“Discovering The Untold Truths About Life”
Introduction – Discovering The Unknown Truths about Life is dedicated to the peace of God. Isaiah 26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. There’s times we underestimate the cost to be privileged with the peace of God.
Peace – freedom from disturbance.
How do we discover the peace of God? God’s peace shows error, and gives wisdom for correction.
“A life of righteousness is what the Father desires all to live.” Old ways of living are transformed into new ways of living. God gives the tool of management for the purpose of finding balance. And grace is given freely to apply management to our everyday living. Management – the act or skill of controlling and making decisions regarding any person, place, or thing. The body, mind, and soul has to be mastered. Nothing happens outwardly until it takes place inwardly. Psalm 31:1 In You, O Lord, I put my trust; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in Your righteousness.
“Peace births freedom.
Freedom – the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
“The Zone Of Immaturity”
Immaturity – the state of being immature or not fully grown.
As a child I was introduced to an error of sexual misconduct within a Faith Based Organization you’d think was a safety zone of righteousness, which led me down a dark path of bad decisions and pain. Sexual Misconduct – unwelcome behaviour of a sexual nature that is committed without consent or by force, intimidation, coercion or manipulation. The spirit of confusion flooded my mind, opening up my soul to sex, drugs, and money. By the age of seventeen I’d given birth to three wonderful children, giving birth to seven in total;” all birthed out of wedlock, leaving me with five in which are rightfully mine. Wedlock – born when one’s parents are not married.
Let’s get some insight on Faith Based Organizations, edited by Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Cases : Cases of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, nuns and members of religious orders, and subsequent cover-ups, in the 20th and 21st centuries have led to numerous allegations, investigations, trials and convictions. The abused include boys and girls, some as young as 3 years old, with the majority between the ages of 11 and 14.[1][2][3][4] The accusations began to receive isolated, sporadic publicity in the late 1980s. Many of these involved cases in which a figure was accused of abuse for decades; such allegations were frequently made by adults or older youths years after the abuse occurred. Cases have also been brought against members of the Catholic hierarchy who covered up sex abuse allegations and moved abusive priests to other parishes where abuse continued.[5][6]
By the 1990s, the cases began to receive significant media and public attention in some countries, especially in Ireland, Canada, Australia, and the United States and were widespread by the 2000s. Members of the Church’s hierarchy have argued that media coverage was excessive and disproportionate, and they have also argued that such abuse also takes place in other religions and institutions.[7] A series of television documentaries in the 1990s, such as “Suffer the children” (UTV, 1994), brought the issue to national attention in Ireland.[8] A critical investigation by The Boston Globe in 2002 led to widespread media coverage of the issue in the United States, which was later dramatized in Tom McCarthy’s film Spotlight in 2015. By 2010, much of the reporting focused on abuse in Europe[9][10] and Australia.
From 2001 to 2010 the Holy See, the central governing body of the Catholic Church, considered sex abuse allegations involving about 3,000 priests dating back fifty years.[11] Cases reflect worldwide patterns of long-term abuse as well as the church hierarchy’s pattern of regularly covering up reports of alleged abuse.[note 1] Diocesan officials and academics knowledgeable about the Roman Catholic Church say that sexual abuse by clergy is generally not discussed, and thus is difficult to measure.[12][13]
Some studies claim that priests in the Catholic Church may not be any more likely than other men to commit abuse.[11][14][15][16] In addition, the studies claim that the rate of abuse by priests had fallen sharply in the last twenty to thirty years, and that some 75% of the allegations in the United States were of abuse between 1960 and 1984.[11] However, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found that the average time it took between a victim of Catholic sexual abuse being abused and reporting it, or seeking redress, is 33 years.[17] For this reason there is insufficient data to be able to accurately ascertain current rates of child sex abuse, or to claim that abuse in the Catholic Church has fallen in recent decades. The Commission revealed 7% of Australian priests between 1950–2009 were accused of abusing children, and that one Catholic order had 40.4% of their non-ordained members with allegations against them in this period.[18][17]
“The struggle is real.” Out of an act of protection I’d given my twin daughters over to a couple at nine months of age, which was the last edition of the family. I understand the mind of a child because I once was one. It has and still is challenging for me to accept this decision. It’s not about me or their caretakers;” it’s about those innocent little girls who didn’t ask to be here. God’s in control. Control – the power to influence or direct people’s behavior or the course of events. God knows, sees, and hears what we don’t.
