistake me for the oil light when it comes on, or lying about it. I’m merely crying out to y’all that it’s on and you’re not paying attention!
Stephen, on the heels of the MR Executive conflagration you attended at the fire hall on November 10, 1989, you asked me, “Why do you do this to yourself?” As if I was foolish to take positions that are sure to be hated by many in a typical community that would sweep controversial issues under the rug rather than deal with them and stop them from eventually going out of control.
A few months ago (35 years later now), you objected to my similar manner of involvement with the lawless administration of the paddocks.
The answer I gave you was, “It’s my job.”
You argued, “No, it’s not your job.”
Do you know that? You don’t know what you’re saying, Steve, and I needn’t argue with you.
You said, “Ok, look, they know you’re right, but must you tell everyone God is your hitman?!” (Correct me if I’m inaccurate in the substance and tenor of our conversation.)
But what if I am His hitman? And if I am, why not say so? Didn’t the Biblical prophets declare, “Thus says the Lord…?” I’m not sure if He’s my “Hitman” or Preserver. I believe I can fairly say it’s both. God appoints His provisional spokespersons, no matter their social stature, as it pleases Him to bring correction and to address societal errors and evils. People, such as the prophet Isaiah, for one example of many hundreds of thousands over the ages:
Isaiah 58:1 “Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to My people their rebellion and to the house of Jacob (Israel) their sins.”
By not faithfully, mercifully sending His messengers to warn and rebuke lawless, ignorant people, societies eventually perish, eating one another alive, sooner or later. God has said the same to me as to Isaiah on this day, and however awkwardly, I’ve haltingly obeyed.
I don’t believe I’m permitted to hide the fact that He’s my “Hitman” or that I’m His servant. Give credit and glory where they’re due, especially when due to Him. After all, it’s HIS doing, not mine. It’s not that I must “do this to myself.” It’s that He compels me to speak up for Him and others’ sake. I can’t sleep soundly without obedience to Him.
Tell me how the Moon River community would have liked a desolate, abused landscape of a “homemade,” “did it myself” golf course made by someone who didn’t know what they were doing.
Or the ruins of an “18-hole professional golf course” replacing beautiful natural surroundings, which many people here enjoyed until a scam took temporary form and began to destroy the terrain. Many of you may not even be here now.
Tell me how Moon River would have enjoyed an industrial feedlot with the stench of a “lagoon” (a euphemism for an open sewage system), at the entrance to our community on what was once known as Belly River Farms. What an effective “moat” to keep out potential realty marketers and clients!
Who among you would hate me for standing up against that? Or for failing to speak up and prevent it if I had the opportunity to do something about it? I wasn’t the only one in battle. Maria Demers, Lloyd Sereda, Tim Jarvie and partner Anita, Etta Taylor, Pat King, and others also pitched in to ward off the feedlot danger to the community.
Tell me how y’all have enjoyed free range troublesome, bullying dogs as we just experienced, which was happening regularly with several owners until we pressed on the MD to enforce by-laws to stop them. I had to do it because nobody else would.
I have been salt for preserving and regulating society for a time in measure. Not quite as sweet as honey, which people’s taste buds would much prefer. I’m thankful that others have done the same in the past. I thank the Lord for raising up such people from time to time.
Tell me how the old-timers here enjoyed the noisy dirt bikes going steadily up and down our community roads and surroundings, constantly disturbing the peace until I and others stood up to them. Let them tell you.
True, nobody believes me. It comes with the territory, even as with all the other opposed messengers, called “prophets,” which He ever sent out to warn and tell people of their wrongdoings, not because He was a “meany” and hated them but because He loved them. But that’s not the way they saw it. Because they hate Him.
In Biblical and recorded secular or profane history, we know people killed the prophets and apostles, crucified Jesus Christ, and persecuted and murdered His followers ever since. But the rebels all perished for not heeding God’s messengers. So do all people perish for the same reason today. No difference.
Having experiences right here in Moon River, I dare say many of you would have been on the front lines, stoning God’s messengers and crucifying the Christ – guaranteed. Think about that! Where does that leave, and lead, you?
Oh, be upset with me. See if I care. Should I? What happened to the people who did kill their prophets and crucify Christ? Will it be any different for anyone else? Not a chance. It’s been happening, I’ve specified and can specify – more to come.
Steve, the apostle Peter and several others asked Jesus the Messiah in the days of His flesh, the same sort of question you asked me 35 years ago: “Why do you do this to yourself?” and He could only reply the same as I do. “My Father has sent Me to testify against the world and it hates Me for it.”
The world hates the Father and that’s why it hates me because I come from the Father, and am One with Him through His Son, Jesus Christ, according to the Scriptures. These are things that churches may doctrinally touch on but know and believe little to nothing about. Oh, the shock coming to the “righteous” hypocrites, but also to the rest, even the so-called “heathen.”