The Baptist Friends

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A Methodist minister meets three Baptist deacons on the golf course and invites them to come to his church some Sunday …and not too many weeks thereafter, just as services are starting, they show up.

Attendance was good in the small Methodist church, and there wasn’t a pew available; several church members were already seated on folding chairs.

When the minister, just starting the service, saw the three Baptist deacons enter, he leaned down from the pulpit and stage- whispered to the nearest usher, “Please get three chairs for my Baptist friends in the back.”

The usher, hard of hearing, leaned closer and said, “I beg your pardon?”

“Get three chairs for my Baptist friends,” repeated the minister, but the usher strained closer with a puzzled look still on his face.

Once more the minister tried, speaking slowly and distinctly. “Three chairs. For the Baptists,” he enunciated.

The usher’s face lit up in comprehension, and he turned to face the congregation. “All right, everybody,” he called out to the assembled worshippers. “Three cheers for the Baptist.

Growing up on a dairy farm in southeastern Indiana, Gary traveled very little until midlife, when the opportunity became available to him.

Grabbing his camera and a bag full of equipment, he began his vision quest traveling to most areas of the United States and several countries abroad.

Along the way he collected several thousand photographs that he wants to share with everyone.

www.travelnsnap.com

Gary decided the best way to accomplish his goal was to publish photo documentaries on the various areas of the world he has visited.

What will follow will be several photography books, who knows how many will wind up in his collection.

To contact Gary:

journeysthrulife@gmail.com.

http://www.journeysthrulife.com.

The Memorial

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One Sunday morning, the pastor noticed little Alex was staring up at the large plaque that hung in the foyer of the church. The plaque was covered with names, and small American flags were mounted on either side of it.

The seven-year old had been staring at the plaque for some time, so the pastor walked up, stood beside the boy, and said quietly, “Good morning Alex.” “Good morning pastor,” replied the young man, still focused on the plaque.

“Pastor McGhee, what is this?” Alex asked. “Well, son, it’s a memorial to all the young men and women who died in the service.”
Soberly, they stood together, staring at the large plaque.

Little Alex’s voice was barely audible when he asked, “Which service, the 9:00 o’clock or the 11:00 o’clock?”

Growing up on a dairy farm in southeastern Indiana, Gary traveled very little until midlife, when the opportunity became available to him.

Grabbing his camera and a bag full of equipment, he began his vision quest traveling to most areas of the United States and several countries abroad.

Along the way he collected several thousand photographs that he wants to share with everyone.

www.travelnsnap.com

Gary decided the best way to accomplish his goal was to publish photo documentaries on the various areas of the world he has visited.

What will follow will be several photography books, who knows how many will wind up in his collection.

To contact Gary:

journeysthrulife@gmail.com.

http://www.journeysthrulife.com.

The Art Class

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A kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they drew. She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s artwork.

As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.

The girl replied, “I’m drawing God.”

The teacher paused and said, “but no one knows what God looks like.”

Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing the girl replied, “They will in a minute.”

Growing up on a dairy farm in southeastern Indiana, Gary traveled very little until midlife, when the opportunity became available to him.

Grabbing his camera and a bag full of equipment, he began his vision quest traveling to most areas of the United States and several countries abroad.

Along the way he collected several thousand photographs that he wants to share with everyone.

www.travelnsnap.com

Gary decided the best way to accomplish his goal was to publish photo documentaries on the various areas of the world he has visited.

What will follow will be several photography books, who knows how many will wind up in his collection.

To contact Gary:

journeysthrulife@gmail.com.

http://www.journeysthrulife.com.

Love in The Pleiadian World

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A new world is evolving

It seems the Pleiadians have brought the most to our  planet and our way of life than any other groups of extraterrestrials or travelers have contributed.

They have brought most of the common sense ideas and laws that we still use today.  They bought the ideas of justice, equality and love to our planet. To them, we owe much.

There are as many definitions of love as there are people on the planet, love can be defined as when an individual offers themselves for the spiritual growth of another.   For the Pleiadians, love is not a word or an idea but a way of life. Their entire culture is based on upon love and justice. A love that is mature and not childish; a love that is wise and intelligent; a love that is in harmony with Creation.

