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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 12, 2025 -- THREE ~ Letters to the Editor ~ The Heppner Gazette Times will print all letters to the Editor with the following criteria met: letters submitted to the newspaper will need to have the name of the sender along with a legible signature. We are also requesting that you provide your address and a phone number where you can be reached. The address and phone number will only be used for verification and will not be printed in the newspaper. Letters may not be libelous. The GT reserves the right to edit. The GT is not responsible for accuracy of statements made in letters. Any letters expressing thanks will be placed in the classifieds under “Card of Thanks” at a cost of $15 Email to editor@rapidserve.net or upload to Heppner.net. Support local news To the Editor: I encourage the individ- uals who have voiced regret over the demise of the Good News Only column to sub- mit their news to the staff at the Gazette-Times. They can help, if needed, to get the write-ups in good shape, and the interest level of the paper will certainly go up, at least for readers who ap- preciate straight news and human-interest stories. If you don’t have something to share, you might have enough info on a topic or be curious enough about a topic to suggest to the GT staff that they check it out. Last week’s paper was an example of a combina- tion of useful information about what is going on in our area and how this can affect us and about fellow citizens—who they are and what they are contributing to the comings and goings of our communities. (I, for one, preferred this to out- dated “Sheriff’s Reports.”) I also encourage read- ers to suggest to people who do not subscribe to our pa- per to give it a try. Subscrip- tions and advertisements are critical to our small paper, our one reliably ac- curate, fact-based source of information, which is critical. Since I am taking up space, I will just add a tidbit that would have gone into the Good News Only: A thoughtful individual, when I wasn’t looking apparently, bladed the snow from my driveway last week! If that kind-hearted person will come forward, I will offer a reward of hot chocolate and cookies. Otherwise, this heart-felt thank you will have to suffice. Doris Brosnan Heppner, OR Wokexico Just when you think it couldn’t get any weirder. But then we should never underestimate the Woke when they put their heads together. The DNC recently rolled out its new rules with this intellectually muddled statement: “The rules speci- fy that when we have a gen- der-nonbinary candidate or officer, the nonbinary indi- vidual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced.” Just make it stop. This, folks, is what you get when you let Jello-filled brains make rules. Can we please just send these people to a new plan- et, preferably in a galaxy far, far away? It does need to be one that’s uninhabit- ed though. Any intelligent life would probably send them back. This gives me an idea. How about we relocate them? Let’s make it easy. Since we’re in the process of deporting crimi- nals anyway, let’s send the Woke folks south too. I’m sure they’d love to share a country with criminals, gang members, and Cartels. All that marching in the streets, yelling obscenities, flag-waving (not ours), and snitching on ICE won’t be in vain. Of course, they would be looking for someone to lead them. And since Hamas will most likely be looking for new people to terrorize (once Trump is through with them), I bet they’d be glad to oblige. It might take a little time to educate them to the ap- propriate DEI level, but it wouldn’t be long and I’m sure they’d be using correct pronouns and making sure their recruitment is gen- der balanced. While there might be a bit of a scuffle between Hamas and the Cartels, the Dems will see that there is no “gun vio- lence” by providing plenty of counselors. No worries about the economy of their new Woke state. They can create their own DOGE to make sure terrorists, Cartels, the Clin- ton Foundation, and the Bidens get their funds… Woke tax dollars at work. With Trump’s new bor- der security, there will be way less outsourcing of sex trafficking so lots of employment opportunities there. China is always ready to make a deal, and since Fentanyl is a pretty hot item right now…they’ll be golden. No more annoying, Bible-thumping Christians trying to shove the love of Jesus down their throat either. They’ll be free to pray to the climate gods as they worship the envi- ronment and say goodbye to earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, gas vehicles and other horrific disasters. Just one problem. They will have some explain- ing to do when their kids learn the (real) history of Wokexico. Come to think of it, between the abortion pill, LGBTQ, and the Trans factor, chances of a “next generation” are pretty slim. Would I really like to ship them all to another planet? No, except