Sometimes you're the windshield
Sometimes you're the bug
Sometimes it all comes together baby
Sometimes you're a fool in love
Sometimes you're the louisville slugger
Sometimes you're the ball
Sometimes it all comes together baby
Sometimes you're going to lose it all
Dire Straits - 1991
Well sports fans its day 10, that above was an excerpt from the song, "The Bug" off Dire Straits 1991 album. I have news, not necessarily good or bad, just news. I myself work from home as a day trader of sorts in the stock market, that's not really accurate to what I do, but people know that term so I use it when I meet people. Its not easy, takes many hours of research to make it pay and during my time doing it I've been wiped out twice, but I consider those setbacks the cost of my education. At this time I have not faltered and actually have become much more consistent, but my account is small right now and I'm rebuilding it. Over the past 5 years I had to dip into my account to make ends meet while I helped an injured/ill family member keep his business afloat. He had injured his back, he's a an auto mechanic and his partner skipped out on him. I became his arms and legs and did the work. Earlier this year he finally retired and closed his shop and I came home to set about rebuilding.
My wife works as a nurse in a woman's prison and recently they were notified that they were being taken over by a new contractor. My wife was diagnosed several years ago with an auto-immune disorder and as such gets sick alot. We made the decision several months ago, based on the evidence we'd seen, our own medical knowledge/history and the statistics involved that we would NOT under any circumstance take the Covid-Vax. At first this new contractor looked like it was going to be a blessing, but today was day 1 and as my wife tried to clock in the new system, it wanted to know if she was vax'd and if not, did she have permission to be there... This was upsetting for my wife to say the least, she and the rest of the medical staff have ALL already decided that none are going to take these vaccines, so we don't know where this is gonna go. We've expected this could become a reality with the current political climate and the tyrannical nature of our current regime. To say I don't have twinges of fear would be a lie, I've never missed a single payment on any of our debt/bills, but if they decide to play hardball this has the potential to wipe us out financially and professionally for my wife.
On the one hand I do have flashes of concern and fear, but I'm over all, also peaceful. I know what ever lays ahead its in God's hands. Back in 2008 when everything crashed I could've thrown in the towel then and filled for bankruptcy like so many others, but we didn't. I believe in paying my own debts and I wanted to do it because I thought it was the right thing to do. I'm not knocking anyone who's had to go that route, it happens and sometimes its out of your hands and that may be what happens to us. I hope not. Anyway with everything that's been going on, the utter atrocity of the Afghanistan debacle and the knowledge of some of what already going on over there, I find it hard to think on my problems. Even though I've just spent 2+ paragraphs describing our situation, it all just seems minuscule compared to those left behind over there. I've heard some interviews with the families of those 13 servicemen killed last week, how young they were and how utterly despicable Biden was during they're meetings and how insincere his cold pre-packaged statements were, focusing on the death of his own son instead of what they were needlessly enduring.
Its day 10, but the urge feels an infinity away as I consider today. Pray for our country, our world and for those in the grip of true despotic evil. If you are inclined to, speak up for the truth, not some bull shit narrative or some faux "messaging", just the truth. Ask God to show you the truth in faith and He will, I know, he did it for me.
"Politics ruins everything" - Viva Frei
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