Trust the Plan

It's raining and we finally have a touch of snow in the mountains. That boosts my spirits and lets me know that God is watching over all of us and is fully aware of every pain, heartache, moment of discouragement, weakness, fear, anxiety or joy and peace we will ever feel. I've spent the past few weeks working furiously to get everything outside ready for winter and trying to come to terms with my own feelings about having my ex in jail and waiting for sentencing on December 21. But I've also had the added stressors of preparing myself for cataract surgery--the first eye will be done next Wednesday and the other on December 2. 

Now many people think that is anything to worry about since it's the most common surgery in the Unites Staes and is fairly safe. But I also have an incurable condition known as Stargardt disease. It's a rare, inherited eye abnormality that causes progressive central vision loss and only happens when both parents carry the same ABCA4 recessive gene and pass it on. I was the lucky child out of seven who got it and could have been blind by the age of five, but miraculously mine stayed in remission until a few years ago. Unfortunately, the symptoms for it are very similar to having bad cataracts and the doctor told me he is not sure how much of my sight can be returned. But without it the blurry vision, headaches and dizziness will just get worse until I can no longer see much of anything.

I've shed many tears of frustration and anxiety, and have agonized over what might happen since the chance of having retinal tears or detachment doubles after cataract surgery, and having type 2 diabetes and congestive heart failure doesn't help because those conditions mess something awful with overall general health and feelings of well being. But to help mitigate what will be a very lowkey holiday season, my Christmas shopping is done, gifts wrapped and sent and even my tree put up since bending over, lifting, and hard sneezing or coughing could interfere with proper healing. I'm not even buying a turkey for Thanksgiving because I won't be able to get it in and out of the oven. 

And it hasn't helped that during all my list making and completion we had a such a dismal mid-term election. Not that I was surprised because I already knew the vote would be manipulated. But the ease with which the voting machines were front-loaded and the D's swept the entire election was mind-boggling. Now I ask you, how could certain house and senate nominees get more votes than there were people in the entire state? And why would Republican's vote for their party in all the state races and then vote democrat on the national level? And why in the world would people who wanted the border closed, illegals sent home, woke ideologies stopped, industries brought back to our country, more jobs created, energy independence, less taxes, getting rid of big government, stopping corruption and a hundred other reasons they voted for Trump two years ago suddenly want to go back to the Biden and Obama years when everything was in chaos?

Something truly awful happened, but I do not believe for a moment that any sane person in America wants us to become a socialist-communist country where the government controls everything, including what we do, say or even think. Well, maybe all the illegals and those who live on government handouts because they're too lazy and unhinged to do an honest day's work. But those persons are the democrat's base and if they ever start to think logically . . . . 

Well, just look at who is already in Washington D.C. making victory laps with no intention of keeping any of the promises they made to their so-called constituents. All they still want--because they know Trump is the only person standing between them and the one-world government they are salivating over where the top one percent who have stolen everything from the working class will rule--is to kill Trump and destroy everyone who has tried to help save our republic from the inner enemy who believe all they need is another stolen election and their dream for world domination will come true. They've already announced that an entire forest will have to be replanted because of all the paper being used to try to impeach Trump, remove every member of his cabinet and destroy every person in auxiliary agencies like the F.B.I., Homeland Security who will not go along with their evil agenda. 

Where is all the outrage over affordability and the war in Iran now? Trump gave us our chance to stand beside him as he fights this war to reclaim our constitution in its pure form and get rid of every illegality that has been perpetuated against it in the last two-hundred years with our rifles cocked and ready for battle--in this case our voting ballot. We have 45 days after the election for the states to match up the number of registered, legal voters against how many votes were actually cast. And then prove that the algorithms imbedded into those machines were flipping votes. I mean how could all the democrats on the ballot have over 50 percent of the votes before Election Day even came? Not to mention it being statistically impossible for them to flip 30 out of 31 seats in just one of the houses, especially since most of them were in deep red states.

I guess we'll see what happens, but I do believe the patriots are in charge and that something will happen to keep our God-inspired constitution intact. Despite their cheating, the left is still screaming for taking guns away from lawful citizens, reducing our military budget, giving amnesty to all illegals, stopping freedom if speech and religion, opening the borders, bringing back the Green New Scam, giving control of AI to communist China, legalizing abortion until birth, stopping the drilling for oil and all fossil fuels. The list is too long and depressing to continue but you get my drift.

Heber J. Grant said it well, many years ago, "Satan is making war against all the wisdom that has come to men thought their ages of experience. . . . He plans to destroy freedom--economic, political and religious, and to set up in place thereof the greatest, most widespread, and most complete tyranny that has ever oppressed men. He is working under such perfect disguise that many do not recognize him or his methods. . . . He comes as a thief in the night, he is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Without their knowing it, the people are being urged down paths that lead only to destruction." 

