The time between Christmas and New Year's is often a good time to reflect over events that happened in the past year. This year has been a "holding pattern" kind of year for me. I watched from the sidelines as things happened, but didn't feel the need to get involved. I recall now that I started this blog ten or eleven years ago. Back in 2009 we were just feeling the effects of the Obama policies. I'd got into a very unstable position. I was still working steadily, so I had that.
I do have a feeling that things will radically change this next year. The push for socialism and control will continue unabated. Democratic control ensures that the socialistic agenda will move forward. Some of us will be called to fight for our freedom. We will not be able to stand on the sidelines and watch.
In some ways we will witness the end of an era. No longer will we be able to stand back and wait on developments. As I listen to the fireworks go off, I cringe. I know that the lessening of laws have made it too easy to acquire and fire them off in residential areas. I pray for protection...that no stray embers fall on my roof or anyone's roof.
At times like this I admittedly feel helpless. I don't like this feeling. I know that I need to trust God more.
I need to remember that God does have a plan. It is a perfect plan. I may not like what I see before me. I may stress and worry about the future. Yet I do know that God has the future. I don't have to worry about what this new year will bring. The song I keep hearing is "I'm Almost Home."...At least I think that is the title of the song. When I hear these damn fireworks, I have to remind myself that I have no control over them. God does.
At times like this I feel needy. I know that this is a selfish feeling, because God fills all my needs. It is hard especially when I hear these damn fireworks and they seem so close! Oh, Lord...how I wish they were still banned.
I don't have any control. I pray that everyone's house is protected from fireworks, Lord God. Please place a shield around our homes that the fireworks will fall harmlessly to the ground and be put out without causing a fire. Please answer my prayer, Lord God for this country...that the fires that are now burning will be put out. We need you. I do claim your promise that you will not forsake us.
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Monday, December 23, 2019
Celebrating Christmas and Looking Forward to the New Year
Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. When I think about the reason for the season, I realize how much we need to be reminded that God is in control. Jesus came to Earth at a time when Romans ruled the world. Israel was under Roman rule. The people were waiting eagerly for a savior. It wasn't known then that a savior had indeed come into the world. Most people were ignorant, wanting to believe whatever the Romans pressed onto them. Some were frightened by the world around them. They were oppressed and felt forsaken.
Jesus came as a baby in a manger. He was helpless and dependent on others. He was despised and rejected. No one wanted to hear him. He didn't come as a king, but as an ordinary person. Yet his birth is celebrated even now. The angels proclaimed his birth to the shepherds, not to "important" people. It was ordinary shepherds who first visited the baby Jesus and told others about what they saw. It is the same today. Ordinary people still share the story of Jesus in the manger.
It wasn't until almost two years after his birth, that wise men from the East came to Bethlehem to see Jesus. It wasn't until Herod heard about the Messiah prophecy that he decided to kill all the male babies from birth to two years old in Bethlehem. When I think about the very narrow escape that Jesus had that sent him and his family to Egypt, I know that God's timing is perfect.
I do look forward to the New Year knowing that God's timing is still perfect. He is in control of all things, for all things came into being by him. It is a good reminder that God loves us so much that he sent his son to die for our sins...that we may have eternal life with him.
Jesus came as a baby in a manger. He was helpless and dependent on others. He was despised and rejected. No one wanted to hear him. He didn't come as a king, but as an ordinary person. Yet his birth is celebrated even now. The angels proclaimed his birth to the shepherds, not to "important" people. It was ordinary shepherds who first visited the baby Jesus and told others about what they saw. It is the same today. Ordinary people still share the story of Jesus in the manger.
It wasn't until almost two years after his birth, that wise men from the East came to Bethlehem to see Jesus. It wasn't until Herod heard about the Messiah prophecy that he decided to kill all the male babies from birth to two years old in Bethlehem. When I think about the very narrow escape that Jesus had that sent him and his family to Egypt, I know that God's timing is perfect.
I do look forward to the New Year knowing that God's timing is still perfect. He is in control of all things, for all things came into being by him. It is a good reminder that God loves us so much that he sent his son to die for our sins...that we may have eternal life with him.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Reflections of the Second American Civil War
You might be thinking that I'm jumping the gun here. You may even think I'm crazy, but it does seem that all the signs are here. The sad fact is that many of us are taking sides. We may not think that we are, but we can't help it. Everyone of a certain age can probably understand where I'm going with this. They, more than I, have seen with their own eyes the deterioration of our way of life. I hear them lamenting about it more each day.
The reason why I believe that we are actually in the beginning stages of a second civil war is what is currently happening in Congress. If you have been following the impeachment proceedings closely you might notice that there is a definite "disconnect" with the rules of the government. Some may argue that the president is really guilty of all the charges put against him. The problem with this is that most, but not all the evidence is "hearsay" and there are no real facts. It is too easy to manipulate the content to make a damning case against someone else nowadays.
It is this manipulation of the facts and changing of the rules that turns my stomach. I have a feeling that the globalists are behind all of this. They hate nationalism and seek to destroy nations so they can have a one world government controlled by them.
If you don't believe that we're in a civil war right now, even though it hasn't really gotten physical for the most part, then you're not looking closely at history. The issue that was fought in the first civil war is the same one we're being asked to fight again. This time it isn't a physical slavery but a societal slavery that we're fighting against in reality. In essence we are fighting for the very soul of our nation. The globalist representatives that are pushing to impeach this president understand very clearly that to defeat this nation they will need to brainwash the population into believing that the president is a nationalist. Then they have to keep pushing the narrative that nationalism is a bad thing...and that we all should be one big "family."
The globalist may look pretty. They may say the right things or tell you that you have no choice but to comply. There are globalist Republicans and Democrats. They are following a globalist agenda that calls for the dissolution of all nations into one global union. Will we win this civil war? I don't know. Only God knows that.
The reason why I believe that we are actually in the beginning stages of a second civil war is what is currently happening in Congress. If you have been following the impeachment proceedings closely you might notice that there is a definite "disconnect" with the rules of the government. Some may argue that the president is really guilty of all the charges put against him. The problem with this is that most, but not all the evidence is "hearsay" and there are no real facts. It is too easy to manipulate the content to make a damning case against someone else nowadays.
It is this manipulation of the facts and changing of the rules that turns my stomach. I have a feeling that the globalists are behind all of this. They hate nationalism and seek to destroy nations so they can have a one world government controlled by them.
If you don't believe that we're in a civil war right now, even though it hasn't really gotten physical for the most part, then you're not looking closely at history. The issue that was fought in the first civil war is the same one we're being asked to fight again. This time it isn't a physical slavery but a societal slavery that we're fighting against in reality. In essence we are fighting for the very soul of our nation. The globalist representatives that are pushing to impeach this president understand very clearly that to defeat this nation they will need to brainwash the population into believing that the president is a nationalist. Then they have to keep pushing the narrative that nationalism is a bad thing...and that we all should be one big "family."
The globalist may look pretty. They may say the right things or tell you that you have no choice but to comply. There are globalist Republicans and Democrats. They are following a globalist agenda that calls for the dissolution of all nations into one global union. Will we win this civil war? I don't know. Only God knows that.
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