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A Hundred Years Ago: The Great War in 1918 – Winter into Spring.   Leave a comment

Soldier-Poets, Philosophers,Treaties and Retreats:

We must strike at the earliest moment… before the Americans can throw strong forces into the scale. We must beat the British.

General Erich Ludendorff, November 1917.

The following letter appeared in The Scotsman newspaper on 14 January 1918:

Might I suggest that you would be doing a public service if you could induce the authorities to relieve the peaceful inhabitants of the city from the diurnal shock of the One O’clock Castle Gun? At the present time it is all the more an intrusion in that there are so many convalescent soldiers within range of the concussion. Two of these from Craiglockhart, suffering from shell shock, had to be carried home from Princes Street the other day after the shot was fired. We abolish police whistles in the vicinity of hospitals, why keep up this more violent reminder of their sufferings?

I am, etc, Citizen.

Shell-shock was the common name given to a range of emotional and mental disorders suffered by troops. The symptoms included hysteria, anxiety, physical tremors, sensitivity to noise, and nightmares. Edinburgh’s Craiglockhart War Hospital treated soldiers suffering from shell shock; it was where Siegfried Sassoon met Wilfred Owen and encouraged him in his writing of poetry. At Craiglockhart, Sassoon wrote or completed the poems that were to be published in Counter-Attack (1918). Many of them were protest poems indignantly implying that the war was being needlessly prolonged by politicians and generals who could have stopped it.  Sassoon also directed his indignation against the old and the rich who were making a handsome profit out of the war and who did not share the young soldiers’ terrible discomforts and dangers, yet had the effrontery to conceal their selfishness behind a front of self-righteous flag-waving. In Blighters, he aims his anger at the vulgar jingoism of a music-hall show and the shallow applause of the civilian audience:

The House is crammed: tier beyond tier they grin

And cackle at the Show, while prancing ranks

Of harlots shrill the chorus, drunk with din;

‘We’re sure the Kaiser loves our dear old Tanks!’

I’d like to see a Tanks come down the stalls,

Lurching to rag-time tunes or ‘Home, sweet Home’,

And there’d be no more jokes in music-halls

To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.

In certain of his poems Owen imitates Sassoon’s irony; for instance, in ‘The Dead-Beat’, he tells how a soldier suddenly drops unconscious and is taken to casualty clearing-station. The stretcher-bearers label him a ‘malingerer’, but the poem ends with Owen mockingly mimicking anyone who talks callously about another’s death:

Next day I heard the Doc’s well-whiskied laugh:

‘That scum you sent last night soon died. Hooray!’

Another special target for satire was the hypocrisy, self-righteousness and insincerity of the Church. Sassoon’s poem, They, satirises the Bishop who is delighted with the way in which war ennobles soldiers:

We’re none of us the same’, the boys reply.

‘For George lost both his legs, and Bill’s stone-blind;

‘Poor Jim’s shot through the lungs and like to die…’

In At a Calvary near the Ancre Owen also attacks the military chaplains:

Near Golgotha strolls many a priest,

And in their faces there is pride

That they were flesh-marked by the Beast

By whom thegentle Christ’s denied.

Owen, who as a patient at Craiglockhart had seen Sassoon’s angriest poems before they were published, is here imitating Sassoon’s mood and techniques. He also condemns the old when in The Parable of the Old Men and the Young he envisages Abraham killing Isaac despite God’s command to sacrifice a ram instead:

But the old man would not so, but slew his son,

And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

Despite their anger, both men returned to the western front to be with their men within a few months of writing these lines. The firing of ‘Mons Meg’ at Edinburgh Castle at one o’clock, an age-old tradition, was halted in April 1918 and it remained silent for over a year.

With the coming of 1918, the initiative passed to Germany. For three years every attempt to decide the issue on the western front had proved a costly failure, but in 1918 Ludendorff decided to risk his entire reserves in a final effort to break the Allied line. The collapse of Russia enabled them to put larger forces on the front than the Allies could muster. They had resigned themselves to a defensive campaign until the USA could send her armies; it was Germany’s purpose before that date to reach a decision in the field. It was their last chance. The submarine had failed; Britain could not be starved into submission. On the contrary, the Allied blockade was undermining the health and morale of the German people. They were weak with privations and sick with hope deferred. A little longer and their wonderful fortitude would break. With all the strength they could muster, with their new tactics to aid them, and with a desperate necessity to goad them, they undertook the last great sally, staking everything on victory. Germany’s allies were giving way under the strain of prolonged war: the Turkish armies were in retreat; the Bulgarians, having already got all they wanted, were anxious for peace; the subject peoples of the Austrian Empire naturally faced privations with less fortitude than the Germans. It was ‘now or never’; the American troops were not yet in the field, but would be very shortly.

Ludendorff’s general plan was to isolate the British Army, roll it up from its right, and drive it into the sea, or pin it down to an entrenched camp between the Somme and the Channel – a ‘Torres Vedras’ from which it would only on the signature of peace. This done, he could hold it with a few troops, swing around on the French, and put them out of action. He must, therefore, strike with all his might at the point of junction of Haig and Pétain, on the western face of the great salient, where the Allies were weakest and the ground easiest. His position on interior lines gave him the chance of surprise, for until the actual attack the Allies would not know on which side of the salient the blow was to fall. His admirable communications would enable him to obtain a great local predominance. For the first stage of the great battle, he had sixty-three divisions in line or in immediate reserve.

The Versailles Council, formed by the Entente towards the end of 1917, miscalculated both the place and the date of the attack. Haig’s Intelligence service informed him of the exact hour, but he had neither the time nor the resources to prepare an adequate defence. He held 130 miles of line, and these were the most critical in the West, with approximately the same numbers as he had had two years before when his front was only eighty miles long and Russia was still in the fold. An initial German success was almost inevitable. Nineteen divisions in line and thirteen in reserve could scarcely stand against a first attacking wave of thirty-seven divisions, which was soon to grow to sixty-three.

