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First Edition: December 2025

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You see, I was born from a Catholic gentleman who believed in naming his children after the saint of the day, so I was born on Saint Basilio’s birtday on June 14, 1939. Well, father did not give me even a 2^nd name like he with my sisters & brothers. Horror of horrors! Eventually I adopted ‘thia’ as my nick name since hardly anyone at the time had hear the name of my birth.

In 1986 I was living in Wilmington, NC trying to begin my life as a writer. My friend Mae Knight was my accomplice. She came out with the idea of attending a writers conference one weekend.We got there and joined the group prior to the beginning of the presentation. While individuals were discussing the meanings of their names, I inquired about the significance of “Basilia.” I promptly received the response: “It refers to belonging to the highest royalty of God, and your nickname carries the same meaning.” Can you believe it?

Okay Since I Am Sharing My Life with You …

New Stage In the Saga of My Life …

Silence …

Tuesday, July 29, 2025, at 5:08 am. Days come & go in silence for a while. I wait. On Wednesday, July 30, 2025, Diana took me to Laurel for the appointment with Dr. Pace for my eyes. I had lunch at McAlister’s.

It’s now Thursday, July 31, 2025, at 4:45 am. The last day of the month finds me on a quandary about my health, my environment, my relationship with the family as well as all in my path of life.

Entering The 8th Month …

Friday, August 1, 2025, at 1:40 am. August, noble, great, kingly, grand, excellent, imposing, impressive, superb, distinguished, magnificent, glorious, splendid, elevated, eminent, majestic, dignified, regal, stately, high-ranking, monumental, solemn, lofty, exalted, thus are the august surroundings of my life on these earthly grounds of my present.

The Why of My Existence …

To remember my Creator from my youth. Indeed! Gone is the uncertainty of yesterdays. The change and renewal of my strength and power is complete. It is time for me to lift my wings and mount up to the mountain close to my Creator as eagles mount up to the sun. From here on I shall run and not be weary, I shall walk and not faint or become tired.

O Well! By Faith Shall The Just Live …

Faith is the evidence of things not seeing. Although hypothermia and COPD have had significant effects on my condition, I continue to find strength in the written word. It is written. Yes, it is written about Jerusalem, but I am that spec of the grounds that encompass the chosen city named Jerusalem.

Quote:

Isa 40:1-31

(1)  COMFORT, COMFORT My people, says your God.

(2)  Speak tenderly to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry to her that her time of service and her warfare are ended, that [her punishment is accepted and] her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received [punishment] from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.

(3)  A voice of one who cries: Prepare in the wilderness the way of the Lord [clear away the obstacles]; make straight and smooth in the desert a highway for our God! [Mrk_1:3]

(4)  Every valley shall be lifted and filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked and uneven shall be made straight and level, and the rough places a plain.

(5)  And the glory (majesty and splendor) of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it. [Luk_3:5-6]

(6)  A voice says, Cry [prophesy]! And I said, What shall I cry? [The voice answered, Proclaim:] All flesh is as frail as grass, and all that makes it attractive [its kindness, its goodwill, its mercy from God, its glory and comeliness, however good] is transitory, like the flower of the field.

(7)  The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the Lord blows upon it; surely [all] the people are like grass.

(8)  The N1grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. [Jas_1:10-11; 1Pe_1:24-25]

(9)  O you who bring good tidings to Zion, get up to the high mountain. O you who bring good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength, lift it up, be not afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God! [Act_10:36; Rom_10:15]

(10)  Behold, the Lord God will come with might, and His arm will rule for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him. [Rev_22:7, Rev_22:12]

(11)  He will feed His flock like a shepherd: He will gather the lambs in His arm, He will carry them in His bosom and will gently lead those that have their young.

(12)  Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, marked off the heavens with a [nine-inch] span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

(13)  Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or as His counselor has taught Him? [Rom_11:34]

(14)  With whom did He take counsel, that instruction might be given Him? Who taught Him the path of justice and taught Him knowledge and showed Him the way of understanding?

(15)  Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket and are counted as small dust on the scales; behold, He takes up the isles like a very little thing.

