Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

“Let not your hearts be troubled”.  

I know that many of you are saddened, disillusioned, heartsick, and maybe even angry at what is going on right now with the blatant election fraud that is going on around the country.  You turned out, you voted by the law and, you did your Duty.  You have no control – yet – over those people in government who are spitting on their Duty. It is frustrating, it is maddening, and it is pushing us to our limits.

We have no control over what others choose to do, nor over much of what happens to us in life; yet, each of us has total control over how we choose to react to others and to situations.  We each must choose how we will react.  Circumstances may force us to come together and react collectively.  Let us pray that hour does not come.

Let us take stock of our reality on this autumn afternoon.  The sun came up this morning and will set this evening.  We all woke up this morning.  We’ll be hungry, thirsty, and tired before the day is done.  We’ll talk, we’ll laugh, we’ll think about things that we like.  And most of us will go to sleep tonight with complete Faith that the sun will come up again tomorrow.  To paraphrase the marvelous classic poem, “In Flanders Fields” “we will live, feel dawn, see sunset glow, love and be loved before we lie in Flanders Fields”.  In other words, God is still on His throne and all will be well.

Don’t fret the election count right now.  It’s ok to be concerned, but don’t let your concern take over your life. Don’t let your anger, if you are angry, steal your joy.  In this moment, this time which may be a calm before the storm, hold on to your loved ones, count your blessings, thank God that you are alive in the greatest country in the history of the world.  Thank God for his mercy, grace, and redemption.  Pray for calm, pray for strength, pray for America.

“Let not your hearts be troubled”. 

 

The time may be approaching when good men are going to be forced to do hard things.  The days may get very hard and very dark, but, even if they do, God will still be on His throne and those who confess will still have salvation.  Don’t worry about the days to come.  Let’s just help one another through each today as it comes.  

“Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself: sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”  We’ll deal with tomorrow when it comes.

Pray for peace. Pray for America. Pray for strength and patience.

 

It Really Is That Simple

I don’t know if this essay will have any impact, if it will reach any body in time, or if anybody out there is even listening anymore.  I have never seen our great nation in such horrible condition and, for the first time in my life, I fear that my America is in its death throes.  This should not be an election about personalities, or manner of speaking, or about Tweets.  This should be an election about America, American values, American liberties, and our American future.  Whether or not you like President Trump, whether or not you like Joe Biden should be completely irrelevant.  Where we have come as a nation in the last 4 years, and where either will take us in the next 4 should be the only issue.

Th really big question you should ask yourself, or anyone who hasn’t voted yet, is, “Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?”  If the answer is “yes” you should vote for Trump.  If the answer is “no”, you should vote for Biden.  It really is that simple.

Forget Covid – forget the so – called “pandemic” – think where you were on the first of March.    Think of where the country was before the Covidiocy, maybe you need a reminder.

            Almost 4 million jobs created since election

More Americans were employed than ever recorded before in our history.

More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since the 2016 election.

Manufacturing jobs grew at the fastest rate in more than THREE DECADES.

Economic growth last quarter 2019 hit 4.2 percent.

New unemployment claims a 49-year low.

Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.

African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.

Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.

Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.

Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.

Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.

Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.

Almost 3.9 million Americans had been lifted off food stamps since the election.

Signed the biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300    billion poured back in to the U.S. in the first quarter alone.

As a result of our tax bill, small businesses have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.

Opened ANWR and approved Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.

Record number of regulations eliminated.

Enacted regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.

Obamacare individual mandate penalty GONE.

The FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history, many drug companies are freezing or reversing planned price increases.

Increased our coal exports by 60 percent; U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high.

United States is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.

Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord.

Cancelled the illegal, anti-coal, so-called Clean Power Plan.

Secured record $700 billion in military funding; $716 billion next year.

NATO allies are spending $69 billion more on defense since 2016.

Organized the Space Force the 6th branch of the Armed Forces.

Confirmed more circuit court judges than any other new administration.

Confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett

Withdrew from the Iran Deal.

Moved U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.

Concluded a historic U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal to replace NAFTA. And negotiations with Canada are underway as we speak.

Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.

Imposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to protect our national security.

Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices.

Improved vetting and screening for refugees, and switched focus to overseas resettlement.

Do what you think is right, just remember that President Trump did all of this in 3 years.  Biden has been in Washington government for 47 years and was actively involved in passing the stupid laws and regulations that have screwed this country so badly.

Joe Biden isn’t the answer to the problems – he is the problem!