Meanwhile, back at home, the historian and philosopher Bertrand Russell was jailed for six months in February for writing an article criticising the US Army. His action was described by the judge as being ‘a very despicable offence’ and in contravention of the Defence of the Realm Act, as it was likely ‘to prejudice His Majesty’s relations with the USA’. Also in February, William MacCaw MP was found guilty of hoarding foodstuffs (listed below). For this contravention of the 1917 Food Hoarding Order he was fined four hundred pounds:

During the build-up of Germany’s forces on the western front, it also consolidated the territory it had gained in the east as a result of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and actually occupied considerably more Russian territory than they were entitled to by the treaty. Russia’s withdrawal from the First World War after the Bolshevik takeover was formalised by the settlement between Lenin’s Russia and Germany and her allies on 3 March 1918 at Brest-Litovsk. The treaty, deeply unfavourable to Russia, revealed the in part the Europe Berlin hoped would be the outcome of the war. Russia lost all of its western provinces: Finland, the Baltic States, Poland and Ukraine (as well as Georgia under the Treaty of Berlin of August 1918).

They took Belorussia simply to shorten their line, but in the Black Sea region, where they advanced to the lower Don and crossed from the Crimea to the Taman Peninsula, they were clearly aiming at taking over permanently. In due course, they would doubtless have imposed a third round of concessions on the Revolutionary Russian government. Bolshevik power in this area was at a very low ebb. The Don Cossacks were refusing to accept the authority of Moscow, which became the seat of government in March when Lenin decided that the Germans were getting too close to Petrograd. Anti-Bolshevik forces rallying to the white flag of General Denikin were proving more than a match for the local Bolsheviks. In Caucasia, in the far south, the Turks had occupied not only the town they had lost in 1878, which they were entitled to as a result of Brest-Litovsk but everything else that wasn’t already in the hands of their German allies.

The Romanians also badly needed some compensation. After the completion of the initial Brest-Litovsk negotiations in March, it was their turn to sign on the dotted line. When they eventually did so (in May), they lost the southern half of Dobruja to the Bulgarians and the northern half to the Germans (another area to be included in the Black Sea Province) besides having to make major frontier adjustments in favour of Austria-Hungary. Hindenburg and Ludendorff had brought the war in the east to a successful conclusion, they now had to try to do the same in the west.

They had until the summer to do so, before the Americans appeared in France in strength. For the moment, after the transfer of the eastern armies to the west, the German Army had superiority: 192 divisions facing 165 Allied divisions on the Western Front, but this would not last long. The critical blows would have to be struck during March and April, a Spring Offensive, of which ‘Operation Michael’ was the first part. It eventually became known as the Second Battle of the Somme, which continued until 5th April. It wasn’t just a case of overall numerical superiority; Ludendorff also had seventy specially trained ‘assault divisions’ facing just thirty-five similar British units on the Somme battlefront.

This most perilous stage for the British Army – and, except for the First Marne, the most perilous for the Allied cause – opened in the fog of the early morning of 21st March, when at a quarter to five four thousand German guns were released against the British front, firing more than a million shells over the following five hours, while all the back areas were drenched with gas, which hung like a pall in the moist air. When the guns crashed out and the attack went in, the British line simply disintegrated: whole battalions vanished, never to be heard of again. Reinforced with half a million troops from the Eastern Front, the German Infantry made strong breakthroughs using airpower and shock troops to bypass defensive positions in foggy conditions that hampered the defenders. By the end of the first day, twenty-one thousand prisoners were taken as the Germans overran the British positions. Lieutenant Ernst Jünger of the 73rd Hanoverian Regiment commented; We had but no doubt that the great plan would succeed.

The narrative of the Somme retreat, however, was a tale of confused operations, improvised plans, chances, mischances, and incredible heroism. On the first day, a fifty-mile gap had opened in the Allied line, forty miles of the British line were submerged, and, in a week, forty miles off, the enemy tide was lapping the walls of Amiens. In the face of the German advance, General Carey was given the task of organising a last-ditch defensive unit to be positioned at Hamel, to protect Amiens. As well as infantry stragglers, ‘Carey’s Force’ was composed of an assorted collection of 3,500 soldiers, including kitchen staff and storemen, most of whom were not well versed in infantry tactics. ‘The Péronne Handicap’ was the name given to the ‘race’ by the 17th Battalion of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, in their bid to reach the French town before being caught by pursuing German forces. Forty-six out of the British Expeditionary Force’s fifty-six divisions took part in the battle.

Within the first week, the leading German formations had advanced forty miles, a penetration ten times better than anything the Allies had ever achieved. The attack had broken the British Fifth Army and nearly severed the British communications link with the French. German schools were closed to allow celebrations but they were premature. The advance was magnificent, but it was not enough. Allied reinforcements were rushed in while rushed in while hungry German troops slowed, gorging on appropriated food and drink. After a fortnight, the impetus had gone out of the attack and German losses were beginning to exceed Allied casualties. In their advance, the Germans had outstretched their supply lines and losses of over a quarter of a million men couldn’t be sustained, so the offensive was halted and closed down.  The Germans sent forward large Krupp cannons, capable of long-range firing, their shells able to hit Paris from a distance of seventy-five miles. The huge shells were in the air for three and a half minutes. The French capital was hit by 183 of them, which killed over 250 Parisians.

Ludendorff achieved much, but he did not achieve his main purpose. By 5th April, though, the main battle had died down, Amiens had not been taken, the front had been restored, and the French were not separated from the British. The ultimate failure was due to many factors; Ludendorff was false to the spirit of his own tactics and, instead of exploiting a weakness when he found it, wasted his strength on the steadfast bastion of Arras; half-way through he fumbled, forgot his true aim, and became a hasty improviser.

Perhaps Ludendorff sought to achieve the impossible, for his troops outmarched their supplies and their stamina, and, accustomed to short commons, lost discipline often when they found Allied stores to plunder. Yet he won a notable victory, and, to the ultimate advantage of the Allies, was encouraged to continue, for, had his blow been parried at the outset, he might have relapsed on the defensive, and thereby protracted the war. For his role in the success, commander Paul von Hindenburg was awarded the ‘Iron Cross with Golden Rays’, the highest medal of honour available. The only previous recipient was the Prussian Field Marshal von Blücher, honoured for his part in defeating Napoleon in 1815 at Waterloo.

For its part, the British Army had written a shining page in its history, for a retreat may be as glorious as an advance. By the end of March seventy-three German divisions had engaged thirty-seven British. The disparity was, in reality, far greater than two to one, owing to the German power of local concentration, in many parts of the field the numbers had been three-to-one. Added to this, after the second day, the British had no prepared lines on which to retire, and the rivers parallel to their front were useless from the drought. It was a marvel, war correspondent John Buchan noted, that our gossamer front wavered and blew in the wind but never wholly disappeared. He went on:

Again and again complete disaster was miraculously averted. Scratch forces held up storm troops; cavalry did work that no cavalry had ever done in the history of war; gunners broke every rule of the textbooks. The retreat was in flat defiance of all precedent and law, and it succeeded only because of the stubborn value of the British soldier.

