All human being have an inate nature to seek revenge for injury whether physical or emotional. We will respond immediately and without giving thought to any harm our reactions may produce. In addition we all have things about which we are sensitive and are too quick to take offense.
Most people have heard of tough love. While it originated in the medical and addiction treatment communities, tough love has become synonymous for any instance where persons with authority are strict and use either punishment or Ostracization to enforce something.
What I want to know is this: how long are we going to have to put up with those communists that have taken over the democrat party? For instance, President Trump gave the order to kill the world’s most infamous terrorist leader, and the communists go crazy.
It may be difficult to imagine what the Persian Empire or the Mullahs of present day Iran might have to do with Catahoula Parish. No doubt, though, you are already resting in the assurance that I am about to tell you.
Matthew 6:19-34
I was skimming through my emails last week as I usually do, when a particular one caught my attention. Being in addiction advocacy, I am a member of several out reach groups. Like myself, these groups join forces with those of us trying to make a difference in the opioid epidemic.
Few men in the young United States in 1800 held a job more dangerous than 19-year-old John Lee Swaney.
He was a post rider who delivered mail between Nashville and Natchez.
Last Monday, I went to feed my chickens, a regular part of the day. When I turned the corner at the chicken house, there lay all of my chickens, dead. Every one, just lying there like they had been struck by lightning at one time. Eight hens and one rooster, all still and dead.
Words will fail us when we need them most. The double loss of both recently elected Police Juryman “Bo” and his wife Charlotte Aarons is one of those times. We all share in silence the suffering of their family.
