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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 sow 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 splendour 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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This is Mejanomics with a Friend of Medjugorje.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Were going to start off on something a little bit different for this broadcast. We just came back out of town this past week and we got a lot of feedback.

[JOAN]

Since the release of Big Q, Little Q, a Friend of Medjugorje has been invited several places around the country to speak about the book and about Medjugorje. So, he fit in a couple of talks in Texas in El Campo and Bridge City. So, we have a lot of feedback coming in from those talks, and Im just going to share one of them before a Friend of Medjugorje gets into this Mejanomics program.

Friend of Medjugorje, thank you so much for coming to Texas. We need you in Austin, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Waco, Fort Worth, Victoria, and all our cities. The evil is trying to take over Texas. Please come back soon. We must keep Texas in Jesus and Mother Marys hands.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Why does this individual say, Evil is trying to take over Texas? Because every place thats a light, or Conservative, or God, country, and family, satan wants that. We see a lot of moves to do that to Alabama. But what happened in Texas, and this person is probably saying, Evil is trying to take it over, is because we chase the dollar.

The former governor of Texas, Rick Perry whos popular, he decided to send a message to California. He made a 30 second ad, and it states, quote, There are plenty of reasons as has been named the best state for doing business for eight years running. And it says to look at a website that it names. And it says, And see why our low taxes, sensible regulations, and fair legal systems are just the thing to get your business moving in Texas. He went also to New York, and they gave all kinds of low taxes, they gave reasons, they gave tax breaks, and they brought these companies in. But the problem of our culture today, especially in good areas where you go out to this, its like putting a noose around your neck.

So, the feedback Joan just read, quote, The evil is trying to take over Texas. Where does it come from? What do you do when you bring in other peoples money? Through bringing these new companies from California, New York, places like that, they have a certain mentality. Youre not just bringing money back in, youre bringing in the people, what their philosophies are, what they believe in. These people are used to high property taxes, degraded sinful tolerances that Texans would never be for. And we already see that Houston has a mayor thats an abominable. And theyve got several other cities that have abominable mayors. Where does this come from? It comes from people like New York. And theyre used to doing these things. But those are the consequences of just seeking money. Its been to be flat-lined, a stable economy, that try to grow something and bring in exactly what destroyed their states theyre leaving from, that they bring it and do the same thing. We see it here in Alabama. Our property taxes are low. So, every time there is an educational tax, these people vote for it. They think its great because we have such low property taxes.

So, the evil that comes in is really a consequence of greed and sin. And people would praise Rick Perry. They actually did this, but this always regurgitates back with evil. And so, shes referencing that. Why she didnt tie that to it, it birthed from this chasing of the love of money.

[JOAN]

Im going to read another feedback. Its not from the Texas talks, but from a recent broadcast of a Friend of Medjugorje. It says,

Dear Medjugorje, you call yourself a Catholic website trying to spread Our Ladys messages. I am in New Zealand. Just remember during these times, Our Lady has come from everybody in the world, not just you Americans. You pride yourself to be so special. I will tell you one thing. I dont pride myself as being special. May God bless your efforts, but may you realize that billions of people lie outside of America.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

And we welcome comments like this. Because it gives us opportunity for clarification, to understand what is the United States of America? What is it in context of the whole world? And of course this feedback says that Our Lady has come for everybody in the world. We know that. I know that. I never say that without that understanding. And she added, Not just you Americans. You pride yourself to be so special. No, thats a mistake in understanding whats being said. We pride ourselves that we are privileged to live in a country like no other country in the history of the world. Whats our position? Humility. And she went on and said, I will tell you one thing. I dont pride myself as being special. Were not special. Were responsible. To whom much is given, much is expected.

I wrote about this in They Fired the First Shot because we are a country that is identified as exceptional. So I want to quote what was written. When Americas exceptionalism is spoken of, this is not the same thing as nationalism. And thats what this feedback is putting us in the context that were nationalist. Thats not what this is about. We understand we are exceptional. Why? I go on and say and write. Americas exceptionalism is a recognition that no other nation in the world has been blessed as we have been. Americas exceptionalism becomes complete when we understand we must pass this blessing onto other nations of the world. That includes New Zealand. That includes Lithuania, one of the smallest countries in the world. Were not stomping countries; we are showing what God has done with us and Our Lady has been consecrated over this nation from its beginning. And She even gave a message about this nation because so goes America goes the world.

