Tomorrow will come, then what?

I find myself increasingly annoyed by those espousing a message of doom and gloom regarding the pending end of times. If the Mayan Calendar is right and December 12, 2012 is to be the end of the earth, so what? Many people believe “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” (James 4:13-15) But do as Mathew 25:13 admonishes, “Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour. . .”

Too many are looking for someone else to solve their problems or have misread the tea leaves of their futures.

Jobs don’t just happen, they must be created. If we tax their creators to death, don’t allow investment relief in their companies, won’t pay fair wages, fail to buy from our own companies preferring the cheaper prices from goods made overseas or fail to see the correlations of each part of this to our struggling economy, just who is it we are to blame?

Education promised more than the reality of economics often delivers. If the degrees held don’t match the opportunities available or the debt for obtaining such exceeds the income these options may generate, just who is the educated fool? Do we educate and put that square peg in the round hole of job opportunities or do we look at job creation and then find the right educational peg?

Religion or a common belief system more and more is challenged under mantras in search of individual freedom, liberty and absolution from responsibility. Increasingly we live in a world where everything is relative and none of us are kin though all may feel entitled.

Family as a way of insuring connectedness is fast falling by the wayside with its children spread among those with varying socioeconomic issues and alternative lifestyles. So tell me again, just whose fault all of this is?

Politics has too often become nothing more than a power grab with the same old ideas being recycled based on promises that never come as something new without citizens truly appreciating they are giving up much to get so little from their own tax dollars.

I personally ascribe to the more practical philosophy of Benjamin Franklin from his Poor Richard’s Almanac, "God helps them that help themselves."

Science has an immutable law of conservation which is a primal force of the universe noting matter or energy may be neither created nor destroyed, but may be changed from one form to another. Something was in the beginning and will be long after we are gone. The question is what and what will we have contributed to it?

As is written in the Bible Proverbs 29:18, “Where there is no vision the people perish but he that keepeth the law happy is he.” Might we do well to also heed the words of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his “A Psalm of Life”, “ Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.”

Dr. Ada M. Fisher is a PHYSICIAN, licensed teacher for secondary education in mathematics and science, previously elected school board member, AUTHOR and IS THE nc rEPUBLICAN nATIONAL cOMMITTEEWOMAN. Contact her at P. O. Box 777; Salisbury, NC 28145; DrFisher@DrAdaMFisher.COM Pending

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