Last month on my blogs, I posted that I would not be doing articles on November 30th because I had a court date. I had started posting material on http://christiangunslinger1.blogspot.com in relation to the legal matter but stopped after I got an attorney. The case was an eviction case where my siblings were trying to evict me from mom’s home. Mom’s home was in a trust set up originally for mom and dad. After dad’s death, it was for mom. I lost the case. In my opinion, I lost not because I was in the wrong but because the law allowed for the trustee to change what had happened in the past and what was promised in the past—to change history.
I am to vacate the property by December 31st. After prayer and thought on Christmas Day, I decided how to proceed. I believe and pray I am being guided by the HOLY SPIRIT. I am posting a letter today on all my blogs that I sent to my sister yesterday and am e-mailing to her today. My remaining posts for this year which will end Saturday according to my plan will probably deal with this issue. However, that is not written in stone. The library is closed Monday and Tuesday. I hope I can begin posting again after the New Year but that is not certain. I’m going to try!
The cast of characters:
Linda M. Smith—my half sister (We have the same father)
Lawrence (Larry) E. Vance—my half brother (We have the same father)
Billy (Bill) R. Vance—my half brother (We have the same father)
Lillian F. Stanford—my sister
Melvin Stanford—my brother-in-law and a Republican member of the Tazewell County Board of Supervisors
At the time the conflict started, everyone lived in Tazewell County except for Bill. He lives in Rock Falls, Illinois. Larry has moved back to the State of Washington. In 2004, he and I moved back to Illinois at approximately the same time. I moved back from Tucson, Arizona having lived there for 24 years. I arrived a few days earlier and did not know that he was moving back. Linda died in October of this year.
The letter:
Lillian
I could not sleep because of my situation and the pain that I feel. Pain not for myself but for you and your family and for families throughout the United States.
I started writing this at 1:30AM this morning—December 26th, 2012. I pray that you had a good Christmas. Regardless of the actual date of HIS birth, you should have. We were celebrating the birth of the most precious life in the history of mankind. The birth of the SON of GOD—the Messiah, the CHRIST, the SAVIOR of the world. And yet on that same day, as we in the United States celebrated HIS birth, statistically over 2,740 innocent unborn babies were being massacred within these same United States. We mourn the recent slaughter of 20 innocent children in Newtown, Connecticut and fly the American flag at half-staff. And yet, as a nation, we are relatively silent about the continuing MURDER of so many innocent unborn babies. Over the last 40 years we have MURDERED over 55,000,000 innocent unborn children.
And we, as a nation, lie to ourselves that somehow an immoral, illegal Supreme Court decision has made that mass MURDER into a “right.” We have MURDERED more innocents as a government than the Hitler empire ever dreamed of doing. And we smugly lie and call it a “right” and “women’s health.” Oh, how deeply we, as a nation, have fallen into the depths of HELL itself!
And yet some of us, in our small way, have worked to end the slaughter. You may remember that several years ago while I was living in Morton and giving of my life to care for mom that I asked you to sign a petition in opposition to the MURDER of unborn babies. I had signed. Mom had signed. But, you refused to sign. In our following discussion, you ended the conversation by stating that GOD knows your heart. You were right; HE does. HE knew it then and HE knows it now. The question is: where is your heart? Is it on the side of lies that come from the champion of liars—Satan? Or is it on the side of truth and justice that can only come from GOD—the CREATOR of all things including the miraculous process for creating human life.
You and I graduated from the same high school although I graduated a few years before you. In my freshman year biology class taught by Mr. Henry, I was taught that life begins at conception. Did they change that teaching by the time you were in the class? How can anyone support the MURDER of innocent unborn babies and claim to be a Christian and to be obedient to GOD’S will? How can anyone not work to save human life from mass MURDER and destruction and claim that “GOD knows my heart” in a positive sense?
Fast forward to today. You know that from June of 2004 when I moved back to Morton to about September of 2011, I gave my life to caring for mom. When I moved back, she told me that she did not want me here and she was going to charge me rent to live at the house. I think she was afraid of losing her independence and of me controlling her life. I told her that I was not going to pay rent for the privilege of caring for her and that, if I paid rent, I would live in the house as a tenant and not as a son. I would get a job, save my money, and move back to Tucson within a year.
