Category: Spiritual

My thoughts on God and his love for us

What in the World is Going on?

I am reading the book WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON, By Dr. David Jeremiah and in it he talks about many of the things that are going on. I am concerned, but not desperate.I know that God is in control but I can’t help thinking he wants us to stand up for him. We haven’t been you know. When our schools closed their eyes on God, prayer and even Santa, though I sure don’t know why, we didn’t stand up and say,”NO,” did we?

When we began killing babies before they had a chance to live we didn’t stand up and say, “No.”did we? When our government started spending money, and borrowing money in a crazy way, we didn’t stand up and say,”NO,” did we? And now we are paying for it. What if we go into a really bad depression? What if someone hit our electrical supply with a bad bomb and we were left without any electricity at all? I am old enough to remember that bad depression in the 20’s and 30’s and I wonder how many of us could handle that. Let me tell you a bit about that time.

I was just a little girl but I recall the stores being empty of things we really needed. I remember sitting down to the table to eat dinner and there was only a few crumbs to eat. And getting along without electricity was easy, we were used to having a hole under our kitchen floor to put our milk and eggs (If we had any) to keep cool.We were used to seeing at night by kerosene lamps. I doubt if we, in this modern age, could handle those things. We are too used to having things we want when we want them. We really think we need our cell phones, tablets and computers and couldn’t get along without them.

It’s time, it’s really high time, that we stand up for the things that are right. There is a right and a wrong way even if some say there isn’t. “Everything is relative” they say. We know if we read the Bible at all that they are wrong. There is good and evil, right and wrong. If you haven’t been reading the Bible It’s a good thing to start. You’ll find that it reads just like what is happening today.

Harvest Time Is Nearly Here

It’s nearly harvest time. I guess that doesn’t mean as much today as it did in years gone by. Pre-packaged food has become a way of life. However, I still like to “Put up” a few jars of jams and jellies. My daughter enjoys canning and does as much as she has time for. She is a single parent with two girls to raise and is a local teacher too.

Even though I enjoy seeing the rows of sparkling red, purple and gold jars sitting on my pantry shelves I know it would be foolish for me, with my husband gone, to engage in much harvesting. However, there is the nostalgia. I remember my mother standing over a boiling kettle nearly every day during the harvest season. The kitchen was hot and steamy but the fragrance heavenly. It was almost as good as bread baking days!

I think of the farm when I ponder over harvest time. When I was a young girl, I helped out in the cooking wagon at threshing time. It was fun for me and my cousin, Myrtle, but my aunt and her friends thought it was only hard work. They did enjoy it though. I could tell by the laughing and talking they did. When the men came in from the field, they looked tired and hot, but after they washed up in buckets placed near the cooking wagon, they looked fresh and really ready to eat all the food prepared for them. And, did they eat!

After they ate they laid down in the grassy meadow nearby and smoked their pipes, talking together about crops and stuff that I wasn’t interested in at all. There seemed to be a signal because the men stood up at the same time and headed out to the field again. I think threshing time was a good time too. Oh, I know the farming equipment today does the work quicker and better, but the threshing machine went from farm to farm and people all worked together to get the crops in. The women worked together to keep their men fed too. Today we are lucky if we know the names of our neighbors.

How about us? Are we harvesting the good things, working toward inward fulfillment—toward that inner abundance for which we humans yearn? We can only yield the harvest of peace and love by looking to God as the source of our supply Then we will harvest that inner abundance in our lives. Let’s get to know God and make a jar or two of Jelly to bring over to our neighbor, shall we?