Want to Help Drain the Swamp??? I know there’s a lot of talk on here that about our frustrations why it’s taking so long for our beloved POTUS to drain the swamp.  We are dealing with an enemy who has been entrenched for decades if not centuries.  Unfortunately President Trump doesn’t have a whole lot of experienced, talented candidates who aren’t compromised by the Swamp to choose from.  Slowly but surely he’s turning the battleship around, along with other leaders such as Gaetz, Jordan, Nunes, Scalise, etc., as well as journalists such as Solomon, Hannity, Limbaugh, Bongino, etc. But guess where the REAL change happens?  At the grass roots…ALL long lasting, effective political movements begin at the BOTTOM.   History teaches us this, from the Greeks and Romans, to the spread of the Gospel,  to the Renaissance, and so on until the present day. In other words, “draining the swamp” starts with DRAINING IT IN YOUR OWN LIFE. How do we do this?  Here are some suggestions based on personal experience: Turn off your TV!!!  - Cut the cord.  I cancelled my cable TV about 3 years ago and have never looked back. The entire entertainment industry – movies, TV, professional sports, music, is the PRIMARY way the Swamp controls us.  Not only will this save you money and help defund the Swamp creatures, but it will free up your time for other, more productive activities (such as what follows). Instead of watching sports, start playing them!  Join a softball, golf, tennis, bowling, or pool league.  Or take up martial arts or ballroom dancing.  This will accomplish two things:  a) it will get you out of your La-Z-Boy and get you some exercise, and b) it will get you interacting with new and different people.  How are we going to influence the culture if we stare at a screen/smartphone/tablet all day? Speaking of health, start taking responsibility for your own– stop eating junk food, get some regular exercise.  Learn about how we are being poisoned by our government as well as the health and food industries.  Drink filtered water.  Take supplements to neutralize or reverse the toxins we’ve been putting into ourselves for the last few decades.  Don’t wait until you need insulin shots or blood pressure medication to make changes.  Get RID of social media.  Why give the Deep State more opportunity to monitor your life and influence your decisions?  We need to get back to IRL-style relationships.  Something like 90-95% of communication is non-verbal.  We eliminate our humanity and others’ as well by hiding behind an electronic wall.  Emojis are no substitute for a baby’s laugh, a grandfather’s smile, or sharing a beer with a co-worker.  Don’t let THEM dehumanize us any more! Spend quality time alone.  This means doing things like teaching yourself a new skill such as investing, starting your own business, or playing an instrument.  It also means taking time to think about important things like why you are here, what is your mission in life, and more importantly, how to cooperate with God to accomplish that mission. Stop patronizing big business as well as big government.  Don’t expect Social Security to be around 10 years from now, because it won’t.  Start an IRA (or enhance the one you already have).  Start an HSA as well.  Support your local community by buying your lunch at the local deli instead of the big sandwich/hamburger/taco chains.  Get involved!  Be sure to VOTE for the best candidates available to you.  Help them send out mailers, make phone calls, or even go door to door with them.  The local elections are every bit as important (if not MORE) than the national ones!  Grass roots, remember???  Change must (and will) occur from the bottom up.  The foundation must be strong or the whole building collapses…right??? The most important thing to remember this is about EVOLUTION, not REVOLUTION.  “Instant” solutions are almost always doomed to long term failure.  That’s one of the BIGGEST problems with our culture…we’ve gotten away from farming and nature and into the industrialized, hi-tech, hi-speed gottahaveitNOW culture.  We’ve forgotten about plowing and tilling and weeding and planting and harvesting.  We didn’t get here overnight and we sure as hell ain’t gonna fix it overnight.  POTUS couldn’t, and none of us can, either.  Start by making incremental changes, don’t try to fix it all at once. Today you might decide to stop going to McDonald’s twice a week.  Tomorrow you may open a savings account and schedule an auto-transfer.  Next week you decide to stop drinking tap water and get a filter.  A few months from now you may help serve dinner at your local soup kitchen. Baby steps. So you want to see the swamp drained?  Start with yourself.  Ultimately, YOU are the only one you have any control or authority over.  You can’t control other people, so stop trying.  Besides, you don’t like it when others try to control you.  Remember “do unto others”? One final note…PRAY.  Learn to seek God in your daily lives and seek Him directly.  Stop letting the “professionals” or the “experts” feed you doctrine, you have a mind, start using it!  Read the Bible for yourself and see what it says, and ask God to speak to you.  Trust me, He will.  And don’t forget to ask for His help every step of the way, because we ALL need it. Peace be with you all.