We the People of Johnson County Missouri - Monday, June17, 2024 🏇🏻 Jerry Update & 🎪We the People Meeting!
Hi Folks!
Well, June has gotten away from Jerry and me! As many of you know, Jerry had a riding accident.
Friday, May 31, he was trotting along on his 4-year-old gelding, Duke, who is very mild-mannered, taking a video of what he was seeing from horseback, loving life!
About 3 seconds later, Duke went spaz-master, rodeo bucking like a Wild Thang! He hurled Jerry to the ground and didn’t stop for breath! We were very puzzled, but finally guessed maybe he was bitten by a horsefly. Whatever it was spooked the tame out of him for a few seconds, that’s for sure.
So, after we got Jerry off the ground, horse caught and unsaddled, then to Lee’s Summit Medical Center, we found he had 6 broken ribs and a hemopneumothorax. That meant he needed to transfer to a Level 1 Trauma Center, so he was ambulanced to Research Medical Center. I brought up the rear in our car.
THAT was interesting! A guy in the E.D. room next to us was making a ruckus, F-ing all life on the planet, until we heard a cop reading him his Miranda rights and tell him they would be getting a warrant to search his house. Okie dokie! But the guy DID calm down. Just saying.
Long-story-short, Jerry got a chest tube put in, and we finally sprung him Saturday, June 8. Trust me on this….that is DEFINITELY the abbreviated version! If you’re interested in the “Rest of the Story”, ask him for specifics. There are a LOT of stories!
We are remarkably impressed with the care he got at Research, in a GOOD way!! I had reservations about going there, but my reservations were blown away by both the medical and nursing care he got!!! He even ENJOYED the FOOD! (WHAT?!?!!?)
He has some recovering to do, but things are going well! He’s been to town a couple of times already, walks daily, and overall is coming back strong!
We’ve had SO MUCH HELP, and much of it from We the People friends. Thank you ALL so much. SO MUCH!!! You are a Gift from God to our lives.
I’ve been doing farm chores…for the first time in my life. THAT’S a vertical learning curve! I can’t say I’m good at it…but it’s getting done. Like the KC Chiefs have said several times about their games, “It wasn’t pretty, but we figured out a way to get it done!” That’s kind of how I do farm chores. 😄
All that being said, God’s Presence throughout this experience has been NEAR and DEAR. For just ONE example: the fall Jerry took could have resulted in far greater injuries, like spinal cord damage, paralysis, death. Being a nurse, I think about stuff like that. God’s hand was on Jerry in that fall. There’s a reason for all this that God will show us as we go along, and He is showing us!
Why get hurt? Why have to slow down? Why learn to do farm chores? Why have pain? Hm. John 16:33 says, “I (Jesus) have told you these thigs, so that in ME you may have Peace. In this world (which is broken by sin) you will have trouble. But TAKE HEART!!! I have overcome the world.” That’s why.
The other thing I’ve noticed is that this “respite” took my mind completely off political stuff and put it on trusting God. WOW! Despite - politics vs significant bodily harm/maybe losing my husband - one might think politics would be the better course for thought. But it wasn’t. Why? Here’s why…in thinking about Jerry’s health I was forced to LEAN on God. I didn’t try to fix things myself.
THAT lesson is one worth holding on to and remembering over and over again. As we’ve gotten back home the heat of elections, best candidates, getting the word out, TRYING TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN, has jumped into my head doing a cannonball. But I keep hearing God’s steady, kind, calm Voice saying, “LEAN on Me. I will do MY Will. You’re protected under My Wings. LEAN on Me.”
It’s a beautiful Voice. I’m asking Him to help me do that. I stop breathing funny.
OKAY…so what’s happening at our meeting tonight? Once again, LEANING on God is a Beautiful Thing.
Our plan was to have Senator Denny Hoskins running for Secretary of State and Will Scharf, one of President Trump’s attorneys who is running for Attorney General, speak. Just today, Senator Hoskins let us know he needs to cancel due to another election event.
So.
The FUN thing is that now we have time to include reports on some of the local activities being done to further Good in the world. Here are our inclusions:
Holly Schmitz will tell us about the successes and learnings from their Family Fun Fest
We’ll hear successes and learnings from TPUSA about their Confrontation with the drag queen shows for kids event/personnel
Kit Lindsay will tell us all about the new Conservative Grassroots Headquarters in Warrensburg.
