Welcome back again. Shall we go? ☺️. I can’t believe that I’m saying this but some forty years ago when I was stationed at what use to be Fort Benning, outside of Columbus, GA., I had a first * sergeant by the name of Hazel Hill. Of course no one dared call him by his first name, it was always First Sergeant Hill. He was a big man, by all standards what would be classified as obese. This was the eighties when they were putting people out of the service for not being in shape. He was a clear example of dunlaps disease. If you are unfamiliar with that one, it’s when your belly has done lapped over your belt and waist☺️☺️
. He was someone who use to pound the drum about PT ” physical training “. He preached it but we never saw him partake of it☺️☺️. It really came across as do as I say , not what I do. We would exit to the PT field and he always went to handle the company’s business. The planning with the officers about upcoming training. He was a smoker, and with his size we use to take bets on when he would kill over from a heart attack.☺️☺️ Well, I never will forget the morning that we went for our first five plus mile run. Guess who showed up?….that’s right, First sergeant Hill. The DIs ” drill instructors had this practice of running half of the distance and then they would switch with the ones following behind the platoon in a truck. Long story short, first sergeant Hill ran the whole distance and sang cadence all the way. He went from zero respect, to a man that I would confidently follow off into battle. He called us a bunch of pussies and light weights and we were just beginning to get close to where he had condition his body to. A classic, don’t judge a book by its cover, and that conditioning is about what’s on the inside, not the outward appearance. He was not a fragile man☺️☺️.
Next up one of my contemporaries, has a daughter, at the time in her mid twenties. She was blonde with blue eyes and what you would call pretty. Maybe five seven and no more than a hundred twenty pounds soaking wet. Not very big, but feisty . She had gotten involved with drugs while in high school and spent a little time in and out of the pokey. Somewhere along the way, she had picked up the tough girl privado . She would take on anybody without consideration of their size and her being seriously out matched . I remember one occasion where she was coming out of a Walmart and someone had just hit her car and was not leaving a note. Talking about ticked off, she immediately jumped in her car a followed them to their home. Think that she called the police….nope, went right up to the door and started an altercation. Any number of bad things could have taken place at that point. The thing is she would take on any and all takers , and it could be win , loose or draw, and it was going to be on. Small in stature, but not exactly what you would call fragile. 😀😀
The people have spoken I guess and all of the bickering will never ever really be put to rest, and this is where we find the most fragile of all. These are the people who have absolutely all of their hopes and dreams tied up in a political party and political system that can never deliver on the promises that it makes. I’m not really sure why they make promises, maybe they are the foreplay for the excuses that are about to follow. ☺️☺️We have such a serious lack of accountability in this country and it really doesn’t matter which party you are sleeping with. Once upon a time they use to take a break, but no longer is that the case. They campaign and after the election is over they immediately start campaigning for the next time around or what we call the mid terms. It’s a nonstop revolving door, and the fragile ones are with them every step of the way. They may be familiar with not putting all of your eggs in one basket, but they are compelled to do so. They can’t not do it, even if their lives depended on it ☺️☺️
I have to admit that I find them extremely humorous , with all of their outlandish claims, which is just mostly fear mongering. They drink the Kool aide and accuse others of being brain washed, all the while they fall for the same whimsical arguments at each and every election cycle. Talking about nothing new under the sun, this is it. It’s the chicken little response of the sky is falling. They use language like ” it’s the most critical election of our lifetime, which is the exact same words they used four years ago , and we see how well that turned out ☺️☺️, just laughable. Hold on, or hang around, they will pull it out again in four years from now. ☺️
I refer to them as the fragile ones as they sit behind some screen somewhere in the dark and make incredible emotional arguments that just doesn’t hold water. They have this superior attitude that people are stupid for their deeply held beliefs, while all along they are swayed by ridiculous talking points of the shall we say less than honest mainstream media☺️. It’s something that much of America has given up on, because it’s just a smidgen above the skits put on by SNL☺️☺️. It’s a formula of using some sad human interest story about something someone has overcome and while your emotions are engaged, they shovel manure in your brain and call it news. I think that I have never chuckles so hard as them attempting to shame Christians, when they have absolutely zero mentality as to what that is. They don’t stop there, they pull out some rare occurrence of someone’s horrible experience with some social issues and want to publicize it as if it’s some universal standard. I will go out on a limb here and say, yes bad things happen, in fact they happen all of the time. We don’t live in an utopia and there are no perfect solutions or systems that will cure all of our ills. The amazing truth is, if they got absolutely everything they wanted, they still wouldn’t be happy or satisfied, because they are just a sad lot. The other truth is, it would be an America that would be unrecognizable for most of us.
They are fragile and are really poor sports if I can frame it that way. After the people have spoken, they will continue to sit behind a screen somewhere and continue to remind us of how smart they are and how without a clue the rest of us are. They are really angry out there on the left, and they will just continue to pick at a scab instead of letting it heal. They would like for the scab to become infected , so they can continue to point an accusing finger, with a” GOTCHA”. Make no mistake they are no Paul Revere , just a bunch of unhappy souls with no real outlet for their frustrations other than more screen time in a dark corner with more snazzy remarks, that highlights their lack of understanding that other people get. They just can’t accept that people are capable of thinking for themselves and are less closed minded than they could ever give them credit for.
