True Hope

This bright and early Sunday morning, I am Full of Hope!  For one thing, yesterday I consulted my gardening expert/friend, Florence, about how I could possibly get my tall, healthy poinsettia to bloom. She advised, "Well, I've never had one live past March.  You're supposed to put it in the dark from the first of November on, and maybe it will bloom by Christmas.  Water it once in a while."  That's exactly what I've done: put it in a closet.  I've always killed the beautiful, red-blooming plants by overwatering, as my brother, Don, analyzed.  He lives in Florida, has a poinsettia as big as a bush, and, basically, neglects it.  He says not to water it until it is dry, at least one inch down in the soil around it.  And I have - and it has lived for one whole year!

If my poinsettia blooms before or around Christmas, you will know!

On another level, I'm even full of more hope - hope that, as a nation, AMERICA WILL SURVIVE!  Let me explain.  This morning I saw on the news a brief story about a teacher from the State of California, U.S.A.  Rebecca Fredericks spoke about the activities of the California teachers' union, which include advancing their ultra-liberal agenda and having nothing to do with helping either the children or teachers of California.  I greatly admire her for having the guts to speak out against injustice.  Many people would be too afraid or too lazy or too apathetic to stand up and expose anything which is evil.

The Republican victories in the national election last week has my hope for America confirmed and soaring!  Several years ago, I heard former Republican presidential primary (1996) candidate, Pat Buchanan pronounce that there is a "tipping point" in the immorality of a civilization, a cultural atmosphere in which the nation will implode from within, due to the blatant immorality of its citizens.  The election of Obama proved his point, that too many Americans just want handouts and don't care what anyone else deserves, for good or evil.

In 2008, when I heard Obama, as a presidential candidate, say that he supported abortion-on-demand, I knew I could never vote for him.  He was the only Illinois legislator in favor of late-term abortions. When asked on the TV News show "60 Minutes" concerning how the nation would pay for all his grandiose plans, he replied (after ignoring the question twice), "That's not important."  I knew that was another reason to vote for anyone else, even Mickey Mouse!!

So disturbed was I about the possibility that such a candidate as Obama could be elected, I prayed and fasted for six weeks before the election.  And then Obama was elected president of these United States.  I was in shock!  I prayed to God, "How could this possibly happen?  What good could ever come from such a man?"

For over two years, I prayed.  Then I received, in my heart, an answer: "This will bring out all the evil in the country."  And, indeed, it has.  You know how our country has been rocked with news of scandal after scandal in the Obama administration!

But I never gave up hope.  I didn't believe that America would go the way of Greece, Rome, Persia, and other 'failed' civilizations.  The last election confirmed this hope: we are going to take back the 'goodness' of America!  There will not be blatant corruption!

Several days before the election, I received a piece of mail from the Republican Party of Kentucky.

Please look at this from the side.  If the blog permits photo editing, I haven't discovered it (sorry!).  Candidate Obama gave wonderful speeches about hope.  Few people have discovered what that means as our economy has faltered and our country is the laughing stock of the world!

The same photo, turned to the side, this is the newly-defeated Kentucky Democratic Senatorial candidate, Alison Lundergan Grimes, who lost by a landslide to Senator Mitch McConnell, whose name was not even mentioned in this piece of mail.

The very, very Democratic State of Kentucky voted in the Republican nominee, McConnell, by a landslide, in a giant rejection of liberalism, the pro-death agenda, and pro-government spending us into an unmanageable debt from Obama!  Yes, I am brimming over with hope now!!

Several months following Obama's first election, I heard from several different news sources that the FBI was targeting "Right to Life" groups in Wisconsin for investigation, calling them "subversive."  Then, in another Obama administration scandal, we found out our phone records were kept, conversations were recorded, and internet communication was monitored.  I will admit to being afraid.  I made doubly sure that "Obama" or "government" was not in any of my conversations or e-mails.

So what's changed?:  Me!  I've given up being afraid and will say my piece.  I doubt if a "small fish" like me would be noticed. But if I'm wrong, I will still speak up against injustice, wherever I can.

What is a priority?:  Pro-Life and Pro-Family issues.  The American family is being torn apart from every section.  We have to work together to support families and children.  I'm not exactly sure what that will involve, but I'm starting by working full-steam on my relationship book.

What about you?  Are you a "fence-sitter?"  Do you hope the problems will go away on their own?  What might you do to be a part of the solution?

Lord, thank You abundantly for shedding Your grace on America, the Land of the Free, the Hope of the World!  Thank You for energizing me!  I know you will send me where I need to go to help bring about a Country of Hope for all our families!