In Desperate Straits Once Again-The Struggle to Find Work

I didn't think I'd be here again worrying about paying for rent. I can understand that I should have gotten employment by now. I can understand that things are costing more and more. I am in desperate straits once again. I know I should trust the Lord, but it is so difficult when you are facing the very distinct possibility of being out on the street.

The only reason I'm not yet there is that I am an unpaid caregiver. People are depending on me. It is hard. I do struggle to find work that I can do. I am tired and weary. No one seemed to understand what I'm feeling right now. How can they when they are struggling themselves? I can throw a pity party about my current situation or I can do something.

The struggle to find work is real. I have no real skill sets that employers can use. I haven't been in a real work environment for five years. Whenever I think about that....I am amazed that I've lasted this long without steady income.

My prayer tonight is for a release from this dark hole that I've found myself in. I need funds now to support myself and my family. I hate posting this...but I'm desperate.

Praying for A New Beginning-The New Administration

In just a few days we will welcome a new President. Some days it seems unreal that things could change as much as promised. I hear so much about the ways that Democrats are still dragging their feet. I'm also hearing that people are panicking about the dismantling of some "pet projects."

I am praying for a new beginning. The new administration has a lot to do to reverse globalization's effects. Those effects are still re-vibrating even now.

I do feel that things do have to change. I know that God's hand is in this. I am sensing that there are forces that would love to destroy the hope we have. Yet God will protect us. He will guide us in the way we should go.

More signs of the End Times: Electronic Currency

I am becoming more and more aware of the increasing control that the electronic superhighway has on people everywhere. It is so easy to see the influence of technology on the world at large. This technology and the innovations has been stealing work for a while now. Kids today really don't realize how "closed in" we really are as a society. They are taught from an early age to accept what they read on the Internet as truth. Some of it is truth but kids have no filter to tell the truth from the falsehoods.

I know that I'm considered some what of a Luddite because I don't get into shopping and all the social media channels on the Internet. I also don't do online banking or use the new apps that allow you to pay electronically. Yes it is convenient not to have to pull money physically out of the bank. Yes, it is great just to wave a card and get what you want instantaneously.

What has me concerned and should have you concerned is the rapid movement towards electronic currency. Four of the world's biggest banks are contemplating using this digital cash for trades in 2018. What is to stop them from using this same electronic currency for other transactions? There is already at least one country (Sweden) who has decided to go cash free and stopped issuing physical currency.

The problem with this is that electronic currency gives too much control to those who run the financial institutions to wipe out your savings, control what you can have and deny services because you don't have the right electronic currency. I guess my real problem is that who is to say that you have money when you don't physically have it. It is too easy for someone to block you from getting anything. It is also one more step towards the "Mark of the Beast" in Revelation.

By having that electronic control someone could possibly control who lives and dies...definitely something to think about when you use your debt card....

A New Year, A New Hope

It does seem like the years have sped by. I can't help thinking that it has been seven years since I first started this blog. Actually sometimes it feels like it has been longer. I have grown so much as a person in the past seven years. I have learned a lot of hard lessons. Yet I am still here.

This is a new year. This will be a year of preparation for me to move forward and embrace hope. I can no longer wallow in the past or let the circumstances of my life dictate my life. Yes, there are some scary things that are happening that I have no control over. Yes, I admit that I've been beating myself up for not embracing technology like so many others have. Yet I know that there is an undercurrent of society that is pushing back from the smothering embrace of technology. They know as I do that technology, no matter how good it is, won't replace human ability.

I'm feeling a new hope that I'm praying will grow and take root. It has been a long dark tunnel with no end in sight. I'm learning to be grateful for what the Lord is giving me with this avenue of communication. I realize that things could be a whole lot worse for me. I'm blessed with food, shelter and family who still support me through this financial crisis.

I can praise God for all that he has given me. I can move forward in this new year with confidence that the Lord will be with me every step of the way.