TO MY CHILDREN

 

Chapter One…………..TO MY CHILDREN,

and their children, and their children, and my current friends, former friends and maybe future friends and my acquaintances and also to the strangers on the street:

January 07, 2021,                                                      David R. Snow, Marshall, Texas

 

Perhaps at a time, some 50 or so years from this date, if the earth is still turning and if there are those who record history and if the means still exist to keep and transmit the data, this story may be told. At that time hopefully clearer heads will have emerged so as to analyze the events, attitudes and mindsets of our present age in a soberer fashion, seeking guidance as to what happened and why, perhaps striving to avoid repeating the same mistakes made in these terrible times of deceit, of power lust, of a lack of morals, and with seemingly no obvious desire to respect truth, much less even showing a modicum of integrity, and obviously no ability or effort to accept it even when right before our eyes.

 

Please bear with me as I attempt to relate to the very recent events that have transpired in these last few days. These are big events, made up of course, of very small increments, all cascading into the cataclysm of two very basic world views: of good and of evil (and not surprisingly, each side sees itself as on the good side and those who disagree as on the evil side). These events began a century or so ago with rise of progressivism, then to socialism finally morphing into full-blown communism. And every once in a while the thing popped up in time, in various countries around the globe and now it has come up quite real right here in our United States of America, or maybe we should say, the Divided States of America, i.e., the bad and the good, the godless and the god-fearing.

 

The serpent has been threatened with truth and integrity and honesty and respect for fellow man (and woman) and with faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and he has coiled to strike back with false narratives, with outright lies, denial of facts in evidence and with fear of reprisal from authorities real or imagined.

 

Perhaps the last scene in the movie, the Planet of the Apes (1968), as a picture of a broken statue of liberty on the beach, graphically proclaims that the United States of America has been destroyed, is broken, and in ruins. Even though the story is presented as science fiction, we may well see it, due to the events of the past few months, as a kind of prophesy.

 

However, dear reader, what may seem to be real and final at first glance, may be only what it appears to be at present but the illusion may fade as time passes. What I am trying to say is that what we see right now may not be the whole of it.

 

There is an unknown factor, there is a force greater than us all, greater than our national experiment, greater than the constitution which, for the present has seemingly been shredded, greater than any man-made government, legislature, judiciary or executive branch and that force is Truth. It is the Divine Logos, it is the Word, and He is the Son of God (creator of everything big and little, and us human beings as well) as proclaimed in the beginning of the third chapter of the gospel of John. And that Truth (with a capital T) must be the object of our trust, of our faith, of our hope and not current events, videos, media reports and fears even if we are led "through the valley of the shadow of death" itself, fear is unthinkable. We are not at the end. The beginning is becoming visible just over the horizon as a new day dawns.