I was trying to write my blog and I thought God being in control was going to be my title. I wrote and ripped it up so many times. It just wouldn’t gel. Suddenly a voice seemed to pop onto my head. Was it God or was it my own mind figuring things out? Here is how it went: “Why do you think you can influence any reader about God taking control of our country when you don’t know how in the world things are going to go back to normal?” I had to admit I sure didn’t know, but I did know God must be the answer.

Genesis 1 begins like this: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, but the earth was formless and empty. God saw that light was good so He said ” let there be light, and He separated day from night.” The entire earth was covered with water, so He separated the waters from the land. That caused our beautiful oceans and the lakes and rivers we do enjoy. and we had plenty of land to grow our food, and trees to enjoy and use for buildings. This was all done by God saying it. He did the same with things to grow, and animals to roam the earth. He ordered fish to live in our streams, lakes and oceans. It all was so beautiful and ready, for what?

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth.” And he did! He made man and woman and He blessed them. I don’t imagine He likes everything we have done either to the earth itself, or to man and woman. It’s crazy though, He still loves us, all of us.

Yet we go on thinking that big tech is so powerful, How can we win over that? Or, those people have been planning this for years. We can’t win. Oh yes we can. We have the all powerful, all loving Father God and his Son, Jesus, and the holy Spirit on our side. So, let us lean on them. They will carry us through so that we can have an America with freedom and justice for all.

Is God in control? Yes, He loves our earth and its people. He is in control. What we need to do is trust Him and keep praying for our country. Will you do that?

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I had a wonderful day yesterday. I hope you did too. I opened up my craft room door. We always close it up when the weather gets cold, and it got cold earlier than usual last year. I just stood there and looked. There are five windows to the north and two to the east. The room had become quite dusty so I got out my cleaning tools and went to work. Then I moved all my stuff for writing and art from the family room, and the room was ready for me. I could even look out the east window and see my pond, which needed some rocks moved around and tons of leaves taken out of the water. So, I guess there is more work to do, but everything is beautiful, not perfect, but beautiful!

Yes, I look at my craft room and think: how wonderful it is. I am so thankful that my husband made it for me. However all my kids are quick to call out some of the imperfections on his building knowledge. For one thing , he didn’t put any insulation between the walls and ceiling, which probably caused us to close it when it’s cold. And there seems to be some problems with the electricity too. These things they laugh about now, in a loving way, since my husband died several years ago.

As wonderful and beautiful as my craft room is, God really made everything perfect. doesn’t Spring make you feel fresh and God made that.The song says: “God made everything beautiful in His hands.” Since God has made our earth so beautiful’ How wonderful Heaven must be! We can’t even imagine it.The best thing about it will be Jesus. He will be there and his father, God, will be there too. I certainly intend to be there and really look forward to it. Just think. It will be absolutely perfect! And it will never end! I’m sure many of you will be there too. If you have any doubts just remember: God says if we know the Father and Son and you are willing to walk with them humbly through out your life, you will be there too. And, won’t that be exciting? If you don’t think you will ever be there, don’t go to the other place where you will see nothing perfect. Just come to Jesus,