When I was a young man working on my first away from home farm job in B.C. I remember clearly when my boss and I were greasing the silage chopper that he gave me a lesson on common sense. I remember that he said the most important lessons you will learn in life will be common sense lessons.  He said the most important principle you will learn growing up and working on the farm is the principle of “common sense”.  He said common sense will take you farther than any education or any university degree.  Education is good but only if it is mixed with common sense.  Then he said you will learn about common sense right here on the farm. 

One of the deadliest pandemics in history came upon the world in the last century.  It was at the closing year of the First World War in 1918.  The War actually is where the pandemic was fostered and spread through camps of soldiers in the last year of the Great War.  The first wave of the pandemic was in 1918 and concluded in 1920.  The pandemic was known as the Spanish flu but was actually the H1N1 virus.  It was called the Spanish flu simply because following the war there were media restrictions around the world that would not allow reporting on the pandemic. Interesting  that the media was censoring issues regarding the pandemic.  Some things are repeating themselves.   Spain decided to not censor the pandemic news so the first news came out of Spain thus calling it the Spanish flu…note ours is the Wuhan pandemic.    

Adolph Hitler was only in power for a short number of years but millions of people were slaughtered by his Nazi socialistic and totalitarian government. This government could have been stopped if more people had stood up against it sooner. One of the most hated enemies of Hitler was a Lutheran pastor by the name of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was executed by Hitler’s goon squad by firing squad on April 8, 1945.  When Hitler knew he had lost the war, he quickly ordered a kangaroo court to have Bonhoeffer tried and executed. He himself died a short time later –or at least it is thought so.  It was never proven for sure that Hitler died.  I am sure his demons hid his body so the world would never know for sure. The next time the world will see Hitler is at the Great White Throne Judgment of Christ when he will receive his eternal sentence to the Lake of Fire.  “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death” (Revelation 21:8).  

It seems while we are fighting our way through a pandemic of Covid there is a greater pandemic we should be more aware of and concerned about.  When I heard President Trump echoing the statement “fake news” during his tenure in office, I used to think the guy was taking this too far.  I thought the news business had to do their job just like we did ours.  However, I became more alert to listening and trying to see how much I could pick up on the “fake news” myself.  I have to say that after over a year of digging through facts on news stories, I am convinced the way they spin it is taking a true story on an important issue and making it deceptive or false.  They tell the news with mostly facts about an accident or shooting but even those they try to spin a little of their persuasion into it. If it is a shooting, they will try to put in something that so and so feels gun control could have prevented this shooting.   They spin a narrative to make the readers believe a certain way.  This is very effective in brainwashing and manipulating a population to a certain vein of thought.  I have also heard that all the major news companies in the world are owned by six companies which really means all news companies are under the control of those six companies. So, those six owner  companies play the same song and dance for each news outlet.   This is very troubling when we thought we were living in a country that championed freedom of the press when in fact the press is totally controlled by a few people.  Then it is not a free press at all but a controlled press.  News companies like Rebel News surface for a time but they are so censored and restricted that the population is subject to a steady diet of “fake news”, unless you have the time and discipline to find truth.   

I have been a Christian now for over 40 years.  I have no regrets from my decision to receive and follow Christ as my own personal Saviour.  It has been a journey like no other.  Many in this time of Covid mandates and confusion wonder where we all are going to end up.  During a visit with someone recently, I was told about a young person who expressed they are very scared of death.  I can honestly tell you that there was a time in my life where I was afraid of death and of the uncertainty about what comes after death but that now is totally gone.  I do not like the idea of death but I am not one little bit afraid of death itself.  Once a person is a true born again Christian, fear of death disappears and a new love takes its place. 2 Timothy 1:7: For God hath given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.