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"No one can serve two masters. He will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life-- what you shall eat or drink-- or about your body-- what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

"Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sew or reap. They gather nothing into barns, yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you, by worrying, add a single moment to your life span?

"Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wildflowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will He not much more provide for you, oh you of little faith?

"So do not worry and say, what are we to eat? Or what shall we drink? Or what are we to wear? All these things the pagans seek. Your Heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

"But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil."

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[REYES]

This is Radio WAVE Mejanomics with your host, a Friend of Medjugorje.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Its important when Our Lady says, see the signs of the times that we read those signs, not just say, Look. Look at the sun, or Look at the sky, or Look at the storms or the hurricanes. Its important for us to look at the signs and read the signs.

When I first came to this valley, Id come out, look at the, when it was raining, I could look at working in excavation and landscape, I would come out and go on the mountains. I learned to find old home sites, and I could see where the roads were. And I really learned just by experience, This was an old road bed. It would be covered with trees, with the ruts in it, the bank, the freshness of the youth of the tree as compared to the older trees around it, you could see what came up when people abandoned those roads that this was a road, and I would follow that. And then I would find a house foundation off the side that was underneath the leaves. I would see bumps. I would uncover it, bottles and everything. It was exciting to find these things.

But I learned to read the woods just by these signs. And were supposed to be observant, as Our Lady said, well of the signs. But not just seeing the signs but read them. What is it saying to us? What do we see?

How do you read the signs that we, out of sixteen people, get elected the least likely person, that would be at the bottom, that becomes president? How does that work? Can you read the signs? Do you know how he got there? You could say, Oh, well, the American people voted for him. Thats not what put him there. How can I say that? Because they didnt! Who helped Trump become president more than anybody else, if you had to point to one individual. Was it Steve Bannon? Was it somebody in the Republican Party? Who was it? Ill tell you who it was. The President Obama himself. He put Trump there. He degredaded our nation. He destroyed so many things. His evilness in lighting up the White House, and all these things, put us in such a hole that we needed somebody that was strong, manly, forward, direct, shoot-straight, and yes, crass.

You know, I get sick of hearing people that say, Well, Im for Trump. Im for our president. Hes not perfect. Dont apologize for him! See, youre insecure in saying and recognizing the signs of the times. He is what he is. I dont qualify, Well, Trumps, hes really doing good things now. You know, hes done more since the last, well, weve got Obama, eight years. We got Bush Jr. eight years. Thats sixteen years. We got Clinton, eight years. Bush Sr. before that. And then we got the Reagans, then Jimmy Carter. So, were talking about, how many years is that? Forty-eight years or something? So, Trump, in eleven months, has done more than all those presidents put together, after Reagan. How can I say that? Look! Do your research. Youll find it. How is he doing that? Because hes part of Our Ladys plans to turn everything upside-down.

Do you know, right now, this morning, we have 30% of our naval aircraft carriers and ships near North Korea, are poised. Our president is not playing around. And hes the man of the hour. If you know how to read the signs, just like the Indians did on their paths, hunting a deer, or me hunting out houses, you can see something is taking place with the establishment to change everything around on every level.

And so, dont be one of those people that feel like youre qualifying your professional independence, that Im for Trump, but I know hes crass, or I know hes not perfect. This sickens me because youre ashamed of that. Jesus Christ chose rough, crass people to be His apostles. A prostitute. A tax collector. A foul-talking fisherman. Not anybody that you would think He would do what He did. And all the brothers before David were the candidates, and we got this ruddy little David out in the fields watching sheep, fighting away the wolves.

People never recognize what God appoints. And Im telling you, Donald Trump is appointed by God, part of the plan, and you better pray for him. And he gravitates toward good when its shown to him. Am I doing a commercial for Donald Trump? No, but Im not going to say, Hes not perfect. Nobodys perfect! We know that! We dont have to qualify ourselves for that. We need to speak out. Quit biting your tongue! Weve gone through our whole life stuck in silence, and now were finally finding our voice. Weve got it.

So, dont take chances, because we dont have to anymore. Dont be afraid. Our Lady keeps saying, Do not be afraid Speak out. You can read all about it. Thats what used to newspaper boys, Read all about it! Read all about it! Are you reading the signs? Are you recognizing the signs? Do you see all these things thats taking place? Change is coming. Were in a moment of truth. Truth divides. It separates. And dont be apologizing, Well, we need to get together, and we need to dialogue. Thats not what Our Ladys looking for. Weve spoken about this many times. Jesus splits with a sword. Weve got to separate on the right and the left. And I dont talk about conservatives and liberals. Im saying light and darkness. Weve got to separate so that we can shine brighter and brighter and brighter. We cannot be amalgamated. And if you dont know how to read with darkness and light, if you dont know how to read the signs, you dont recognize whats taking place.

