Turn The Lights Out, The Party's Over

I didn't sleep very well last night. All night long I tossed and turned, nightmares of four more years dancing through my head. Four more like the last four.

Then I awoke and found, to my horror, that it wasn't really a nightmare at all...it was true.

Even the casual reader of my blog will know that I'm no fan of Barack Obama. I didn't vote for him in 2008 and I didn't vote for him in 2012. I've had signs in my yard both times touting the virtues of his opponents, and both times I've been disappointed and saddened by his victory.

Last time I kept my mouth shut.

This time, not so much.

As my good wife said to me this morning, "Did you really think we could get a good, decent, God-fearing man in the White House with the way our country is today?"

Exactly.

I retired last night before the final results were announced, but by 10:15pm it was already pretty apparent what those would be. I didn't see the "celebration" that took place in Chicago nor the disappointment etched on a good man's face. Both of those images were on the news this morning and caused me more pain than I was willing to endure. So I turned them off.

People were, I'm told, dancing in the streets celebrating this "victory". I'm happy that people enjoyed themselves, but let's take a quick look at what they had to be so happy about.

Millions of people are still out of work, many of them so disgusted with their prospects that they have quit looking.

The economy has lately shown signs of life, but it's still awful.

Gas prices are still high and the price of food has skyrocketed.

One in six children is still living in poverty.

Our good country is still $16 trillion dollars in debt and getting further into it every single day.

Same sex marriage became legal in another state, Maryland, as did legalized gambling.

Recreational use of marijuana was passed in Colorado and Washington.

Abortion is still legal in ALL states.

All great reasons to celebrate folks, but let me quote a VERY sage individual when I say that "it's too bad the country can't see that we needed REAL change by electing honest people and passing upstanding laws that are in our best interest and in line with our Maker's commandments."

Amen, brotha.

There are a couple of verses in the Book of Mormon that I think are very applicable to our current situation. They're located in the book of Mosiah, 29th chapter, 26th and 27th verses. It reads thus:

"Now it is not common that the voice of the people desireth anything contrary to that which is right; but it is common for the lesser part of the people to desire that which is not right; therefore this shall ye observe and make it your law—to do your business by the voice of the people.
And if the time comes that the voice of the people doth choose iniquity, then is the time that the judgments of God will come upon you; yea, then is the time he will visit you with great destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land."

Let me make myself perfectly clear here. I do not believe Barack Obama to be a wicked man. I think he really believes in what he's doing. Heck, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he even believes he's the answer to all of our problems. But good man or not, our country is in TERRIBLE shape right now, worse than it was 4 years ago and worse than it's been in a long time. We needed that "REAL change" NOW, not in four years when he's brought us to our collective knees. The way our country is headed, who knows if we will even be here in 4 more years?

Let's be honest. This country, as a whole, does not keep the commandments of the Lord. There are good people out there to be sure, even great people, who do keep them. But by and large, we do what we want to do and say what we want to say no matter what the Lord thinks about it. In fact, we've relegated the Almighty to something we do on Sunday morning, if we feel like it, and then forget about the rest of the week.

Well, now is the time to be frank. There's a storm gathering out there. Not a storm of wind and rain and snow, though I imagine He might use nature to prove His point as well as anything else. Rather, it's a storm of wrath and destruction.

I know. I sound like a neocon Bible-thumper. I sound like a guy standing out in the street in a robe with a long beard and a sign that reads, "The End Is Near!". Believe me, I get it, but as it turns out, I also embrace it.

See, the Book of Mormon also talks about that, stating that in the last days people will say, "Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die and it shall be well with us." I see that all around me...today. Legal marijuana, trillions of dollars spent every year, a ruler that fiddles while Rome burns.

All I have to say to that is this:

Better end the celebration a little early tonight, fellas, 'cause the Father of this family is on His way home and he's going to be pretty ticked off that you threw a party while He was away!

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