#1890 Cream, Skim Milk, and Clabber

#1890

Cream, Skim Milk, and Clabber

"Mother Teresa's Anyway Poem"

     People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
     Forgive them anyway.

     If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
     Be kind anyway.

     If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
     Succeed anyway.

     If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
     Be honest and frank anyway.

     What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
     Build anyway.

     If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
     Be happy anyway.

     The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
     Do good anyway.

     Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
     Give the world the best you've got anyway.

     You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
     It was never between you and them anyway.

Take the mask off the Lone Ranger, the cape off Superman, and you have two men who are just do-gooders.  Take the habit off the Catholic nun-Roman collar off the priest and you have just two religious workers.  Take the scrubs, white coats off the doctors, uniforms-black robes off law enforcement and with all these good people you have just those "supposedly" interested in your welfare and justice.  That old Greek intellectual Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." 

Things and individuals are not always as they appear.  Mental health is America's greatest need and greater curiosity.  There are some things we cannot let go...a rotten world...a great need for alfresco (fresh air).  The greatest legacy of Bombing Obama is (believe it or not, a Nobel Peace Prize winner) death and destruction. 

I do not want to spook anyone but the terrorism threat is more dangerous than a nuclear threat. 

Differences have a divine purpose.  Would it not be a dreary-boring world if we were all the same?  Chosen by God for life, before the foundation of the world, cancelled chambers of eternity, he planned our beginning as well as our ending.  Would it have not been more fair-just if the "playing field", our lifespans had been more equal?  If every Homo sapiens animal (mankind, God's chief creation) had the same skin color, the same DNA, the same physical characteristics...good-looking, healthy body, beautiful hair, the same wiring of the brain-mental ability.  Why is it, please tell me, that there are so few at the top, as cream (even some crème de crème), as many as just skim milk, and that unfortunate number who are just clabber (sour-spoiled-rotten at the bottom of everything)?

Oh the beauty of it all...the fragrance of differences...the monotony of having to deal with these differences.  As an example, in these times of crucial elections, politicians and even the so called intelligentsia are persuading everyone to vote.  THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO SHOULD NEVER VOTE, DO NOT HAVE THE INTELLIGENCE TO VOTE.  HAVE PROVEN THAT THEY CANNOT THINK FOR THEMSELVES, CERTAINLY CANNOT THINK FOR ME.  Think about it, your writer is a totally bind, 100% disabled military veteran, a field grade Army officer, a medical officer with two earned doctorates.  I have never known anything but hard work and study.  I believe with every cell of my body that I had a purpose on this earth.  I cringe at some of my fellow citizens, who obviously never took a responsible breath...did not care about school-opportunities-excelling in anything.  Many wind up in prison.  Many become a slave to an addiction of some type.  YET, these individuals-citizens of the world's greatest country have the same vote as I have.  The onlookers of my country's vote counts just as much as the vote of one who has achieved.  Perhaps, this is the reason there is so much money in politics. The only way the successful businessman-scientist-entrepreneur can show weight on the side of his beliefs, since his vote does not count for very much is by using the influence of money. 

Joseph Kennedy, father of a president (JFK), said, "There are three rules to succeed in politics.  The first rule is money, the second money, the third more money."  Joseph Kennedy was such a philanderer that Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of a president, refused to sit on the stage with him at JFK's inauguration.  Here in the South, since I can remember, there have always been those two-bit political operators, who paid for votes with their "walking around money".  The Democrat party controlled North Carolina politics for 140 years, the winner of the Democrat primary was the winner.  Republicans-independents-others had no say in government or anything else.  YOU DID NOT TEACH SCHOOL, WORK ON A HIGHWAY, TEACH IN A TAX SUPPORTED COLLEGE UNLESS DEMOCRAT AND GIVING TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY. 

Oh the beauty of differences, the imagination of the human mind.  We are not stuck where we start.  History marked by the greatness of those expected to remain small.

As the eye doctor at a large Army hospital, every morning, warriors and others (FBI-CIA-Civil servants), lined up for physicals, I had to study for evaluations the insides of all their eyes...like fingerprints, voices, every citizen of God's earth, DIFFERENT eyes. 

One of the most heart wrenching calls I ever heard to a radio talk show, an old, black woman, bed ridden calling in asking for help.  Living alone, she was destitute.  In reply to her pleas, one smart listener replied that she should pray.  I will never forget that woman's answer...she worn with the scars of segregation-hard work-hard times, "The only God I have ever known was a white man's god." 

God's greatest message to a weak and dying world, with all it's problems, And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you (Eph 4:32).  This simple message goes to that small number who are the cream, that larger number who are skimmed from everything, and certainly to those who missed out in life's lottery.