Archive for October 1st, 2008
Ardith is on her soap-box today about “Attending To Others.” “You must” she says. It’s a pity , she has no understanding of love. Christians don’t love because we “must” , we love others as He has loved us, because He first loved us ,and when His Holy Spirit fills us to overflowing with God’s love, we extend that unconditional love to others. It isn’t some hard task. Love’s flow simply issues forth when the Holy Spirit is not quenched. His love uneffectedly flows out of the heart and spirit like a bubbling spring of fresh water upon others. It is profoundly organic and the supernatural course of things when we are living in the will of God and are not encumbered with sin and quenching the Holy spirit somehow. It’s much like the glorious free flow of a beautiful river when it is not damned up somehow.
If the law of love has to be legislated and enforced by a church hierachy something is dreadfully wrong. There is a lack of Wisdom, and a lack of Understanding in that case because the Holy Spirit is squelched and quenched . It must be restored to bring Life, Truth, Faith and Light!
I guess I first realized that Ardith’s perception of love in action was defective and flawed , when I was deathly sick with pneumonia in February through April of 2003, when she never once called or visited me. Not that I was anybody special, but I was with her every day, I had served her faithfully, cleaned for her, cooked for her, worked at her store, paid her bills, dealt with her creditors, ran interference with her land lords, ran every kind of errand imaginable for her at that time for 14 years. I took her cats to the vet, I traveled with her, I used my own car and my own gas most of the time, I bought her underwear (her dollar) bought her makeup. I never asked for anything in return, neither did I want anything. I served Ardith and my church because I loved them. I still do.
She used to proudly say “Sherry runs my life!” Why then when I was six miles away did she not even one time in three months while I was sick and shut in , pay me one visit , call even one time , or even send a card? After three months when I was upset and asked her ,”why?” she had no excuse, or reason , but said I was being ”selfish” and only thought about myself.
I should have realized there was a problem three years prior to my own sickness in 2000 when Mary June Parker, Ardith’s mother died. Her mother had not seen her only daughter, her only child, for ten years at least, and before that very sparsely. She died alone with Ardith’s step-father by her side after a long illness ,never seeing her daughter even on her death bed. There is something wrong when one travels to the other side of the world to “encourage ” someone , but lets their own mother die without seeing them or even making an effort to make things right between them.
I heard Ardith say once or twice, “I don’t know if my mother is saved.” This just might have been one of those times Ardith speaks of today when she says, “He has asked that we attend to the poor, the sick, the elderly, the shut in, the dying, the mentally ill.” How much moreso when ones own mother is sick, elderly, shut in and dying!!” There is no excuse for such abuse and neglect of ones own mother! One of the Ten Commandments is to “Honor your Mother and Father” I suppose her mother was “selfish and self seeking” undeserving of love and mercy as was I.
By Divine Providence (I believe) ,a mature Christian brother who worked for HCJB (Christian Radio) stayed overnight at the Isaac House (Ardith’s home) once not long before Mary June’s final illness and death. He found out Mary June was Ardith’s mother. He knew her very well. He came from Mary June’s church in Colorado. When he found out Ardith was Mary June’s daughter and that they were estranged he wanted to help. Ardith in no uncertain terms refused! She wanted no part of any reconciliation!
All I ever knew her mother did to deserve such abuse and abandonment was that she cried at the Airport the last time Ardith left her ,and Ardith couldn’t stand dealing with her mothers “emotions.” Perhaps as Ardith says today, she should have “Set aside her own self-protection and stepped out and did it!” Perhaps she should have “taken the hand of her own mother who was ill and dying!” Maybe she should have “stepped out on the Fifth Commandment” of Honoring thy Father and Mother. No but Ardith went to her mothers home after the funeral and went through all her mothers belongings taking anything she wanted, without shedding one tear.
