Posted on 11/09/2012 10:19:09 AM PST by Jeff Head
Late on election night, November 6, 2012...actually probably early in the morning hours of November 7th at the time...well after Ohio and then Virginia were called, and then after listening to the speeches by Romney and Obama, I wrote the following and shared it with friends and groups I frequent.
"God in Heaven has answered our prayers...but not the answer we hoped and prayed for. I have faith in Him, and accept His will. It just means we have to work harder, that we will probably have to endure much more, and that we have to have even more trust in Him during these difficult times. But HE IS IN CHARGE, and He knows what He is doing. God grant that we all stay true and begin to prepare now for the next mid-terms and the next presidential election.
"We must be in this for the long haul...like any parent is with their own loved children, who loves those children and seeks to help them even if they take a different path. That is something we can, and must do.
"Our forefathers who taimed the wilderness, who defeated the mightest military power on earth to gain their independence at the time, who fought several more wars, who fought and survived one of the most horrific and deadly civil wars in history and preserved the Union and our nation, who crossed the plains and mountains subject to starvation and Indian massacre, who suffered through a great depression, who fought two world wars against the mightest forces of evil the earth had yet seen...and defeated them, and who thye spent almost fifty years contending against and defeating an even greater menace, the greatest evil empire in history...those forebearers suffered much for their way of life, for their liberty, and passed the torch on to us. They suffered much more than we have had to ednure to date.
"Now, perhaps it is our turn to face such tests. I ask you, can we abandon the field, the gtreat animiated contest for liberty and let those sacrifices be in vain?
"As God is my witness, I SAY NO! I will not let their scrifice and their life's blood to have been shed in vain. We can continue this fight,,,WE WLL CONTINUE THIS FIGHT as never before!
"We will have to do a lot of educating, praying, writing, canvasing, praying, petitioning, protesting, praying, holding meetings/rallies/get togethers/town halls, picking ourselves back up and dusting ourselves off during setbacks, praying, and absolutely perservering until the battle is won. And it may be our great grandkids and beyond who ultimately win it...and they are and will be watching us...and their own parents are also watching us and what we do during these times of difficulty. What will be said of us? What will the remember? What will be written? How can they cary pon the fight if we ourselfes do not...if they do not see the fire burning even more brightly within us now...then their lights will shine and burn less intense, and ultimately go out.
God forbid! I cannot speak for others, but I will now stoke the fires of liberty in any way I can to burn even more brightly!.
"For their sake and the rising generations after them, I vow before God and man to stand, and to fight, and to never stand down, or give in...to never wiaver or falterwith respect to our precious liberty and unalienable rights!
"As for now...well, thank God we still have the House of Representatives to mitigate the situation. We must hoild their feet to the fire so they do not falter as they stand on the wall, They must know that we stand with them. And should one of them falter (ie. Boehner) then that watchman must be replaced because their duty now, in the face of the Senate, the Presidency, and all the agencies of government and a stacked judiciary, is absolutely critical and they must stand strong.
"God bless America, all of it, and all of our people, and may we perservere and committ ourselves to working even harder for the future of our Republic."
We have been dealt a hard, crushing, depressing, wind-knocked-out-of-you, blow. Many are still figuratively gasping for breath. And that is understandable. The thought that in the wake of what we know about this administrtion and President and its horrific record and actions, that the people would willingly vote to continue it is simply astonishing, and literally breath taking..and it is also mortally dangerous for all of us and our liberty.
But we are not out of the fight. Not by a long shot. 58 million sould voted against it. Millions others stayed home. We simply have to seek God's help, humble ourselves, re-dedicate ourselves and have the steel to devise ways of cutting through the decades-long dumbing down and patronizing of so many segments of our population. We must show them that their best interests are served by individual liberty, responsibility, accountability and less government.
That will be hard to do. In many places across this land, you now have 3rd and 4th generation families who have lived nothing else and believe that the hand-out entitlement state of affairs is the norm. It's how they live day to day. Many do not have parents in the home (if they are lucky enought to have both parents) who understand the foundational values of this nation, or the economic engine and free market upon which it rests. Without parents and relatives and friend to teach them, they are left to a liberal, progressive education systems which all too often attacks and down plays those values and systems, and to an utterly biased media which they watch...when they are not playing video games or watching M-TV, that does the same. To them, anyone who threatens this state of affairs...their way of life...is an enemy.
