I was thinking recently of how blessed our Country has been...!!!
We have so much to be thankful for in the way of opportunity, prosperity, natural resources, standard of living, freedoms, security, etc...
That is a reality in our beloved Country, The United States...
I believe that that is the major reason my ancestors emigrated to this land over 104 years ago...to give their children opportunities that were not available in their former homeland...This story has been repeated for many other Americans...only the names are different and their respective homelands...
In most cases, the only material possessions they brought with them were the clothes on their back, perhaps a small suitcase, a large steamer trunk, and a few dollars in their pocket...
Everything else they found and accumulated here...
Of course, they brought with them their faiths...Faith in God, and faith in the future in a Country blessed by God...
Over the course of decades, and after several major wars, our new homeland, the USA, was spared bloodshed on our own soil, while at the same time our parents and grandparents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles lives were not spared in the cause of freedom...
Fast forward to this day, this century, this age...
Too many are too willing to rewrite history, too many are no longer proud to be American, too many have forgotten the blood shed in the cause for freedom, too many discount the blessings God has bestowed on our Country, too many don't even believe in God, too many don't know how to handle prosperity, too many even hate our Country and want it to become absorbed into a global community...
That last 'too many' is the key to understanding this post...
Some are even envious of our country and the prosperity that has come to so many of our citizens...for them, ridding the world of wealth and its wealthy would be at the top of their social agenda...
But they deny the blessings in abundance that God has given to us...
We have, beneath our own native soil, more than enough natural gas for all of our current and future fuel and power needs...and probably enough to meet the needs of the rest of the world...
Yet that same spirit of envy, false pride, and selfishness, coated with a decent amount of arrogance, elitism, and ignorance, propels millions to jump on the bandwagon of 'a one world order' movement...a one world government agenda...that, under the guise of conservation and preservation, denies the existence of those precious God given resources, as if 'people', not God, are in control...
At this time of Easter, ponder these things, asking for enlightenment from the God that made you, loved you into existence, and continues to love and nurture you even now...while paying special attention to the media, the secular press, that would love nothing more than to write the last epitaph for the Good Old USA...
Happy Easter to all...!!!
