Okay, it’s been a doozy. Today is that day we’ve all been waiting for since, well for most of us, last March. For my family it started on January 2.
But we made it, we are here, and we can make this year better. We took our lumps, learned a lot, and now we go into 2021 full of possibilities, hopes, and yes, we still have our dreams. We cannot live without hope and dreams.
Humans haven’t just accomplished great things in easy times. Actually, if you look back over the episodes and actions we tend to build our cultures around, the opposite is true. There were battles, plagues, hordes of invaders, nations rising and falling. Men and women stepping out of obscure everyday lives into moments of need and crises and changing their world, our world.
The world keeps on turning for you and me and all the people not because they waited on and found one man or one woman to make things better for them. We go where we need to go, we accomplish the life that keeps the world turning in quiet sacrifice and blind faith and it never gets recorded or known.
God chose his people, and they messed things up from the first moment, and struggled forever after. They sinned, wandered, fought, worshipped, failed God again and again, were exiled. And exiled again. Great leaders, including warriors, kings, prophets, lawgivers, and priests came and went. And God’s people still survived.
Jesus was born under Roman rule, he called his apostles and left his foundling Church to grow even as her members were slaughtered by the thousands. All but one of his apostles were martyred. Still, the Church could not be stopped, and for every martyr who fell, others stepped in to lead, testify, and just live out their faith, pass on the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
You don’t get to pick your times. You live today, in the here and now. Make it count, because you are, we are, what our world needs right this minute. It doesn’t have someone else and tomorrow, it has you, right now.
100% Truth! Thanks Menagerie for reminding us.
So more representatives and politicians are stepping forward to Stop the Steal. A poster just said he got his representative to step forward. Contacting the republiclowns WORKS!
Please do your part today. It takes only a minute and could save the world.
https://www.senate.gov/ (Click the “Find your Senators drop-down at the top-left)
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
2021 to 2020; “Stand back and hold my beer!”
25th light infantry?
Thank you Menagerie.
Speaking for my family, we need your posts more than ever.
Thank you for being a light.
My 2021 wish: Assange and Snowden both get full and unconditional pardon from PDJT.
Especially Julian Assange, they’re literally killing him.
Amen Menagerie. Truer words have never been spoken. It is us and us alone that can do what’s needed and that is why we are here. To keep doing it no matter how bad or good things around us are. There isn’t any rescue coming unless we do it ourselves. Put the coat of courage and strength around ourselves and let’s get things done, for our families, ourselves and each other..
Happy New Year, Treepers!
Yes, 2020 has been a doozy… BUT, 2021 is already off to an insane start.
If you have not been following Lin Wood on twitter (Lin Wood (@LLinWood) / Twitter), you are missing some incredibly damaging and outrageous statements.
Here’s today’s MOAB release directed at Mike Pence:
Thread by @LLinWood on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
Lin Wood is tired.
Saying Mike Pence should go to prison and delving into Meadow’s private marriage life seems a bit unhinged to me.
Unhinged comes across as weakness.
Certainly we have power in the Name of Jesus and truth,
not have to dig into the trashcans.
I’m praying for brother Lin Wood.
MonicaMaria please elaborate how you can diagnose Lin Wood as tired and “unhinged” based on what medical degree?
I have yet to hear of anyone LW has called out suing him for slander.
Oh and another question for you: why is it you only come around to post in the Tree during election cycles?
2021 The year Biden concedes!
To the horror of Hillary Clinton!
JOE BIDEN CONCEDE!
In the Bible, the Gospel of John chapter 11:45-55 right after Jesus miraculously raised Lazarus from the dead, many believed on Him, but others became informants/spies who went to the authorities and identified our Savior as a national security threat.
Amazingly, the high priest prophesied that Jesus would die for all God’s children (not realizing what he was saying) and then the conspiracy/solution: Kill Him.
Just remember when anyone throws out “national security’ as a reason for why innocent people have to die – it happened to our Savior first. We should all be as wise as serpents and harmless and doves!!
I’m printing this one and keeping it posted on my desk. Well done, sir!
God doesn’t always call the justified, but he always justifies the called.