CONTROL Yourself

<p>Today is a little different…The story I tell is about me.</p> <p>Tomorrow I go in for surgery. It’s a routine hip replacement, and from what I’ve heard, is streamlined, and has a high rate of success.</p> <p>Being very active in self-defense throughout the years I have sustained many bumps, bruises, dislocations, abrasions and bleeding, so this is just another one of those. I was thrown, “judo style” 20 years ago, and took a bad fall. Several months ago, my slight discomfort turned into a limp, and very suddenly my hip literally blew up.</p> <p>Don’t get me wrong, I am excited and look forward to this long awaited surgery after hobbling around for 9 months. However, after my track record of having an aortic dissection 6 years ago, and a pulmonary embolism just a few years ago, and then surviving COVID twice… this surgery has me thinking.</p> <p>How much CONTROL do we have? In essence I CONTROL me and nothing else, and that may be enough.</p> <p>In recent attempts Marxists, Globalists, and even our own government, seems to have CONTROL at their center purpose. They have, and will continue to fail. No one CONTROLS you! Even in the most severe circumstances ultimately we have CONTROL over ourselves, nothing more, and nothing less.</p> <p>Examples abound in both recent and ancient history from people such as Nelson Mandela, Corrie Ten Boom, Galileo Galilei, Rosa Louise McCauley, William Wallace, Joan of Arc, and Jesus the Christ, all had forces, and people that attempted to COTROL them, and yet in the end they CONTROLLED their destiny.</p> <p>This surgery is relatively minor, it’s still surgery. Therefore, I have been meeting with many of my loved ones and expressing my love for them. Just in case…</p> <p>A few years ago, maybe 13 to be more precise, a woman came to my office. She sat down, went through the usual courtesies, and then related that she would be going through surgery next week. Brain surgery.</p> <p>Although a minor operation, I actually don’t know how minor any brain surgery could be, but she wanted