THIS TOO SHALL PASS???

With all that is taking place today, in the country as well as in the world, with political show trails here at home, our country in turmoil on nearly every front, the world on fire with the forces of darkness running amuck and seeming to be unbeatable, it can be pretty overwhelming, to the point where one wonders if the sun will ever rise again on our once great country. It’s difficult not to simply just surrender to it all. But I was watching ‘Lord of the Rings’ today and I was struck by a conversation that takes place between two of the main characters, hobbits Frodo and Sam, at the climax of their perilous journey. And it went like this:

FRODO: I can’t do this, Sam.

SAM: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.

FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam?

SAM: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

And while things may seem to be pretty dark right now, I do think Sam is right, what good there is in this country is definitely worth fighting for. And while the odds may seem to be against those of us who wish to save what’s left of our country, and in the form that was intended by its Founders, we must never give up. And while the forces of darkness may seem to be invincible and/or stubbornly unassailable, we must remember that that is just what they want us to think. But this darkness does not need to become permanent, it can be made to pass, and the sun can once again be made to shine. But our determination will need to be greater than that of our enemies.

The primary reason the forces of darkness today persist in their relentless attacks on President Trump is because they want to use him as an example to send a message to the rest of us. They’re trying to convince us that if they are able do something like this to a man like President Trump, then they can most certainly do the very same thing to any of the rest of us. They fear us because our numbers are far greater than theirs. And they have convinced themselves that if they are only able to succeed in their effort to remove President Trump then those of us who continue to support him will simply fall in line and blindly accept what it is that they have in store for us.

These people know that together we have the power to move beyond the darkness they have worked so hard to impose upon on us, that’s why they, and their many allies in the ‘fake news’ media, spend so much time trying to cause conflict, encouraging us to fight amongst ourselves. Because they know when we’re fighting amongst ourselves, we are not uniting to fight them. Those who wish to force us further and further into our continuing darkness do so for their own selfish reasons and for their own benefit. They are evil and they are driven by their need for power. So yes, there is still much good left in this country, and in the world, and it needs to be fought for.