This isn’t where this is supposed to go, but I want to point out a couple of things, before I desperately try and find a Segway that may end up saving my bacon☺️☺️. A political cartoon, always in fashion and humorous. Two sides and of course two candidates. One side is accusing the other side of being Hitler, straight up fear mongering and such an insult to the Jewish people and all that they endured at the hands of Nazi Germany. The other side is screaming MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!! One side has a vision, while the other side is invest In personal attacks and no plan or vision other than trying to scare you into voting for them …I don’t know, maybe they don’t know that Halloween is over☺️☺️. This other one comes from someone who is close to me, so maybe that makes it just that much sadder. They recently attended a banquet for an organization that starts a capital N and then a couple of vowels and ends with a C& a P☺️☺️. One of their major concerns is that the kids today don’t remember the struggles of the Civil rights movement and that is true, but it’s very much about perspective. I really got the impression that it’s not about how far we have come, as much as it is about teaching the next generation to hold on to the hatred that once spawned this organization, which for the most part has out lived it’s original purpose. That may sound harsh and try and remember that I love history, but I just believe that it’s more of the picking the scab, instead of allowing healing to take place in a country, that has allowed race to divide us way to long. We desperately need to heal and it’s just unfortunate that some our invested in keeping the race game front and center. Really poor, poor eye sight when all we can see is skin pigment.
Let’s see about saving that bacon. ☺️First up I want to apologize for it getting a little to much political ☺️☺️. I think that when we start slinging around comments about other people’s intelligence, it just reflect on ours or the lack of☺️☺️. The main reason why I think some are so fragile or just so tied up into a political party, is because they want that subversive power. They want government to make laws that most wouldn’t vote for at the ballot box and we have definitely seen an awful amount of that the last thirty years or so. It’s supposed to be about “We The People “, not ” We the Elitist ” have decided for you☺️☺️. We are divided by race and again unfortunately our political system just seems to feed on it, but perhaps there is a really good fast coming around the corner.☺️☺️ If you are a person who likes to keep score as some do, write down all of the things that the fear mongering told you that you should be afraid of and tuck it away some place safe, like a time capsule and just look at it down the road and just see how little validity they held, and I will put that with a double dog dare you to do it☺️☺️
Oh yeah!!, bacon saving ☺️☺️. We live in a society where people just want to bulldozer you over with their accomplishments . I recently read a post by a licensed clinical therapist and they were talking about how many of their clients social media pages, look absolutely nothing like their sessions together ☺️☺️. They said they had to go back and check their notes to see if it was even the same person ☺️☺️. We hail those things that we think set us apart or somehow points to us as being successful or as they say ,just crushing it’ . We post glamor shots on our FB page , but behind the scenes it’s actually crushing us☺️☺️. We want others to believe that we are living our best lives, when behind the scenes, another story is being told and written out about how lonely you are, or it’s your constantly teetering just slightly above the line of full blown depression. Yeah!, we have those shiny moments of going to a great school. We have beautiful kids, awesome careers. We live in exclusive upscale neighborhoods and the list is just endless. I think that we are all tempted to do that based on what the world’s standards of excellence represent themselves to be. I can do that as well, but instead of my accomplishments, I find that most people more so connect with me on my level of brokenness. That’s right we are all fragile in some way. We may not all travel down the birth canal, darn C sections☺️☺️, but no one gets a pass on being fragile and somehow not being who we truly hope to be or the story that we wanted. We all experience something that leaves us feeling a little less than adequate. It may be something visible on the outside for all to see, but many times it’s something deep within in us that we do our absolute best to hide. ☺️
I will even go back to our little buddies, hiding in the dark with all of their political dark and sarcastic humor, they are actually screaming about some injustice that has taken place in their life, but instead of trying to process that pain, they choose to bury it and lash out at others. Maybe that’s the saddest, when we are somehow broken or damaged and we either don’t recognize it or refuse to acknowledge it. They want to be seen as strong , fearless and as some kind of champion, not realizing that the stronger they are the more diluted that they become. No! I’m not here to pick at other people’s wounds, but maybe to suggest another way. How about if we take away the shame that is so very often associated with our scars and wounds. They are like most dirty little secrets and they somehow loose their power and control over us when we pull them out of the dark and bring them into the light.
We survived something or are struggling to survive something and it didn’t kill us, so we are actually stronger on the other side of things. It’s probably a little bit crazy to think about celebrating our wounds , but they build in a strength, maybe something close to a firewall and we can use that to protect others in letting them know that this will not overcome them. I’m not saying that you will come through the furnace not smelling like smoke, or that the scars from the furnace won’t change you in some way , perhaps profoundly. I have written about divorce several times and I think it’s one of life’s worst experiences, but having gone through that has given me a much more deeper level of understanding as to what it means to try and find a way to make it work regardless of the cost. The problem is we don’t always find ourselves with a willing partner in our efforts and the ship will go down🥲🥲.
We live in the age of the upgrade, or sometimes it looks more like monkey see, monkey do☺️☺️. If we are going to imitate or be ” like Mike”, then less emulate the One who proudly bore His scars for us. He has holes in His hands and feet and even one in His side for you and for me. Jesus went to the cross on our behalf and it says that , He despised or disregarded the shame of the cross and again done for you and for me. He bares His wounds for us and we need to bare our scars and wounds for other people.
What has helped me the most is knowing that we are all the same. Regardless of how well they may dress it up, or seem to be crushing it, we all have wounds and scars. My scars may not be your scars, possibly they are, but we all have them. I can one hundred percent assure you that the political system is not the solution for the peace that you are seeking, and it can only be found in Christ and Christ alone, so show off those scars like you do with those cool tattoos ☺️☺️. So come out of the shadows and be brave and confident , and know that being fragile is not a curse and that You are in great company.
