Today is September 20 and in two more days if the Lord is willing, we will cross the autumnal equinox, a seminal time of the year that most of us here in the Ozarks anticipate with unrelenting anxiety. This year in particular has been exceptionally hot and miserable – it actually still is, the high temperature for today is forecast to be in the upper 90s as it has been for almost a month now and it has been bone dry! Water is rapidly becoming a scarce commodity all over the country and in many other places throughout the world. The fall colors are dependent on how much rain the forest gets as fall approaches, if there’s little rainfall and we enter autumn in drought conditions, the foliage just turns brown and withers absent the spectacular waxy colors some of us wait all year for.

With all the evil taking place in the country I don’t suppose we deserve the pleasurable experience of a beautiful fall, nor should we expect any other kind of blessings from the Almighty what with this malfeasance taking place. Somehow, we find ourselves being “led” by some of the most corrupt and evil creatures imaginable. Unfortunately, significant sums of money found their way into political campaigns so that we now have the worst possible choices of people in our highest government positions. This is the work of Satan and it is as plain as the nose on your face. If there are people who still doubt this, you need to pray for wisdom, so you are able to discern good from evil. We have as our president a man who has no appreciation for the truth, in fact I’d go so far as to say he is so far gone down the path of fabrications that he no longer is able to discern truth from whatever lies he has floating around in his head. He just flat doesn’t know the truth from a lie! The incredible part of this is that he still fully expects everyone to believe anything he says, yet fewer people believe him every day.

The Iranians won’t even negotiate with this administration due to Trump’s inability to even recognize the truth. To say he’s lost his credibility with the whole world would be to put it mildly. This is America, folks, and we’ve collectively been reduced from a great country to a sick joke. Putin knows how to play Trump. So does Xi. Most world and organizational leaders also know, from a sports leadership figure making up “peace” awards to the folks in his cabinet slavishly fawning over him, everyone knows how to play him and due to his fragile ego, he’s the only one who doesn’t realize they’re not for real. Somehow this pathetic creature actually imagines himself to be some kind of heroic leader who is loved by the whole world and he thinks everyone in the US despises Canada’s Carney for standing up to him.

This is not going to end well. Other leaders in the US shouldn’t be catering to some lunatic who has no business with access to the nuclear codes. Someone like a sitting president who takes every slight as a personal affront and is willing to create international havoc and destroy every relationship the US has with all countries – including formerly staunch allies – to get even with them for anything he perceives as a dig at him. Congressional Republicans are to blame for the situation we are in; I’m not saying this as a Democrat – I detest both parties equally, it’s just that the Repubs in Congress are the only ones who would be able at this time to stop this maniac from destroying our country but they’re too scared of his opprobrium to do anything that might upset him – even up to and including the destruction of the US. Now that we can see what they’re actually made of, we should take the opportunity of the midterms to get rid of the whole lot of them – Democrats who’ve sold out to PACs and special interests, too. These are all people who have sold their souls. Except a precious few like Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna and a few others who’ve been willing to risk their livelihoods to stand up and be counted – for America! I’m waiting for Massie to start a presidential campaign bid and see the country go all out to get him elected, but he would need some tight security because of his tendency to upset the apple cart.

This fall has the potential to be a spectacular event in many ways and with a little rainfall and a lot of determined voters, we might just have an autumn to remember – one that might just lift our spirits in a way to which we’ve not been accustomed of late. We might actually get some spectacular autumn colors and enough of the right folks elected into the Congress and Senate to reign in this out-of-control administration, maybe even impeach and get rid of this noisome stain on American government – and his corrupt cabinet. We can wish, can’t we? What we really need is some people in our leadership who are willing to practice what Jesus taught.

Pray for some rain in our dry places. Pray for that pretty fall we all would like to see. Pray for a new day in this nation. Pray that the Almighty is willing to forgive our lapse of judgement by allowing this mindless reign of evil into control of our government. Pray for the guidance of the Holy Spirit for our leaders to turn our destruction around and begin a new process of eliminating institutional evil everywhere it exists – like the evil ICE army of criminal misfits pillaging and destroying everyone’s confidence in equitable government. Other countries see this travesty of justice and want nothing to do with our system. You can’t blame them – it’s evil to the core! This ain’t the America I grew up in, folks – we took a wrong turn somewhere and electing a blithering, demon-possessed maniac to run the country might not be where it started, but it could well be where it ends!

Happy fall and may the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK