Jeffrey Dahmer: The Milwaukee Cannibal (my brief Case Study)

 

(Thesis Question: ARE SOME PEOPLE BEYOND REDEMPTION?)

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (/ˈdɑːmər/; May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who committed the murder and dismemberment of 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Many of his later murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism, and the permanent preservation of body parts—typically all or part of the skeleton.

Jeffrey Dahmer CASE STUDY

Born:

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer

May 21, 1960

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.

Died:

November 28, 1994 (aged 34)

Columbia Correctional Institution, Portage, Wisconsin, U.S.

Cause of death:

Homicide (severe head trauma) by another inmate.

Resting place:

Cremated, ashes given to parents

Other names:

The Milwaukee Cannibal

The Milwaukee Monster

Education:

Revere High School

Alma mater

Ohio State University (incomplete program)

Occupations:

U.S. Army combat medic (discharged)

Former delicatessen employee

Former phlebotomist (someone who takes blood samples for test purposes)

Conviction(s):

First-degree murder

Child molestation

Indecent exposure

Disorderly conduct

Public intoxication

Criminal penalty

Life imprisonment (16 life terms) 941 years in prison

Details

Victims

17

Span of crimes

1978–1991

Country

United States

State(s)

Ohio, Wisconsin

Date apprehended

July 22, 1991

Imprisoned at

Columbia Correctional Institution

Although he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder schizotypal personality disorder, and a psychotic disorder, Dahmer was found to be legally sane at his trial. He was convicted of 15 of the 16 murders he had committed in Wisconsin, and was sentenced to 15 terms of life imprisonment on February 17, 1992. Dahmer was later sentenced to a 16th term of life imprisonment for an additional homicide committed in Ohio in 1978.

On November 28, 1994, Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver, a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin.

FINAL FOUR MINUTES of JEFFREY DAHMER recorded before he was killed in prison.

https://youtu.be/ZCuGLC3FABI

Speaking the truth, with love,

Always, Laura-Lee

"God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)

"Dark Journey, Deep Grace" by Lindy Adams and Roy Ratcliff.

LINK to ebook version at Google Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Roy_Ratcliff_Dark_Journey_Deep_Grace?id=Pvh0DAAAQBAJ

Big Cost, Harsh Winter, No Worries

 

I've just pulled out my "As Seen on TV", E-Z Eyes, Large Print, glow in the dark, QWERTY keyboard (that apparently I can spill an entire glass of water on without doing any damage to), which I got fifteen years ago for a "steal" of $3.00 (marked down from $11.99) because I have something more lengthy and important to say and I need to do some power typing. (How is THAT for an opening sentence?!)

My cat, MONTY is nearby, having just eaten his lunch and is just having a "kitty clean up" before (I predict) having a "power-nap". His fourth of the day ... so far. And since (my) "universe is unfolding as it should" *, let us begin.

I am reminded of a time in 1988 when I was twenty-two years old (Oops! I just accidentally out my age on the Internet again) and I worked at "Charlie's Chocolate Factory" in Port Coquitlam, BC with my friend from Vancouver Christian Secondary School, Kim. She was driving me home to Burnaby on her way to Vancouver and braving the freeways during rush hour. We got to discussing various things and landed on "reaping what you sow", which is the original, Biblical concept of "what goes around comes around". We were discussing that a life full of sin meant having to face some harsh, difficult consequences and that life would go much easier if we got as much sin out of it as possible. I ended with a statement along the lines of, "I'm glad I know these things now. It's much easier being a Christian than before when I wasn't one." Then we fell to being silent, each with our own thoughts.

As I was seated there watching the rain on the windshield (it rains four hundred days a year in Vancouver) and looking out at all the traffic I heard the Lord say to me, "And what if it isn't?" That perked me up because at the time I didn't hear the Lord so plainly.

"What if following me means a much harder life instead of an easier life? Will you still follow me then?"

I was about to answer with an immediate, "Absolutely, Lord!" but He paused me to think about it and consider what it might actually require. Suddenly all the martyrs I knew about throughout the centuries flashed through my mind. Finally I landed on a much more quiet and restrained, "Yes, Jesus. To whom shall I go? You have the words of eternal life. I have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God." Which is my personalized version of John 6:68-69. Then added in my own words. "Besides Lord, I love you and I'm never going back to a life without you again." 

And so I adjusted my perspective of my life and it took on a very different meaning and course from that moment on. (Do we ever see these life altering moments coming?!)

Let's jump forward thirty-three years. Has it been easy? No. Very rarely in fact. I've endured mostly valleys and pits instead of mountain tops. Would I change any of it? Never!

