Your story sounds so familiar to ours with our next door neighbor here in WA. Our neighbor is 86, lives on her own, has one friend that visits her everyday (which is so sweet), but watches nothing but CNN all day long. She goes to church every Sunday but her church is now half pro-trans and is falling apart. Half of the church (one of th…
Your story sounds so familiar to ours with our next door neighbor here in WA. Our neighbor is 86, lives on her own, has one friend that visits her everyday (which is so sweet), but watches nothing but CNN all day long. She goes to church every Sunday but her church is now half pro-trans and is falling apart. Half of the church (one of the oldest, largest churches here), including several assistant pastors, just walked out a few months ago. She still attends, but is heart broken because she doesn't agree with many of the decisions they are making. She wants to love on the alphabet people, as do many of us who have been redeemed from our junk, but she doesn't want to agree that its ok to live in it and glorify it.
All that said, she told me she was having a hard time and was thinking she was going to vote for KH. Its so sad how the media has this brain-hold on so many older folk. To have the strength to research for truth, to face opposition, isn't there like it used to be. It takes energy to go against the grain of our world and culture. Sadly, many elders over 70 are losing that energy. I hope and pray she had the strength to follow her conscience, hear her guardian angel's prompts, and feel the tug of God's Spirit. We sometimes lose that ability, or sensation, if we've been focusing on our fleshly sensations for too long (hunger, touch, smell, sight, etc.). I think that's why Jesus told people to fast often. It helps shut down all of those earthly noises and to hear or feel the spiritual stuff easier. I highly recommend fasting if you feel your ability to feel or sense spiritual things are at an all time low. Reading. Praying. Worship. All kinds of things help open up "windows into the heavenlies."
Your story sounds so familiar to ours with our next door neighbor here in WA. Our neighbor is 86, lives on her own, has one friend that visits her everyday (which is so sweet), but watches nothing but CNN all day long. She goes to church every Sunday but her church is now half pro-trans and is falling apart. Half of the church (one of the oldest, largest churches here), including several assistant pastors, just walked out a few months ago. She still attends, but is heart broken because she doesn't agree with many of the decisions they are making. She wants to love on the alphabet people, as do many of us who have been redeemed from our junk, but she doesn't want to agree that its ok to live in it and glorify it.
All that said, she told me she was having a hard time and was thinking she was going to vote for KH. Its so sad how the media has this brain-hold on so many older folk. To have the strength to research for truth, to face opposition, isn't there like it used to be. It takes energy to go against the grain of our world and culture. Sadly, many elders over 70 are losing that energy. I hope and pray she had the strength to follow her conscience, hear her guardian angel's prompts, and feel the tug of God's Spirit. We sometimes lose that ability, or sensation, if we've been focusing on our fleshly sensations for too long (hunger, touch, smell, sight, etc.). I think that's why Jesus told people to fast often. It helps shut down all of those earthly noises and to hear or feel the spiritual stuff easier. I highly recommend fasting if you feel your ability to feel or sense spiritual things are at an all time low. Reading. Praying. Worship. All kinds of things help open up "windows into the heavenlies."