I failed to make an entry yesterday.  It was Christmas and I guess the day just kind of got away from me. 

Did you have a nice Christmas day?  I think that we did though it did snow.  Again.  I’m just waiting for my climate here to change.

This is that sometimes strange, quiet time between Christmas and the new year.  It is a time to reflect on the past year, on the holiday season we have been having, and on what it is that we will try to make different about the coming new year, 2014.

I really do believe that 2014 is a most critical time for our country, for our future.  It is a mid-term election year and one in which I feel we will vote to decide what kind of country we choose to be.  We won’t be able to fix all that is wrong, that’s for sure, but we may be able to stem the waters that are rushing now upon us and threaten to take us so far down river that we may never be able to return.  It is THAT important as far as I can see it. 

You have to be ready to state your position next year America- stars or stripes, left or right, progressive or conservative, Democrat or Republican, slave or freeman.  It is THAT important as far as I can see it.

I will have much more to say on all this over the next few days but, for now, take a moment to take stock in what is really important to you and your family, to you and your friends, to you and your livelihood, to you and your church, to you and those out there like you.

And after you have done that ask yourself who is really seeking to lead us, to head us in that very same direction.  And I do hope that you decide that direction is one of returning to the type of country we had once been and the type of country that our founders had originally intended and from which we have strayed so far and for so long. 

Funny thing about creating a monster is that it always seems to end up turning on its creator and devouring him in the end. 

Let us vanquish our monsters and return ourselves to what we should have become by now.  And that is not a country taking the long, slow walk, the final walk, toward its prescribed and final destination of doom.   That should not be us, it should never be us.

I for one will stand up.  I for one will, having now wised up, rise up and seek to bend the path of our unfortunately obvious future. 

Will you wise up too America? Will you, CAN you, wise up and then rise up along with me and others like me?

It is not yet too late.  There is still time for us to take back that which has been wrested from us these past many decades.  I at least hope so for all our sakes.