Calling for "stillness," calm, or suggesting calm, in the midst of financial, political and now  a possible health crisis, probably sounds like a passenger on the Titanic telling her fellow passengers that it was "just an iceberg."

What are we facing?

• Banks and other businesses are closing
•  folks are being thrown out of jobs
• swine flu, which has nothing to do with animal swine, is "globe trotting;" ("animal" swine is not a misprint)
• capitalism is being trampled by socialism
•  "God" is now the new four-letter word

And I am asking for "stillness/calm?" I am doing just that because unlike on the Titanic, my "Life Vest" does not need inflating. My Flak Jacket is not man-made. My King stands alone. He is Immortal, Invisible, All-Wise, and He alone can command oceans to recede.

Yes, you guessed correctly. I am speaking about The One True God. There are many pretenders to His throne and He is probably marveling at their audacity and stupidity. He could crush them like the bugs they are, but He is gracious and merciful, and that is why He is God. In my earthly limitations in godly behavior, when I see  the atrocities waged against His people by those pretenders,  I would have been preparing the locusts, frogs, flies, scorpions, rodents and gnats, in a spirit of vengeance and rage. However,  I have learned to follow His lead and believe Him when He states: "Vengeance is Mine. I will repay."

I will not go into a litany of the bad behavior of current  "leaders gone wild," on a global scale. How is this for irony? I am "listening" to the story of Hitler's attempt to create a "perfect Aryan nation," by his program of breeding babies for the Fatherland. I am no psychologist, but my theory for his behavior was his lack of self esteem. Imagine looking in the mirror and realizing that you, the architect of "perfectness,"  could not qualify as a premier example of the  "perfect Aryan" that you were trying to create! Adolph must turn over in his grave when he hears me describing him as the "funny-looking little man with the weird moustache!" Enough of him. We all know how World War II turned out. He lost.

With the leisure of 20/20 hindsight, we can spot Hitler a mile away, but what about current leaders? There are no current Hitlers. Sure it is fashionable to ascribe Hitlerian qualities to  this or that leader, but he was kind of unique, and so far although sometimes imitated, he has not been truly duplicated.  Leaders these days, if they have any Hitlerian aspirations, have studied their history. They know what to avoid while perhaps achieving the end results of their actions. They are more subtle and suave. But, as Hitler found out too late, they may find out that God did indeed imbue his creatures with a sense of liberty, and although outspent, outflanked and possibly outmanned, many will find a way to "free" liberty.  If King George III of England, were alive, he could give first hand testimony of the divine hand of providence enveloping his nemesis, George Washington. There is hallowed precedent.

So remember my fellow lovers of liberty, although you weep now, we know:

Psalm 30:5 (King James Version)