That brings us to the here and now. Last night I was reading from the Apostle Paul's second letter to Timothy. Timothy was a young, Christian gentile who is like a son to Paul and who was pastoring a church in Lystra at the the time. Paul was in a Roman prison and knew he would die soon. In fact, this is the last letter that Paul writes. One of the things he asks Timothy is to come and see him "before winter" and also asks him to bring with him, Mark, his coat, his books and his papers.  - SEE   (2 Timothy 4:11, 13, 21) 

Not surprising to me (because I don't believe in coincidences) I had just taken out a book I have owned since Mom gave it to me for Christmas in 1998 and that I read every autumn called, "Come Before Winter" by Charles Swindoll. It is separated into three parts: Before Winter, MidWinter's Blast, and Winter's End.

I found an old bookmark in the Midwinter's Blast section and read the introduction to that section again. I share it with you now because it is absolutely meant for these times and what we are all enduring. 

 

"I have never been inside a Siberian work camp. I have not sailed the North Atlantic in January. Neither have I clung to  a sled behind a team of huskies barking their way across the Yukon. Nor was I part of the combat Marine outfit that braved the notorious "frozen Inchon" in Korea. But I have been cold. Frighteningly cold.

From frigid ice storms in the Rockies to bitter blizzards in Iowa and Illinois, Minnesota and Massachusetts, I have leaned hard against the wind, wondering if my face would ever regain its feeling. Those traumatic times have taught me to listen to things like weather warnings and wind-chill factors. There's a name for folks who don't: victim. That numbing, vicious blast when winter releases her fury may be given a fantasy label like "wonderland" by poet-and-artist types ... but the raw-boned realists who have survived those freezing winter winds that roar like a lion and sting like a whip have a healthy, awesome respect for blizzards. 

The best place to be during midwinter's blast is inside. Away from the cold ... under a pile of thick, soft, cozy blankets ... near a fireplace of burning timber.

But I have been cold even there, frighteningly cold, when winter blew inside and refused to leave.

Feeling broken, bruised, and - worst of all - barren, like the scene outside. Asking why. Wondering when it would end. Struggling to go on. Wind-whipped within, I have honestly thought at those times of packing it in.

Such midwinter miseries, I have come to realize, are not mine alone. You've had them too, haven't you? That's one of the reasons you picked up this book, isn't it? You long to persevere through the pits, but you find yourself running shy on hope. Hope ... the midwinter mirage others talk about, but you fail to see. Believe me, I  understand. It's faded from my eyes many times.

I've got some things to say especially to you in the pages [posts] that follow. Perhaps you will stumble across a statement or turn of a phrase, maybe one particular word that will light a spark and bring back the warmth you've lacked in the midst of the blast. It's possible, you know. Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do ... just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

If God should use something I have written to steady your course and help you cope with at least today's bitter battle, thank Him. The byproduct of hope's sudden breakthrough is called perseverance ... a rare commodity in today's shallow times. But oh, so essential! It is all you need to take the chill out of the air.

It's the stuff of which pioneers were made and other hearty types ... like those who endure Siberia, sail the North Atlantic, cross the Yukon, fight with frozen feet at Inchon ... and even those who regain enough hope to press on when only moments ago they had written out and rehearsed their resignation from the human race."

- Charles Swindoll

Thank you Reverend Swindoll for going from talking directly TO me to talking directly FOR me. 

Speaking the truth, with love, 

Always, Laura-Lee

"From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.

 'You do not want to leave too, do you?' Jesus asked the Twelve.

Simon Peter answered him, 'Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.  We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.' "

(John 6:66-69)

LINK: Insight for Living Canada (teaching ministry of Charles Swindoll)

https://insightforliving.ca/

* From the Desiderata. A poem put to music we had on a (45) vinyl record when I was five years old. It gave me the "creeps" back then, I like it less now.

Here's a LINK for  your own appraisal.

https://youtu.be/C9iwKW6bal8

YUP. MONTY is still at it. Zzzzzzz.

UPDATE: November 4, 2021

The day after I posted this I watched the Dr. Charles Stanley sermon about being SURRENDERED to Jesus. (Another NON-Coincidence) As usual, Dr. Stanley both expresses and enhances things better than I can. Below is the LINK to his 28-minute sermon. I KNOW it will encourage you! Time to start living an "abundant" life. 

LL 🙆🏻‍♀️✝🇨🇦❤🇮🇱

https://youtu.be/u0CL698_HZg

Life with satan verses life with JESUS.

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." (John 10:10) ESV. 