The moment was too solemn for half-measures. A divided command could not defend the long, lean front of the Allies against Germany’s organised might, directed by a single brain towards a single purpose, one strong hand only must be on the helm. On 23rd March, General Haig, after seeing Pétain, telegraphed to London for the Chief of the Imperial General Staff. At the request of Lloyd George, Lord Milner also crossed the Channel on the 24th, and on the 26th he and Sir Henry Wilson met Clemenceau and Poincaré, Haig, Foch and Pétain at Doullens. This conference, held amid the backwash of ‘the great retreat’, was, in a sense, the turning point of the war. The proposal for a supreme commander-in-chief, urged by Milner and supported by Clemenceau, was accepted and Pétain and welcomed by Haig, and for the post, Foch was chosen unanimously. The Allies in their extremity turned with one accord to the slight, grizzled, deep-eyed man of sixty-six, who during a life of labour had made himself into a master of warfare.

The ordeal of the Second Battle of the Somme was the source of other blessings, though some of them were somewhat mixed. The renowned Australian Corps had come under the command of the British Army’s General Rawlinson in early 1918. He was pleased, if bemused by the troops, as he wrote in his diary:

They are certainly original fighters and up to all sorts of dodges, some of which would shock a strict disciplinarian. Some of the German shells were falling short into the pools of the Somme river and exploded under water. Two Australians spent the day in a boat rowing about and watching for a shell to explode and then picked up the stunned fish. They wore their gas masks to prevent recognition!

The US increased its recruiting and strained every nerve to quicken the dispatch of troops, so that it might soon stand in line with the Allies. Lloyd George and Clemenceau appealed to President Wilson and their appeal was generously met. General Pershing postponed his plan of a separate American section of operations and offered Foch every man, gun and lorry which they had in Europe. France was showing that quiet and stoic resolution to win or perish which two years before had inspired her troops at Verdun. In Britain, the threat of industrial strikes disappeared and of their own accord the workers gave up their Easter holiday in order to make up by an increased output for lost guns and stores.

Nonetheless, when King George visited his armies in France in the last days of March, the situation was still on a razor’s edge. He had gone there for a week during the flood-tide of the first Battle of the Somme and again, accompanied by the Queen, on the eve of Passchendaele. Now he went to them in the throes of their sternest trial. He saw remnants of battalions which had been through the retreat, and he saw units which in a week or two were to be engaged in the no less desperate Battle of the Lys. Already his armies had lost more men in the German offensive than in the whole thirty-four week Dardanelles campaign. His appeal to his troops now was to “take counsel from the valour of their hearts”, an appeal which, two weeks later, Haig put into his own grave and memorable words.

In the meantime, divisions were being transferred from Palestine and Salonica to France and the old precautions against invasion were dropped. On 10th April, the House of Commons had passed a Bill raising the limit of the military age to fifty, and giving the Government power to abolish the ordinary exemptions. These mobilisations meant that within a month from 21st March, 355,000 extra men were sent across the Channel.

However, few of these reinforcements arrived in time to soften Ludendorff’s second blow, which came on 1st April. Originally designed as a mere diversion, Operation Georgette, it grew by its startling success into a major effort, the Battle of the Lys, and thereby further compromised his main strategy. His aim was to drive for Ypres, pushing through between La Bassée and Armentiéres and then, pressing north-west, to capture Hazelbrouck and the hills beyond Bailleul. This would, he hoped, result in a British retirement and a direct threat to Calais and Boulogne, eating up the Allied reserves. That it achieved, but it also ate up his own reserves.

Depleted British units which had been involved in the great retreat across the Somme of the previous month were now stationed on what was known as a ‘quiet sector’. Portuguese troops were also in the line here, but were under strength and lacking motivation; a third became casualties as the Germans broke through. In three days they had advanced eleven miles,  and Allied troops were moved in hastily to stem the tide. For a week or more he met stern resistance from the British, against all the odds, in what became known as the Fourth Battle of Ypres (9-29 April). Haig’s patience was sorely tried by Foch’s delay in sending help, but on 11th April, with the Allies under severe threat by the onslaught, Haig issued his famous order:

There is no other course open to us but to fight it out. Every position must be held to the last man; there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end. The safety of our homes and the freedom of mankind depend alike on the conduct of each one of us at this critical moment.

The British front sagged and bent, but held, and by the end of April Ludendorff realised that he must try elsewhere, and called off the offensive at the end of the month. His second blow had proved yet another tactical success, but a strategic failure. He was now becoming desperate; his original strategic scheme had gone, and his remaining efforts were now in the nature of a gambler’s throw. The Fourth Battle of Ypres also became known for the first combat between two tanks, or ‘armed tortoises’ as they were first described by Lieutenant Frank Mitchell of the British Tank Corps. Three British Mark IV’s faced three German A7Vs. The British were the victors in this first historic engagement, which took place on 24 April at Villers-Bretonneux. Overall, the April attack had forced the Allies to abandon all the territory they had so dearly bought in the Passchendaele campaign and, for a while, had seriously threatened the Channel ports.

Norman Ferguson (2014), The First World War: A Miscellany. Chichester: Summersdale.

András Bereznay (2001), The Times Atlas of European History. London: HarperCollins.

Colin McEvedy (1982), The Penguin Atlas of Recent History. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

E. L. Black (1970), 1914-18 in Poetry. London: University of London Press.

Irene Richards (1937), A Sketch-Map History of the Great War and After, 1914-35. London: Harrap.

John Buchan (1935), The King’s Grace, 1910-1935. London: Hodder and Stoughton.

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The magic of a Secret Listing and the pipeline

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  1. Mark Nicholas says:

    All industry info is great to listen to and act on. Thank you.
    You speak of Australia service. Can you comment on NZ please.

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Battenkill Recap

I just wasn’t on for this race. My guts were in knots about it, and as a result I had almost no appetite for dinner or breakfast just prior. I knew this was going to be bad news.

Why the nerves?

This is actually only my second road race ever. Time trials, hillclimbs, cyclocross races I have heaps of experience in. Even crit racing at the track I have a fair amount of confidence in. But I’ve never raced for 62 miles. Never had to put out a race effort for longer than 2 hours. This was going to be at least 3:30, and as it turned out, it was more like 4.

