This is now into June 2016 and I have been thinking how this year quickly passes by. What seemed like a long winter, quickly changed into warm spring weather and now beginning to feel that the heat of summer will soon be here. So I write this post feeling like I need to stop and catch my breath. Time is so rapidly passing by. This is the wise words from the Bible that our life is a vapor. Here for a moment then we are gone. My father is over 90 years old, widowed by mother's passing last year. I visited him recently about the state of our society and how things have so radically changed since his youth. He told me how he was taught good morals from his parents. And the one room school he went to for 8 years taught him more about life than what kids are getting today. He said how values were appreciated and fathers were respected with honor and mothers worked hard to provide a meal for their families. Neighbors cared for each other. They lived through some depressed times in the 1930's then WWII suddenly came upon them in the early '40s with actual fear of world domination of the Axis nations. Everyone helped with the war effort to stop those evil nations and America along with her allies were victorious in the end. Dad was 19 when the war ended and he escaped any draft call to do farming. Dad was born on the farm and he loved it with all his heart. He was able to start his farming career while living at his parents big farmhouse. Then a few short years later in 1950, Korea was invaded by communist aggressors from China and USSR which USA and President Truman believed to help the southern territory of Korea from falling into their hands and provided troops to fight. So another war began even after peaceful terms were settled in 1945. Dad, being 25 years old, was drafted in October 1951. He had to sell his farming operation to his brother John. That was hard for him to do. After a few months of training he was sent to occupied West Germany as a nurse medic. He served dutifully until he came home in 1953 after an honorable discharge from the US Army. He immediately wanted to farm again and found a farm down the road to the east a bit with a house to live in. He moved in with his sister Anna. Then God called him to marriage in 1954 with his bride Mary Lou Steidinger. The farming was hard work but God provided for them to have a family of 12 kids. Mother worked hard every day. Then in 1972 they found a newer and bigger house and farm for their family to live on. They moved to the Bauer farm with 320 acres. Dad invested in a dairy to milk cows for the boys to have work. They lived their until 1989 when dad semi retired. Then they moved to a house near town. That was the Clauss house. Mother worked as a cook at the school until her full retirement started. They loved their early retirement together to go on travels to Europe. Tragedy happened in October 2008 when mother had a bad stroke which caused her to be paralyzed on her left side. They had to sale that house and move to apartment at Creekside. Then to Fairbury her last years in the nursing home. After mother died, dad is back in Cissna at his own little apartment duplex surviving. Looking back over the years, dad says how things have changed. With towns and cities so different. People are not as helpful with their neighbors. We may not even know our neighbors. Society is confused about who is male or female. And homosexuals living around us so openly. We have become over sexualized and disregard integrity and honor for morals. Everything is broken down. The political campaign season is wrent with scandals from both parties. Our next president will have problems with integrity from the beginning. And Congress doesn't seem to be doing their jobs except raising the debt ceiling. What will the future hold for society in America?
THIS IS POST-MODERNITY
ARE WE DISCERNING THE TIMES?
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