Ramblings

 Have we as a Nation forgotten how to be grateful? I often wonder at the lack of it. If you take the time to look around you, you will see so much to be thankful for. I marvel at what I see most days. The advancements we've made in so many areas are truly amazing. Think of the variety you see in stores from groceries to things like televisions and furniture to cars. There is much more variety than when I was a kid. We didn't have instant news or 'news' that the internet provides. Heck, we didn't have the internet! Grocery stores had the staples but did not have the quantity and variety we have now. The same goes for department stores. Oh, you could order something through a catalog and then await its arrival, but the options available today were nowhere in sight. When I see what is available today, across all spectrums, I marvel at it. I am very grateful. Yet, a majority aren't. Either they didn't grow up in the times before this over-plenty, or they've

 I've said over and over that the US and the West are under God's Righteous Judgment. It's not coming upon us; it IS upon us. What is going on will only get worse as God withdraws His restraining grace and gives us over to the depraved desires of our hearts. You see, that's one way He punishes Nations. He stops restraining man's depraved nature. The rank evil you are witnessing here and abroad will only increase. The inability of people to reason is rapidly dropping down a well of idiocy. So why is this? I'm currently reading Leviticus 26, but the general theme is throughout the Old Testament right into the New Testament. God warned Israel many times what would happen if they turned away from Him. Many times they turned away and received His wrath as recompense. Then, God sends His Christ, His one unique Son, and they hang him on a cross at the urging and manipulation of the Sanhedrin. Jesus warned them what was coming, and in AD 70, the Temple was destroyed and