Studies show the rate of nonmarital births has increased rapidly. In 1970, about 11 percent of all births were to unmarried parents; by 1990, that figure rose to 28 percent. By 2013, around 41 percent of all U.S. births—roughly 1.6 million births per a year—were to unmarried parents.1) The largest share of nonmarital births are to women aged 20 through 24 years. Unlike in past decades, most out-of-wedlock births today—58 percent—are to cohabiting couples.2) Therefore, while a majority of these children have their biological mother and father present at birth, many spend most of their life in a single-parent family.
From the very beginning, children born outside of marriage have life stacked against them. While many single mothers work wonders and raise their children well despite the obstacles they encounter, for many others the challenge is too great and their children suffer the consequences. This entry draws heavily from Rising Illegitimacy: America’s Social Catastrophe.
Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Being a single parent isn’t easy!! I robbed Peter to pay Paul, and Mary to make sure Sue was paid on time. The Government repeatedly denied me of my rights for Child Support Services, and the father didn’t know how to step up to his responsibilities as a father, because he’s a victim himself to a fatherless child. How can an individual become better without first knowing how to become better? Written by Nicole Caccavo Kear : Single motherhood comes with a unique set of emotional challenges that can, at times, feel overwhelming. “It’s like hiking the Appalachian Trail with a heavy backpack,” says Amelia Shaw, an American mother of two young daughters living in Tijuana, Mexico. “The backpack has your essential stuff in it and weighs you down sometimes. When you take it off (say, by hiring a babysitter), for the first half hour you feel light and free. And then your body starts to crave that weight, and you feel anxious until you can put it back on.” Money is the root to all forms of evilness if we love it. 1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
How did I cope?
Drugs and alcohol gave me the ability to escape reality. AlcoholRehab.com says: It is well established that the effects of stress can damage people’s mental and physical well-being. It is not so much that stress is bad, but that people have an inability to deal with it effectively. One of the ways that the individual may attempt to manage their stress is by using alcohol or drugs. This type of self-medication can provide temporary relief, but is ultimately self-defeating. It can mean that the individual will have more stress in their life than ever, but they will have even less of an ability to handle it. There are different techniques that people can use so that they are better able to handle stress.
What do you do when you’ve done all you know how to do, and nothing seems to get better? We’ve lived in hotels,motels, in the homes of others, and a shelter practical all our lives, unable to accumulate enough of funds to establish a home of our own. It’s so discouraging living in the homes of others. They’ll treat you in such a way they wouldn’t want to be treat as. Luke 6:31 And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise. The hotels and motels were infested with bed bugs half of the time constantly feeding on our flesh, bedding was used over and over again without practicing sanitary procedures, and appliances were outdated. Shelters aren’t doing any better in fulfilling their humanitarian duties. They’re awarded funds and items, which are being mismanaged. They supply Clients with expired items and supplies, keeping the ones that are up to date for themselves.
The American Red Cross spent a quarter of the money people donated after the 2010 Haiti earthquake — or almost $125 million — on its own internal expenses, far more than the charity previously had disclosed, according to a report released Thursday by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley.
This story was reported in partnership between NPR News Investigations and ProPublica, an investigative journalism organization.
The report also says the charity’s top officials stonewalled congressional investigators and released incomplete information about its Haiti program to the public. It concludes “there are substantial and fundamental concerns about [the Red Cross] as an organization.”
The report follows a nearly yearlong investigation by the Iowa Republican and his staff, launched after coverage by NPR and ProPublica of the Red Cross’ Haiti response. The venerated charity raised nearly $500 million after the disaster, more than any other nonprofit, but an ambitious plan to build housing resulted in just six permanent homes, NPR and ProPublica found.
Other findings in Sen. Grassley’s report:
The charity insisted to congressional investigators that $70 million spent on “program expenses” included funds to oversee and evaluate its Haiti programs. But Grassley’s office found that the charity “is unable to provide any financial evidence that oversight activities in fact occurred.”
Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern told Grassley’s office the charity “gave [the Government Accountability Office] everything that they asked for” during an earlier review. The report, however, says the organization did not provide everything requested, “contrary to Ms. McGovern’s multiple claims that it did.
“The Red Cross has kept the charity’s own internal investigations and ethics unit “severely undermanned and underfunded,” the report says, and the charity “appears to be reluctant to support the very unit that is designed to police wrongdoing within the organization.” Article continues after sponsorship
Red Cross officials defended the charity’s work in a statement responding to the Grassley report, calling the organization’s spending “entirely justifiable given the size and complexity of the Haiti program.” They also noted that the Red Cross receives favorable ratings for accountability from charity watchdog groups.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, arrives for a committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Feb. 23.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in an interview that even after a year of back-and-forth with the Red Cross, “we did not get satisfactory answers — like pulling teeth, it was very difficult.”
