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Word for the Week - THE BROKEN CORD

I received an email from a business associate in New York. We were supposed to visit this week about a launch date for one of my books. She apologized for not following through. She emailed in part: ”Hello Johnny, I was going to contact you yesterday but honestly, my heart was too heavy. The overwhelming senseless loss of life lately is truly awful. I can see it in my own life. Friends I have had for most of my adult life are suddenly questioning our friendship all based solely on different political views. It’s just awful. I pray the angels in heaven will somehow show us the way to peaceful debates again”.

So there is a division because of a broken cord. Let’s visit about this.

Charlotte, North Carolina - A young woman from Ukraine, looking for a better life, boards a train heading home after taking care of some errands. A few minutes later, she is stabbed repeatedly. The young girl is left in her seat, bleeding, and horrified. She knows she’s been hurt, but that’s not her thought. Her confusion is – what just happened? Why did this man attack me? She might not have even known for sure she was stabbed, nor was she aware she was bleeding out. Silently, 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska slumps, dead within minutes. Why?

Orem, Utah - A man not much older than Iryna takes his seat under a portable white tent. He has a heart for young students. He does not use a gun or a knife. He chooses to use the instrument of words. He chooses to speak the Truth as best he can and to encourage others to dialogue with him, to prove him wrong when possible. He believes the Truth can permeate even the darkest thoughts.

Charlie Kirk’s influence is effective. He is holding court with 3,000 students hanging on every word. Charlie can be seen on a little platform, under his tent, in clear view from 22-year-old Tyler Robinson’s vantage point. The man has climbed a building 200 yards away, lying on a perch with his rifle and scope. He has decided to silence Charlie rather than debate him. At exactly, 12:23pm, Robinson squeezes the trigger. In a millisecond, Charlie is hit by the bullet - right after speaking of his faith in Jesus.

A cord has been broken in our nation which has brought division. What cord? The cord of Truth. When people leave Truth, division follows. Our nation is divided. We have been here before. In the Civil War, half the nation walked away from the Truth that no man should ever own another. Because the South walked away from that Truth, our nation divided. A Civil War ensued to decide if we would stand with the Truth or stand with a lie.

I am not writing about my truth or your truth. There is no such subjective thing. There is only the Truth. For years our nation was united in the Truth that life begins at conception. But half of our nation has moved away from that Truth, so now there is division. The Truth is that every person should be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. This is the Truth that united us thanks to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, but we have moved away from this and there is division.

The Truth is a man cannot become a woman, nor a woman a man. The history of civilization was once united in this Truth. But now a large percentage of our nation and world have moved away from the Truth - so there is division. The Truth is a person who wants to live, eat, and enjoy life should work and earn their own way if they are physically able. We once held to this Biblical mandate as a nation. We were in agreement. But many have left this Truth out of misplaced compassion, and there is division.

Truth can be found in the sacred unit of the Biblical family – husband, wife, children were once revered. As a result, our nation thrived. Now we have left this life-giving unit, and there is division especially in our own homes. The Truth is there is one God who reigns in Heaven, that God sent His Son Jesus to save us by dying for our sins and defeating death for us through His Resurrection. The Truth is God’s Word is inerrant, unchanging, authoritative, and the reference for all Truth.
Throughout the history of our nation, we believed this, and we righted our wrongs, we healed the breaches, and we reunited time and again. But now we have left God, His Son, His Word, saying all should do what is right in their own eyes, and there is a division for which we have no reference for healing.

Those who speak Truth are hated. Truth, God’s Word, is called Hate Speech and has been forbidden at every sector of society. Truth is not subjective. Truth is as irrevocable as gravity. DNA tells us the Truth. Mathematics tells us the Truth. Nature around us declares the Truth as all creation bows down before our shared Creator God.

The Truth - life is valuable. Life in the womb. Life on a Charlotte train. Life in the center of Utah Valley University. All Life which God gave. Pray with me that we return to the Truth as a nation. If we do, divisions will be sewn back together in unity and senseless murders will become a rarity.

