“Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young.” – Edward O. Wilson
“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice” – Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, 1742
Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured…but not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” – Thomas Sowell
“Michael Moore simultaneously represents everything I detest in a human being and everything I feel obligated to defend in an American. Quite simply, it is that stupid moron’s right to be that utterly and completely wrong.” – Dennis Miller
When Lawbreakers are in charge of the Law, we no longer have a Republic.
Funny. They complain about racism while demanding it.
“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” – Saul Bellow
“To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” – Sun Tzu
“It is not ours to restore the power of the Constitution. It is ours to show them the wrath of America without the protections the Constitution offers them. Let them restore it to find refuge from us.” – TL Davis
I am close behind. I am full time caring for mother. A couple of weeks ago she said she’s tired, doesn’t cherish the thought of living another 10 years. She’s mostly lucid and usually able to get around on her own. She’s busy finishing the quilt for me that she started decades ago. (In between she had turned her attention to quilts for many others.) So I’m watching her make what could be her last quilt as another of her gifts to me. Damn, it’s tough. I get choked up sometimes as I think of a life time of memories with this beautiful woman.
I’ve promised myself that I as much as I am able I will not let her go to a facility. We pray for strength, God gives us a deeper compassion. I try to prepare myself but some mornings I am besot with grief that she didn’t wake until a late hour. Remember, God’s grace is sufficient.
Too, remember this time with her. Over these last few years, I have come to know my mother in a way her child would not but as a friend.
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What a wonderful testament to your love for your mother. You and your family will be in our prayers.
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Thank you so much. The power of prayer is real and cannot be denied. I do feel richly blessed to be here. Though sometimes I think of the live I would have, dreams on hold. But what is it when we say, ‘wait on God;? If truly to live for Him, then we should lift our eyes off ourselves and seek Him first, to come to know His ways, His thoughts. God did command, rejoice endlessly, and to bear one another in love. While that doesn’t necessarily demand that we turn from the life we’d rather have, it is this way for it has to be this way.
I normally do not tell others that I pray for them for it sounds like boasting. Alright, it may sound silly but that is my opinion. Anyway, you have been and are in my prayers. It is comforting to know one is not in it alone, that there are others likewise. Not that they too should be troubled but to encourage one another. In this, knowing another has true empathy and that their prayers are sincere, not fleeting, we find comfort.
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