Stop this crazy thing

A day like this in Maine, winter-cold-ice-freezing rain-cold, causes me to sit back and think about where we have been ,where we are now and where we are going.

Seems their has been quite a few of these days in a row, always something on my mind-a story line, a thought, a new tune. Its like my mind has been going 200 mph, nonstop. Like it.

People say I am a tried and true people person. From the younger years to today, love to see people smile. Guess you could say it gets me off. And when people smile because of something I did, and I know this….my heart actually leaps in my chest, my eyes get moist and a smile escapes from my lips.

I have been searching for this feeling for a long time. Yes it comes but not nearly as often. For example maybe in my 20’s or 30’s a this feeling was an everday thing 0r at least 3-4 times a week. Now I’m lucky if that feeling occurs 1x a month. Hard nowadays being a people person.

Why? I really don’t believe its my shortcomings. I try and see as many people as I can daily, but it is very hard to get out in Maine in the Winter in Maine. I like to go to my favorite bar and buy someone a drink, not to hit on them or anything. They may be lonely, they need a smile. If I travel anyplace that requires use of the turnpike I try and have at least double the amount of tolls it will take me to get to and from where I’m going. This way I can pay the way of the person in back of me. I don’t know him/her but hopefully I made them smile. And whenevee I pull up to the toll booth the attendant smiles. I made two people smile.

I do many things like this. Not to hit on anybody, not to make anyone nervous, but to bring back the contentment, the happiness that we all once knew 20 years ago. I honestly believe this country now lives in fear, insecurity…time to take it back.

Billy Graham’s Prayer For Our Nation
‘Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, ‘Woe to those who call evil good,’ but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free. Amen!’
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, ‘The Rest of the Story,’ and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord’s help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called ‘One nation under God.’

I’m not a religous person so to speak. I went to a Baptist church for many years while I was married but I guess you could say it never took. Guess you could say I went for the wrong reasons. Went for my wife, my kids, my in-laws, appearence….but not for myself.

Pastor Graham said a pryer which has been on my mind for a long time. Time for us to get back the respect we once had. Accountability. Stability.

Do you feel stable? Probably  not, the media has made sure we are on edge at all times. I wonder sometimes where they get their information. Simply put us all on alert. Its like we don’t control our own destiny, the media controls it. The Economy controls it. Business controls it. And then it filters down from the media to our caregivers to our young. Education is reacting to what we hear, not trying to remedy what is wrong.

Great spirits have always faced violent opposition from mediocre minds. But people are afraid to express themselves in fear of opposition. Opposition causes us to put our thoughts, ideas in order and allows us to prepare them for introduction. Seems though we are more worried about our ideas being “behind the times”. Maybe its high time we brought those ideas, thoughts forward.

My mother would say”…..back in the 60’s we were all poor sbut no-one paid much attention to it because everyone was in the same boat”

Wasn’t unusual to go next door and borrow some sugar. Maybe shovel their driveway. Maybe mow their lawn. They will do it for us. Now try that in todays society. You could be staring at a lawsuit. Maybe you live next door to a crack house. Maybe you’ll be staring down a barrel of a 12 gauge cause the hubby thinks you want to do his wife. Please…sick of this garbage.

Where are the smiles? Where are the people just working their asses off and being satisfied with what they have? Oh they bare still there but they are working MUCH harder due to the Entertainment industry,supposed trends,technology,music,movies, and of course the writings of so many ’self made gurus’ of technology.

Did we have CD’s in the 60’s? Did we have the computers we have today?Did we gto to the movies a couple times a week?Wii’s? Playstations?….psst, we survived without them.

We desparately need to get back to the attitudes of yesteryear. Get down to the heart of the matter

As George Jetson used to say:

“JANE…..STOP THIS CRAZY THING!!!”