On Saturday, July 13th, 2024, I was at home in my apartment preparing for the week and looking forward to flying to visit family that upcoming Friday, July 19th, 2024 in eastern Tennessee. As many daily do so, I was on my phone scrolling until I saw a picture of President-elect Donald Trump with a bloodied ear, saying that he had been shot in Butler, PA while at a rally but that he was still alive.
For the next hour or so, I stayed on the phone with my Maw-Maw and took my anxiety and sleep medication. Normally, I would only take it at night before sleeping. This was the first time I thought that I truly needed it in a genuine moment of anxiety as millions of people were feeling anxious and scared at the same exact time.
In the hours and days after that, news reporters, everyday Americans, and even people like Mark Zuckerberg were in awe of how President Trump had survived being shot and only was hit in his right ear. Those who normally would not say so admitted, even Trump himself, that he was only alive because of the grace of God.
Before leaving on Friday, I went to a special early screening that Wednesday of the summer blockbuster movie Twisters. It was a fun movie, with exaggerated tornados that only Hollywood can produce. Yet, like what happened earlier that summer when I watched Inside Out 2, there were moments when I felt God speaking. In a scene from Twisters, some of the main characters take shelter at the bottom of an empty swimming pool. A truck flies over and lands on top of them. Yet, instead of the truck crushing and killing them, it protects the main characters from dying.
At that instant, I felt that God was trying to tell me through watching the movie Twisters that just as He protected President Trump from being killed, just as He had protected and taken care of me my whole life, He would continue to do so.
All day on Thursday, I packed and prepared to take an early morning shuttle Friday morning, to Denver International Airport, to fly to Tennessee to see family.
Little did I know, the world was about to experience another kind of storm early that Friday morning.
I woke up to an expected phone call, around 4:00 am, from my Dad. Yet, I was in shock with the news he had to share.
“They are having trouble with computers. Get ready to go to the airport. You still are probably going to be able to fly here. If you can’t, we’ll work on a way to get you home somehow.”
For those who may have forgotten, on Friday, July 19th, 2024, there was a global outage involving CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm utilized by Microsoft, that canceled thousands of flights and impacted banks, businesses, and government services around the world.
This is a picture of the arrival and departure screens at Denver International Airport. These “blue screens of death,” as referred to by some, are the ones that represented all the flights that were canceled that day. I was on one of the few flights in the entire country, represented on the fourth screen, on Delta Airlines, that was not affected.
While many around me, including some friends, were incredibly frustrated, voicing their frustrations against Microsoft, against humanity’s overdependence on technology, or how nothing that was run by Apple seemed to be having any issues, my mind was elsewhere.
My thoughts drifted to one of the world’s modern-day supervillains, known as Klaus Schwab, founder of the infamous World Economic Forum. He made a highly disturbing video, spread across social media over the last several years, saying one day, that the world would experience a “comprehensive cyber attack.”
Out of the ashes of this “attack,” many have speculated that the world would be reborn, into the leadership of a “New World Order,” one where personal freedoms would be nonexistent, and one where you would “own nothing and be happy..”
Knowing this, at the moment, brought back intense anxiety, perhaps greater than my fellow travelers. Up to that point, since election day in 2020, after President Biden “won” the election, I had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours listening to “truther” podcasts, watching videos, and reading articles about the WEF, the WHO, the CDC, the New World Order, and all of their wicked plans they had for the world. The message that all of those so-called “truthers” that brought all of the unending disturbing news was, that if former President Trump did not become President again, our world, our freedoms, would be lost forever into the hands of wicked and Satanic monsters.
As scared as I was at the moment, it was then I remembered some things. I thought about how since President Biden began his first and only current term, there had been many times when new pandemics could have started when a “winter of death” could have happened, when cyberattacks and EMPs could have wreaked havoc on America and the world.
Yet, somehow, they did not. As much as the evil ones wanted to do so, somehow certain treaties were “delayed,” certain mandates did “not return” and certain trials, with as high as “34 criminal counts” for the so-called “felon” did not seem to be successful.
While flying on the plane, pondering all of this, and spending the week with family, for the first time in a long time, I began to feel happier, more joyful, and for the first time, felt that I could begin to do something my counselors had wanted me to do for years, but I had been incapable of doing: stop watching the news.
Needless to say, after I returned from Colorado, I quickly retreated to dark and disturbing news, news that spoke of bird flu outbreaks, weather-manipulated natural disasters, and expected cheating in the upcoming 2024 Presidential election, which happened just a few days ago.
However, something happened on Election Day. The results were called that night, former President Trump won the election, with both the Electoral College and the popular vote. In the hours and days after, with the Senate being won for Republicans, and the House expected to remain “Red,” news organizations accepted the results as predominantly legitimate, and millions of thankful Americans were relieved, for the first time in over four years.
However, it did not take long for them, or for me, to sink back into the news, and to notice things like a suspicious outbreak of 43 monkeys from a bio-research lab in South Carolina, or the unsealed announcement from the DOJ of a foiled Iranian plot involving three men to again try and assassinate President Trump,
A week that brought hope has also ended in doubt, in anxiety, and in fear.
“God had mercy on us. He did a miracle. Now the evil ones are not going to stop to try to kill him and they even probably let those monkeys out, infected with viruses, to give us another pandemic.”
These have been my thoughts today. Perhaps they have been yours as well.
Yes, God performed a miracle. Yes, He once again has given America another chance and He has shown proof that He is not done with us yet.
However, until Judgement Day, the powers of darkness and Satan himself will stop at nothing to cause chaos, fear, destruction, and death.
Until then, we must rest in God, who remains in control, and be comforted in the fact that with His words and His power, He can and will stop all storms, no matter what kind of storm they may be. We must only trust in Him in His perfect timing and in His perfect will.
And always strive, to “fight, fight, fight!”
The Adventures of A Warrior 