Sorry to hear about your plight. All we all can do in the final analysis is to trust in the Lord. He is quite aware of our temporal needs and we know that life here is a very temporary situation. All the more so as the great day approaches.

Blessings in Christ

Don

I’ve been troubled off-and-on as I see this coming and there is little I can do to prepare my family: My wife and son are chronically ill, so much of my (God’s actuall) income (a substantial one) goes to their health maintenance. We live very modestly and the *real* inflation rate is really hurting.

I’ve thought about trying to amass a bit of silver (gold is out of the question), but I’m pretty sure that holding precious metals will be criminalize as holding gold was in the past. (In fact, I heard recently that a very, very valuable gold coin was confiscated by the government because they say it was illegal for it to have not been turned-in to them when holding gold was first made illegal decades ago.)

As for my family, we will simply need to depend on Him for our needs. My family’s healing has already occurred in God’s time, it’s just that His time has not yet intersected ours. (As proof of this, He uses use to help others whenever we have our regular health “crises” {I’ve forgotten how many times my wife has been hospitalized this year alone}.)

Though He is providing for our needs and our income is really His, it does not make me feel any better as the family “breadwinner,” and I continue to feel like a “thief” because I cannot rapidly pay our medical creditors — though we have never sought bankruptcy (though we’ve been counseled to do so).

Sorry, this is beginning to sound like a whinny-rant!

I feel like we are in a jet-liner that has just begun to impact the ground. We’ve seen the plunge and we are watching the the liner’s destruction in slow-motion. I’m convinced that we’ll be removed from the scene at just the moment the passengers are destroyed. (Note: I’m pre-trib, so this feeling is just a “loose” analogy.)