There are a lot of opportunities these days to develop outlandish ideas of what will happen next in this uncertain world.

But I have seen a definite shift in people’s reaction to the subject coming up.

Most people are not laughing anymore about making preparations for dramatic changes.

Most people acknowledge that normal life as we know it cannot continue much longer.

I am starting to see the most over-used word change from “absolutely” to “I don’t know.”

It is becoming more difficult to live the dual track of normal going to work every day, and preparing for the day when the tracks diverge and we can’t.

We Americans have trouble comprehending that our prosperity and luxury and ease are the tiny exception to the rule of human history—and to the rest of the world today.

The looming potential of that wonderful life coming to an end is simply too much, to spend time thinking about it.

But people are thinking about it—unless entertainment and biased news keep them drugged a little longer—and that will be the suicidal cool-aid.

Since the beginning of 2016 I have considered making predictions for this year.

For the better part of a year I have felt very strongly that we cannot make it past the summer of 2016 without the intruding evil making a move that dramatically disrupts our lives in America.

Today, I am reviewing this Bible verse over and over, because I have to:

“Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.”

I believe Ted Cruz is the best offer we’ve had in my lifetime.

He is the one true statesman since Ronald Reagan.

Real Americans understand what it means to “bring America back” to what our founders created with great sacrifice and dependence on the Creator.

It costs a lot to gain freedom—sacrifice, blood, lives, passion.

It costs a lot to keep freedom—sacrifice, blood, lives, passion, and vigilance (the hardest during prosperity).

It costs a lot more to lose freedom—trading a “mess of porridge” for promises of security—plus the futile sacrifices of blood, lives, and passion after it is too late.

Ted Cruz clearly understands all this.

We need American voters who understand this now.