Is This Where We're Heading?

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I had a bad dream the other night. It was one of those dreams where you wake up with a pit in your stomach and you're heart racing with fear. My wife and I had another baby. It wasn't adding a sixth child to our family that instilled that fear in my dream. No, what really made me fearful came later in my dream.

In the midst of this dream, many of our friends and family came over to our house to congratulate us on having a new baby and to get a peak at her. A steady stream of people filled our front walkway, so many that we decided to go outside and greet them with the baby. There were maybe a dozen or more people gathered on our front lawn, all there to congratulate us and see the baby. As we were talking with our friends and family, a police car drove by our house, stopped at the corner, and then backed up to the front of our house. This wasn't an ordinary police officer. Instead of having "Clearwater Police" on the side of his vehicle, he had "Risk Management" on the side of his car. He got out of his car and proceeded towards us across our front lawn. He stopped in the middle of the yard and proceeded to tell us that everyone needed to leave. He said that it was not good for a new born baby to be around so many people and that everyone needed to go home in order to protect the health of the baby.

Now, I don't normally get political on my blog, but this dream got me thinking: Is this where we're heading? There are those out there that are speculating that the government wants to take over complete control of the health-care industry, the banks, and even the food distribution system in our country. If these three critical components of private industry are taken over by the government there is no limit to what they can do to manage the "risk" to the industries that they control.

So, is this where we are heading? Who knows. Does it really matter, though? Some may say yes. Me? I say, regardless of what happens, we need to take into consideration where our focus is. Is your focus on fear over what our government may or may not do? I try not to focus on such things. I have my voice, I have my vote, but ultimately it's out of my control. I'd rather focus on the things I can control. I have my Catholic faith. That is where I'm putting my focus. If the government decides it wants to control how we worship, so be it. They can't take away my faith. They can't take away what I feel in my heart, in my soul. They can't take away the relationship I have with my Lord. I will cling to my faith in good times and in bad. It is my faith that will keep me firmly grounded in the midst of the storm.