And the fact is, WE DO! We do threaten that way of life. We do so because that way of life threatenns all us us, including them themselves! We know that that very state of affiars threatens ours...and by extension, their liberty and opportunity for any prosperity, because we are the ones paying for it and we know that it is absolutely unsustainable. It leads off a cliff, which is precisely where the designers of this abject social malware want it to go, so they can sieze all power, control, and wealth for themselves in the crisis and chaos that ensures when it does go over the cliff. They are not stupid, these designers of this state of affairs, and they ar eprepared to continue to push it to the point of having all of us living as serfs while they amass all power and wealth to themselves.
At their heart, that's who the Obama's, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Michale Moore, Geroge Soros, Diane Feinstein, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Maxine Waters, Bill Ayers, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Bill Maher, etc., etc. are. As an example, just look how the Obama's live in the White House. Consider the billion dollars of tax-payer money that went to support their "lifestyle" just over the last year. A life style that had did not include Obama's Presidential duties (mostly campaigning and playing golf), but had them as a family living on one hand like abject royalty during these horrible economic times, while on the other hand they tell the "masses" that they care fo them! Actions speak much, much louder than words.
So, this is how I feel in the wake of this election...of this monumental loss. Hard times, potentially very hard times are coming and may be wholly unavoidable at this point. Times which may well completely humble the entire nation of the dollar goes off the cliff and the entire economy tanks to the point where commerce, banking, and transportation are massively and negatively impacted, because that is a very real potential. Such times, and the chos, social unrest, and upheavels that would go along with it will,. sadly, kill...and they will predominantly kill the poor wretches whohave bought into the idea that government is the cure of all their ills, the great provider. They may never realizie that those very government programs and dependencies which they grasp to as a way of life, are the very weapons that will destroy them.
But, even in the face of those dire, worst case scenarios...we can and must fight on. God in Heaven will open the doors, in His time, for us to restore what He established here in the first place, our Constitutional Republic. We must be ready, and worthy, to step through that door when the times come...one at a time...and grasp our liberty, our blessing and birthright for our children, and their children, and their children. In order to do so, whether it is in the next five years, or fifty, we must educate and train them (our children and grandchildren) to do the same.
Never give in an inch. Make them fight for every bit...and then when given the opportunity, we strike back and take and hold the ground we are given.
As Major General Winfield Scott Hancock said at Gettysburg, upon finding a defenisble positions, "this is good ground,"
May we find that "good ground," in our faith, our commitment to God in Heaven and His fundamental moral principles, and in our willingness to stand up and fight, and also in our willingness to, "Wait upon the Lord," so that we might ultimately, "Rise up as on wings of Eagles."
Jeff Head
November 9, 2012
Emmett, ID, USA
AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
OBAMA'S DISASTEROUS FIRSTS AS PRESIDENT
THE PROGRESSIVE CLASS ENVY TRAIN WRECK
WALKING GUNS WITH AL QUIDA IN BENGHAZI
JOBS NUMBERS AND THIS ADMINISTRATION LIES
“Waver,” you mean. I checked to make sure “waiver” wasn’t a pun, as in “ObamaCare waiver.”
That said, since I couldn’t help myself, I agree. To give up means to stop doing what is right, and to stop fighting for our right to do what is right and to say what is true. I can’t do that.
I do not like the way it turned out,but that is the way the mop flops. But I will be a son of a bitch before I accept or embrace abortion or the homesexual agenda as some have suggested we do. Nor will I accept obama and his beliefs as my President. Whatever that makes me, I will be it.
Ditto.
Borderline...I am afraid you may well be right about losing entoire cities...terrorists could do that...but if the economy really tanks, and transportation and commerce stop, we will lose dozens of cities as they turn into killing fields when there is no food.
I pray we can avoid that...but my point is, either way, we have to do our all to be ready, and we have to keep our faith, so we can be in a position to right it. Either we get another cahnce...with the hill then being all the steeper, or we don;t and it all goes over the cliff.
either way, I am committed to doing all I can to preserving liberty and its blessings for my kids and grandkids and future generations.
