It seems of late that many people of my acquaintance are having trouble sleeping. Both here in this tiny town, but also friends and family miles away. A restless tumult has grasped our psyche and is not letting go. Is it happening? Are my stories about to come true? Whispers and rumors, revolution and uprisings across the nation. Is it out there? Will it be here in my life time? I do not see the Apocalypse, end times, or any some such things; only history making, world changing events that will scar the face of our nation.
Is America as great as we are brought up to believe it is? We are still a very young nation; young and arrogent. Yes we are the world power, but wold powers come and go, as history has proven. Egypt, Rome, Engalnd, us. We will fall too, and pass the tortch to China. The world may not end, but our lives as we know it will. Freedom has a price and though I may not be able to fight in the flesh, I do know how to pray. I do understand spiritual warfare.
Like the apostle Paul, all that I aspire to know is Christ and Him crusified. I fight my battles in the spirit and believe that God is in control. Colin and I are a team bound together with Christ, a cord of three is not easily broken. Step by step we are guided, day by day we learn and grow, slowly we are prepared for anything the future has for us. A great purpose I have seen, but pride I cannot hold to, because if I am full of myself, than there is no room for Him. Without Him, there is no me or us and all except Him would be disolved. Without Him I have no voice. Without Him I have no power. Without Him I have no life. Without Him nothing is possible. Yet in Him that is all changed and He shall get the glory for it. I rest well in Him.
Molly MacGregor signing off.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
You can't take it with you...
My mind is cluttered, and I feel that I am stuck inside my head. With the up coming elections I no longer fear how Colin and I will pay our creditors or if and when we will be able to have children, but should a certain candidate be elected, how will we survive a modern civil war. I know that we would survive, by the grace of God, but what would we do? Where would we go? How much time would we have to figure out how to handle everything? What would we take with us?
Last night I lay awake trying to decide what was most important in our lives. For Colin and me, the first and most important thing is to trust God and to know that wherever we are, and whatever we are doing, that we are in the center of God's will for our lives. Should we have to flee our current position, it would only be after a time of prayer and preparation. What we would take with us would be determine by how much time we had to plan. Draining our checking account would be first. All that we would take with us would be whatever we could fit into our car. The girls would come too, of course. But then what? What would we take with us?
With a short time to plan: our Bibles, the girls, some clothing and personal care products, perhaps some books, and money for gas.
With a bit more time to plan: all of the above, photo albums, some kitchen items, and sore dry stores food products. For myself, anything I could fit into my red foot locker in the garage.
The whole prospect is improbable and yet scary, but I have seen it. Not as a vision, or even as a dream, but in my mind. There are rumors of such things. I do not believe that we are in the end times, as many of the Christian faith do, but I do believe that we are on the edge of a revolution. One that is a long time coming. For weeks now I have felt that "standing on the edge of a cliff" feeling. Though I have had this feeling before, it has either passed or amounted to nothing. There have been a few times though that this feeling has lasted for some duration, and it has had massive results. Whatever the case, it seems there will be a time when I will have to make a choice as to what is most important to me. What would I take and what would I leave behind?
Molly McGregor signing off.
Last night I lay awake trying to decide what was most important in our lives. For Colin and me, the first and most important thing is to trust God and to know that wherever we are, and whatever we are doing, that we are in the center of God's will for our lives. Should we have to flee our current position, it would only be after a time of prayer and preparation. What we would take with us would be determine by how much time we had to plan. Draining our checking account would be first. All that we would take with us would be whatever we could fit into our car. The girls would come too, of course. But then what? What would we take with us?
With a short time to plan: our Bibles, the girls, some clothing and personal care products, perhaps some books, and money for gas.
With a bit more time to plan: all of the above, photo albums, some kitchen items, and sore dry stores food products. For myself, anything I could fit into my red foot locker in the garage.
The whole prospect is improbable and yet scary, but I have seen it. Not as a vision, or even as a dream, but in my mind. There are rumors of such things. I do not believe that we are in the end times, as many of the Christian faith do, but I do believe that we are on the edge of a revolution. One that is a long time coming. For weeks now I have felt that "standing on the edge of a cliff" feeling. Though I have had this feeling before, it has either passed or amounted to nothing. There have been a few times though that this feeling has lasted for some duration, and it has had massive results. Whatever the case, it seems there will be a time when I will have to make a choice as to what is most important to me. What would I take and what would I leave behind?
Molly McGregor signing off.
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