“The RoseBouquet”

You may just hear about the American election coming up. But it happens in other countries too. Last year the Conservatives came in with a minority government, and immediately announced that elections would henceforth be every four years. However, this year they decided that it was worth the risk to announce another election because they thought they might win a majority. Judging by the rhetoric in the daily news, it appears that the gap may not be as great as they thought five weeks ago. It will be interesting to see if they have a clear majority tonight when all the ballots are counted.

I am not a great authority to speak on political issues, nor financial. I look at both through spiritual eyes, and do form opinions, but I don’t normally pontificate on those here. All I can add is my own insights and thoughts. (Which is what all the real pundits are doing too, I suppose).

As I hear about the financial troubles all over the world, my thoughts leap to the prophecies in the Bible that indicate in the last days - before the Rapture of the Church and the Great Tribulation - these very things will happen. It will cost a bag of gold to buy a loaf of bread, and oil will be carefully rationed. Though the news may frighten some, it makes me smile in anticipation. I want to be one of those virgins who is watching and waiting, and will get in at the Wedding Feast in Heaven. Meantime, I want to be caught doing good!

Business news? Well, I rejoice that my aloe-vera-and-handy-herbs.com site is now ready to be monetized. This is a milestone I’ve been working towards with dedication since the beginning of September. It means that I can make that site begin to bring me a steady income.

I have another tutoring client coming this afternoon. She wants to learn how to use the websites she has, and make them profitable too. That should be fun.

Anna, the volunteer who usually comes on Fridays, has been learning well, and although it eats into my normal schedule I keep cheering myself with the thought that when she can handle the work on the WTM site by herself, I will have gained some serious help with my load. Meantime, it also gives me some practice in teaching as I hope to do when I have four students here every day.

I now see the delay in getting those students as a kindness of the Lord, and He is preparing me for the bigger challenges to come.

I have been writing some other articles, and will use those when finished with this series on depression in the Ruthe’s Roses section.