Election of 2012

Really having a rustling in my spirit the last couple of days...may be longer...about all of the chaos...

I believe it is time to get some of these thoughts down...so bear with me...I am only in the roughing out process...as I begin this blog...

There's just a lot going on in my life...what about you?

First, looking at the family scene...and not even going into details...or people's privacy...

• almost 3 wks ago...2 extremely important people in my life died on the same day, my aunt and my sister's husband...and we had a week of family gathered at funeral homes and funerals...  
• about 1/1/2 weeks ago I was told the biopsis taken on my arm and thigh at the dermatologist were cancer...I was given options and chose to have removed Mohs procedure...which took place this week on Monday...
• during the same week...last week...2 grandgirls had strep...2 others had virus...which seemed to go through family nabbing several...anyway...lots of sickness before the procedure, including me...
• we're all in the aftermath of all that...and I'm awaiting sutures being removed from thigh...and the other place on my arm being removed 
• aunt who died's son diagnosed with Lou Gueriq's disease...and another son's wife with a new lesion on her femur...more myeloma...and on 2 chemo meds
• husband busy besides his business...fixing up rental house
• I've busily filled in where needed for each son's family...making busy week...lots of traveling...but time to think   

Now, that's a very light and un-wordy description ...there was more... but I wanted to preface what I'm writing with the fact that I'm in this world like everyone else and there's a lot of chaos going on around me as well as all of you.  

This writer is not out of the trials and tribulations that are going on in every family.

How do I know everybody is stressed? Well, I have a prayer ministry...and the prayer requests have climbed to an all-time high...you can check me out on facebook...at womenwho pray...:)

Were we promised a bed of roses? Or, did our LORD through His Word to us say, "Ye shall endure tribulation!!"

Now, the good news is that He said we will endure!!! Glory to God!!! Therefore, let me add right here, this is why we can "count it all joy!!"

To continue with my thoughts…I have been very concerned with the Church...

We are the Church of the Last Days!! We are not the Latter Day Saints, but we are the Church Triumphant and we are in the Last Days!!!

If you do not recognize this, please turn to Matthew 24, where the disciples were asking Jesus what to look for at the end times.

I think it is ironic that I have read this chapter for oh so many years...that I can quote a great deal of it from memory...I certainly know when I hear words from Matthew 24 and 25 that I know their location in the Bible.

Wars??  Rumors of Wars?  Earthquakes?  Perilous times?  Persecution of the saints galore!!! 

What to do? Run around saying there’s a lion in the street…oh my! Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz…lions and tigers and bears, oh my!!

We are told to look up!! Why? Because our redemption draweth nigh!

I’ve heard from several people I know about how they are going to vote or not vote in this election…and, listening to the news…though I must say it is hard to call American news news, anymore…

I taught journalism in middle school one year…and, quite frankly, we don’t have any journalism today, according to its definition…according to its rules…and like all good and orderly things in the United States of America…journalism has rules.

There are things you can do and things you can’t do in journalism…just like there are rules in any real or true meeting…with guidelines like Robert’s Rule of Order.

A journalist has the responsibility to report the facts and only the facts!  They are not to have any persuasive or opinionated argument in their voice at all…not tone.  Isn’t that hilarious?  How long ago has that been?  Since we heard only the facts…the truth…where has integrity gone?

You would think that this new millennium of people…where we don’t need to spell or use cursive writing…or we don’t have to have any manners…any rules of order…any dress codes…any code of conduct…any recognition of authority …that somehow we just got here on our own...

We created ourselves.  We raised ourselves.  We rule ourselves.  Let’s see, I believe that is defined as anarchy??

Now, this is another sign of the last days…Malachi says when we’re running to and fro…Matthew 25 says,…like in the days of Noah…eating and drinking…giving and taking in marriage…and the flood came…and took away those not prepared in the ark with Noah!!

I have to be totally honest here.  Before I was 30, I believed hook, line, and sinker in the fact that I would not be here …during this time.

I taught it to others.  I have had to confess as sin my part in the deception that the Church is not going through trouble!!

I am a believer! I believe that Jesus Christ is LORD and I am saved…and, I am here!!!

I have not left …and for several years the words all about the meek and the righteous inheriting the earth has taken on new light…

I have had to ask God what I am to do, since, I am here, and unless something happens, America is in trouble!! ...and, let’s face it, saints of the Church of America…we have made a mess of our nation!!!!!!!!

