P.O.T.U.S.

(03,20,2020) P.O.T.U.S. is an acronym for ‘President Of The United States’. The current president of America, however, has proven himself to be unworthy of this title. He has continually shown that he supports the white supremacists of America. The fact that he chose to award Rush Limbaugh with the Medal of Freedom award, during the state of the union, is proof, yet again, that he favours bigots and racists. Henceforth, this president will be referred to as P.O.T.A.S., a.k.a. President Of The American Supremacists. The P.O.T.A.S. , in awarding the highest award to a citizen who embodies racism, is playing to his base, which is largely compiled of supremacists. Now, with the outbreak of COVID-19, the P.O.T.A.S. and his administration have been more concerned with how it will affect his chances for being re-elected than they are about containing the virus. Their first priority was to contain the effect on Wall Street. The plunge in the market, due to panic by speculators, does not look good for the otherwise booming economy which the P.O.T.A.S. inherited from the Obama administration. The P.O.T.A.S. has been downplaying the importance of the virus, blaming the Democrats for deliberately stressing why the people should be concerned. Meanwhile, the Canadian Government has focused more on the effect of the virus and its containment. Perhaps now, with the removal of blockades, by the pipeline protesters, from railways, roads and bridges, there can be some semblance of normalcy while we try to deal with a global pandemic. Medicine and the proper protective equipment must get to the people who require it, not to mention food and water. More recently, there is good news from doctors, in Hamilton Ontario. They have isolated the COVID-19 virus and are now hard at work on a vaccine. Perhaps, this information will quell the panic which people have created among themselves. It is trying times, such as these, which bring out the true character in many a soul. Recently, on television, an elderly man, shown in a crowded parking lot, asked why people can no longer be civil to one another, while a local politician begs his constituents to think of those who are more at risk, such as the old and vulnerable who cannot fend for themselves. If there is no consideration, for another human being, left in your soul, then where does that leave your soul? Ask yourself, “What if God is judging me right now?”, and “What would Jesus think of my actions if this were ‘Judgement Day’?” After all, this is, unquestionably, one of the signs of the ‘End of Days’, along with famine, increased war, global distress, earthquakes, etc.! Don’t get me wrong! I am not an alarmist! Nor am I saying that COVID-19 is the harbinger of ‘the end of the world’. But, the book of Revelations does speak of these times as being the most trying for all of mankind. Our mettle, indeed, our character is being tested. This is the time for us to rise above petty squabbles, material things, and be more concerned for our eternal soul! There is a word which people have used, over the centuries, to describe what they refer to as ‘the last days’. This word, in my view, has been misrepresented. It has been associated with Armageddon and depicts, supposedly, the total destruction of the earth and annihilation of mankind. However, there is one simple but telling line, in the bible, spoken by Jesus, which states that ‘the meek shall inherit the earth’. This belies the concept which is associated with the word of which I speak. There is a more correct interpretation for that word, ‘Apocalypse’!