We are now all published authors - .admittedly in a very small way in my case - and so we still call our rare writing get togethers "Thursday nights".
I feel a bit down at the moment. Don't know why? Maybe a lack of sunlight as it has been raining so I have not been getting my balcony morning sun sessions. And I feel so tired. But that is probably because of the arthritis. The kind I have - and my mother, and my granny had - is a disease like lupus, when the body's immune system turns on and attacks its own person. And it does lead to an immense weariness - like running on empty.
I doubt its isolation that is getting me down as I am by nature a solitary person.
The Captain went out to do some shopping for Terry, a housebound friend, on Wednesday morning, and brought me back a bunch of pink tulips, which will be very cheering. They are such stunningly beautiful flowers. If he can find a moment, I will ask if he will post a picture of tulip-time at Arundel Castle on this blog, to lift everybody's spirits.
We had a day out there with Penny one Spring and it was so lovely - its walled kitchen garden high above the little town - and tulips everywhere. That was quite some years ago too. (Is that a dinosaur tail just disappearing round the castle walls?) The years are hurtling by, faster, faster and faster.
The world can look so glorious now - even after 6,000 years of imperfection. So how heartbreakingly lovely was the paradise garden of Eden that we lost? I hope we will all find out one day, during the Thousand Years when the Kingdom of God turns the whole earth into the paradise of peace and beauty it was always meant to be.
And it will be soon. Which brings me to the question about urgency. Why is the message so urgent now? Why are we trying every way we can to reach people?
Suffering will end only when God removes all the wicked and the violent from the earth, which will happen at Armageddon - the day of Jehovah's anger.
And Zephaniah 2:3 tells us to: "Seek Jehovah, all you meek ones of the earth, who observe his righteous decrees. Seek righteousness, seek meekness. Probably you will be concealed on the day of Jehovah’s anger."
When will that happen? God’s Word foretold the conditions that now threaten mankind. Current events indicate that God’s time to act is close.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 says: "But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having an appearance of godliness but proving false to its power; and from these turn away."
When we see these conditions increasing worldwide, what should we do? And how can people seek for Jehovah if they do not know him?
And Zephaniah 2:3 tells us to: "Seek Jehovah, all you meek ones of the earth, who observe his righteous decrees. Seek righteousness, seek meekness. Probably you will be concealed on the day of Jehovah’s anger."
When will that happen? God’s Word foretold the conditions that now threaten mankind. Current events indicate that God’s time to act is close.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 says: "But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having an appearance of godliness but proving false to its power; and from these turn away."
When we see these conditions increasing worldwide, what should we do? And how can people seek for Jehovah if they do not know him?
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