Presumably, everybody is interested in respect. For this reason, it is always the first thing I give everybody I ever meet. The problem is folk are not always very good at returning it, even people I've known nearly thirty years.
A lot of people figure me for a bum, since, although I attended Cornell University in the eighties, I have lived in public housing most of the last twenty-seven years and don't have good credit; I guess some people feel that just because you are needy, you only call to take advantage of them most of the time. I am, most assuredly, however, nothing of the kind. I don't have good credit, but there is a very good reason for this that is revealed in my new book "The Kingdom Seeker: the Diary of Saint Thomas the Divine," published by Authorhouse.
Anyway, what a lot of these people from Rhianna to Oprah Winfrey to Larry King to all my soi-disant friends and family had better understand about Tom Adams is that it's not money that buys my respect. What does buy it is how much you ever looked up to my Lord and Savior Jesus of Nazareth along with the beauty, the warmth, the sensitivity, and, possibly, just possibly any real talent any of you ever brought to the table, but, above all, how much any of you love holiness; these are the things that attract me to anyone in the first place, and only these things will keep me in the end, for I am not just anybody in this world! Is this clear?! To these folk I will say that don't noboby down here on earth give a damn about your big fancy degrees or your big fancy jobs or your big fancy names or your big fancy homes or anything else you've got buddyroos! Nothing you have or ever could have will ever matter more than any of these poor souls down here; what folk do care about is how much love you bring to the table for them, how well you respond to a friend that calls you after twenty years just to say hello and see how you are doing, and how you treat plain old ordinary folk - particularly poor people - that have never wished you anything but the greatest success! These are the things the Jesus many of these people so claim to love and adore cares about, okay! Is the above clear?
Anyway, if you just say the word "winner," a few times, you will at least see who all those were in this world, and with more than a hundred awards on my resume thirty years ago, I, Tom Adams, am definitely this!
Peace!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The Basic Requirements of Sainthood.
Did you know that a typical community college graduate has read an average of 14,600 books by the time they are six years old! But, how, you may ask, is this possible? It's possible because the typical children's book can be read in less than five minutes; if you read ten of these a day, seven days a week, three hundred sixty-five days a year between the ages of two and six, you will have read these many books. In Jesus Christ, this is the minimum you must read to be exalted to any kind of college graduate, let alone a Nobel Laureate.
If you have a baby, be sure to read ten books to it every day of the year for four years, after their second birthday. Beyond this, there are a few required books that Christians have to read to be considered a saint. These include, but are not limited to, the followiing: A good family health advisor; a good family legal advisor; both a visual and regular dictionary; a good encylopedia; and the Bible.
Additionally, do you realize that the typical Jewish child in olden times was able to speak Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic before they were even ten years old. A Christian saint, then, is a Christian that tries to read, speak, and write fluently in every language known on earth, memorizing each language's lexicon!
The point here is that, if you want sainthood, you have to concentrate on being a whole person. To do this you must focus on ten basic areas all your life. Besides the above, these are: faith, hope, charity, reading, writing, arithmetic, any of one or more art forms, any of one or more athletic forms, foreign languages, and humility. Seek that which is above - concentrate on these ten areas of life - and you will, indeed, go down in history saint!
See you all in heaven!
Peace!
If you have a baby, be sure to read ten books to it every day of the year for four years, after their second birthday. Beyond this, there are a few required books that Christians have to read to be considered a saint. These include, but are not limited to, the followiing: A good family health advisor; a good family legal advisor; both a visual and regular dictionary; a good encylopedia; and the Bible.
Additionally, do you realize that the typical Jewish child in olden times was able to speak Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic before they were even ten years old. A Christian saint, then, is a Christian that tries to read, speak, and write fluently in every language known on earth, memorizing each language's lexicon!
The point here is that, if you want sainthood, you have to concentrate on being a whole person. To do this you must focus on ten basic areas all your life. Besides the above, these are: faith, hope, charity, reading, writing, arithmetic, any of one or more art forms, any of one or more athletic forms, foreign languages, and humility. Seek that which is above - concentrate on these ten areas of life - and you will, indeed, go down in history saint!
See you all in heaven!
Peace!
Saturday, April 4, 2009
On Change
A lot of very intelligent, soi-disant, enlightened people have noted the fact that the gospels often times don't bring happiness. Everbody from Nietzchie to Joyce have noted the ineffectualness of Christians over the years. Why are there so many people that are atheists in a world where Jesus Christ is Lord?
In the above regard, I will simply note that men are not God that they should understand all things. For us it suffices simply to do as we are told. The reason many, even most, Christians wind up unhappy in life is that they see a world where sin is rampant and try to do something about it; they try to change people, even the whole world, not realizing that even God Himself, Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the greatest and most powerful individual in life, was unable to stop man from sinning. This is a prescription for total frustration only, my dear friend!
Look! No matter who you are, if you are ever born into a situation, even a whole world, that is bad, know that it is you that have to change, not someone else! To want to save sinners and the world is okay; but know that it is you that most become more disciplined, more refined, more perfect, more Christian, more holy, not anyone else in it! It is we Christians that must change, not the world! That can go to hell where it belongs!
The fact is that this faith of ours is only open to gods, for no mere man or woman would ever listen to Jesus Christ, and because men and women are not these, they will never listen to you. Only the sheep matter! Ah, but how do you tell a real sheep from all the false ones in among us? Simple! The sheep believed only in love, the way I did! The rest, even women, were wolves. All any of us who believe and who want to be of great service to Jesus can ever really do is present the Good News to the Jews and everyone else, but beyond this there is nothing; men and women will either believe or they won't believe.
Peace!
In the above regard, I will simply note that men are not God that they should understand all things. For us it suffices simply to do as we are told. The reason many, even most, Christians wind up unhappy in life is that they see a world where sin is rampant and try to do something about it; they try to change people, even the whole world, not realizing that even God Himself, Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the greatest and most powerful individual in life, was unable to stop man from sinning. This is a prescription for total frustration only, my dear friend!
Look! No matter who you are, if you are ever born into a situation, even a whole world, that is bad, know that it is you that have to change, not someone else! To want to save sinners and the world is okay; but know that it is you that most become more disciplined, more refined, more perfect, more Christian, more holy, not anyone else in it! It is we Christians that must change, not the world! That can go to hell where it belongs!
The fact is that this faith of ours is only open to gods, for no mere man or woman would ever listen to Jesus Christ, and because men and women are not these, they will never listen to you. Only the sheep matter! Ah, but how do you tell a real sheep from all the false ones in among us? Simple! The sheep believed only in love, the way I did! The rest, even women, were wolves. All any of us who believe and who want to be of great service to Jesus can ever really do is present the Good News to the Jews and everyone else, but beyond this there is nothing; men and women will either believe or they won't believe.
Peace!
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