YOU CAN'T YELL ALL THE TIME AND EXPECT PEOPLE TO KEEP LISTENING!

I know I've been a bit more political over the last couple of weeks.  But I won't apologize.  Things are heating up in our world.  Hiding our heads in the sand won't help anything, so I do spout off from time to time.  But I'm beginning to think that I'm "preaching to the choir".  So tonight, I'm just going to say hello.

Hello.  I think we need to say "hello" more, every day.  Perhaps if we would just say "hello", "hi", "hope you're having a good day", maybe even just smile more often, maybe we could break down some walls that would help others to hear what we have to say.  YOU CAN'T YELL ALL THE TIME AND EXPECT PEOPLE TO KEEP LISTENING!    

During the last few days of our 15 years of marriage, my ex yelled at me all the time, (since he wasn't allowed to raise his fist at me again).  On the last or next to last day we actually lived under the same roof, he yelled at me, I zoned, then he yelled at me "ARE YOU LISTENING, WHY AREN'T YOU LISTENING?", when he calmed down enough that I was able to "hear" him, he asked why I didn't answer him, I looked at him and said, "when you yell at me, I can't hear you"

I think a lot of the world is the same way.  We have been yelled at about "global warming", "women's rights", "save the whales", "save the trees", "h1n1", "butter will kill you", bla bla bla bla!  And now, no one wants to listen to anything, we all just want to stick our heads in the sand and pretend the world will continue on as it always has been and we don't have to do anything and everything will be fine it we all just go to work, get paid, spend our money and send our children to school to learn how to do the same thing. 

I don't think the world is going to continue on as it always has, in fact, I know it won't, I read the Scriptures, I know this world is going to come to a not so pretty end.  Sad, but true.  Well sad for some.  For the rest of us, what comes after the not so pretty end, will be absolutely eternally beautiful.   I don't know all the details, but I believe it's true.  I'm not telling you that your only choice is to believe the same way I do, that's up to you.  But I know that my faith, my Saviour, my Father Creator, will carry me through to the other side of whatever we have to go through.  It's not going to be pretty, and it might even get a little rough, but that's ok, I know where my hope, my faith will take me. 

I might not have said everything exactly right, exactly like I wanted to say it, but I've got to get busy cleaning house so I can get to bed at a decent hour tonight.  

Blessings & Peace to all of you!

SHALOM!