As I have stated, I was at Ardith’s mother’s funeral with Ardith. A lot of people were there. Mary June taught Sunday School, and always was very involved in her church. She was dearly loved. It was obvious that the Lord had blessed Mary June with many friends and brothers and sisters in Christ. It was obvious that she was saved. I thank the Lord that I prayed for Mary June many times in those 20 years I was with Ardith Keef, because those prayers I know made a difference. It must have been very difficult to have never seen her daughter even when she was dying, a daughter who claimed to be a Christian.
Personally, I have never seen Ardith attend to anyone. There was a woman Doctor that she visited once in a while. She did bring some supplies to missionaries , but so did the rest of us who went. She says she has led some people to the Lord,personally, I have never seen it. Whenever she went on Mission Trips she often would bring her bassoon , play concerts in various places, and add to her portfolio and to her resume’.
She loves to tell others what to do, how to be, and uses any time here or abroad to “counsel” and control people when she has no counseling degrees or schooling in that area at all. She “counseled” her present husbands ex-wife about her marriage ,and we all know how that turned out. Four young children grew up without their father, and the “counseled” woman raised them alone. Ardith married the woman’s husband! The woman is still shunned and called “possessed” and satanic after 14 years! She happens to be Maine’s, “Librarian of the year!” From what I hear from people who were there, the same scenario all happened before, with ten children and the counseling of another ex-wife. But that is another story!
So, be careful about listening to someone who tells you you must “attend to others” when they do not even attend to their own family and friends. Be careful when people say, “There is always time to attend to the need that is directly before you” , and they neglect and abandon their own mother. When they have to “legislate” rules and laws in a Church to “love” others theres a big problem! It’s called “cultism” and abuse. The Anchor Missionary Fellowship is devoid of love , empty of any Holy Spirit , because the abuses of power, manipulation and control over fourteen years has drowned out anything real.
As Jesus said of the Pharisees “They are a yawning grave!” One might call Anchor today, “A place of death!” The Holy Spirit is squelched and has little or no room or power to move. Nearly all that is accomplished now in the Anchor Misionary Fellowship Church are sounding gongs of leftover truths, mixed with a few meaningless , contrived “dead works” , along with Ardith’s twisted doctrines.
We continue to pray for the Lord to open eyes and bring Love, Light, sight, Life, His Truth and the power of the Holy Spirit to the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church leaders as well as members. I pray every day for God’s best for them. For the breaking down of satan’s strongholds and the pulling down of the high places of pride and arrogance, which beget the lust for power and control ,and that the cloud of deception that has overtaken the church will be broken up and disintegrated.
Anyone can be deceived. I was deceived for a long time. But God is Faithful and True. Today I am whole and free. So I can do nothing else but reach out with all that I am ,and all that I have ,to help and “attend to” my friends and brethren who are still deceived and blinded. Only the realization of sin and then repentence on the part of the leaders can bring a renewal of health and Holy Spirit life to the church.
At the present time Ardith and Bill Keef have another lawsuit pending against myself and my family. She wants this web-site down. Believe me if her name wasn’t involved ,and only her husband Bill Keef’s was, she would be telling him “You have no rights!” “Brace up!” “Look up and move on!” “Wait on God!” ”You must keep busy “attending to others.” Because Ardith’s good name is involved she oversteps her own doctrines, and in essence says, “Do as I say, not as I do!”
Praise God! They lost their injunction to have our web-site taken down while we are awaiting trial. We will stand up for the Truth at any cost, but we will obey the Law. As Ardith says today, ” It might be necessary to give our last dime.” So what? Any monitary losses or any other losses we incur are minute compared to the spiritual loss Anchor has endured through their deception, through the leaders’ lust for power and control. The Truth hurts at times , but facing it it is the only way to Freedom!
I speak for myself when I say, I love them too much to simply let them blindly go off into oblivion and the enemy’s fantasy la’la’ land, without putting up a fight for them! I will do all I can to “attend to” them. As long as the Lord provides the strength, I will be standing up for the Truth, to help my friends! It isn’t a forced “you must!” It is unconditional Love!