A Moment in History Pregnant with Purpose

A reader recently asked, “Why do I even bother awakening to face another day of impending doom?” He sarcastically replied, May as well get drunk and go back to sleep cuz the Republicans ’ won’t do enough this year or next five to prevent the really bad times coming which will make the Depression/WWII seem like the good old days.

I write a lot about “doom and gloom” issues during this era of great social change, much like how a Bangkok meteorologist writes about rain during monsoon season .

It is never too late to “awaken’t to God’s truth and, through His truth, to find implacable strength.

John Newton , an English slave-trader turned evangelical cleric and abolitionist, wrote that stanza around the same time that Americans declared their independence from Great Britain .