A tangled web

"What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive", said Sir Walter Scott in Marmion. My goodness this is never more true than in our politicians. Think of our politicians from those involved with the Teapot Dome Scandal, to those involved with Whitewater, from the reneged treaties with the Indians, to the officiousness of Homeland Security. We really love it when people can go before the press and be smooth talkers and down play those that will not talk until it suits them or until they feel it suits the moment. We are all for the pioneer, the rugged individual, yet we do not like someone to be their own person, to have raw emotions, in fact we don't get it. We don't get that raw emotions are the elemental foundation of all of our psyche and that most of us choose to hide those raw emotions. What gets me is that we often find ourselves in the same boat as someone that would show us raw emotions and yet we have no clue how to deal with neither the emotions nor the person. It makes us uncomfortable. And we hate jumping from foot to foot as our toes are being shot at. May we gain strength from one another and from God during our times of web-spinning so that we don't sacrifice our integrity in order to "make the deal".