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More Prayer Now, more Repentance, More Seeking of God's Will, That's what we need more of.

 Some on the Right are understandably rather full of themselves these days, carrying on about how Trump won so resoundingly  that we're now going to get to right all the rwongs we've been enduring for so long.  Trump has a mandate and now we'll get  the border security and the economic propserity and the peaceful international scene and the trade agreements that work for everybody and don't put the USA behaind the eight ball as it were, and racial relations will go back to their condition pe Woke when we could point to measurabhle progres despite knowing that there will always be some tension, and Wiokeness irtself will go away finally and America will again be the great force for good in the world we used to be.  

I want that to be true of course, but it puts my teeth on edge that God is not invoked in these optimistic effusions of hope.  If we are not gdoing it all consciously in God's power and for God's purposes in the world , but doing it all by human means and in human strength and for human purposes, even with the occasional thaknks to god and so on, how long will this wonderful merciful reprieve He's given us last?   Only Christians can be expected to understand the situation in this light of course, but I'd expect to hear more of it than I do.  Which is prettymuch none at this point, just listening ot the news I mean.   

The Woke insanity is tstill out there, the murderous self entitlement of the Left is still out there, the plots against Trump go on in Leftist circules despite some surprising soul souearching on the Left.  Yes our war is not against flesh and gblood but against the powers and principlalityies of the Satanic kingsomdome,  yes, but Satan never resests, he bides his time and he knows who to trigger to do his purposes.   

jI also hear warnings that this is not a gime to let our guard down becaue of the ongoing Leftist designs.  that part I do hear.  What I don't hear enough of or at all is that it all depends on God and staying in tune with Him.

Devolution of Culture Inevitable result of Giving Up on God

 So Christmas has devolved into a completely secular holiday, not new since it's been devolving for decades now, but it seems more extreme this year.  Probably just because of how it has been coming at me.  Grandson was part of the Christiamas chorus at the tree lighteing dceremony in his town and the teacher was told that one of the songs awas too religious and had to be dropped.  I don't know which one yet but  any religious note in anything they sing would surprise me since it's all been relentlessly secular that I've heard fso far.  except for one of the songs in the honor choir I mention in the previous post but that one is not a popular song, I'd never heard of it before and it's vegaue enough to fly under the radar.  O Love that will not let me go is the first line,  an d it's about God'xs relationship with the Christian soul.  Now that I've mentioned it someone may notice and it will hnever be sung again.  It's one of the gons I like the most, lovely chords weafving in and out between the four voices from bass to first tenor.  

Whle they were visiting last week I became aware that my grandsons don't know the Christmas Carols at all.  Some of the melodies sound familiar to them but that's about it.  Well, their parents aren't Christians so they don't have the experience of church where they might have heard the carols.  Nbobody had the patience to learn them while they were here so I'm hopihng they'll hear them somewhere else.  

It's still true that the beauty of the music in the Honor Choir gives me ope for the culture but the initial thrill of it has worn ofrf by now.  Beauty in the mouths of teenage boys I mean, which is unexpected for some reason though literally I shouldn't be surprised.  because I'm aware of the existence of such choirs.  Just hit me from a new angle this year I guess.  

There is so much craziness continuing to dominate the news it's hard to keep up my state of hopefor the culture.  If Trump hadn't won the doward sligde would be even more precipitous of course, pretty total and sudden so at least there's the relieief of a temporary mitigation of the ineitable ultimate crash as this fallen world reaches its destiny which it can't help to do since it has abandoned God.

theyu fitht viciously against anyu shred of Christian influence.  that was never the plan of the Conssituion or the framers of the nation certainly not the Declaration of Independnence which affirmed the importance of God in the conception of a nation.   Tennessee and Luisian a have recently made laws to bring back Christain influence in their schools but it's being fought in the courts already.  Give up on the ten Commandments and you get the criminal ctrends we've been seeing olately, but they deny that we need religion to protect or guarantee a moral society.  Even George Washington sayid wwe need that in one of his speeches, that you can't divorce morality from the Christian religion.  John Adams said the same.  jeffereson concurred.  They weren't true Christians, anyh of them but they aprpeciated the hristian heritage.  And now we've lost even that much.   We can't put up the commandments against stealing, lying, murder, adjultery or covetousness or disrespecting paraents because these days the whole cultrue is going in favor of those once criminal behaviors, well murder anyway since lying and adultery and coverintging aren't criminal.  Oh stealing too used to be criminal but now it's supported by the law of all things so that businesses are having to close their doors.  Truly it's all incsance but insancne but somehosw they go on in this directly anyway and never get it.  We now see rioting in favor of murder of all things.  Sorry I'm tired I shouldn't be writing this yet I suppose.  Not rioting but loud opinions in favor iof letting a man hurt people on the subway rather than praise the man who restrained him, loud opinions in favor of the murder of a man on the streets of new york.  Utter unbelievable insanity.  I could neverr have buguessed that the world cold go this far in this direction if you asked me ten years ago let alone twenty or thirty even though it was already pretty insane by then.

Adams said our form of government is adequate only for a moral and relig8ious people.  Well we've long since lost it and the crash is inevitable though hopow long it will tak to get there isn't glclear.  could be tomorrow.  could be years from now.    Fortunately there are people workjing to restrain it, but the voices on the other side are awfully loud and arrogantly certain of their righteness.  \\

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It's a fallen world.  There's only one place a fallen world can end up.  In total and utter self destruction.  God will interviene before that happens to the uttermost but it's coming and it isn'[t going to be pretty.  

A Musically Happy thanksgiving for me

Belated Happy thanksgiving.  Coldn't get to my blog for a olong time.  Nothing much to say about the holiday itself except that it was a nice time with extended family and lots of food.  four generations under one roof on my borothe's sid3e.  His great grandsdaughter is almost two, and the star of the evening.  

The highlifht for me was getting to hear a recording of one of my gransndsons' choir perforan ces.  He's a senior in highschool and had qualified for the regional hojors choir which put on this show.  I can't find him in the crowd onstage but the music was lovely.  all the kids were chosen for their ability to sinbg well, on pitche, read music, etc etc etc and they sound great.  

There is a boys choir,m a girls choir and a mixed choir but all his dad recorded was the boys choir.  Maybe they call it mens rather than boys.  tghey sound likje jmen.  There's everything from two tenors to a baritone and a basss secrtion.  My daughter set me up with a set of ear hones that enabled me to experience it in wonderful sterio with great clarity and i8t reduced me to tears it was dso beuatufiul.

I think it was more than the music itself that so affected me, but the fact that threse are teenage boys, from fourteen to eighteen or so, and who expects such beaturfy from that age roup?  My grandson said he wants to be in the chorus because of the experienc3ew of being surrounded by such lovely blended sounsds, and that's my experience listening to it with these head phones.  He also played for me his own collection of the girls choir and the mixed choir and they are great too, and I'ld like to have a copy of those as well, but I think there's something abut the fact that boys can produce such musical loveliness that affects me the most.  boys get such a bad rap in our culture these days, and this performance reduced me to tears of hope for the recorvery of some of our lost westernculture.  

Intelligence, professionalism, musical skills of all kinds from pitch to timing to modulation to tonality.    

Here's the youtube channel:  @joemitola5178

there's a woman's head in the way so you have to see around her, and there are some background noiceses from time to time but not too bad I hope.