The Red Cross, including McGovern, repeatedly has told the public that all but 9 percent of donations spent go to humanitarian programs. But Grassley’s office found that 25 percent of donations sent to Haiti — or nearly $125 million — were spent on fundraising and management, a contingency fund and the catchall category the Red Cross calls “program expenses.”
The Red Cross sent the bulk of the remaining donated money to other nonprofits to do the work on the ground. Those other nonprofits then took their own cuts — as high as 11 percent — for their own expenses.
“The most important thing [from the report] is an unwillingness to level with the people exactly where the money went,” Grassley says. “There’s too many questions in regard to how the money was spent in Haiti … it gives me cause to wonder about other money being donated for other national disasters.”
“One of the reasons that they don’t want to answer questions is it’s very embarrassing,” Grassley adds.
In its statement, the American Red Cross notes that it has not yet seen Grassley’s report, but that the organization and McGovern have been transparent, and that donors’ money was properly spent. The statement also notes “the scale of the destruction and the challenging and sometimes dangerous conditions of working in Haiti.”
The Red Cross, created by a congressional charter more than a century ago, receives a range of special benefits from the U.S. government.
Here are more details from the report:
The Red Cross Didn’t Explain How Money Was Spent
In general, the Red Cross itself doesn’t know how much money it spent on each project in Haiti because of a “complex, yet inaccurate” accounting system, the report found.
The report echoes the confidential findings of consultants hired by the Red Cross, which previously were reported by NPR and ProPublica. One internal evaluation of one of the group’s water and sanitation projects found there was “no correct process for monitoring project spending.” Another assessment found that the group’s figures on how many people were helped by a hygiene project were “fairly meaningless.”
Documents provided by the Red Cross suggest that the charity sometimes spent large sums of money on management costs even when it enlisted other organizations to run relief operations.
In Search Of The Red Cross’ $500 Million In Haiti Relief
SPECIAL REPORT: THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
In Search Of The Red Cross’ $500 Million In Haiti Relief In 2010, the American Red Cross wrote check for $4.3 million to its sister organization the International Federation of the Red Cross for disaster preparedness work. On top of the $4.3 million, according to budget figures the charity provided to Grassley, the American Red Cross spent another $2 million on its own to manage the grant. That’s after it already took out hundreds of thousands of dollars in administrative fees.
Partners like the IFRC typically take out their own overhead and administrative costs before using the money to help Haitians.
When asked what the $2 million was used for, the Red Cross said it covered the costs “incurred to ensure accountability, monitoring and evaluation of work performed and ensure our partners meet their contractual requirements.”
“It’s sort of a shocking amount of money,” said Jake Johnston, a research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, who has spent years digging into the Red Cross’ finances. “Maybe a little bit more than half that ends up going to a project.”
Investigators’ Questions Go Unanswered
The report lists eight examples of things the Red Cross declined to provide to government investigators working for the GAO as part of an inquiry that began in 2014. Those include descriptions of the charity’s internal oversight processes, as well as interviews with chapter officials involved in the response to Superstorm Sandy.
In its statement, the Red Cross says that “at no point did the Red Cross refuse to provide requested information.” But Grassley’s report calls that claim “contrary to the documentary evidence.”
McGovern has portrayed the Red Cross as a beacon of openness. “We made a commitment that we want to lead the effort in transparency,” she said at the National Press Club in 2011.
American Red Cross President and CEO Gail McGovern attends a roundtable with President Obama regarding the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Aug. 27, 2015.
Andrew Harnik/AP Grassley also says that, as NPR reported last year, McGovern tried to kill the GAO investigation — and that while the Red Cross couldn’t kill the investigation, its “lack of cooperation led GAO to modify its scope.”
In meetings and email correspondence over several months, Red Cross General Counsel David Meltzer questioned GAO’s legal authority to look at the Red Cross.
The Red Cross argued that investigators’ “requests for internal decision-making, internal oversight, and internal funding allocation are outside of GAO’s authority,” according to the GAO’s account.
The Red Cross Undercut Its Own Ethics Unit
The Red Cross has about 20,000 employees, but its ethics office — which investigates waste, fraud and abuse — is composed of three people, according to the Grassley report. That is down from roughly 65 staffers after Hurricane Katrina a decade ago, the report says.
The Office of Investigations, Compliance and Ethics was left so “understaffed and underfunded” that it is “unable to perform its primary function; namely, to perform investigations, ensure compliance, and maintain ethical standards,” the report found.
