Along with all the "birth pangs" Jesus lists in Matthew 24, are you finding that more and more people around you are being attacked spiritually and also physically in these last days?

Consider this....

In my family alone this past year, my grandma became mentally unstable and we were afraid she might literally kill my grandpa. My sister and her newborn have been having all sorts of problems since he was born, from thrush to reflux to colic and more. My aunt just found out last week that she has cancer. And now I got thrown a curve ball mself yesterday. I had the flu back in February and never fully bounced back, so I went and got a blood test, thinking I might be a little anemic. When I got the phone call, instead of being prescibed iron pills, I was told I have something called "smudge cells" which can be indicitive of Leukemia. They want me to have a bone marrow biopsy next week. I can't believe it! I'm only 29 and a mother of two young boys 3 and under! I shouldn't be getting tested to make sure I don't have cancer!

And at work, everybody is crabby and defensive and sometimes downright nasty, especially to me since I openly talk about my faith. Is the gas prices starting to get to everyone? Because this really seemed to rev up just in the last year.

I really feel that the Lord is coming back soon, but some days it just doesn't seem like soon enough. I hate the feeling of not knowing what is coming next or how long we might have left before Jesus comes back. I don't want to die before the rapture and leave my husband and young children behind. Lord help us all through these increasingly trying times, and give us the motivation to continue our witness through it all.