And so, dont sicken other people who realize when youve got to qualify, I wish hed just quit tweeting. Do you realize this guys bypassing the media? The genius of what hes doing, they cant control him? And hes going to you, the people, to me, the people, straight in his tweets? And the media cant stand it. They have people coming up, Republicans, saying, or this Jeff Flake, Flake guy. Hes a flake. Hes pretending, Well, Im so principled, Im so dignified, I can no longer tolerate these things, so Im resigning. Yesterday he says this. You liar! The guy barely had double digits. Double digit is from nine to ten. He barely got into double digit for his next run. So, hes blaming his failure of not being elected on Donald Trump, and the discourse is too rough. We need some rough, tough, rowdy people to deal with rough, tough, rowdy people in North Korea, and anywhere else in the world, and ISIS.

Im not going to apologize anymore. Its time we take over the T.V. I dont advocate that, but lets get our side on. Let them play our tune. Its about time we get our airplay. Because we havent been getting it for 50-60 years. Weve got a centralized voice in the White House that is speaking, not for himself, but for me. Over and over and over, you hear Trump saying, Its for the people. Its for the American people. He dont need the ego. He dont need the power. Hes already had all those things. And he realizes, what are they worth? Nothing in the end. And if we make America great again, its part of Our Ladys plan, because to be greatness is to be closer to God.

And so, weve got to realize were in a moment of truth that the demons are howling. Donald Trump is like a secular exorcist. I spoke about this a little bit last night. Hes doing exorcism. Hes draining the swamp. Hes even got people stopping running for office just because he hones in on them and says, This guy is a flake, which Jeff Flake is.

Did you know all the Republicans except a couple of them, Rand Paul was one of them, clapped after Jeff Flake gave his speech yesterday? And he did this stupid thing like, Well, Trumps not perfect. No, he wasnt doing that. Im saying, like, when you say those things, you put yourself in Flakes position. Because hes blaming everything on Trump, being unprincipled. Thats what we need. Because he is principled in his own way. And God chose him. And its time that you quit biting your tongue. You spent your whole life being silent. And Our Ladys saying expose evil Speak up. Youre My voice.

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Youve got the words to change a nation, but youre biting your tongue. You spent a lifetime stuck inside [??] afraid youll say something wrong. If no one ever hears it, howre we gonna learn your song? So, come on, come on. Come on, come on.

Youve got a heart as loud as lions, so why let your voice be tamed? Baby, were a little different. Theres no need to be ashamed. Youve got the light to fight the shadows, so stop hiding it away. Come on, come on.

I wanna sing. I wanna shout. I wanna scream till the words dry out. So, put it in all of the papers. Im not afraid. They can read all about it. Read all about it. Oh-oh, oh-oh

At night, were waking up the neighbors while we sing away the blues. Making sure that were remembered, yeah, cause we all matter too. If the truth has been forbidden, then were breaking all the rules. So, come on, come on. Come on, come on.

Lets get the T.V. and the radio to play our tune again. Its about time we got some airplay of our version [??] Theres no need to be afraid. I will sing with you, my friend. Come on, come on.

I wanna sing. I wanna shout. I wanna scream till the words dry out. So, put it in all of the papers. Im not afraid. They can read all about it. Read all about it. Oh-oh, oh-oh

Yeah, were all wonderful, wonderful people. So, when did we all get so fearful. Now were finally finding our voices. So, take a chance. Come help me sing this.

Yeah, were all wonderful, wonderful people. So, when did we all get so fearful. And now were finally finding our voices. So, take a chance. Come help me sing this.

I wanna sing. I wanna shout. I wanna scream till the words dry out. So, put it in all of the papers. Im not afraid. They can read all about it. Read all about it. Oh-oh, oh-oh

I wanna sing. I wanna shout. I wanna scream till the words dry out. So, put it in all of the papers. Im not afraid. They can read all about it. Read all about it. Oh

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

We need to call it what it is. We need masculinity back in man. The slippery slope sliding down to feminism and putting her above man, and feminine above masculinity, is a reversal of God the Father and Jesus the Christ. Jesus Christ was every bit of man, and he called the Pharisees white-washed tombs. If Jesus lived today and He tweeted that, The Pharisees are white-washed tombs, people would say, Oh, scandalous! This, there He goes again! Or, He called Herod a fox, a leader! The Jewish king, a fox? You mean, Jesus said that? What would Donald Trump sound like if he said to some liberal preachers, Prostitutes will be in Heaven before you. Can you imagine that kind of tweet? What would that make? You mean, Jesus said these things? Its in the Bible. And I could continue on many things Jesus said. He made a whip, not a wimp. A whip. W-H-I-P. A whip! No W-I-M-P. This Man, this Godly Man, this holy Man was no wimp. And the whip beat them out of the temple. Oh, a Friend of Medjugorje doesnt sound so soft and so loving. Its love to be obedient.

