Stuck?

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When we feel we've colored ourselves into a corner,

Remember,

God has a bigger box of crayons.

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"Thus says the Lord who makes a way in the sea and a path through the mighty waters...I will even make a road in a wilderness and rivers in the desert."

Isaiah 43:19

America Strong.

According to the Center for Disease Control, in 2018, 80,000 people IN THIS COUNTRY ALONE died from the flu, and it wasn't even a ripple on the radar; last year 770,000 people died from the ongoing pandemic of AIDS (32 MILLION people to date), our system didn't skip a beat. Time to question what we're being fed, America. Time to save our infrastructure, while there's still one to save.

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 Fold like a cheap suit?

Cave under pressure?

Be cowed into fear and financial failure?

When did America the Beautiful

Become America the pitiful?

What have we ever allowed to drive us into hiding,

bring us to a standstill,

Cower behind closed doors from our neighbor?

Not even 9/11 could do that.

Joseph Murphy said, “the future of a country is in the collective subconscious of the people of that nation."

It is time for us to remember who we are,

What we stand for,

And what we won't stand for.

It's time for us to be

America Strong.

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(During WWII when Great Britain was being attacked with fear inducing propaganda meant to paralyze them, Churchill counter attacked with this propaganda we're all familiar with: Keep Calm and Carry On.  The operative part of that message was "Carry On"...And Carry On they did. Time for us to do the same.)

Gambler- A Tribute

I wrote this post last year, inspired by Kenny Rogers' song we all know...Re-posting it here, I hope he'd approve...

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We all play our cards

As best we can

All we're made up of,

For better and worse,

Informing each move

We sometimes play cards we desperately wish we hadn't

We despair at the cards

We did not play instead

Our hindsight a merciless taskmaster

Keeping us fettered to the futility of regret

It is not a new hand we need

 or even a new game,

But faith in The Dealer Who still holds an ace up His sleeve 

Faith in the fact,

 that when all is said and done,

 It is His hand which will play out,

His hand, which so tenderly holds us,

which also holds all the cards

And in the end,

Wins.

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"I am the Alpha and the Omega

The beginning and the end,

The first and the last,

I am He."

Revelation 22:13

America Strong

"The future of a country is in the collective subconscious
 of the people of that nation."
-Joseph Murphy

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Go ahead, America -

Stop working

Stop Living

Cower behind closed doors

Fold like a cheap suit.

Because God forbid you get the sniffles

Or suffer in any way, Ever

Or be expected to soldier through anything

Like The Depression

WWII

9/11

Thankfully, all we have to contend with 

is a bug.

Not Leprosy,

Not AIDS,

a flu bug.

But we've opted to supersize it with a side of financial failure.

There have been bugs for thousands of years

But we're responding to this one

Like a woman portrayed in the 1950's

Standing on a chair screaming, "eek!"

As a little spider looks up from below.

I had the flu a couple of years ago.

No one panicked.

No one went scrambling for a vaccine.

The Nation was not called to pray.

Ya know what I did?

I stayed home for three days

and watched a Golden Girls marathon.

That cured me.

The only crisis is the one we are creating.

This is not a crisis.

This is business as usual.

And if we'd find our backbone (with a side of Common Sense)

And treat it like the latter

Instead of the former

We'd come through on the other side,

As we always have,

America Strong.

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"Be watchful, 

Strengthen the things which remain that are ready to die."

-Revelation 3:2

Trust Me.

Proverbs 3:5-6

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Trust Me.

Don't lean too heavy

On your own understanding right now.

Don't try to do calculus

With an abacus

Leave the math to Me.

Trust Me.

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"For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways,

And My thoughts than your thoughts."

-Isaiah 55: 8-9