The Unemployment Line

Our family has officially joined the ranks of those countless millions who are looking for work. Not a happy thought with bills to pay and a mortgage that comes due each month. Kinda have concerns about feeding ourselves a bit as well.

Due to government cutbacks in defense spending thanks to President Korihor, aka Obama, the QinetiQ company did a reduction in force to meet the contract money obligations. And just like that we are unemployed.

Nice. NOT.

The military is the blood and guts that pay the literal price for our freedom. And Obama wants to cut it down to the nub. Ostensibly, his motivation is 'saving taxpayer money'. What he is really doing is killing jobs... not just defense jobs and military enrollment, but all the collateral jobs along the way.

It also gives us a very weak posture in the world where lots of our enemies, some of whom Obama has give money to - cough Muslim Brotherhood cough - are delirious with glee at the prospect of an eventual takeover of our nation. 

We are not earning brownie points for knowing all the words to "Kum Bah Yah" and "I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing" in a world that not only has no desire to join hands and sing with us, but would rather see us destroyed. Instead we are garnering the disdain and mistrust of our longtime allies, their bitter disappointment at our broken promises, the violation of their trust which has been abused and the hearty and wicked laugh filled derision of our enemies, both foreign and domestic, who are completely thrilled at the prospect that our nation can become the delightful socialist/communist/fascist paradisaical utopia they think exists between the leaves of the Lenin and Stalin playbook. Plus, if they can get rid of the world conscience that speaks for, sues for, then bleeds and dies for peace, not just for our nation, but for all nations, then the evil of the world wins.

Unfortunately for them, what sounds good on paper hasn't worked so hot in real life for those many nations compelled to wade through that drama over the last hundred years. Socialism only creates poorer rich and poorer poor. It doesn't make everyone equal, it makes everyone enemies to everyone else. There is not any equality in that playbook - unless you count suffering. There will always be class-ism under the banner of the hammer and sickle. There will always be someone who still manages to have all they want while even more have less than what they need.

Yet Obama and his policies are driving as hard and fast toward that ideology as he can muster. He sees nothing wrong in his plan because his arrogance and narcissism overshadow all else. That every single socialistic nation on the planet is awash in red ink, gasping for air and dying on the vine is no lesson for the man who knows everything and isn't afraid to tell you he does. He also harbors the deep misunderstanding that when a new world order is ushered in, that he will have a place in that order. 

Lacking understanding, he fails to see that no traitor is ever honored by those to whom he sells out. Ever. They are not trusted. They can't be. After all, they have ALREADY proven they will sell their soul for a mess of pottage. So how can they be believed?

Funny thing is that when his arrogance doesn't work out so well, like in the glaring example of Benghazi, Libya, Obama manages to obfuscate, hide, skate figure 8's around the truth, blame others and throw people under the bus of his personal power and charisma all while smiling like he knows so much more than we mere mortals will ever comprehend. And that smile is oily, unctuous and evil.

When I read the scriptures about leaders who are only there for power, it never ends well. From King Nebuchadnezzar to the aforementioned Korihor, those who are self-seeking in their ambitions bring many down to suffering, hardship and sorrow while seemingly never being touched by all the damage that is caused around them.

I also see that when the time of God's judgment comes upon them, the fall is terrible to behold. All who place their trust in the arm of flesh, the mortal arm so fallible and so imperfect, are doomed to fall with the "leader" who has led them far from the safety of the sheepfold and far from the True Shepherd who only sought for their safety in Him.

Knowing that God has a plan and a purpose for all of us, I trust and I pray. Learning through trials IS part of the plan because there are lessons that we must endure in order to become acquainted with God through what we suffer so that we can come to appreciate the Atonement in a way that would otherwise escape our understanding.

The scary truth is that none of us, from those plagued by personal disaster to those most recently harmed by the fury of Hurricane Sandy, is immune to the pain of being mortal. Yet only through these trials can we know what the next step is supposed to be.

Patrick Overton once opined: "When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly."

The issue here before our family is learning that trust in God isn't circumstantial, but preferential. We have to know, not just trust by going beyond faith to a sure knowledge; to learn to see reason as God reasons and to develop the understanding that all of this is for our experience and for our good in His plan and His timing.

The unemployment line is long and stretches through cities and towns across our nation. However, the line I am interested in right now is the line of communication between my Father in Heaven and our little family. We desire to know what the next step is and whether we will land on solid ground, or if we are to fly in a way we never dreamed possible.

All will be explained. I trust this. In the due time of the Lord...