Don't worry. This really isn't about work...
About eight years ago, corporate decided, thru many studies and resources, that it would cost them less money to cut our machine parts inventory and accept the estimated loss of production downtime that the parts reduction would eventually cause...
So about half a million dollars of inventory was removed from our sight alone, and the capital they saved was added to the companies total profits and liquidity.
All measureables...
Being not well indoctrinated in avoiding asking uncomfortable questions, I gently queried the manager responsible for our two local mills reduction, if they were measuring the real production losses against the parts inventories reduced cost.
If the downtime caused by us not currently having a part that was historically stocked ( on three or four machines, this is about a $30,000 dollars an hour loss) was being calculated and compared to corporates estimates...
Factoring into the equation that currently we wait days or weeks, for such parts...
Let's just say that that particular question was met with more hostility than if id been caught red handed, assassinating The Pope...
They refused to measure the actual cost of what they implemented.
The sad thing is, in a lot of situations, what they were doing was great business and fiscally brilliant. I agreed with the concept and 90% of the implementation.
If success is only measured in narrowly self defined parameters and unpleasant and uncooperative realities are ignored, then victory is assured, along with many invisible and unacknowledged failures...
Not for them to worry. Those will never be accurately measured...
I can personally guarantee that much more money is lost, waiting for parts to arrive, than was ever saved by us not stocking them.
But that loss was erroneously attributed to something else, and not legitimately measured...
They never even acknowledged the true problem...
I told you earlier, that this was not going to be about work.
It's not. It probably would be better if it was. As it stands, the actual topic will probably cost me half of the people who read this...
Don't worry. I'm going to get there soon enough...
Yesterday was the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade...
About 56,000,000 fetuses have been aborted, since it's implementation.
I think whatever side of the aisle that you find yourself standing on, on this abortion issue, that this is a shocking and disturbing number...
I think there are many false stereotypes about the people choosing abortion.
I have known many women who chose to abort their pregnancies.
None did it glibly or easily...
All, to some extent, found themselves haunted by that choice they made.
Many for entire lifetimes...
I've also known many men who had encouraged a woman to abort their child...
Some had just walked away, refusing even the responsibility to know the choice made...
I will tell you a seceret...
After all the posturing and false bravado is dropped, not one of the men I've known, Christian, or not, were unaffected by by the decision or their own passivity, or for some, their outright encouragement of the abortion, performed...
When they dropped the crap and spoke from the heart, everyone I'd ever had the opprotunity to speak with had wished there had been a better way...
I heard a lot of talk recently about repealing the "Law"..
As a right wing, Christian man I am here to say that the "law" is not the problem.
The "law" is the symptom....
The "law" is an illusionary and false reaction, that leaves the true problem to hide in its invisibility...
Did you hear it? I just lost half of my readers, right there...
Not only was I never indoctrinated on asking uncomfortable questions, but I also must have missed the indoctrination sessions on making uncomfortable statements...
Jesus came to free us from the law. Our hearts would become what we would truly be judged on...
Not a dot or tittle was changed, but we have been consistently told that the only purpose of the law was to demonstrate our complete inability to keep it, that Jesus came as the only one capable of fulfilling it, and in a substitutionary death, freed us from it...
My prayers are much more important than my vote.
Prayer activists are in dire need, not political ones....
Have we fallen so far that we put our faith in mans law?
Has that ever been effective, before?
The law did nothing but guide and condemn, all the way back from Adam to the Pharisees and Sauducees... The laws were impossible to follow...
This is an issue of heart, not of law, or the lack, thereof...
What needs to change are the hearts of those who have created a society where this seems like a viable option...
The hearts of the men and women who find themselves in situations with such horrible consequences, for all involved, the innocent and the guilty...
We needs hearts changed before the pregnancy occurs...
We need family, friends and Churches hearts and attitudes and reactions to be different after these pregnancies occur, than they often are now....
Less judgement. More love. Better options...
The most damning of all truths, is this...
If our hearts were right, if all our collective hearts were right, no "law" would be necessary...
But here I go again, talking about the immeasurables...
I wish that not another fetus, another baby, ever had to be removed, be killed...
I wish that men had there hearts and spirits right, before unzipping their pants and that women understood thier true worth and value, in the eyes of God and decent men; that they did not feel the need to debase themselves for compliments or attention...
I wish those that victimize the innocent or powerless are stopped before they find and exploit that opprotunity...
Most of all, I wish that the easy answers were the right ones and that the right ones weren't so damn hard, impossible in mans world, even...
I wish we could legislate ourselves into heaven and out of hell...
But that is Gods Domain...
I'm sure He wants the innocent protected. He knows, because, in the end He is their only protection...
He is greater than our evil and holds our hearts in the palm of His Hand...
With the faith the size of a mustard seed, we could accomplish much more than this...
So sadly, this is a problem of Faith and Heart...
Yours. Mine. Ours...
This is not a problem of politics.
This is a problem of collective Christian heart, Faith and prayer...
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