Don't cry, Cuppie Cake

January 20, 2021

This morning after my shower I put on all black ~ today is a day of mourning for me, not because I'm a sore loser, but because I feel something really precious died and I can't bring it back. I love America and I have a lifetime of memories to celebrate the goodness that I've known from living in a free country; I don't want that to change, yet I know that it has. I suppose when you finally face reality it hits you; there's no going back to what was. . . 

You see I remember when the boys came home from WW11 ~ Hooray we pushed Socialism back! The Old Beast is dead! On with the Free World! Then we settled back into business as usual, yet the 'beast'  who never rests, was working overtime to deceive and destroy. 

This world we live in is not the Utopia that man hoped for, dreamed about, invested all his energies into. Jesus said it clearly in Matthew: "And then many will be offended, will betray one another and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved."

I know we who love Jesus really want to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. . . Surely that would be heaven.

 I'm reminded of a song that goes: This world is not my home, I'm just'a passing through. My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue. The angels beckon me from heaven's golden shore. And I can't feel at home in this world anymore. O Lord, You know I have no friend like You, If heaven's not my home, then Lord what will I do? The angels beckon me from heaven's golden shore. And I can't feel at home in this world anymore.

Yes, I love America, land of the free and home of the brave...but today I grieve knowing that America is not heaven - We're not home yet.

(pwoods)