Pity for the "Lucys" of this world!

Psalm 73
"Surely God is good to Israel,

To those who are pure in heart!


But as for me, my feet came close to stumbling,

My steps had almost slipped.


For I was envious of the arrogant

As I saw the prosperity of the wicked.


For there are no pains in their death,

And their body is fat.


They are not in trouble as other men,

Nor are they plagued like mankind.


Therefore pride is their necklace;

The garment of violence covers them.


Their eye bulges from fatness;

The imaginations of their heart run riot.


They mock and wickedly speak of oppression;

They speak from on high.


They have set their mouth against the heavens,

And their tongue parades through the earth.

Therefore his people return to this place,

And waters of abundance are drunk by them.

They say, 
“How does God know?

And is there knowledge with the Most High?”


Behold, these are the wicked;

And always at ease, 
they have increased in wealth.


Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure

And washed my hands in innocence

For I have been stricken all day long

And chastened every morning.

If I had said, 
“I will speak thus,”

Behold, 
I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.


When I pondered to understand this,

It was troublesome in my sight

Until I came into the sanctuary of God;

Then I perceived their end.


Surely You set them in slippery places;

You cast them down to destruction.


How they are destroyed in a moment!

They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!


Like a dream when one awakes,
O Lord, 
when aroused, You will despise their form.

When my heart was embittered

And I was pierced within,
Then I was senseless and ignorant;

I was like a beast before You.


Nevertheless I am continually with You;

You have taken hold of my right hand.


With Your counsel You will guide me,

And afterward receive me to glory.

Whom have I in heaven but You?

And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.


My flesh and my heart may fail,

But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.


For, behold, those who are far from 
You will perish;

You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.


But as for me, the nearness of God is my good;

I have made the Lord God my refuge,

That I may tell of all Your works."

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Lost honor

We have lost so much in America, but certainly we have lost honor, manners, kindness, compassion, and respect in our culture.

Humanity should respect humanity, but we have witnessed less and less of it in our Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.

Concerning those persons who help us, they protect us, they save us, and most are willing to put their lives on the line for us - we continue to sadly witness many of these people not respected in our culture.

At the very same time, though, the disrespectful people still want to be protected from evil against themselves, they still want their own homes to be saved from fire, their own lives saved by medical staff, their own homes protected from invasion...

We are losing the America in which we all grew up.  

We who have been saved by Jesus know and look forward to His return as we see the signs of the times. As our country and our lives fall into disarray from the fall of decent culture, we can find great comfort and strength knowing the Lord wins.

Romans 6:23
"For the wages of sin is death, 
but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Ephesians 2
"And you were dead in your trespasses and sins...

...But God, being rich in mercy, 
because of His great love with which He loved us, 
even when we were dead in our transgressions, 
made us alive together with Christ 
(by grace you have been saved), 
and raised us up with Him, and seated us 
with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 
so that in the ages to come 
He might show the surpassing riches of His grace 
in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 

For by grace you have been saved through faith; 
and that not of yourselves, 
it is the gift of God; 
not as a result of works, 
so that no one may boast..."
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--thanks to Wizard of Id

What all story problems sound like:

As political as I get

Satire on Legalisms

Thank you to satirical Babylon Bee for their Hershey’s Replaces ‘Kisses’ With More Pure ‘Sidehugs’ For Christian Market:

"...In a new attempt to court the Christian market, 
the Hershey Company unveiled Monday 
its brand-new “Hershey’s Sidehugs™️,” 
a Kiss™️-like chocolate that promises to be more pure 
and only slightly less fulfilling...

...the new chocolate treats “far more appropriate for brothers and sisters in the Lord”..."

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