Listenin' to Davy



Davy Crockett

 Davy Crockett had a motto he carried with him all his life:  "Be sure you're right, then go ahead."  He followed that creed, and it cost him dearly.  When President Jackson decided to take away Indian land, Crockett, who had been there when the treaty was signed, stood up for the Indians, and lambasted Jackson, who not only was extremely popular, but from Crockett's state of Tennessee.  As a result, Crockett lost the next congressional election.

Knowing he'd stood up for what was right and had a switch taken to him for it, Crockett told his constituents, "You can go to h---.  I'm going to Texas."  That he did, taking a good amount of friends with him, and each and every one of them wound up dying in the Battle of the Alamo, which is another story.  But once in Texas, Crockett and his friends decided to stick around for the fight as they felt it was the right thing to do.  Davy Crockett didn't run from his conscience.

We need to follow in the footsteps of men like Crockett in that many of us today don't even know what a conscience is.  The right thing?  Doing that takes too much time and effort.  I'll do it tomorrow . . . or Tuesday . . . or next year.  We become stagnant until it's too late, and by then we really don't care.

Our consciences are powerful things, and we need to listen to them more often.  They're not there to brainwash us, but to steer us onto the correct and proper path.  You may say, "Yeah, but Crockett's got him killed."  Crockett had to live with himself, and had he gone along with the Washington crowd, he would have been a walking dead man, which he knew.  He merely chose the way for him to go, and it turned him into one of America's greatest legends. He knew exactly what he was doing.  Crockett may have lost his life in the long run, but he went out an honest man with a clear conscience.

How many can attest to that?