may- be a few…AOC, Pelosi, Mayorkis (kidding). What I would like to do is see them come to their senses. And I’d really like to see them repent and come to Jesus. This world is serving up some eloquently spoken lies and we all need discern- ment. So, I pray for that. Jesus, give us ears to hear the truth and a heart for you. Expose the lies and evil schemes and make common sense common again. “Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me,” (John 14:6). Susie Crosby Prineville, OR From the Archives Spiritually Speaking Father Thankachan Joseph Blessed Are You: If You Abide by Christ Last Sunday, we reflected on the call to Peter and the first apostles in the Lucan narration. Trusting in the words of Christ always impacts people’s lives. The same idea runs through this Sunday’s readings, as well. “Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose hope is in the Lord. He is like a tree planted beside the waters that stretches out its roots to the streams: it fears not the heat when it comes; its leaves stay green; in the year of drought, it shows no distress but still bears fruit.” (Jeremiah 17:6-8). How often do we trust these scripture passages as Simon and his companions did? It calls us for a deeper trust and faith in the Lord. The church is gradually moving towards the season of Lent. That calls us for a change of heart and mind. The main theme of Lent will be “repen- tance” and “come back to the Lord.” The first reading and the Gospel of the day stress a similar theme dealing with cursed and blessed. Anyone who leaves the statutes of Christ and lives by worldly norms and designs is considered as cursed and the one who lives and moves according to the words of Christ is described as blessed. The first reading from the prophet Jeremiah pronounces it like this; “Cursed is the one who trusts in human beings who seeks his strength in flesh, whose heart turns away from the Lord” (17:5). This verse doesn’t require any more descriptions. It is very apt and touching words of the Messiah to return to Him if we have gone astray from Him. The Gospel reading is from Luke (6:17, 20-26), which is described as the Beatitudes. I was reminded of one of the old stories I read some time back. A priest began his homily on this week’s Gospel by asking for a show of hands from all in the congregation who would love to be poor, starving, weeping, and hated by everybody. No hands went up. Then he asked who, on the contrary, would love to be rich, happy, joyful, wealthy, well-fed, laughing, and well-spoken of in the community. All hands went up. A similar survey in any church would probably yield similar results. Yet Jesus in Luke declares a blessing on those who are poor, hungry, weeping and hated. To make sure we get the point, He goes on and explicitly pro- nounces a woe on those who are rich, well-fed, laughing, and well-spoken of. What is happening here? Does Luke want us to understand that material poverty in itself is a sign of divine approval and material prosperity a sign of divine disapproval? Certainly, not! Poverty in itself is not a blessing but an evil, a lack. In fact, all the qualifying factors mentioned in Luke’s Beatitudes—poverty, hunger, weeping, hatred, rejection, reviling, defamation—are all evils. These are things no good parents would want for their children. Neither would God want these things for us, God’s children. How are we then to understand Luke’s beatitudes? The key to Luke’s Beatitudes is to be found in an important clause which he adds at the end of the last beatitude: “on account of the Son of Man.” What Luke is saying is that those who accept these evil conditions as the price that they must pay for following Christ, are the blessed ones. Some knowledge of the social background of Luke’s Gospel would help us here. Luke wrote his Gospel at a time of terrible social and religious persecution taking place against the believers in Christ. It was so severe that anyone professing to be a follower of Christ knew for sure that he or she would be disowned by family, rejected by friends, and exclud- ed from the synagogue. One immediately lost one’s birthright, free association, and social relationship in the community. Even if one was a very rich person with lots of land and farms, the moment they declared their faith in Christ, they were automatically dispossessed and reduced to a state of stark poverty. But the love of Christ and His message attracted them and enabled them to go through all these difficulties and hardships; because they knew for themselves that the one who called them will never leave them. I was reminded of the beautiful words of Paul to the Philippians, “There is nothing I cannot do in the One who strengthens me” (Phil 4:13). YOUR AD COULD BE HERE! Submit Ads heppner.net Call 541-676-9228 Email graphics@rapidserve.net February 16, 1978 Gazette-Times ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: MONDAY AT 5:00 P.M. 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