Practical Advice for Those ISOLATED by Coronavirus

I want to speak to those ISOLATED by COVID-19. And there are many these days. 

Starting in 2013 and during an 18 month period I lost all my closest family and friends. Most died and the remaining handful of family decided they had heard enough about Jesus through the years and cut me off. I've been admitted to the hospital with life threatening illnesses with NO Next of Kin and NO Emergency Contact. I have never been married, have no children, live alone and have been in lock down in my small apartment alone for the greater portion of a year literally because of the governmental tyranny here in Canada. But as a Believer in Jesus for 43 years I have a unique perspective, so let me share a few foundational helps.

 Firstly, "Your Maker is your husband" (Isaiah 54) is not merely a sweet thought. It is a practical, every day reality. Treat him like He is! From talking to Him that way (and that often and out loud) to asking Him to help you open jars, fix the broken fridge, deal with a backed up sink or get you something from the store you need. (All things He has miraculously solved for me) And remember that He is infinite and able to orchestrate way more and love you way more than any earthly husband can. 

Secondly, if you can't gather with other Believers you need to ZOOM with some. It's good to watch sermons etc, but you need to have actual people who INTERACT with you. From questions and answers to sharing a joke. But be cautious and discerning what they believe just as you would in picking a church. The key question to ask? Who do you believe Jesus really is? 

Thirdly, get a pet if you don't have one already. Pick the kind YOU can deal with so that they are a blessing not a burden. A dog (if you can get out to walk it) a cat if you can't or a bird. (I'd recommend you skip fish. They require lots of care, die easily and don't react back much.) But having another living, breathing creature around that you can INTERACT with will go a long way in keeping you sane.

 But being DAILY in the Word of God and talking to the LORD will allow your intimacy with your Maker/Husband to grow. 

Let me add my own personal ones. Find opportunities to laugh, dance around your home, have creative outlets (I've rediscovered Crayola crayons), establish daily and weekly routines, eat right, get plenty of rest and call someone (not texting but talking so you can hear their voice) in the morning. 

God bless you as you maneuver your way through these difficult times. 

Speaking the Truth, with love, 

Always, Laura-Lee 🙋🏻‍♀️✝🇨🇦❤

I originally started this as a comment at a video. Here is the Link to it.

https://youtu.be/JwS11VfaGlY

I actually have this coloring page in a book. It is from my mother's favorite Psalm (16) and one of the last things she said to me before her death in 2013. Every word of it true.

LL

What Makes a Man Sexy

 

 ...in my opinion.

I told you no topic is safe from me! I've answered this question to people who ask person to person, but now with all the fluid gender issues and anti-Christian sentiment I'm going to answer it publicly. Keep in mind I've been fine-tuning this since I was ten years old so you are going to get the core stuff based on what I've seen with my own eyes for the forty-five years since then. (Oops! Outed my age on the internet again.)

* A man who sees a shortage in his home and takes a moment to write it on a list. A man came out of the bathroom, apparently having passed the laundry room on the way and wrote on the grocery list on the fridge, "Toilet Paper and Dryer Sheets". 

* A man came into the kitchen and kissed his wife all over her neck while his kids were watching and commenting, "Gee, Dad, give it a rest!"

His response, "I can't help it son, your mother is a seriously beautiful woman and she just wrecks me!"

*A man ON HIS KNEES in prayer to Almighty God with a Bible open before him. (Preferably wearing a sweater with the sleeves rolled up to reveal forearms like Ernest Borgnine).

This one is my most controversial. However, when you consider that a woman is Biblically required to submit to her husband the facts that he seeks out the Lord (daily) and will acknowledge, humble and yield himself to Someone greater than himself makes THIS one CRUCIAL!!!!

 (The Ernest Borgnine thing is just for my personal sensibilities. That man has FABULOUS forearms. Anyone who has watched The Poseidon Adventure knows that!)

* A good  great sense of humor. I know everyone says that but I really MEAN it. SO many times in life it has been my sense of humor that got me through some very dark times. I need to know when there is NOTHING funny going on and I shoot out some ridiculous comment he's going to be on board with that. 

Also, I have lots of "in jokes" between me and the Lord (as we all have with those we know intimately) and if a man doesn't have the same thing going on then I would question how close he actually is to Jesus.

* Seeing him treat his mother and sisters with kindness, thoughtfulness, and respect.

