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1 Apr 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.01
Peacocks in the Mud God in Heaven, before I start, I want to thank You for healing my heart if I’d never been broken I’d never have needed any repairs if I’d never been choken I might never have come up for air * * * Many times I’ve...
29 Mar 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.05
Dear Will Smith, God loves you. He knows you're in torment over your wife's infidelity, and He says, "IT'S OKAY." It's okay to feel bad about it. It's okay to have a broken heart. It's okay to not support it, to be against it, in spite of what ev...
25 Mar 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.01
"The moment you cross the little wire gate and you're in Mexico, you feellike you just sneaked out of school when you told the teacheryou were sick, and she told you you could go home." Jack Kerouac Not only do you feel like a kid who just got out of...
21 Mar 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04
I was driving on I-40 in Oklahoma, headed west toward yet another destination I didn't know I was traveling to, when the line "interstate highway, psychedelic snake" came to me. The sun was high and in my face, and I opened my journal book and starte...
19 Mar 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.05
I have recently been made aware of the phenomenon of "monitoring spirits," a kind of spiritual surveillance by entities who don't have your best interests at heart. This awareness has caused me to hesitate in posting new videos on YouTube. Lately,...
13 Mar 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04
I remember something Clint Eastwood once said in an interview, expressing his distaste for people who said they wanted to be actors instead of movie stars. He said, "if you're working, there's no difference." It's a refreshingly working-class attit...
2 Mar 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
Licking The Fist That Feeds Is it because I’m alivethat I want to take a diveoff the brink of oblivionrather thanliving in a landwhere the houses built on sandand the churches built on quicksand? From the privacy of their own cage,mechanical apes of...
28 Feb 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.01
The sorrow I felt when Ashli Babbitt was killed in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021 was overwhelming. I posted a video on my YT channel entitled "American Prayer," which received a fair amount of criticism. The last time I checked, the like/disl...
18 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.01
When it comes to the arts, I'm not a believer in over-encouragement. I'm not in favor of discouragement, necessarily, but in this era of artistic relativism in which "anything is art because I say it's art," I think it's time to stop enabling artles...
11 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.01
I've been attending a church here in Mexico for the last couple weeks, and find myself in complete agreement with the music they play beforehand. Stylistically, artistically, does it do anything for me? Not really. But I find that, to my own surpr...
