The Nothing Blog

My heart has been reminded that today, July 5, is the day my mother went to be with Jesus in heaven. She died in 2007 and I still miss her and I still thank the Lord for blessing me as her daughter. The following is a page from my journal written May 27, 2007. I have published this before but I think it's part of the healing/grieving process and I want to honor the memory of my mother, Mary Elizabeth Gillette Brown. Here it is: Mom May 27, 2007 Journal Notes By Polly Balint “Mom” When I was playing golf today with three friends, I started thinking about Mom and how she has given me such a wonderful legacy of loving life… and even in playing golf. While I was on the course, I started to remember what she was like on my last trip to Coral Gables…she had to be bathed and dressed. Couldn’t go to the bathroom by herself…couldn’t walk alone and barely can speak. She would shuffle to walk but it took two people to help her. BUT, she was still so pleasant and cordial and gracious and willi...

America, as a nation, is willingly turning her back on truth, light, and life and choosing to walk right into captivity. The United States of America needs to be rescued. It will not be more programs, more institutions, political clubs, social clubs, or even bigger church buildings that will set America free. It will be God's grace toward a remnant of faithful Christians who will regularly gather to fervently, faithfully cry out to God in prayer for repentance. That is what God will use to save America. It is PRAYER to God...but He says, "If." It's written in Scripture:   "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will heal their land."  (2 Chronicles 7:14) "The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective." (James 5:16) How spiritually dark does it have to get for Christian families in America before we give up our worldly ways and fall on our faces befor...