So, They Fired the First Shot continues, Being blessed, we are to share this blessing that by our recognition of Gods favors, other nations may hope for the same. Is this not why immigrants continuously have come to America in fulfilment of their dreams for freedom? I asked that question there. You ask yourself, What other nation are people tearing down, giving up, doing whatever, even breaking law to get in this country? Its the only nation in the world. They define the exceptionalism, why theyre wanting to be here. The problem we have with these now, coming in, they dont want to be Americans. So theyre going to destroy the blessings we have.

But it continues in They Fired the First Shot. Is this not what has kept political prisoners alive while being tortured in prison with hope for their beloved fatherland while also claiming America as their second fatherland? Yes, Americans exceptionalism is a recognition that God has shed His grace on thee. And Ill stop where Im quoting because the only other country to come close to it is Israel. But theyre still not as blessed as we are, as abundantly. Yes, it was Gods people and His nation, but America, since its inception, is something of the tool of God. It continues in They Fired the First Shot. And we are to spread the blessings of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to all other lands as patriots of our nation. Our Lady wants us to realize the grace from Her Son. No nation has been where we are right now.

That understood, Our Lady said July 2, 2014, I, the motherthe mother of the entire worldcall you to set out on the way of humility Yes, America and all its people have to be humble. But if you say and you understand exceptionalism brings that to the heart for the reason we are blessed is because we have been humble. And our wars and in battle, we helped our enemy immediately when we defeated them. You know what some people wanted to do in World War II because Germany had caused two world wars? They wanted to fill all the airplanes up full of salt and salt all of Germany so it would never rise again. We were against that. But thats what many victors do. We are a humble country, but if we lose its humility, it will not change exceptionalism because we cant change the recognition of our history of how God has shed His grace on us. Thats a reality.

But in this July 2, 2014, Our Lady continues about, call you to set out on the way of humilityIf you, my children, do not become cognizant of this, then darkness/blindness rule in your soul. Only humility can heal you The whole world needs that. Does the United States need the same thing? You bet it does. But, were in a leadership position for the whole wide world just as the Roman Empire was. But you know what happened to the Roman Empire? It fell inside. It was an inside job. It wasnt from attacks. When we are attacked, we join together. You see Notre Dame? Theyve been godless for years, decades. Yes, Medjugorje is changing it, but there is so much secularism in there, that when Notre Dame burned up Monday, did you see what happened? Ill tell you what happened. People knelt down and prayed. People came together. It united the nation. I told you about the stories, walking up the streets of Paris with the Rosary in my hand. Even the old women, they look at me and they were startled with me walking down the street with a rosary in my hand. You didnt do that. Nobody was praying. You certainly didnt do that in public. It had become so secularized. The churches had nobody attending Mass. Yes, Our Lady of Medjugorje has started that increasing, but this is a premonition of the Secrets.

The purpose of the Secrets is to draw people to Our Lady. On Tuesday night, people came together in a large number praying and singing on the streets of Paris. They would never have done that before this fire, but this is an omen. Immediately when this came out, I said this. This is an omen from God. You can say that the three Secrets, when theyre released, they are an omen from God. Its going to bring people to their knees. So, this is good. And its from God. And its a bad. Its their 9/11. I prayed in this church many times. The Crown of Thorns is in the back of the church when you walk in and its an amazing relic that we have. Somehow a priest got that out, thank God. And thats one thing Our Lady wasnt going to let be destroyed. But She did, with Gods direction, allow the fire of something named after Her. And what are they doing? Theyre praying to Her by the millions across the world, not just in France. Why? Because of the principle there are no atheists in a foxhole.

So, this is a wake-up call. Think about this, the rich history. Do you realize this church is 850 years old? And also the beams that were in there were up to 300 years old. So, that goes back to trees that were growing in 700AD. This is a huge thing. This is history. Its a big thing for God to allow that to take place. Thats gone. Thats ashes. All that wood burnup. So, what does that say to us? Our friend from New Zealand, I dont pride myself on being special. No, we arent as Americans. Were privileged, but this is a special nation and I stand behind that. And we hear from people from all over the world who are praying for America because they realize when they pray for America, they are praying for themselves.

