Back in the 1960s people who felt threatened by treating people equal did not want change. Same is perhaps quite true if we are honest with ourselves for the 1860s, the 1760, and for every one hundred years.

There's a lot that many of us have to say about the election game. So while we have only a few spiraling weeks from the time of this writing to elect whom God already knows will be the leader of the nation called America, we need to stop and ask ourselves some bold-face questions, and yes, it would be a pleasure to lead off with the inquisition:

FACT OF THE MATTER: When we become ill, things change. Schedules change. Time is lost from work. Insurance does not always cover our necessary costs.  So is it fair to surmise that the body fights healing? Or, humor me if you will, the fact that we cannot make up lost time at work because the harder we work, the more the government takes out of a non-business owner's paycheck?

FACT OF THE MATTER: If we as a nation reminisce about the industrial age and the heyday of the automobile industry, are we dishonoring the people who do not believe we should use anything except a horse and buggy for transportation? Are we evil for thinking that people of other religious beliefs cannot be as loving to other human beings when treated with the same kind of respect that we would want shown toward us?

Must the marching forward in Time resists the wooing of the errors of our past? Back in the 1860s people did not want change, but did that make them targets of ridicule as slavery was about to be abolished, knowing that this would anger plantation owners whose primary interest, much like Wall Street and the Federal lending insititutions and the Treasury Department...was to control as much monetary gain as possible? Was not slavery a means of the rich staying richer, and when those slaves obtained freedom to be their own bosses, did not the government try to squash them by preventing them from rights of ownership?

Is this not unlike the mode of fare today with the banks, the insurance companies, international commercial trade, and dare we breathe its syllables. . .  .

 "Wal-Mart?"  

James 3:8
but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

If everyone were debt free, would we even care who was elected governor, or senator, or congressperson, or even.... President? Would their age, their color, their associations, their churches even matter?

What if all was well with the world...would we even remember their names? If we represent ourselves well, and care for ourselves with the ability to control our own destinies, and stopped feeling so damned helpless as to where everything we have rides on the backs of those who push a button and make drastic change . . . if we were not so greedy as a world. . . . who  would give a rip-snort?

Would we have everything we needed? And if that would be the case, if the value of material things was worthless, would we still define ourselves as worthy of acceptance? As worthy of respect to the point when finger pointing and name calling and myth-fabricating would be literally an assinine gesture for those too weak to stand on principles of honor?

Would we still give love without expecting something back in return?

Yesterday is dead. What matters is right now. Everyone needs to watch what they say, and whom they say it about. Words, both public and private, will follow us all to the grave.

Psalm 64:8
He will turn their own tongues against them and bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.

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