The report doesn’t explain why the size of the office was slashed, but it does note that the Red Cross sometimes relies on outside law firms to conduct internal investigations.
One of the three remaining employees, the “compliance coordinator,” performs only intakes and triages and does not actually do investigations. Another, the chief investigator, is based in New York, away from Red Cross headquarters in Washington.
1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken hold of you but such as is common to man. But God is faithful; He will not suffer you to be tempted beyond that which ye are able to bear, but with the temptation will also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Fighting and violence became one of my most engaged hobbies. Nuggets4u.wordpress.com has some interesting knowledge about acts if becoming “bitter.”Bitterness defiles others. As a child, you could have been exposed to someone else’s Bitterness. The principality in that person wanted to connect with you and did or said something to make you a victim. Now there is a spirit on assignment immediately in conjunction with the spirit operating in the other person. What is the first thing that comes into you when someone wrongs you? Unforgiveness. Bitterness is the strong man and the first piece of armor he trusts in is Unforgiveness. He is banking on the fact that once Unforgiveness is part of your life, you are never going to forgive and he is going to have his place and his habitation in you and remind you, rehash what was done to you; project it and torment you.
After Unforgiveness has done its fermenting work in your life, then the strongman sends out another spirit to reinforce it. Resentment. It stands on the foundation of Unforgiveness. The record of wrongs is now fermenting. A spirit of Resentment fuels the fermentation of Unforgiveness. It accentuates and accelerates. This is the beginning of a permanent breach. Many times Unforgiveness is an intellectual thought because it is in the memory but Resentment comes like fuel to the fire. You feel Resentment in your innermost being.
After Unforgiveness and Resentment have gained their foothold, the next spirit the strong man sends out to be armor for himself is Retaliation. This spirit is much more dangerous than the former spirits. It is progressive hierarchy. This reality probably accounts for 99% of mankind’s problems. What is reinforcing Retaliation? Resentment. What is fueling Resentment? Unforgiveness. What is the root of it all? Bitterness. There is an entire kingdom of evil spirits, each one manifesting by its own nature.
When Retaliation has established itself within you, there is another spirit that Bitterness sends out to reinforce the other three. That is Anger and Wrath. Unforgiveness, Resentment and Retaliation can be hidden, but Anger starts to show physically. Anger and Wrath never occur unless Unforgiveness, Resentment and Retaliation have been festering for some time. You get angry because of the breach, the hurt and the victimization that allowed Unforgiveness, Resentment and Retaliation to get their foothold. This is a fermentation stage for a physiological open statement against another. Retaliation is internalized long before the act of getting even. Retaliation sets the stage to produce the elimination of a person in relationship. It is the root behind all family splits, all division, and all breakups of human relationships.
After Anger and Wrath has gained his foothold, Hatred comes. Hatred not only has the root of Bitterness, but it is being fueled by Unforgiveness, Resentment, Retaliation, and Anger and Wrath. Now begins the stage of elimination of the person that you hold in Unforgiveness. When you see Hatred in a person, you know Anger is there, Retaliation is there, Resentment is there, Unforgiveness is there and Bitterness is there and he is trusting in his armor. Bitterness is banking on the fact that when you are ready to forgive, Unforgiveness will pull up flash cards of voices, sights, sounds and smells reminding you of what they did to you.
The sixth level of Bitterness is Violence. Violence is Anger in motion because it is not just emotional anymore; it is not just spiritual; it has now become physical. You can see Violence in everyday life in families. This is the progression of the breakup of human relationship out of Bitterness. Bitterness is banking on the fact that this progression in your life is going to keep him in place, and these spirits are able to generate their nature in you and also in others to fuel this thing back and forth.
The seventh spirit that completes the full plan of the devil for destruction out of this strong man of Bitterness is Murder. The spirit of Murder is not just physical murder. Murder can be found in the heart, because the conclusion of the spirit of Bitterness is the elimination of the person on all levels. It is the breach that is the problem.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: Matthew 15:19
The world is filled with Murder, anarchy, division, sedition, Violence and Bitterness. It is in our nation, our churches, our families and it is in our personal lives. You are the target of this strongman Jesus was talking about in Luke 11. If he gets into your heart and he sets up his throne within your life, he is the strong man, he is armed, and he keeps his palace. If you, from your heart do not forgive your brother his trespasses which produce Bitterness, your Father which is in heaven cannot or will not forgive you yours. We have to eliminate this strong man in order to be free.
It’s never too late for healing!!
The Untold Truths About Life 