My Crazy Faith

(Reposted from my other blog, from 2014, but edited quite a bit.  My sons and I have been obsessively watching the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies lately.  Okay, mostly me.  But I can't get enough of them!  I'm starting on the books now too.  A great way to spend lockdown.) I was driving to the flower shop today to pick up some onion transplants when I heard a line from a song that really stuck with me.    It was something about ‘not knowing how the journey will end.’    And it hit me that that’s exactly what has always scared me about life ... not knowing where things are headed.  To me, everything feels doomed, like tragedy and heartache are always right around the corner.    And so I guess I live with a constant, deep sense of anxiety and discouragement.    Always waiting for the next bad thing.                And I began to think, " Why do I always have to think that ‘not knowing how this journey will end’ means ‘tragedy and trouble are up ahead’?    Why

See this link: "Liberal Elites Trying To Stop Organic Covid-19 Opposition Groups From Growing As Distrust Of The American Media Reaching All-Time High" . And also read the comments to Bill Gates' Tweet here .  (Click on "view more replies" to see them all.)  Interesting stuff!  (And I love the sentence about how the guy who wants to reduce the human population - Bill Gates - is the same one who wants to "save" us with a vaccine.  Very insightful!  And it should make everyone pause and think!) I have distrusted the mainstream media for a long, long time, seeing as how biased they are politically, and who they are "in bed" with, and which information they allow us to see, and how they spin their articles, and which news stories they choose to report and which to hide, etc..  But it's only been recently, since Trump was elected, that their phony "unbiased, just reporting the news" mask has come off.  And now they don't ev

Some more of my own memes: Calvinism:  One does not simply ... Look at this Calvinist world ... A Calvinist's expression ... Look, Son!   When you realize ...   There once was a God-seeking lass ... Calvinist Jesus What do you call ... The Bible says ... You see, Woody ... Y U No Get That? A Calvinist God ... Luke ... I am your ... There once was a young man who taught ... So I bumped into a Calvinist today. What did one Calvinist ... Why did the Calvinist ... "If anyone disagrees with me ..." Why U No Agree!?! I have a joke for you. Here's another joke ... There once was a John from Geneva ... Yes!