To my friends who refuse a vaccine and want me to scroll on by and shrug my shoulders:

Let’s say I see a friend whom I love, texting on a railroad track, and a train is hurtling toward her. People have told her the train is coming but she thinks maybe trains aren’t real. She’s reading her FB posts and telling people it’s ok to stand on railroad tracks. She’s never been hit by the train before. And besides, she’s heard you don’t get hurt too bad when the train hits you anyway. And, by God, it’s my Constitutional right to stand on this track and get splattered like a watermelon. I should just mind my own business. 

Some really smart people have developed a way to keep the train from hitting people, or at least not killing them, but…it involves her doing something first. She read that this “fix” is worse than getting hit by a train. It’s not safe. Standing in front of the train feels safer. She refuses the fix…for all kinds of reasons of her own that many don’t understand. 

It’s really hard to stand and watch someone you love get hit by a train. I imagine it’s pretty gruesome. But, let me tell you, my friends, if I see you standing on a train track with your nose on your screen and a train is coming, I’m not going to “scroll on by.” That’s depraved indifference. I’m going to try to help you and get you out of the way of the very real possibility of death, or lifelong damage. It’s how I’m made. Besides, when you DO get hit by the train…and it IS coming…it’s not just you it affects. It’s all of us. 

I know this is your railroad track, but it’s the devil’s train, and I won’t stop telling people about the danger.

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“Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.”

‭‭Philippians‬ ‭2:4‬ ‭ESV‬‬