Dear Father,
Thank you for this day. Not a lot is going on. I’m on my first break after my first Warframe session. Yesterday and the day before I didn’t have access to Warframe. It was fine. I wanted to play it, but it was okay that I couldn’t. So I waited two days, and then when I turned on my PS4, I had to wait 1.5 hours for an update. I guess.. You are showing me that you allow me to play Warframe, that without you I can’t do it.
I got Oberon Prime, but didn’t really like the way his Prime helmet looked. It reminded me of a sacred bull, and I don’t like that. Granted, now he looks like a non-Prime frame. I’m not as obsessed over it, but You heard my prayer for it. Constantly leveling frames means upgrading mods more and more, which is draining my in game credits (not platinum, which is the mid-currency, bought with real money).
I need to take care of that Hobby Lobby thing, as well as getting my new glasses. I’ll probably keep my old ones until I know that the new ones fit right. Not that I have to do those immediately, but time is moving forward.
M. doesn’t want the thing at Hobby Lobby, for her own reasons. I understand, and she is making more at ACE than she would at a part-time job. Meanwhile, I’m getting more hours this week, which is great. It seems everyone is being stretched thinner and thinner. Money doesn’t go as far as it used to. I guess that’s inflation, but what causes inflation? Is it because we have more money than we have to back it? Is it a bank thing?
I know that banks make money off money (interest/usury). In the Middle Ages, usury was forbidden. That’s why Hebrew people would become bankers, because they are allowed in the Mosaic Law to charge interest to foreigners, and not their own people. This has caused a lot of animosity toward them over the centuries. Still, they have contributed so much to the world, not just through the bible, but also a lot of top scientists, doctors, actors, and every other field, have a lot of highly skilled Jewish people.
There are a lot of Jewish people in Hollywood, and now Hollywood is wicked, but they used their influence to affect positive change like the civil rights movement. Many of the scientists in the Manhattan Project were Jews, fled from Germany and its allied nations. If Hitler hadn’t turned on the Jews, he might’ve ruled the world. I think we can see from the fruit of his governance that he was put into power and then used by the devil to hurt the Jewish people, as well as a lot of other people and people groups.
So, after the LGBTQ rights movement, I had hoped people would work on the rights of mentally ill. Better facilities, more access to medicine they need, access to doctors, temporary housing, jobs, etc., while they recover. That hasn’t happened. People can’t help their genes. Mental illness is highly based on genetics, and when sufficient trauma or stress is applied, the illnesses manifest. If people are “born that way” and I’m not saying that they are, then shouldn’t people whose genes make them vulnerable to debilitating illnesses be treated with respect and compassion? Many are homeless, held in chemical restraints by hospitals who only want to contain them, not heal them. Others have turned to drugs or alcohol to manage something they can’t fix on their own.
I know this isn’t going to happen in our culture, but there must be something I can do to point in that direction.
To show that broken lives matter. Why aren’t our politicians working on this? Why aren’t we, in our communities, supporting healing and understanding? I know it’s scary to be around a sick person, but most of them are harmless, simply confused, full of delusions and compulsions. They can be treated, cheaply, effectively, and if they stay on their meds (which I have except for one exception in my life), they can be examples to the community. Paying taxes, working (although some are limited in what they can do), contributing to society. I think that people who recover from mental illness are some of the most kind, patient, and loving people you will ever meet.
Well, that’s my two cents.
Trem