- You have nothing to surrender to God but stupidity.
- You have nothing to turn over to God but trying and failing.
- You did not learn to walk; you learned not to try to walk.
- You did not learn to play the piano; you learned to try to play the piano less and less until you stopped trying and received the gift of mastery.
- No one has, or can, contribute anything to God, because all good (ethics, intelligence, talent) comes from God.
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Saturday, December 6, 2025
Trying Is the Game of Fools: 12-06-2025
Friday, December 5, 2025
To Know or Not to Know? That Is the Question: 12-05-2025
- Your knowings are your coffins. You have many coffins and graves because you are many dead selves.
- What am I knowing? It is a question that leads to death because you never know, and to claim to know, you must be something (dead ego, self-esteem).
- I must know what I am knowing because that is what I am being. This adult reasoning leads to death because when you are being knowing, you are being dead concepts and images.
- I must know what I am knowing compared to what others are knowing, because I will rate higher or lower than the knowings they are being.
- Your dead self-constructions are like sticks being compared to other sticks, such that they only exist in a collection of and comparison with other dead sticks. You must always care what others think of you when you are in your ego (self-esteem, pride, self-constructions, thought-things).
Grace Is a Gift from God: 12-04-2025
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.” —Ephesians 2:8-9
- Faith without grace is fake and false.
- Belief without grace is fake and false.
- Faith and belief are gifts that only come through grace.
- There is no merit system you can use to earn your way into Heaven or out of Hell (Purgatory does not exist and was made up by cowards afraid to stand up for the truth of eternal Hell, who did not understand that Hell is the memory of the nature of flesh).
- Those who claim their acts of faith and belief saved them are the enemies of God. They often quote the Bible where it says “that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”—Romans 10:9. They lack the understanding that faking it, doing it manually, doing it perfunctorily, doing it formally, repeating it a thousand times, or repeating it as a prayer cannot work. The grace of God must do it through you.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Being Knowing, Being Dead: 12-03-2025
- “I was there when it happened” is all you can ever say, because you did and do nothing but host.
- Being the act of knowing something or someone makes you something, makes you a dead thing, a self-construction.
- You seek your own death as being the knowing of something instead of living as a vessel that hosts knowing and doing.
- You want to be the act of knowing something, whether it is an action or a thing. You want this to serve your pride and destroy your soul (inner life) as things.
- Stop all your claims to know anything and confess that you never have and never will know anything, but can only host knowing that you are never the source for.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
There Is No Effort: 12-02-2025
“For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.” —Isaiah 30:15
- There is no effort to be real.
- There is no effort to be yourself.
- There is an effort to be ego and self-constructions.
- There is nothing to do to be yourself but rest in God.
- There is nothing to do to be yourself but a return to how you were born.
- Being a living host is natural and normal for we are made in the image of God. All striving to become is striving to die as mental and semantic things.
Monday, December 1, 2025
Death by Design: 12-01-2025
- You are dead seeking to be dead again.
- You seek your own death by seeking to become something because you want to claim to be something.
- You seek your own death by seeking to know something because you want to be a thing that claims to know.
- You seek your own death by seeking to do something because you want to be a thing that claims to do.
- You are already dead as something (a self-construction), and you seek to make that death into more and other things (ego, self-esteem), resulting in death about death.
- Know your place and live as a being that hosts, enjoys hosting, and shares what it hosts to uplift others, not as dead things trying to appear superior to other dead things.
You Cannot Get It: 11-30-2025
- You will not get it.
- It will not come to them over time.
- You will never get it on your own.
- They will never get it on their own.
- Failing hard or harder will not give it to them.
- It is a gift you do not deserve and can never earn.