(16)  And all Lebanon’s [forests] cannot supply sufficient fuel, nor all its wild beasts furnish victims enough to burn sacrifices [worthy of the Lord].

(17)  All the nations are as nothing before Him; they are regarded by Him as less than nothing and emptiness (waste, futility, and worthlessness).

(18)  To whom then will you liken God? Or with what likeness will you compare Him? [Act_17:29]

(19)  The graven image! A workman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts silver chains for it.

(20)  He who is so impoverished that he has no offering or oblation or rich gift to give [to his god is constrained to make a wooden offering, an idol; so he] chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks out a skillful craftsman to carve and set up an image that will not totter or deteriorate.

(21)  [You worshipers of idols, you are without excuse.] Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? [These things ought to convince you of God’s omnipotence and of the folly of bowing to idols.] Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? [Rom_1:20-21]

(22)  It is God Who sits above the circle (the horizon) of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; it is He Who stretches out the heavens like [gauze] curtains and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

(23)  Who brings dignitaries to nothing, Who makes the judges and rulers of the earth as chaos (emptiness, falsity, and futility).

(24)  Yes, these men are scarcely planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely does their stock take root in the earth, when [the Lord] blows upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind or tempest takes them away like stubble.

(25)  To whom then will you liken Me, that I should be equal to him? says the Holy One.

(26)  Lift up your eyes on high and see! Who has created these? He Who brings out their host by number and calls them all by name; through the greatness of His might and because He is strong in power, not one is missing or lacks anything.

(27)  Why, O Jacob, do you say, and declare, O Israel, My way and my lot are hidden from the Lord, and my right is passed over without regard from my God?

(28)  Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not faint or grow weary; there is no searching of His understanding.

(29)  He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength [causing it to multiply and making it to abound]. [2Co_12:9] End of quote.

(30)  Even youths shall faint and be weary, and [selected] young men shall feebly stumble and fall exhausted;

(31)  But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired. [Heb_12:1-3]. End of quote.

The Root of the Written Word …

The root of the written word within my being is now more than ever before bursting from the ground of my soul as the magnificent tree of eternal life. O death where is your stinge?

• It’s now Saturday, August 2, 2025, at 11:30 pm.
• Entering the 3^rd day on Sunday, August 3, 2025, at 12:05 am.
• I am going on not by my might or my strength but by the Almighty Creator’s strength & power.
• Psalms 37 along the whole content of the written Word is now my reality.

Quote:

Psalms 37:3-8 AMPC+

(3)  Trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) in the Lord and do good; so shall you dwell in the land and feed surely on His faithfulness, and truly you shall be fed.

(4)  Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.

(5)  Commit your way to the Lord [roll and repose each care of your load on Him]; trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass.

(6)  And He will make your uprightness and right standing with God go forth as the light, and your justice and right as [the shining sun of] the noonday.

(7)  Be still and rest in the Lord; wait for Him and patiently lean yourself upon Him; fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.

(8)  Cease from anger and forsake wrath; fret not yourself–it tends only to evildoing. End of quote.

There Is Silence in the Heavens …

It’s now Thursday, August 7, 2025, at 4:33 pm. Strange, I used to read the paper pages of the Bible but now it seems to me that I am reading those pages written in my heart.

Quote:

Amos 5:13-15 AMPC+

(13)  Therefore he who is prudent will keep silence in such a time, for it is an evil time.

(14)  Seek (inquire for and require) good and not evil that you may live, and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.

(15)  Hate the evil and love the good and establish justice in the [court of the city’s] gate. It may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph [the northern kingdom].

Habakkuk 2:20 AMPC+

(20)  But the Lord is in His holy temple; let all the earth hush and keep silence before Him. [Zep_1:7; Zec_2:13]. End of quote.

Well? My Silence Is My Worship …

Friday, August 8, 2025, at 10:00 am. Indeed! There is a time for everything. It is time for me to close my mouth for the moment. Time to worship in silence.

• And that’s where I am at today, Friday, August 8, 2025, at 10:00 am.

Here Are the Questions …?

