Two Weeks Before Christmas

The last blog was on Sunday, December 7, 2008. It somehow got the date wrong and is posted as October, the same date as the blog before that. This is Tuesday, December 16, 2008, and there are icy roads and a lot of treacherous weather conditions in this part of Oklahoma, plus a terrible ice storm in the northeastern United States. It is amazing how just last year here in Oklahoma, we suffered from the worst ice storm in quite some time, even though there has been an ice storm or a snow storm, at least one, every winter since I moved to Grand Lake of the Cherokees in November, 1998. The weather conditions in the United States are becoming more and more treacherous.

With the weather changes, the economic collapse of the financial markets in the United States, the lowering of standards of basic human decency all across America, and the fact that believing in God and making use of prayer in our schools is being called unconstitutional, I am beginning to wonder about something that has been on my mind ever since I was 12 years old.

It is a sign to me that God is no longer blessing this country the way he did before. I remember attending school with the Baby Boom Generation of the 1960s and 1970s, who all believed the world was their oyster and that no matter what their behavior, they would always be blessed no matter what, because they knew we were living in the best country in the world. I wonder if God is trying to tell us something.