Is it just me, or is everything in the world and our own country spiraling out of control?

Within the span of a few weeks, the entire Middle East has become one big revolutionary bonfire, with secular despots in the process of being overthrown, so that they may be replaced by Islamic Regimes, forming one big Caliphate.

Meanwhile, domestically, Public Service Unions, supported and organized by Private Unions, the Democratic Party, and the President of the United States’ self-named (barackobama.com) “community” website, are protesting attempts by state administrations to trim out-of-control budgets by actually making the Public Service Unions chip in a little toward their own “Cadillac” benefit plans.

And that’s not all…this country has a president who believes that he can rule by fiat, deciding which legislation he thinks is constitutional and worthy of defending, such as the Defense of Marriage Act.

This imperious leader has also decided that he is above any ruling by the Federal Courts, continuing a ban on oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico that had been legally struck down, and continuing with his plans for Obamacare, whose individual mandate has been ruled unconstitutional, thereby striking down the whole law.

Gas prices are beginning to go through the roof. Why hasn’t Congress said a doggone thing about it? Why aren’t they demanding that Obama obey the Federal Court’s ruling and allow drilling in the Gulf?  For that matter,  why aren’t they demanding that Obamacare be fast-tracked to the Supreme Court?

Maybe Chuckie Schumer was right, when he said that there are three branches of government:  the President, the House of Representatives, and the Senate.  Not Executive, Legislative, and Judicial, as was previously taught to every American in school.

How did we get here?  Have Americans become so cynical, so unaware, that we don’t care about what’s going on around us, as long as we can go home, watch American Idol, and eat our Hot Pockets?

I thought we were heading in the right direction, when I woke up on the morning of November 3rd, 2010 to discover that my countrymen had stood up on their hind legs and voted the rascals out.

It appears that all our national elections accomplished was to vote a new bunch of wishy-washy politicians in.  The moment any Conservative leader tries to do something on a state or national level, the Libs start screaming and pouting like 3 year olds, and bring up the new word du jour, civility.  Where was their civility when they rammed Obamacare down our cotton-pickin’ throats?

Where is their vaunted civility in  the case of Wisconsin and Indiana, where Democratic State Senators have fled their home states, like a bunch of yellow-bellied cowards, rather than stand and fight for what they believe in, because they know they are wrong, but they have already sold their souls to their Union paymasters?

Civility, my foot.  Immature snobbery is more like it.

If you believe that the Libs are being civil, they you probably also believe that the Muslim Brotherhood is a secular organization.

I know that I’ve written about this time and time again, and you are probably tired of me saying it, but 75 % of Americans claim to be Christians.  If you are among that 75 %, and even if you’re not, God has laid something on my heart that I want to share with you:

What made our country the greatest nation in the world, is that Divine Spark that Our Creator placed in each and every one of us.  That truly American ability to act on our courage and convictions, to care for our families, to care about our friends and neighbors, and to take care of one another, not relying on some Nanny-state socialistic form of Federal Government, but on each other.

Every generation has thought that they were living in the End Times.  We might be now.  There is only One who knows the day and time appointed.

As a Christian man/father/grandfather and patriotic American, I ask you to pray for our country, our leadership, and those in peril around the world, and to take to heart the words found in Ephesians 6:11 – 18:

11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

Stay strong and hopeful and may God bless.

KJ