It is now Wednesday, September 10, 2025, at 8:40 am.  Almost a month after I find myself in a weeping mood more so everyday as the time advances. Where is time heading? How long ‘soon’ can be? Today is already tomorrow. Weeping comes by night joy comes by morning. 

Yahushua Wept …

There are two verses in the Scriptures stating this matter.

Quote:

John 11:35 AMPC

(35)  Jesus wept.

Luke 19:41-44 AMPC

(41)  And as He approached, He saw the city, and He wept [audibly] over it,

(42)  Exclaiming, Would that you had known personally, even at least in this your day, the things that make for peace (for freedom from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin and upon which your peace–your security, safety, prosperity, and happiness–depends)! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

(43)  For a time is coming upon you when your enemies will throw up a bank [with pointed stakes] about you and surround you and shut you in on every side. [Isa_29:3; Jer_6:6; Eze_4:2]

(44)  And they will dash you down to the ground, you [Jerusalem] and your children within you; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, [all] because you did not come progressively to recognize and know and understand [from observation and experience] the time of your visitation [that is, when God was visiting you, the time in which God showed Himself gracious toward you and offered you salvation through Christ]. End of quote.

• Saturday, September 13, 2025, at 1:26 pm.
• Tuesday, September 16, 2025, at 7:15 am.

Wicked Ways? …

Indeed! The time advances. Where is time heading? How long ‘soon’ can be? Today is already tomorrow. Weeping comes by night joy comes by morning. 

The Joy by Morning …

Well, most certainly, Weeping comes by night joy comes by morning. This is my morning to enjoy the Presence of the Master of my being within my heart. But?

My Wicked Ways? …

Yes, my wicked ways have deprived me from the joy that comes after conviction & repentance.

• Tuesday, September 30, 2025, at 7:38 am.

Reflecting …

Well? This is the 3^rd Tuesday and the end of this 9^th month of 2025. Lots to reflect on. Longings for the Lost Paradise with all its implicated beauty. Conviction. Second chances. Choices. Power to choose life instead of death. Wisdom from on high. Peace beyond my understanding.

Now what? …

Who am I again? Where did I come from? Where am I going? These are the mysteries revealed to me as I go along day by day, moment by moment living in the sacred Presence of my Creator. One thing I know for sure, I have nothing to fear and all to hope for.

The Externals Against the Internals …

Honestly, the externals reveal the acts of my carnal corrupt nature. The internals are the inner acts of my Creator’s nature within my being.

• Tuesday, September 30, 2025, at 10:00 am’

Mysteries Revealed …

Interestingly, I started recording this matter on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, at 10:00 am’

Explanation: Ten in Scripture speaks of completeness in order, as the Ten Commandments set forth God’s moral law.

• Thursday, October 9, 2025, at 12:04 am.

Frustrations

What is it my Master that is troubling me? It feels that I can not accomplish anything. I go from one thing to another looking for things that I cannot find. I know I intended to start recording anew from October 1^st but evidently I lost that record.

What Is Happening Now …

I am frustrated with my health, with people and with myself. I am totally frustrated with the upcoming cataract surgery. On top of that it is fruiting for changes in in my working routine. I know without a shadow of a doubt that You are in control of everything in my life but I am hurting my Master, You know it. I wait on You.

• Tuesday, October 14, 2025, at 10:02 am.

This matter is for whoever is concerned with our eternal souls. Will expounded later.

Peace, peace, when there is no peace …

(Jer 8:11)  For they have healed the wound of the daughter of My people only lightly and slightingly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.

SAD! SAD! SAD! But …

That’s where we are right now. Is now Saturday, October 18, 2025, at 5:35 am. My heart is heavy. The weight of the past cannot be ignored despite many props at disposal in the theater of civilization.

Restoration for Israel and Judah …

Whether anyone believes or not God’s Word is written in the Bible. Right now I am fit to chew nails. Why? Well, past, present, and future in this so called ‘civilization’ is beating me soundly.

And I feel like weeping myself. I want to cry but my eyes are dry. I am angry. To hear the predominant chit-chat rampart on the daily basis wherever I turn around is devastating! But then again everybody is doing the best they can. Am I?

