The Grease Of G-d
A longtime friend of PG wrote: The death of Mindy McCready has given me pause to stop and think. I wonder who thought it would be okay for a grieving woman with suicidal tendencies to stay in a house where her significant other killed himself just a month before? I read an outcry by people who blamed the lack of gun control as the cause. Her weapon of choice was not a gun, it was her depression. If pills had been close I guarantee she would have chosen that path of destruction taken to it’s end result. When she was thrown in jail for her drug fueled probation violation, I knew that was not the action to take. But who am I to say anything other than, but by the grace of God, there could go I.
To begin with, PG does not follow country music. The first time he had heard of Mindy McCready was the news of her suicide. It is like turning the tv onto a movie in the last five minutes.
That said, and with a certain ignorance of the story affirmed, there are a few comments springing out of the discussion. One is the comparison of guns to pills. Most pills have a medical purpose. The misuse of these substances through self medication seems to happen, no matter how many rules get made. A pistol, on the other hand, is designed to kill or intimidate.
A pistol is much more efficient at delivering death than a pill bottle. Yes, excessive consumption of substances can lead to an early grave, but there is always the chance that you can sober up, get detoxed, and live a few more decayed decades. If you decide that your troubles are too much, and you use a pistol, then the odds of recovery are slim. It should be noted that the judgement used to make this decision is often clouded by the pills in question. The decision to end your life is usually not made with a clear head.
There was one more saying that caught PG… “but by the grace of G-d, there could go I.” As readers of Chamblee54 know, PG has conflicted views about G-d. Religion can be a source of misery, and making excuses for the spirit at the center can get old.
There is another, broader view of this saying. If you see G-d as being the feng shui of the planet, then it makes a bit more sense. PG has taken more than his share of chances. Some of them have been incredibly foolish. He has been caught a few times. Still, he is here, writing this post, fifty nine years after it started. Maybe it is the grease of G-d that lubricates life, so that the gears continue to turn.
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Chamblee54 
Thanks for reading and thinking of what I wrote about long enough to respond. I hate in discussions where folks on a issue that there perhaps is a disagreement will say, “you is stupid”. Not to say you’re disagreeing with what I wrote, but you know what I mean. These days, and maybe it’s always been the case, people who are in disagreement tend to name call or put down in these discussions of merit. In my thoughts on mindy, I wrote that the weapon of choice was depression. Not a gun or pills, but her self image of herself. Depression is what killed her. As in…the cause of her death was depression not a bullet. The gun was merely the delivery system. Could have been an icepick or a bridge abutment for all that mattered. The pills compounded her problem or exacerbated her situation to the point of her not thinking that there was no other way to stop the chorus of discontent screaming in her brain. It really could have been me except for by the grace of God. For me god is a torrent of righteous energy and that by self will, we have the choice to either listen or ignore. Its an inner energy or rather an inner consciousness that shows us the real difference between right and wrong and trying to do that with yourself and not forcing your spirituality on others. What may be right for you may not be right for others. As you know, its a personal journey for this attainment. For me it’s sort of a moral compass that allows me to try and achieve the next level of spirituality. We have the choice to listen and react or simply ignore. Too long I chose to ignore. Sometimes I confuse act accordingly with play the accordion.
I met the very kind and confused mindy years ago at the same legally owned and operated pain management clinic not far from here.(management my ass…it was just a legal way to get painkillers!) I could have easily ended up like her, but by the various paths that have opened for me along the way, I did not. That’s where I refer to that god thing. I guess I could have said, ” good thing I listened to that inner voice that told me that in the long run these actions would not be in keeping with what I am capable of being and would probably kill me since I always take things to excess!”
Thanks for being my pal.
Jake
Thank you for taking the time to respond.
Acting accordingly may have more than a few things in common with play the accordion. That is a complicated instrument with a lot of buttons. It has to be manually opened and shut. It is easy to make mistakes.