Current Events and Oklahoma Weather

Recognize the blessings that are raining down on you, and enjoy them with thanks.     -Doctrines and Covenants 105:12    

     I haven't been posting much in awhile. Been taking care of personal matters as usual. Finally recovered from the meningitis and it appears that the complications have also gone away, but I still have problems with getting to sleep and staying asleep. This was aggravated while I was ill, and it continues so I am unsure if it is a direct complication of the meningitis, but it seems to have been at least aggravated by it. I have also been awaiting word on whether I will be moving into a town house soon. I should have already heard something by now. We have been having some hot weather, but yesterday the humidity let up and the day wasn't quite as hot as it has been. Our summer has been warm and wet as opposed to the blistering humid heat of the last couple of years. The Farmer's Almanac calls for a mild winter, but their is some question as to the accuracy of the text. Our hurricane season was expected to be very active, but the opposite has happened. We have had a mild hurricane season.

     As for me, I have been battling with my own demons (literal and figurative) and have sought deliverance from the Holy Spirit. If you are willing, I would greatly appreciate your prayers for deliverance from these particular trials. Following last year's flu season,  I am curious if there was a noticeable increase in heart attacks and pneumonia. I vaguely remember a pneumonia outbreak locally (at least) following last years flu season. The flu season was so critical that medication and chicken soup sales went up. A vaccine with four flu strains is now available for the first time, and Doctors are telling people to get vaccinated BEFORE the flu season and not to wait until it is already here. I may get a flu shot (if its free) this year, but I really am not that worried about it. I am never worried about my own personal safety lol.

Current State of the World:

* Crisis in Syria as U.S. seeks approval to attack in response to last month's chemical weapons attack from the Syrian government against its own citizens. Much criticism against U.S. action in Syria.

 

* If John Edwards had become President, I would immediately have considered him as a suspect for the Antichrist.

 

* The Roman Catholic Church has changed its standing on Islam and Gay rights.

 

* Ariel Castro has killed himself in prison.

 

* Weather clear for most of the U.S. today. A few showers in the north west.

 

* Comet ISON to possibly be 15 times brighter than the moon and possibly visible during the day. Comet ISON to make its appearance in November of this year.

 

* Australian student gunned down in Oklahoma. Possibly gang related crime.

 

* Third suspect arrested in Shawnee for the murder of a homeless man in 2011.

 

* Various disease outbreaks around the world including Dengue Fever in Florida, Bubonic Plague in central Asia and West Nile virus in the U.S.

 

* Increase in "extremist" groups in the U.S.

 

* Bees continue to die. Possible from climate change. Species endangered.

 

* Season of epidemics to soon begin.

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