Being a Servant what does it mean?

Since my last post, my father and one of my best friends passed away within a week of one another, neither expected - except that we all expect to leave this world.

I have wondered how you serve when you are trying to reorient yourself, find your bearings, and all while being so inwardly focused? It is difficult for me to explain or reconcile this, but somehow you must continue to serve others, if it is your true nature. It becomes your true nature through faith in Christ and a focus on what you can do for others, and somehow your own problems shrink and fade as we work to help others.

God Bless you and yours.

Disingenuous Nature

I am confounded by and marvel at the American liberal [who by the way all think they are elite!] mindset about rights, who they honor, who they denigrate, and generally the thought process through which they arrive at these conclusions.

They honor diversity, of almost any foreigner, whether dictator, Muslim extremist [another question - if the "moderates" won't stand up to the extremist, aren't they at least all tacitly extremist?], or socialist. Interestingly, they classify socialist/communist who attack someone in this country as "right-wing" to further obfuscate and confuse the issue, while avoiding any personal responsibility for their camp.

They honor those who would first attack them and deny them the right to expound on the non-sense they push, by backing totalitarians, or anyone else over any one who is traditional or conservative. You know, the people who founded this country, and those who fought to keep it free, while insuring the liberals are allowed to spout their increasingly vile, hateful, and discriminatory philosophy. They want to silence those in this country who don't agree with them, particularly targeting Christians, who honor diversity, but serving as sycophants for such as Che' or Hugo Chavez. All, just as their great legal arm the ACLU seeks to destroy or outlaw anything that smacks of what a person brought up in a Judeo-Christian environment would think is wrong. In fact, I think their "test" for determining what is wrong is to determine what some traditional American would favor, then attacking that position and the people who hold it.

One example, they abhor capital punishment, BUT would have you thrown in jail or killed to protect their convenience, they have labeled as a right, they call "choice" which includes and honors the ability to access abortion even late term, when viable children are killed so that they are not an inconvenience to the mother. While I recognize the logical inconsistency of favoring life, and capital punishment at least one has done something to deserve punishment in some form, the other is innocent, other than being conceived in the wrong place at the wrong time. While many parents are unable to find suitable adoption candidates. I guess if they could reliably determine the potential for a baby to become a fascist/dictator, radical Muslim or any other person who could be counted on to grow up to hate America, and what it has up to now, always stood for.

MAD DASH away from his platform

Well, the "savior" has taken office. Unlike the opposition during the last President's tenure, those self-proclaimed "we are smarter than everyone, do as we say, not as we do" crowd are calling for unity, and a spirit of bi-partisanship.

Where was was this high minded spirit of cooperation during the previous administration, no where! They condemned the former President, lied about him, after supporting decisions made, and did everything conceivable to undermine him, now you are supposed to be so stupid that you support the savior, because it is good for the country.

You are not supposed to figure this out, but they run around on private jets, while condemning you for buying an SUV to carry you and 3 kids around [you are not smart enough to give them confidence you made the decision wisely]. Their time is so valuable, and they so important that a private jet for 8, carrying them and 2 cronies across the country is a necessity.

All the while, we are supposed to be too stupid, or so busy paying attention to our own dwindling portfolios, underwater mortgages, and the bailout of everyone and anyone with connections, that we don't see that the appointments, and policies being implemented are not what was promised during the campaign. He has already shown his hand as a child killer supporter, I know it is not politically correct, but it is a choice, like deciding to kill someone who pisses you off, no less. He is appointing those who will seek to feather the nests of their cronies, undermine, silence and punish anyone not toeing the party line, and take our liberties, because we can't be trusted with them, only they can?

We are at a crossroads, we have people leading this country who believe the failure of past social engineering and redistribution of wealth was because the people trying it weren't "good people" like them, and probably not as smart. They want to take your right to defend yourself, making you further dependent on them and the government they control for lif[e and liberty, allow partial birth infanticide, nationalize/control banking and financial markets [the government runs things so efficiently, imagine social security and post office lines for everything, with a person with a crappy attitude waiting to "help" you at the end of it!].

The traditional way of life, neighbor helping neighbor because it is the right thing to do, liberty to pursue your dreams in your own business free of stiffling government regulation, the right to have property, defend you, your family and that property, and not saddling your grandchildren with debt that bails out a bunch of asshole ivy league/wall street types who made bad business decisions, get government money, and proceed to put their boot on the throat of those who didn't get bailouts to make them feel like they are business geniuses.

It is time for those who value America as a free country, offering opportunity to all of good spirit and character, and the values and ideals that built it to band together. The drumbeat of succession may be in the air again, if these silk stocking, self-serving wusses we have in Washington keep on screwing everybody but themselves and their cronies.

Catholics [I am not talking about the Kerry Catholics who go to Mass but don't honor or abide by the churches teachings], Protestants and others of faith who are of a kindred spirit to take this country back from those who think burglars have more rights to break into your house than you do to protect it and your family, those who know babies have their own skeletal and circulatory system in the first few months [and are counted as a person if the mother is killed] are people not a fetal tissue mass, and don't think the government knows better or that we are here to serve it, band together and take this country back from the moral relativist who want to force everything they support on others, and stamp out even the difference of opinion about it.

It is those people, not traditionalists that gave birth to, nurture, and encourage marginalizing difference of opinion, and the person who hold them. They have taken over college campuses and will take everything until they get popped in the nose every time they try to encroach further, and silence you, while labeling you as some "ist", all the while staying in power by keeping those who vote for them, dependent on them. They are the 21st century plantation owners and oppressors. A revival is needed, this country wasn't built by cross-dressers, who killed babies by calling their lives and choice, and the government by taking money from hard working folks and giving it to people who have babies but no family, because they get more money from the government!

Oh, one last thing - try that "I forgot" defense next time the IRS audits you!!!