It is our fault.  Now, bear with me and hear me out.  Then, comment all you want to…but that is what a Democratic Republic is…in fact Federal Republic is what we are called in many places…but I have the freedom to voice my opinion. 

I do not have the right to hurt you…or to take your rights!  I actually don’t have the right to publicly berate you or stretch the truth about you.  Slander and liability don’t seem to exist anymore. 

My principal in high school taught us: “Your right ends where my nose begins!!”  All of us under Ray Jackson that learned that…have been good, abiding citizens of this great nation.  We were told to register to vote, and I believe most of us do! 

We were taught that voting is a privilege and is our voice in America.  We all have one vote…and should take it seriously. I believe who and what we vote for matters to the LORD.

I am trying to stay focused here and write down what is bothering me…what is stirring up in me…

It has been awhile…back several months ago…that I spoke about about getting ready…that the LORD was returning…and it was time to set thing in order.

After the months of all the republican candidates rising and falling in the media…I made a decision and voted.

There were those who voted the same way and ones who did not…all of us voting for a candidate of the same party…Republican.

I had listened to all the debate.  I had changed my mind more than once. 

I had voiced my support for Herman Cain, and I was very sorry that he was not still a candidate when I voted.  Truly the smear campaign on him was amazing.

You see, Herman is a black man.  I had listened to him via radio for a long time, and I like what he had to say.  I liked the name…Tea Party…as I taught U.S. History…and the Revolutionary War was one of my favorite times to study and to teach…with Samuel Adams and the Sons of Freedom.

Herman is a Christian…not because he says so…but because along with confessing Jesus Christ as LORD,  he is pro-life…he is pro-Israel…pro-family, and pro-America.  My husband and I planned to vote for him.

Living in the south all my life…deep south, in fact…in the Bible belt…and certainly growing up with all of the separation of blacks and whites when I was in grade school…it was amazing that we were going to vote for a black man…at least to people looking on.  I mean my parents grew up in Atlanta, with the white neighborhood and the black one back to back, and no locked doors. I grew up with a maid in my home, who by the way I loved dearly).

When Obama ran for office, I did not vote against him because he was black.  I mean, I’m an educated woman…and I was a teacher in the public school.  His skin color and national origin did not matter to me.

What he believed in his heart did!  Obama was a member of a church, whose preacher preached against America.  He is married to a woman who spoke out against America publicly before the election. 

Our president is pro-abortion and proud of it…has said so many times.  He is not pro-Israel.  Much prayer went up against all the consideration of supporting Palestinian Jerusalem…which he spoke in favor of.  Let’s see Muslim Jerusalem…isn’t that an oxy-moron??

I believe in my Constitution…it is the law of this land.  More than once decisions made by Mr. Obama have shown that he does no support the 1^st or 2^nd amendment.  How can a Catholic hospital…a religious hospital…be forced to allow abortions in the hospital? According to who?

If that were to come into effect, what would stop our government from making decisions about churches and church schools?  Nothing…that’s what!!

Now, it is not the first time that this nation has had presidents deceive us.  President Carter ran on the fact that he was a Southern Baptist Sunday School teacher.  He deceived many people…some friends of mine.

I was in Texas years ago with a feminist rally going on that had several of the president’s wives on stage condoning some pretty extraordinary behavior going on.  Much of the material that I gathered as I slid behind the lines and went to the meetings said socialism and feminism on the same pages…linking them.

I was president of Mothers On the March a pro-family, pro-life organization and aligned with Phyllis Schlafly.  Many of us were members also of Eagle Forum.  We defeated ERA in 1982…Georgia was one of 4 states that held this back.

What I hear today sounds so much like those days!  What was held back then is on us now.  Trust me…I wish it were not so…but it is.

Back a few months ago, there was a slight mention in the news of a treaty.  My sister sent email to me and posted on her facebook page about it.  I was listening but busy. 

This last week, with our Ambassador and our military being murdered…and then seeing our U.N. delegate defend our lack of outrage…and seeing the U.N. president…I was reminded that our president was in favor of that treaty…don’t remember the name of it right now…

But, Saints of God, do you know that that treaty will supersede the jurisdiction of our nation.  Does this ring in your ear like mine?  Have we heard of a world tribunal…or world court…or one world government. 

So, I guess, I’m going to sort of nail it down for you where I stand….since it seems that that’s what we are doing.

