As I was eating my breakfast this morning (after weeks of surviving on the free whole milk offered by the coffee bars of some local coffee houses -- flavored with loads of sugar and powder of chocolate, vanilla and cinnamon), I couldn't help but notice the Los Angeles Times headline for Saturday, October 6, 2007:

CIA doesn't use torture, Bush says

Really.

On the way to the public library where I am writing this, I was also handed the most beautiful postcard which I would like to transcribe here.

(FROM HOPE FELLOWSHIP:)

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me." -- John 14:6

"Therefore, whoever hears these sayings of Mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock." -- Matthew 7:24, 25

The house is you.

The rains, floods and winds are your troubles.

The rock is JESUS CHRIST.

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And what I, Claire Cruise, have to say is that Jesus Christ is alive and well... and chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.  

That's right, the TRUE founder of the practice of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the God of the Old Testiment: Jehovah. 

In the Book of Mormon, Jehovah reveals to his chosen people IN AMERICA that he will be born as Jesus at a specific time in the future.  There are also a great many secret teachings by Jehovah which are alluded to, but not revealed, by this AMERICAN tribe of Israel written about in the Book of Mormon.  

The secret is none other than NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO. 

And although Mormon Christians don't exactly understand it this way, Jesus IS the reincarnation of Jehovah: the God of the Bible's Old Testament... and true founder of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo -- which is just another word for life, itself.    

With the beat of your heart, chant: Nam-myoho-renge-kyo!  For the sake of our future... for the sake of our children.

-- Claire Cruise IS America