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That is where we stand on the Middle East situation right now.  As Trump puts minor players, like Vance, to work for him while he plays golf, we are facing widespread unrest as a country on numerous issues.  It's not enough that they are taking away the rights of states to govern their own people, now he wants to buddy up to Bibi and play games.  "I may....or I may not."  "Within the next two weeks.  Sounds sort of vague to me,

 yet movement of US troops and missles into the area is telling.  One of the planks of his campaign was to stop intervention by the US in foreign wars.  His base is telling him don't do it, just like most Americans.  The man listens to nobody but the voices in his head.  I find it ironic that so much attention is STIL going to Biden's state of mind when we have a loose cannon calling the shots on something so important.  This is no time for games.  When Tucker Carlson calls you out, well.  Not that I'm a fan of Tucker, but.....

All of this makes me nostalgic for the days when all we had to do was scroll FB and see what folks are having for dinner.  Beginning with DOGE and from that point forward, we ceased, as a nation, to have any input on any issue.  I never knew what "flood the zone" meant before this administration.  Now I understand.  It's one manufactured crisis after another.  

Summer has settled herself in with a heat wave for the next week.  Gee, thanks for that!  I am thankful to have AC.  I am thnkful that I am alive even though life is challenging.  I believe that God has a purpose for each of us and that if we watch and listen, He lets us know when he ain't happy.  And which way to go.  And who to be.

I listened to one my favorite choral pieces this morning, one that always made me cry when we sang it at DFUMC.   Had I not been a choir member at the time, I would not be familiar with this moving anthem.  God is bigger than all of this nonsense that is going on right now.  He is God of all the world yet there is always the issue of free will.  I am afraid that is happening within our affairs, both nationally and globally.  

I am the kind who will cheer for the underdog when I think they are right in my world view.  And I also get really mad when I see human rights being taken away in the name of an authoritarian government.  This is who we are now.  Don't kid yourself.  You could be next, no matter what color your skin is.

Prayers up ^j^