Howdy all! The weekend cometh! So what does your weather forecaster say? Time to go out and clean up lawn from the winter droppings? Or are you expecting to have a little more winter, keeping you inside and warm with a hot chocolate and some graham crackers? Whichever is in your forecast, enjoy the heck out of it!
Any hoo,..
He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress where I will never be shaken. ~ Psalm 62:2
If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check. ~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Duane, 1811
Ok, so we are not scheduled to suffer any more debates for now. Thank goodness! They have all become boring and rote. I even suspect that CNN put that contraception question in on purpose, just to liven up the crowd. But I digress. The purpose of these debates are to get you to vote for ‘the one’ candidate that speaks to you the best. I can’t tell you who that is. But I can tell you, just as Psalm 62:2 tells you, and Jefferson tells you; we must choose the one who can restore our nation, restore our Constitution, restore our economy, restore our faith in government, restore the world’s trust in America. Lots of restoration, isn’t it? Will it happen in the next 4 years? Probably not. But there may be no more hope if restoration isn’t started in January. It ought to have started about 10 years ago, maybe even 50. But we are here now. It has to start now. Now, our present lot of federally elected employees are muddled in a self-imposed quandary. They all want change. They all want to make it ‘better’. But they are not all willing to work together to get it right. Doesn’t matter which letter of the alphabet follows their name and title. And that’s actually a good thing. Huh? Good thing? Yup, good thing. Just remember three little words, ‘We The People’. The country does not belong to 545 goobers in a corrupt little city. It belongs to all 330 million or so Americans. It is up to We the People to decide who will lead us to restoration, to greatness again. It will be upon the rock we select that our nation will survive on, or wither on the vine with. It will be up to us to choose the rock of strength to restore our foundation, or the rock of stupidity that gets thrown through the window of the faltering and condemned house.
So, what to do? We can go off spouting out about our favorite flavor of a candidate, while castigating the others, or we can talk about our choice and even dare I say, listen to others about their choice. Then decide with full knowledge and faith that who we choose is really the best for our nation. But we cannot be self-dividing. We cannot step on each other’s toes on the way up. We may miss the foot, and step instead on the nail protruding from the floorboard nearby. There is a video out showing a few guys yanking Santorum signs from in front of a location where Romney was due to speak. They then placed Romney signs in their place. Why? Isn’t there a federal law against that (yes!) ? But they don’t care. Would you be upset at an SEIU thug yanking a republican sign? Then you should be just as upset at anyone removing any political sign, for any reason. Because there is no good reason for any of that.
We can root for whoever we want; volunteer for anyone we want; vote for anyone we want. But we must stick together on the issue of restoring our constitution, our economy, and our nation’s place as the city on the hill. Or else, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.
Lastly, a prayer request. Two shooting incidents occurred in the past day or so, in the area I used to live. The Washington State Trooper shot and killed in the Port Orchard area, (shooter killed himself as well), and an 8 year old girl shot in class in Bremerton. Please pray for those families that are suffering this day. May the grace of God give them some peace.
Take care and God bless,
Tom Kiley
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