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• ...And Consequences [Reflections] — January 25, 2010
  ...When you factor in nearly two decades of time and space, and then bring those elements back together, you are left dealing with what the mind and heart remember, and what has developed in the interim. [...]
  
  
• It's All About Choice [Reflections] — January 16, 2010
  It is a fact of life that we all make choices because we CAN. It’s our RIGHT.
  As parents, we try to teach our children not only how to make wise choices, but to help them to learn that there are consequences for the choices they make–and those consequences may be good or they may be [...]
  
  
• A Storm Is Approaching [Reflections] — December 16, 2009
  Having been back in contact with my daughters since October 24 of this year, after having been separated for some 19 years, it’s been a rollercoaster, to say the least. Putting the pieces together, trying to figure out how to rebuild a relationship and understanding the dynamics involved on an emotional, psychological and inter-relational level.
  
  
• I Am Grateful. I Am Thankful. I Appreciate [Reflections] — November 26, 2009
  While millions of other families around the world gather together to celebrate one day of appreciation and gratitude for what they have been through, for each other, and for many other things, I sit here at my desk trying to figure a multitude of things out—much of it by the seat of my pants, as [...]
  
  
• My Farewell as Robert King's Site Administrator and Webmaster [Reflections] — November 24, 2009
  With the approach of my (un)official retirement as longtime webmaster and part-time editor for Robert, I felt it appropriate that I take some time to reflect on our online friendship of some eight or so years, because the majority of you know very little about me, except my role as Robert’s site administrator and webmaster. [...]
  
  
• "Now You Know How It Feels For Me" [Reflections] — November 23, 2009
  Since I’m having so much trouble sleeping tonight because my mind won’t leave me alone, I figure I might as well do something, and since I haven’t written in a while, this will serve as an update on my life, as well.
  
  
• When Hope Becomes Reality and Then Turns to Frustration Amidst Joy [Reflections] — November 13, 2009
  It’s been three weeks now since I had the surprise of a lifetime, when I sat down to my computer and saw a Facebook notification that I had been sent an email from one of my three daughters whom I have not had contact with for some 19 years.
  
  
• Saying You Do When You Don't [Reflections] — November 12, 2009
  One of the things that bugs me most is when someone comes to you, telling you about the situation they're in, how they don't understand why they're in it, and that they want to be out of it, and then you tell people what they can do to make their lives better, or to get out of a predicament they're in, they tell you you're right...  and then they go right on doing what they've been doing all along...  and wonder why they situation never gets any better.
  
  
• Do the Scriptures Identify Jesus as Michael the Archangel? Part 5 [Reflections] — October 22, 2009
  This was my response to someone who had raised the topic back in the Pathways-Online days, and the original topic can be found here. I recently posted this on a site (Hourglass2 Outpost) that I occasionally post at, thinking that it would be nice to here what thoughts others might have on the subject, some 6 1/2 years later… and to expand on my own understanding. What follows then, in a 5-part series, is not only the 6 1/2 year old post, but my response to someone who asked me to comment on their own observations. I hope that it at least provokes further discussion on the topic.
  
  
• Do the Scriptures Identify Jesus as Michael the Archangel? Part 4 [Reflections] — October 22, 2009
  This was my response to someone who had raised the topic back in the Pathways-Online days, and the original topic can be found here. I recently posted this on a site (Hourglass2 Outpost) that I occasionally post at, thinking that it would be nice to here what thoughts others might have on the subject, some 6 1/2 years later… and to expand on my own understanding. What follows then, in a 5-part series, is not only the 6 1/2 year old post, but my response to someone who asked me to comment on their own observations. I hope that it at least provokes further discussion on the topic.
  
  
• Do the Scriptures Identify Jesus as Michael the Archangel? Part 3 [Reflections] — October 22, 2009
  This was my response to someone who had raised the topic back in the Pathways-Online days, and the original topic can be found here. I recently posted this on a site (Hourglass2 Outpost) that I occasionally post at, thinking that it would be nice to here what thoughts others might have on the subject, some 6 1/2 years later… and to expand on my own understanding. What follows then, in a 5-part series, is not only the 6 1/2 year old post, but my response to someone who asked me to comment on their own observations. I hope that it at least provokes further discussion on the topic.
  
  
• Do the Scriptures Identify Jesus as Michael the Archangel? Part 2 [Reflections] — October 22, 2009
  This was my response to someone who had raised the topic back in the Pathways-Online days, and the original topic can be found here. I recently posted this on a site (Hourglass2 Outpost) that I occasionally post at, thinking that it would be nice to here what thoughts others might have on the subject, some 6 1/2 years later… and to expand on my own understanding. What follows then, in a 5-part series, is not only the 6 1/2 year old post, but my response to someone who asked me to comment on their own observations. I hope that it at least provokes further discussion on the topic.
  
