One of my quirks is to wonder about the origin of various idioms. An idiom is "an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements. Such as 'kick the bucket' or 'hang your head'. ( from Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.)

I have been pondering an idiom Pastor Ted Haggard tweeted about last week, He was commenting that he had "Fallen into Grace" during his personal restoration process. Its gotten me to meditate on the common idiom "Fallen From Grace". (That phrase is from the New Testament letter to the Galatians, chapter 5) The phrase "fallen from grace" is commonly used to mean that someone has done something to loose respect or position. It is understood to mean .a return to bad behavior following good behavior. Evangelical Christians commonly understand the phrase to mean that someone has messed up badly enough (or publicly enough) to embarrass themselves or the Church. The phrase usually carries a pejorative tone condemning the persons
behavior as irretrievable or at least worthy of our discipline. The common understanding however, I think, is actually the opposite of what the bible contends. I think to misunderstand this idiom is to
misunderstanding the Bibles idea of Grace. The writer to the Early Church (in Galatians 5) was trying to convey an opposite understanding of grace.

The original "fall from grace" was Adams, when he chose the (tree of the) Knowledge of Good and Evil instead of the Tree of Life (with God). When we experience the "Grace" that the God of the universe offers, we enter into a fully trusting relationship with a Lover. Our Creator is our gracious Lover who entices us to live in the freedom of His forgiveness. When we turn to our Knowledge of Good and Evil, we accept rules and regulations that hold us to the consequences of our actions. Adam (and we) turn from our Lovers ennobling embrace to the Cold arms of a deceiving whore (Knowledge of Good and Evil). The lie that entices us is that we can be or do good, from somewhere inside ourselves. That we can keep ourselves from falling.

I see that Adam truly "Fell from Grace" when he turned away from Gods Grace and accepted the, knowledge of good and evil, in place of relationship (life and forgiveness) with his Lover, God. I think his fall from Grace was when he made his own covering and hid from God. He felt the "need" to redeem himself. When he ate the from the tree he still could have turned to his Lover, God, for Grace. A ''fall from Grace" is not the "act" (or sin) itself but the attempt to redeem by our own actions. Similarly we mistake our role in encouraging others to to do acts of redemption rather then pushing them to embrace their Lover, Redeemer God.

In the letter written to the Church in Galatia, (Galatians 5:4). Paul, Says that we have "...fallen from Grace", when we try to gain Gods approval by adherence to the Old Testament Law. The writing in the Bible is a far different picture than the popular use of the idiom. Instead of being shunned
and punished for our sin, the Biblical picture is running back to a lovers accepting embrace. I have a choice when I mess up. I can try to fix myself and make myself acceptable. Or I can lament my
sin and run back to My Lovers warm and gentle arms. It is in the latter that God, our Lover, weep provides a way to be healed and powerful again.

I do not want fall from Grace by turning to my own redemption. But, I'm with Ted, I would rather Fall into the Grace filled arms of the Lover of my Soul. I would rather be better by the miracle of His healing forgiveness than to walk out my own pride and feeble attempts at self justification. Keeping rules does not define me as good, they point out when I fail need to run to Him to be made Good.

"I’m in this race not just to hold an office, but to gather with you to transform a nation."
Barack Obama February 10, 2007 Presidential announcement.

"The welfare of the people, in particular, has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience."
Albert Camus

By what constitutional allowance does the the United States federal government propose to tell every US citizen that they must buy an insurance policy or be fined thousands of dollars? And yet our President arrogantly lectures us about our moral obligation to support his economy destroying health insurance plan. He is proposing to set up a Federal system that operates without a constitutionally enumerated authority. If our federal government is not bound by the constitution, then by what will they be bound? Our congressional leaders are amazed by and fail to understand the vehement anger that has been exhibited at the town hall meetings. They refuse to recognize a realistic fear among us "common folk", that if the legislature is not bound by the constitution, then they have no bounds. If they are not submitted to the rule of constitutional law they are de facto tyrants. The president wants us to trust his goodwill and compassion. Compassionate tyranny is no less tyranny. If Washington does not willingly submit to the boundaries of our constitution then it seems we, the electorate, must hold them accountable.

James Madison explained in Federalist No. 45, "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce. … The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties and properties of the people; and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State."

Roger Pilon of the Cato Institute stated well the problem for our current administration and congress. "The people and the states no longer trust Washington . . . because Washington has assumed a vast array of regulatory and redistributive powers that were never its to assume--not, that is, if we take the Constitution seriously." We the people must use all legal and moral means to remove from office any senator or representative that supports the expansion of a bloated and fetid federal government.

