Hunger Games/Springtime on the Farm

I have been reading the Hunger Games the first book of Suzanne Collins' series she has written and I have to say i love it.  Suzanne Collins is a freakin' genius!  These books I can already see are her way of mocking the world we live in and how horrible it has become..for example--just this week i got a letter from Blue Cross Blue Shield offering me...and i quote "Cheap abortion coverage for only $6.95 a month"...1. I am surprised they would dive into something so controversial with their business but I guess it has to do with Government healthcare and Obamacare? and 2. if you have to have abortion coverage you probably are either having too many abortions.  Heres the kicker--TO get this abortion coverage you just sign up--period--no discussion about marital status--but for me to sign up for my OB/maternity coverage I had to prove that I was married because that would be unethical for them to offer it without marriage.   Sad thing is that in our country alone...where we have the blessed gift of freedom (which poor people in the Hunger Games don't have the blessing of) because men have lived in awful situations fighting and dying (just like in the Hunger Games) for that freedom...but most of our country isn't able to handle that much freedom.  

Anyway--the books are about the rich using the poor for their own entertainment--i heard someone saying its like 'fair trade chocolate--how we want cheap chocolate even if it means children are being abused, enslaved and dying'.  

The capitol people in the books are caught up in the latest odd fashions, dressing their pets in people clothes, live wasteful lives, and are completely removed and unaware that outside their little fake world that the rest of the world suffers.  And people reading these books are eating it up and they hate the capitol people they love the thought of the underdogs/children of poverty and slavery rising up and telling their oppressors "we will be free. you . don't . own . us ." 

Ive heard critics--the people against the books and those that are uncomfortable with this true brutal message say that the books are vile and send a bad message to young people.  One quoted " It won't be long and this world could be as evil and inhumane as the world in the Hunger Games"...well I say: as long as innocent children are kidnapped and enslaved to make our chocolate and eight year olds are killing other eight year olds so we can wear shiny rocks in our fingers we are ALREADY living in the world of Hunger Games...people just have either looked the other way, gotten complacent with how it is, or are truly that in the dark about things.  

It is reminding us that we were created to hate oppression and love freedom--to deeply care about human and to love others like we love ourselves.  And I will be the first to say that you don't have to leave the United States County yOu live in City you live in to witness this oppression..it happens everywhere we just choose to see it happening in "other countries" because its easier to point fingers at the vulnerable. 

Okay--now that I have shared my rant that was supposed to just promote these books--

Thank GOD that with Him even amongst all these social issues we have that with Him we are free-and that we can have new beginnings on Earth and for sure in Heaven.  speaking of New Beginnings--Spring on the farm brings fresh starts--not just the Wheat growing so we can harvest it- but calves are being weaned and cut and branded and starting their life as parts of the herd...see below--Papa Ken was complaining that nobody takes pictures anymore at the farm so I did this week and will continue to until the boys get real mad and annoyed at me. :)  Heres a few of them.