Our Lady said yesterday to look at the saints as your models. I think it was St. Bernard who, somebody was disrupting him in his sermon, who came off the altar and punched a guy in the face! Oh, Lord have mercy! You mean, a saint did that?! This happened. You dont know, because we, as the last several generations, have lost masculinity. And the liberal, leftist, Godless people in the colleges are doing everything they can to undo that, because its a walk toward God. Its a model to follow. And now, weve got girls going into the boy scouts. And then weve got a new name for you who were born normal, for the girls and the guys. Now, youre called sis-gender. We finally got recognized. Sis-gender is meaning what youre born is what you are. Thank you for giving us that title.

When are we going to get our voice? When are we going to say what we need to say? Our Ladys saying this to us to be active. expose evil Speak up! And you dont have to worry about cordialities, because Jesus wasnt always cordial. His own apostles were saying, Oh, Jesus, youre getting Yourself in trouble. Judas would always do the political thing. Youre riling up the Pharisees. Rile them up!

Trump got Gorka to resign because he couldnt run for office. Jeff Flake the same. They know that hes not following what Trumps trying to implement, and hes knocking them down before they even start running for office. This is what we need to do to clean up the swamp. Dont come to me thinking Im political. Im laying down the moment of truth, reading the signs. Its there. When do you think Gods going to make a movement after 36 years? This is it, the last four years of the 40 years of Her here with us on a daily basis.

And so, weve got some new functions now. Not new functions. Theyve been doing this for 25 years. Our read today is exactly about these things to transform society to be not what it is by Gods design, but by mans design.

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The name of this article is, The Men Taking Classes to Un-learn Toxic Masculinity.

For some time, Steven Hicks had felt something was off. My relationship ended, then a lot of things started collapsing in front of me. Hicks says. He began attending therapy, which made him realize that he needed to make a bigger change. I wasnt doing really terrible things. But I also wasnt being the most ideal Steven I could be, he says. The bar is really lowered for sis-gender guys.

So, earlier this year, Hicks signed up for the pilot, Re-think Masculinity class, a partnership between the Washington D.C. crisis center, Collective Action for Safe Spaces, and Re-Think, an organization that works to prevent harassment.

The program builds itself as a class where men learn how social constructs of masculinity harm them and the people around them, and work to construct healthier masculinities. Or, as Hicks puts it, It was eight weeks of guys discussing how they can address their actions with better self-awareness and less toxicity. We spoke of emotional labor, consent, violence, communication, empathy, and vulnerability, he adds, noting that the last subject, in particular, was a struggle for him. I was trained and conditioned to be tough growing up.

The Re-Think program is the latest in a growing number of courses targeted towards people who identify as men, including The Mens Project at the University of Wisconsin, Masculinity 101 at Brown, and the Duke Mens Project at Duke.

The goal, proponents say, is to help men examine their own biases and behavior in order to cut down toxic masculinity. Some studies show promising effects on attitudes and behavior in tensions, but a single class is unlikely to undo years of socialization and toxic masculinity.

For the past 25 years, Minkowsky has taught a course titled, Psychology of Men and Masculinities, which, he says, deconstructs how masculinity is socialized as a performative mask, rather than a biological imperative. He argues that the concepts of toxic masculinity has four main components: suppression of anything stereotypically feminine; suppression of emotions related to vulnerability, like fear, sadness, or helplessness; male domination over women and other men; and aggression.

On the other hand, though, these classes are taking on a lot. Trying to undo a lifetimes worth of lessons about how to act at home, in the workplace, and in public. Its a lofty goal, especially when so much of what participants encounter outside the classroom contradicts what they learn within, and some of the desired outcomes increase vulnerability, more emotional openness are difficult to measure.

But Hicks argues that these problems dont negate what the classes can accomplish. The program, he says, isnt designed as a fix for anything. Its a step. Granted, its a step with limited reach. Theres probably a self-selection bias at work, but its a step nonetheless.

Since the class ended, Hicks says he feels he has been more deliberate about expressing emotions and making space for people.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

So, when he scrapes his knee and starts crying, who does he go? To the girl? Oh, suppression of dont suppress femininity in the man? I tell you, I raised six boys, or five boys. We lost one. I raised them. They didnt have any trace of femininity in them. They were tough. I raised them that way. Theyre men. Women, Im telling you, women, you mothers, you better be raising your boys to be men. This is demonic. Its satanic. Its a reversal of the ways and the roles of man and woman.

