Well.....
One of the reasons I do not post a lot is because it seems like there are so many things to write, I don't even know where to start.
First off, let me complain. (Oh, how novel, I can just hear my 1 or 2 readers sigh....) I have poison ivy on my left foot, my right leg, my left arm, my right arm, a couple spots on my torso and a couple spots on my forehead. I am 41. I have 9 children. I should not have to deal with poison ivy. Sadly, I just look at the stuff and it leaps onto my body. LOL. I try to just not scratch and avoid cortisones. This too shall pass. But, I wanted to chronicle this, one, to gain some sympathy and two, to let y'all know I am a regular human being who struggles with the discomforts of this world, as opposed to some leftist-voluntarily childless-humanistic-professor who profligates vapid anti-Biblical ideas while doing nothing to be productive.
Anyway, I find the economy immensely interesting. I remember as a new college student who studied chemistry (ftr, I graduated Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude (0.01 points short of graduating magna cum laude thanks to a B- in Death/dying in the Western Culture....I should've taken it pass/fail, one of my few regrets in life)), thinking how boring studying the economy was. How wrong I was. It is immensely fascinating. Think about it, poor reader. You get up. You are in a warm or cool house (depending on what season it is) with electric lights to turn on. You get up and have a warm or cold breakfast (again, depending on what your preference is). You get on your computer where you instantly have access to more information than could ever be absorbed in a lifetime (the verses in Ecclesiastes 11: 12, Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them.
Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body. come to mind). You get dressed in clothes, after picking out 1 outfit out of a minimum 25, that you did not have to grow/card/spin/weave/sew yourself. You do whatever it is you do during the day to be *productive* and eat more food in 2 more meals plus snacks. Somewhere during the day you shower or bathe (again, depending on your preference) in hot water. You enjoy life somehow and at the end of the day you go to bed in your lovely, comfortable bed.
Tell me, dear reader...what have you done in this world to enjoy such a high standard of living? Is it because you're American and America is God's gift to the rest of the world? Is it because you are a Christian American, and somehow entitled to a life of ease and prosperity? Just curious. I really enjoy watching the show Survivor. First off, I just plain like Jeff Probst. I would like to meet him sometime, and as an aside, I did meet Survivor Ted Rogers from Survivor: Thailand (Season 5) . He was/is from Durham, and I met him while walking around the Labor/Delivery suite of Durham Regional Hospital on December 8, 2003. I gave birth to 10 pound 4 oz. MS, and he had a son that day. He was a very nice man. I recognized his voice before I saw him.
Anyway, back to Survivor. The reason I like the show is because these people only have a few rudimentary articles and natural elements with which to sustain life and create a place to survive, literally, for 39 days. It's not easy (rewards notwithstanding), and here billions of us live this wonderful life way above what we produce on any given day.
The reality is we should each be incredibly grateful for the incredible life we life. But, dear reader, thanks to access to easy credit as a direct consequence of the fiat money system we are not. We are the complainingest bunch of folks on earth (and research shows that despite our material prosperity we are a miserable, ungrateful bunch). Instead, we covet what our neighbor has and thanks to 30 year mortgages we can have it. And, who pays the price? Our 3rd world neighbors who take our $.
Now, to be fair, because of the Godly heritage we as a nation have (would take volumes to write on it...try America's Providential History by Stephen McDowell for starters as well as What if Jesus had never been Born? by Dr. D.James Kennedy) we do enjoy a certain material advantage to those Muslim nations who are indeed covetous. That said, as a nation which has sat by complacently while thousands of abortions are occurring daily, h*mose*uals make a mockery of the covenant of marriage, record numbers of hetersexual couples also make a mockery of marriage, 90% of all families send their children to godless, gunpoint funded humanistic public schools, most Christian couples reject the blessing of children by either sterilizing themselves (choosing the curse of barrenness as in Deuteronomy 28) or aborting them on a monthly basis by using birth control pills or IUDs, and we as a nation have a house of cards for our monetary system, we are completely and utterly foolish and naive to think that God is pleased with us. God is so good to us and He is so holy. His justice cannot sleep forever.
And get this, dear reader. We own our home free and clear. I still covet. I still want things my neighbor has (nicer bathrooms and a few vacations...this after we've just added 1208 sq. ft to our home...what will it take for me to be *satisfied*? The lust of the flesh is ugly indeed). I work at it. I just wish I could find some support from my fellow Christians.....
We are blessed materially and spiritually far beyond what we deserve. When will we as a nation, or even as an American church (after all you can't expect non-believers to have the same Biblical standards as believers) be grateful and call for a dismantling of the fiat dollar system which is essentially worthless and allows us to live a much higher life style than we deserve? I wish it would happen. It will be painful....just as it was painful for the Southern economy when the slaves were emancipated. That said, emancipating the slaves was the only right and true thing to do. The cost, however, was huge...Sigh.....
We went to Stagville Plantation in January, 2008. What was interesting to me, was that in 1861 (the year the Civil War started), the family built the then largest tobacco barn in North Carolina. It was useless as the slaves were then freed, and then the slave owners couldn't sustain their crops. They had no idea that their godless system of living was coming to an end. It seems like even now, even as there's cracks in the housing market, that we think this free ride can go on forever. It can't folks.
So...pay off your debts. Be grateful for what you have. To quote Madame Blueberry: A thankful heart is a happy heart. I always found it ironic that Big Idea had a DVD with that wonderful story along with marketing all sorts of Made in China crap that they then tried to market to young children and parents of young children. Sigh..........
Take care, dear readers!
