Wilderness Blues- Ramblings from the Great Land

  I went to the local Three Bears Market today. I don't normally shop there, even though it's the closest store to the house. The prices are much higher usually than at Wal-Mart or even Fred Meyers, depending on what you're buying. If you just want a candy bar or some soda, it's not a big deal. However, if you're shopping for a weeks worth of groceries, you might consider going the extra mile, or ten miles in my case, and shop at Wal-Mart. The money saved can be substantial.  One thing I do buy at Three Bears is gasoline. It's usually competitively priced, and if I'm on the way to the post office anyway, I just stop and fill up. Yesterday I was going to get gas at a different Three Bears location, but the cars were stacked up three and four deep, so I thought I'd wait. Today I went to the gas station and was surprised to see that the gas was less than $5.00 a gallon. In fact I think I paid $4.89 a gallon. For some reason I was happy to pay it. That is, u...

   We're living in unprecedented times in this country. We applaud people who are breaking the law and demonize those who try to uphold it. Most of the kids graduating have trouble doing the most elementary math, like making change at a register. Many of them are so socially awkward that they can't even hold a conversation face to face, it all has to be via a phone or computer. Church attendance is at it's lowest point in this country, but violence is at an all time high. See any correlation? When there is a mass shooting, as happened recently in both Buffalo New York and in Texas, there is an outcry for gun control. I understand, what happened is tragic. However, over the Memorial Day weekend in Chicago there were something like thirty shootings and I can't recall how many dead. This goes on every week. Where is the outrage at that? What happened to the BLM movement when black men are killing other black men on the streets of the windy city, or L A or New York City?  A...

   I saw this picture in a Christian magazine and read the related article. I think it's a question that needs to asked, and given some serious consideration. Is time running out for us in this country? I can't speak to the rest of the world, I don't live in Greece or Spain or Australia, but from what I've seen in this country, I get the feeling that time is indeed running out for the United States. What other nation in the history of the world has enjoyed such prosperity and freedom? Why have so many people from around the world  clamored to come to this country? We had the best system in the world for advancing prosperity. A person could come to this country, open a business and within a generation prosper beyond their wildest dreams. We offered freedom. Freedom to speak your mind, to worship as you wished, to move about freely, to start a business and raise a family, to be represented in government by people you elected, to be judged fairly in a court by your peers. ...