my mind

"O God, where art thou? And where is the pavilion that covereth thy hiding place? How long shall thy hand be stayed, and thine eye, yea thy pure eye, behold from the eternal heavens the wrongs of thy people and of thy servants, and thine ear be penetrated with their cries? Yea, O Lord, how long shall they suffer these wrongs and unlawful oppressions, before thine heart shall be softened toward them, and thy bowels be moved with compassion toward them?"

my friends, brothers and sisters, this subject has been on my mind for quite some time now, and so I decided I needed to share my feelings, and beliefs.

how often do we feel as if God's place, (heaven) is being covered from us? (personally or in other respects, for all intensive purposes, I want to address this on a worldly scale) It is my personal belief that God's Hiding place (hereafter to be referred to as heaven) is not covered from our world leaders. but perhaps those leaders are covering themselves from the influence of the Almighty.

Now, it is not my place to make judgments toward anyone, especially our country's leaders. but as we are about to find ourselves with a new Commander-in-chief I feel it is my place, or all of our places, to step forward, and vote for him who is most qualified to receive inspiration from our Heavenly Father. now, I will not go into politics for all of you know my feelings on both candidates. but, I would stress, we need to look to him who best fits that mold of the Presidents of old. those who actually, 1. listened to the people, 2. listened to their (worthy) advisers, and most importantly 3. listened to the Lord as best they could.

now, on to the 2nd part of my bluster. and the 2nd part of that wonderful scripture.
"O Lord, how long shall they suffer these wrongs and unlawful oppressions, before thine heart shall be softened toward them, and thy bowels be moved with compassion toward them?"

I feel as if we are all being oppressed, not necessarily in the ways we normally think of, or even in the ways that the prophet was speaking of. but by the Advisary, Satan knows his time is short, he knows he only has a short amount of time before the second coming of our Lord. He is fighting like never before, "he is taking the strongest, most courageous souls from the ranks of heaven" he knows exactly what can make each and every one of us fall into sin, but we are strong! "there will be a day when the hearts of men will fail, but today is not that day, today, we fight!" we must fight! there is no other way. in the end. the outcome is clear, and pre-destined, the forces of righteousness will prevail. but we must decide today which side we will be standing on when the Lord comes again.

my dear brothers and sisters, the end is near, I feel we will see the 2nd coming in our life time, we cannot wait any longer to do what is right! we can not procrastinate our salvation any longer. my brothers and sisters, take the hand of the Lord. we are in the middle of the raging sea, and only him, ONLY THE LORD can save us. he is the only one who can reach out, and take hold of us, and pull us to the surface. I pray I can take the hand of the Lord. I pray I can withstand the raging sea around me, long enough to see my savior once again, in flesh, and be able to say, in the last day, that I was faithful, that I did all I could do. that I did not just my best, but my VERY best.

My friends, we are in the final days, there is no doubt about it, all is falling into place, prophecy being fulfilled, the time is gone when we could stand, and bathe in Hell's cesspools with the supposition that we can repent later, and all will be forgiven. the time is now to repent, and come unto Christ. I pray I can do what is right, I pray I can do all the Lord asks of me, and I pray I can be a light on a hill, and shine to the world. this I pray, with my humble plea, come unto Jesus my brothers and sisters.

OOH GOODNESS!!!

ok!
so today has been a really long day, not simply for the fact that I had to be in Lehi all day, but! because........ (**flash back**)

so there we are, Alan (a co-worker) and I JUST getting on the South bound I-15 (the 31st street on ramp) and as I'm paying attention to other more important things (my doughnut) I hear Alan say "WOAH! what's that!!!?" and so I look up, and see a car, buried in the middle divider. (it didn't seem to hurt the divider at all...) and smoke coming from the engine, so Alan pulls over and hits the breaks. we both get out, and I call 911, the guy gets out of his car, and kinda sways on the spot, and without looking, starts to bolt across the freeway. at this point, Alan and I are FREAKING OUT! so once he makes it across the freeway, Alan looks at him, and asks him if he's alright. he kind of looks dazed at Alan and says "I'm really cold" so Alan assumes he's in shock, so he walks him over to the Van, (still running) and sits him down in the passenger seat facing out, and as Alan goes back to look at the car from the freeway and as I'm busy talking to the 911 dispatcher, I look over, and there goes the van, Passenger side door WIDE open, and he's driving down the 15. so needless to say we were upset, but luckily, I'm on the phone with 911! so I tell her that the van was stolen, and I swear within 2 min. there's a UHP car going at least 90 MPH southbound. that was a good feeling, to see that our tax dollars DO do something!!!

so we talk to the UHP for about an hour. and then they leave us, we cant get a hold of my boss, so we start walking... about 4 miles back to the bakery... and then finally when we get there, my boss gets back, and looks at us like "WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?!" so we recount the tale, and at first he's upset... but then calms down, realizes we were just trying to help a guy...

so then about an hour later (around 11:30 id say) we get a call that they found the van! in Riverdale!!! so we go to pick it up, and they have to dust for fingerprints, and they bring a K-9 unit in... it was great! so we get the van back, and head down to Lehi, do our work, and then head home.

so we get back to the bakery, and a police officer shows up, and asks us to give a positive ID on the guy, (they had a pic) so we did... it was him, and he Tell's us, it's a good thing you weren't in his way, because he's been known to shoot people, and have weapons on him. he's also a drug dealer, and a maverick at stealing cars, plus, he's been into counterfeit money. the officer said the guy shoots people like we put on socks.....

so yea, I'm grateful that the guy just stole the van, we got it back (although I was really afraid to finish our doughnuts) and no one got hurt.
I have really gained a testimony today that the Lord watches out for us, he knows whats best for us, even having a company van stolen, it was much better than having my live taken away for trying to stop him.
GOD LIVES!