The most disturbing challenge

of being in the “sandwich” stage

of life is self-centeredness.

Coming face-to-face

with our basic sinful nature

is shocking.

It stirs the most negative emotions:

jealousy,

anger,

 self-pity.

It lashes out with dishonesty,

rudeness,

            ugliness.

It destroys all that is good;

Corrupts what might be healing;

Replaces sweet memories

            with sour realities.

Instead of creating light-hearted energy,

Selfishness sucks out the life

that would empower good deeds.

Selfishness paralyzes,

            Separates,

                                    Buries

The hopes and dreams

Of sharing love, life, and laughter.

Teens and senior citizens

are more alike than

they realize.

Siblings

can be

cruel

childish ways

All I'm trying to do is the right thing

for my children, my husband, my church, my country.

From my childhood, I've complied with others' demands.

At a young age, I developed a consciousness for

"sportin' a 'tude" --

whether it was my own or someone else's.

Since then, I've over-analyzed my reactions to frustration and hurt.

I know where I've been wrong and I've subjected myself

to the Lord's correction via other people and circumstances.

After nearly five decades of stewing in compliance,

I see all too clearly that many adults in my life have not learned these same lessons.

When I defend President Bush or the success of conservative principles in our nation,

 liberals don't participate in intellectual debate; they get angry and call me names.

When I defend my homeschooling career, non-homeschoolers in my family

either ridicule or push me around, as if I should flex with their every demand.

When I stand up for biblical teachings on personal responsibility,

bleeding-heart fellow christians condemn me for lacking compassion and generosity.

This cauldron of abuse has become too hot.

"Stick a fork in me; I'm DONE!"

If I have to yell in defense of personal responsibility,

then it is because these other adults are deaf

to their childish ways.

Affirmative Action won this presidential election.

Symbolism won over Substance.

Just because a black man has been elected America's new president does not mean that racial discrimination is over, not as long as Black Liberation Theology influences opinions against white people.

Republicans need to regroup and support a conservative candidate for 2012.

Conservatism won the American Revolution when our fledgling nation was just as politically divided as we are today.  The difference then was the faith our founders had in their convictions.

A 21st-century Conservative Revolution will require a renewal of faith and a strategic stand together.  If we do not stand together, surely we will all hang separately, especially if our unalienable rights get stripped away over the next 4 years.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Look at the mainstream media's protrayal of Obama: Newsweek's cover shows a "halo" of light behind his head.

“Just words?  Just speeches?”

Listen to the words of Obama’s Youth chanting “Alpha! Omega!”  which is one of the names of God.  ("I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the end.")

Listen to the little children singing about how "Obama's gonna change the world."

These resound with indoctrination!

Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it. 

Look at that same Utube picture of Obama’s Youth chanting militaristic mantras. Why a powerful military picture?  Could it be that Hitler's tactics are influencing Obama's campaign?

Why not gentility, humility, and gratefulness to all the civil rights workers coming before these young men?  Obama has not achieved status for black citizens in America all by himself!

Oh, wait!  The Obama Youth video has been removed from Utube!  Gee, I wonder why?  Could it be that it was too incriminating?  Do you see a pattern here? 

Obama’s close friends and mentors, Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, have been swept under the rug.  The author of new book, Obama Nation, was held up by the Kenyan government because his book contains secret information that might be damaging to Obama.  You can hear his personal story on Fox’s “America’s Newsroom” Thursday morning, October 9.

Wake up, America, before a socialist makes such dangerous changes that our nation will be unrecognizable.  Our freedom is at stake here!

Senseless collegiates

This generation of college students drives me absolutely crazy!  They have been raised with such an entitlement mentality that they can't recognize personal responsibility when it hits them in the face.  On top of that, the sex education they have received has been devoid of all common sense, failing to properly define terms such as morality and self-discipline.

When a plea was made for UNC to continue making students pay individually for STD testing (as opposed to including such tests in the student health fees for everyone) Jennifer Bellis, a junior at UNC, responded like a true liberal (see Daily Tar Heel 2/25/08).  She claimed that admonishing students to not have sex was "imposing moral standards," "pointless" and "incredibly judgmental."  Her response speaks volumes about the type of education her generation has acquired both in school and at home.

When college students, who are supposed to be in the business of thinking critically about everything, react with emotional volatility at a description of common sense and fairness, something is horribly wrong.  The teachers and parents of such students have failed miserably to prepare this generation to deal appropriately with life.  Rather than accepting personal consequences, their sufferings are blamed on someone else's refusal to pay for handouts.

Jennifer goes on to claim that not having sex "is not a solution to this problem."  A health care professional I know actually says that one generation practicing monogomous sex would indeed irradicate STDs.  Case in point: current virgins don't have STDs!  So much for the sex education provided to Jennifer and her colleagues.

As for Jennifer's comment that "one's personal morality has no bearing on the morality of other people," I beg to differ.  Her defense of free sex has caused me to feel tremendous anger, resentment, and frustration to the point that, if I were her parent, I would want to slap some sense into her.  But that kind of physical action would be considered by some to be immoral, I'm sure