The cost of living is going up, but so am I.
It seems our leaders and some of our fellow countrymen have a short memory.
It was fourteen years ago this month, March 2008, when I first saw and purchased diesel for four dollars a gallon. This was not in California, but in central Florida. Gas and diesel prices were soaring all over the nation and common people began to have to make serious choices on buying fuel to get to work or paying bills.
It was the extreme gas and diesel prices in 2008 and 2009 that revealed the shakiness in the mortgage and financial markets and brought the economy to its knees during that time. Hundreds of thousands of families lost their homes, banks closed by the hundreds and big business was bailed out by the government in a big way.
Oil soared to $130 a gallon recently and gas and diesel prices followed. Two days ago, oil had gone back down 27%, but gas and diesel prices held firm. Maybe they will go down in a few days IF oil stays down or lowers more.
The consequences of even higher prices in 2022 are yet to be seen, but IF they stay up the ramifications are gonna be painful, that is for sure. Sky high fuel prices are coupled this time with horrible inflation across the board.
Families and individuals that have to drive are already feeling the pinch and are sure to feel it even more as this progresses. If you have to eat, as most of us do, you may be crying in the checkout lane at the supermarket. Ugh!
When diesel prices go up, we receive text and phone calls from concerned family and friends. They know it takes diesel to go and they are worried about how the prices affect us. Thank you. We appreciate your concern.
We are OK at this level for a while. We have tried to be prepared and the Lord has helped us every step of the way. Please do not worry about us. We learned in 2020, if worse comes to worst, we can stop alongside the road and have revival online.
IF it is God's will for us to go, He will always make the way for us to go. Where God leads, He Feeds. Where God guides, He provides. Where God directs, He protects. We may need to load up in the Green Machine and hit the road, but we are certain God will always make the way to do His will.
Let me use this discussion to remind us to pray for our nation, pray for our president, pray for our economy, pray for Ukraine, pray for Russia and pray for one another.
Keep in mind, the cost of living is going up, but we are too!
In these troubled times, pray will not hurt us at all.
Thank you for stopping by today.
Davy
