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I have no doubt at all the Devil grins,\u00a0<\/em> by Robert Service<\/p>\n Not great theology, but a great way to begin asking your forgiveness for my \u201cliterary\u201d sin (or is that literary \u201csin\u201d?) of not writing for a while. If you follow me on Facebook, you\u2019ll know my son was in a car accident, which led to some good bruises and contusions, which then led to an infection in his hand from what they thought was a minor puncture wound, which led to hospitalization for eight days, two surgeries, and four to six weeks of IV antibiotics. He\u2019s on home health care now, and will not be working for at least the rest of the Summer. But he\u2019s here. Alive. With four limbs, though his dominate hand resembles ground hamburger. More surgeries to come is my guess, but I\u2019m holding out for perfect healing this side of Heaven with just two surgeries, many dressing wraps and re-wraps, and antibiotics. Sepsis is no joke. I knew that before they told me it was my son\u2019s lot, and upon hearing the news, my Mama heart spun into turmoil. That turmoil resulted in the \u201csin\u201d of not writing, as nobody wants to hear an emotional Mama go on and on about her troubles with her man cub.<\/p>\n Anyway. Whilst in the hospital advocating for said man cub, I updated on Facebook about the situation. I hate Facebook. But I love prayer, and posting seemed the most simple way to rally the prayerful troops. We had people all the way to Australia praying for us, and that meant a lot to me. I mean, hopefully people didn\u2019t just say they were praying yet in reality went about their day watching soap operas or reading or washing dishes or taking care of patients. I hope they actually prayed. I\u2019ve certainly been guilty of typing in a comment promising I\u2019ll pray, but then going about life willingly oblivious to my friend\u2019s troubles. I\u2019ve learned, if I say I\u2019m going to pray, to pray immediately, or not say I\u2019m going to pray. Because that\u2019s a true sin \u2014 not praying when I say I will.<\/p>\n Whilst the man cub was convalescing, the immigration outrage was also brewing. I\u2019ve unfollowed almost every political outlet known to Facebook, because it was clearly not good for my psychological state. However, the news, when as uproarious as it has been lately, will still get through. The bigger the outrage, the more it comes through, but the unfollowing allows me to miss the every day yanging on President Trump, so that\u2019s nice. Some days, I\u2019m surprised Americans aren\u2019t privy to the timing of his bowel movements. Although even if we were, the information would be wrong.<\/p>\n Wrong, like the information about the Honduran girl who supposedly was separated from her mother. Nobody stopped to let things play out before they let loose on social media with their \u201cknowledge\u201d, followed by their solution to the problem. And Trump bashing. Problem was, true facts were not presented. People who were not to blame were blamed. Leftists took the opportunity to \u201cprove\u201d the POTUS is the Devil, just as they\u2019ve been saying all along.<\/p>\n Yet, turns out, in spite of TIME magazine\u2019s cover photo<\/a> claiming otherwise, the girl wasn\u2019t<\/em> separated from her mother. In fact, the mother separated the girl from her two sisters and from her father who claims he has a good job \u2014 all against the family\u2019s wishes. Then she took six thousand dollars, hired a coyote, and attempted to cross the border illegally.<\/p>\n And so my questions are:<\/p>\n Why did the Mom leave her apparently supportive family?<\/p>\n Why did she feel it necessary or even wise to separate the girl from her father and two sisters? Is that<\/em> not traumatic for a child?<\/p>\n Why didn\u2019t she go through due process? She is welcome in the United States, as long as she migrates legally.<\/p>\n Why did she spend six thousand dollars on illegally entering the country, when she could have spent \u00a0the money to enter legally?<\/p>\n And if she is so destitute, where did the six thousand come from in the first place? I don\u2019t consider myself destitute, and yet, I do not have six thousand dollars. I don\u2019t even have six-hundred dollars.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been fighting for my kid this week, too. Healthcare isn\u2019t what it used to be, and I know this because I\u2019ve been in and out of hospitals and doctor offices since I was ten. When I had open heart surgery at age 17, the total cost was $53,000.00. My Dad, who had what would have been considered good but not excellent healthcare, paid $500.00 out of pocket. That\u2019s it. For everything. Blood work. Anesthesia. Hospital room. Everything. The insurance paid the rest.