Time is running out-The sky is falling....

The politicians and media are whipping up the perfect storm. Pressure to resolve the looming crisis is mounting. What can we do? Nothing. Time is running out. We can't wait any longer, they tell us. Why? I watch them scurrying to and fro trying to outdo each other with messages of doom. The sky is falling, the media says. I look up and see God. I know he is in control. I am totally amazed at his wondrous love and patience with me. He knows me better than I know myself. I can't panic over what the politicians and media are saying will happen next week if the crisis isn't averted in time. I have to trust in the Lord, and know that he holds everything in his hands.

So, what now? Do we, like fools, let the world lead us into a depths of despair? No. We trust God whatever happens. We lean on him, and not the government. We look up, not down...even if time does run out and the sky does fall.

Roll back time or can we do over?

It's funny when you look at something and realize that somehow, someway, something happened that you least expected. You try to reason it out. There is no reason of it. Sometimes you just want to do it over. Unfortunately time isn't a loop. Time isn't circular, but linear. The only thing we can do is learn from our mistakes, pick ourselves up and move on. I told myself that at least a thousand times. I know the malaise and resentment that permeates the whole country at a time like this. They don't realize that God is in control. Everyone wants that control. Are we all fools? Yes.

Lord knows us. He knows our stubborn wills that want control of everything. Once we get that control, we long to roll back time. I've been thinking about that a lot. I know a big part of my personality is that sense of control. I can reason it out, telling myself that it's only assurance that I will not be left behind. Yet I fool myself with this thinking. God's control is a lot better than mine. I can trust him, not myself.

So, I will thank the Lord and praise him for his many blessings. I will let go of my doubts and fears and place them in his capable hands. Only then will I be able to roll back time and do over those things that honor and extol his name.

Grateful for time and expectations of heaven

You probably think this is a weird title for a blog. Yes, I am grateful. I can't help but be so, even in the midst of all the chaos surrounding us in this world. Here's why: I know that none of us think of time as something solid. We tend to think of time as expendable and rightly so. We waste it. We try to hold onto it with both hands. We can't. All we can do is watch and wait. Some of us feel helpless. Yet in the midst of all this, we can be grateful to God. Again, you may ask, why? Because God holds everything in the palm of his hands. You can't predict what's going to happen tomorrow, but God knows. So I can be grateful for time, because God works through time.

At times like these, I ponder what the word of God says about heaven. I wonder what it will be like and sometimes wish time would speed up, so I could go there. Other times I'm grateful for the time I have here. I know that the Lord's time is perfect, and that he has a plan for me. I may not know it. I may struggle with the circumstances I find myself in. Yet even in the midst of that struggle, I have the assurance that God is there beside me. I do have some expectations of heaven.

Freedom to be-Time to be thankful

Yes, we celebrated another 4th of July yesterday. Did we think, however, of the freedoms we lost? Or were we too busy thinking of what's in front of us? Yes, we definitely need to wake up. What, you may ask, do you mean by that? I mean that we need to realize once and for all that we all have the freedom to be. No one has taken that freedom away from us. We should be thankful that we live in a country, so far, that hasn't denied that right. We aren't. We focus too much on the gross and the mundane, forgetting the sacrifices made.

I listened. I wept for those who would distort the truth. I wanted to scream for those that were denied the right to be. I didn't. Instead I walked away. I knew that the truths the founding fathers tried to convey to us were truly lost. Why? I don't know. I couldn't help thinking as the words of the Declaration of Independence were read that we are no better off than we were then. Did the people that listened to those words 235 years ago feel that the writer had captured their feelings? Or were some of them angry that those words should be spoken out loud? I knew from what I read that some were angry enough to make their voice heard. Would I stand up? Would I let my voice be heard?

Could I let it go? No. The freedom to be is too strong to be denied. It is a basic right and a solemn promise. I'm guessing those founding fathers felt the same way, just they also, as I do, focus their love and attention to the One who deserves it....The Lord.