Sin...

We sin...we fail, fall, slip, trip and slide into choices best left where found.

'For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.' Romans 3:23

We are infinitely temptable, impossibly illogical and full of the angst of remorse, regret and sorrowful recriminations....most of us...

Each one of us created with a fail-safe...a conscience....

Each one knowing the right and wrong of steps taken in this life...

Despite this, or perhaps because of it, some drown that still small voice dictating morality and ethics until nothing is left but a murmur so low it is lost, overcome, and overwhelmed by sounds of grief given, of pain perpetrated.

Cries of horror, screams of anguish, sound of bones breaking, blood spurting, breath squeezed from starving lungs, all becoming commonplace...

Remorse is replaced by rage, regret is supplanted by pleasure...

Power and control take over, a guiding star across oceans of evil intent...

So often in conversations lately I've heard 'it's a sin.'

Cheating is a sin...violence is a sin...abuse is a sin...

It isn't that I am not in agreement, however, it seems a catch all for wrong-doing...a repository for sad stories, for hellish moments spent in company of individuals bent on harming others, however that looks.

A get-out-of-jail-free card...

I'll share something with you that is not in any way, or shouldn't be, a revelation, an epiphany, regarding these hollowed-out creatures that stalk the strong and weak alike.

They do not care.

Not one sh*t is given if their actions are sinful...not one moment is taken to reflect upon their mortal souls in light of all that transpires within their circle of monstrous actions.

'The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.' Psalms 14

THEY are god's in their own mind...above law set out on ancient scrolls, written by men far wiser, existing in an age of war and pestilence, famine and religious laws so stringent stoning by the masses was a frightenly common occurrence.

They fear not reprisal from man nor God above...but oh, do they dabble in occult when it suits. My monster Dave in particular loved to brag of his Portuguese-born mother being a witch, their bloodlines running long on dark practices and Voodoo; even stating that HE was more powerful and God was no match for their master. Ah the arrogance...

There is a special place in hell (once again one has to believe in this truth to feel a surfeit of conscience) for those who harm the innocent, the downtrodden, the mother and child...

Psalm 11:6

'Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.'

Sin...morality...ethical practices...humanity...all dictating, enforcing and waiting to place arrogant fools such as dave ponte under the boot heel of justice. How the mighty (in their own mind) will fall.

Dear treasures...put your safety first and listen to the murmurings of your heart and soul telling you to run...it is NEVER too late to start again, to live in peace without fear of death or worse...

My prayer for you today is one of strength, of courage, of providing a way for the lost to escape the invisible bars of that cage holding them captive. May God set a path before you and safely ferry you away.

Stand strong my friends...life awaits you, love awaits you, hope, love and peace await you.