the end is the beginning

2021 is coming to an end. What a year. That is basically all I can say. Who knows that insane things await just around the corner. Not normalcy, that is for sure. Focus on the good in your life, because there's still plenty if you look. Don't let them steal your joy, or then they really do win. Dance, sing, play games, try a new hobby. Do things that make you laugh. Shift your focus to helping others and you will see things from a new perspective. I don't make New Year's resolutions, because I never keep them. My life goal is to be good to people. To try and continue to grow and evolve in helping others and looking outside of myself. So that is what I will continue to do, new year or not. I'll see you next year.  *Alexa tells a  child  to stick a penny in a live outlet. Anyone that doesn't see that AI is rapidly growing and learning from itself is blind. Soon it will be too powerful to contain. There is a huge chance it already is. Why do we need these devices i

*How do they get away with it? Things happen simultaneously around the world without a paper or electronic trail. Always without a trace of evidence. They communicate through signs and symbols. They have a secret code that transcends nations. They signal each together with hand gestures and code words. Once you see this, you can never really unsee it. There are signs and code words in basically everything we consume. *Some of the evil Nazi scientists got a plea deal and many of them moved to America and worked for NASA. This is usually brushed over and most people don't even know, or maybe they don't care. We actually have a local venue called the von Braun center. The average person here would tell you it was named after a scientist who lived in the area. They just don't know any of that scientist's evil history. Kind of like Dr. Fauci. Seriously, if you know anyone that still trusts him, look up his past. *Why do we not go to the moon anymore? Or did we ever? Did we s

Someone I know and trust very well recently encountered what he believes to be a UFO. This person is a captain of an airline and has spent many hours in the sky. He called me a few weeks ago and I could tell he was very shaken up by what he experienced. He was flying and coming straight towards him was this golden orange ball, getting closer and closer. Nothing was showing up on his radar, and no one from the tower below was telling him to change course. He told me he was in shock and never once thought about taking a picture. He said his mind had settled on, "This is it. I am going to die." The orange glowing ball continued to get closer until it just suddenly vanished into thin air. He said he almost intuitively knew that the ball was checking them out and when it realized they were of no concern, it left. The only other witness was his co-captain. It happened to be his first real flight of the job and he asked if this is something they usually see in the sky, to which the

Just some random pictures from my phone over the past couple of weeks. I don't do picture posts very often, so here ya go. Nothing too exciting though, but sometimes it's nice to document how big my kids are getting.  Gave Frankie a catnip toy and s/he went crazy for a second and then laid around with crazy eyes. I thought I killed him. Not really, but s/he was very out of it. Frankie is a very politically correct cat because I'm beginning to think it's not Franklin and more of a Francine. We are taking it to the vet this week and I guess that will be solved. Again, I'm so glad someone is getting some enjoyment out of that furniture I picked out.  The kids and I have been playing lots of board games. They taught me Carcassonne last week. I'm also excited to bust out these new brain games we got Owsley. He loves stuff like that, and I'm trying to keep him from staring into his tablet all winter break.  Sorry Peppy, Gage is the tallest one of us now.  We took

Apparently the face of a terrorist. I don't think I'm a national threat, but what do I know? Winter break so far has consisted of many board games, decorating cookies and making candy, and finishing up Marvel Universe. (Thank goodness that's over.) I did enjoy a few of those movies, like the Thor ones and Guardians of the Galaxy, the Black Widow backstory, Dr. Strange, Ant Man, and Infinity War. I slept through chunks of everything else. So much fighting. Too much stimulation and my brain just shuts down. Anything that was mainly just Avengers put me to sleep after 30 minutes, even if I wasn't tired. To each their own, but superheros have never been my thing. However, I have thoroughly enjoyed having this special time with my kids watching and discussing these movies. They knew it wasn't necessarily my favorite, but they were still interested in my thoughts. We also watched Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and I really liked that one.  Wednesday we went to

When I saw all the articles claiming that this all felt like a repeat of March 2020, I was hopeful this was just fake news. But then Peppy's job, which is based out of Chicago, cancelled their holiday party that is a month from now out of fear of Omicron. I am assuming this go around will probably vary depending on where you live. I see more and more people masking up in grocery stores over here, but no one is really freaking out. Hard to freak out when they admit Omicron is no more than a cold, although there was the first death in the US and he has been labeled "an unvaccinated conspiracy theorist." But I also read another article stating he had some preexisting health conditions. They will never tell us the real truth anway. That's why praying for wisdom and discernment is especially vital right now.  I've got tons of great links for you today. My gift to you.  *The  World Economic Forum  also cancelled their yearly meeting due to Omicron, although I have suspi

