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Great Stories! One perspective…

What follows is a conversation that took place many years ago in a far away place. But if we listen carefully to what is being said, we may find ourselves in that same place at this current time.

It is like in the great stories. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you that meant something.

Even if you were too small to understand why. Folks in those stories had lots of chances of turning back. Only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding to something. There is some good in this world and it’s worth fighting for.

By now you have probably guessed that this was part of a conversation between Sam and Frodo in the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. You may not recognize this time of our as a “darkness” that we are fighting our way through. Remember that you who are of the faith and believe in Christ and His Word are a light in this darkness. Let not the evil keep us from telling the truth both loudly and clearly. For many are not seeking the truth and few are uncovering it. But don’t let that be said of you most valiant of warriors!

October 6, 2021 Posted by Bill Wyler | Allegory, Culture, Life | 2021, information war, Loyalty, Responsibility | Leave a comment

Once To Every Man and Nation

Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood,
For the good or evil side;
Some great cause, some new decision,
Offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever
Twixt that darkness and that light.
Though the cause of evil prosper,
Yet ‘tis truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold,
And upon the throne be wrong;
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow,
Keeping watch above His own.

James Russell Lowell, 1845
Cited by Paul B. Long in Citizen Soldiers of World War II

I saw this posted on The Watchman’s Bagpipes blog of August 14, 2021 Posted by Glenn E. Chatfield at 10:03 AM

August 15, 2021 Posted by Bill Wyler | Culture, Poem | 2021, Responsibility, vision, war | Leave a comment

If Circumstances were Different, Would Any of Us be Different?

Days are coming when this question will be relevant to many. Let’s follow the lie and then the truth laid out by the author below.

Lie: If circumstances makes us who we are, then we are a victim of our circumstances. If a victim, then we are not really responsible. In other words, we simply cannot help the way we are.

However in reality, God says we are responsible for our actions regardless of the circumstances. It is not the failures of others, but for our own responses and lives that is our responsibility.

Truth: our circumstances merely reveal what we are.

Truth: if we are not content within our present circumstances, we are not likely to be happy in any other set of circumstances.

Truth: we can trust a wise, loving, sovereign God to control every circumstance of our lives.

Truth: “Joy, peace, and stability come from believing that every circumstance that touch’s our lives has first been filtered through His fingers of love and is part of a great, eternal plan that He is working out in this world and in our lives.”

Lies Women Believe (and I would add…and Men also believe)
and the Truth that Sets Them Free by Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Lie #36

July 14, 2021 Posted by Bill Wyler | Culture, Life, Religion | circumstances, Consequences, GOD, Responsibility, Truth | Leave a comment

Something to Consider…

Each generation relies on the preceding generation. Those that succeed us are likewise relying on our decisions and choices made now or the lack thereof.

When one generation neglects to perceive or recognize harmful and destructive trends in our religious, political, or educational organizations, the next generation may face issues that are nearly overwhelming to deal with. Even now our generation are seeing such issues. How will we deal with them to preserve a future for the next generation?

Since we have this duty, let each of us consider this matter seriously.