Batter Up, Men, It's Time to Step Up to the Plate

Can it be true? Is there no one to step up and take the roll of a man? You know, a man with two legs two arms and two.....well..... you know. I remember when I was a kid. Men were everywhere and you could always count on someone to step up. Be a boy scout leader, or a Choir directer. Help paint the parsonage. Help a neighbor get his car started. or catch the neighbor kid painting graffiti on the rail cars and set him straight before the police showed up. There were men cops, men teachers, men politicians, men Sunday School Teachers, men husbands, men fathers. It seemed everywhere you looked there was a man willing to step up to the plate and do the right thing From sobering up a wayward friend to cutting the grass on the church lawn, there was always a man to step up and take responsibility for more than was his to take. But as time has gone by, more and more men have stepped down from the lofty heights of doing the right thing, even when it hurts. We don't train our kids to be like us because we don't like ourselves very much. And why is that? because  we have turned away from the roles our fathers gave us. We quit being that role model that society depended upon, the one who looked a little higher and expected more from everyone. We stopped being a Gentleman because a few hideous females slandered us for it. we quit being fathers because is was easier to just be friends with the kids. We quit being Deacons at the church because it was easier to stay home and get the grass cut.
And we wonder why we have a communist ruler in our land.
We men have let the United States of America down. Not in the big ways, we voted right we held down our jobs and were terrific breadwinners but when it came time to just be a man to being a real man we dropped the ball. We asked our wives to go to work and now there is no one but the government teachers to watch over our precious kids. and why did we do this? so we could have that boat we've always wanted, or that extra 0 in our bank accounts which would make us safer when we get old enough to retire. But what have we really done? We made money and beautiful houses and cars and boats and all the things of this world and traded in our family and our Church and our salvation and our piety and our love. our kindness and all the good things and made a world of stocks and bonds and 401K's and ...yes.....gold. And we have given away, our families, our Churches, our Schools, our Politicians our Unions, our Clubs and organizations. We gave them away for wealth. And now we are finding out that all the gold we can collect can be taken away in this world. But hopefully, we will see what really has value, maybe we will see that helping our kids finish their homework and having dinner with our kids and taking in our own parents in when they can now longer take care of themselves. you see? we were too comfortable and too willing to have the government take these jobs from us and now we have to pay. We ignored what mattered and someone else slipped in to take our place and they don't care about you or our families.
We screwed up and now we may have to fight to get what really counts back.