Final Thoughts

Not many of us will take a stand for what is right. We come up with all kinds of reasons not to do so.

Luckily, most times things resolve themselves. You must know when to let things go and when to step in and help solve a problem. It is like raising a child…knowing when to be a parent and when to let the kid solve their own dilemma.

There is no difference in a country or community. How much do you let a problem or problems fester before calling out the wrong and the culprit. Many times, we expect others to save us from the perceived bully. How often does that happen?

Let’s face it, most of us will know about a problem but figure the other guy will take care of it. When the other guy doesn’t step up, we sheepishly retreat into our holes and wait. Wait for the bad guy to go away. Wait for the courts or other government entities to protect us.

We do anything but confront evil and wrongdoing. The excuse could be everything from “it’s not our job” to “I don’t want to lose my livelihood.” The bad actors are seldom frightened by a lack of action. Giving in to a tyrant is the surest way of being the mark again and again. They just keep on their merry way until they are stopped.

Martin County and the City of Stuart are typical of much of society. They complain but do nothing to make things better. The citizens are confronted with wrongdoing yet do not use the avenues open to them to confront the culprits. The people figure they can hunker down and wait until the storm passes. There have been many “gathering storms” in history. Somehow mankind survived.

Wherever we look, we can see storms gathering. That is not something unique to our moment of history. Churchill entitled his first volume on the history of World War II “The Gathering Storm.” We know that neither people nor nations stood up to Hitler when they could have stopped him. The result was millions of deaths.

The same is happening in our world today. In Europe, China, Gaza, now in Venezuela, and many other places, the worst type of leaders are involved in carrying out war. There is nothing “just” for the aggressor in any of the wars the world now has. Ukraine on the other hand is justified (jus ad bellum) in opposing Russian aggression. Not much has changed since Cicero and then St. Augustine wrote those three Latin words.

“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind” Hosea 8:7. This is the state we find ourselves. What would be new is if we stood up for principle and did the right thing.

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Tom Campenni 772-341-7455 (c) Email: thomasfcampenni@gmail.com