Today in America
I have been meaning to write a post-TMM blog for weeks now, but I finally committed and put it on my to-do list for today. We have been trying to keep calm, have peace in our hearts, and live with hope in Christ for a resolution to some of today’s problems. A few weeks ago, when Jill was home-schooling Haylee on communism and socialism, we pulled out the old Disney movie NIGHT CROSSING. It is the story of two East-German families caught behind the oppression of the Iron Curtain in Berlin. The story is moving and inspiring as the families risk everything for the simple freedoms that we take for granted. . . until these last weeks. They were living in fear—fear of saying their true feelings, ideas, or opinions; fear of being pulled from their homes or put in prison; fear for the future of their children in a socialist regime; fear of losing their jobs and property. I’ve thought a lot about how I would have responded under such circumstances, and here we are today. Someone on Twitter said that we need to stop thinking about voting for or against a personality and start thinking about saving our country, America. This is an excellent video about how to look at what is happening today, and I hope you will listen: https://youtu.be/zxLi-6RtmUQ One of my favorite inspirational sayings goes something like this, “Not knowing is bad. Not wanting to know is worse.”
The Sunday before we left Laredo, we watched the BYU TV show FAMILY RULES. The subject was about positivity. I loved the segment featuring Hillary Weeks so much that I took this screen shot. It suggests that we make a family poster of all the positive things we do this summer. The segment was filmed before we were overcome by the pandemic or the riots or the isolation of a lockdown. What a great way to make our homes and families remember all the great things in our lives!
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