Posted on 05/20/2016 7:04:49 AM PDT by raccoonradio
While you were fighting over who should use what bathrooms at Target, we lost our country.
While you were arguing with coworkers over who would leave the country first if Trump/Clinton were elected, the “American Dream” perished.
Don’t believe me? Then perhaps ALL is lost. And I can prove it all to you through the eyes of a child. The screens around our house in the past couple of weeks stand in stark contrast to what’s in front of them.
The television … the laptops … the iPads … the cell phones … filled with images of the attacks around the world. Day in and day out, we hear stories about “refugees” pouring into the United States. Broadcast are the sounds of tone-deaf leaders. Of anger. Of hatred. Of hurt. Of fear.
In front of those screens runs our little daughter. Just over a year old, she’s the greatest blessing a young family can have. She’s filled with innocence, love, joy and our hopes for the future.
But there was a lull in the media noise on Sunday when we attended Mass. Our priest usually preaches about love. Faith. Hope. But there was a different dynamic this week.
There was a different energy.
This time, he talked about the end of times.
Our priest is far from being an alarmist. Just the opposite. But this particular Mass, he spoke deeply and heavily about being prepared. “For we know not the hour … ”
He wasn’t trying to frighten people. But he also understood that he couldn’t be tone-deaf to the deep concerns of his flock.
It’s hard not to be afraid. It’s hard not to have an underlying anxiety. It’s hard not to wonder and pray over whether your children will have the same opportunities you did.
Growing up, I paid close attention in history class. And I’ve always felt a very deep sense of patriotism. I’ve always felt great respect for my country and believed that if, God forbid, we ever faced World War III, America would once again triumph. Perhaps my fear, and the anxiety of so many others, is that we were wrong.
We were wrong because of one simple line that I believe may have been written wrong. It should have read, “One Nation, Divisible After All.”
Have we ever faced a time when our country was so polarized? Have we ever faced enemies so dangerous? Have we ever been on such a precipice that a frightening and painful energy radiated through each of us, tying us together in some disturbing, unifying, powerful and yet simultaneously divisive way?
I’m angered to see that we live in a country where we have gone soft. We’ve become hypocrites, and we’ve become pansies.
We forget that our grandfathers stormed beaches to protect freedom. Instead, we demand that the freedom now come in the form of a shelter from hearing words we don’t like.
We flip out because our $7 coffee comes in a red cup. We cancel concerts and cost people jobs because we don’t agree with a law that the people of the state passed.
We care more about protecting where someone can take a leak than we care about the safety of our children. OUR CHILDREN.
We give out trophies to kids who come in 8th place. Eighth freaking place.
We dig up the graves of people who have been dead for a hundred-plus years because they had something to do with the Confederate flag, and that offends someone NOW.
We say we hate what Democrats have done to the country, so we elect a House and Senate full of Republicans who proceed to also place THEIR heads up their collective asses as well. It seems as if both parties forgot what they were supposed to be doing and whom they are supposed to be representing.
We pick sides and parties and teams and defend them to the ends of the Earth, ignoring the facts, pointing the fingers and hoping someone else will cover the cost of our skyrocketing and borderline pointless health insurance.
We talk about the number of homeless vets who we have to feed and clothe and house when it’s convenient for us to leverage them like pawns in a game – yet tomorrow, so many will forget to feed and clothe and house them.
We ignore the simple facts about our dangerously open borders and the lack of a vetting process for refugees, then we stand in horror as ISIS attacks and we ask our politicians how they could have let this happen. And then, of course, we put a fast lane in for more to cross the border.
We put in place more gun laws to prevent the bad guys from doing bad things. Because for some reason, we believe that bad guys give a damn about laws and that giving them an open shooting range on a military base or school campus will somehow protect our citizens. But then we completely ignore the massive problem of mental health in this country. We’re more worried about the tool than we are the person.
We cry out that police are our enemies … and then we beg them to protect us from the likes of ISIS.
We celebrate court rulings with rainbow flags that speak volumes about how far we’ve come and how inclusive we are as Americans … then we tell our neighbors to remove their American flags and stop saying “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Hanukkah” because it offends us.
We send billions of dollars overseas to help the homeless in impoverished and war-torn nations while we cut the funding for our own food banks and homeless programs.
We get into fistfights about “under-inflated balls” while gorging ourselves on beer and wings at football games … while millions of Americans wonder how they’re going to pay their mortgage and put food on the table for their families.
We fight tooth and nail over whether someone dying of stage four pancreatic cancer should be allowed to use medical marijuana while drugs like heroin are running rampant in our schools.
We teach kids that there should be no boys section or girls section at the store, but our kids notice that we won’t sit down with our neighbor for a beer because they have a different skin color and we’re too busy fighting over what is and isn’t racism. We hold massive rallies demanding $15/hour for flipping burgers … but we sit quietly on the sidelines when our men and women protecting our country who make $11/hour aren’t getting paid because Congress is debating their funding.
