Looking Forward to 2014

What a year! While I do agree that there were many blessed events and happy times to remember in all of our lives...there have certainly been real tragedies and losses plus the normal ups and downs in family life and what goes on with our friends. We would have to bite a collective bullet if forced to relive 2013.

As Americans, we have survived blow after blow....and just when we didn't know how we were going to stand up, just to  be knocked in the dirt again,  Phil Robertson showed us that you just do it.

You flat out just do it --because it is right. 

It is right to stand up for what you believe.  It is ok to be true to yourself...true to your faith and not care what anyone besides the good Lord thinks.

Read somewhere how scientists took a bunch of lab rats and frustrated them....now rats are quite the little problem-solvers if left to their own devices and given time to think. But, in this experiment, the floor of the cage was equipped with enough voltage to painfully shock them as they attempted to work out a solution to all the problems put before them.  There was yummy food for the taking, if they solved the problem. The layout was rigged so if they went this direction, they got shocked. If they turned and went another, they would get  another shock.

Therefore, the problems were never resolved due to the little fellows being painfully  knocked down at every try they made. (I am an animal-person. I say that even a rat has a sense of justice and what is right.) At the end of the gruesome experiment, you know what the little Ratties  did when their efforts were foiled at every turn? 

They simply lay down on the floor of the cage...they couldn't fight it anymore. They all quit trying, lost their will to fight for what they wanted....they all laid down and just gave up.

Just like those Ratties, we wanted to see things set right....one problem followed another and then was followed by another...a battering ram made of the craziest problems to ever come down the pike.  We  tried everything in what was left of our power...(all the wrong people had the real power we needed to equalize the game)...yep, we tried to solve the new thing that popped up almost on a daily basis...if talking about it could have solved it, been home free!! 

There came a time when we began to see many of us were traumatized and not bothering to get up after the latest blow to our once good senses. 

My thanks in 2013 to a faithful brother in the Lord who proved that if you keep God in the equation, you will have the leverage you need to solve the problem.  You can remain strong and true to yourself and the values you adhere to... and have no fear of those who show no mercy...who know not a loving Heavenly Father.

Our prayer focus should be for God to touch the hearts of the "mad scientists" who are in control of our nation....show them the path of righteousness....or give us all the guts to show our righteous anger and take our country back!

Have a safe and fun New Year's Eve!

Stormy will be in surgery early in the morning for repair to her knee from an accident at school. Prayers for her a quick and good recovery will be appreciated.

Happy New Year!