*He loves and wants kids. LOTS of kids. I grew up extremely poor so I can stretch a budget when there is NO budget to stretch. So the excuse of  "we can't have more kids because we can't afford them" won't cut it with me. I come from a big, Catholic family. I have no recollection of the first time I held a baby because my arms were utilized the moment they were strong enough for the task. There was among the woman of my family the phrase "one on the hip and one in the tummy" to describe what was going on. It got chaotic sometimes but not often because homes were orderly, mothers were in control, older children watched over the younger ones and children (EACH AND EVERY ONE) were viewed as individual blessings (even when their behaviour made them disguised blessings). I think men actually want more children than they ever let on but don't say anything because women control their wombs and men are generally afraid of women these days. 

I couldn't find a photo of a man with LOTS of kids, thus making my case. LL

* Able to admit he's wrong and apologize! I think this is self-explanatory.

* A man who is punctual. Or even better, shows up ahead of time. If I had a dime for every minute I had to stand and wait for a man to show up I would be a very rich woman! I saw an interview with Sean Connery years ago and he was going on and on about how he HATED people who didn't show up on time. He said it spoke directly to how much they valued the person they were meeting. He said that he always did all he could to show up on time. He'd leave early to make allowances for "life", like heavy traffic or something like that. I used to stand on a dark, dangerous, cold street corner for an hour (before cell phones) thinking, "If SEAN CONNERY can show up on time why can't (___)?!"

LISTEN TO SEAN. HE KNOWS STUFF.

* SELF-DISCIPLINE! No. I am not kidding. Because of my childhood home environment I grew up believing no man can restrain himself sexually. Throughout my life whenever I came across a "family man" who cheated on his wife (and ultimately his children too) my first response was, "That figures! He's wearing pants ain't he?!" I need to know I've got a man who can restrain and control his passions, EVEN AGAINST ME! As a single Christian there are times I've had weak moments too, but if I know the moment they come he will just give in too, then the restraint is all on me and I've just become the "mommy" in the relationship. It also means he won't give into another woman, he's willing to wait for me AND he won't take any guff from me either. Ultimately that he values me more than "he wants what he wants and he wants it NOW"! (my definition of lust).

This last one feeds into ...

The Things I find gross about men.

👎🏻 In a word: Hen-pecked.  🐔🤮 I was listening to a group of men discuss their wives and one guy was talking about how his wife had "laid down the law to him."

Then he asked the question, "And how did I respond, gentlemen?"

And they all responded in unison, "Yes, dear!" 

It was supposed to be funny. They all laughed. But I stood there disgusted at both them AND their wives. G-R-O-S-S! I want a man to "wear the pants" and I want him to chose those pants FOR HIMSELF. I don't want a man to spend time "getting in touch with his feminine-side." I've got enough feminine side for two women. 😉 I want a man to take responsibility for his actions, complete what he has started and express himself romantically however HE decides, NOT the way I (or anyone else in society thinks he should). This feeds into the next gross thing.

👎🏻 I want a man who never, I repeat never, caves into peer-pressure. Or as it is called today, "The Common Narrative". Let's see some men who will stand for what's RIGHT no matter the consequences. That's a man I can lean on when I am doing the same.

👎🏻 Physically speaking, I don't like a man with a bunch of rippling muscles. I particularly find a six-pack gross. I do NOT want to be able to picture what a man looks like WITH HIS SKIN OFF! 🙈I actually prefer a man with a gut on him. I see a man with a six-pack and immediately think, "I need to fatten him up a bit." 

This directly speaks to me as a woman and a hostess in my home. If I cannot entice a man (or any visitor for that matter) to eat something I have failed in my hospitality. It was the same way with my mother and most of the women in her family. You might go over for a cup of coffee and decline any food, but the coffee would always come with "a little something extra" and I never saw anyone who didn't take it and leave the better for it. ☕🍞🍪🍲 (aren't enough or adequate emojis to express this!)

👎🏻 🧐A guy who checks out another woman who passes by. I don't care HOW PROMISCUOUSLY she is dressed. Even if she walks by buck-naked there are ways of looking and WAYS of looking.

CONCLUSION:

You may have noticed that in all this talk about the sexy qualities of a man I've never actually mentioned his abilities in bed yet. While now is the time. 

I used to work for a Christian ministry revolving around families. At one point we were offering a book about sex written by "experts". They were a couple who had been married for many years, one was a psychologist and the other a medical doctor. I decided to order it to read (which got me some interesting reactions from my coworkers when it arrived on my desk from the fulfillment department. 😆)

Anyway, I read it and became particularly interested in the chapter on how to spice up your sex life. It involved taking bubble baths together, the use of multiple feathers and the story of a man who got naked, tied a red bow on his penis,  came leaping out of the bathroom, jumped up on the bed yelling the Bible verse, "Turn to me, dear lover. Come like a gazelle. Leap like a wild stag on delectable mountains!" (Song of Solomon 2:17) No. I'm not joking. I wish I was. That mental image has completely destroyed that verse for me! 😱😣 I shut the book at that point and realized that in my singleness, virginity and at only 24 years of age, I knew way more than they did. In the entire book they never once spoke about the relationship between the husband and wife or their relationship to God. So here is the truth about sex direct from God himself.

