Still so much uncertainty

It’s been a rough couple of weeks…

12 days since my last blog post? Yeah, well – I’ve been dealing with A LOT of stress and anxiety. Still am.

On Wednesday, October 29th New Orleans and its surrounding areas took a direct hit from a Category 2 hurricane known as Zeta. There were so many storms this season that they ran out of normal names and had to move to the Greek alphabet.

Less than a week later came the 2020 Presidential election. And the winner is still yet to be decided. Yes – that is the truth.

Regardless of how this turns out, our election process will forever be tainted from this point forward. That makes me sad, not just for myself, but for future generations.

And it makes me angry. Angry that what is still – as of this writing – the greatest country in the world, has been reduced to this moment in time. The potential stealing of an election.

What makes me livid is the same people who for the past 4 years have been downright nasty with name-calling, along with verbal and sometimes physical abuse, are now calling for “unity”. The same people who basically applauded violent civil unrest because “people are fed-up and angry” are now calling for “calm”.

Let me tell you something right now: your blatant hypocrisy makes me want to puke. You voted for someone – and it could have been ANYONE, it really didn’t matter – whose policies could change America forever, solely because you have pure, unadulterated hatred for a man who never did anything personal against you. And you call yourself an American.

I don’t hate your candidate. Never have. I hate his policies that could forever alter the very fabric of everything this country stands for. But you cast your vote for one reason and one reason only: because you despise the other man with your whole heart and soul and mind. You don’t care about this country. You are concerned about your own self-interest. And that you “win” because you didn’t get your way the first time.

And you can talk until the cows come home about how you DO care, and that you care about ALL people and not just some, like WE do. I’m sure you’ve got your belief in policies, but that’s not what you voted for. You voted to “get the bad man out”. You can spin it any way you’d like. But that is the truth. And how very sad that is for you.

God alone is in control, and I continue to pray until the ultimate outcome is revealed that He will have His hand on whatever happens. Sometimes, very bad things have to occur in order for some people to truly understand what they have perpetrated. And God allows this. Not because He doesn’t love us. But because He wants us to come back to Him and trust that He is doing all He can for the betterment of His people as a whole. Sometimes, though, He removes His hand because He cannot continue to support when all we do is turn Him away.

I believe He had His hand in what occurred politically 4 years ago. I recently was doing some organizing and purging, and I ran across some newspapers that I had kept – one of which was from the January 2017 inauguration. The headline read “America First”. How can anyone in their right mind be against that? The man who campaigned on that did EVERYTHING that he said he was going to do. Who would not want all the good that has been accomplished during the past 4 years to continue?

Do you love your country? Are you proud to be an American? Are you asking for unity and calm now only because you think you finally got your way? I hope you get exactly what you ask for. Sometimes God says no because He has something better in mind. Sometimes God says yes because He wants you to realize exactly what it is that you are asking for.

Remember what your mom used to say to you? “Be careful what you ask for. You just might get it.” And that’s not a threat. That’s just the truth. May God have mercy on all of us. And may God bless America.