  
• Do the Scriptures Identify Jesus as Michael the Archangel? Part 1 [Reflections] — October 22, 2009
  This was my response to someone who had raised the topic back in the Pathways-Online days, and the original topic can be found here. I recently posted this on a site (Hourglass2 Outpost) that I occasionally post at, thinking that it would be nice to here what thoughts others might have on the subject, some 6 1/2 years later… and to expand on my own understanding. What follows then, in a 5-part series, is not only the 6 1/2 year old post, but my response to someone who asked me to comment on their own observations. I hope that it at least provokes further discussion on the topic.
  
  
• Bailout the Banks? Yes. Bailout the Government? Yes. Bailout We the People? No way! [Reflections] — September 22, 2009
  

  It was with a sickening sense of deja vu that I read the headlines rolling in this morning concerning the latest developments in our “esteemed” Washington D.C. [Sample headline: FDIC may borrow cash from banks]

  It seems that now, as unimaginable sums of monies are nearly depleted and spoon-fed to the richer echelons of our American society under the guise of “bailouts” for those our well-to-do government leaders deemed “too big to fail”—all the while promising us, the American People, that we will reap huge profits for our trusting in the Plan’s ability to work—that the government is considering now borrowing money from the very banks that put this nation, not to mention the entire global economy, into this mess in the first place.

• A Post From the Past [Reflections] — September 21, 2009
  [This was originally written by me at Pathways Online: A Discussion Forum for Christians, on July 7, 2005. Someone recently contacted me to offer their support, and I thought it might be a good idea to post this here for those who read this blog and may not be fully aware of my excommunication from [...]
  
  

• The Healthcare Debate [Reflections] — September 16, 2009
  

  Just so that I’m clear on this… Our government leaders had very few qualms about handing off $700B to Wall Street and the financial institutions, and passed that level of funding in not time at all. Few stipulations were set into place, even. And that money came from the taxpayers (or will!), a decision that was purportedly so that the financial institutions who were buckling under mortgage buy-ins gone wrong would then extend help to those families who were buckling under those mortgages. At last report, only a sliver of the total number of families struggling to meet their mortgages have since received help, while the banks and Wall Street have returned to business-as-usual with their speculative buying, bonus payments, and have reportedly now even moved into life insurances as well. The $700B that was handed over is essentially vanished now.

  Yet an estimated health plan that will cost $856B over the course of a decade is being stopped and hindered at every turn? If you don’t do what’s needed to keep the ones paying in to that tax base healthy and able to work, you’re shooting yourself in the foot, aren’t you?
  
  

• A Tax By Any Other Name Is: A Fee [Reflections] — July 27, 2009
  When Benjamin Franklin wrote the words, “‘In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes” I seriously doubt he would have known that in time we’d have to tack on “fees” to his infamous phrase. But there’s no question that “fees” are the new taxation system of our time..
  
  
• Folks May Be Broke and States Bankrupt, But Corporations Give Themselves a Bonus Anyhow [Reflections] — July 10, 2009
  These past couple weeks have been, if anything, a waking nightmare from which I keep hoping I’ll awaken. But the odds of that happening diminish with every passing day, every passing hour, every passing moment. And what’s even worse is that nobody really seems to care–assuming that they even notice.
  
  
• Does Your Religion Matter? Part 2 [Reflections] — June 21, 2009
  In Part One of this series, I started by discussing why there are so many churches today and how one might go about determining which is the right church for them. In Part Two, I will explore the meatier aspects of this sometimes daunting problem, addressing what God thinks of all these different Christian [...]

• Does Your Religion Matter? Part 1 [Reflections] — June 21, 2009
  Deciding which church, synagogue, or other place of worship to attend and become a part of is certainly one of the more important decisions that you will make in your life. And yet, the number of available options can be utterly bewildering. There are so many churches to choose from, all teaching what seems to be just as many different things. You may find yourself asking, then, how it is that if they all claim to believe the Bible, to teach from it, then why so many different religions? Why isn’t there only one to choose from? They can’t all be right, can they?
  
  
• Man vs Machine: Rebellion In the Garden of Eden [Reflections] — May 30, 2009
  This entry has a companion article you may be interested in reading. To read Man vs Machine: The Future Is Now, which is intended to be read alongside this article, follow the link at the end of this blog entry.
  The recent release of Terminator: Salvation to theaters worldwide has once again raised the spectre looming [...]
  
  
• Obama's Oil Plan: A Reality Check [Reflections] — May 19, 2009
  Today, news outlets, television news stations, and radio networks got as excited as school children hearing about a class party. The subject was Obama’s plan for “cleaner, more efficient cars.”
  On the surface, it sounds like a fantastic plan, and one that is long overdue for a nation that has become lackadaisical about how it has [...]
  
  
• Double Standards Become Status Quo [Reflections] — March 30, 2009
  In what is clearly becoming more of the same old song and dance from Washington D.C., early morning television shows across the nation excitedly announced that the White House had forced GM CEO, Rick Wagoner, to resign from his position at the head of one of the financially troubled Big Three U.S. automakers. What would [...]
  