So, why is all this important? Because Im going in the other direction now giving you some cognition. I was put with people who were story tellers. One of our neighbors, Phillip Sessions could tell the news in a story way, a fantastic way. Our Lady wants us to have cognition. Why? She says, by fasting and prayer you obtain from the Heavenly Father the cognition of what is natural and holy Divine And then She adds this, Filled with cognition, under the shelter of my Son and myself, you will be my apostles who will know how to spread the Word of God to all those who do not know of it We are commissioned as apostles to gain cognition. How do you do that? Our Lady gave the message, God wants to test you through your daily chores.

But thats not the only way you gain cognition. I was reading a book last night, and in there it says, quote, Great books feed us. They focus our minds and inspire our hearts. And great spiritual books help us to pray. Im well-read. Everybody in the community is well-read. You can go to any of the houses here in the evening, and the mothers and the fathers are reading to the kids or the kids are reading to themselves. Theres no TV, theres no cell phone, theres no computer to be on. They read! They love reading. The problem today is one of my main points to say all these things, is people are not well-read. Our friend from New Zealand, if she was reading, she would never say such a thing. She would understand immediately exceptionalism and immediately she would understand also the importance of America.

We are in a crisis that people do not read. And Im not talking about your cell phone, Im not talking about your computer. Im talking about you have to read, you have to read good books. When that was quoted as spiritual books, its just not that. I write a lot of stories. I know a lot of subjects because I have a library and I read a lot of things. And it helps me do what Our Lady just said, filled with cognition, under the shelter of my Son and myself, you will be my apostles How? Through being filled with cognition. Reading, be well read, dont just listen to the news. You listen to things on different subjects whether its science, whatever it may be. You prayerfully read these things and you understand things that you can say, because youre filled with cognition. And She says, You will be my apostles who will know how to spread the word of God to all those who do not know of it

St. Paul is in Athens. Hes talking to the Greek philosophers. Hes referring to Socrates. Hes not just talking about Jesus Christ. Paul was well-read. He knew many things. So, heres Paul the super-apostle. What does he say to them? In Acts he says, You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious. Now, hes not talking about Christianity, Judaism. Theyve got the gods, theyve got Zeus, theyve got all these other things. Theyve got Athena. Thats why they call Athenians, the goddess of the Athenians who really, though its pagan, you could say is a prefigurement of Our Lady. In other words, they had a concept of a woman as God. Our Lady is not God, but it made them when they became Christian easier for them to understand.

Paul continues, For as I walk around looking carefully at your shrines Theyre already set up for Christianity. Theyre already a religious people, even though its paganism and bad things were going in the ceremonies. He continues, As I am looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed to an unknown God. What, therefore, you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you. Hes referring to Jesus Christ. This was the unknown God. Hes standing on the rock. Ive been right there, on the hills where Socrates was buried.

So, these philosophers had these things. Actually, what they did to Socrates in persecuting him, and actually they killed him, they did the same thing to Paul. So, Socrates around 2,600 years ago, they changed the mentalities to Jesus Christ just like to put on a glove. It was a fit. All those centuries, through paganism, was a religious service and thing that changed, yes, but they were able to do that. So, thats what Our Lady is talking about. Filled with cognitionyou will be my apostles who will know how to spread the Word of God to all those who do not know of it They didnt know anything. Paul came down and bombarded them nuclearly and won over one individual. And from there it spread through all of Greece. And weve got the Greek Bible and weve got these seeds.

Were in that same position. But Im not really telling you all these things for that purpose. Its, I want to place something of wisdom that you need to be more read, you need to listen to these things, download them, whatever you have to do. That I learned what Ive learned and be able to tell the stories and write different things and bring up examples to convict people so that the Word of God to all those who do not know it will understand it. Our Lady continued on what Im quoting in that same message of being filled with cognition, and you will know how to overcome obstacles that will stand in your way Paul had an obstacle. He called on the Greek gods, the altars, and then, Hey, youve got one God in your belief that is an unknown God and I know Him. Ive meet Him. He spoke to me. See, he knew Greek mythology and it was centuries old when he came along.

