Right now, after a horrific mass shooting, our country is divided again between those who want stricter gun laws and those who want to protect gun rights. For those who want stricter gun laws, they are right, stricter gun laws will result in less guns and less guns mean less murders by guns. At the same time, man’s law cannot be held up as the solution when God’s law is and will always be more important. For those who want to protect gun rights, I can’t. The second amendment of the Constitution doesn’t guarantee individual gun rights; it guarantees a well-regulated state militia with the right to bear arms. These people are lying, cheating, and stealing from the American public when they profess to serve the public. There’s nothing to be said.
The two sides are missing the big picture. It really doesn’t matter what laws we have or how many guns there are. There’s a sickness within our society and it’s different that other societies in the rest of the world. Until we address that difference, nothing is going to change. This difference also explains why our lawmakers can’t get anything done.
Today, I did an internet search on “Join the fight for”. I got over ten pages of results in seconds. Here’s a sample of some of the things I was given the opportunity to fight for: Ukraine, abused animals, justice, pediatric cancer, the bullied, safe and respectful workplaces, human rights, the fair fight, gun rights, mental health, abortion rights, the future, a better America, and for the climate. These aren’t things I am being asked to fight against, I put in “Join the fight for”.
The two worst ones for me were fighting for the bullied and fighting for a safe and respectful workplace. My thought is: Don’t you think the bullied have had enough violence and fighting? Do we really have to put them into another fight? And if your workplace isn’t safe and respectful, then how is bringing violence and fighting into the workplace going to make it safe?
American minds have been warped by images on media like Rocky and the superhero movies. They teach us that if you can’t get your way, then fight until you get your way. If you want to change the world, protest, fight, create a cause, and give the world hell, until you get your way. That’s the American way, isn’t it? Or, is that just the propaganda?
When I accepted Christ into my life and into my heart, I also accepted the fact the life isn’t always sunshine and rainbows. The story isn’t a fairytale that ends happily ever after. If God loves me enough to give me freewill, then He loves me enough to let me live in a world of good and evil. As surely as the good will touch my life, so will the evil.
I am blessed to have been born in the United States, but it isn’t perfect. I won’t always get my way. There are going to be events that happen that I don’t like and sometimes it isn’t going to be fair. However, I am not a fighter. I am not going to march, protest, and do anything else in an effort to fight for or against any cause, event, or person. Why? Because fighting isn’t the answer. All these people have been fighting so hard and for so long and the only thing that is happening is they are getting tired and drowning in their own complacency or sorrow.
I wish we could just stop fighting for a minute and just look around to realize that our children are suffering and dying. I wish we could stop fighting for that moment of silence that we keep taking and let God enter our hearts and fill them with love instead of fight. This is my prayer for today.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