Can you feel the importance of those words in our society today? We have been dumbed down in our educations and the truths about our country have been taken from our text books. Mainstream media was bought and paid for nearly a hundred and fifty years ago by the globalists, big bankers and corrupt corporations who wanted to keep hidden their agenda for a one-world government with them at the helm, while their conspirators in the business dare not step out of line for fear of losing their millions and being terminated. These forces, along with many others, have gradually manipulated humanity in the direction they want us to go. They will unite to fight against whatever God establishes on earth. They are especially desirous to destroy the Constitution of the United States and Christianity in general. 

Here is how a German professor described the coming of fascism--through Hitler's communist aggression--in the book They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer.

"What happened was the gradual habitation of the people, little by little, to be governed by surprise, to receiving the decisions deliberated in secret; to believe that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. The crises and reforms . . . so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.

"To live in the process is absolutely not to notice it--please try to believe me--unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained, or on occasion, 'regretted.' Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow.

"Suddenly, it all comes down, at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven't done ( for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing. . . . . You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late, you are compromised beyond repair."

Scary thought, but I can see how it has happened in my life. I was so busy growing up, getting an education, raising a family, going through trials, and trying to remain above water financially that I paid little attention to how our constitution and our way of life was continually being eroded just one small, illegal step at a time. I only started waking up on 9-11 when my daughter's high school student body president and good friend, Brady Howell, was killed at the pentagon. And then when the stock market crashed in 2008 and almost all the money I had in investments didn't just magically disappear. It was literally stolen by the incredibly wealthy world leaders who knew how to control most everything about our lives--with the exception of our souls--if we had not already relinquished them to all the evil surrounding us. 

President George Bush even acknowledged this when he said in his State of the Union Address during the Gulf War. "What is at stake is more than one small country, it is a big idea--a new world order . . . to achieve universal aspirations  of mankind . . . based upon shared principles and the rule of law . . . The illumination of a thousand points of light. . . . The winds of change are with us now."

J. Edgar Hoover said in his day that "In any struggle, it is essential to know both what you are fighting for and what you are fighting against. If knowledge of the former is lacking, the will to win will be absent. If knowledge of the latter is absent, confusion and uncertainty will result."

I feel like certain ones of us are suffering from both, but there is a way out and more and more Americans are waking up than ever before. I  am so grateful we now have other alternatives for finding the real news on social platforms that have yet to be completely silenced by the far left radicals who at present seem to have made such a giant step toward turning our county into a socialist-communist regime. 

But we must take heart in the fact that God is in charge and evil will eventually be taken from the earth. Nonetheless, until that happens we must not lose heart and refuse to stand by our leaders and other strong and courageous patriots who are fighting such an incredibly bitter battle that is unlike any other in the past because it is using information instead of guns. So many of those amazing men and women have received death threats against themselves and their family members and have had attempts made on their lives. And yet they love our country and believe in the freedoms the Constitution provides enough to stand up for true freedom and even move their family's onto military bases for protection. 

What does that say about the characters of so many of persons coming into greater political power right now and the reason behind them being pushed into the foreground when they were basically unheard of before? I have never seem such complete hatred, back-biting, and desires for revenge when they have never been the object of so much hostility and rage themselves. 

Our enemy today, as always, is Satan and his mortal hosts, and they are cunningly devious and evil beyond belief, but part of our eternal judgment will be on how we fight this unnerving, desperate, seemingly unending battle during our lives.

Ezra Taft Benson said it this way, "This is still God's world. The forces of evil, working through some mortals, have made a mess of a good part of it. But it is still God's world. In due time, when each of us has had a chance to prove ourselves--including whether or not we are willing to stand up for freedom--God will interject himself, and the final and eternal victory shall be for free agency. And then shall those complacent people on the sidelines, and those who took the wrong but temporarily popular course, lament their decisions. To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. Stand up and be counted. It can help to save your soul--and maybe your country."

I want our country to survive as it was founded with undeniable freedoms from God, but everywhere I look I can see how those miraculous blessings are being undermined and people either don't care, can't see the truth, or are unwilling to take a stand. I believe in God, family and country and we cannot have any of those things if we no longer have a sense of who we are, why we were born here, and what we are willing to do to keep our great country intact without the great Color Revolution the left claims is almost upon us. 

May your new week be filled with great promise and many blessings. I'm definitely in need of some of those myself. It's going to be a very strange holiday season but I am determined to keep the faith and Trust the Plan.