❤ There is only one place it is permitted: in a marriage between one man and one woman for a lifetime. 

💖 If you cannot invite God into the midst of your sex life and even pray while you are having sex, you are doing it wrong!

💗 What goes on in bed for thirty minutes (or more), for good or bad, is DIRECTLY related to your commitment, beliefs, behavior, and actions towards each other the other twenty-three hours and thirty minutes of the day!

That's the "Truth in Love" that I have again spoken to you. Do with it as you will.

Thank you for coming to my Home Base here on the internet. You are always welcome.

Let's have some coffee with "a little something."

 ☕☕🍪🍪🍪🍪

Love always, Laura-Lee

"Oh, get up, dear friend, my fair and beautiful lover - come to me! Come, my shy and modest dove - leave your seclusion, come out in the open. Let me see your face, let me hear your voice. For your voice is soothing and your face is ravishing." (Song of Solomon 2:13-14) Parts of Song of Solomon not ruined for me. 😊

"Eros Defiled" by John White is STILL the best book about sex I've ever read (multiple times). Get a hard copy and get it FAST and any way you can because I guarantee it is going to be "disappeared" in this culture and climate before you can blink twice.

https://www.amazon.ca/Eros-Defiled-John-White/dp/0877847819

If you have found merit in what I've said please Share it, especially with young people under thirty who are struggling to find clarity in a culture that cannot even answer the question, "What is a man and what is a woman?"

Men need to know they are made by God and great just as they are but able to realize their huge potential. And women need to use their influence to accept, appreciate and affirm them that way.

"So God created mankind in his own image,

    in the image of God he created them;

    male and female he created them."  (Genesis 1:27)

Which of These Four Gifts Would You Choose?

 The original Mona Lisa, a parachute, a new Lamborghini or ten million dollars?

Oh. One little piece of information I forgot to mention. You are on an airplane about to crash.

Now which one do you want?

https://youtu.be/8MSyxwpUOAk

Watch the video from Living Waters to get the full picture.

Speaking the Truth, with love,

Always, Laura-Lee

http://LivingWaters.com

Below is a YouTube video of a Crash Landing caught on video. Everyone survives due to a great pilot and a lot of luck.

https://youtu.be/nZrfg-2bTTQ

However, as far as Death is concerned everyone's luck runs out eventually. Unless you are a Christian! I've put on my parachute (Jesus) and I am ready to "grab some sky"!!! Why don't you join me?

YeeeeeHa!

"If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved." (Romans 10:9-10)

IN HONOR OF PRIDE MONTH (June)

 

I usually don't come online so early but this morning when I looked out my window at the new dawn there was a massive rainbow in the sky after last night's big storm. I haven't seen a real rainbow in quite a while and I had forgotten what they really looked like. As I viewed this one that stretched from horizon to horizon across the big, Alberta sky I was struck by it's majesty and how many different colors it had. It ran the gamut of the ENTIRE color spectrum. I found the strip of mauve most beautiful. (Always Mom's favorite color.)

As I opened my Bible I was led right to Psalm 57 which says:

"I will praise you, Lord, among the nations;

    I will sing of you among the peoples.

 For great is your love, reaching to the heavens;

    your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;

    let your glory be over all the earth.

The first sentence was a promise God made to me as a teenager in the 1980s. I had no idea how He would fulfill it because I'd never been out of Canada and the internet was still a long way off in the future. But God ALWAYS keeps His promises and the rainbow is a Biblical symbol of that.

As I see all the LGBTQ rainbows around me I see what a pathetic, lesser copy they are of the real deal. Just a cheap, human rendering.

Let me encourage all you young people, especially those pre-teens and teenagers who are confused about who and what you are. Before you take puberty-blockers or submit to gender reassignment surgery consider that you are just those in a long line of teenagers who were confused before you, but these feelings will pass if you just wait it out. Please don't harm yourselves or do anything you cannot reverse later. You are being lied to by adults with hidden political agendas. Seek out your parents' advice. They are NOT the enemy you were led to believe they are.

Also remember that God's ways aren't just good but the BEST and as wonderful as creation is ,YOU are the pinnacle of it and God's masterpiece just as you are. How you were made has purpose. It is neither an error nor an accident.