I hung in the pack for about 30 minutes; about 10 miles. Everything seemed fine, and I felt good. We hit the covered bridge, I wasn’t paying attention, and as we exited the bridge, it was over. I was dropped instantly. Hanging so far in the back, I had no awareness of what was going on at the front, leaving me to react very late to everything. Huge mistake.

I spent the rest of the race solo, 52 miles into sustained winds that gusted to 35mph. It was positively awful. At times out on the open road I was barely moving. I welcomed the climbs, as slogging up the hills was far more tolerable than fighting headwind and barely winning. The worst climbs were at least 15% and I looked forward to them, so that’s where I was at. The flats were simply and hopelessly eternal.

After about 2 hours of this, I bonked big time. Between mile 30 and 45, I was in one of the worst places I’ve ever been. Total hell on earth. My head, my back, and my sit bones were killing me. I was begging for a way to quit, I just didn’t know how to do it. I hated life, I hated riding, I wanted to throw my bike in a ditch and just lay in the road.

Around mile 45 the lights came back on; I don’t know why. It could have been the caffeinated gel I popped about half an hour prior. I wailed all the way up Stage Road to the finish with great strength. It was a little confusing.

My energy output at the end was 4,000 calories.

For reference I spent 6,000 calories clearing 6 Gaps. That’s an idea of the kind of effort it took to ride alone in Saturday’s race.

The thing that pissed me off late in the race was being drafted by riders from other groups. I think it’s bullshit. These are riders who started at a different time than I did, and who should not be trying to benefit from my effort. Yeah, we’re all just trying to finish, but you shouldn’t be working with someone who is not in your starting group. Period. Mind you after I had spent almost 20 miles in a massive massive power outage.

I ended up as the last finisher in my Cat 4 group. 114 were entered, 100 started, and 8 DNF. I am more than happy with just finishing, believe me. I beat everyone who quit.

Now onto the pricing controversy.

This race cost a lot more than it did last year, and it wasn’t worth it by a long shot. A rider shouldn’t be paying $75 for just the privilege of racing. They should be subsidizing an experience, and the experience was just…whatever.

Bear in mind, this race had a multi-page feature in Bicycling magazine. It should be drawing attention like a magnet. And it did. But only from bike racers.

The pre- and post-race spread was very weak. Someone clearly has no idea how to handle this part of an event. I expected lots of vendors, lots of food, and there was almost nothing. In fact, by 5pm on race day there was zero food. Unless you were in an early finishing group, you went hungry. I walked away with literally the last remaining quart of chocolate milk, which I thought would be free, but had to pay for. It was local, so I had no problem paying.

Of course the Pepsi was free, which there seemed to be an abundance of. Brilliant.

There were five neutral pits along the route, which is great on a century ride, but here it’s overkill. This isn’t a charity ride. It’s a bike race. There was even a pit at the beginning of one of tougher dirt roads. You know – for off chance that you could predict that you were about to have a mechanical.

There were timing chips this year, which I’ve heard they didn’t have last year. Congratulations, but guess what. Races that cost less than half this much to enter have timing chips. One of the expectations of entering a race is that the event will be scored properly. I’m not paying almost double last year’s entry fee just so the event can have accurate results. Or maybe I am.

After figuring the race netted somewhere along the lines of $165,000 in registration fees, I fail to see how the race costs that much. In fact, it doesn’t. If it does, the organizer is inept. This race is clearly subsidizing the pro invitational race the following weekend, which I’ll bet few of the amateur riders will be coming back to watch.

If the pro invite is the following day, we all spend the night, hang out and watch it – in that way, it almost makes sense. But funding a race a week later – a race that I would have to drive all the way back for, paying gas, food, and another weekend of lodging – I think someone’s head is way up their ass on this one.

It’s really too bad, because racing these roads is very unique experience. But without major changes to the way this event is pulled off, I won’t be back. Right now, it’s being done a disservice.

So anyway. Rest this week. That’s all I have planned.

4 thoughts on “Battenkill Recap

  1. Bummer, sorry to hear it wasn't a good experience. It's pretty similar to the one and only road race I've done, except sounded even worse. It's taxing on the motivation meter.

  2. Bummer, sorry to hear it wasn't a good experience. Sounds pretty similar to the one and only road race I did, except maybe worse. It's taxing on the motivation meter.

  3. Plum–
    Bad races come and go. Look at it this way at least you gained some fitness–remember the big picture you are chasing 1:20 and you got closer to that by racing Battenkill.
    Mt Washington is your race–Good luck in August!

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4.11 Boyle's Law--The Weight of a Textbook

Chemical Concept(s) Demonstrated:  Boyle's Law and the concepts of force and pressure

  • Balance a textbook on the plunger of a syringe, and record the volume of gas inside.
  • Place on more textbooks, and record the volumes of gas in the syringe.

    The syringe's volume decreases as more books are placed on its plunger.

    The textbooks create a force that presses down on the plunger of the syringe.  The gas inside of the syringe is now compressed into a smaller space, and the intermolecular collisions become more and more frequent.  This frequency results in an increase of pressure inside of the syringe, which pushes back against the books.  The pressure increase is related to the volume decrease of the gas in the syringe.  A plot of 1/V versus the number of books should be linear.


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Digital Trends Blog | 2018’s Predictions, Hit Or Miss?

We use January as a time to review the past year, the developments, the triumphs, the trends and of course, the fails.  It’s also the time of the year where a predictions are made for the year ahead; last year predictions were made for 2018, digital trends, tech trends, business growth predictions, so in the interest of growing and learning, this digital trends blog will be taking a look at the hits and the misses of 2018!

Which digital trends predictions have or have not made it?

Digital Trend #1 Artificial Intelligence

AI is one of the greatest phenomenons of recent years, pegged for big things in almost every digital trends blog in 2018, to change all areas of industry and 2018, although we’re sure AI has by no means peaked yet, was a successful year.  It was predicted that AI would begin and continue to be incorporated into a wide variety of apps; one of the most popular and pioneering adapters of the technology has to be Snapchat whose use of AI has been early, constant, mainstream and fun!

