Jim Headrick's Blog

On Easter Sunday I watched “60 Minutes” as they interviewed an astrologist concerning the wonderful progress we have made in studying our universe. Another astrologist was interviewed and said that the big bag theory may not be right, because??

If we are awed by the size of our universe, how awed we will be of the size of heaven when Jesus comes to collect the believers. Science cannot explain eternity and does not even attempt to explain God.

God is in heaven which probably is a dimension a heart beat away. It is probably a dimension inside the dimension of heaven. Time and our developments can’t empress our God, but faith in Him does.

May God bless the doubters until they believe, then bless them even more for believing.

I thought I had gotten my point across until the shooting in Nashville, but it just didn’t sink in with the legislators in my home state of Tennessee. I haven’t said much about gun violence because I believed that some time and some how our politicians would get the real picture.

A weapon cannot be imagined or invented that can’t be out done by the next man or woman that just wants to do damage. The problem does not begin with what we have to use, but in the mind of the human being that invents or uses the weapon.

On this Easter weekend I am reminded of what Paul said when he declared our souls a citizens of heaven when we believe that Jesus is Son of God and was sent by God to redeem our souls. That is a statement of God’s love for us. You can kill my body but my soul is just hanging around to do God’s work for a time.

Our legislators seem to believe that they can control the violence by by letting weapon companies build more and better weapons. However, even if they were successful the devil would find another way to bring more disruptive elements to bare. The problem is they are not using God’s love to handle the problem.

There are people now in jail that should be in mental institutions. There are people in jail that had sound minds when they were incarcerated, but system of incarceration in Tennessee does not try to reform the thinking of incarcerated people.

We used to have a system that addressed mental health. It was a bad system, but at leased addressed that problem. Now we know so much more about mental problems, but we try to just address them only with pills. If we could convert the money we spend doing very little good on the real problem and stop this racist attitude present in our legislators nationwide, our world would change for the better.

God grant us wisdom and courage, Amen!