Far too many parents, grandparents and great grandparents fail to hold the younger generation accountable. Some are worried about maintaining a “good” family relationship. Some use the excuse of looking out for the grand or great grand children. These are all signs of weakness and excuses to hide it.

When family relationships are the most important thing they fail to be good. You enable bad behavior, at best and evil into the relationship. Discipline and accountability can be hard but they encourage growth. Enabling prevents growth because it prevents someone from suffering the consequences of their actions.

If you are raising or otherwise caring for your grand children because their parents won’t you probably need to look in the mirror for the root cause. Maybe you have and that is the real reason you are an enabler. Don’t let guilt of past failures prevent you from stepping up now. To do so just keeps dooming generation after generation. You can provide for your vulnerable grand and great grand children with out enabling the bad behavior’s of their parents. You can make sure the kids have what they NEED without bailing out the parent.

That is true Love.

Last week 1819 News posted an article outing the Smith Station Alabama Mayor and Lead Pastor in a Baptist Church for his online transgender profile. The profile contained sexually explicit content.

In the interview he said that it was just a private personal hobby to relieve stress and it didn’t interfere with his job as Mayor or Pastor. This is not true. First, anything posted on the internet is not private. Second, there is a credibility issue from both a Christian and Political perspective. You can not stand and preach the Bible with any credibility if you are living a lifestyle that is contradictory to the teachings. Do as I say not as I do carries no water with people. As a politician, your values just came into question.

When this all came out he should have resigned from the church and as Mayor. Let the citizens of Smith Station, with the new information, decide if they still wanted him as their Mayor.

Sadly this didn’t happen. I can only imagine what his life may have been like after being exposed in todays social media life. I imagine the hate that filled his social media pages was unbearable. The disappointment and betrayal felt by some and disgust felt by others probably overwhelmed their compassion for a fellow man. I could be wrong on these assumptions but anyone who spends even a little bit of time on social media knows I’m probably right.

There is no sin that will not be forgiven by God, if asked. As a pastor he should have known this but his alter life makes me wonder if he believed it. I wish he would have stepped down and turned to his family to work through this. Tragically he chose to end his life.

Pray for his family and friends as they struggle with first the exposure and then the loss.

More Information has come out. Here and here. Keep praying for all involved.

Is there any doubt? When you target civilians rather than military and government people and institutions. You are a terrorist. When you hide among civilians including tunnels under hospitals and refugee camps, you are a terrorist. Hamas looks for mass civilian casualties for both terror effect and news headlines. Terrorist organizations need to be eradicated.

I have sympathy for those who do not support the terrorist and just want to live their lives but are caught in the middle. I have no sympathy for those who support, protect and enable the terrorists.

Well we have a new Speaker of the House. Sadly, based on his voting record, he is very similar to the old Speaker but it could have been worse. Time will tell if he is just another establishment system first hack or if he will move the party towards a more Constitutional footing.

Well another mentally ill person has shot and killed a bunch of people in Maine. First lets pray for the individuals and their families who have been killed or injured. Now it’s just a matter of time before we start hearing politicians wanting to take our guns again. It is reported that this individual is an ex-military firearms instructor who is mentally ill and was recently institutionalized. This is not a gun issue. It is a mental illness issue and a law enforcement issue. There is no way this individual could have legally acquired a firearm.

I got a call yesterday from an old friend from my Air Force days in Alaska. During the call the discussion briefly turned to leadership or the lack of leadership in many if not most civilian organizations. I am a member of several organizations and the only one that doesn’t suffer from a lack of leadership on some level, as far as I can tell, is the American Legion.

Leadership can be summed up in three words. Service before self. If you volunteered for or were elected to a leadership position you are obligated to be the example to others. If the organization has a function you should be there unless work or illness prevent it. Everyone needs or think they need a vacation. Just don’t schedule it over the organizations activities. You’re the face of the organization. You also don’t allow self interest to alter the direction of the organization. The organizations wellbeing comes before your likes and wants.

Organizations struggle to keep active members. Part of the reason is that the “leadership” is not leading. If they skip the organizations activities the rank and file members see no reason to show up either. The members are not children and “do as I say not as I do” doesn’t work. If you show a lack of commitment the membership will too. It’s that simple.

What is currently playing out is a fight between the status quo and some trying to force Republicans to live up to their platform.

Republicans get elected by preaching small government and traditional family values. When they get to DC they fold like napkins and become institutionalized swamp creatures. In general they just go with the flow to keep their cushy tax payer funded gravy train.

We have an opportunity to make a huge step towards upholding the platform if not the Constitution with Jim Jordan. There are a few who just want to keep the status quo and a few who have gotten their feelings hurt by the way things have played out. Both need to step up and put the country ahead of their personal feelings and ambitions. Sadly that is not likely to happen unless their constituents make their phones ring.

The Bible tells us of a time just like this. Is this the beginning of the end or just another act of evil? God only knows. I sure don’t.

What I do know is, what HAMAS has done is an atrocity. Not an act of war. The civilians killed were not collateral damage. They were the primary targets. Including the butchering of children and babies. This is very similar to the savage massacre of Jews in Bagdad in 1941 known as The FarHud.

Some have inaccurately compared this to our 9/11. It is much much worst. Just numbers alone. 9/11 would have had to have been about 25 times worse. Can you imagine if we lost 75,000 to a terrorist attack?

Israel should level and then reacquire the Gaza strip. Then allow or disallow access the same way they do the rest of the country.