Digital Trend #2 Chat & Apps

The use of chat interaction between brands and individuals was growing prior to 2018 but was set to continue to grow, and did.  The use of chatbots is a topic which raises mixed views, as to how effective they are for customers. Customers want more say, more interaction with brands and, in a digital world, a simple, convenient way to do it, this much we know.  Apps such as Whatsapp have so far been a little like uncharted territory for communicating with customers, and therefore minimally used for this purpose, despite its over 1.5 billion users (2018).  However content , brand content, will be shared via these platforms, ‘dark social platforms’, so why not actively utilise it? This trend didn’t explode as predictions would have had it do last year, but it did develop, increase conversation on the topic and prepare it for a strong 2019.

Business Growth Predictions

Digital Trend #3 Data

Data was a big topic last year, while some of this was predicted, much of it was brought about by the many data breaches which were experienced by big brands.  Facebook was probably the most publicised and included the harvesting of millions of users’ data, closely followed by the changes to GDPR, introduced in May 2018 and regulated the way in which data is collected and stored.

The way in which data is used also developed last year, data is collected with everything we do online, and it can be used to personalise our experiences and target more relevant marketing materials towards us!

Digital Trend #4 Blockchain

Blockchain has so far been, on the surface, a slow developer, the rise of  Blockchain has been promised for some years. One of the most spoken about uses of Blockchain is in the financial sector, in which significant development continued in 2018, with possibilities in the sharing of trades, improving its accuracy – increasing the speed of oversees payments between currencies – and smart contracts which can also be used in legal and HR sectors to name only a couple!

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A year or so ago, I purchased a few items from what used to be  They have since changed their name to and have also changed a few things about they clothing they sell.  For one, it no longer appears to be sized for 12-year old girls.  At least 12-year old American girls!  Seriously, though.  A few of the pieces I got the first time around were sized incredibly small.  I’m not tall, but these definitely did not appear to be clothes that should be worn by regular-sized women.

Cut to a month ago: I noticed that lots bloggers were wearing SheIn clothing again.  So, I decided to give them another try.  Boy, am I glad I did!  They have on-trend items, which are quite affordably-priced.  Here are a few of the items I got:

Details:  Tunic Dress // Lace Top // Skirt

Every item from SheIn worn in the photos above was less than $20!  The skirt was only $14 if that gives you a sense of the affordability.  The one caveat about shopping on is that you have to be very aware of the sizing when ordering.  Although they have gotten better about catering to American body types, sizing does still vary by item and some items are one-size fits all or may change depending on the cut for the garment.  That said, I was able to stick to small’s and medium’s for the most part.  Note that I am also somewhat vertically challenged, so items like the blue and white tunic dress might fit others more like a tunic top than a tunic dress, haha.  Finally, shipping times can vary from days to 1-2 weeks.  To ease your anxiety, SheIn provides tracking information so you can plan receipt of your package accordingly! 🙂

Otherwise, I say, go wild and fill up your online shopping cart!  It’s a great place to back-to-school shop for teenagers, college students, and even young professionals like myself.  Wait…am I still considered a young professional!?  Gawd, I hope so!  😛

Until next time!  Stay ‘Chic’!

Pinspired Navy Work Outfits

Inspiration for my work outfits comes from many places, although Pinterest provides a great deal of inspiration on a daily basis.  I have an entire board dedicated to ideas/inspiration for my work outfits.  Since I surmise that not everyone who reads my blog has a Pinterest account, it behooves me to share some of my favorites with you in this post!  Here are some ideas for putting together outfits for work with a navy color palette.

Work Outfits in Navy,

1753cd49c5f9f53d57060c82659b3d7aThe images in this post were taken from Pinterest and do not belong to Chic in Academia.

All images with links to blog available on my ‘Career’ Pinterest board (here).  I’m in love with them all and want to recreate each of them!  What do you think??  Any favorites?  Let me know in the comments section below.  And, as always, don’t forget to follow along with my daily outfit posts on Instagram!

Until next time! Stay ‘Chic’!

Utility Vest, Jacket and Get Yo’ Fitness On Week 4

I think I have an olive green utility vest/jacket obsession.  I recently decided I HAD TO HAVE both a utility vest and utility jacket.  Both in olive green.  So, off I went.  I hunted both down and now am the proud owner of both items, with not too big of a dip in my bank account!

The first item I found was the utility jacket.  I first saw it on my friend Sarah of ShopsSRJ.  She wore it so casually and described it as the perfect ‘throw on and go’ jacket that, well, I had to have it!  So, I searched and searched and found the one below on eBay for $8.

Utility jacket,

Details: Jacket, eBay, similar here and here; Dress, Gap, here; Shoes, Plato’s Closet, similar here; Necklace, Banana Republic, similar here; Bracelets, Forever 21, here; Bag, Louis Vuitton, buy used here.

I love the length, the slouchy sleeves, and the fact that it’s light enough to wear during the summer.  Layers are important during the summer, particularly when frequenting air-conditioned places.  This outfit I wore to a coffee date with girlfriends, followed by a little bit of shopping.  Notice I’m wearing slip-on shoes and clothing that is easily removed in case I need to try on clothes and shoes in a jiffy!  A girl’s gotta think ahead! 😉

Next, I hunted down the utility vest I could not get my mind off.  I found it during a grocery shopping trip to Target, because you know I can’t grocery shop at Target without perusing the clothing/shoes/accessories sections of the stores, haha.  So there is was, in its $30 glory.  They happened to have a $10 off coupon available that day, and I also used my Target Red Card, so in all, I saved $11.50.  Not too shabby!

Utility vest,

Utility vest,

Details: Dress, old from Target, similar here and here; Vest, Target, here; Necklace, Walmart, similar here and here; Shoes, Michael Kors via TJ Maxx, similar here and here; Bag, TJ Maxx, similar here and here; Belt, Altuzarra for Target, similar here and here.

I wore this outfit to the office and my office mates seemed to like it as much as I did!  I’ve pinned some other combinations on Pinterest in case you’re interested in buying and styling it other ways.  Find me on Pinterest here.

Finally, don’t forget to follow my workout updates for the Get Yo’ Fitness On 6-week challenge here on the blog!  Week 4’s workouts are as follows:

Summer Program_W4D1 Exercises

Summer Program_W4D1 Summary

Summer Program_W4D2 Exercises

Summer Program_W4D2 Summary

Summer Program_W4D3 Exercises

Summer Program_W4D3 Summary

If you’re just now learning about this challenge, then look up workouts in my search bar to the right above!  All 4 weeks will pop up in your search.

