It was nice to have the kids home for Thanksgiving. I am so thankful that I can see them grown up and find their interests in life. I am more thankful that God is their ultimate parent and he will continue to guide and direct them. It was fun to do plant talk with Jo and look at her designings too. It amaze me she knows so many name of plants without a garden of her own.
Well, it is two more days before election in Canada and two more weeks for the one south of the border. We sure have our plates full for Thanksgiving. Except this time it is not so much of the 'goodies in life'. With the world's economy taking a nose dive, many will be left without their jobs.
Has God not spoken loud enough to the western world since 911? Ever since the second world war, people want to do away with God. Hollywood becomes our God, then television, then sex, then computer and it goes on and on. Much of our life style is to indulge in our senses. As long as anything gives us a moment of pleasure, there is no more 'right' or 'wrong'.
America is obsessive with immorality and shipping it along with their commodities as much as it can to every corner of the world, so much so that it has lost its own identity in some nations eyes. The Arab world is pushing it away farther and farther because they keep very strict moral laws through their belief, even though their laws have more to do with the outward appearance instead of the heart condition that Jesus is refering to.
So who do we put our trust on? A man who can temporily give us prosperity and protect us from terrorists? A man who can turn the country around and bring back the good times? In our reading at the Thanksgiving table. It says in Psalm 147:10 - 'His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of a man; the Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.' - Too abstract for the 'sensuals' but it is the real life line.
Well, it is two more days before election in Canada and two more weeks for the one south of the border. We sure have our plates full for Thanksgiving. Except this time it is not so much of the 'goodies in life'. With the world's economy taking a nose dive, many will be left without their jobs.
Has God not spoken loud enough to the western world since 911? Ever since the second world war, people want to do away with God. Hollywood becomes our God, then television, then sex, then computer and it goes on and on. Much of our life style is to indulge in our senses. As long as anything gives us a moment of pleasure, there is no more 'right' or 'wrong'.
America is obsessive with immorality and shipping it along with their commodities as much as it can to every corner of the world, so much so that it has lost its own identity in some nations eyes. The Arab world is pushing it away farther and farther because they keep very strict moral laws through their belief, even though their laws have more to do with the outward appearance instead of the heart condition that Jesus is refering to.
So who do we put our trust on? A man who can temporily give us prosperity and protect us from terrorists? A man who can turn the country around and bring back the good times? In our reading at the Thanksgiving table. It says in Psalm 147:10 - 'His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of a man; the Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.' - Too abstract for the 'sensuals' but it is the real life line.
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