Youre not called to just sit there and sit on your cell phones and your computers. You have to read! Im telling you, if you want to be following Our Lady, you have to be reading. Reading is one of the most enjoyable things we have in a community. We fight to read. We want to read. And we love to read. And we tell stories, we discuss it. Theres nothing better than to sit down and talk about a book that you both have read in the Community. Or, somebody is explaining something. You learn so many things! Because, the book thats being written by another person, you enter into their life or whatever happened to them, or their cognition, and you make their cognition your cognition. And you become broader that you can touch everybody in it.

I was raised that way. I know God put me next to people that the stories that were happening in the news, the way they explained it, gave the slant on it, gave us a broad view of everything. I can say now, I was prepared for Medjugorje. Just like weve talked about the Muslim, Hassan who said in 1979, People who were born before the Virgin Mary would appear would be prepared for their whole life for Her coming. And I feel it and I see it.

So, I go back to this person in New Zealand, who Im sure has goodwill but is ignorant. Because if she read, she would never write that. Our friend before that, about coming to Waco, Ft. Worth, Victoria, all of cities, etc, that evil is trying to take over Texas. That person is informed. They are understanding these things. And I understand she was at the talk, and she heard things she never heard before. And a lot of it was stories, like Paul standing there. You are called to be an apostle. Hes a super-apostle. Our Lady is calling you for this.

So, were going to play something for you now to show you these are the kinds of things you need to learn. Theres a lot of wisdom out there. In 1965 this was recorded. I learned from this man many things, how to present talks, how to do things, and every day at lunch, like many of you who may be my age. Im close to 66, and I dont feel that, because I feel energized from Our Lady. And I have a lot of work still yet to do. But this man, his name is Paul Harvey, youve probably heard the name, was filled with wisdom. And I never missed him. And I learned a lot from him, how he told his stories, how he presented news, how he made his points. And this is just a singular example that you can find these kinds of things and you should be listening to these things with your children, or just get your husband and wife together, even if your kids are out of the house. You need this wisdom because what Rick Perry did, and understanding chasing the dollar, what youre about to hear shows when we go that way we get off base, the consequence is not good.

And humility is truth. And keep in mind all this is being said, when this was broadcasted, we had not landed on the moon at that point. We had three or four more years until we landed on the moon. So, today we have these difficulties that come up. But listen to this carefully. Tune into it. And after you hear this and what Ive just told you, you will see that you have cognition and understanding that you didnt have before you heard this that will do what Our Lady said, to spread the Word of God to all those who do not know of it And thats specifically to this New Zealand woman who doesnt understand what were saying about America. Because this is all about America.

[PAUL HARVEY CLIP]

Hello Americans. Im Paul Harvey, and this is the testing time. We are being tested, you know, you and I, individually and collectively. The test isnt going to be all fun or all easy, but if you hear me out, I think youll agree you wouldnt want it any other way. Such a little while ago, we sat around in councils of men chewing our fingernails up past the elbow worrying about the hideous force which man had loosed on the world when he unharnessed the atom. Now looking back we can see that the nuclear weapon was a disguised blessing. Were outnumbered by our potential enemy, seven to one. War with bayonets we couldnt win! The big bomb was the equalizer which cut the limitless fords of Asia down to our size. This awesome weapon stood between us and slavery. And now we can see that an all-wise, almighty, entrusted this hideous instrument to our tiny fraction of the earths population first. Now for our destruction, but for our deliverance.

Our problems are not new ones. What are our problems? Death, war, and taxes. No, there is nothing new about the first of these, nor about wars, hot or cold. Wars never end. Cain clobbered Able with about a four-pound club, and men have been fighting ever since. The only difference being that with each succeeding generation, the foot pounds of destructive energy which one man can deliver increase through the development of the crossbow and catapult, gunpowder and the automatic weapons and the canon, the airplane, the bomb, the blockbuster. For thousands of years the line on the chart measuring the foot pounds of destructive energy which one man can wield goes up in a slow steady incline until August 1945. And suddenly the line on the graph shoots for the stratosphere, for then it had been thrust into the hands of men a weapon 400 million times more lethal than anything ever before. This has changed the complexion of war. But wars never end. In the three and a half thousand years of recorded history, fewer than 8% of those years have been warless ones. And even in this 8% of the time between the wars between the wars, which we have come to call cold wars went on.

