Howdy all! First day on the new job. And I like it very much! And I have to get a passport. Seems that there is sometimes a need to travel to meet up with other maintenance managers to discuss best practices, policies, successes and failures. And some of the places thrown around at orientation were (and I don't know if I will truly get to go but,.) Sweden, India, and for some reason Scranton Pennsylvania. Scranton would be nice. I heard they speak like people on the east coast.
Any hoo,..
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me." ~ Matthew 16:24
Let's roll. ~ Todd Beamer, His last words heard on United Flight 93, Sept 11, 2001
I don't know about you, but just reading those two words from Mr Beamer brings back a lump in my throat and the pride to my chest. The guts, and resolve they all had on that flight will be remembered forever. When I read the verse from Matthew, I could think of no other famous quote from a founder to match.
How many of us would have rolled like Todd and his flight mates? They had to know their lives would be over one way or another, and decided to go anyway in the hopes of saving their lives and countless lives on the ground, as well as fight back in a war that only they knew was being waged. Obviously, He was there that day, on that plane, in that group ready to save the flight. Those passengers turned from the selfish fear of not wanting to get hurt. They knew the cross they bore was as heavy as anything they ever carried. And they rolled.
We are asked today and every day to roll. Our nation is under attack from the very people who manage it. They are not leaders, they are managers. We must take our nation back from those managers who want to manage us into oblivion, then run with the remainder, to set up a nation of their choosing. Not if I have anything to do with it. And not if you have anything to do with it either. But we need help. We need family, friends, neighbors to have anything to do with it as well. The word needs to get out. The socialist media won't do it. The web sites we read are not read by those ostriches we all know and love in our families and neighborhoods. So, try this; send any blog you write to a local paper editorial page, and see if it gets published. Keep sending. Send to papers across town, across state, across the country. See if any of them would print it. And when they do, blast it over the internet. So the world will know that a paper printed a conservative letter. Are you a Todd Beamer?
Take care, God bless,
AND STAND WITH ISRAEL!!!
Tom Kiley
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