Jack Swindle
June 26
🇺🇦 Day 122 of the War in Ukraine!
Saturday and we usually go out to a restaurant or some place to enjoy the evening. Ever since the war in Ukraine started we have a hard time to find that same enjoyment. We can’t get the thoughts out of our heads of all the stories we hear everyday of horror. Thoughts of how so many Ukrainians are suffering and facing hardships. Any kind of enjoyment is no where to be found. We think how a whole family is only able to share a half loaf of bread. When people have no home left to lay their heads at night. When they carry the scares of being tortured while under Russian occupation. How parents search frantically for their children only to discover they had been abducted and taken to Russia. Or a child left crying laying by the corpse of their dead parents. Most kids here are excited when they get a new toy, game or tablet. But children there are now excited when they get a piece of bread. Some have not seen bread for a few months. Yes, it’s now difficult to find any kind of enjoyment with these thoughts and images constantly in our minds. No matter if a person believes in God or not, or if they believe the devil exists, it doesn’t matter what kind of faith or religion they profess, they can not deny that evil exist, unless they are actually evil themselves. Evil isn’t just imaginary, it isn’t just fiction or only in the movies, it’s reality. It can not change or will not change, it can only be destroyed!
Some comments from readers:
Lee Anne Houk: “so understand that you are saying each day my heart breaks more and more when I read of the atrocities that the Russian soldiers are raining down on the heads of good innocent people – so not right -so not fair to destroy such a beautiful land and its people. Pray each day for God’s blessing and peace.”
Azard Mohammed: “Very well spoken,it is not difficult to see the agony, the starvation, the cruelty that Ukrainians mothers,fathers,elderlies and children are experiencing,Father God end this war now.”
Kathy McArdle: “I agree. I am thinking harder about what I buy and rethinking some of what I used to buy, deciding not to buy it and donating the money to a cause that supports Ukraine.”
Marlene Vaughan: “Evil does exist.
And it is attacking Ukraine every day.
There is a Living GOD.
And HIS SON IS JESUS.
We don’t know why HE Is allowing this to happen.
There are many things we don’t understand.
HE Is a GOD OF LOVE.
All we can do is PRAY & support Ukraine in any way.
SLAVA UKRAINE”
🙏❤️✝️
Georgia Lynch: “Evil is not a harsh enough word for what is happening. I don’t even know what word would describe this.”
Somnath Panda: “Things are going beyond human tolerance. God please help.”
Jim R Schrader: “Yes evil, does exist! However we serve a God who cares about all mankind! JESUS SAID GIVE WATER, BREAD and please give it to charities that have a high rating. Red Cross gets only a small amount to Ukraine 🇺🇦. God bless Ukraine and God bless all who pray for Ukraine.” 🇺🇦 🙏
Barbara Janes: “God , how much more do these people have to take , so many losses . How can they keep their faith , they are stronger than I , cause I do not understand why mankind has to suffer for so long for the sins of others . Why do little children elderly and disabled people or any person have to bear such anguish .. please God intervene and stop this genocide.”
I am an agnostic, but it doesn’t stop me praying.
Tribally I’m a member of the Anglican Communion. I’m concerned that we in Britain are not doing enough and neither are our Episcopal brothers in America.
When women are raped, their tongues cut out, then murdered and their bodies burned, we know we are in the presence of demonic evil.
Putinazi savagery has got to be stopped.
It’s not new: we stood by in 2014 when bestial crimes were being committed by the occupiers in Donbas. A 15 year old boy; a footballer, was abducted off the street because he had a Ukrainian flag on his sports bag. He was tortured to death over a period of two days. Another murdered boy had his eyes gouged out.
As we speak, beautiful Ukrainian girls are being raped and killed by the lowest vermin that ever lived on this planet : putler’s orcs.
“No matter if a person believes in God or not, or if they believe the devil exists, it doesn’t matter what kind of faith or religion they profess, they can not deny that evil exist, unless they are actually evil themselves. Evil isn’t just imaginary, it isn’t just fiction or only in the movies, it’s reality. It can not change or will not change, it can only be destroyed!”
I don’t have faith in God, for there is too much evil going on in this world to allow the concept of such an entity.
Vlad Putin is the embodiment of evil in the 21st century, that is as certain as death is everyone’s certain destiny.
It’s not only the evil of wanton killings, rapes and destruction brought to our land by Vlad’s cockroach army. No, evil is also residing in various European capital cities. Despite the horror, dread, agony, dismay, and terror being caused by evil Russia and its demonic regime, there still are too many who see in Vlad a viable politician who should not be fully resisted. Worse, he should be given a golden bridge, an honorable way out, a gift of Ukrainian lands as a consolation prize regardless of his acute evilness. That is evil too. Those cold and black-hearted people are very much a part of this evil, as Vlad and his army of orcs, ravaging across an innocent European nation. They have the power to stop evil and instead appease it, ignoring the harsh lessons of appeasing another evil entity … Adolf Hitler.
Maybe there is a god, but he needs to come up with something better than this.
Absolutely!
IMHO I think now is the time for God if not for anything to give us internal strength and fortitude to fight this evil and keep safe our heroes, patriots, women children and all our beloved people. Can’t hurt!!!
Evil found its way through free will. God didn’t want robots. Though the darkness of evil covered the world the Light dispelled the darkness. Though the law was broken, the perfect sacrifice was made. God satisfied the requirement to restore fellowship with His creation. Yet we still have free choice to accept Jesus as our Savior, whom fulfilled over 300 Old Testament prophesies concerning the Messiah, or not. God is Just, True and Holy, knowing the end from the beginning. Doesn’t always make sense to us, but His ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts higher than our thoughts. His weakness is stronger than our strength, and His foolishness wiser than our wisdom.