Nor is there anything new about these! Quintus Fabius Maximus, the Roman general, was the original cold war kid, I guess you could say. The Romans nicknamed him the Cunctator meaning one who delays. He marched and counter-marched. He turned the battlefield into a parade ground. But he wouldnt fight. Hannibals getting ulcers, but he isnt getting shot. And they say one day old Fabius met the Carthaginians on the field of battle and he said dramatically, Well, what will it be? War or peace? And they said at that time they were so bushed chasing him around, it didnt make much difference one way the other. So he said, Then let it be war! And with a dramatic flourish he flung his toga to the ground and ran as fast as he could in the opposite direction.

Now, theres nothing new about wars, hot or cold. Cold wars are waged by the forces of espionage and counter-espionage. And history demonstrates that who wins this war between the wars generally determines who gets to drop on whom when somebody blows the whistle on a shooting match. Now, however, with the major world powers armed with weapons of annihilation, it is possible that for the first time in history the cold war between the wars may be perpetuated. You see, when you are I were boys, we used to resolve our differences as boys, with our fists. And generally, you or I would come home with a black-eye or a bloody nose, but the difference was resolved. We dont do it that way anymore. Nowadays, though we try to pretend to our wives that we have some nobler motive, the fact of the matter is the only reason we dont fight with our fists anymore is that we are so increased in size and physical prowess, weve become so strong in the arms and so soft in the tummy. That if we were to wage combat, somebody might get badly hurt. Maybe somebody might get killed. It just wouldnt be worth it. So now we resolve our differences by more moderate means.

Americans, its the judgement of most thinking men that the great nations states of the world have now approached such a position of physical strength, physical prowess, but none will dare attack the other. If the initiation of the armed conflict is in itself a suicidal act, then a military standoff might conceivably be perpetuated and doomsday postponed indefinitely. This, however, presupposed that were going to keep us strong. Thats us spelled u-s, strong in our arms and in our hearts.

Now then, what makes a nation strong? Taxes? Theres nothing new about those either. The first income tax was paid by Abraham. It was written on a rock by the hand of Divinity and handed to Moses on the top of Mount Sinai. And you might want to remember this. It was at the flat rate of 10%. It promised the wrath of God on anybody who tampered with or violate that law. Christ was born in Bethlem because Joseph was on his way to pay his taxes. Joseph was a relatively well to do land owner of the house in the lineage of David. Yet, the taxes exacted by Caesar Augustus were so exorbitant that he didnt have enough money left over to employ a trusted messenger for the mission. So, though his wife was great with child, he made the journey himself. And Christ was born in Bethlehem because Joseph was on his way to pay his taxes. And Christ was born in a manger because there was a housing shortage when he got there.

Our problems are not new. At Runnymede, the Magna Carta was handed to King John on the end of a sword denying to royalty the right of unlimited taxation. And if you know it was for us the American people to become the first in recorded history ever voluntarily to surrender our rights to private property. Yes we did. With an innocent sounded Constitutional amendment, the 16^th, which says the Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived. And we forgot to put any limit on the extent to which we could tax ourselves. Conceivably, we could be taxed out of all private property. We could be taxed not 70%, 80%, 90% but 100%! We could awaken one morning and find that the government owns the farm and the house and the car and has a mortgage on the church, legally!

Historically, whenever any nation has taxed its people more than 25% of their national income, initiative was destroyed and that nation was headed towards economic eclipse. Presently the American people are being taxed 33% of their total income. History says well roll forward on momentum for a little while but weve better get some more gas in the tank pretty quick. You see, ours is not the first by George good government to arise on the worlds stage. There have been several: Rome, Spain, and Greece, and China. And each enjoyed about 150 years at its zenith. Thats just about our time in the new world. And then each decayed away. Not one of them was ever destroyed by anybody elses marching legions. Each rotted away, morally, socially, culturally, economically, simultaneously.

And one of the most cruel paradoxes of history is this: because each was a good government, it bore bountiful fruit. And when it bore bountiful fruit, the people got fat. And when they got fat they got lazy. And when they got lazy they began to want to absolve themselves of personal responsibility and turn over to government to do for them things which, traditionally, they had been doing for themselves. At first, there appears to be nothing wrong in asking government to perform some extra service for you, but if you ask government for extra services, government, in order to perform its increasing function, has to get bigger, right? And as government gets bigger, in order to support its increasing size, it has to what? Tax the individual more. So, the individual gets littler. And to collect the increased taxes requires more tax collectors, so the government gets bigger. In order to pay the additional tax collectors it has to tax the individual more so the government gets bigger and the individual gets littler. And the government gets bigger and the individual gets littler until the government is all-powerful and the individual is hardly anything at all. The government is all-powerful, the people are cattle.