"So God created mankind in his own image,

    in the image of God he created them;

    male and female he created them."

Genesis 1:27 

Speaking the truth with love,

Always, Laura-Lee

PS. And to those of you who hate God, hate me and hate everything I just said, for your consideration I declare another portion from Psalm 57.

"I  cry out to God Most High,
    to God, who vindicates me.
3 He sends from heaven and saves me,
    rebuking those who hotly pursue me—[c]
    God sends forth his love and his faithfulness.

They dug a pit in my path—
    but they have fallen into it themselves."

A "Little" Secret About Heaven Revealed

 

Jesus many times reveals things to me but then stops me from telling others by saying either it's not the right time or it's just something between Him and me. But there is something really cool I am allowed to share. It's backed up in the Bible (as is EVERYTHING God says, or it's NOT God talking) in 1 Corinthians 15 in the term "twinkling of an eye". I was asking Jesus what a twinkling of an eye actually looked like and He responded with in essence, "Wait until you get to heaven. Everyone's eyes twinkle all the time." But from what I understand, they all twinkle uniquely for each person. Pretty cool, eh? 

If you think, heaven, the Millennial Kingdom or the New Heaven and New Earth will be boring or bland, you REALLY need to read the Bible. We will not merely be floating on clouds with harps looking like fat little baby angels. That's just all kinds of ignorance and stupid.

"Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”h

'Where, O Death, is your victory?

Where, O Death, is your sting?'

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!" (1 Corinthians 15)

Thanks for stopping by my internet home. You're welcome anytime. I pray for all the people that visit me here from all over the world.

(300,000 of you visiting me throughout the decade I've been doing this.) 

YOU are amazing!

BTW the photo at the top? Nowhere near the reality of it.

Speaking the truth, with love,

Always, Laura-Lee

PS. I'm getting blocked and censored pretty deeply on Social media now. I can still get some things through if I post "creatively". I will try to keep this blog (my personal one) going as long as possible, but the algorithms are hunting me pretty intensely and I have NO intension of standing down or shutting up. In fact, I'm just getting warmed up.

With that in mind, you may wish to routinely come back to this blog and my Bible Prophecy/End Times (Canada POV) blog. And also sign up for the " Follow by Email" option in the right column (although I can't guarantee how long it will keep working).

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A Personal Quickie Post ...

  ... Because today is a hard day for me.

It's the eighth anniversary of the day I watched my beloved mother die and the first anniversary of surviving going "cold turkey" off of twelve different drugs. So lots of memories as you can imagine. Yet I am struck with how wonderful God is at taking care of me on a practical, daily, and miraculous level. Someday I must write a book about it, although few would believe the things that have occurred because they are so amazing.

The most miraculous is what cannot be seen with the eyes. The things that have happened inside of me due to SUFFERING! Having Mom die as well as losing every immediate family member in the following 18 months put me into the Grief Pit. 

My total body paralysis (in 2019) and "cold turkey" from 15+ years of narcotic use (with absolutely no medical aid) in 2020 was physical suffering beyond description. Yet I am still alive and happier and freer than I have ever been. Oh, how I wish it didn't take suffering for me to grow and change and learn, but it does. But now I "get it". I see it everywhere and I don't shrink from it. I see and hear you too.

 Right now my fellow Christian Believers (and blog readers) from all around the world are suffering intensely. Some at the hands of their fellow human beings because they are being persecuted and others under attack from satan through health, emotions, and lack of finances.  But take heart in James 5:16.

"Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective."

During the first week that I was literally kicking through the worst of my withdrawal I had Dr. Charles Stanley's sermons playing somewhere in the background in the hope it would help me refocus away from the physical agony. One portion of a sermon stands out in my memory, which I went back to listen to later when I was in my right mind again. It's from a radio sermon he did many years ago during Desert Storm and I will share it with you because it is impactful. It is based on James 5:16 and Dr. Stanley says it better than I can express it.

But please know that you are not alone. Jesus is with you. He is mighty and big and we must not limit Him but ask for big and amazing things. He LOVES it when we do this and the needier we are the quicker He is to respond in whatever way we need and even bigger than we can imagine. We are His people, His children and His Bride. He will not abandon us in these Final Days of this used up, evil earth. We are so close. Endure just a little bit longer Beloved.

My "earnest" prayers go out for you too. Daily. You are my Family.