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Word for the Week – HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CALF?
I made a big mistake with my cows the other day. I have Black Angus on our Ranch and a few Longhorns on our Farm. I breed my Longhorns to my Black Angus bull because they bring more money this way rather than breeding them to other Longhorns. As a result, every year, I take my Longhorn calves to the Ranch for dates with my big bull. The first step that I skip so often is, when I move the calves to be bred, I don’t pen them on my Ranch for a few days so they’ll get acclimated. Any wise rancher would instruct, you must let the calves get acclimated in a pen before releasing them. If you don’t, they’ll jump fences trying to get back to their mothers or their normal pasture.
Little Johnny seldom has the luxury of time to pen the calves up and then release them a few days later. So, I risk it. Most times I do so without consequence. But the other day, the rule proved true. I took the calf you see pictured to the Ranch. She was docile and sweet – around her mother that is. But when I put her at the Ranch, within an hour after I headed for home, she and another calf jumped my fence and were on the run. How do I know? Every ranch neighbor in Walnut Springs/Bosque County were calling me. You would not believe how many sightings these two calves had.
I hopped back in my truck after arriving in Houston to go back and see if I could corral my two wayward calves. At some point the two split. The blonde and white calf went one way, the black and white calf went the other. Like two criminals on the lam, these felt it would be harder to track them if they split up. They were right.
When I got to Walnut Springs, there were no sightings of the black and white calf. The blonde and white one had been seen at the Dollar General, at the Boot shop, near the lumber yard, in the Pullin’s backyard, in Mr. Hilliard’s pasture, running by the Mechanic’s house, jumping three fences, running through other rancher’s fields.
I called all my relatives who live near our Ranch to help me look for her. Cousin Barbara was on the lookout. My Cousin Charles was driving around looking for her. My brother Tracy searched in his truck. The Pullins left their supper to hunt for her, as did my neighbor Mr. Olson. Then my mechanic Mike started looking. A Spanish guy I didn’t know joined in the search. Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard sat out watching from their home. You have never seen so many people trying to help little Johnny find his calf. I say calf. Yes, there were 2 missing, but one must have caught a train out of Dodge. There was no sign of her after the first few hours of running with the blonde and white calf.
The constant refrain, “Have you seen this calf?” I had her picture. Nearly everyone I asked already knew who she was. No picture was needed. I got a call from Mr. A.J. Stewart two days later. He said, “I found your calf. She’s still very restless. Let’s give her a few days to settle down. She seems to be hanging close to my herd. When she starts to come up to feed with them, I’ll get her penned and you can come get her.” What a relief to at least find one. They could be pets, but this is not why I love them, They are money on four legs, a way Lori and I pay our bills. I don’t want to lose a calf anymore than I want to lose our debit card or check book.
What I found so assuring was how many people stopped what they were doing to help me find some missing calves. This is what people in a Christian nation do. They love the Lord. They love people. They do anything they can to help a neighbor. We have lost this I am afraid in our cities, and in huge swaths of our nation. How I pray we stop what we’re doing, and remember who God is and who we are, and then act accordingly. The people of Bosque County sure did.
And that other calf, the black and white one? I prayed for her. You will never believe where I found her. After running all over the county in the cloak of darkness. She showed back up on my Ranch. She had jumped many fences to leave it. She jumped the same number of fences to return to my pasture, one she had only been in a few hours on a Thursday before the great escape. How good is our God!
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Dr. Johnny Teague’s newest book, The Lost Diary of Lucrezia Borgia, Deathbed Confessions of the Pope’s Daughter is available now on Amazon or Histria Books for preorder. He is also the author of The Lost Diary of Mary Magdalene, The Lost Diary of Anne Frank, The Lost Diary of George Washington, small town/BIG LESSONS, Living Your Way Out of a Mess, Preaching Your Way Out of a Mess