Nobody to blame but us

Water, without any help, will flow. There are a couple of places in my yard where water flow has been a challenge to control. This is the beginning of our fourth growing season; and though I have not completely won, I have gained.

I hate to think of what it would look like if I had not done all I have done. Without a doubt, there would be deep ruts where the flow would have carried away the good soil and new grass. It has taken, and will continue to take, consistent attention to keep the water under control. It will never be stopped, but it can be controlled.

So it is with evil. Evil will never be stopped. Evil, without any help, will flow. And if consistent attention is not given to the control of it, it will cut and carry away the good that so many before us have worked to establish.

There was a time when good people restrained evil. Abortion was restrained until Wade's stand gave way. What started as a little rut is now a deep and ugly, seemingly permanent, cavernous gorge. The homosexual world was at one time restrained. Not anymore. It is wide open, in your face, acceptable; and to view it otherwise is, in itself, viewed as hateful.

Nobody but me can be blamed for my yard. Nobody but us can be blamed for the state of our nation.

MIKE JONES, Cape Girardeau