Is it possible to be happy and sad?  Joyful but also mournful?  I feel happiness and joy in the Lord and thankful for so much each day.  My list of blessings goes on and on.  I have been given so much.  There is so much love in my life.  God does provide for our needs, He knows what we need before we even ask.  I feel sadness for the hurting world - the abused and abusers.  The angry and heartbroken, those with no self respect or no  respect for others.  I mourn our nation's loss of faith and contentment.  I am saddened to see children's innocence stripped away by the pictures and voices bombarding them each and every day.  Children who feel they can not be comfortable admitting they enjoy being children ( growing up too fast).

I am not making predictions, I do not claim to know anything on my own, but I believe the Word of God to be true and my heart breaks for the things we all take for normal now in our society. The numbness that takes over when inside we cringe at what we are seeing or hearing but do not speak out against it because it's too big a task or things will never change or we can never go back or whatever.......

Prayer, gratitude, repentance, mourning, more prayer.   Peace only comes in my heart by knowing Jesus as my Saviour.  My only Sanctuary - My only Rock. 

God is and always will be in complete control - no matter what men choose by their free will given them by their Creator.

2 Timothy 3

Godlessness in the Last Days

 6.They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7.always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. 8.Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth—men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9.But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.

Paul's Charge to Timothy

 10.You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, 11.persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. 12.In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13.while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14.But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15.and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16.All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17.so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.