I have been thinking a lot about this thread since reading it yesterday.... wondering what life would be like should the USA gov go broke. Many questions arise: could we still use our currency? would people still get paid for work done? How will it effect our ability to buy and sell? These questions leave me confused...makes me wish we could live in a place where one would not have to buy electricity, pay for water, garbage pickup, etc.
Then I remembered how it was when we were told Regina was terminally ill. I did not think I could stand to see our only daughter die. Why her? Why did God give me only one daughter? why did he not make one of our four boys to be a female? Then I would have had two daughters and three sons - that would have been a decent balance for 5 children. WHY? How can I cope witrh her gone? I loved her, and so did her husband and two children.
I could not cope at all, so I spent time with the LORD on this issue one evening. Then I was impressed to live life to the full each day and not worry about the future. If God were to call her home, he would be there to comfort us, but in the meantime do not worry about it. When this realization came, I was filled with peace and gladness. So, I, with God's help, took his advice and have since tried to live by this rule for all of life. Ten months later God called her home. In the meantime, there was treatments, surgeries, anointing with oil before every surgery (she eventually had a total of three tumors); much traveling between here and there (750 - 950 miles). When the LORD did take her, He was there with comfort - the like I never dreamed of. Then as well as now, I do not cry because God took her. If I do cry it is because I miss her - big difference. But I get over it - God is there even in this.
This is the point: when we allow God to be God, he will care for us, even if we have to suffer. He gives us the grace to cope each and every day. Sometimes it is moment by moment.
As I think about this issue, I am reminded of a book I just read "Lead, Kindly Light" by Helen Grace Lescheid. It is the story of her mother's escape from Communist Russia during WW2. She eventually emigrated to Canada after WW2. The deprivation, starvation, God's sustaining power in the midst of flight, fight for survival is heartwarming. I highly recommend this book to any and all for edification.
God bless..
ginnyrose