Some believe that the need is for a vigorous strong man to arrive on the scene to regulate and regiment the affairs of men. Yet, history tells us there have been several such. Once upon a time, there was a nation great and powerful and good. She was suffering from the aftermath of war, from a depression. And then came upon the scene a leader, an idealist, self-confident, intolerant of criticism. The wise lady intimidated his early activates to combating the financial depression. Nobody could argue with that. But in a while, he began to regulate business and establish new rules to govern commerce and finance. Some of them in diametrical disagreement with the God-made laws of supply and demand. But anybody who disagreed with those new rules was promptly fired.

Many new leaders saw that under the old system of free enterprise, landlords prospered. So, he levied new taxes to take away their profits and destroy what he called the monopoly of capital. To please laborers he controlled prices. To win the favor of the farmers, he gave them loans and subsidies. The national debt mounted, alarmingly. Whenever anybody tried to tell him that governments even as people can go broke, when they stand beyond their incomes, he said they just didnt understand deficit finance.

What do you say? Did he build on rock or on sand? I say on sand. For you see this was the story of Emperor Su Dongpo who led China to its doom more than 1,000 years ago. And I am satisfied with all my heart that if Uncle Sam ever does get whipped, here too it will been an inside job. It was internal decay, it was not external attack that destroyed the Roman empire. Starting about 146BC, internal conditions in Rome were characterized by a welder of class wars and conflicts, street brawls, corrupt governors, lack of personal integrity and moral responsibility.

About 290 years after Christ, the Roman emperor named Diocletian took over. He really grabbed the bull by the horns. He took over in a period of turmoil and severe depression. The first thing Diocletian did was call in the gold and close the banks and raise the taxes. Diocletian put millions of people on the public payroll, but when this failed to do the job, the country was still in trouble. He asked more personal powers for himself. For a brief while, incidentally, they were standby powers, but then he used them. All at once he froze wages, he froze prices, he froze jobs, he stopped profits, he dictated to the farmer what he should plant, when and how he should sell it and for how much, and he rationed food.

And what happened? The labor market closed down, incentive was gone, farm life became bureaucratic red tape. Exorbitant taxes cost the farmer his land, he kept for himself only a small plot on which he might grow turnips for his family. He lost the rest of it to the state. And without food and with incentive gone, the city life stagnated and declined. And Rome passed into what history has recorded as the Dark Ages lasting 1,000 years.

Just by turning to the left, the world has gone in circles. A nation would evolve from a monarchy into an oligarchy, from oligarchy to dictatorship, from dictatorship to bureaucracy, from bureaucracy to pure-democracy where finally the people would cry from the chaos and confusion to the streets, Oh, please God! Give us a king! And God would give them a king. And theyd have a monarchy again and start the whole silly cycle anew.

Now, either we will profit by the errors of their ways or it follows as the night the day. Our children are going to have to relive the Dark Ages all over again. We can perpetuate the military standoff. We can delay doomsday indefinitely. We can continue on the highroad thats made our United States the powerhouse of the world. But again, it isnt going to be all fun. But then nothing worthwhile ever is. If we intend to stay strong enough to enforce peace, let us determine first the source of our strength. How come, after thousands of years of experiments, our new nation has come so far so fast? All this in less than 200 years! What is the secret to our success? Well, I think it had to do with a basic Americans creed. Perhaps it never passed the pioneers lips in this form, but if it had I think he would have said something like this, I believe in my God, in my country, and in myself. I know that sounds like a trite too-simple thing to say, and yet its a rare man today who will dare to stand up and say, I believe in my God, and my country, and in myself. And in that order.