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A journey into the unknown. Open new avenues in your spiritual journey

Gary has been a writer/photographer for over thirty years. Specializing in nature and landscape photography, while studying native cultures.

His travels have taken him to most of the United States, as well as Australia, Belize, Egypt and the Canary Islands.

He has studied the Mayan culture of Central America and the aborigines of

Australia. Photography has given him the opportunity to observe life in various parts of the world.

He has observed that many of the forgotten cultures had spiritual beliefs that were stronger than ours in modern times.

While we have advanced technically far superior to those that came before us, we have lagged behind in spiritual knowledge.

For us to advance as the human race, we need to combine the spiritual knowledge of those that came before us, not only that of the ancients but the knowledge of our direct ancestors as well, with the technical knowledge we have today for us to propel into the twenty-first century and beyond.

He has published several books about his adventures.

For more information, please consult his website,www.journeysthrulife.com.

Your comments are welcome

 

 

 

Equality in the Pleiadian World

 

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A New World is Evolving

Pleiadians say that because the entire universe is the manifestation of Creation, of Oneness, all beings are equal.

Some beings are more evolved than others, but all are children of Creation. Many are more evolved because they have lived many lifetimes and have had more life experience.

All men and women are equal as some souls have been born men and women in various lifetimes.

Men and women are treated equally in Pleiadian society. Social ranking in their society is based on spiritual, there’s that word again, evolvement. Total racial equality exists among them, not only in phenotype and skin color but also between humans and non-humans.

This is the way of Creation and it has been a tough lesson for us to learn here on planet Earth.

Gary has been a writer/photographer for over thirty years. Specializing in nature and landscape photography, while studying native cultures.

His travels have taken him to most of the United States, as well as Australia, Belize, Egypt and the Canary Islands.

He has studied the Mayan culture of Central America and the aborigines of

Australia. Photography has given him the opportunity to observe life in various parts of the world.

He has observed that many of the forgotten cultures had spiritual beliefs that were stronger than ours in modern times.

While we have advanced technically far superior to those that came before us, we have lagged behind in spiritual knowledge.

For us to advance as the human race, we need to combine the spiritual knowledge of those that came before us, not only that of the ancients but the knowledge of our direct ancestors as well, with the technical knowledge we have today for us to propel into the twenty-first century and beyond.

photo of the Egyptian Sphinx at sunset

A journey into the unknown. Open new avenues in your spiritual journey

He has published several books about his adventures.

For more information, please consult his website,www.journeysthrulife.com.

Your comments are welcome

 

 

You Know You’re On A No Frills Airline When

Relive the Glorious days of yesteryear

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Life was a lot slower and simpler in the fifties and sixties.

You Know You’re on a “No Frills” Airline When…

They don’t sell tickets, they sell chances.
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All the insurance machines in the terminal are sold out.
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Before the flight, the passengers get together and elect a pilot.
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You cannot board the plane unless you have the exact change.
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Before you take off, the stewardess tells you to fasten your Velcro.
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The Captain asks all the passengers to chip in a little for gas.
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When they pull the steps away, the plane starts rocking.
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The Captain yells at the ground crew to get the cows off the runway.
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The ground crew uses jumper cables and an old pickup truck to start the
engines.
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You ask the Captain how often their planes crash and he sez, “Just once.”

Growing up on a dairy farm in southeastern Indiana, Gary traveled very little until midlife, when the opportunity became available to him.

Grabbing his camera and a bag full of equipment, he began his vision quest traveling to most areas of the United States and several countries abroad.

Along the way he collected several thousand photographs that he wants to share with everyone.

http://www.travelnsnap.com

Gary decided the best way to accomplish his goal was to publish photo documentaries on the various areas of the world he has visited.

What will follow will be several photography books, who knows how many will wind up in his collection.

To contact Gary:

journeysthrulife@gmail.com.

http://www.journeysthrulife.com.

I Am That I Am

“Do you know the Name of God?” asked the teacher.

“I don’t know that I do.”

It’s made up of four Hebrew letters, the yud, the heh, the vav, and the heh: YHVH. It’s the most sacred of names, so sacred some refuse to say it. And yet you say it all the time.”

