Some day the war will be on our soil and it's not that far away. People won't be able to keep their jobs if they can't pay for gas to drive to work. There will come a time when things won't be like they are now and what will people do then?
What will people do then? Well, my typical answer to this question when I am asked is quiet simple. What they have to do. What will I do if the war is in my back yard tomorrow? Well, I won't be happy about it that's for sure, but I'll adapt. I don't take the life I have for granted. I don't assume it will always be like this and never be worse. But I don't live my life worrying about the what ifs. I figure I'll get through today and the challenges it presents and then I'll get through tomorrow and it's challenges. Maybe they are the same kind of challenges, maybe they are very different. But life will happen around you, and the way I look at it, you have to be able to adapt to that or you won't survive.
I know that when my mom, who is typically the only person I really get into these kinds of conversations with, asks me these questions, I can't help but wonder...Why does it really matter? I know she has seen war effect those at home. She's watched family members go off to war and not come back. She's lived through the draft and I understand her fear for her kids and grandchildren, but what good does it do her? She thinks we're naive. Maybe I am. I just figure that you can't take what you have for granted, but at the same time, enjoy it while you have it.
I knew when we were in college that gas would not stay at .99$ a gallon. I remember when it went above a dollar and stayed there. I know that the cost of living keeps going up while what people get paid per hour is at best leveling out, if not decreasing. I know that factories are doing work in other countries and we're becoming a nation that serves, which tells me a lot about our future. What goes up, will come down is a true saying and our nation is still on the rise up, will I be alive to watch it fall down? I don't know?
I have asked myself, what can I do? I guess my solution to that question is what I am doing. I can live my life to the best of my ability trusting that I'll be enabled to do what God asks of me when he asks it. Dash says this is a fatalistic view with a positive spin. I guess that's true. I guess I don't disagree with my mom as much I disagree with her solution to the problem...She thinks we should worry, I think we should roll with the punches. Either way it ends up at dooms day!
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I think I see some pessimism oozing out.
I'm kind of a doomsayer as well at times. I often wonder whether the country will be stable when I have kids in school, in college, when I retire...
I agree with rolling with the punches, though. Worrying does add a sense of preparedness, but if you are the type who will prepare, worrying adds nothing.
WHOA! Is that T losing her realism?
Actually I agree wholeheartedly. And if one thinks they won't be able to adapt, because they can't imagine hardships....well then, they need to read about my life! LOL!
God knows that I have faced more in my life than I would have ever given thought of when I was in college. And you know what? I am still going strong. (As strong as the IV lets me!) Take this situation for example: I was never prepared for what to do with life and my boys should I ever be hospitalized. Not that I thought it would never happen, but I do live a day at a time. Not that I shouldn't have some emergency plans for such an event. But I didn't start the week out thinking, OMG, what will happen to the boys when I am in the hospital. Our LORD protects in the valley of the shadow of death. Unfortunately, war brings death. I know we exist to bring God glory. And however He chooses to bring that about...we must be willing vessels.
Remember, "It's Not About Me; It's About Him".
I know that many of our parents grew up in a world where global ahnilaltion was possible with the silmutaneous turn of two keys and the push of a big red button.
Many of our grandparents lived through and remember the depression and what can happen when an economy collapses.
Not to long ago, there was a real threat that those darn canadians were going to march down and wipe us of the map - they got pretty close.
A bit before that folks were wondering who was going to win the latest war and determine which side of the cross they should identify with ... and wether they would recieve a visist from those guys in red that "nobody expects".
and before that if you claimed the cross at all, you go your own.
There has always been a doom set before us - if only the doom of mediocrity. Still there is hope.
I remember having a similar conversation with you once and being inspired to less worry as it doesn't change things. Oddly enough I just finished my first "sermon" aka devotional in Spanish on worry and then read your blog. Hmmm. I must need to think about this.
Dust has taught me the difference between irrational fears and rational fears. I want to worry if there is something to worry about, but if there isn't then I don't want to. My mother has a lot of irrational fears.
T - I like your style. It keeps civilization afloat when the sky falls.
I wrote my Yellow Umbrella post and then read your Dooms Day. Freaked me out a bit... Just love your families!
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