Hello ALL! I have been absent for quite some time as far as the blog goes, but still active on Twitter and IG. I have no excuse for not blogging other than during the last few years I wrote and published a new book “Pray. Trust. Ride: Lessons on Surrender from a Cowgirl and a King,” that came out in November 2022. Somewhere in that period of time I also realized God had been prompting me to shift from focusing solely on addiction/recovery to expound on how we can live more abundantly by letting go and allowing God to take the reins in our lives. Whether we are drunk or sober, we still need to live in the world, right? And our decision becomes: Will I live with peace in my heart, or will I live in angst, worry, and fear? I chose the former and continue to choose peace, but for me, that is impossible without bringing God into the equation. In addition, I felt God prodding me to speak up about the unholy push to erase Him from our culture. It was time to get busy and champion the one who will never fail or leave us.
Life is fickle. People are fickle. What’s wrong has become right, and what is right has become wrong. We all see what’s going on in the world and I think many of us Christians are to blame. In our effort to “live and let live” we have also accepted or turned a blind eye to things that are not acceptable—mainly I am speaking about the sexualization of our children.
I am grateful that my twins are grown and that I didn’t have to navigate much of social media or the insane push to make children confused about pretty much everything that has to do with who they are as God’s children.
I’ll highlight a few things: How did we get to a place in society where naked men can expose full frontal nudity at a “Pride march” and these men are not arrested for indecent exposure? I think back to the days when “streaking” was the newest fad. I am dating myself here…but men and women would strip naked and run down the street or for instance, around their car at a stop light for no other reason than shock value. Many of them were never caught but some were, and they were rightly charged with indecent exposure.
How did we get to a place where some well-known news outlets shun the horrors of child trafficking and the incredible movie “The Sound of Freedom,” and try to make it instead about a subsegment of a political party? Have we become so callous as a nation that our hearts cannot break for the children who are suffering in slavery?
The level of evilness in the world has demanded that all believers stand up! Raise your voice and stop accepting the unacceptable. I believe that many of us are weary of watching the destruction of our children and society as a whole, but God is about to move his mighty hand. I believe too many have gone too far and a reckoning is on the way. Keep the faith! God always Wins!
Lisa Boucher is the author of Pray. Trust. Ride: Lessons on Surrender From a Cowgirl and a King, and the award-winning book “Raising The Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in Drinking Culture.” She has contributed to notable publications such as U.S. News & World Report, and is a frequent guest on numerous syndicated radio and podcast shows. Lisa is also a RN and believes that traditional healthcare does little to help us get well, and in an ever-changing world, God is our only constant.