We change our profile pictures to colors that represent solidarity with a country that was attacked by terrorists … then we attack our neighbors for being concerned that the same could happen here.
We’re terribly focused on what matters to us as individuals. Marriage. Cell phones. Birth control. On and on and on. We’re so worried about what matters to “me” that we forgot that in order for us to have a “me” … we have to first have an “us.” A safe “us.” A unified “us.” An “us” that can at least find some kind of middle ground.
Tomorrow is a new day. So tonight, before bed, we pray … just a little harder, perhaps, than we’ve prayed before.
We put our daughter to sleep and shut off the television. The internet. The phones. The iPads. All screens but the black and white monitor where we can see nothing but innocence. And for a moment, just one fleeting, precious moment, we’re once again one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
I don’t expect everyone to agree with everything in this article. But if even a piece of it resonated with you, please share it with others and ask them to do the same. It’s time we start having some very difficult and very real conversations. I hope this helps start that.
The choice for president this cycle is stark and obvious. Only a “freaking moonbat idiot” would have to even think about it.
I think he may be too optimistic about the prospects for this country. Seriously.
There are Bernie backers posting on facebook saying “If Clinton wins nomination, I’m writing in Bernie”. President Trump (and I) will thank them for doing so...dilute the anti Trump vote...
That’s right, the choice is clear. But if in 1986 someone would have told me one candidate chooses to let a man use the women’s bathrooms of his buildings, and the other wants to force everyone to that, I would have called them a nut job. I mean come on, this is twilight zone stuff.
Freegards
Not quite yet.
CW-II has not yet started.
Emphasis on “yet”.
Truth is, we’ve lost a little bit more of America ever since Reagan left and left NWO GH Bush in charge of surrendering our sovereignty and making PC acceptable.
Bubba accelerated cultural moral relativity and selling out our technology, GW endorsed Islam as a “Religion of Peace,” while Nero’s shock troops are trying to demoralize and finish us.
ONLY an un-PC, unpredictable, bulls-by-the-horns/damn-the-torpedoes guy like Trump can reverse the insanity-run-amok.
When the foundations are destroyed what can the righteous do, complains the scripture.
I’ve heard a lot of folks talking as though God had been wiped out. This is impossible and such talk is misleading.
However we can blind ourselves to God, throwing faith away, and very easily too. Even in our religious observation — we make it out as though it was all about us and what discerning critics we can be. Rather than about Him, who can raise us to levels of faith and love rooted power that we have only dreamed about before, if considered at all.
I make it no secret that I’m not Roman Catholic and don’t go for some particulars of that belief system. However I posit that the challenge, in a broad sense, remains the same both for them and for the evangelical and Orthodox segments of Christendom. It’s a good thing, granted, to worship Jesus at the temple in spirit and in truth, to the best that the Lord has made possible for us while still mortal and while our aspirations to heaven have yet been incompletely realized. But the ultimate question: can we take Jesus with us from the temple and worship Jesus in the way we walk in the home, the street, the market place?
I’ve seen Christians of all congregations do it, and I’ve seen them muff it. One important thing I wish to posit is that the exercise of Christian faith colors the world. The bible calls it being salt and light. If the world of our neighbors is treating sex as a joke stripped of dignity, could it be because the churches did not appear to do any better in the way they walked, in spite of how they may have officially talked? As a nonbiblical but yet commonly true adage goes, deeds speak more loudly than words do.
No God. No peace.
Know God. Know peace.
Are you still breathing? Then all is not lost.
Many on our side are seeking excuse to give up. Stop it.
And... too many Christians treated secular government as their godfather.
I feel like I’ve been living in the twilight zone since 2008.
Very good - thanks for posting. It says what we’re all thinking and unable to piece it together that well. Well, for me anyway!
The way to beat the opposition is to play their game.
Apply for grants available to women as a man identifying as a woman and claim discrimination if turned down.
Apply as a minority and claim you identify with that race.
This opens up the Negro College Scholarship Fund, the NAACP, .......... If I identify with an animal does that make bestiality legal. Or if I identify as a child....
This gets sick... sorry... But what is good for the goose is good for the gander.
THE QUEERING OF AMERICA ,,,, the latest 0bama agenda issue to tear apart the moral fiber of this country .
Twilight began a lot earlier. Try the fall in the Garden.
Love the statement a Freeper made on another thread.
Kennedy promised to put man on the moon... Obama and Hillary promised to put man in the women’s bathroom!
The way that wins is to inspire the world to God’s game.
I don’t try to volunteer to be on the devil’s team. There is no lack of available labor for this.
And we stopped looking at the moon and started looking at bathrooms.
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