“Do the next thing”

Don’t worry about the election.  Join Netflix and watch a good movie, and make origami out of the tear off sheet that comes with the DVD.

It’s a sad day in the history of our country. Right is wrong and wrong is right. The good are mocked and the evil are praised, worshiped even. Heroes are picked apart and connivers are couched and protected by teams of media elite.

I daydream of statesman who once stood for truth and right. I long for the day when men stood for right because their integrity required it of them. The decision might not make their life easier. It might even walk them into their own private hell for a time, but down deep inside they knew it was the right thing to do, for the good of the country. They knew that there was a supreme God that would provide peace to their souls because they were doing the right thing, despite the trials that were, hunger, discouragement, cold, injury, torture or even death. Their determination and courage brought us a land of opportunity and freedom.

That all appears to be going away; we are now at a crossroads where we will choose between our democratic republic, and a socialist society.

Today I lost a friend to breast cancer.

We knew her time was drawing near, even if she didn’t want to admit it. I was pulling my thoughts together on things to say to her to honor her and who she has been to me.  When I went to visit her in the hospital today, I didn’t want to deliver empty, pithy thoughts or phrases.  I wanted to tell her how valuable a friend she was to me.  I wanted to let her know that who she was for the 10 years I’ve known her was someone who’s lessons and words I would carry with me for a very long time.  I wanted to tell her that as long as I’ve known her she has been an example of peace and quiet strength.

Then the phone call came.  I never got to tell her.  How many times have we been told to tell people how we feel about them before it is too late?  She and I did always have conversations, however, when we would agree that we just knew what each other was thinking.  I’ll take refuge in that,  and in the fact that I know she is with her Lord.  God in heaven has welcomed His child with open arms and will grant joy and peace to those she has left behind….in time.

She was 42 and blessed with a loving husband, and two beautiful children who now will find their way without her.  She was a picture of gracious and unconditional love.  She listened well.  She was confident and passionate about sharing her faith and her love for her Lord through music and caring for others.  You knew you were valuable…because she told you you were.

from wikipedia:

“Socialists mainly share the belief that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital, and creates an unequal society. All socialists advocate the creation of an egalitarian society, in which wealth and power are distributed more evenly, although there is considerable disagreement among socialists over how, and to what extent this could be achieved.^[1]“

Obama wants to spread the wealth around…here is a conversation he had with a plumber:

“Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?” the plumber asked, complaining that he was being taxed “more and more for fulfilling the American dream.”

“It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too,” Obama responded. “My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

John Adams famously said: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”