Hope everyone has a fantastic week!  If you are at all inspired by these outfits, follow along on Instagram for daily outfit posts, here.  Don’t forget to leave comments, suggestions, tips, etc below in the comments section.  I look forward to hearing from you all!

Until next time!  Stay ‘Chic’!


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By David Daniels

A friend of mine was in church listening to his pastor preach on a Bible passage. Looking earnestly at his congregation, he said, "I've read this verse in several translations, but the one I like the best says ...." My friend didn't hear the rest of the sermon. He just looked down at his King James Bible and thought, "Pastor, you want me to change my life — because of the Bible you like the best?! How can I take you seriously?"

Today pastors are pressured to change their churches in order to grow. If they want to attract the multitudes, they must change the music, the seats, the sermon ... and of course, the Bible they use. One Bible is no longer enough — especially not the King James. So the newest materials for sermons, Sunday school materials, devotionals and even journals use multiple versions of the Bible!

Now it's not necessary to change your life by what God's words say in the Bible. Instead, you can pick and choose from a variety of versions to make the scriptures say whatever you want. But people cannot bring 30 Bible versions to church. No problem: they can be conveniently shown on a screen for all to see. No longer do we have to believe the words of God in our King James Bible. We can put our trust in whatever version (or paraphrase) is quickly flashed on a screen! After all, God didn't want you to believe his exact words, did He?

Yes, He did, actually. Jesus was very clear: "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." (Matthew 24:35, Mark 13:31 and Luke 21:33.)

We must not be ashamed of God's words. Look at Luke 9:26: "For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels." (See also Mark 8:38 and John 12:48).

But is there any difference between versions? Of course! Why do you think they pick and choose which Bible they quote in the first place? Look at just some of these Bible versions. Do they say the same thing?

King James Bible Other Versions
Matthew 16:25
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.
The Message Bible (MSG)
Acts 8:37
And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
New International Version (NIV)
Acts 3:26
4 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.
New King James Version (NKJV)
Romans 12:3
...but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
...The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us...
Ephesians 4:6
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
God rules everything and is everywhere and is in everything.
New Century Version (NCV)

Instead of trusting in man and his whim-of-the-day Bible version, trust only what God's people gave their lives to preserve: God's words in English, the King James Bible.

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Hubs and I ventured out to our new local eatery ‘New Spot’ for brunch today which is just off westheimer and grey falls (like 0.5 miles from house!) It was so awesome to be able to WALK for brunch AND the food was great along with fresh delicious coffee (I’m game for any options outside of the usual Starbucks!)!

I love a good mocha, it’s my guilty pleasure!!

I had the waffle sandwich which was soooo good – eggs, spicy sausage, cheese and bacon! What diet?!

Hubs had the fusion tacos and ketchup eggs!

Definitely recommend trying it out especially if you are living on the west side like us!

Even our baby cub was happy!!

Wait, I’m not done they also have live music / beer / wine!!! Hello new favorite hang out spot just down the street!

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Feature articles in the 2021 Spring Voice include

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  • Reimagining Relevance: The Key to Returning to Revenue
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  • Beating Burnout and the Stress Cycle: An Interview with Conductor Amelia Nagoski

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Gretchen Kuhrmann is the director of Choralis, a Northern Virginia-based chorus that will perform Bob Chilcott’s Requiem at the Chorus America conference on June 12. Chorus America asked her about the concert and her program to train and recruit young singers.

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In advertising, we all know that making a good first impression is one of the most absolute important factor for success. It is a fact that many consumers are persuaded into purchasing a product not because of the qualities and specifications of the product itself but with their perception of the product. And for that to happen, you need to have the best effective advertising campaign. Creative an effective advertising campaign is a skill that many people or corporation would love to have. It is a skill that’s very hard to master. One needs to know the elements and factors that makes an effective advertising campaign. So how do you come up with an effective advertising campaign? Through brainstorming of course. Here is some brainstorming tips that can help you come up with an effective advertising campaign:

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Once again, the french fashion house is launching a new podcast titled “Chanel Connects” that brings together the most talented minds in film, art, architecture, dance, music, and fashion for an intimate conversations on the future of culture.

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With a stellar lineup of guests such as Tilda Swinton, Akram Khan,  Jennifer Packer,  Es Devlin, and filmmakers Lulu Wang the series is not only dedicated for discussing the challenges we are facing in the time of uncertainty, but also for bringing a bit of optimism and hope to the cultural industries.

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No one at Camp Jened could’ve imagined that those summers in the woods together would be the beginnings of a revolution. Just down the road from Woodstock, Camp Jened was a camp for disabled teens. Directors Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht (a former Jened camper himself) deliver a rousing film about a group of campers turned activists who shaped the future of the disability-rights movement and changed accessibility legislation for everyone.


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by Corrina Carter

After the Titanic sustained her fatal injury but before she entered her stern-to-the-sky death throes, crew members flashed a Morse lamp at a passing ship. The night gleamed with the brittle radiance of spring in the North Atlantic. The sea wrinkled and spread, wrinkled and spread, as quietly motive as blown milk. (At least that’s how I imagine the scene based on eyewitness accounts. An acceptable liberty, I hope.) In such lucid conditions, rescue was possible, maybe probable. But the mystery vessel, later identified as the SS Californian, ignored the distress signal, dooming over 1,500 men, women, and children. Their screams must have roused the slumberous water, if only for an instant.

Historian Tim Maltin blames the stars. They didn’t just shine. They trembled. Quaked in their berths until the world turned into a wavering, wimpling place. According to Lawrence Beesley, a British schoolteacher who survived the disaster, the heavens “seemed to be alive and to talk.” In other words, natural light outshimmered, then effaced the Titanic’s luminous SOS. The implications are harrowing. If the fate of hundreds can hinge on an atmospheric phenomenon…Is there any order to the universe? Any shape to fill or solid to touch when seeking purchase in the dark? Yet, when I reflect on the unseen cry for help, I don’t want to contest the facts, to beat them like a soft metal until they conform to the world I wish to occupy. Instead, I’m awestruck. Undone by wonder.

The firmament talked to Lawrence Beesley. He never revealed what it said. Perhaps it told him, as it told the first human and will tell the last, that his existence wasn’t sacred or precious or even valuable. Perhaps it boasted of its longevity, of eons spent watching the slow boil of the earth in development. But, if my own close calls, those adrenaline-enhanced moments in which I counted the delicate veins in a leaf or tracked the graceful flight of a songbird, are representative, I give most weight to this possibility: Aboard Lifeboat 14, feverish with cold and crazed by the hush that followed the mass drowning, Beesley received a message from a constellation awash in heat billions of miles away. Look at me. Look at me and ask yourself how you can forsake my beauty. The schoolteacher listened. In the morning, when dawn arrived in a pink blaze, ruddling the sails of the Carpathia, he was still alive.

