If a river is re-directed it will likely, in time, return to its original path.

Rain falls and snow melts. Streams and rivulets and rivers form and flow and fill whatever may lie at the end of their flow.

Sometimes they dry up and flow no more but likely not forever.

For the rain will again come and the snows will again melt and the water will find its way, again unvexed, to its natural end. Some will say this is as determined by God and some will say it is simply governed by physics and perhaps a little bit of chance. Some just say it is what it is.

Hate that expression even though I use it.

With our country we have made a valiant attempt to re-route the flow of history but even now we face the age-old threats from within and also from without.

All of the dangers and cancers of government, as known and planned against by our wise founders, are gaining and winning. Look and see for yourself.

The age-old threat of Islam to, not just Christianity but to all peoples non-Islam, has not only faded but is growing. And far too many around the world are complaisant and unwilling to fight or even admit there is an issue.

There are extreme dangers from both but still the river flows. Which route will it take?

With my family and my resolve the waters also flow but I think I know that they must, to a large degree unvexed. What will come will come. What will be will be.

It is what it is.

You can do what you will to inspire, to mentor, to teach, to lead, to help; but in the end things kind of just go their own way and you can only do so much to influence anything beyond a point. Nature kind of takes over from there.

In the end you need to be able to hold your head up and say that you did what you could and tried to make what you did be the right thing. There is a lot to be said for that. Actually, a helluva lot.

I did what I could to be a good citizen and also to exercise my duty to challenge or even rebel if needed. The founders were very clear on this in a free and unfettered society that is not to be controlled by the very government we have put into place to supposedly preserve that very society.

I did all I could to be a good husband and father. I kept trying when I failed. I stepped up or stepped back as best I could and when I could. I loved my family and did my best for them.

I did my best to be a good friend and neighbor.

These simple things are really all that define us and, in the end, all that we have left to cling to. For most I need a lot of work still.

The river flows. The river knows.

And so, I imagine, so it goes.