What is your treatment plan?

Mark DeLap
Posted 4/13/21

We are all a part of things in this life.

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What is your treatment plan?

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We are all a part of things in this life. Either we are a part of the problem or we are a part of the solution.

What is unforgiveable, is the nearsighted critical eye without insight as to the cure. So many pointing out the flaws without any thought as to what the fixes may be.

Now, we’re not saying the ones who “have all the answers” are not obnoxious in their own right, but they are usually the ones who scream about the closets being cluttered without rolling their sleeves up to help clean and organize.

A good rule of thumb is that before you diagnose something, you need to have both a solution in plan and the availability to sow yourself into that cure. 

People with a critical spirit that carry protest signs, either literal or metaphorical, are screaming out of their frustration. They know what they are angry about, they know who they are angry at, they know what the problem is.

But ask them about a solution, and too many have not thought past their anger. They are in pain, and rage has prompted them to lash out without giving a listening ear as to how they can find the cure to ease the pain. And the anger then boils and spills over to those who are causing the pain, to those who don’t have answers and those who won’t find help to find the solutions.

Look in the mirror. You may be protesting with just a voice. Power and change can only come when that voice is backed up by an action. And not the action of shouting and screaming and diagnosing. The action of bringing your gift.

Not your gift to protest or to shout the loudest or create witty slogans on protest signs. The gift lies within each of us to “be angry and sin not.” Don’t run around with a red face, waving your hands in the air, screaming about how miserable you are and how messed up things are – unless you have first found a plan of attack to back up your words.

Protesting in itself is not wrong, admitting you may not have all the answers is not wrong, and letting others know you are in pain is not wrong. What is very wrong is not choosing to be part of a solution.

It would be as heartbreaking as a doctor walking into your patient room and telling you there’s nothing he can do and then shoots you. Even in terminal situations, there is a level in comfort in that gentle physician telling you that they are going to everything in their power to try to help.

A diagnosis without solution and a course of action is not only frustrating, which feeds the fuel of rage, but it is fruitless and will not bring forth the positives in this country, in this community and in your family.

Time would be better spent planning solutions than organizing protests. Let your voice be heard, yes. But your actions will always speak the loudest.