I’m praying the Lord provide for our daily needs and am so thankful for our food that so many around the world do not have.
God WILL provide our daily needs. You don't have to fear that. I walked that walk several times in my life. George's union went out on strike for a long time when our daughter was a baby. I remember her first birthday we didn't celebrate, but we had enough groceries to last and the money he got seemed to stretch for what we needed. Then the awful years when we moved here and couldn't sell that rental triplex in Prince George, and we were underwater so long on that debt. We nearly went bankrupt but God got us thru. That was when the furnace belched a ball of flame and burnt my eyelashes and eyebrows off but God provided enough to fix the furnace, and then the roof leak, and so forth and so on.
He ALWAYS provides
I was married in 1978 and I'd grown up in the shadow of the very bad Nixon - Carter years when there were lineups to get gas, when houses went from less than 30K in 1969 to 120K and over by 1978. In 9 years. Groceries skyrocketed, and a lot of mothers stopped being stay at home mothers, and went out to work. The Crockpot was invented to help these newly minted working mothers.
People got thru just fine. Carter had a lot to answer for but it was back even before Nixon taking the US off the gold standard was in response to the Presidents before him printing money, especially for the USAID programs. I think that was LBJ - he was big on enhancing the welfare state too.
It went like this
Truman or Eisenhower signed the Bretton Woods agreement (the gold standard after the WW2 years)
JFK didn't like the look of wars, and didn't see the need. He was dealing with the Mafia the CIA and FBI. Not to mention what Truman or Eisenhower called "the military industrial complex" which was their way of saying the Deep State. A spendy mess that he was trying to fix. He made enemies. LBJ was his VP because JFK kept his friends close and enemies closer and LBJ was a political rival and in bed with the Military Industrial complex. We all know how that ended. IF RFK had won the election he was running in, he was going to expose the deep state links and who caused JFK's assassination. So RFK was murdered too.
LBJ spent money like it grew on trees- and printed it too. He spent big on Viet Nam, and expanded the Welfare State.
Nixon came next and he could see the mess, and he had to do something fast so he did 2 things that were fast fixes that are biting us today. He took the USDollar off gold because after LBJ did his bit, there were too many dollars in circulation and had a fight with the Saudi's for OPEC I think it was. They made gas expensive during the oil embargo in response to the Israeli 1973 Yom Kippur War. That was when gas prices took off. Sometime after that he pegged the USDollar to oil and the petrodollar was born, plus the Saudis became allies of sorts. AND he went to China and opened up trade. Somewhere in there he tried wage and price controls to try and stop runaway inflation but it didn't work.
At that point women were starting to leave their homes to work because the single incomes that had been fine, were not enough.
Ford came after Nixon fell from grace due to Watergate but by then the inflation that always happens when people print too much money was really rolling still. Jimmy Carter made everything worse. He was talented like that. About that time I married George and times were tight until......
REAGAN entered the room. (I've given short forms of what Reagan did up thread so I won't repeat, but what he did was still going strong until Bush Jr handed the keys to the WH to Obama. We had a few corrections, nothing as bad as the Nixon-Carter years.
At that point we lurched from crisis to crisis.
My point, we survived that transition from the Bretton Woods Gold Standard (that would still be fine to this day if LBJ hadn't come in like a wrecking ball) to the vastly weaker Petrodollar and the start of trade agreements with China.
If we survived that, no matter what you hear- prior to the Rapture whatever correction happens, we will survive that too because
Sing it with me
God takes care of His own.
He really really does.
My grandparents all survived the dirty 30's without too many problems. I heard them tell of how they managed, and it was tough times but God got them thru. Well God got my Christian grandparents thru. The other set divorced during that time and my naughty granny (dad's mother) carried on multiple affairs while suing the hide of my grandfather who lost the ranch paying her out. Naughty granny was the head nurse for many years in William's Lake and she could just as well have managed on her own with her many boyfriends but .... she was a mean one. That's how I ended up with a rather wonderful step gran on my dad's side, she married grandfather after all the drama, and was a terrific addition to the family.
The Christian side of things scraped by without having any drama to speak of, produced 4 kids all of whom served the Lord -
and the rest is history.
GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF HIS OWN
Big hugs dear heart, it will be ok. Just don't go all giddy and buy a Louis Vuitton purse, as I think the value has about lost it right now. And no matter what the team at the White House is selling, keep a close fist on your wallet. Concentrate on the necessities.
Love
M