Yahushua Wept …

There are two verses in the Scriptures stating this matter. To repeat a previous quote:

1. John 11:35 Jesus wept.
2. Luke 19:41-44 Luk 19:41-48  And as He approached, He saw the city, and He wept [audibly] over it,  (42)  Exclaiming, Would that you had known personally, even at least in this your day, the things that make for peace (for freedom from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin and upon which your peace–your security, safety, prosperity, and happiness–depends)! But now they are hidden from your eyes.  (43)  For a time is coming upon you when your enemies will throw up a bank [with pointed stakes] about you and surround you and shut you in on every side. [Isa_29:3; Jer_6:6; Eze_4:2]  (44)  And they will dash you down to the ground, you [Jerusalem] and your children within you; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, [all] because you did not come progressively to recognize and know and understand [from observation and experience] the time of your visitation [that is, when God was visiting you, the time in which God showed Himself gracious toward you and offered you salvation through Christ].  (45)  Then He went into the temple [enclosure] and began to drive out those who were selling,  (46)  Telling them, It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer; but you have made it a cave of robbers. [Isa_56:7; Jer_7:11]  (47)  And He continued to teach day after day in the temple [porches and courts]. The chief priests and scribes and the leading men of the people were seeking to put Him to death,  (48)  But they did not discover anything they could do, for all the people hung upon His words and stuck by Him.

The Hope of Restoration …

Yes, I am coping with our human nature’s degradation for the most, but there are moments when the result of my own degradation hits me hard. Who am I to tell anyone how to run their lives? Anyhow, pain is a hard master, it drives anyone to the depth of insanity! No matter, as it is written, there is hope. There is always hope.

Quote:

Restoration for Israel and Judah

Jer 30:1-24

(1)  THE WORD that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:

(2)  Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.

(3)  For, note well, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will release from captivity My people Israel and Judah, says the Lord, and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.

(4)  And these are the words the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah:

(5)  Thus says the Lord: We have heard a voice of trembling and panic–of terror, and not peace.

(6)  Ask now and see whether a man can give birth to a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor? Why are all faces turned pale?

(7)  Alas! for that day will be great, so that none will be like it; it will be the time of Jacob’s [unequaled] trouble, but he will be saved out of it. [Mat_24:29-30; Rev_7:14]

(8)  For it will come to pass in that day, says the Lord of hosts, that I will break [the oppressor’s] yoke from your neck, and I will burst your bonds; and strangers will no more make slaves of [the people of Israel].

(9)  But they will serve the Lord their God and David’s [descendant] their King, Whom I will raise up for them. [Jer_23:5]

(10)  Therefore fear not, O My servant Jacob, says the Lord, nor be dismayed or cast down, O Israel; for behold, I will save you out of a distant land [of exile] and your posterity from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return and will be quiet and at ease, and none will make him afraid or cause him to be terrorized and to tremble.

(11)  For I am with you, says the Lord, to save you; for I will make a full and complete end of all the nations to which I have scattered you, but I will not make a full and complete end of you. But I will correct you in measure and with judgment and will in no sense hold you guiltless or leave you unpunished.

(12)  For thus says the Lord: Your hurt is incurable and your wound is grievous.

(13)  There is none to plead your cause; for [the pressing together of] your wound you have no healing [device], no binding plaster.

(14)  All your lovers (allies) have forgotten you; they neither seek, inquire of, or require you. For I have hurt you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel and merciless foe, because of the greatness of your perversity and guilt, because your sins are glaring and innumerable.

(15)  Why do you cry out because of your hurt [the natural result of your sins]? Your pain is deadly (incurable). Because of the greatness of your perversity and guilt, because your sins are glaring and innumerable, I have done these things to you.

(16)  Therefore all who devour you will be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity. And they who despoil you will become a spoil, and all who prey upon you will I give for a prey.

(17)  For I will restore health to you, and I will heal your wounds, says the Lord, because they have called you an outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no one seeks after and for whom no one cares!

(18)  Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will release from captivity the tents of Jacob and have mercy on his dwelling places; the city will be rebuilt on its own [old] moundlike site, and the palace will be dwelt in after its former fashion.

(19)  Out of them [city and palace] will come songs of thanksgiving and the voices of those who make merry. And I will multiply them, and they will not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.