“The sacred Name of God?” I replied. “How could I when I never knew it?”

“When you speak of yourself, you say the Name.”

“I don’t understand.”

“When you feel happy, you say, ‘I am happy.’ And when you’re not, you say ‘I am sad.’ When you tell others who you are, you say, ‘I am’ followed by your name.

“YHVH means ‘I Am.’ It’s the Name of the Eternal, the Name of God. His Name is I Am. “Then we all say His Name.”

“Yes. And you have always said it. It is woven into the fabric of existence that when you speak of yourself, you must say His Name.”

“Why is that?”

“It’s because your existence comes from His existence.

He is the I Am of all existence . . . the I Am of all I AM

He is the I Am of all existence . . . the I Am of all I ams.

Your I AM “When you speak of yourself, you say the Name.”

Cahn, Jonathan (2016-09-06). The Book of Mysteries (Kindle Locations 438-443). Charisma House. Kindle Edition.

Life Before Life, In Retrospect

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A New World is Revolving

Written By; Gary Wonning

The evening had answered many of my questions, questions I had been asking myself for years. It had given me new insight into why we each act and react to various situations differently, if we each experience different lifetimes, then our point of reference is different and we each would have varying degrees of understanding, based on our experiences, which would be our total knowledge. It would also explain why we are attracted to some people, while others repel us.

Perhaps, if the human race did originate somewhere else in the universe, if we are the “seeds” of another race, and that race, or races, of beings, came here, before the dawn of civilization and mated with the life forms already here, they could have formed a new species, the human race. We would be a new species, hybrids, taking on a physical body that would sustain life here on earth, a body formed of the earth, used while we are here, and upon giving up our earthly life, given back to the earth, to be recycled and reused for the highest good.

These souls then would be our spiritual ancestors, just as we have physical descendants, we would be their spiritual descendants, their evolvement would depend on us, we are actually their future selves. The people we meet and deal with every day are also descendants of these space beings, people we have had relationships with before coming into this existence are actually here now and we are resolving old conflicts, renewing friendships, and hopefully not creating new distention.

If I created a new body as I entered the earth’s atmosphere, that would explain how our neighbors in space travel, maybe they don’t use a “flying saucer” to travel from planet to planet, maybe they simply use their minds to travel and only use their ships, forming them from the elements in the atmosphere of the earth, when they are in our dimension and reality. This would certainly explain how they can instantaneously disappear when pursued by our fighter jets.

I began realizing that our mind was a giant storehouse of information, in it could be stored boundless information, all of which could be accessible to us. All that needed to be found was a way to access it. The mind contains all knowledge, everything, every event recorded in the history of “The All” was recessed away in the avenues of the mind, a true Emporium Of Lost Dreams.

A lifetime journey:

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A journey of spiritual discovery

The author has been a writer/photographer for over thirty years. Specializing in nature and landscape photography, as well as studying native cultures.

His travels have taken him to most of the United States, as well as Australia, Belize, Egypt and the Canary Islands.

He has studied the Mayan culture of Central America as well as the aborigines of Australia. Photography has given him the opportunity to observe life in various parts of the world.

He has published several books about his adventures.

For more information, please consult his website,www.journeysthrulife.com.

Your comments are welcome

 

The Voice in the Woods

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Occasionally, Willard, The Bashful Country Boy, as he likes to call himself, drops by and relays an interesting tidbit about his own spiritual journey. I always find his stories interesting.

Written by:The Bashful Country Boy

In the summer of 1985,  I had the occasion to spend a family  weekend on a houseboat with someone who had become a really good friend.  We had spent much time talking and developed quite a relationship. We were both having marital problems and we spent time sharing ideas about how to make things work.

After a while, I began to wonder where this relationship was headed and thought about it much of the time. Neither of us wanted a divorce, so I assumed marriage was out of the question.

I had been on a spiritual journey for a while and meditated often, trying to find answers.

After our weekend on the houseboat, I was really beginning to wonder who she was, why she was having such an effect on me, and what this was all about.

It was then I went in the woods next to our house and began meditating on it, suddenly a loud booming voice proclaimed, “She is going to be your next wife.” wow.