The nagging problem with our President's ill defined push for "change" is that his vision seems totally seperate by the conventions of our country's founding. The begged question then is; "By what does he set the boundaries of his governance?" He has repeatedly stated that he wishes to "fundamentally" change our government. What form of government does he wish to "fundamentally" change to? He is dodgy when discussing his programs. His design feels like trapping water with cheese cloth. Why can we not know what rule informs his, and his supporters in congress, decision making? Our safety from the tyranny of our government is in the commitment to the rule of law. The law that arrests Federal Tyranny is the constitution of the United states.

President Obama recently lectured a talk show host who pressured the President to admit that the current overhaul of healthcare is effectively a tax on the middle class. The President lectured about the "responsibility" of a good citizen to buy health insurance. His plan is to compel us to spend our money how he demands. We are on the fast track to a tyranny of a "compassionate" federal government. By compelling us to spend our money based on his designs, he continues to erode the liberties that allow us to exercise our own liberty. This path to tyranny is not new, we have been sprinting down this lane since Candidate George W Bush popularized the term "compassionate conservative". (Read a thought provoking clip by Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term, at http://vdare.com/roberts/compassion.htm ) The Republican opposition is not different from President Obama and his Democrat machine. That is why we, the people of the States in America, must remove from office any politician who does not advocate the shrinking and constitutional limiting of the federal government. Certainly vote them out, but also spend your money, time and energy is electing representatives who will arrest Washington's financial tyranny.

In the interest of keeping you informed, here are some quotes from sitting politicians and former politicians. I think you should be aware and talk about these with everyone you know.


"I cannot undertake to lay my finger
on that article of the Constitution
which granted a right to Congress of expending,
on the objects of benevolence,
the money of their constituents."

: James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President. Spoken in 1792, in disapproval of Congress appropriating $15,000 to assist some French refugees

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
We must make our election between economy and liberty
or profusion and servitude.
If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and
in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and
our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...
[we will] have no time to think,
no means of calling our miss-managers to account
but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves
to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers...
And this is the tendency of all human governments.
A departure from principle in one instance
becomes a precedent for [another ]...
till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery...
And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt.
Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."

Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: Letter to Samuel Kercheval, Monticello, July 12, 1816



"The welfare of the people in particular has always been
the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage
of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience."

Quote by: Albert Camus


"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."

President Barack Obama, speaking as someone who has the power to spread the weath via mandate.


"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen."

Barack Obama

"I’m in this race not just to hold an office, but to gather with you to transform a nation."

President Barack obama February 10, 2007 Presidential announcement.

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Our Hopeful and Change oriented President once again orates passionate demagogic and false comparisons. Recently at a speech in Grand Junction the President resorted to a common tactic - false comparisons.

"Obama Criticizes 'Scare Tactics' of Health Care Reform Critics
Aug 15, 2009 6:35 PM EDT

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- President Obama on Saturday criticized what he termed as the "scare tactics" of opponents to health care reform. He told a town hall meeting "what is truly scary is if we do nothing" to solve the nation's health care problems.
Obama said Americans no longer should be "held hostage by health insurance companies" that deny coverage for various reasons.
And he attempted to deflect some of the sharpest criticism of the health care bill before Congress from those who say it would mean government control over health care system.
"I don't want government bureaucrats meddling in our health care - but the point is I don't want insurance companies' bureaucrats meddling in our health care either," Obama declared, unleashing a cheer from the audience."

It is a false choice to say that rejection of his healthcare plan "...is truly scary is if we do nothing". You should reject Obama Care because it is a a experiment that will result in poorer health and economic destruction. The alternative is not to "... do nothing." It is to have a free market reform that removes both insurance control and government control. We do not have to trade a corporate task master for a government task master. Trust the people to make their own health decisions. Insist that Congress get the govenment out of Health Care. (See my last blog)

The second false choice in President Obama's speech is that to stop the "...insurance company bureaucrats meddling..." your only choice is to give that that over to a federal government regulator. A real alternative is to take control from the insurance companies and give control back to the patient.

Please save our health care system by rejecting false alternatives and insisting on real reform. Call your representative now. Ask them to stop Obama Care and help with real reform.

Most importantly PLEASE do not stop until we have a meaningful reform that will not destroy our ecomony.