(20)  Their children too shall be as in former times, and their congregation shall be established before Me, and I will punish all who oppress them.

(21)  And their prince will be one of them, and their ruler will come from the midst of them. I will cause him to draw near and he will approach Me, for who is he who would have the boldness and would dare [on his own initiative] to approach Me? says the Lord.

(22)  Then you will be My people, and I will be your God. [Jer_7:23]

(23)  Behold, the tempest of the Lord has gone forth with wrath, a sweeping and gathering tempest; it shall whirl and burst upon the heads of the wicked.

(24)  The fierce anger and indignation of the Lord shall not turn back until He has executed and accomplished the thoughts and intents of His mind and heart. In the latter days you shall understand this.

For I am with you, says the Lord, to save you; for I will make a full and complete end of all the nations to which I have scattered you, but I will not make a full and complete end of you. But I will correct you in measure and with judgment and will in no sense hold you guiltless or leave you unpunished.  (Jer 30:11)

There is Hope. There is ALWAYS HOPE …

Well? Just about now I am getting rid of my anger. Saturday, October 18, 2025, at 11:37 am. Later! It is now Sunday, October 19, 2025 at 7:42 pm. Reading the Scriptures that my Master inspires me to read does wonders for my soul.

Quote:

Romans 8:18-28

[But what of that?] For I consider that the sufferings of this present time (this present life) are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and for us and conferred on us!  (19)  For [even the whole] creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God’s sons to be made known [waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship].  (20)  For the creation (nature) was subjected to frailty (to futility, condemned to frustration), not because of some intentional fault on its part, but by the will of Him Who so subjected it–[yet] with the hope [Ecc_1:2]  (21)  That nature (creation) itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and corruption [and gain an entrance] into the glorious freedom of God’s children.  (22)  We know that the whole creation [of irrational creatures] has been moaning together in the pains of labor until now. [Jer_12:4, Jer_12:11]  (23)  And not only the creation, but we ourselves too, who have and enjoy the firstfruits of the [Holy] Spirit [a foretaste of the blissful things to come] groan inwardly as we wait for the redemption of our bodies [from sensuality and the grave, which will reveal] our adoption (our manifestation as God’s sons).  (24)  For in [this] hope we were saved. But hope [the object of] which is seen is not hope. For how can one hope for what he already sees?  (25)  But if we hope for what is still unseen by us, we wait for it with patience and composure.  (26)  So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.  (27)  And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the [Holy] Spirit [what His intent is], because the Spirit intercedes and pleads [before God] in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God’s will. [Psa_139:1-2]  (28)  We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.

Closing for now. Sunday, October 19, 2025, at 7:47 pm.

Why Am I So Angry …?

Monday, October 20, 2025, at 12:55 pm. Ha! I was so angry yesterday I could not even think but that was a good thing. Thinking out the answers has been my problem. Like many times before I quit the mad thoughts. The answer came eventually.

• Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 9:02 am.
• It was October 21, 1986.

Be Angry and Sin Not …?

Quote:

Eph 4:26-27

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath, neither give place to the devil.

Jeremiah 15:17-21

I have not joined the people in their merry feasts. I sit alone beneath the hand of God. I burst with indignation at their sins. Yet you have failed me in my time of need! You have let them keep right on with all their persecutions. Will they never stop hurting me? Your help is as uncertain as a seasonal mountain brook—sometimes a flood, sometimes as dry as a bone.

” The Lord replied: “Stop this foolishness and talk some sense! Only if you return to trusting me will I let you continue as my spokesman. You are to influence them, not let them influence you! They will fight against you like a besieging army against a high city wall. But they will not conquer you, for I am with you to protect and deliver you, says the Lord. Yes, I will certainly deliver you from these wicked men and rescue you from their ruthless hands.” End of quote.

Why The Quotes …?

Well, some 29 years ago I found myself in the same conundrum I found myself yesterday. Conundrum? It is a word for puzzle, problem, riddle, enigma, etc. But in truth, I was consumed by my need for control.

The Need for Control …?

The need for control is the chain around our necks threatening to suffocate life out of us. We want to control not only our lives but everything near and far from us.