They say there are two sides to every story, and “they” are right. Problem being, both sides can’t be right. Truth transcends wrong thinking and wrong feelings. In view of the recent murders in our country along with an increase of extreme hatred and violence many are asking, how can we turn this around? What is the answer?

Guns in the hands of deranged people are dangerous and shouldn’t be allowed. But is the answer to the problem to restrict guns from everyone? Or to help people with their wrong thinking? After all it wasn’t the rifle that climbed up on the rooftop, it wasn’t the barrel that lined itself up with the intended target, the cartridge didn’t load itself, the scope didn’t pull the trigger, it took feet and legs, hands and arms, a finger, an eye, connected to a brain to put that all together, and then that brain connected to a very dark heart to make the decision and commit the crime.

The title of this letter is meant to make a point. We are being told by some that you can have your truth and I can have my truth and we can live by both. For example, how many genders? Some say only two, some say many. Answer, there are only male and female, if someone chooses to pretend otherwise, that’s wrong thinking in a right body, not right thinking in a wrong body. People don’t really get trapped in the wrong body, their wrong thinking may cause them to feel that way, but it’s just wrong thinking.

When it comes to football we are all legalists, there are black and white rules and instant replays to split the hairs. No room for “my truth and your truth” in football, both sides CAN’T be right (it’s a very emotional game) and there is someone there to make the call. Stop signs are a little less ridged: “I want you to stop and not sideswipe me, but I usually don’t think it necessary to stop completely.”

The Ten Commandments used to be posted in the public classrooms, along with Bibles and classes that taught from the Bible. That is no more. Too restrictive, some say, too narrow, may cause low self-esteem, may have a lasting effect, let each child develop into what he wants to be without an influence that hurts his feelings. I believe that is what has happened and continues to happen, we are at a point spoken of in Isaiah 59:14, it says “truth has fallen in the street” (the public discourse.) Also in Isaiah 28:15, it says, “we have made lies our refuge, we cower under deception.” Judges 21:25 says, “Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” But in John 8:12, Jesus makes this bold claim, “I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” And again in John 3:7, “Don’t be amazed that I say to you, you must be born again.”

Your choice.