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ARE<\/strong> you feeling overwhelmed by the “signs of the times”? Tired of reading prophecies that speak of dire events? Feeling a bit cynical about it all, like this reader?<\/p>\n I know the Catholic Church and the Eucharist are true. And I know that private revelations \u2014 such as on your Countdown to the Kingdom site \u2014 are real and important. It’s very disheartening to prepare for these prophecies, gather food and supplies, and then they don’t come to pass. It seems that God lets the 99 drown while he waits for the 1 to come back. Your thoughts appreciated.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Another reader commented on my last reflection: Creation’s “I Love You”<\/em><\/a> and remarked, “This is the first non-negative article we have received in a LONG time. What a refreshing blessing!” I have also heard friends and family members speak of people they know saying they simply “can’t read that stuff” and that they need to “live their lives.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well, I get it. I, too, took the past few months and the occasion of moving our family to another province to step back from it all to a certain degree. I had just spent the last two years putting in thousands of hours of research, writing<\/a> and producing webcasts<\/a> and a documentary<\/a> on one of the most divisive and damaging developments in our generation. At the same time, we launched Countdown to the Kingdom<\/a> (CTTK) where suddenly I was responsible, in part, for posting messages from around the world from Our Lord and Our Lady. The news was dark and laden with propaganda; the heavenly messages were at times foreboding. It was hard for me, too, to not let it “get to my head.” The antidote I found, however, was not turning it off. I couldn’t. Rather, the answer was prayer \u2014\u00a0<\/em>daily prayer, rooted in God’s Word, and just loving the Lord and letting Him love me. For me, prayer is the “great reset” that restores my relationship and harmony with the Lord.\u00a0<\/p>\n I recently reposted on CTTK an important article called\u00a0Prophecy in Perspective<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>It’s really a crucial read on how to approach prophecy, how to respond to it, and what our obligations are. There are literally thousands of messages from seers from around the world. Who could read them all? Are we supposed to read them all? The answer is no.\u00a0<\/em>What St. Paul commands us is “do not despise prophetic utterances.”<\/em> [1]<\/sup><\/a>1 Thess 5:20<\/span><\/span>\n
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Still, when this past summer came, I found myself not wanting to look at the headlines nor wanting to read many of the prophecies that my colleagues continued to post on Countdown. I needed this summer to decompress, to reconnect with nature (I took the photo on the left while standing in the river near our farm; I was actually crying I was so happy to finally be living in nature again), to interact with unmasked faces, to go sit in a restaurant for the first time in two years, to play a game of golf with my sons, sit on a beach and just breathe.\u00a0
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