What a profound revelation.

Although the marriage never came about, at that period of time it would have been something that could have transpired since we were both having marital problems and because we were getting along quite well.

Were we predestined to marry? I don’t know, we chose a different path and life has worked out well. 

Whatever path we chose, it is always the right path for us to learn what we need to learn in this lifetime.

We all have free will, because of it, we are all able to change the course of our lives regardless of what may be predetermined.It is our choice to choose our path and  live accordingly. 

The author has been a writer/photographer for over thirty years. Specializing in nature and landscape photography, as well as studying native cultures.

His travels have taken him to most of the United States, as well as Australia, Belize, Egypt and the Canary Islands.

He has studied the Mayan culture of Central America as well as the aborigines of Australia. Photography has given him the opportunity to observe life in various parts of the world.

He has published several books about his adventures.

For more information, please consult his website,www.journeysthrulife.com.

Your comments are welcome

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Moving into Higher Consciousness

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December 21, 2012, marked the day we moved into a time of accelerated change and transformation. On this day the earth aligned with the galactic heart, or center of the Milky way.

This alignment, foretold by the ancient Maya and other native cultures, such as the Hopi, Cherokee, Hindu and others, activated the earth’s energy portals to all humanity and all living creatures on earth so they could increase the amount of light, higher consciousness, entering into  their beings.

This event only occurs every twenty-six thousand years as the earth completes its cycle through all the signs of the zodiac.

We are also completing a two thousand year cycle in which we are leaving the age of Pisces and entering the age of Aquarius.

All of this means we are leaving the third dimension and elevating to the fourth and fifth dimension.  A time when all souls, if they so choose can evolve to a higher level of thinking.

All the while we are moving from the third dimension of lower vibrations of fear, control, separation, and the human ego,  and move into  a time when we can awaken and release everything that no longer serves our good.

It is time to remember who you are and reconnect with your Christ Consciousness to fully embody all your power. This power can be used for good or evil, it is for each soul  to determine how they use the power.  But with the coming era, it will be easy for us to determine a person’s intent and those who wish us evil will be discovered and exposed.

We are entering a two thousand year cycle of enlightenment, where we can dissolve all our past karma. The Christ Consciousness is emerging into us and informing us that Christ is here to help, but he cannot save us.  We can only save ourselves.

Christ assists us by leading the way and if we follow his instruction, we will be shown how to enter into a new realm of consciousness where we will be more in tune with the higher levels of enlightenment whereby we can advance into the fifth dimension.

Not all will choose to partake in this endeavor, it is all according to the free will of the individual. Some will go, some will stay.

 The author has been a writer/ photographer for over 20 years, specializing in nature, landscapes and studying native cultures. Besides visiting most of the United States, he has traveled to such places as Egypt, the Canary Islands, much of the Caribbean. He has studied  the Mayan Cultures in Central America and the Australian Aboriginal way of life.Photography has given him the opportunity to observe life in many different parts of the world!

He has published several books about the various cultures he has observed.

For more information and a link to his hardcover and Ebooks, and contact information: please check his website, www.journeysthrulife.com.

Your comments appreciated

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Enlightenment

At this period of time in the history of man, there is probably more individual searching being done into the theories behind the origin of the human race,what happens after death,the possibility of life on other planets, and what our relationship is to these life forms, if they do exist. There are millions of people who are questioning the existence of God, who he really is, and what is my relationship with him? Is he someone who mysteriously floats around on a cloud watching and judging us from above like some bigger than life Santa Claus, or is he, like many of the esoteric sciences claim, a part of our inner Self, whom we have constant contact with, someone whom we and everything in the universe are connected and are thus one? Each of us in our own way is experiencing what God is, and thus we are each a part of God, thus we are God! This book is a brief account of my search for my own truth as I know it today, everything stated actually happened, according to my own perception. It has been an exciting search, at times very frustrating, very rewarding, and above all, very fulfilling. My main purpose in writing this book is to show that anyone, even a bashful unfamous country boy can have these awakenings, you don’t have to be rich or well-known to find your connection to Divine Source

Available in both hard copy and ebook format.