I remember when all this came up, when, in the 70s, they started talking about the women in the workplace, and Dont make a cup of coffee for your co-worker male if he asks you for a cup of coffee. Who does he think he is? Or even your boss. And they were putting this out. And youd hear stories about, They expect us to do this, expect this in the workplace. You know what? If youre in an office, and youve got 20 women in there and 20 men in the office building, and you, as one woman, see somebody, one of the guys need a cup of coffee, and you start making it for him, and then you go to the other guy, and you make coffee, and you serve those men in there, you know youre going to go up level? Youre going to get pay-raises. Youre going to get a better position. Because youre setting yourself in a position that admires you, that theyre not demanding something of you, but youre playing your role as a woman. Youre going to be favored above all the 19 radical left over the women, that Im not going to make nobody coffee. Who wants to hear that? The woman whos more feminine, the woman whos more serving, rises to the top! Look what happened to Esther. Vashti rebelled against the king! And all the other courts said, Weve got to get rid of her, King. King, youve got to get rid of her. Shes going to start this with the whole kingdom, all the women. And theyll all be rebelling. Here comes Esther, a Jewish woman, to marry the king, and he, she served him perfectly in submission, everything. And he would give her half the kingdom. Thats what you do. Go give the man the coffee! Thats your role. No Im not. Im paid just like he is. Well, then, take that role, and watch where you go. Youll be above everybody else. And even some of the guys. Youll be promoted above them, because you wont be adversarial. Youll be serving people. And even make it for the women if you want to.

Youre doing just the opposite of what you should be doing. Its all these teachings coming out, we dont have a lot of time to go into these things, but weve got a man in the White House, because there is an anger in men today, because theyre having to suppress their masculinity. And theyre demanding that he show femininity and emotions thats not reserved for the male, but for the female. This is the way it is.

Weve got a 3000-pound bull in our pasture. His back is almost six-foot high. Hes incredible. One of the tallest bulls Ive seen. You only see it like when you go to the fair and pay to see the biggest bull in the world. When you walk up to him. Hes on the other side of that fence, and hes got legs bigger than three or four legs of a big man. And he starts pawing that. He digs up dirt, slings it all over the place, and then his eye looks at you. Man, hes a man! Thats what were supposed to be. If you visit Caritas, go ask to see Spartan, but dont go in the pasture with him, because hes a man.

The other writing just said it was Washington D.C. Crisis Center. Isnt it a paradox, an irony that there is a crisis in Washington D.C., and its Donald Trump? They hate him because of his masculinity. He can point a finger and make one statement that is pretty much make a sailor. But he says, and the NFL starts falling to pieces. He can say something about Gorka, and he resigns. And then, Jeff Flake is so embarrassed about his polls. Hes barely above nine points in the polls, an incumbent, and hes shot down by Trump. And he blames that on him? No. Its his politics and its his belief not doing what he asked to do.

So, weve got now a voice that is a voice for us. That means were finally finding our voices. And now, we can finally quit biting our tongue, because youve got the words to change a nation. You need to start acting. Be proactive. First, youve got to live Our Ladys messages. Youve got to love, but love is best displayed by obedience. The Commandments. And when you violate it, you confess. You dont deny them. Thats the difference in us, as sinners, versus those who are grave sinners but see that theyre not. And then, well draw them to our side, because theyll see theyre in chaos. Theyll see theyre in darkness. Theyll see theres no peace. Their sufferings greater than ours. Our afflictions have purpose. Theirs have no purpose. Ours elevates to holiness and order. Theirs to disorder. And when you see a group like that, youll want to join them. Thats how we convert. And we want to convert them. You should never want anybody, even Hitler, to go to hell, because if you do want that, or he deserves hell, you say that, even think that in your heart of the worst, degradaded people, you are saying, I want the devil to win. The greatest things is, somebody like Hitler, if he converted and became a Christian! What a delight! What a greatness. All Heaven rejoices over the conversion of one sinner.

But we dont know the method of that. We alienate them. Let them drown in their swamp, their dirt, their darkness, where theyll want out of it. And then, well offer them a hand, through love, through the messages, through what Our Ladys shown us.

So, youve got the words now. Dont bite your tongue. Change a nation. Change the world. Change yourself, and change the family.

We wish you Our Lady. We love you. Goodbye.

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The subject matter contained in this presentation is based on Biblical principles and designed to give you accurate and authoritative information with regard to the subject matter covered. It is provided with the understanding that neither the presenter nor the broadcaster is engaged to render legal, accounting, or other professional advice. Since your situation is fact-dependent, you may wish to additionally seek the services of an appropriately licensed legal, accounting, real estate, or investment professional.

[REYES]

This ends the Mejanomics show with A Friend of Medjugorje. To order this show on CD, you can contact Caritas in the U.S. at 205-672-2000. Again- 205-672-2000.