First off, let me complain. (Oh, how novel, I can just hear my 1 or 2 readers sigh....) I have poison ivy on my left foot, my right leg, my left arm, my right arm, a couple spots on my torso and a couple spots on my forehead. I am 41. I have 9 children. I should not have to deal with poison ivy. Sadly, I just look at the stuff and it leaps onto my body. LOL. I try to just not scratch and avoid cortisones. This too shall pass. But, I wanted to chronicle this, one, to gain some sympathy and two, to let y'all know I am a regular human being who struggles with the discomforts of this world, as opposed to some leftist-voluntarily childless-humanistic-professor who profligates vapid anti-Biblical ideas while doing nothing to be productive.
Anyway, I find the economy immensely interesting. I remember as a new college student who studied chemistry (ftr, I graduated Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude (0.01 points short of graduating magna cum laude thanks to a B- in Death/dying in the Western Culture....I should've taken it pass/fail, one of my few regrets in life)), thinking how boring studying the economy was. How wrong I was. It is immensely fascinating. Think about it, poor reader. You get up. You are in a warm or cool house (depending on what season it is) with electric lights to turn on. You get up and have a warm or cold breakfast (again, depending on what your preference is). You get on your computer where you instantly have access to more information than could ever be absorbed in a lifetime (the verses in Ecclesiastes 11: 12, Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them.
Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body. come to mind). You get dressed in clothes, after picking out 1 outfit out of a minimum 25, that you did not have to grow/card/spin/weave/sew yourself. You do whatever it is you do during the day to be *productive* and eat more food in 2 more meals plus snacks. Somewhere during the day you shower or bathe (again, depending on your preference) in hot water. You enjoy life somehow and at the end of the day you go to bed in your lovely, comfortable bed.
Tell me, dear reader...what have you done in this world to enjoy such a high standard of living? Is it because you're American and America is God's gift to the rest of the world? Is it because you are a Christian American, and somehow entitled to a life of ease and prosperity? Just curious. I really enjoy watching the show Survivor. First off, I just plain like Jeff Probst. I would like to meet him sometime, and as an aside, I did meet Survivor Ted Rogers from Survivor: Thailand (Season 5) . He was/is from Durham, and I met him while walking around the Labor/Delivery suite of Durham Regional Hospital on December 8, 2003. I gave birth to 10 pound 4 oz. MS, and he had a son that day. He was a very nice man. I recognized his voice before I saw him.
Anyway, back to Survivor. The reason I like the show is because these people only have a few rudimentary articles and natural elements with which to sustain life and create a place to survive, literally, for 39 days. It's not easy (rewards notwithstanding), and here billions of us live this wonderful life way above what we produce on any given day.
The reality is we should each be incredibly grateful for the incredible life we life. But, dear reader, thanks to access to easy credit as a direct consequence of the fiat money system we are not. We are the complainingest bunch of folks on earth (and research shows that despite our material prosperity we are a miserable, ungrateful bunch). Instead, we covet what our neighbor has and thanks to 30 year mortgages we can have it. And, who pays the price? Our 3rd world neighbors who take our $.
Now, to be fair, because of the Godly heritage we as a nation have (would take volumes to write on it...try America's Providential History by Stephen McDowell for starters as well as What if Jesus had never been Born? by Dr. D.James Kennedy) we do enjoy a certain material advantage to those Muslim nations who are indeed covetous. That said, as a nation which has sat by complacently while thousands of abortions are occurring daily, h*mose*uals make a mockery of the covenant of marriage, record numbers of hetersexual couples also make a mockery of marriage, 90% of all families send their children to godless, gunpoint funded humanistic public schools, most Christian couples reject the blessing of children by either sterilizing themselves (choosing the curse of barrenness as in Deuteronomy 28) or aborting them on a monthly basis by using birth control pills or IUDs, and we as a nation have a house of cards for our monetary system, we are completely and utterly foolish and naive to think that God is pleased with us. God is so good to us and He is so holy. His justice cannot sleep forever.
And get this, dear reader. We own our home free and clear. I still covet. I still want things my neighbor has (nicer bathrooms and a few vacations...this after we've just added 1208 sq. ft to our home...what will it take for me to be *satisfied*? The lust of the flesh is ugly indeed). I work at it. I just wish I could find some support from my fellow Christians.....
We are blessed materially and spiritually far beyond what we deserve. When will we as a nation, or even as an American church (after all you can't expect non-believers to have the same Biblical standards as believers) be grateful and call for a dismantling of the fiat dollar system which is essentially worthless and allows us to live a much higher life style than we deserve? I wish it would happen. It will be painful....just as it was painful for the Southern economy when the slaves were emancipated. That said, emancipating the slaves was the only right and true thing to do. The cost, however, was huge...Sigh.....
We went to Stagville Plantation in January, 2008. What was interesting to me, was that in 1861 (the year the Civil War started), the family built the then largest tobacco barn in North Carolina. It was useless as the slaves were then freed, and then the slave owners couldn't sustain their crops. They had no idea that their godless system of living was coming to an end. It seems like even now, even as there's cracks in the housing market, that we think this free ride can go on forever. It can't folks.
So...pay off your debts. Be grateful for what you have. To quote Madame Blueberry: A thankful heart is a happy heart. I always found it ironic that Big Idea had a DVD with that wonderful story along with marketing all sorts of Made in China crap that they then tried to market to young children and parents of young children. Sigh..........
Take care, dear readers!
posted by Lisa aka Mombley | 4:54 PM
1 Comments:
Oh, Lisa! I hope your poison ivy heals quickly! I've been amazed at how long it leaves marks on my family's skin. Anyone who had it (nearly two months ago) still has pink/tan marks where it used to be. Thankfully J's face has healed best of all, since it was all over his face. One eye still tends to get pink, but that's it.
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