Random Thoughts-What If?

Let It Go-Random Thoughts-

I’m told over and over again, by my creator, that to worry is to fall short of His mark for my life.

And yet, in the dark hours of the morning, long before the sun rises over the Big Belt Mountains, worry seems to be the place my mind wanders.

Life is so uncertain and yet certainty has such a powerful grip on our thoughts.

I recently met a couple of men in or close to their early 40’s.

They seem to have given up on certainty and instead choose to live their lives on the edge, paying more attention to their time with family than they do building a name for themselves.

They don’t really have careers but have chosen being a father, husband to be first identity and their job as just what it is, something to pay expenses.

As a guy who did the opposite, the way these two men and many others since the pandemic, are choosing to live their lives, is so attractive to me.

I know I’ve been tough on the beliefs of some of my left-leaning friends during this election season. For decades people who believe similarly to me have felt voiceless, muzzled and bullied by a cultural train, steamrolling over us with ideas we had no right (in their eyes) to cast judgement on.

Now, with the super majority voting numbers behind us, we have the power to say stop it, no more, we’re done.

I”m not sorry for that, nor for speaking up strongly about such things and I certainly will not stop.

But I also need to give room for other ideas and let go a little.

My trepidation with telling you this is when I bring up something from here on out, some of you will use this moment of tenderheartedness against me, like a whipping post for public dismissal.

I’m willing to take that risk because as I sit here this morning, looking out over the valley that leads to the snow-covered Elkhorn Mountains, I’m at peace with being a little raw and being me.

I see a better America on the horizon. Already, a majority of the country feels a load lifted, the muzzle ripped away and sanity on it’s way back. I see how some pick and peck at President Elect Trumps choices for positions and know this is how their desperation expresses itself. I hear cries for unity and I hope that can happen but that does not mean we will let up or go back to crazy. I’m excited by the team Trump is assembling. I don’t know all these people but will choose to give the benefit of the doubt and hope the process will be less political and instead weed out some of the less desirable choices. (that’s a big hope but hey I’m in a good mood and willing to put it out there)

What I personally see as the post exciting pick is RFK. I believe a huge percentage of the problems in this country center around our health. We are the richest nation and have the  poorest health of developed countries. We blame the lack of affordable health care, which is part of the problem, but if we were eating right, exercising and taking care of ourselves, we wouldn’t need to depend on health care, we’d be healthy. Kathy and I were recently in Europe and the food tastes so much better because there they value health and it’s time we do the same.We need to stop allowing the crap they put in our food, get big pharma out of the pockets of powerful media partners and turn the food pyramid upside down.  Covid is a great example. Rather than get people healthy to avoid being a statistic we gave them a pill (vaccine). The science points out had we been a healthier nation we would have probably had fewer deaths. I think RFK is going to shake us up. Some of you will not like it and will spend so much time fighting against what you think, you won’t understand what you don’t know. You will continue to take the blue pill. (not that blue pill)

It’s time to look beyond the yarn Trump opponents spin against him. Look at what “they” say and what it is that he actually “Does.” Many who were against him and still don’t like him acknowledge the blindness on the left. I know it became a slogan and the media turned it against him but really, what’s wrong with making America great again? I think it’s about time.