Cheated

This post my thought is how I was cheated in life. And a bigger thought is so many of us were cheated in life. How is this? What do I mean?  Barbara and I on many occasions acknowledge that we had some dysfunctional parents. We were cheated. We deserved a parent that was our biggest fan. I often go to my grandson's games to support him. He needs to be encouraged, he needs to be told he can be anything he wants to be. Hopefully, he will seek to be what God wants him to be. I listen to Barbara talk about her growing up years and she was cheated. We are children of the highest God, we deserve good things. We are made in the image of God. When we look at our world we can find even situations that were worse than our own.  We live in a dysfunctional world. Often we don't even see what our parents themselves went through in their growing up years before we came along. I remember a story of a job my dad had. He worked for a farmer in Dakota. It could have been south or north, I believe it was south but I think this may have been even before I was born. This farmer he worked for had him dig post holes for a fence in the middle of winter. In either of the Dakotas, in the winter the ground freezes down six feet. He was digging post holes in frozen ground. I have never had that difficult of a job in my whole life. He grew up in a dysfunctional world also. I don't know what hardships Barbara's parents grew up in but even Barbara remembers having to enter the doctor's office from the back door. I am sure it was even worse for her parents. We were all cheated in some ways. Every last one of us. My children deserved better than what they received in the dysfunctional parents that raised them. We can't go back, none of us can, the past is behind us. The best we can do is forgive the wrongs we were dealt with and move forward. DO we only see what was done to us? do we ever look and realize that we too were born in sin and as such have done wrong our selves? Do the people that smear our president and call him a divider, do they not see their own words as tearing down and being a divider themselves? I don't know how many times I have heard people refer to Trump and some words, Trump spoke some 14 or more years ago. He thought they were in private, you might say locker room talk. I wonder how many that point to this incident has not done just as bad, said possibly even worse but it is not on tape to be played back to you.  Thank God my words as a young man are not on tape to be played back to me. I would be ashamed and if most of us were honest and truthful, we could find the same in our lives. So many things done to hurt Trump and any supporters. Most of us, if accused of something, are allowed to defend ourselves and present our side, our witnesses but it seems to be with Trump, and his supporters, are not innocent until proven guilty which is the way our system is supposed to work. Trump and others are supposed to prove their innocence but without their own witnesses or lawyers.  He is accused so he must be guilty. Then not allowed his own witnesses. This is not the way justice is supposed to work. If that was you, you would be cheated.  God bless, Trump, and all of us. LVZ.