Safety Training For Americans

         Parts of the safety training at my place of employment are very useful tips on how to work safely. One particular rather theatrical piece of advice hit home in more ways than one and here it is: They asked us to name the four people who we would not want to see hurt because we had a serious accident. It was a rhetorical question, for everyone would name their loved ones. There was even a page in the training aids to put their pictures so as to remind us as often as we referred to it that our individual safety affected more than just us, as it would be equally devastating to those we loved most. This comes into play also as we look out for the safety of those who work with us, as we were offered an additional aid; if we should see a co-worker in a position that compromises his safety we are to get his attention, signal the problem that he may not see, and then hold up four fingers which he would immediately recognize as the danger that he was putting his loved ones into along with himself. I liked the whole concept although it wasn't the first time that we were reminded that individual safety did not mean that pain and suffering would only be to the individual..
          I've used this same concept, concern for our loved ones, in more than a few posts over the past five years and I'm going to repeat it here in stark and graphic terms. I'm lifting up four fingers to you in this post. Please think of those four people that you love and that you would do anything for, for there's nothing that you wouldn't do for them. Or is there?
          Best case scenario? Their future will be in a country with little or no liberty or freedoms. The state will essentially run their lives. Education will be stifling instead of exhilarating, law will just be a term that Progressives abuse to stay in power and marriage will be nothing more than a politically correct tax status. In a worst case scenario, which is more likely, America will lie in ruins.
         This may sound ridiculous to you and if so you have missed the forest for the trees in the chaos that literally rules our society, our culture and our government. America's defenses are pockmarked from the pox that has eaten up our heritage, our traditions and our greatest strength that being our belief and reverence towards our Creator. A big job and money in the bank will be of no help in these situations.
           The evidence is there in the newspaper, on radio and television and in bookstores but there is something clouding our discernment and that is the extraordinary entertainments and intoxicating technology that leaves us no room for meditation let alone analyzing. We are literally at the precipice and our attention has to be focused on, not the problems but the causes, the primary cause being the deleterious representation of God that we slowly but surely fashioned in our own minds, a God who demands nothing, expects nothing, and is impotent or indifferent to cause us any real trouble even if he did.
         The safety of our loved ones is at stake. Surely that's enough to at least consider the debate raging in America primarily on the radio waves, in bookstores and from pulpits whose preachers see themselves as pilgrims on the way to the Celestial City. and not prophets of peace where there is no peace.