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Text Box: Perhaps she has the thought her son is going to hell, and she will follow. Perhaps. Hopefully, she has such a thought. If she does, perhaps, just perhaps, she will make an attempt to avoid hell. But that would require a complete change of life style. Some of these mothers will deny this applies to them. After all, they go to church regularly. Why do they go to church, and what do they do when they are at church? Do they go to church to show off their finery, to make drug contacts, to get a free meal or other handout, or find another man to replace the one that just escaped from them? Do they actually worship God, or do they mainly just try to get something from God? It is impossible to force anyone to follow the Godly path. It must be a choice. But it is difficult to present that path as a choice when for the past fifty years women have been watching daytime soap operas which present a life style of infidelity, grasping for material things, betrayal of relationships, friendships, and obligations, partially for the sake of personal gain, and partially as a life style. It is difficult to present spirituality as the proper focus of life when daytime television game shows and women’s talk shows constantly present every material product which can be conceived as being the only desirable things; as being the goals which will solve all problems. And current afternoon and evening television programs are no better. Television is only part of the problem. But it has taught current mothers and their mothers to be materialistic to an extent beyond what they would have been without television. This materialism they have passed on to their children as they neglect the religious education of their children. After all, when a child is born out of wedlock, what value does wedlock have for the mother? What value does it have for the child, especially when the child has sibling after sibling born out of wedlock with different fathers? If the basic

Text Box: system established by God for human reproduction, education, protection, and rearing of children has been discarded by the mother, everything else established by God is held to be of no value as well. The Church and individuals who value God’s morality must oppose private and public systems which assist and encourage people to lead immoral lives. We must assist those who can not assist themselves, but only to the extent necessary, and where possible, such assistance must be tied to and conditioned on extensive effort on the part of those who receive the assistance. And yes, morality must be a requisite aspect of that assistance. Follow this line of thought: No morality, no assistance. No assistance, crime increases. Criminals are arrested, put in jail, and made to work in jail otherwise they do not eat and if they do not eat they do die, and crime decreases one way or the other. Hard. Yes. But if you can work and do not work in the real world you starve to death, and the real world was designed by God. Only as we require mothers to live more moral lives, and to teach their children morality, and require their children to lead moral lives, only then will we slowly hear, less and less often, “My boy was a good boy.” Perhaps we will hear, “My boy is a good boy, thank God.” Ref: Gal. 5:25-26; 6:1-10; Luke 7:11-16 +

Text Box: GOD’S GRACE CAN BE VOID We possess our abilities by the Grace of God, which is different from possessing God’s Grace. We really do not want God's Grace in us to be void. Before being Baptized we are deaf and dumb. We can neither sense spiritual good nor can we produce spiritual good. We can sense natural good and we can produce natural good, which is temporary because it applies to that which is temporary for it applies to this world. It may lead us to intellectually approach acknowledgment of the spiritual world, but it will be an acknowledgment of an incorrect spiritual world - one which does not exist - because our senses are not attuned to the real spiritual world and our intellect is not schooled in the true spiritual world. Without God’s Grace we are spiritually deaf and dumb. God’s Grace is usually first received in Baptism although in a few rare occasions, mainly in the early days of the Church, it has been received through reception of the Holy Spirit prior to Baptism. And we must also remember that the inspiration to learn of Christ and to study The Way taught by Christ, as well as the inspiration to become a member of the True Church and to be Baptized, are under the inspirational Grace of the Holy Spirit. It is with God’s Grace that our spiritual senses are activated and we can produce spiritual good. What if the man who was deaf and dumb, instead of praising God when he was cured, had begun telling dirty stories, or told lies about people he knew - perhaps to gain something, or to hurt them, or just because he desired so to do -, or started cursing those who had treated him shabbily when he could neither speak nor hear? Then he would have abused God’s gift, and while he could hear and speak, the

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