We continue to hear speech after speech, rhetoric after rhetoric, some all too familiar and some all too new. However despite the speeches, despite the rhetoric, the call to action has not been answered. The call to fix our broken healthcare system and to bring health care for many across America and the world continues to be ignored as we wait to vote for new politicians who will lead the health care initiative that will finally save lives. We continue to become trapped in our thinking by supporting politician after politician and party after party who talk the same talk that they talked years before and even when it seems as if we are at the brink of getting a new healthcare agenda, we still must wait for even that to occur. We must wait a month or two perhaps a year before the reality of better healthcare facilities are made, insurance for all happens and lives are finally saved. However why wait when the call to action is now.
Why must we wait for our politicians to restore our faith that help is on the way when they have not helped us thus far and it seems as if when they promise new change, their record does not show any type of change besides the same old rhetoric of the past and the same old divisive politics of the past and present. What ails us is not that we can’t do for ourselves but that we won’t. The political process in America and the world is broke and the only way it can be fixed is not by simply new electing politicians but by electing new politicians with a record of proven positive results for the people and a record of ideas that they have not only fought for but have obtained. We cannot place our faith in politics to fix our health care crisis in America and abroad but we must place our faith in ourselves to hold our politicians accountable and our doctors as well as insurance companies accountable for the lack of coverage they provide, the lack of proper treatment they give us and the lack of response and respect as well as human deceit that we as people deserve. We can no longer allow our faith to be strengthened simply by voting but we must put our votes to action by speaking out against injustices, by writing our politicians and by marching whenever the need to march is so desperately needed.
Our faith is what strengthens our spirit and renews our purpose in life and that is why our faith along with action will strengthen not only America’s promise and dream but the world’s promise and dream. Our health will be better because our faith in God says it will and our faith that our politicians will do right by us because we will make sure they fight against any injustices or attacks placed upon people by the health care systems in the world.. We shall not be moved by simply rhetoric no longer because our faith tells us that words alone are not enough but the measure of a man’s actions is what we know and call the true measure of a man’s heart and well being. We must put our faith and action together in order to change our health care systems now, not a month from now but right now. Our politicians can start enacting and working on legislation now if they truly want to save lives as so many of them speak of over and over again.
Our faith in voting and the political process should not be wavered but it should become strengthened in the fact that we can change our elected officials year after year until they start doing things on behalf of all people—rich and poor, black and white, young and old, and educated and uneducated. Our faith cannot and will not be changed but our actions must change now and forever. We must act not now but right now. When we hear about the urgency of change that means us and the call to action we must take right here, right now to get the type of health care treatment that will not only save future lives but save lives right here, right now. It is our faith that has taught us that change, a new direction or even a better direction cannot only occur but occurs when we put action behind our words. We have seen our politicians use rhetoric to get elected but now it is our time to show that our faith is not only in rhetoric but it is in action.
We must act now to our faith which is stronger than any politician and political process. Our faith is what heals us when the rest of us hurt’s. Our faith is what restores us and is what drives us to wake up each and every day with a renewed spirit of hope, a renewed spirit of change, a renewed dream of the best is yet to come, and a renewed attitude that my fellow neighbors and friends have not seen our ‘GREATEST’ moment yet. It is these moments of faith that bring us to vote, that bring us to want to have better health so that we can see more moments of our faith being “VICTORIOUS”!
FAITH, HEALTH AND POLITICS is what we practice each and every day!
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