The first time you even slightly understand how God feels is the first time your child does something independently. I remember my son following me while I mowed asking me questions about this or that on the mower. I decided a safety lesson was due because of his interest. Going through what every thing was, where the gas went in and oil check…so on and so forth. I ended with, “Do not touch this part of the lawn mower after it has been running for it is hot.” I had been mowing so I carefully pointed at the areas I was talking about. His wise seven year old self said, “It can’t be that hot!” touching the engine. Howling loudly he pulled his index finger back to show me an instant blister. Very unhappy he realized his mother might just know more than he.
Maybe God feels like this, he tells us that a certain action will bring this result and us humans do it anyway. I wonder how he controls his frustration, how he can be so calm. Me, not so much. After putting a band-aid on his finger and giving my son a small lecture I showed little pity as he nursed his blister during the following days. What he did not know was I chastised myself repeatedly for not preventing him from doing exactly what he did. I wonder if God does that?
Now I am watching another show of free will, not from my son but from good people that live around me. They took their Covid jabs, lined up for them even after seeing evidence that they were purely experimental. They pointed their fingers demanding we “just put on the damn mask” and “get the shot”! We were shut-in, locked down and instead of taking that time to research, ask questions they instead blamed the people w slowly admitted the effectiveness of the Covid jab was less and less these people showed their “I saved a life” badges and their “I got the vaccine” register cards. They walked through stores thinking a six foot space would keep them from getting Covid. Have you ever seen a sneeze and how far it travels?
They chased us “non-maskers” and “anti-vaxers” through stores demanding we give up our freedoms. Police threw us to the ground and choked us. They wanted us in jail, thrown in FEMA camps while they gathered in “self-righteous” groups preening like morbid fowl.
Family disowned us, laughed at us or called us “conspiracy nuts”. As reality began to sink in and these people caught Covid, not once but multiple times they swallowed the, “It is long Covid” excuse espoused by every doctor that forced Covid jabs on people. “Long Covid is giving you Covid”, “Long Covid is killing you”, “Long Covid has permanently destroyed your smell, your body, your life.” “Long Covid” was the reason for increased deaths and God forbid if you offered no sympathy because “It is not our fault…”I have long Covid, why don’t you care.”
Was it? Is it? Is the reason you can’t walk with out a cane in your youth long Covid? Or is it side effects from a “experimental” jab that was not even a vaccine? As news came out and every one learned the jabs contained mRNA I was told, “Well, that is normal.” No…no it is not. No more normal then being told “Eating bugs will save our Earth.”
Free Will was the point to this rant. If you lasted this long, thank you. These people, your family, your friends took the jabs. My own sister has taken every single one that has come out, not to mention, she has taken the flu shots, the pneumonia shots, the shingles shots and what ever else she believes will keep her living. Oh..and she caught Covid. They had a right to take every jab for what ever reason they chose just like we had the right not to take them.
We have all chosen to demonstrate our “free will” and will all take responsibility for our choices. We, who truly aren’t anti-vaxers, for most of us have taken all our childhood vaccines, have chosen to move on but yet again the people who took the Covid jab refuse to allow that to happen. As their immune systems slowly deteriorates they scream we were the cause of their slow destruction. We were NOT! Free Will was.
I wonder if God gets as frustrated as I do when I am told, “You should have explained”, “You should have made me understand”, “You don’t care.” When in reality we did explain, we did try to make you understand and we do care. I have seen many people blame God for every thing that goes wrong in their lives. He is ever patient and watches for them to realize it was their free will that put them in the position they hate. Me, not so much. Do I feel badly people are dying and being handicapped by the side effects of the jabs? Yes. Do I wish they had listened, researched? Yes.
But they didn’t. Free Will is a gift, best used with common sense, smarts and a humble heart, understanding your decisions make or break you.
Lady Hermann
So true. Excellent article, well written and thought out from the heart. Thank u for writing it.
Sonia