Life goes on...
I want you to know that I haven’t been sitting around moping
for the last week and a half since the election.
Pondering – yes, and I’ll admit it, occasionally with
weeping and gnashing of teeth…but I have not been consumed by it.
The day of the election, I read this verse: “I am with you
and I will save you,” says the Lord. “…I will not exterminate you; I will
punish you, yes, you will not go unpunished.”
And also, this one: “It is better to fall into the hand of
the Lord (for His mercy is great) than into the hands of men.”
Now I’m not going to equate America with Israel (these words
were for them). We are far from being God’s chosen, as Israel is, but our
country, after establishing itself on Biblical principles, has dishonored God’s
laws in many ways, and we do deserve punishment for that. I honestly believe
that if God will have mercy on us, it will be a severe mercy, and that bad
times are coming. I think it will take adversity for our stomach-driven culture
to remember the principles that allowed the US to become the freest nation in
the world.
So now I’m trying to figure out how to be prepared for that,
without having to bury coffee cans of money somewhere…
Because you know that I would never remember where they
were.
And one last (I PROMISE!) thing about the election: Our son led a successful campaign and got a
Republican elected in the 41st district of this blue state!!
Quite an accomplishment!! We are so proud of him! Of course, he worked for a
great candidate…Steve Litzow is a champion of education, and thus was
attractive to voters of both parties, and was an indefatigable campaigner himself.
He knocked on literally thousands of doors throughout his district to bring his
agenda to the voters. I’m so happy for all of them at this success. They worked
very hard to attain it!
And now if any of you know of a job opening for a hard
working former campaign manager, let us know…
The last week, life has gone on. We had a busy, busy weekend
full of visiting, and bazaar shopping, and football games with pizza after, and
the Ivan Likkel Fam all came here for soup and bread last Sunday. Good times,
good times…
We found out that Daisie’s tumor is considered a low-grade
cancer, which may or may not return…a good report and we are relieved. She is
back to her normal self, bugging me to go for a walk every morning as soon as
it is light – and so far, we have been able to successfully disguise her
antibiotics in various kinds of treats. She’s pretty savvy about hidden meds,
so we are using a great variety of treats: peanut butter, cottage cheese,
canned dog food, rolled up raw bacon…Oh, the things we do for this boxer!
And she’s worth every bit of it.
Now she has a little accumulation of fluid at her incision
site, and so we are supposed to hot pack it 3 times daily…Ever tried to keep a
hot pack on a dog? Daisie’s attitude is pretty much: “What did I do to deserve
this?!” She’ll probably get to liking it about the time we don’t need to do it
anymore.
The Farmer is in the midst of Meetings Season, and was gone
for 3 days this past week. He is home all of next week, which is nice since it
is Thanksgiving (ALREADY?) and then he will be gone again for several days.
This gives me plenty of time to indulge in Christmas
shopping and holiday prep, as well as drinking coffee by the fire while
watching the rain beat down outside.
Some things stay the same, thankfully, even while the world heads for hell in a handbasket…
But I said I wouldn’t talk about the election anymore…
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