I also want you to know that you do not have to agree with me.  I respect your right to have a different opinion.  I respect your right to put as many signs for your candidate in your yard as you want to.  That’s is what our Nation is about.  We have the freedom to speak…though my niece and I both lost signs that were torn up by people who are not voting for our candidate.  Those people do not believe in the same liberty I do.

I had a hard time at first picking my candidate for the same reasons that some of my very close friends and brothers and sisters in Christ have had…because there is seemingly no candidate to vote for that is a righteous man. Righteousness means right with Christ.  Jesus is his LORD!

As I look back, over all my years…soon to be 63…and on back when my parents voted…there is only one that I felt that way about.  History tells some pretty hair-raising stories of our presidents.

We are not a nation that wants or needs a king.   That’s why we fought for our independence.  I think people have forgot that.

I remember, when I saw Reagan for the first time at a Christian conference in Texas…that the believers wanted him to be…I don’t know…Baptist…Methodist…Pentecostal…Catholic…or??  But, he wasn’t.

I was president of MOM and pregnant with my youngest.  We got behind him because he was pro-Life, pro-Family, pro-Israel, and pro-America. 

I know that Obama says he’s a Christian…like Carter did…but he does not walk the walk or talk the talk.  He speaks socialism…which I taught students and warned against for years before I was a teacher…during the MOM years. When we all share everything...it means that we all own everything and no one owns anything. SCARY!!!! U.S.S. R. was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

When he condoned gay marriage…another oxy-moron…he is the only president ever to do so…and, in fact, the only head of any nation to do this! Woe, woe, woe, Saints of God!!

I have had gay friends…I have friends with gay siblings or gay children…I’m not against the person.  However, I am very much against what I know by God’s

Word to be sin to be lifted to the same place as God’s 1^st institution…the Family!!!

Male and female created He Him and told them to multiply and subdue the earth.

Let me also say that the platform that our president stands on…the democratic platform…is pro-abortion, anti-Israel, pro-gay marriage, and…this very year…tried to throw out the name of God and Israel. 

Wake up Church!!

As a believer, I recognize that Mormonism is a cult.  That means that they do not believe that Jesus is God.  The WORD says that according to who we say Jesus Christ is…not a prophet or good man…but God, Himself…makes us a believer or not.

I will share some experience here if you’ll bear with me a few more minutes…during the MOM days, we received some criticism from Christians because we did not have a requirement to join MOM.  We had many different denominations, Catholics, and Mormons…all working together to defeat the ERA.

Mormons printed our material more than one time at no cost to us…we were tiny and it only cost people $7 to be a member…and then, printing costs were much higher than today. 

As a pro-life believer and one who puts feet on my beliefs…I’ve had churches, even my own, not let us put out pro-life material from Georgia Right to Life.  Let me say clearly that not only is the material welcome by the Catholic churches as you’d expect, it has always been welcome by the Mormons.

I remember having someone say years ago, if your house was on fire…or if there were snakes in the front yard…would you ask the neighbor that came to help if they were mormon? Or Hindu? Or Muslim? Or????? I think not.

So, in conclusion:

·         I will continue to pray for the salvation of both of these two men because it is not God’s will that any perish but all come to repentance.

·         I will vote because it is a right and a privilege that many nations do not have.  I can vote my heart’s convictions without fear of being shot down or arrested because I live in a free nation where my husband, my son, my father and father in-law, and both grandfathers served this nation.  I have a bff whose son is in now, and my great-nephew is in Afghanistan as I write. My parents and in-laws, and grand-parents are cheering me on. 

·         I am not compromising when I vote  for a man of a different faith than mine.  I’ve known of no Bapti-costals like me running for president. J

·         The LORD told me as I published to you earlier that we are not voting for a man but against the anti-Christ spirit.  I can’t vote for anyone standing on the democratic platform as it is blatantly anti-Christ. God is pro-life…Children are a heritage of the LORD. He created male and female to populate the earth…Israel is the Apple of God’s eye…He has created us equal and given us life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

·         I learned many years ago, that if I was not sure about the man or woman, I could be sure about the platform. 

·         The Republican platform is more pro-life, pro-Israel, pro-marriage between a man and woman, pro-Constitution, and pro-God than ever.

·         Mitt Romney is not a Christian but he supports Christian values…he is pro-life, pro-Israel, pro-marriage between a man and woman, and he was a conservative governor.

·         I will vote for the Romney/Ryan ticket proudly.

·         I will respect your choice to vote the same or vote differently.

May the LORD bless you in all that you do in the Name of the LORD!

Until the next time…

Teddi