Just kidding about the title. I can't even keep up at the new things that come out every day that are deemed offensive. Sometimes it feels like people go out of their way to find something to get upset over. You can try your hardest to be accommodating to everyone, but you'll still end up offending at least someone.  Blessed is the one who is not offended by me. -Jesus in Matthew 11:6 This was written in a time of history where Rome was baffled by Jesus, and the Pharisees were offended at the thought that Jesus was claiming to be the son of God. They believed that was absolutely blasphemous. Some even claimed that his power came from Beelzebub. The time in history this was written may have been generations past, but people are the same. It reminds me of traveling all over the US. The locations may be varied, but when it comes down to it, people are the same. Every location will have its liberals and conservatives, although the percentage might vary greatly. There will be your n

  Someone posted this on reddit, so I don't know the original source. They aren't wrong though. Some biblically accurate angels are absolutely terrifying. No wonder so many people were terrified and fainted when they encountered an angel. This particular tree topper is inspired by the angel in Ezekiel 10:12, "Their entire bodies, including their wings, were completely full of eyes, as were their four wheels." When we think of an angel, most of us imagine something similar to this: source Or maybe even this: source But here are some examples of how certain angels really appear in the bible. The bible has super weird stuff in there. I really get into those stories. Here is a biblically accurate depiction of a cherubim. Definitely not the cupid baby type angels. source "In appearance their form was human, but each of them had four faces and four wings.....Their faces looked like this: Each four had the face of a human, and on the right side had the face of a lion, a

Serious question here, because I legitimately do not understand...why are people freaking out about Omicron? (Maybe because the White House is basically threatening the unvaccinated. Growling like an angry dog and making this divide among humans even wider.) The first news stories admitted that it was the weakest mutation so far, and that it was like a very mild cold. But now you have people planning their Christmas dinner outside, uninviting their unboostered family members to events, and now the boostered are looking down on the doubly vaxxed. I would say this is all internet stuff and you can't believe everything you read on the internet, but I have overheard people around me discussing it. Perk of being a wallflower: You pick up lots of interesting information without feeling the need to participate in the conversation. I have become an impenetrable fortress of secrets. When you are quiet, people jump to lots of assumptions about you. That is ok. Assume away. Had a bit of a min

*English  funeral director  says he's seen more blood clot deaths over the last year than he's seen in fourteen years.  *One region of British Columbia will now require proof of vaccination to attend  in person church service . *"Devastating  solar storm  could send us back to Dark Ages"......predictive programming? Fear mongering? Who even knows anymore.  *Many schools across the country are closing today due to the potential threat of school violence that has gone viral on  TikTok . Again, is this real, or just more scare tactics? Or maybe even just giving angry and confused teenagers subliminal ideas. *White House Covid Response Team declares winter of "severe illness and death" for the  unvaccinated . I don't expect this to be true, but if it is, HOORAY! Death is actually preferable compared to what is to come in the future. *Guests were so unimpressed with Disney's promo video about their new  Star War's inspired hotel , Disney ended up pull

Remember when I said Frankie would be an outside cat? Well, that didn't last long. I'm blaming this one on Peppy, because he would text me pictures of the cat in his office whenever I was at the food bank. And I guess Frankie decided that domesticity was much nicer (and warmer) than being a wild cat.  So far, so good. In fact I am actually a bit amazed at how well this has turned out so far...even though he's only been inside for a few weeks. Gage has always wanted a cat, but we could never get one because Owsley and I are allergic. For some reason we don't seem to have an allergic reaction to this particular cat. Cats are kind of like ninjas. I had forgotten how quiet they can be. I will shut all the doors and he will still swagger off and find tiny spaces to hide in. His favorite spots are either on top of me, in a cat bed my sister-in-law gave us, or on the couch in our spare living room. So at least someone is getting to enjoy my beautiful rug and llama pillows. We

It has been almost a year since I've been dealing with longhaul symptoms. Everytime I see these articles about athletes being forced into early retirement due to heart and breathing related problems, I feel like that could be me in an alternate reality. There are days when I probably get my heart rate going too high from dancing, or hula hooping, because I do that a lot, and I am consciously aware that there is a possibility (however small it may be,) that this could be the day my heart just stops and I keel over. That was a super run-on sentence. At the moment I'm not dealing with heavy brain fog that makes me feel like an idiot, although I do still lose my train of thought and rely on lists and putting everything on the calendar. Sometimes I do search and search for a particular word and still come up lacking. My short term memory is still on the fritz most of the time as well. The brain fog hits so randomly. I'll be in the middle of a book and then wake up the next morni