Love always, Laura-Lee

LINK Praying in a Crisis Charles Stanley

LINK The Night Mom Passed Away (former post)

Letter Writing Buffoonery: Edmonton Journal

 

This time I wrote a letter to the editor of my local newspaper, the  Edmonton Journal . The home of such events as minister James Coates being thrown in jail for disobeying COVID-19 lockdown restrictions at his church. This one issue is making worldwide headlines, as is some of our lockdown protests and LGBTQ court cases. The Edmonton Journal is ignoring them, so I decided to send them a letter.

"Our country, province, and city is exploding with anarchy and major issues in an unprecedented way and the Journal is covering Zoning Laws and Big Foot movies. If I want to hear what's going on in Edmonton I go to independent news sources with some as far away as the Middle East, India, and Australia where we and our government are the hot topics. Or I simply head to Youtube to see what my fellow Edmontonians have captured on cell phone cameras.

 I've been reading the Edmonton Journal for fifty years and I'm embarrassed by the implications that you (and your Canadian cohorts) are either incompetent or purposely covering up news and suppressing the truth. I don't like that you are looking like buffoons to the rest of the world. I might not be offended as a reporter, but I am because of basic hometown pride. Aren't you who work there? 

Sincerely, Laura-Lee Rahn

Edmonton, Alberta"

Whether you agree with my views or not you need to take the opportunity to let your voice be heard, while it still can be. It may sound cliché, but Canadians died in wars to keep us free and in generations past reporters went to prison because they wouldn't reveal sources and put themselves in harm's way to get at the truth. They deserve someone to speak up now or the "The true north strong and free" will be boiled down to just "north".

Sincerely, Laura-Lee

Queen Elizabeth's Fickle Family and Followers

 

Being a French Canadian puts me in a unique position in regards to Queen Elizabeth. I've never thought of her as MY Queen yet I've grown up with her influence all over my life. From seeing her face on every piece of currency I've ever touched to listening to her Christmas speeches every year.

But when I look over her long life and the fifty-plus years I've been watching her I tend to look at her kindly and affectionately and even admiringly. Not because I have to or because I was brought up to but because she has EARNED it.

She was put in the line of succession when she didn't want it, didn't get to simply fall in love and choose her husband, given responsibilities that few of us can imagine or comprehend still as a very young woman. Then she lived out her public, private, personal, and professional lives putting herself and her wants and desires SECOND to her own.

Now, during the last few years (or perhaps months) of her life, she must continue to be the sole anchor of her ridiculous and rebellious family. At a time when she should be able to just take it easy and enjoy the company of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren she has to continue to deal with their absurd, derisive shenanigans. And I have a hard time figuring out where her HUGE mistake was that would reap her these continuing consequences.

From scandal after to scandal to her own fickle subjects one minute admiring her and then the next admonishing her, while everyone in the world from the press to everyday people commenting and speculating on her every move. And NOT in very positive ways. Unless they happen to be in a good mood that particular day. And people wonder why she sometimes seems a bit distant and detached emotionally. If I were her I would have taken to my closet in the fetal position sucking my thumb years ago (Okay. Decades ago).

Now with this Harry and Meghan Oprah interview, all I can think is, "Why do this all publicly? If you want to abandon your family and country that's your choice, but just leave your Grandmother in peace? And if you have any problem with  'The Firm', which is also YOUR Family, that you feel is SO great you just have to say something, why not just pick up the phone and have a talk with whatever family member you have an issue with?" 

Just like the rest of us would do.

In the end, all I can give is my own humble opinion of this elderly, dignified lady. To finally add my voice to the other kajillion opinions for whatever it's worth. And I will say it as if I had the ear of the Queen herself.

"You won me over somewhere down the line and if I believed in having a Queen over me, I would pick you. Always remember no matter how old you are, how many family members abandon and betray you, how much you are in charge of or how many subjects you reign over, one truth remains. You are always your Heavenly Father's little girl first and foremost. He knows you better than you even know yourself and loves you just as you are. Your song has become my prayer.

'God, save our noble Queen. God, save our gracious Queen. God, save the Queen. Amen.' "😔

Love always, Laura-Lee

TRYING to Stop the Rot

 

I've been at my letter writing again. This time after visiting the website of my little Christian high school, Vancouver Christian School which I have told stories about throughout the years to entertain and inspire the people in my life.

I just viewed a February 2021 Newsletter to discover they were celebrating  the Chinese New Year complete with astrological symbols and demon dragon costumes. I sent  the following letter, for whatever it's worth, and move on with a clear conscience but downcast heart for how far that sweet school has fallen. And to all of the former board members, teachers, parents and fellow students that sacrificed to see that this school kept going to inspire their children and glorify God, I am heart sick over this and deeply sorry.