When the early American pioneer first turned his eyes towards the West, there were only Indian trails or traces as they were called to follow through the wilderness. Do you know today you can roller-skate from Miami to Seattle, from San Diego to Plymouth Rock? In this little bity instant, as historical time is measured, our 7% of the Earths population has come to possess more than half of all the worlds good things. How come? Well sir, when that early pioneer turned his eyes toward the West, he didnt demand that somebody else look after him. He didnt demand the free education. He didnt demand the guaranteed rocking chair at evening time. He didnt demand that somebody else take care of him if he got ill or got old. There was an old-fashioned philosophy in those days that a man was supposed to provide for his own and for his own future. He didnt demand a maximum amount of money for a minimum amount of work. Nor did he expect pay for no work at all. Come to think of it, he didnt demand anything. That hard handed pioneer just looked out at the rolling plains stretching away to the tall green mountains, then lifted his eyes to the blue skies and said, Thank you God. Now I can take it from here.

Now that spirit isnt dead in our country, its dormant. Its been discredited in some circles, driven underground, but it isnt dead. It was just a few seasons ago politicians baiting their hooks with free barbeque and trading a Ponzi promise for votes began telling us, We dont want opportunity anymore; we want security. We dont want opportunity, they said. We want security. And they said it so often, we came to believe them. We wanted security. And they gave us chains and we were secure. Suddenly, with our Constitutional guarantees depleted, with our national character eroding away, with our tax laws penalizing those who dare to prosper, with workers concentrating on how little they can get by with instead of how much they can produce, suddenly we looked over head one day to discover the first tin moon in space was a Russian accomplishment. That free man dragging their feet had been out-distanced by slave workers dragging their chains, and we were so afraid. But as with the nuclear bomb, perhaps this was a disguised blessing too. Maybe a dramatic accomplishment by this Cold War adversary was necessary to get us off our dead centers and back to work again.

If we can revive in ourselves, then in our youth something of that basic Americans creed, the horizon has never ever been so limitless. For man stands now on the threshold of his highest adventure of all, his first faltering footsteps into space. Twenty years from today, half of the products you will be using in your everyday living arent even in the dictionary yet. Weve got it made if we just keep on keeping on. Weve got it made. And if we dont, we will follow those other great nation-states of history into the graveyard of ignominious oblivion. History promises only this for certain. We will get exactly what we deserve.

You see, storms are part of the normal climate of life. Ive not promised you a horizon of no work and all ease, all honey and no bees, because storms are a part of the normal climate of life. Sometimes the storm takes the shape of an economic catastrophe or a military holocaust or a prolonged drought or a terrifying flood. But storms are a part of the normal year in year out climate of life. We sometimes think our generation has been especially discriminated against. But in every generation, young folks have wondered whether they should pursue an education or take the easiest possible way, whether they should enter the professions or not. Young folks have wondered if they should marry or no. Young marrieds have wondered whether they ought to bring babies into an era of regulation and regimentation. In every hour of history there have been these questions, the same as we have today because there have always been storms to test men.

Americans, a paradise is being prepared somewhere, a perfect place. Dont you see, weve got to prove here we deserve to be there. And if there were perpetual sunshine there would be no victory. So, storms are a part of the necessary climate of life. This is the shakedown crews! Heres where we separate the men from the boys. If you and I conceivably could roll out a plush carpet on which our youngsters could walk off into a problem-free future, dont you see, it would not be to their best interest for us to do so. They deserve a crack at this test too. Storms are a part of the normal climate of life. There is an election in life going on all the time. The Lord votes for you, the devil votes against you, and you cast the deciding vote. Americans, for some reason, are being especially tested because we have been so richly blessed with the bountiest good things which invite sloth. Storms are a part of the normal climate of life.

But what happens to a rooster in a storm? He goes over in a corner of a henhouse and gets soaking wet and shivers and shakes and develops what is it, coccidiosis or pip, or one of those things rooters gets, and dies! But what happens to an eagle in a storm? He sees the dark clouds, he sees them coming, but did you notice, the eagle, when he sees the dark clouds out there on the horizon, takes off and lets the tremendous storm winds and the vanguard of the turbulence actually help buoy him aloft and help him? I mean the winds, the storm winds themselves are lifting the eagle until finally he is soaring above the storm in the sunshine. Thats the answer, Americans. Storms are a part of the normal climate of life. Weve got to learn to ride them. If, however, you do not share my personal conviction concerning this testing time, if the gravy train running three sections in a factory whistles summoning three shifts, creating too much den for a still small voice to be heard, let us none the less, with the conscience of reasonable men preserve and protect and defend this last great green and precious place on Earth against all its enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God. Its only because so many people you never knew have broken their hearts to get it and to keep it for you.

