Tom

A young man stopped me in the waiting room of an ACT. Let's call him Tom, though I don't really know his name at all. But he knew mine because of the name tag I wear as a representative of my company. 

Tom is mentally ill, he said so. He was aggressive and interested. He was open and inquisitive. He probably had a lot of pain in his past, present. His future was uncertain. 

He wanted to know about his medicines.

He wanted to know why he wasn't getting better.

He wanted to connect with someone who could negotiate the future. 

He probably would reject such a person because they would abandon him in frustration... just like so many before.

He asked for my phone number so we could talk. I refused and referred him back to the "proper authorities". 

Did I break any of man's laws? No. 

Did I break any holy laws? Yes. 

Tom was clearly "lost" and in need of a guide. He was asking for help. A different kind of help than the agency could offer. But would he get it? 

Unfortunately, not from me. I can pray for him, but I cannot be his mentor due to time and distance. But I can pray for Tom. That the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, would descend upon his soul and bring life to his tortured soul, and mind.

2014: Year of Action

Obama's tag line will be heard a million times, just like the tag line "Summer of Recovery" which meant nothing and amounted to fewer jobs, roads crumbling and public union pension plans fattened for the later slaughter.

Year of Action. I agree. We should aggressively strip the FDA from the power to lie to the American physician about industry, drugs, and promotion.

We should aggressively portray life as valuable, and abortion as the hell it really is. The life killing, hope killing dead end for relationships.

We should act on the outrageous deficits that governments have piled up, forcing our legislators and administrators to responsibly handle our money today, and for our children.

We should act to preserve our simple rights to life, liberty, voice, assembly, self-protection, property, a good (not political) education and family.

We should act to reduce the burden of taxation on the individual and corporation by half. 

We should act by clearly voicing the truth about government feel good programs that disempowered the common man from action, and we should point out in history where we went wrong from the concept that a man is responsible for his own life, rather than government owning your livelyhood.

We should act, and speak, and walk, and vote, and influence anyone around us to become accountable for their life and throw off the shackles Obama surely wants to burden us with in a strange hateful retribution for actions committed 200 years ago. 

2014 needs to be a year of action.