Is it my Fault...?

A couple years have put distance between me and what happened to Alice (a blogger friend who said she was a Christian but now shows she is not) and I still at times wonder “Is it my fault...is there something I should have said, or something she said that I should have answered properly and didn’t because I wasn’t paying close enough attention...” and have done this over and over wondering if it was my lack of watchfulness that caused her to fall away...

This morning I was looking through my recommended YouTube videos and found this one. This describes the feeling very well. I still feel the pain...

Edit to add my interpretation of this “parable”:

I was pondering this that the Lord gave me this morning...the peacock felt trapped, wanted out of the cage...Alice felt trapped by the Lord, she didn’t want what He was offering to her, she felt it restricted her freedom...the peacock soared up in the air, fully relishing the new freedom, and even though Patara tried so hard to catch him, he wanted whatever perils that awaited him rather than be put “back into that cage”...

....and so it was with Alice. She didn’t have Jesus, she had a cage of her own making that she thought was Jesus...and she’d rather go to hell than back into her cage

Troubling Signs

Hello again. First of all I want to say “Hi and thank you to Sandi. I saw your comment Sandi, and I agree that it is very strange that I cannot post nor answer comments even on my own blog nor on most everyone else’s either. I’ve tried changing my settings, but everything I’ve tried does not change   that fact, but I’ve resigned myself to it being okay. Thank you for your comments and concern.”

I have been spending my online time reading up on several changes that have been taking place because of the fear of the pandemic, and the fear of the coming economic changes and political changes, and the fear of the coming vaccine, etc., etc. and I agree, these are all troubling issues. But this morning as I pondered all of these things and the fear it is causing many people the words “Let not your heart be troubled” came to mind.

Joh 14:1  Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

Joh 14:2  In my Father's house are many mansions: if  not I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Joh 14:3  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, ye may be also.

If the vaccine turns out to be the mark of the beast (and personally I do believe it will be) the Lord will provide for His children, you and I and all who look to Him, with the strength to not submit to this and face anything, even jail time or even death, with joy and a song in our hearts for the fact that soon we will be with Jesus.

EDIT I no longer believe “the jab” is the M.O.B. but I still do not like it 👎🏽

So let not your heart be troubled. Jesus promised these things would happen and He also promised He will never forsake us. ❤️