For a quick moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.
When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.
When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.
At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.
As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A child in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents survived through everything listed above.
Perspective is an amazing thing. With so much going on right now and 2024 just beginning, let's try to put things in perspective, knowing that we can handle it all. There has never been a storm in world history that has lasted forever. This too shall pass.
Both my grandparents were born in 1900 and grandmother was healthy in mind and body at 98 when she died of pneumonia. The one thing I can say...she was never shocked when someone revealed something to her. She had seen it all already.
I've noticed more and more people are like your grandparent in they are not shocked anymore. Which is not shocking, really. People who see and hear a lot of this world have figured out that the world doesn't stop, no matter what is happening outside of a certain perimeter. One can even be awake without flipping out, but instead see to the things we'd like to make a life out of. I have also seen folks see or hear something, and throw their life away practically, because they became so fixated or preoccupied. Lets all be like barbie 555 grandmother, I say.
The world seems to move back and forth far left and then right. When it goes far left, and when people have had enough, they push it far right. Eventually it goes to the middle where it stays until the next wave.
When you have seen it all, like our grandparents, and you believe in God the father, you know how it will turn out and nothing shocks you. We should all be patient and not overwhelmed by the magnitude of the evil and stay informed and ready and never be surprised.