Once upon a time there was an old hermit in the hills of Tennessee, always used to be able to answer any questions that the youngsters of the community would bring to his hillside cabin. He was a wise old man but in every community there is one scallywag, one borderline delinquent, one of those always getting himself into trouble, always leading others astray. And there was one such in this community. And one day he gathered his cohorts about and he said, Fellows, I have an idea of how were going to fox that old man up on the mountain. He thinks hes so smart. Im going to catch me a bird and Im going to hold it in my cupped hands. And Im going up to his cabin and Ill say, What have I here, old man? And hell guess right; he always does. Hell say its a bird. But then Im going to say, Is it alive, or is it dead? If he says its dead, Ill let it fly away and prove him wrong. If he says its alive, before I show it to him Ill crush it to death.

Well, the youngster caught a small bird and went up to the hillside cabin, rapped on the door. The old man came to the door. The lad said, What have I here, old man? The old hermit said, Well, it appears to me its a bird youve caught there boy. And the lad, glancing at his friends out of the corners of his flashing eyes said, Yes, but is it alive or is it dead? And the wise old man on the mountain said, It is as you will, my son. That is the sum of it, Americans. We have here captured the elusive eagle of individual liberty. Now you will love it and feed it and watch it fly or neglect it and start it and it will die. It is as you will. The future is in your hands.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

What you just heard is wisdom, somebody whos well-read, who knows how to tell and convey that wisdom that you can digest it, change your mentalities and ideals. Such is the mentality in this woman from New Zealand. The Roman Empire fell internally. The family attacked becomes stronger. The strife internally destroys it. Its the same for a nation. Sunday, France was not united. Monday, France was united. Reflect on that on your future. Paul Harvey talked about 3,500 years, only 8% of that time was in peace. And in that time between the wars were cold wars. That says something. He made the point the atomic bomb has given us longer periods between wars than weve ever had in history. So, listen to this. We understand Our Ladys messages better because we have cognition. We are well-read. Weve broadened our mentalities. We hear wisdom. I want you to prove this to yourself. You listen to this five times over the next three of four or five days of what Paul Harvey said, and youll hear things and youll understand things you didnt before because its the message of Our Lady. If you listen to it through the template of Her messages, you will understand Her messages. And Im not just challenging you to do that, you must do this, and youll be shocked at what you hear and what you will learn.

I was surrounded by men who taught me many things. Reading polished with what these men gave me, life experiences crowned it, prayer and fasting has spread it from what used to be a cow pasture, a cow pasture now that is sacred holy ground. No less than where Moses treaded on Mount Horeb. So, all this gives you the cognition and wisdom to see the message Our Lady is giving five days before the thousand-year millennium ends. And She says this, This is the time of graceThrough your yes for peace and your decision for God, a new possibility for peace is opened Before the next sentence of Our Lady I read, keep in mind 8% out of 3,500 years, there were no wars. a new possibility for peace is opened. Only, Our Lady says. Only in this way, this century What century? Five days later. The year 2,000. She says, this century will be for you a time of peace and well-being. Were seeing something thats never happened in history. A hundred years of peace. And that doesnt necessarily mean peace in war. It means being reconciled with God and being blessed. Did it happen? No. Was Our Lady talking about its going to happen that day, January 1, 2000? No. But something shook up, something started changing, October 13, 2017. Our Lady is leading us to that. And Shes leading the entire world to be reconciled with its Creator in a peace in a way that weve never seen before. But She said in this message, only if you say yes, only in this way will this happen. And just like in the bird story, it said, Boy, it is your will.

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[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Everything is in our hands. This is a time of graceThrough your yes for peace and your decision for God, a new possibility for peace is opened. Only in this way, this century will be, will be, for you a time of peace and well-beingput little newborn Jesus in the first place in your life and He will lead you on the way of salvation Im telling you, you have to read. If you dont read, you will not have the cognition. You cant get it through the media. You cant get it through the education system. You have to choose to broaden your mentality which has been narrowed by the educational system and the voices that we are not to believe any longer.

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

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