Saturday, July 23, 2016

PICK YOUR PLANET

What color is the sky on your planet? 
We could ask that question of our news media, our political leadership and all the different factions of society that we have been herded into.  The degree of separation seems to be more than just talking points, more than planetary but could be represented by our solar systems.  This weekend (7/23/1016) will give us the opportunity to explore those solar systems through the eyes of the varied inhabitants of them.  Unfortunately, we have managed to squeeze all of those differences into one segment of one small continent.  We are the United States which at this point is anything but united.
It’s Saturday morning at my house and time for the weekly news recaps, salted with ideology, ready to feed my hungry mind.  It would be helpful if there were just the one language where we would be able to understand all of these inhabitants of the other solar systems.  It seems it is more than just a question of language. What I see and hear is not the same as what you might see or hear.
I don’t understand the media attack on Mr. Trump’s speech on Thursday night pointing out much of what my eyes and ears observe in my world was just plain wrong.  The solar system of media says his speech was dark and foreboding.  The media stated his speech offered no hope or promise of a brighter sky or any path of improvement.  Our President and the Democratic solar systems say that our world may not be perfect but there is no cause for concern.  The media says the GOP is trying to separate and divide our country and put the GOP on the track of racial divide. The GOP candidate is a dangerous bigot who will destruct the entire universe.  Their sky is only dark if our population chooses to elect Donald J. Trump.
What are we to believe?  Are we to believe our own eyes and ears?  Are we to believe that what we saw and heard is really what the media says they saw and heard? Is reality and truth really that different in their solar systems?  The administration with the megaphone of the Presidential office would have us believe that the 80% of those watching and listening to the RNC were all mistaken. The RNC offered no light to our society according to the media who saw it differently.  How in their solar system can they see rosy and calm and a canoe on a quiet smooth lake when over 60% of our population sees us heading toward a huge waterfall?  How can they see and hear darkness, doom and gloom when most of our population saw and heard a positive and hopeful statement.
 I heard a presentation that held out the truthful and factual realities of where we are right now, today.  Our society is under attack and just not by radical Islamic terrorists.  Our common beliefs, our common language, our pride of country, our economic success and freedoms have been under attack from both inside and out.  Without seeing and recognizing the problem and the realities, there will be no cure.  The sky in my solar system is gray and cloudy with glimmers of blue and sunshine.  Granted the sky in the RNC closing was painted with the brush of reality, but it was clear there are rainbows and clear skies on the Trump horizon.  That is hope!
God Bless the USA.

Pray for discernment.

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