2. A note from Apprentice James

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I'm really tough with myself.

I'm really tough with myself, as is every enviable person that I've ever seen throughout history. It is as though they've realized they're going to be dead soon enough, might as well use this time when they're alive to do the most with their life that they possibly can. 


I love everyone, but I only find enviable those that are tough on themselves, not tough on others, tough on themselves. And I do hope that sometime my witness to that way of life may inspire someone else. Not so far, but I'm not dead yet.


If people want to be on the streets or in disabling impoverishment, that's not for me to change. But it is for me to make of my life and any resources I have a Solid Rock Island where the rare individual could to some small degree  find an a firm base for launching  their lives to a new level. A base camp, not nurse maids.


I'm 100% dedicated to that, and likewise the resource Master Jesus base camp. 100%. Which means there is 0% resource for anything else, including rescuing people. 


My master and Lord Jesus never did that. He helped those that were helping themselves, He Walked on from those that were not. 


And if he realized that he could not or should not save someone, that was not saving themselves,what kind of self-exalting fool would I be to try and do that?


How could I be so selfish and stupid make that mistake?


I will not. To make that mistake is to enable and encourage someone to let themselves drown. I will not.


Apprentice James





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