"You've got to be kidding me!

I attended and graduated from Vancouver Christian School from 1980-85. The first year it opened at your location was the first year I attended. I suppose that makes me one of your pioneers. I come here every few months to read a newsletter and see how you are doing. As I've watched through the years I've gone from anxious to concerned to distressed at the course you've plotted and followed. I usually write something in an effort to be salt and light for Jesus and uphold the standards of those who founded the school and all of us who made many sacrifices in order that we might have a Christ-centered education.

But this time I opened up the most recent newsletter and saw the photo of CHILDREN celebrating the Chinese New Year which is so blatantly anti-Christian all I can think is, "Welcome to the End Times".

I feel there is very little point in writing to you because if all your teachers and board members don't know that you're doing wrong, then you are too far gone for me to explain it. And if you DO know that you're doing wrong and are purposefully doing it anyway, then Jesus have mercy on you. You are going to need it.

“But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea." Mark 9:42

You know what, I was following Jesus and reading the Bible before most of you were even born, so spare me whatever pathetic rationalism you were planning to respond with. I was compelled to speak up. I've done so, now I'm moving on. See you on Judgement Day.

Sincerely, Laura-Lee Rahn (1980 -1985)"

"For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.." (Revelation 3:17)

Article from the Evangelical Times

A Chinese Christian looks at the Celebration of the Chinese New Year.

https://www.evangelical-times.org/25472/chinese-new-year-a-christian-perspective/

LINK to Vancouver Christian School

https://vancs.org/

ALUMNI BLOG I STARTED FOR MY HIGH SCHOOL MORE THAN A DECADE AGO.

http://vcssalumni.blogspot.com/2010/

Shaken But Not Stirred

 

Martyn Iles and fellow Christian Millennials 

take on the hard topics with

The TRUTH of It

This is a bit of an odd post this week. I have been watching several video talks on YouTube by Martyn Iles from the Australian Christian Lobby in order to be more "up" on what's going on in the world. They are not very emotional and take the world's issues on in a very reasonable and methodical way. Yet they have evoked a very deep impact on me and the course I plan to take. I wrote them an email and share it here with you.

God only knows ...

... what this 50-something, disabled, politics-loathing, Christian, Canadian, spinster is doing binge watching a bunch ACL videos, but I am forming an answer to that for myself too.

It started simply as a Youtube recommendation for one of your videos about an Australian politician I'd never heard of, to throwing myself on the mercy of Almighty God yet again.

Martyn was discussing the large number of late-term aborted babies who had survived and been left to die while suffering without medical treatment and the moral dilemma it was causing. That problem was cleverly "solved" in Canada years ago by allowing only suction abortions. If you suck a baby out of the womb piece by small piece then none of them ever survive to suffer.

Also "disgust" with the shock of suddenly discovering an elected official has a huge LGBTQ agenda. But if a politician proudly marches down the street in Gay Pride parades BEFORE they are elected and is VOTED in as the LEADER of your entire country then there should be no surprise.

I am recovering from a lengthy illness that left me disconnected from society (and the internet) for many months, so I've been doing some major catching up on what's going on in the world and in the church, only to discover the things that other western countries are just NOW freaking out about are the things Canada has been quietly and covertly doing for years as the Church watched on. Or more accurately put, as the church slept on. I could say it's all the other Canadian Christians, but that's what THEY are probably all saying too and I'm sure is a large part of how we got to where we are now.

 Personally, two main things that have held me back from speaking up is the idea that the things I know are self-evident, so I take them for granted as a "given", like what is a man and what is a woman. Also, the belief that young people don't care to hear my opinion about such things. But Jesus has told me point blank, and Martyn has confirmed, these are lies. I am called to speak the truth in love in season and out of season and leave the reactions of others to the Holy Spirit.

So I head to my little blogs, to my Zoom meetings, my neighbors and family members, (who are also currently locked up in their homes waiting to "volunteer" to get the vaccination), to tell the Beautiful Story once again. That wonderful plan of salvation and that abundant life is found only in Christ. And to tell it as only I uniquely can.

My thanks to you for the information, confirmation, inspiration, and the kick in the butt as ONLY Australians can uniquely do. 

Sincerely, Laura-Lee

And so, my faithful blog readers, I hope you will be inspired to speak up too.

But always remember to do it with love and making sure you always take time to REST and be ALONE WITH JESUS.

Speaking the truth, with love,

Always, Laura-Lee 🙋🏻‍♀️✝

LINK Australian Christian Lobby

LINK The Truth of It - ACL Youtube Channel