I came across this older post and thought that I would bring it back for a short time. It was the spring of 2016....and we were essentially done as a nation....but didn't know it. Everyone just about on our side was running after Donald Trump. Well we are four years later now. Our brains have been fried as far as any serious cognitive analysis abilities at all. One could say we drank the Kool-Aid....Trump's Kool-aid. Oh how we laughed only a few short months ago as our leader led us in daily....even hourly mental exercises extolling his greatness.....and then God decided to pour cold water on our plans.
The Spring Of Our Demise.....May of 2016
I've attempted this topic before, always inadequately I'm sure, but I'll try again because it is a topic for the moment, and for the day that we live in. Today was a beautiful day in Western Pennsylvania. The Dogwoods are in bloom as are the Daffodils. A t-shirt and shorts would have been fine. Our Pittsburgh Penguins are in the playoffs and the Pirates are just beginning their season that will last at least until late September by which time the Steelers will be well into their season. We will have by then experienced the summer Olympics (Lord willing on all of this of course), three more major golf tournaments (one, the U.S. Open just down the road at Oakmont), all four of the tennis majors and numerous other weekends of sports, entertainments, picnics and other events that hold our interest for a day or so. All of this as our country totters on the brink and our culture staggers with fists clenched as a belligerent drunk.
How can this be? Are we just uniformed as to what is going on around the world, or do we acknowledge the dangerous chaos but ignore it? I suspect that both scenarios are true. If one only has their local newspaper and the nightly national news, they would have little reason for concern, for our mainstream media refuses to inform us of the full dangers to our republic or acknowledge that we are in danger as a nation because that would lead to two things. The people might very well return to their God.....and the Democrats and Republican elites would be booted out of Washington, forcing the media to abandon their role as public relations for the ruling class and actually try their hand at journalism
The second scenario is also true....we in essence plug our ears and cover our eyes to the nation's foundation cracking and pillars falling all around us. We have bought into the misconception that although politicians in our capitol may be corrupt, they will at least keep the country afloat. Our educational system, from elementary to university, has not prepared generations beginning as early as the Baby Boomers to love our nation's heritage or to fiercely remain vigilant as to who our enemies are or what they are capable of doing. We are a somnambulist nation....soundly asleep but going through the motions of everyday life.
Alfred Lord Tennyson's famous passage in Locksley Hall, and indeed the entire poem, somewhat speaks to us today....In the Spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love. We in America are in the Spring of our demise. We have carefully laid our plans of wonder before us and we rush to fulfill them but will soon find out that we have been rejected, for it is not love or honor or fairness or equality that will be wed to the future but greed, deception and tyranny. Will we be bitter at what is ahead or will we be humbled. Jesus spoke these words...."I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." Will we look to this Light.....or curse the darkness?
The Spring Of Our Demise.....May of 2016
I've attempted this topic before, always inadequately I'm sure, but I'll try again because it is a topic for the moment, and for the day that we live in. Today was a beautiful day in Western Pennsylvania. The Dogwoods are in bloom as are the Daffodils. A t-shirt and shorts would have been fine. Our Pittsburgh Penguins are in the playoffs and the Pirates are just beginning their season that will last at least until late September by which time the Steelers will be well into their season. We will have by then experienced the summer Olympics (Lord willing on all of this of course), three more major golf tournaments (one, the U.S. Open just down the road at Oakmont), all four of the tennis majors and numerous other weekends of sports, entertainments, picnics and other events that hold our interest for a day or so. All of this as our country totters on the brink and our culture staggers with fists clenched as a belligerent drunk.
How can this be? Are we just uniformed as to what is going on around the world, or do we acknowledge the dangerous chaos but ignore it? I suspect that both scenarios are true. If one only has their local newspaper and the nightly national news, they would have little reason for concern, for our mainstream media refuses to inform us of the full dangers to our republic or acknowledge that we are in danger as a nation because that would lead to two things. The people might very well return to their God.....and the Democrats and Republican elites would be booted out of Washington, forcing the media to abandon their role as public relations for the ruling class and actually try their hand at journalism
The second scenario is also true....we in essence plug our ears and cover our eyes to the nation's foundation cracking and pillars falling all around us. We have bought into the misconception that although politicians in our capitol may be corrupt, they will at least keep the country afloat. Our educational system, from elementary to university, has not prepared generations beginning as early as the Baby Boomers to love our nation's heritage or to fiercely remain vigilant as to who our enemies are or what they are capable of doing. We are a somnambulist nation....soundly asleep but going through the motions of everyday life.
Alfred Lord Tennyson's famous passage in Locksley Hall, and indeed the entire poem, somewhat speaks to us today....In the Spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love. We in America are in the Spring of our demise. We have carefully laid our plans of wonder before us and we rush to fulfill them but will soon find out that we have been rejected, for it is not love or honor or fairness or equality that will be wed to the future but greed, deception and tyranny. Will we be bitter at what is ahead or will we be humbled. Jesus spoke these words...."I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." Will we look to this Light.....or curse the darkness?
