It’s just interesting to me that conservatives are as biased as liberals but pretend they aren’t. It’s like we all have these lines we draw in the sand about what we’re willing to look at and/or believe and what we aren’t. I’m quite sure I do the same thing, even though I make a concerted effort not to.

I posted An0maly’s eighteen minute reporting on Trump’s connections to Bill Gates, his endorsements of Fauci and Birx, and his pride in his role in getting the covid vaccine released, ALL WHILE IN OFFICE. Crickets.

I’m just going to go off for a minute and I’m probably going to piss someone(s) off. I know most of us are sitting on the outside trying to make sense of actions happening on the inside of the playmakers’ tents. We can’t possibly know all the details, and we’re at best connecting some fuzzy dots. But when the dots are unfavorable, we don’t have the luxury of stopping our ears, covering our eyes, and closing our minds IF we care about truth and the stand for righteousness.

It’d go a long way if we’d not pick a mascot token person(s) for the fight in front of us. We just need to be able to stand on truths so we don’t fall in the cesspools of deceptive half-truths. That’s what makes one deceived. It’s what got us here in the first place.

Also, people are fallible. I don’t care how much you love the guy you’ve bet all your chips on, he/she is still going to make mistakes — and sometimes some very costly ones. King David cost innocent people their lives to the tune of THOUSANDS for his own mistake. Making mistakes doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the wrong person for the job, but covering for their errors and pretending they’re something they’re not only worsens our ability to flex and adapt in a constant moving reality. It worsens our condition instead of bettering it.

My husband thinks I’m amazing. Sometimes I am. Sometimes I’m not. When I screw up, we can’t afford to pretend I didn’t. We learn from it, adapt, grow. If we don’t, we create an environment of dysfunction. I can still be amazing and make serious errors. So can you, so can Trump, so can anyone. We don’t need to pretend errors are something else. It doesn’t help anything but the deception.

To conclude (haha!), I learned a really painful but necessary lesson years ago. I may have already shared it. But I was trying to make a decision about something that I was about 50/50 for/against. I sought intercessors and prayed and fasted and sought God hard about the decision. At the end of this period, the thing I thought I heard God on ended up I had not heard correctly. The intercessors had not heard correctly. We were all wrong because the outcome did not align with what we thought we had heard. And I was absolutely dismayed — not because I cared about the outcome, but because I did not hear God correctly and did not discern correctly.

After days of railing about this to God, and then a period of sullen silence because I ran out of things to belabor, He finally spoke. He said, “Michelle, if your faith is in anything but Me, you will fail. If your faith is in your understanding, if your faith is in your faith, if your faith is in your ability to hear Me, if your faith is in words in the Bible, if your faith is in ANYTHING but Me, ultimately your faith will fall. It will fail.”

We don’t realize the things we hang our mental hats on. We aren’t circumspect enough, as a general rule. We don’t realize that this thing we’re holding out hope in is based on moving parts and riddled with human foibles, while being sabotaged by dark spirits. All of our understanding, all of our wisdom and discernment, all of our experiences, all of our knowledge, everything — is nothing. It’s nothing.

My understanding is going to fail. My prayers will fail. My best efforts will fail. Not always, but at some points, and sometimes at a critical point. We just can’t afford to willfully turn aside from hard truths. We don’t have to embrace them, but we need to be honest and fair about them. Maybe we don’t understand where, how or why they fit. But disregarding them is to our detriment and hinders the progress of righteousness.

Rant over.