  
• Who ARE "We The People"? [Reflections] — March 20, 2009
  Democracy is defined as “a government by the people, for the people.” But given the events of late, it may be necessary to take a sobering, candid look at things and see whether that’s really the case any longer. By now, “AIG” has become a household word associated with greed and delusions of entitlement. Public [...]
  
  
• Big Business: The Amazing Capacity for Self-Preservation [Reflections] — January 27, 2009
  Today, GM—one of the Big Three automakers that recently was given $13.5 billion dollars from taxpaying, working Americans—returned the favor by announcing today that it will be cutting 2,000 jobs from its workforce. Those workers will then become the rest of America’s problem as they apply for and receive unemployment checks funded through tax dollars, [...]
  
  
• 2008: Closer To The Precipice [Reflections] — December 31, 2008
  Once upon a time, there was a creature called Man.
  Now Man, having been created as the last of all God’s living beings—given a conscience and awareness unparalleled amongst all other earthly creatures and forms of life, was then given dominion over the Earth and over all of the things that existed upon it—from the [...]
  
  
• In Debt We Trust [Reflections] — December 24, 2008
  By the time you find this, you probably will have already unwrapped those gifts you bought this year as part of your Christmas celebration, taking advantage of low prices and enticing deals, all the while obeying the mantra to keep the economy going by doing your part: buy, buy, buy, consume, consume, consume.
  In a few [...]
  
  
• In Memory of Carol Boss [Reflections] — December 23, 2008
  I remember when I first met Carol.
  It was in the middle of winter, it was snowing pretty hard, and Deb told me, “I have someone I want you to meet.” We were courting back then, and of course it was early enough in the relationship, when you really want to do everything with the [...]
  
  
• Too Big To Fail [Reflections] — November 25, 2008
  Newspapers across America yesterday published the latest news on the financial world. Citigroup, another financial corporation deemed “too big to fail” by the federal government, was promised $20 billion of our tax dollars while at the same time guaranteeing access to hundreds of billions of our tax dollars in the event of potential (some say [...]

• Who Taught You the Truth? Part 5 [Reflections] — November 24, 2008
  Although I have been working my way chronologically through my life with this series, I thought I might digress momentarily, to address an issue that will provide a necessary basis for what I will be relating in Part 6.
  If a child is confronted with and immersed in what can only be termed as evil (and [...]
  
  
• The Upcoming Election of 2008: What Will It Mean? [Reflections] — November 2, 2008
  The campaign signs decorate yards and roadways. Daily and hourly polls are recounted continuously and published instantly across the world. Television ads populate the airwaves of radio and television. Devoted supporters make their rounds, dropping of flyers and encouraging people to get out and vote. The hands of every clock drives inexorably the American people [...]
  
  
• Who Taught You the Truth? Part 4 [Reflections] — November 2, 2008
  As a child, I used to sing the song Jesus Loves Me. The words went, “Jesus loves me, this I know; for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to him belong; they are weak, but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me; for the Bible tells [...]
  
  
• Who Taught You the Truth? Part 3 [Reflections] — October 27, 2008
  I could never have imagined that within a year or two of my declaring that I had accepted Jesus as my savior in the warm, gently lilting waters of Jordan Lake at the tender age of 7, that I would have forever taken from me my childhood. I would never have imagined that it would [...]

• The Rising Fall of Democracy [Reflections] — October 24, 2008
  As the 2008 race for the presidency of the United States of America enters its final days before the actual election on November 4, the media covering the events have picked up on various catchwords such as “socialism” and “class warfare” from one campaign, and an appeal to appreciate the need to shoulder some of [...]
  
  
• Who Taught You the Truth? Part 2 [Reflections] — October 22, 2008
  It was within a year or two of that momentous event of my baptism that I described in the earlier entry that my young life was filled with an unimaginable turmoil. I say “unimaginable,” because to the mind of a seven and then eight-year-old child, some things are beyond comprehension. Some of the events I [...]
  
  
• Who Taught You the Truth? Part 1 [Reflections] — October 21, 2008
  I first became familiar with the Bible when I was very young, as far back as my memory will carry me. I remember the large, oversized ivory-colored family Bible on the table in front of the sofa, with its holographic picture embedded into the cover, a portrait of a long-haired Jesus that would shift to [...]
  
  
• George Bush: The Financial Crisis of America [Reflections] —September 25, 2008
  Last night, like millions of others, I watched the carefully-scripted speech from George Bush as he did little more than repeat information that the rest of us have already been hearing. I may not be a financial expert, but I do know that I can think and reason through things. Because of that, I’d [...]
  
  
• Thoughts And Reflections: An Introduction [Reflections] — September 19, 2008
  Welcome to this new journal (or blog, if you prefer). My name is Timothy Kline, and I intend to use this to share thoughts and observations with you. Some of it may be familiar, some of it may be inciteful. But above all, I hope that it causes you to think and reflect on whatever [...]