There are three very powerful organizations in our country ...our government, our military, and our college universities. Many countries have powerful governments, many have a strong military ...but, few have an educational system as vast as what we have.

Let's look at our college universities ...and what they provide, what we seek to gain while attending, and what educational benefit we take from them.

Through some process of decision-making, many young people choose college.  It involves an investment of choices ...a path of desires leading to a field of study, a major, a degree.  I went to Michigan State University.  I admittedly didn't know what I wanted to do.  I thought I wanted to be involved in the out-of-doors, and working with people.  And I did, in fact, end up working a good deal out-of-doors ...& certainly had my opportunities to work with people.

But, this path didn't look anything like I had imagined.  Sometimes the towering images we have, aren't the ones we live out.

I never dreamed that the towering image of intellectual achievement would have to first fall, and be traded for a tower from which those held guard ...to keep those within from getting out.  I did work 18 years before that in a Mental Institution, which was equally challenging ...then moved on to a prison, housing the supposed mentally ill.

These are two groups that I had never in my furthest imagination even thought I'd be working with.  I did not study this in college.

Usually college involves choosing something you'd like to do, or something that is readily available ...with clear possibilities, and often an income aspired to.  Instead, I was working with those who had lost or forfeited their opportunities.

I used to say, admiringly, that Dad was a correction officer, though he seldom had to use his belt on us six kids.  We saw wire like this ...but that was to keep the cows in.  Dad and Mom did quite well, in my opinion, in raising us. That is the preferred way to learn.  Though, if lessons have to be learned the hard way, I think it's better to correct your ways even in solitary confinement ...than be socially confounded, and never learn.

Many have studied and learned while behind bars ...not to be confused with passing the bar. They actually were able to examine themselves & raise the bar, and work to better their lives. Whatever courses ...or course you take, you can study and learn as much as you can & get as much experience as you can.  To borrow a slogan from the military, you can become "the best you can be" in what you set out to do.

There is much decision-making that is made in our young adult life that often affects the rest of our life ...so, it is important what our calling is, to mark our course.

Sometimes we try to mark our course, and someone else tries to help mark it for us. Sometimes a mark is placed upon us ...that we wish wasn't there.  But, let's look at another Mark ... where we are told to go into the world.   That would be Mark 16:15, "Go into all the world ..."   To be all you can be can provide many services to our world.   We salute the soldiers who are all they can be ...providing an invaluable service to our country.  We are unmatched with our contributions to the world in most every field of study.  But, it is not just the top people in the field, or the brave soldiers who serve us ...all of us are called by Jesus to, "Go into all the world to teach the Gospel ..."

These are not the people who I'd say like to fight ...but there is a certain group that can not proudly say they do it for others, as our military men and women do. These others do not even often want to be known for who they really are. I will show you at the end of this blog, some of who they are.

Again, there are three very powerful organizations in our country ...our government, our military, and our college universities. 

Two are made up of mostly our youth ...and the other often exists as it does because it manipulates them.

While we were in college, my brother and I worked in a lumber mill during the summer. Some of our co-workers were very peaceful, and some were trouble-makers. You'll likely find that mix no matter where you go. A smiling young man approached me and told me that my brother said he could beat me up. I did not believe him, and said nothing ...but, I do believe the same smiling approach likely took opportunity to tell my brother that I said I could beat him up. My brother was a bit moody on the way home that night, and I did not mention anything, but I kind of suspect that maybe he did fall for it ...but none of us would fall, because we clearly would not fight each other.

Dad would probably attribute that to just the 'foolishness' of kids ...but there are certain aspects of society where it becomes more than mere foolishness.  I've met some of them in the prison.  I've also met some of the kindest, most repentant people in prison.

There are certain aspects of society ...with certain players, who will never end up in prison, nor have their behavior corrected in any significant fashion here on earth.  If you think this is far-fetched ...then are you also ready to deny the existence throughout history of people such as the likes of cruel dictators, of which we should all be able to name a few of???  And I'm sure you realize that one person does not emerge just overnight, and the next ....control a large portion of their world.

And for every chess game, there are many pawns.  The pawn may feel the comfort of numbers, but they are the ones put out there to take the fall.  They are extremely important at the beginning of the game, but are quite disposable.



"Move America Forward", is not affiliated with MoveOn, or Code Pink. The latter do not move America anywhere but towards communist ideologies that would bring us all way beyond any of the claims you now feel are stirring your emotions.  They 'move' on towards manipulating the emotions of young men and women ...with a hidden end result looming, all working toward the very things they say they are against.  

They feel that if they blame everyone else, that few will suspect them.  We should never blame those who are standing, and yes, often fighting, to defend the things that not only we should believe in ...but which undeniably benefit us, even if these other organizations try to convince us otherwise.

And as Christian soldiers, they would hope to silence our mention of God also.  They say our Bible promotes brutality ...and they consider our voice in the world as 'unwelcome' and 'unwanted' ...and even as a threat to the very peaceable society that so many have fought to protect.