My brain is clicking away, rattling around in my skull, with a hundred jillion things I want to say. So, what have I done? Nothing. I have not written a blog in a fortnight and as I twiddle away at my keyboard now, I might not be able to write much today either. Why is that? On an almost daily basis I will rant and rave about one thing or another, much of which might make a decent blog, or at least an acceptable blog. But, no, I must have “Bloggers Block,” I guess.
Today I saw two things that pushed my buttons. One was who raised the national debt more? Well, of course, I guessed our most recent Bush, but lo and behold it turned out to be that revered and beloved “Great Communicator,” Ronald Reagan. And, by a whopping 159 percent! Coming second was our beloved Wubya raising the debt 115 percent. Who knew? Funny how no one finds those numbers on the front page of your favorite web news or the whats-left-of-print newspaper. If they did we’d also see that so far, Obama has only raised the national debt by 16 percent. Ya think that might make a difference in the election next year? Huh? Huh?
But the other thing that really pushed my buttons was an article on the Episcopal News Service web page about violent deaths in the revered United States. The Children’s Defense Fund statistics for 2010, based on a 180-day school year, indicated that in the United States, a child or teenager is killed every three hours by a firearm, and a child is killed by abuse or neglect every six hours. Those numbers are staggering. And those are only the ones that are reported as such. Many abused children’s deaths are attributed to something else, like a fall, or an accident. What is so upsetting to me is that I feel completely helpless to do anything about it. I must pray on this because if it causes me to cry, then clearly the Spirit is calling me do something.
I promised short blogs because if we fall asleep during a sermon that is longer than say ten minutes, we probably lose our concentration if a blog goes on forever. But, don’t count me out just yet. Someday, someway, I’ll get around to writing on all those subjects jingling around in my brain that I rant about every day. I promise. You just wait and see.
Ridding yourself of the Blogger’s Block would give R a break from your rants!!