Mama Always ~ L.A. Brown, Author

 Let's put it right out there...2020 has sucked. Yeah, I said it, and I'm not apologising or taking it back. If there was ever a danger zone for depression, this is it.  I have blogged a lot on depression. As you may know, I suffer from a mild form of it, and my best friend of over 45 years had a severe form of it. Because of that, she took her own life a year ago, and because this is such an insidious affliction, I will make mention of it in my blogs often.  This disorder has taken so much from so many. Look at Robin Williams. The face of comedy, wonderfully funny, and yet it was a mask for the world to see. You see, a lot of us put on that mask so that no one will worry, and we keep wearing it until we can't anymore. That's when things happen. Either we seek help and hope it helps to manage this demon, or we give up. That's what he and my best friend did. It took me a lot of reading, praying, crying and going through my own struggles to realize that it really wasn

 I was talking to a neighbor tonight who is very frustrated over the last two days. I have to tell you, I've voted every year of my adult life, and even with Carter, and the hanging chads with Bush, I've never seen anything to rival this. But, this is what I know. GOD IS STILL ON HIS THRONE . I will admit, I am beyond frustrated. The MSM isn't doing any of us a huge amount of favors, especially when they break away from the President speaking to accuse him of telling lies...mid-sentence. You know, maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but that was a majorly juvenile thing to do, in my opinion. I don't know who will emerge the victor, whoever it is is going to have a pretty tough go of it probably. But, again, this I know...God is still on His Throne. He sets 'em up, and He takes 'em down. The Bible is clear on that. Anyway, getting back to our neighbor. I told him the story of King Saul, how the Israelites whined and moaned and groaned about having a King. "Why