What do you do when saying, “. . . ought to . . . ”\u00a0\u00a0 just isn’t good enough because it is never going to happen?<\/p>\n
“The ‘president’ ought to do a whole bunch of things to save this country.\u00a0 It isn’t going to happen because he doesn’t want to save this country.<\/p>\n
Congress ought to stand up for principles and say “NO” to financial and moral disasters coming from White House policies.\u00a0 It isn’t going to happen because they are mostly concerned about keeping their own disability<\/span> checks coming.<\/p>\n Someone you know ought to hit rock bottom to recognize they need help.\u00a0 For many, that will never happen—some keep it hidden, and some have crutches.<\/p>\n Some families fall through the cracks because people who could make a difference just say what those folks ought to do, but distance themselves from sticky involvement.<\/p>\n You know someone who needs help, but it isn’t going to happen.<\/p>\n So how do you answer the question at the top?\u00a0 (What do you do when saying, “. . . ought to . . . ”\u00a0\u00a0 just isn’t good enough because it is never going to happen?)<\/p>\n When I say, “I ought to help this person,” and then I say, “I will help this person”—that’s where it starts (not in Washington).<\/p>\n Commit to saying,<\/p>\n “I will make a difference in someone’s life, in the parts that are for keeps.\u00a0 I will say what no one else will say, and I will do what no one else will do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What do you do when saying, “. . . ought to . . . ”\u00a0\u00a0 just isn’t good enough because it is never going to happen? “The ‘president’ ought to do a whole bunch of things to save this country.\u00a0 It isn’t going to happen because he doesn’t want to save this country. Congress ought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-financial","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}