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Sarah Palin takes mayoral oath of office Sarah says on page 4 of Going Rogue, in reference to the time when her second term as mayor of Wasilla was coming to an end, "With four busy kids, I would certainly have enough going on to keep me occupied, even if I chose to put public service aside. And for a while, I did. But I still felt a restlessness, an insistent tugging on my heart that told me there were additional areas where I could contribute."
Are not the Lord's ways with us, and the dispostions of His Wisdom, mysterious? There is no gainsaying nor resisting the counsels of the Almighty.
As our friend techno has noted, for the last forty years (at least) the Left has been carefully, with the cleverness and dexterity of human "wisdom," setting in place plans for the radical transformation of the United States of America.
With the expenditure of almost countless dollars in treasure, with the scheming of some of the most diabolically slick (and sick) minds on the face of the Earth, and with the brutal application of equal parts of open violence and occult subversion, they have been boring, boring, boring into the edifice of the foundations of this country.
In human terms, think of the magnitude of the whole enterprise!!--the millions of men and women enlisted in these fell efforts; the thousands of books and other works of propaganda published; the hundreds and hundreds of institutions, in academia, in the media, in government, subverted and transformed to serve their nefarious ends!!
What has been the Lord's answer to this?
All through the long, winding course of these strange and terrible years, while the Left has been preparing the hideous transmutation of America that seems to have culminated in the "election" of barack obama, the Holy Spirit has been working in a different way, has been preparing, in the silent places of certain hearts, a counterforce to meet and thwart and overthrow the best-laid plans of evil men and women.
Sarah Palin sworn in as Governor
In particular, I believe, He was quietly nurturing the brave, noble heart of a young woman, hidden away in the depths of the North Country, the Last Frontier.
I think that it is a characteristic of the most precious and powerful of the Lord's works that they are often almost invisible to human eyes and perceptions. The Son of God was born in the humble obscurity of a stable.
Some of the greatest literary and scientific geniuses in the history of humanity have labored for most or all of their lives in almost total obscurity; fame has often come only after they have shrugged off this mortal cloak of flesh, and have taken wing for the abode of the angels!
And while the partisans of evil will employ force and brutality to achieve their purposes, God always leaves us free; He "respects" that very Liberty, that free will, that is among His most precious gifts to us.
This is what I think Sarah is expressing in the words that are cited above. She felt a "restlessness"; she felt "an insistent tugging on my heart."
Sarah Palin accepts VP nomination
However, how could she have known, at the time, the magnitude and the gravity of the world-encompassing mantle that the Lord was preparing her shoulders to bear??
She could not have!!
However, in my opinion, Sarah has humbly and bravely cooperated, at each step in the course of her beautiful life, with that "insistent tugging" at her heart.
Think of Tolkien's Middle Earth. It is evident that the counsel of an Eternal Wisdom was preparing the sturdy, humble hearts of the Hobbits in the obscure western corner of the Shire for the great struggle and contest that was to come in the "fullness of time" against Sauron.
Sarah Palin chooses the battlefield
Without the Little People, neither Gandalf-Mithrandir, seer and sage of the West, transformed by the trial of Fire from the Grey to the White; nor intrepid Men and Women in all their glory of word and of arms; nor noble Elves, ancient in tongue and lore and blood; nor sturdy Dwarves, with hearts and hands harder and firmer even than the stones of the underground worlds of wonder they wrought--none of these would have prevailed against the Shadow and the Eye of Mordor!!
Hark!! Let us, with Our Sarah, heed and follow the gentle, "insistent" urgings of the Spirit in our own hearts!
Hark!! Let us prepare our own spirits to follow Sarah's battle standard, when she at length unfurls it fully in open defiance of obama and all the legions of the Left!!
Hark!! Let us be ready to list to " the trumpet's loud clangor" which "excites us to arms": "to arms, to arms, 'tis too late to retreat; 'tis too late to retreat!!!"