<\/p>\n Now, my son is still on our insurance, but when his bills come rolling in, trust me, he will not pay anywhere near $500.00 out of pocket. No, $500.00 will just be the tip of the iceberg. And this is hand surgery we are talking about. Not open heart surgery, plus a pacemaker implant and a three week hospital stay. Additionally, thanks to ObamaCare, the quality of our healthcare is quickly declining. Hospitals are understaffed. Surgeons are in a hurry. They determine whether your son needs surgery via their PA\u2019s iPhone pictures (not joking). And when they\u2019re too busy to perform surgery, though it\u2019s obvious even to the layman that surgery is needed, they simply push your son back a day or so, until your son\u2019s thumb turns black and as a result, has to be skinned alive. And then? They skin the kid, but they don\u2019t open up the hand and drain the infection, even though the hand is four times it\u2019s normal size and obviously has a pocket of puss the size of a pint of buttermilk festering all the way up to his armpit, as indicated by the red, streaky veins. This leads to a second surgery to finally<\/em> drain the puss from the man cub\u2019s hand, which should have been done 36 hours before.<\/p>\n Life? Limb? Apparently not important enough to take a simple walk down to the patient\u2019s room, actually lay eyes on him and his wound, and take a sepsis infection seriously. To rid a person of sepsis, you must operate, drain, and<\/em> administer IV antibiotics. That is not rocket science. That is one notch above common sense.<\/p>\n So yeah. I know a bit about fighting for my child\u2019s life, it just looks a little bit different than the Honduran Mom\u2019s fight. Some news for anyone who takes her girl away from her home, her family, and everything she knows to flee here:<\/p>\n Sometimes, it\u2019s not that great in America. We basically don\u2019t like each other. Sometimes, we don\u2019t like illegal immigrants, because they take away our jobs, and we the people are forced to pay their medical bills because they refuse to come over the border and work. They just want to come over and be taken care of. But the world doesn\u2019t work that way \u2013 not the American world. If immigrants want to come here, awesome. The more the merrier, unless we\u2019re talking about moochers. Our doors are wide open, but once someone walks through, provided they\u2019ve gone through due process, it is their duty contribute to society by working, and they need to get their own health insurance \u2013 because I can\u2019t afford to pay my medical bills plus their medical bills.<\/p>\n Nothing is free. Someone always pays, and in the case of healthcare, it\u2019s me and a lot of other hard working Americans. Is the door to my country open to those who want to come be a part of the good ol\u2019 US of A? Yes! But I\u2019m afraid the true spirit<\/em> of America gets lost on some immigrants, and even some American citizens. The US of A isn\u2019t about being taken care of by the government, contrary to liberal thought. It\u2019s about opportunity<\/em> to care for yourself. Your loved ones. Not through welfare, but through hard work \u2013 whatever that looks like: waitressing, doctoring, plumbing \u2026 you pick.<\/p>\n Life is hard. People think it\u2019s not as difficult in America, but the truth is that it\u2019s difficult in it\u2019s own way. Wherever one settles, there will be problems. America is no exception. If things don\u2019t turn around, we may begin tearing one another limb from limb \u2013 brothers or not. It\u2019s ugly. We are ugly. Perhaps we haven\u2019t learned anything from the Civil War, or maybe we think we\u2019re immune to something as horrific as turning our beautiful land into a battle field. Yet hate is hate, whatever century you\u2019re living in, and hate often leads to bloody insistence on winning.<\/p>\n My admonition, then, is this:<\/p>\n Stop believing everything the media says before it\u2019s confirmed as truth. Stop hating the President and pray for him instead. Love our enemies. Care for the widow and the orphan (which does not look like spewing hate on Facebook to those we feel aren\u2019t doing the caring). Mind our own business. One of the most noble, loving thing any American citizen can do is work in obscurity. Just \u2026 work. Quietly.<\/em> Put nose to grindstone and provide for personal needs, so the government and others aren\u2019t pressured to.<\/p>\n True religion is<\/em> caring for the orphan and the widow. The Bible says that. The Bible also says if anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. It\u2019s time to take the entire Word to heart, not only the parts that fuel our narrative and promote our agenda.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n **Photo by Mitch Lensink<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have no doubt at all the Devil grins,\u00a0 As seas of ink I spatter.\u00a0 Ye gods forgive my \u201cliterary\u201d sins \u2014 The other kind don\u2019t matter.\u00a0 by Robert Service Not great theology, but a great way to begin asking your forgiveness for my \u201cliterary\u201d sin (or is that literary \u201csin\u201d?) of not writing for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2920,"featured_media":2138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,107,656,671,668,662,659,674,665],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-children","tag-healthcare","tag-immigration","tag-loving-our-enemies","tag-obamacare","tag-orphans","tag-true-religion","tag-widows","tag-work"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nAs seas of ink I spatter.\u00a0<\/em>
\nYe gods forgive my \u201cliterary\u201d sins \u2014<\/em>
\nThe other kind don\u2019t matter.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n