After some discussion, she promised that I could life at the house as long as I wanted—as a son—and not pay rent. Under those circumstances, knowing that mom was a person of honor and a person of her word, I gladly stayed and cared for her without pay for the many services I provided. I never would have stayed in Morton without that guarantee from her. (I am not stupid.) After a couple of years of caring for mom she was telling people I was indispensable. And as you know, when I suggested to you that I would move if you wanted me to, mom shouted “No, don’t go!”
Also, as you know, mom had long term nursing home coverage. You also know that, when the monthly premium was approaching $500 a month, you, Linda, and I discussed and decided to end the long term nursing home coverage. You and Linda as trustees of mom’s trust although mom was the primary trustee. And in fact the nursing home coverage was ended and mom saved $500 a month and more in later years on nursing home premiums.
You know that we agreed that I would stay in Morton until mom died. The plan was that I would continue to care for mom and she would not spend the last days of her life in an impersonal nursing home. Linda even said to me as you also heard, “Please don’t die!” I said I had no plans on dying. I had said in the past that I wanted to move back to Tucson. To alleviate Linda’s concerns, I promised that I would not move until after mom’s death.
Then sometime in 2011, you, Linda, and Mel decided to keep mom permanently in a nursing home. And then without going into the details in this letter, you decided to evict me from mom’s house. Ironically or not, it was Linda who died first—not me and not mom who is still in the nursing home. I had warned you that GOD knows what is occurring and that GOD promised HIS children that HE will avenge those who do harm to HIS children. Romans 12: 19 (NIV) “Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for GOD’S wrath, for it is written: ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ says the LORD.”
I thought that with Linda dying less than two months before my eviction court case that GOD’S hand was involved. I certainly believe that to be the case. I don’t believe in coincidences but I do believe in the power of GOD and that GOD keeps his promises even if you do not. Obviously, since the eviction case continued and I was evicted, you were not convinced by Linda’s death. To me that means that GOD has more avenging to do. I am praying that you do repent and you do turn to GOD. However, I fear that you have not and will not before it is too late and terrible consequences result.
Without going into details, in 2003 an elder at my church in Tucson did me wrong. I agape love him and respect him deeply as well as members of his family. They were all good Christians. Google the obituaries for Phillip Biggers and Joan Biggers from Tucson. You no doubt will scorn this, but I believe their deaths were by GOD’S hand for the wrong done to me. GOD is just and HE disciplines even HIS own children. One of the reasons I moved back to care for mom was because of the 2003 occurrence.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. I do fear what GOD has in store for you and yours. It may not happen immediately. It may happen in a variety of ways. But if you do not repent, it will happen, of that I am sure. Based upon lies and broken promises, you have harmed me and have dishonored mom.
Since this conflict seems to revolve around money—the root of all sorts of evil, I am using Zacchaeus as the basis for my proposal. Luke 19: 8-10 (NIV) “But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, ‘Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.’
Jesus said to him, ‘Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.’”
Here is my proposal: I be permitted to remain in mom’s house until the end of May. In return, I will help get the house ready to do whatever you want to do with it. I am given the now $45,000 that mom had promised me—$5,000 for each year I stayed in Morton. This must be agreed to in writing by noon Saturday December 29, 2012.
If it is not agreed to and I pray that it will be but I am fearful that you will not repent, I will go nuclear. I call it my “Hunger Strike for Justice.” Justice for me and all family members who sacrifice for a parent and receive evil as a result and, more importantly, justice for the millions of unborn babies who have been MURDERED over the last 40 years in this nation. And that is exactly what will happen. I will stop eating and I will make it public. After noon on Saturday, letters will go out to all local media, at the minimum. I am willing to die if need be in order to bring about your repentance. If you do not repent, I expect that GOD’S vengeance will be even greater than originally. I pray that does not happen but it is in your hands. We are all responsible for our actions and for the consequences of those actions.
This letter will be posted on all my blogs today.
One good thing has happened because of this eviction. I started writing a new book entitled The Bold Church of Jesus, the Christ. I started teaching that material Sunday morning in one of our Bible classes. You and family are invited to come to the class this Sunday. It starts at 9:30AM. It is at the East Peoria church of Christ. If you come, enter through the side door that has the carport covering. Turn left at the first hallway, go past the first classroom on the right and past the hallway on the right. My classroom is the next entrance on the right. Bring a pen, we do writing in my class.
Praying for a GOD based ending.
Your brother,
