Wakeup Call

The inevitable happens 7/7/09

For months, actually more than a year, my wife and I kept telling my stepson to take care of his dental problems. He kept neglecting to go to the dentist – this part is convoluted and I don’t want to go into it. We begged him to take care of this, we offered him all sorts of help, and we explained patiently and firmly that this behavior was dangerous, even potentially deadly. Even after he lost a couple of teeth, he still didn’t get it. Well, he called us over the weekend and told us that he had a lot of pain and his face had swelled up a lot.

We quickly arranged for his dental appointment and, even though he is an adult, we took charge over that whole activity. Today, I went to the appointment with him and made sure that he would let the dentist do what’s necessary. My stepson had a huge abscess deep in a root; had I not accompanied him, he would have walked out of the office before the dentist completed the procedure. My wife and I plan to be in as take-charge a role as possible to see him get back to health.

This whole incident was my clarion call. “Oh my gosh”, I thought, “I was talking about this and worrying about this for months. Now here it is”. The inevitable happens. It really does… you see it over, and over, and over again.

But, there is another moral to this particular story: we can change destiny – we just have to take charge of our destiny and of those around us.
For years now the Federal government has been becoming larger, more powerful, and, what’s the most worrisome, increasingly controlling and intrusive. We all know this. Some of us who have become activated have been carefully following the unfolding of incredible events, such as government takeover of banks and major manufacturers, and, yes, states handing out IOU’s. We see the inevitable coming – the government will completely control our lives.

Can we stop this and get our country back? You betcha, but only if we become energized and act in unison.

Note: I asked my stepson for permission to recount his story.