The View From Here

We have been battling the bug here at our house! Michael, Boo, and Kurt have all had the sniffles, cough, head/chest cold...I only wish that we had bought stock in Kleenex, lysol, clorox, etc. Poor Boo, first she got the snots, then the stomach virus. I even had to take her to the doctor yesterday. She seems more perky today and I think she will be back to normal by tomorrow. She has motive. She doesn't want to miss her Valentine's party at school. Of course, now, we have to think about if we will have school, we are under blizzard warnings. It isn't as bad as the poor people in New York, (My prayers are with you!), but it may cancel school just the same.

Isn't it funny how there are some things that are fond memories for us as adults, but there is such a push for things to be changed. We are being told that next year for school, we will not be able to send in sweet treats for birthdays, etc. They claim that the school corp is trying to make sure that we are attacking the obesity problem in children. While I think that it is a good move to try to give our children healthier choices, giving them more recess/phys ed time might be a good thing too. And a sweet treat once in a while isn't a bad thing...All things in moderation. Complete elimination of sweets can make them much more tempting and at risk for overindulging. Kids need motion! It just sounds like another step toward a regimented, police like state. Some schools are even restricting what a child can pack in a lunch brought from home. Crazy.

Getting on more serious things. I have read Epicenter. I read it when it first came out and I loved it. It was very interesting. What makes it more so now is that I am rereading it as if it were my first time through. He had really hit the nail on the head over several things...and now some of the entries that were considered "future headlines" aren't future, but present now. This book came out less than a year ago! The events and conditions in the world are quickly spiraling to their conclusion. If you haven't read this book, I STRONGLY encourage you to do so. Any book by Joel Rosenberg is really well done, but this one is a non fiction, analytical book. I said it on a different blog before, but I will repeat it here: It is a feeling within me, to my core, that I feel things are coming to the next big thing...I feel that this would be the Rapture of Christians. (Although, Ezekiel's war couldcome first...this would not be a surprise.) Something BIG is about to occur. It is much like watching the sands in an hourglass. At first, they drift downward in regular fashion, but as the sands run out, they seem to flow faster and faster until they speed completely gone. I feel like we are in those qucikly moving grains, ad there are only a few left. The time is coming, soon, when the situation in the world is going to get so much worse and frightening. I feel at peace, because I know that my Saviour is going to keep me safe and whatever may be thrown at us, He will be with me. He promised to never leave me, and He never breaks a promise. So, even though the events of the days portend some frightening circumstances, I feel at peace. I can be an observer, because I am only visiting here. My home is with the Lord and He is coming to take me home soon! How blessed we are to be living now! We are a witness to the very events that the Prophets of old could only imagine. They were given glimpses, visions that seemed so unbelieveable, yet we see them played out everyday in our news and events around us. Yet we have a second part to this blesssing: We are able to chose Jesus, and especially in the US, feel a certain amount of freedom to do so. After the Rapture, it will be much more resticted to choose Jesus, with Martyrdom a most likely result of the choice. It will more challenging in the future. Please, If you haven't chosen Jesus yet, do it now while there is time....We are on those last grains...Ask Him to forgive you for your sins and accept Him today! He loves you and is waiting to give you the gift of life, eternal life, with Him.

I must attend the children and the house now. Time to Lysol all surfaces and Bleach everything that will fit in the washer! And everyone....Don't forget to wash your hands!

God Bless
Love,
Faith