Early morning thoughts
For some time, I’ve been searching in vain for headlines or articles that actually inform of something new (in kind or scope) in society or government. It’s why I’ve stopped listening to conservative radio (except for Mark Levin, my favorite professor). Comprehension of the detailed causes and effects of the massive pileup we are experiencing is about to cause my head to explode. [What everyone is doing in this effort has been and is essential – I don’t propose that I somehow “know better” how we ought to fight our once in a lifetime national fight. I obviously don’t – which would account for the fact that Sundance has a couple of thousand posts here and I have less than a hundred. But I think my own thoughts as we are in this Refuge together and these were my thoughts yesterday and this morning. And a good friend has challenged me well on them already.]
Four years ago, the fresh and horrifying business of stating the obvious and documenting exactly how many hundreds of thousands of acres the national forest fire had expanded to overnight was heady business.
But now I’m wondering if that useful business has become an accepted alternative to stopping him and taking our Republic back – because the information is not being used to stop him. It’s only used to prove that the nation is in a dangerous mess. Every eight days, new MRIs track the advance of the malignancy, but the surgery that will save the patient is never scheduled.
Documentation and confession of what is so in dangerous times must at some point give way to active resistance if the destruction of rogue government(s) is to be stopped. (illustrated/discussed in – again – Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Eric Metaxas). The list of charges grows and the excellent analyses accumulate. To what end?
As long as the ruling class are in power, I doubt they are much concerned about what is publicly documented (or not). The men behind the curtain are confident in their abuses of power specifically because Congress has yielded to them.
That may be accurate; I believe it is. But I am also reminded that such thoughts are….
…best considered in light of the truths in this old poem
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Be strong!
We are not here to play, to dream, to drift;
We have hard work to do, and loads to life;
Shun not the struggle – face it; ’tis God’s gift.
Be strong!
Say not, “The days are evil. Who’s to blame?”
And fold the hands and acquiesce – oh shame!
Stand up, speak out, and bravely, in God’s name.
Be strong!
It matters not how deep intrenched the wrong,
How hard the battle goes, the day how long;
Faint not – fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
by Maltbie Davenport Babcock (born August 3, 1858; died May 18, 1901)
