Reactive vs Proactive

Buckle up people, I’m gonna purge here. This will probably be one of my longer posts, because my brain is about to burst!

Today, I went and met with my local Assemblywoman about solutions and potential options for the 26000+kids in NYS whom have been discriminated against with the new religious exemption law. I was unable to control my emotions in the sense that when telling my story, describing my faith and our decisions as to why we didn’t vaccinate our child, I sobbed. I am an ugly cryer to begin with, there is no hiding the blatant evidence that tears leave on my face, so thats always a fun twist in these moments. I sobbed because my heart aches at how this can even happen in our “free” society. My heart aches for the families and children that cannot even obtain a valid medical exemption because of LIES. I have written about my cousin’s friend, who was forced into having her son anesthetized to receive the very vaccines that have already damaged him to receive his support services. She is just one of THOUSANDS of families whom have children with IEP’s that depend on support services, you know the same services that are funded through our school tax dollars. The same tax dollars we are forced to pay, but are also now completely blocked from ever being able to use. Families will either have to forcibly inject their children against their will, or pay for all support services out of their own pocket. Those support services run tens of thousands of dollars a year. HOW IS THIS OK ON ANY LEVEL??? How is this FREEDOM?

Back to my meeting. As I have mentioned, I am not a big fan of politics or politicians in general. They are too extreme in the party system, and I have never identified with either alone. I was brought to school on how politics work very quickly into our meeting. I was immediately informed that the Assemblywoman is a Republican, and a “Freshman”, and how the Republicans are not in power in NYS. My instant reaction was of rejection and annoyance that this goes back to that type of garbage, but reality says that is exactly what happens. So, I kicked in my EI, and calmed my mind. I continued to listen to the disturbing laws that were passed in the last “session”, how Cuomo is the only Governor, EVER, to possess the power and control that he does, and ultimately how the exemption was not going to pass AT ALL, until a “freshman” Legislator was literally called aside by a Senior Legislator, immediately before the final count to allow the exemption to remain, and changed his vote to ultimately give power to removing the exemption. This was witnessed by everyone in the room on that day, and condoned as if its perfectly ok to watch this happen.

The feelings of disgust were mutual between us, yet I felt hope. I felt hope within myself and hope for all of us. I know that the Politicians will not be the solution, WE will. I know that on June 13, 2019, my life changed forever. I know that I can not and will not EVER be able to un-know, what I now know. The blatant truth being hidden in lies, the corruption within our government that even our government sees and disagrees with, I know that regardless of who tries to strip me of my faith and my freedom, that my feet are concrete in my foundation with God, and NO ONE can break that. So, with my ever strong faith, my new found and renewed hope, and the true love that I have for honoring my fellow humans, who don’t have a voice, and even those who do, but choose not to use theirs, I will continue to share my journey, and educate and empower anyone who wants to learn.

I left my meeting with a close of asking them to use me as a representative of how and who has been damaged by this law passing. I asked them to use me a public voice to provide families that will not succumb to the insane riticule and pressure from the Government support for homeschooling services for thier children. I asked to present my story as well as others to the Edcuation comittee this August. I will no longer ever be able to sit quietly and be apathetic. My child has been directly impacted and it doesnt even come close to other children’s consequences.

I will no longer be reactive. Been there and done that. It has never worked. So I am now PROactive. I am PRO informed consent. I am PRO freedom of religion, I am PRO educating and empowering people, I am PRO truth. I am PRO human kind.

So many people have reached out with their support. Some of have changed their stance on forced vaccination, some have stood strong, yet still were empathetic to my story. SO many people have asked what they can do. So here is my answer. EDUCATE and EMPOWER. No one wants to have anything shoved down their throats or screamed in their face. You can help by just listening, you can help by learning one thing about the history of vaccinations, you can help by asking a question, you can help every time to share your knowledge with someone else. It does’nt have to be forced, but there will be numerous times that the conversation arises, and when it does, SPEAK YOUR TRUTH, speak THE truth.

I have this framed quote above my bed, “Three things last forever. FAITH. HOPE. LOVE. and the greatest of all things is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13

So, so, so much love and respect.

xo-e