This is what I just finished reading. I do think some things require current medical intervention, but at the same time, I believe many of our ailments can be lessened by correcting our diets and increasing vitamins and minerals that have mostly been removed from our lives. Most of it starts with cutting out sugar, which is no surprise. When you think about it, "alternative" medicine is actually the OG medicine, but big pharma isn't going to make big bank if we eat healthy, exercise and seek our natural remedies for our health issues. And then of course you can get into the conspiracy of additives and extra sugar being put into our foods intentionally to dumb us down and make us dependant on pharmaceuticals....or pharmakeia (sorcery.) *It is not tornado season in December, but we've had unseasonably warm weather and have tornado watches all morning today. At least 50 people in Kentucky died in a  tornado  that traveled over 200 miles and also collapsed an Amazon wareh

My kids took this picture ironically. This is Owsley's new photo face. How delightful.  Growing up in the denomination that refuses to call itself a denomination, every year around December we would get the annual sermon on how Jesus wasn't born on Christmas day and that it was probably in the springtime (although as an adult I've learned many people think it could be in October,) and that we should never, ever believe we have the authority for man-made holy days. I learned how the nativity scenes were all wrong because the bible doesn't say there were three wise men, only three gifts, and plus, by the time the wise men found Jesus he was probably already a toddler and they were no longer in the manger. But somehow this group still justified celebrating a pagan festival in the name of materialism. Parents had no problem lying to their children about Santa.  In fact, I did the same when I had kids. I was so far past seeing Christmas as any kind of religious holiday, and

I think more and more people are beginning to see through the pandemic lie. There are many who remain willfully ignorant, but there are also just as many who are scratching their heads and acknowledging that maybe they have been deceived about the vaccines. That maybe this has all been about power, and not just about the health and safety of others.  I don't know what the long term effects of these vaccines will do. No one does. Well, someone probably does. But no regular person. I do know that it seems blatantly obvious to me that the vaccine (and perhaps covid itself) is making people's hearts stop working, especially athletes. There was a huge trend in Brazilian soccer deaths, and now it seems to be hitting America and Canada. Young, healthy people don't suddenly keel over. And it is suspicious that this mostly happens while they are participating in something that elevates their heart rate. There have been days when my heart has felt irregular that I've wondered if

If you have stumbled upon my blog and aren't exactly sure how, it is because I prayed you here. I had a supernatural  born again experience almost seven years ago and it changed everything for me and everything I thought I knew was real.  I am not the same person I was seven years ago. Not even close. Every morning I pray that the Lord will bring people with open hearts and minds to read the things that are going on in the world. I pray that the church will be shaken from her slumber and that unbelievers will turn to our Savior before it is too late. Or maybe you have been praying for wisdom and truth, and both of our prayers have been answered simultaneously. So if you somehow randomly found me, welcome. I'm glad you are here.  Something is happening, and I know many of you feel it. I recognize that it's not about personal feelings, because this goes so much deeper than that. This is an inherent knowing that something is on the horizon. Nearly  60 earthquakes  have rumble

There seems to be a spirit of fear hovering over the world like a mist. It has been foggy the past few mornings, and that is how I imagine the fear. You can only see in front of you. You cannot see what is coming up next or might be looming ahead. Fear makes people behave irrationally. It makes them angry and anxious, which is an easy equation for control. People who previously seemed so level-headed are doing uncharacteristic things. People are quick to offer death wishes to anyone who doesn't agree with them or think like they do. After the last two years, many people are now living with debilitating mental health issues, suicidal ideations, and fear of the unknown. It's a weird, weird time to be alive. To be cognizant of the slow attempt to change humanity, while many still do not see. It's like sleep paralysis, when you are trying so hard to move, but everything feels like jello, and all you can do is watch in horror as that shadow creature comes towards you.  I told a

I understand that you can group any bundle of headlines together and make it support your personal agenda, kind of like cherry picking scriptures. I've noticed a lot of headlines about violence in all age groups lately. Jason A usually does a weekly roundup of natural disasters, but his week it was a compilation of violent headlines and news stories. The world is getting more evil by the day. Just like the days of Noah... *Speaking of violence, a brawl of over  100 children  breaks out at a trampoline park in Tampa. *I have prayed and prayed and I really don't believe the covid vaccine is the mark of the beast, although I do believe it is paving the way to mindlessly accept the mark for the one world government that is coming our way faster than you might realize. This particular redditor does believe the covid jab might be the mark, and I thought this was an  interesting read . Some of the comments are really insightful as well. *Looks like someone is trying to hide all the h