Pressure Where Needed

Everyone knows that when you have a serious cut or deep, bleeding wound you should apply pressure to stop the bleeding. Now, if I cut my leg, I do not apply pressure to my arm. Nor vice versa. You apply the pressure where it is needed. This thought can be used in many situations. Here are some examples...

When it is time to discipline a child, a little pressure applied to the seat of knowledge is what is most often called for to stop the bad or inappropriate behavior.

When checking a person's blood pressure a device is used to squeeze the arm along with a stethoscope to listen for the heartbeat. When checking for a pulse, pressure is applied to the wrist or neck to feel for a heartbeat. The blood pressure cuff must be placed in the right spot on the arm to achieve a correct result just as the fingers must be pressed in the right areas to get the pulse. 

The reason that mason jars seal during the canning process is because of pressure and vacuums that are created during heating and cooling times. When those jars are sealed, they have a long shelf life and give you food for much later down the road. It is pressure that does it!

When a carpenter is building a frame for a house, it is the pressure applied from the hammer to the nail that helps to hold that frame together. He doesn't look at the nail and wish it into the wood. He takes a hammer and smacks the head of the nail which drives it into the wood.

When you are trying to get laws passed or changed you may need to apply pressure to your representatives and elected officials to get the results you are looking for. You apply pressure by calling, emailing or writing to those reps and officials and getting your friends and family to do the same thing. If only one person calls or writes, they may blow it off and not pay any attention because they think that only one person cares about that issue. However, if they hear from MANY people, they tend to take notice. They are elected to be YOUR voice. And, when they don't listen and vote against the majority of the people's voice anyway...it is time to remove them from office at the next election!

Don't sit around whining about the world and the unfairness of government and the craziness that is happening... Do something about it. Help to change it! Apply the pressure in all the areas it is needed...before this country bleeds to death and appeases itself out of existence.