Well, here I am again trying to get back into a routine. I need it. I have not been giving my voice a chance to be heard nor have I destressed by sharing frustrations and thoughts. For my own well being I need to get back to writing. I haven’t even written anything else. I have sunk into a low and it is time to move on.
There are so manhy things going on in this country for the first time in my life I am frightened for us. Our leaders and the press spread fire and dissent. We grow further apart. My grandson who is 21 does not expect to live past thirty. He reflects the views of many of our young adults. They have lost their hope and sense of safety. The suicide rate is rising exponentially. Japan has seen a decline in births. We may begin to see the same thing since there is no concept of permanence among those in their twneties and thirties.
I have no objection to those who want to just live together except that it has less sense of committment and it is the children who suffer when someone decides to just step away.
Arnold Toynbee, a history phiilosipher, says that when a nation’s morality, culttural norms, and governement dissolves into chaos that nation is on the way out. I consider us there.
My greatest wish is that we can recover from this but the signs are not favorable. I want my grandchildren and great grandchildren to have hope for the future.
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I’m glad you have this tool to get it out. Now Be The Light.
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I agree that the signs of the times breed discontent with the status-quo. But we can be forever hopeful because with God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26). I am praying for another Great Awakening, as people become disenfranchised from the world’s values that offer no lasting satisfaction, and turn to God in desperation. I just read recently: “One 2004 study found that nearly 30 percent of atheists admitted they prayed ‘sometimes,’ and another found that 17 percent of nonbelievers in God pray regularly” (Tim Keller, Prayer, Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, p. 36). It would seem there’s more “faith” among the population than we might think! From that mustard-seed beginning, may MANY turn to Christ, to see if he just might be the source of peace, joy, satisfaction and more that Christians claim.
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If only we could all learn to do the things that Jesus has called us to do. “Mathew 25: 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ But somehow we just don’t get it.
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