I would say we are about to “navigate rough waters ahead” in this time in history, but I don’t know if we understand what that means. Nevertheless, this from David Brooks:

We’re living through one of the most dangerous periods of modern times. As the historian Hal Brands noted recently in Foreign Affairs, the situation today is reminiscent of the mid- to late 1930s. Back then, fascist Italy assaulted Ethiopia. Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland. Japan ravaged China. These three regional conflicts had not yet metastasized into a global world war, but even in 1937, Franklin Roosevelt warned of an “epidemic of world lawlessness.”

That epidemic of lawlessness is back. Russia, Iran and China have started or raised regional tensions in ways that threaten to coalesce into something truly nasty. Groups like the Houthis seek to fill the vacuums left by American weakness. The storm clouds are gathering.

More HERE.

American democracy is threatened, to be sure. To the extreme right and left, there is a desire to blow it all up and start over in some way.

Yet, that is not my first thought in all this. It is more about American Christians and how the remnant of believers/followers in Christ, will move through these times. Over 20 years ago I taught through those possibilities. It is the way of spiritual formation. It is finding the ancient path again. It was largely ignored in my context at that time. What is vital is that I don’t ignore those warnings again. We need to find the ancient path, get on it, and stay there in the toughest of times ahead.