As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Life is rarely are reality where anyone has a perfect life or all the necessities to make things comfortable, but life is always the hand you are dealt, and astutely playing it the best possible way.
You have to understand "things" as this, in rarely do you have 4 aces or a run of trump. Sometimes, you just have a horrid hand, and the best you can do is just to keep your opponent from taking all the tricks. That is the mark of a person, in comprehending it is not humiliation nor defeat when you are faced with an impossible situation.
A number of times, all you are going to have is a failure looking at you, no matter what you do, but the thing that sets people apart is to deal with it in the least possible set back, so you live for another day, when hopefully a better opportunity will arise.
I do not know how many setbacks I have had in the past year alone, but it has been dozens and many devastating. I shed them though and I look to the victory in Christ and I keep working to that Faith.
It is all you are going to have sometimes, and you learn from the experience, because Ronald Reagan suffered two major rejections in his own party, over two decades, before his moment came.
There is forgotten Lt. Commander in the American Civil War in LeRoy Fitch. He had no ocean fleet nor some great dreadnaughts, but what he had was a few little gunboats on the American interior rivers, and for a summer he tore to shreds the Confederate Army on land, from the water.
His first venture was up the Cumberland River, in gaurding a transport, when he was notified that the Union forces at Fort Donelson were under seige from a large Confederate force which had appeared.
Fitch left the convoy with the gunboats and pushed on to Donelson with the Lexington, where the Confederates had not assessed the situation of battle to include river cannons.
Fitch opened on the Confederates of 4500 strong in command of Wheeler, Forest and Wharton. By 11 pm, the Confederates were in retreat, leaving 140 dead on the field.
His next operations included taking parts from a cotton mill, thought to be assisting the Confederates, taking supplies which were assisting guerrillas, and then moved onto Palmyra where a Union convoy was fired at, and he burned the town of guerrilla operations.
He would join in combat operations against the Confederates in two other battles, and then in July, he would find another opportunity before him in General J. H. Morgan of the Confederates, crossed over to the North and was busy rampaging in Indiana and Ohio.
He could not take the Lexington up river in the shallows, so took some light boats led by the Moose to give chase to the invaders.
He caught Morgan's forces 50 miles east of Cincinnati, and promptly with the Moose's 24 pound howitzers with shrapnell and shell drove off the Confederates from their batteries guarding the river. With the Army blocking the retreat, Fitch chased the Confederates up river and stopped two attempted crossings.
His little single paddle boat in the Moose had brought him 500 miles from his station.
All of these battles and operations are not on the ocean or with main line ships of immense proportions. They were though critical moments in the Civil War in which the South was attempting to relieve pressure on the Confederacy by striking north into the Union States.
In each case they were checked, by this group Fitch was in command of, and he harried Morgan's Soldiers so much, that the South was taught a lesson it did not forget in the west.
This was nothing glamorous in Lt. Commander Fitch. He was not an Admiral and his little ships had coal steam engines, there were snags and sandbars in the rivers, and it was not the most pleasant of hot and humid warfare, but LeRoy Fitch played the hand he was given and he did it extremely well.
The cotton mill, he took the parts from, he could have burned, but he had no evidence it was actually helping the Confederates, so in diplomacy of not antagonizing the locals who would be needed later after the war, he simply made it not operational. When time came, he burned a rebel town, no one remembers.
It was not Bull Run, Gettysburg or Appomattox. It was not the Mississippi or New Orleans. It simply was a Tennessee war zone which continued to the end of the war, and required astute actions in a hand well played, which LeRoy Fitch did.
There is no glamour or Nobel Prizes for getting up every day and doing your duty with no one appreciating what you do at work or with your children complaining. No one pays attention to the employee who does not go postal or to the children whose names are not in the media for going zombie. The mark of the best work in life, is not making a commotion or upheaval, but doing the best you can with what you have.
Everyone wants to be a Farragut, but from historical realities, he really was not that great of an officer in Fitch did more than the great Admiral, and no one realizes that it was some nameless Pennsylvania coal miner in a shaft underground who ran those ships and someone was needed to do the hot, miserable work of shoveling that coal so a Farragut and Fitch could command on the bridge.
It would be nice if they handed Nobel Prizes to the person who goes to work with an injured leg for weaks, filling orders for a company, so you get some product you ordered, but the world is deluded into only giving honors to those who really failed.
Do you want to know why Fitch is not known for great battles? It is because other Admirals like Donald Dixon Porter did such an effective job early, that Fitch when his brush fires started, reacted promptly and ended them before the Confederates could start a Gettysburg in Cincinnati.
See when you play your bad hand right, the catastrophes do not happen to your community or your nation. It is Richard Nixon's Silent Majority just minding their own business being good Patriots.
The reward in all of this does not come from the world, but comes from Christ in His Kingdom as He makes note of all the details of the life you have lived in doing the right thing when all the others were giving medals to those who were in the situations, because they misplayed a good hand.
No one makes note of President Calvin Coolidge, because he was so astute a leader, that nothing happened. The Army asked him for a fleet of aircraft at one meeting and Coolidge responded, "Can you not just buy one aircraft and take turns flying it?"
America is an obamanation of 93 million people not working and on food stamps, much to Rush Limbaugh's ire that they are eating, but I choose to look at it, as 93 million people who are not out robbing 93 million rich people every night. It is pretty remarkable that 93 million poor people have not shot 93 million other rich people, nor raped 93 million other rich people.
That is 93 million people playing a horrid hand dealt to them in the better way, when the rich are grabbing for more of everything playing a great hand badly.
You do what you can, trust in God, and figure that the great evener is Christ Who will reward you when it matters. No people are expected to suffer as people are now, but acting out only gets you targetted by the police state. The police can never order a nation, as order only comes from each person behaving individually.
The poor people, the unemployed, the sick, the miserable are not the ones causing the problems in this world. It is instead that group who has the Wall Street hands which are playing them horridly.
Just do your duty, do not make yourself a target, turn things over to God and trust that He will work things out as they should be.
America is not great because of all these state and federal capitals, it's police state nor it's debt spending. America is great because millions of poor, miserable, suffering and abused people are not repaying evil for evil, in being moral and answering to God.
That is the reality as none of us are in the Garden of Eden and all of us are in an America overflowing with vipers. You can not control others, and only yourself. That provides your solace through all events in knowing you do the moral thing as your "something" to be paid for in your efforts.
Just do your duty with a poor hand that will fail, and know that you are not a failure, because you were not given a million dollars, a presidency and a Nobel Prize for doing nothing, and then had nothing but failures with everything given to you.
If it helps, always know that at the bottom of the hole, about as far down as you can see, is Barack Hussein Obama, the antithesis of success, below you. You will never sink that far in calling yourself a messiah or spending money like a million crack whores.
You are behaving quite well. All you can ever do is your duty which you are, and living through bad times morally, so you can face the person you are in peace, and be ready for a better day ahead.
agtG
