The Christianville Spirit
The Spirit that Inspires The Soul
August 27th, 2025 – TCS # 912
Believing Inspires The Soul, My Readers! Very Deep Greeting This Time, Christian! Well, It’s True though! It is better to Believe in Something than Hoping for Something.
I am led to Believe that If You want something to Happen, You believe in it! Now, Is it okay to Hope for Something? Sure. You can do that but, It is a Slower Process and It has kind of a Negative Undertone.
Let’s Just say that You hear that Someone’s Grandma (Whom They love) has
The Dreaded C-Word, My Code Name for Cancer.
Normally, One would say Aww, I hope that Your Grandma gets Better! It is one of Those imbedded sayings that Humans says, as An Uncomfortable Way of Saying that Grandma (it doesn’t have to be Grandma!) does not Pass of The Dreaded C-Word! Anyway, It might be better to be saying that You Believe that Grandma will (At least try) to Beat The Dreaded C-Word. Just a Theory! And, No, Just so You know, I am Generalizing and Not Referring to My Own Grandma!
So, Ya Know, In Life, There are Times when
We need Pep Talks to Help with Those Little (but, Seem Big) Mountains in Life that We had to deal with in Life.
Now, Baring in Mind, Of Course, You could argue saying that Said Mountain is The Size of Switzerland’s Iconic Mountain, (In Deep Voice) The Matterhorn! Or It could be a Mountain The Size of The Texas Hill Country, Rolling Hills until It turns Flat South of San Antonio when heading towards The Beach!
Either Way, It is a Mountain that You have to go through and Climb over and See The Shining Lights of The City Below,
I Remember that I had a Dream about that Same Thing that I mentioned some Time ago.
They say that Mountains happen when You are Meant to do Something or Go to XYZ Place, because That is What You are Destined to do, According to God and/or The Universes’ Plan
What They don’t tell you is Something that Rings in My Ears when I think about “New Thing, New Devil” I know that sounds a Bit Strange! “New Thing, New Devil”?!
It is Line from Pastor Joyce Meyer once said Many Years Ago that basically meant that Whatever New Thing that You are Destined to do, It will come with a “New Devil”. Sounds a Little Messed up to Me, Honestly, but That is Who The World works, Forked Up as It might be, It is What It is.
Anyway, My Mom was dealing with One of Those “New Devils” in What She was Destined to be Doing.
Now, My Mom and I have a Great Relationship and We communicate as Much as We can, with Some Boundaries of course. But, It seems that Whenever My Mom and I have the Greatest Talks is either When She is dealing with Something and/or Our Legendary 2 AM Talks!
In This Case, This is One of Them, We’re calling it
Atlanta v. Birmingham
So, My Mom and I have Different Ways of Explaining Things, You know what They say, “Speak from What You Know!”
Well, I Know Geography and My Mom knows Medical. Trying to explain Something Intensely Geographical is like Trying to Explain Why This System does This or That.
This Lesson wasn’t that Intensely Geographical only, because She and I have been to These Cities. To Be Fair, I have only Driven Through Birmingham but, (Technically) I have not “Been” to Birmingham but, Anyway.
The Funny Thing that Those aforementioned “Mountains/ Devils” is that They tend to Mimick The More “Destined Person”
So, First, A History Lesson. Technically in History anyway, Birmingham, Alabama WAS at One Time going to be Atlanta, and Atlanta, Georgia WAS going to be like Birmingham. That is until The Southern Railroad basically built the Railroad to Intersect in What is Now Atlanta. Okay, That’s Fine but, People still visit Both, Right? Yes. Now, It wasn’t until
The Soda Drink Company, Coca-Cola decided to Headquarter themselves in Atlanta, because for All Intents and Purposes, Atlanta was Growing! And, This is Where The Rivalry hit a Head, You see, Delta Air Lines was trying to pick a Hub to Fly It’s Planes out of. Well, Believe It or Not, There was a Time when They were going to put Their Hub in Birmingham, but, Like Coca-Cola, They picked Atlanta because Atlanta is Growing and Yes, Birmingham is Growing but, Not as Fast as Atlanta.
After The Olympics decided to Show up in Atlanta, then The Term “All Roads Lead to Atlanta” was Born. Because It seemed like All The Roads lead to Atlanta, Yes, You have to go through Birmingham to Get There, but People most likely want to go to Atlanta.
Now, to be Fair, Birmingham is (Technically) The Largest and Most Economic City in Alabama,
However, Atlanta seems to Get The Attention!
Now, We get to More Current Times.
So, (Allegedly) People in Atlanta will tell you that Atlanta has More Crime issues and More Traffic!
Well, Yes and No, Atlanta does have More Traffic, that is for Certainly Sure! But, It turns out that Birmingham and Metro Area tend to have The Most Crime,
Bessemer, Alabama (A Suburb of Birmingham)
tends to Hit in The Most Dangerous Cities List often
In Terms of Population, Atlanta has More People that Birmingham does, hence All The Traffic!
Atlanta has more Road Connections than Birmingham.
And, Of Course, That Old Joke about Atlanta Airport,
has to be Mentioned. “Whether You are going to Heaven or Hell, You have to Connect in Atlanta to Get There”
So, Yeah. Birmingham has always wanted to be Atlanta or
At Least, be like Atlanta.
So, as I told My Mom, “Be an Atlanta and Not a Birmingham!”. All in all, We will always have Mountains in Our Lives so The Best Way to deal with It and Climb It and See What’s on The Other Side. Because You never know, You might be in Atlanta!
Thanks for Reading The Christianville Spirit. Be an Atlanta and Not A Birmingham!