Corrina Carter is a graduate of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University. Her work has most recently appeared in Alligator Juniper, Permafrost Magazine, The Fourth River, and The Kenyon Review Online.

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After the dubious decision of refusing to authorize ANY augmented security for the January 6th rally, DC was turned into a ‘Green Zone’. And it hasn’t come cheap.

Many are asking what circumstances can possibly justify having had more troops in DC than were sent over for the ‘surge’ in Iraq. Even now, thousands stand ready to defend against… some unnamed threat that our civilian law enforcement would normally provide a response to.

While Democrats love to make their various comparisons to Hitler’s Germany, others of us have wondered if this doesn’t have more of a Caesar-crossing-the-Rubicon feel to it, committing the Roman Republic’s taboo of militarizing the Capitol, which is viewed as the hinge point in history indicating the fall of the Republic, and the rise of an Empire run by a hereditary line of Autocrats in its stead. A de facto one-party state, if you will.

Is that security is justified, or is it there for specific propaganda purposes until after the show trial has been wrapped up? That is a matter of some debate.

Whether the justification is real or only imagined, the bill is coming due.

The Pentagon estimated Monday that it will cost American taxpayers $483 million to have National Guard troops protecting the Capitol through March 15.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby estimated the cost at $284 million for personnel and $199 million for operations.

The National Guard troops are staying in place through former President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, which starts on Capitol Hill Tuesday.

An 8-foot tall fence encircles the U.S. government’s traditionally open heart topped with barbed wire.

National Guard troops can be seen guarding the perimeter. — DailyMail

Speaking of Julius Caesar, March 15th, for those taking note of the historical irony, happens to be the Ides of March. Do you suppose Schumer and company will have this show trial wrapped up by then?

So, we’ve got an 8-foot tall fence encircling the Capitol and manned by thousands of trained security professionals to stem the threat of an unwanted flow of unauthorized people in a zone where outsiders are not permitted.

And yet, one of Joe Biden’s first priorities was to cancel the building of the Border Wall?

Interesting how when it’s their PERSONAL safety on the line, they will spare no expense. But the safety of some rancher in Arizona or Texas, the safety of some trafficked young lady (or boy), or US citizens dying of fentanyl smuggled over that Southern border, it’s not much of a priority at all.

Biden’s administration is already burning through money like it’s going out of style. This only serves to make it worse.

A ‘show of strength’ is one thing. And then there’s whatever the hell this was.

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 Magnificat's tribute to Thomas Tallis, the Father of English Church Music, offers music from four to forty singers ranging from the transcendent simplicity of Te lucis ante terminum to the incomparable tour-de-force Spem in alium for forty voices. The latter is a simply spectacular performance which earned a Gramophone 'Editor's Choice' plaudit:‘This is quite the best performance of Tallis's 40-part Spem in alium that I have heard'. Magnificat's clear melodic lines, rich vocal textures and sense of spaciousness all contribute to create a well-nigh perfect performance of this mesmerising Renaissance polyphony.

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'In Queene Elizabeths time there was a songe sent into England of 30 parts (whence the Italians obteyned the name to be called the Apices of the world) which beeinge songe mad[e] a heavenly Harmony. The Duke of ______ bearing a great love to Musicke asked whether none of our English men could sett as good a songe, & Tallice beinge very skillfull was felt to try whether he would undertake the Matter, which he did and mad[e] one of 40 p[ar]ts which was songe in the longe gallery at Arundell house which so farre surpassed the other th[a]t the Duke hearinge of the songe tooke his chayne of gold from of his necke & putt yt about Tallice his necke & gave yt him.' Anon.

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While our government is demanding that BP pay up for the oil disaster in the Gulf, it is offering up billions of Americans’ hard earned money to another high risk energy player — the wealthy nuclear power industry to build costly new nuclear reactors. Will this be another disaster waiting to happen?

Today the utility giant Southern Company agreed to the terms of its portion of the $8.3 billion conditional loan guarantee awarded by the Obama Administration back in February for the proposed two new reactors it wants to build along with its utility partners at Plant Vogtle in Georgia. So now U.S. taxpayers are officially on the hook if the project goes belly up. Which given the nuclear industry’s past track record, is a likely scenario. Many of the problems with these nuclear loan guarantees are in the aptly titled report, All Risk, No Reward for Taxpayers and Ratepayers.

And does the taxpayer have access to the terms of this expensive agreement? No way. The AJC reports that Southern Company negotiated a “range.” Unlike what Americans are dealing with when  they go to the bank to buy a house and are told they need to put 20% down to secure the loan, the government has kept it a secret as to what utilities pursuing new reactors will have to “put down” to secure the loan. This secrecy in spite of the fact that taxpayers will foot the bill if the project defaults.

Southern Alliance for Clean Energy  has tried to access information about the Vogtle nuclear loan guarantee through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in March by our legal counsel at Emory’s Turner Environmental Law Clinic to the Department of Energy, the agency overseeing the controversial nuclear loan guarantee program. And what was the response?

Acknowledgment of receiving the FOIA request. And then silence. So we tried again in May. And still not an ounce of information about the terms of the conditional loan guarantee in spite of the commitment to transparency in government that the Administration has promised.

This is apparently what it takes to build new reactors today: billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies (see what more may be in store given Friends of the Earth’s analysis of the Kerry Lieberman climate legislation), back room secret negotiations between the government and wealthy corporate interests, and a streamlined licensing process that severely limits public participation.

We believe the nuclear loan guarantee program is a raw deal for taxpayers and a heyday for nuclear proponents. Nuclear socialism triumphs again — what a “renaissance” this is turning out to be.

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My feet are in Dublin but my mind has been left somewhere between Leon and Astorga on the dusty trail.

All who I have met, broke bread and shared stories with are close to Santiago at this stage. How I wish I had continued my journey with them. But alas!, I must return to reality. I have heaps to write about and I hope to do so over the next few weeks. I also have made plans for May 2018 so my way is still being walked. More of that to come. I am blessed to live so close to a treasure that is the Camino. Every year it gives me time to think, to switch off, to have time alone and share conundrums with total strangers. No judgement is made or received. I made some difficult decisions over these few weeks which can be hard to make in the midst of the noise of everyday life.

