Karnal Knowledge

MAY 9 2026 Karnal Knowledge

What I remembered in my reading this morning was the old christian ladies I've encountered on my stay here on earth. There's a different spirit. I accept that spirit. It's the spirit of the Lord. I felt it and have felt it. It's the world we're going to when we have our resurrected or transformed bodies. They won't be old ladies anymore. I remember the one old lady who lived on a farm that gramma took me to visit that one and only time. a few years later I was gramma's dependent, living with her getting drunk, getting high, running around with the ladies, and not knowing what I was going to do with my life. A hopeless case. I had forgotten what it was like to be a young boy. I had years prior discovered carnal knowledge and it had already ruined my prospects for a normal, happy life. I wasn't able to ever process the new information or knowledge I had gained. I was a torn and broken man from that day forward. I'll never be whole again like I was when we visited those old ladies. I remember 2 distinctly prior to puberty. the one gramma took me to visit and the whittington's later who belonged to the baptist church. that old lady and her husband had that same spirit. one of love and peace and you could feel it in the house. Just like I could feel it in the house gramma took me to. Later I felt it again when we visited one of my friend's Aunt's home down south. Another old saint. I felt it. That peace. Prior to that I felt it when Kent and I visited an older couple in the area around West Plains, MO when I visited his home that Thanksgiving. I felt that comfort, that peace, that quiet love, joy and happiness that abode in their home and in their hearts. It was a feeling to where I didn't want to leave their house and I wanted to go back to again and again. I've never felt that on my own. Not since I discovered that carnal pleasure was the way to have a family. and that's what life is all about. Pleasure. Pleasure I never knew except a few brief moments in my life. The rest of my life has been pain. Or just surviving. Enduring. striving and struggling. fighting and hanging on. but I still remember and the memories of those few fleeting moments gives me hope. Hope that when I die I'll finally be able to go home and find that same peace, joy, and love that I felt in those homes among those dear saints; eternally and never leave. All because of JESUS. We have this one hope, this one love, this one spirit, this one savior, and whenever we encounter that spirit we know we are with family. We live not by hope, but by faith. So this is why we endure suffering in the flesh. It's so we can become worthy of this calling which is eternal happiness in the Presence. By His Grace alone are we saved. Carnal knowledge not caramel knowledge. that's sweet.