Early look at a possible DEMOCRATIC PARTY ticket, cabinet & agency heads

A Possible Democratic Ticket

Bernie Sanders – President

George Clooney – Vice President

Cabinet

Hillary – Secretary of State

Obama, B. – Secretary of Defense

Pelosi, N. – Homeland Security

Kagan, E. – Attorney General

Richards, Cecile – Health & Human Services

Geitner, T. – Treasury

Emanuel, R. – Labor

Warren, Eliz. – Interior

Reid, H. – Veterans Administration

Holder, E. – Housing & Urban Development

Durbin, D. – Transportation

Frank, B. – I R S

Axelrod, D. – Education

Stewart, Jon – Justice

Agencies, Bureaus, and newly-created Commissions

Gore, A. – Environmental Protection Agency

Carter, J. - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

Winfrey, O. – Political Correctness Enforcement Commission

Huffington, A. – Progressive Agenda Enforcement Commission

Baquet, D.– Conservative Media Suppression (an FCC unit)

Rice, S. – Women’s Affairs (a Labor Department commission)

Sotomeyer, S. – Minority Affairs (a Labor Department commission

Early Look at a Possible REPUBLICAN PARTY ticket with Cabinet

A Possible Republican Party Ticket

Donald Trump – President

Marco Rubio – Chief of Staff

Carly Fiorina – Vice President

Meg Whitman – Chief of Staff

Cabinet

Bush – Secretary of State

Graham – Defense

Perry – Homeland Security

Christie – Attorney General

Carson – Health & Human Services

Kasich – Treasury

Jindal – Labor

Pataki – Interior

Huckabee – Veterans Administration

Paul – Housing and Urban Development

Santorum – Transportation

I R S – abolished

Education - abolished

Pathways to Union with Jesus, a new book

Pre-announcement for new book release from Archdeacon Books

Pathways to Union with Jesus

William Wilson, an assisting bishop in the Anglican Diocese of the South of the Anglican Church in North America, has written this book about our day-to-day spiritual life and its necessary disciplines.

The book details practical exercises that believers should use and how “not to overdo it.”

Release date is the first week in November, 2015

An excerpt

With regard to gifts of ministry, the rule for discernment is simple: Listen to the church. Ministry gifts are powers to serve the community of faith given by the Spirit to the individual to build up the church. These gifts will be recognized and encouraged by the church. The church will tell you if you have the gift of teaching, or song, or administration, or liturgical leadership, or spiritual counseling, or healing prayer, etc. There is no need to trumpet your gifts of ministry. The gifts the Spirit gives speak for themselves.

Even if – as sometimes happens – the church fails to recognize and utilize your gifts of ministry, do not become resentful. Accept the humiliation. So doing you will advance in likeness to Christ, whose gifts of ministry the leaders of His people did not recognize. God will open other doors of ministry for you when your church group fails to receive your gifts.

New Books Preliminary Announcement

The publishing imprint of Woody Norman LLC, Archdeacon Books, will publish two new books in early November, 2015.

KAIROS PRISON MINISTRY is authored by Ken Dawson. Serving in prison ministry for more than twenty-five years, Dawson writes about his ministry and relationships with prison inmates. He also writes about how Kairos Ministry works and its history. A memoir, the book chronicles his own life and the life and death struggle of his youngest son.

THE EVOLUTION OF DECISION MAKING is a book by Jacques L. Austin. A Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor, and a Nationally Certified Counselor, Austin is a therapist, speaker and author. Mr. Austin has extensive experience in working with the 6A (Addicted, Adjudicated, Angry, Abusive, Adult and Adolescent) population. He has been lauded for his ability to connect with people offering a perspective for change that is relational and realistic.

Both books will be available for purchase online beginning November 2, 2015 from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Books-a-Million.

Today’s Elusive Bagel

Today’s Elusive Bagel

It was mid-morning, shall we say?

When an urge for a plain, toasted bagel

Took on me its sway

As I walked away from my work table.

Into my wheels I drove as if star struck

By a compelling logic

To the closest Starbucks

For a tall java and my bagel-eating project.

“But no,” said the barista

“We’re out of bagels today.”

So back on the 150 I drove eastward,

Heading for the next long-locks Siren on the way.

Upon positioning into a parking space

I was suddenly be-mused

By the store's remodeling at a leisurely pace.

It being closed, I descended into the blues.

One more chance as mid-morning about to close,

Into the Mall trotted I to the caffeinated stand,

An aromatic arabica brew filled my nose,

But there, too, no bagels were on hand.

“Why not,” said I to the polite young server?

“You’re the third store with bagels unoccupied.”

“Didn’t you know,” said the smiling, customer-oriented worker,

“The batches of bagels were compromised?”

Now what to do?

It’s approaching time for lunch.

With so many minutes and miles that I blew,

I’ll go to Panera’s and call it brunch.

Topsy Turvy

Topsy Turvy

It seems our political life

Is out of control.

All this fight and strife

Is getting old.

Is there calm ahead,

Or must we continue to tarry?

What seems like an endless thread

Of bickering is becoming more difficult to carry.

An energetic new face

Could bring hope out of hiding.

Not from the right in this case,

From the left, his time he’s a-Biden.

Love Present and Future

  

Not one of us knows our future,

But actually we do,

From our Maker there will be no suture,

When toward His Son we pursue.

All that He made is through love,

All that we have is His gift.

In all our denials we shove

Aside His love and we drift.

Heaven and earth crossed in nexus

When Mary delivered her child

To a sinful world, He perplexed us,

For all His strength He was meek and mild.

Enlightenment, modernity, and reason,

Make claim as superior to all.

Self-contained and a finite different season,

At the Renewal they will fall.

Principalities, dominions, and thrones

Claim powers for their region.

For all their murderous groans

Are infected, they are Legion.

Good and evil each lives,

And not simply as differences of opinion.

Good is what God gives,

Evil is Satan, sin’s minion.

Use your gift of reason

Not to resist your Creator,

But to avoid your eternal treason,

And accept the love of your Diaconal Waiter.