It’s difficult to sum up in a sentence what this particular Camino meant to me. Each morning, I would start walking in the dark with only a torch to guide me. I would listen to music until the sun climbed over the horizon. One particular song hit home. It is called “Scare away the dark” by Passenger. I listened to this most mornings, maybe twice or three times. Listen yourself to the lyrics, the words struck a chord for me. We should all live and love without fear or consequence. Our time on this blue dot is not long. Keep it simple, treat everyone the same as you would like to be treated yourself and most of all, do what makes you happy.

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True or False: There are some people that don’t deserve any mercy and there are many people that do deserve mercy.

(WARNING: we’re heading into DEEP theological waters, so put your spiritual scuba gear on…or learn to breath GOD! The stakes? Your eternal fate.)

And before I give the answer to my little quiz, please consider this question: Does a man who’s spent his whole life as a “good person” (activist, philanthropist, humanitarian, etc.) deserve the Lake of Fire (Revelation 20:10-15) as much as a Stalin, Hitler or Amin? If not, then why does he still wind up there?

It may be that you–for some reason–disagree that “good” people could be fated for the Lake of Fire (or that the Lake of Fire even exists). I myself think and write according to a core set of axioms that define reality from a Biblical perspective; a perspective that, if true, needs to be brought to the attention of every human being alive on Planet Earth with the utmost urgency.

Salvation itself obtains its importance, value and urgency from That which humanity (in its entirety) must be saved from if it is to escape extinction: the Wrath of GOD as expressed in the Lake of Fire. And if the Bible is historically and prophetically accurate (and we have an overwhelming mountain of evidence that tells us it is), then The Lake of Fire is the Unavoidable Fate of every human soul–“good” or “bad”–WITHOUT EXCEPTION.

Why? For One Simple Reason: we are all incapable of doing what GOD created us to do, which is to LIVE, THINK AND FEEL THE WAY GOD DOES. GOD is SPIRIT; why else would He make a physical clone of Himself (Adam, Genesis 1:26-28) if not to fill that clone with His Fullness that it may rule and reign over the physical creation as He Himself would if He were in fact physical???

And since we have failed our Purpose, in the Eyes of GOD we have no real reason to exist. All of the philosophy, art, order, inventions and infrastructure we have produced at best only serves our own self-aggrandizement rather than succeeding in the least to impress GOD enough to spare us for our betrayal of His Nature and Goodness, which are more superior to our virtues than the largest star is to our sun.

The decision as to whether or not you are thrown into the Lake of Fire is not determined one wit by how “good” a person you are, but HOW WELL YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU NEED GOD (Who is truly Good) WITH YOU AND INSIDE YOU.

This simple Truth wipes out with one Divine stroke the entire conventional concept of religion with its “knowledge” of good and evil and all the degrees of shades in between the two. No sinner (and every human IS a sinner) deserves Divine Mercy…not even a little; that’s what makes Mercy/Grace so precious and priceless. It’s no longer a matter of climbing into GOD’s Favor when you’re “good” and falling out of His Favor when you’re “bad.” The Object of your Faith is no longer YOURSELF, but GOD, Who out of infinite pity and compassion completed and perfected your Salvation (and YOU, for that matter) BEFORE YOU WERE EVEN BORN (Colossians 2:9, 10)!

You WILL be thrown into the Lake of Fire if in your heart you see GOD as anything other than the HIGHEST ABSOLUTE NECESSITY. Such a VIEW is impossible to achieve apart from Divine Revelation (through GOD’s Holy Spirit) because nothing in the universe is as valuable to a sinner as their own soul, least of all GOD.

So if–in spite of the mental, emotional and physical gyrations we put ourselves through to try and make GOD more important than ourselves–we spiritually are completely incapable of breaking the chains of self-worship that bind us to damnation, HOW IS ANYONE SAVED from the Lake of Fire???

It is accomplished by means of DIVINE, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

“When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
“But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.” – Jesus Christ, Matthew 19:25, 26

First, GOD has to “re-inject” into the human spirit the absolute love for GOD that Adam threw away. This is accomplished in Jesus the Messiah, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit of GOD without a human father. Through Christ GOD not only restores His Image and Nature to the human race, but proves that a human CAN please GOD by means of the Fullness of the Holy Spirit.

Second, Christ becomes a Divine Sponge that not only draws away humanity’s sin and independent spirit, but its hatred of GOD as well.

Third, having become legally responsible for our failure to please GOD, Jesus drags our sin (not just our deeds, but our evil heart as well) into Death, destroying both Sin and Sin’s power over us.

Fourth Christ is raised (Spirit, Soul and Body) from the dead to demonstrate both GOD The Father’s acceptance of His Sacrifice and Christ’s ability to solve YOUR sin problem at every level.

Fifth, Jesus ascends to Heaven forty days later (1) as a proof of Heaven’s actual existence, (2) to reunite with The Father forever after the terrible trauma of The Cross and (3) to take His Place as humanity’s Eternal Intercessor. Yet in this Reunion mankind is placed “right smack” in the middle, for Jesus reunites with His Father IN THE FORM OF A MAN!!!!!!!!

Finally, when fallen mankind’s choices lead to their inevitable consequences and the homo sapiens race is brought to the edge of extinction, the Lord Jesus Christ will return to Plant Earth, all of Heaven in tow, to rescue His own and call every person who’s ever lived back from the dead to give an account to GOD; those that are unredeemed are condemned to the Lake of Fire, to burn forever.

(NOTE: I know that many have a problem with the idea of Eternal Punishment, but the clarity of the Scriptures leave little room for any other interpretation. In a future article I’ll state my case.)

And YOUR part in all of this? To confess (testify to everyone in your life) with your mouth the Deity of Jesus and to believe (trust) in your heart that His Death, Burial and Resurrection was in fact YOUR OWN.

Remember: you get neither credit nor merit for believing (Luke 17:7-10); there’s absolutely no reason nor excuse for any created being to doubt GOD, Who is TRUTH! Accepting a gift means you’re grateful; it doesn’t mean that you earned the gift or were in any way worthy of it.

In the end God gets ALL of the credit, merit and Glory for your Salvation, and you, due to GOD’s incomprehensible generosity, are clothed with that same Glory for all Eternity–FREE OF CHARGE!

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