What’s Your Excuse?
There is a path before each person that seems right,
but it ends in death. – Proverbs 14:12
It’s been a
sad week. A sad mon Ph really. So many people I know have loved ones fighting
for their lives. Others are deep in grief for someone gone too soon. The reason?
Covid. That’s the simple answer. The rest of the answer is way more
complicated.
Every person
that I know who is sick or dead refused to get the vaccination. Every single
one. They had a choice and they said no. Those who are alive are fighting to
regain strength and abilities lost during the long hospital stay. They will
never be fully okay. Others are dead. Gone. Leaving behind husbands and wives
and children.
I struggle
to understand their refusal. I listen to the excuses from those who have yet to
be diagnosed and I am astounded at their answers. The shot implants a chip. It
hasn’t been fully approved. It decreases your immune system and you have health
issues. It makes you spread the virus. Covid isn’t real, just manufactured by
the government. I was in the military and had to take vaccines so now I refuse
to take any vaccine. Need I go on?
Most of us have
always taken vaccines. They were required before we started school. We take the
flu vaccine and the shingles vaccine. It’s part of life that helps keep us healthy.
But suddenly we’re finding some who are adamant that they have a “right” to not
take a vaccine. They have a “right” to infect whoever they want, to get sick
and overwhelm the hospitals and to leave their families grief-stricken.
Your “freedom”
to choose comes with consequences that go far beyond your choice. It means
people who need surgery can’t get it because there are no hospital beds. It
means someone who has a heart attack or accident could be sent hundreds of
miles away to a hospital with a vacant bed. It means that healthcare workers
are overwhelmed and exhausted with no end in sight. It means all of us are back
to wearing masks because you refused to do your part.
I struggle not
to become hard-hearted toward those who are so busy being right until it
happens to them. Then it’s too late. Then, if they live, they know that Covid
is real. Then, if they die, they leave family and friends behind. Surely a
vaccine was better than a coffin.
Lord, please,
open their eyes before it’s too late. Please soften my heart to those who are
creating such sadness.
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