If you have something to report on tonight, let me know at the meeting and we’ll see what we can do!
Then Will Scharf will speak!! Bring your questions! Look up what the Attorney General’s job is, and ask him how he plans to accomplish that???
Here are my thoughts on 2024 - I think this will be a year we will never forget!!!!
I see God working EVERYWHERE!!!! Some of it looks beautiful, some not so much, but all of it is working towards God’s Purpose.
A few highlights of the past 4 years, including 2024:
A past President has been tried for non-crimes that got classified as “felonies.”
Many of us will vote for a felon in November.
The USA continues to be involved in a war that is classified as a “not-war” and doing it without the consent of Congress. (Where IS Congress these days?)
An 81-year-old mentally compromised man who continually enacts treason against the USA continues to inhabit the White House.
Our country has had a 4-year invasion of our southern border in the name of….”kindness”? “Inclusion?” “Diversity & Equity?” Or is it simply another event devised by the globalists to destabilize and destroy the USA? You decide.
Astronomically speaking, the sun is nearing its 11-year cycle of repolarization, wreaking a lot of sunspots, auroras, non-hurricane/ non-tornado straight-line 100 mph winds that literally blow windows out of office buildings, and overall weird weather. Some of this being claimed by “green people” as being caused by carbon dioxide, the normal gas that comes when people breathe out.
Socialists/Communists have infested our governing bodies both in Missouri and the federal government under the title of “Republican” as well as Democrat.
The government has infested private businesses turning us into a fascist government on many fronts.
Medicine has been politicized.
Healthcare no longer exists.
I’m not even going to get into covid and the mRNA shot.
All of this sounds rather doom and gloom-ish, but WAIT! That old ball keeps right on bouncing!
There’s MORE!
Numerous Grassroots organizations have formed to PUSH BACK the onslaught of Communism! To name a few:
We the People found in numerous counties and states
Freedom Caucus found in the national, as well as Missouri governments
Pro-Life organizations have vastly strengthened
People are waking up and getting involved in saving themselves, by saving our COUNTRY
Freedom Principle MO
Heritage Action for America
Shield Maidens online tells us first-hand what is happening in the Missouri Senate, & what WE CAN DO about it!
…and SO MANY OTHERS!!!
Parents are waking up to what’s been going on in schools while they weren’t paying attention, and they’re GETTING INVOLVED!
People like Matt Sergent, Rick Brattin, Will Scharf and Bill Eigel are running for/ CONTINUING to run for high level positions in Missouri government!
People like Marjorie Taylor Greene won’t shut up!
….and SO MANY MORE!
NOW…what if the crazy things at the top of the list are used by God to bring about GOOD things? And the things at the bottom of the list just KEEP GROWING….?
Matt 8:28 - And we know that God causes all things to work together for GOOD to those who love God, to those who are called according to HIS Purpose.
God works in astoundingly mysterious ways, because our minds and thoughts are so tiny compared to His INFINITENESS. Watch for HIM. He’s doing stuff for us ALL the time.
Pray without ceasing. Relax, and LOOK for what God’s doing. Ask Him to help you see with HIS sight and hear with His ears.
Do you know what Lamentations is? Right, a book in the Bible, we all know that. BUT what is a REAL Lamentation? It’s a trouble in our heart that we TELL GOD ABOUT, and then CLAIM His Greatness in regard to.
A friend of mine calls this “Putting it under the Blood.” It’s quite an image. In my mind I see my MASSIVE TROUBLE inside a box, that I slide underneath the flow of a waterfall of Holy blood that comes from Jesus. Once put there, I will never have it back. If I start to think about said TROUBLE, I imagine it cleansed and unreachable to me because of Jesus’ blood. I LOVE it!!!!
For example, in about the middle of Lamentations, Jeremiah diverts from grieving over what has happened to God’s Chosen People and their lands, and says,
Lamentations 3:22 - 26, 31, 40 - Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail.
They are new every morning; great is YOUR Faithfulness.
I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore, I will WAIT for Him.”
The Lord is GOOD to those whose Hope is in Him;
it is GOOD to WAIT quietly for the Salvation of the Lord.
For men are not cast off by the Lord forever.
Though He brings grief, He will show compassion, so GREAT is His unfailing love.
Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.
Those are Good Words. Both to be read, and to be ENACTED.
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