{"id":4093,"date":"2026-11-08T09:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T15:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2026-11-08T09:21:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T15:21:51","slug":"some-things-change-sone-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2026\/11\/some-things-change-sone-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Things Change; Some Don&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: revert-layer; font-weight: revert-layer;\">I\u2019ve lived a long life &#8211; \u201cthrough many dangers, toils, and snares\u201d to quote hymn-writer, John Newton.\u00a0\u00a0In the early years, with my father serving as a WW2 Army Chaplain in Germany and my mother confined to a Tuberculosis Sanitarium, I lived with my Grandparents in Bellmead, Texas.\u00a0\u00a0My Grandad was a yellow-dog Democrat and an elected Steward in the then, very conservative Christian Church (better known as Disciples of Christ). These were the FDR years.\u00a0\u00a0When my family got back together post-war, there was Democrat Truman (and the famous Truman joke (They made a stamp with his picture on it.\u00a0\u00a0Why didn\u2019t it stick? Turns out people were spitting on the wrong side).\u00a0\u00a0Then I was surrounded by \u201cI Like Ike\u201d buttons.\u00a0\u00a0With the Republican, Dwight Eisenhower being one on our nation\u2019s most popular Presidents.\u00a0\u00a0One of my best early teen-age friends, Mark White, became one of several Democrat Governors of Texas, along with Governor, \u201cOne Tough Grandma\u201d Ann Richards.\u00a0\u00a0Then came the Republicans, on state and national levels, led by the Bush family.\u00a0\u00a0Then it was the Democrats again &#8211; Clinton, Biden and Obama, followed by the Trump Republicans. Now, after more than thirty years in power in Texas, Republicans have yielded to the blue wave Democrats. So, I have lived through the ups, downs and sideways, of my country and state political climates &#8211; \u201cHappy Days are Here Again\u201d through MAGA, and \u201con Election Day we are not calling a Pastor, we\u2019re electing a politician\u201d and \u201cNo te dejas.\u201d These two things I have learned over the years: (1) \u201cJesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever\u201d (Hebrews 13:8) and (2) \u201cThe first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know. Pray especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be quietly about our business of living simply, in humble contemplation. This is the way our Savior God wants us to live\u201d (1 Timothy 2:1-3, The Message).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve lived a long life &#8211; \u201cthrough many dangers, toils, and snares\u201d to quote hymn-writer, John Newton.\u00a0\u00a0In the early years, with my father serving as a WW2 Army Chaplain in Germany and my mother confined to a Tuberculosis Sanitarium, I lived with my Grandparents in Bellmead, Texas.\u00a0\u00a0My Grandad was a yellow-dog Democrat and an elected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}