I was at the podiatrist today, to take care of those two essentials without which I would not be getting around.  There are some things we can get done by experts when we no longer do it competently.  I was tired of drawing blood every time I cut my own toenails.  The doctor also caught some foot ulcers I had missed. 

We live in Western Civilization, where all kinds of amenities are available.  I got help with my mental health by consulting some of my Catholic friends (pastor) because as an imaginative novel writer I tend to impose some situations on people I know.  (Catholics call it rash judging.) 

To know about a model human being like Christ and to try to be his comrade is a thrill, in a world full of thrills.  I try to discern what’s for me and what to avoid. 

Sometimes I’ve come so close to disaster, that I cannot explain my escape except through divine providence.  Or through a guardian angel.  I learned about him or her as a child, and reviewing the evidence, I can only thank a very paternal God for such a being.

Angels, or God’s messengers, go back to the Old Testament, and while the New Testament does have a few instances of them, they owe their visibility to Christian tradition and art.  They are prominent in the works of the great medieval and later painters.  As such they are beautiful creatures.

How can we say an angel is beautiful when we’ve never actually seen one?  There’s an old English proverb: “Handsome is as handsome does.”  You get that?  Your actions are what make you good looking.

The winner at last November’s elections was Judaeo-Christian forbearance in the face of adversity.  Any unbiased observer could tell that with pandemic conditions at the time, we had a looser election than any time in history.  We had almost a month of days to vote, and in some cases more ballots cast than people.  Texas and twenty states took cases to the Supreme Court.  Perhaps thinking of a civil war, the Court denied them.

So the man who saved us was born just a little over 2,000 years ago, and his attitude prevailed.  We are not now in the situation of Venezuela, or even Cuba.  We are the nation founded on Judaeo-Christian principles by men like George Washington.  It is advisable not to dispute that.

If we continue to be that “city” on a hill mentioned by the Bible, it will be because we remain true to that man who preached Judaeo-Christian principles two thousand years ago.  Song and history celebrate him.

It’s published by people disappointed and discouraged by Communism, and they have a viewpoint worthy of print.  It’s called The Epoch Times, perhaps because it puts the news in perspective.  I have an email subscription to it, one that will last, I hope, as long as I do.

They don’t let the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) get away with anything, and considering the Biden White House, this is important.  Communism did not get the foothold in America that it did in some third world countries, but it is making up for that with Socialism.

The far left is entranced by Socialism, including Karl Marx’s atheism, from which the Russians are still making a slow recovery.  The Russians have a problem there, perhaps because of the lack of religious liberty.  Without God, man is a slow learner.

What if I thought the architect of this amazing world predestined me for…whatever evil has befallen me?  Negative thinking is a common error of our befallen lot, prone to mistakes despite such fortunate happenings like being born into Western Civilization.

Let’s assess this seriously.  Did I have enough to eat at my last meal?  Do I have a roof over my head?  Do I know enough people to make life interesting?  Are there people who have good intentions toward me?  If these basics have affirmative answers, I am among life’s fortunates.

Say no more about my mental vagaries.  This is the good life.  I’ll make the most of it to be worthy of it.