Haven't forgotten at all...in fact, if you read my article, my entire point is precisely that we cannot give up, or quit, or throw in the towel because we have to be ready to take the offensive and win.
Amne, my friend, to every bit of that.
I’m with you. You know the most dangerous thing in the world?
An old white man with nothing to loose!
“We must show them that their best interests are served by individual liberty, responsibility, accountability and less government.”
Why? To what end?
This was a nice essay, but has it ever occurred to you that those who oppose us not only disagree with us, they hate us as well?
One of the major strategic mistakes we continue to make is to assume that by some combination of argument or packaging or persuasion, that we can convince the denizens of Sodom that our way is better. They aren’t buying what we’re selling. On Tuesday, we had a stark choice between moderation and radical socialism, between opportunity and a welfare check. The choice was clear and the majority chose radical socialism and a welfare check.
There is no combination of appeals to God, patriotism, nation, decency, logic, altruism, or self-interest that is going to convince people who think that they’re entitled to the fruits of other people’s labor that self-sufficiency is a better path. They. Aren’t. Interested.
At a certain point, Lot had to make the decision: to stay in Sodom and take the consequences, or to follow God and leave Sodom to it’s fate.
“It’s 1934, and we’re Winston Churchill.”
Actually, it’s more like 1917 and we’re the bourgoisie.
There is a group that hate us and all we stand for. Obama knows what he is doing, All those in that poster above in my thread about Marxism are part of that machine.
But there are a lot of Americans who vote who have been taken in...and in order to move forward short of a total train wreck, which I pray we can avoid...but also know it may be too late...we have to educate those people so they understand their true best interst and the ways they are being used. Then they will change their mindset and vote for what is in their best interest. That’s why.
I am not ready to consign 60+ million Americans who voted against the proper principles to hell and view them as mortal enemies.
Those others? Absolutely...and there may not be tens of miliions of them, buth there are a lot of them. Probably number in the high hundreds thousands as a minimum...maybe a million or two at this point.
But they are using the others and we can and should try and reach them. In fact, if we want to defeat them at the ballot box, and, God willing, I still believe we can, we are going to have to find a way to eduate them.
re: “We as a nation made this choice.”
Totally agree with you here.
re: “We prayed, and worked our hearts out, and sought His help...and I believe He gave it...just not in the way we imagine. That’s all.”
I’m with you so far.
re: “He allowed us to make this choice and did not intervene. He has intervened at times in history...but we are not ready for, or His plan does not call for it now.”
Still with you so far.
re: “My point is that whatever case, we have to accept God’s will and work with it and progress from there.”
I accept what happened, but I do not accept that Obama’s winning was necessarily “God’s will”. It might be, but unless He has told you or me through divine revelation, we don’t know if Obama’s win was what God wanted - He allowed it as part of His permissive will, but whether or not He “wanted” Obama and “chose” Obama to be our next president - that I do not know.
re: “He is not molded by our desires, we are modled by His and once we as a people turn to those rightous desires He has for us, we will see progress as a people.”
He is not molded by our desires but He does respond to our free moral choices as He sees fit. We exercise a free moral choice, and, so does God.
re: “In the mean time we do not falter. We continue to work our hearts out for the day that becomes a reality.”
Completely agree with you on this one. Also, Jeff, I hope I don’t sound like a jerk or that I’m trying to attack you, or that I am angry at you. I’m not. I think you are a great American and that you obviously love God and our great country.
Maybe I’m sounding a bit picky, if I do, I don’t mean to be. I just want to be careful with my words regarding God’s will. I think sometimes when we say things like, “God’s in control”, that we need to qualify that a bit because sometimes it sounds like we are saying that whatever happens is God’s will and that every political leader who attains some position was “chosen” by God to be in that position. I just do not believe that. God does allow some people to be placed in positions of leadership by our choice, and does not, for His own purposes, intervene. At the same time, sometimes God DOES choose a particular person to be in a position of leadership by His choice.
An interesting example of this is in the book of 2nd Samuel. I don’t exactly recall the specific chapter, but it is after King Saul has died, and David has returned to Judah and was made King over the people of Judah. We also know at this point that God had anointed David to be the next King over all Israel by the prophet Samuel. However, a man by the name of Abner had his own agenda about all of this and he rebells against God’s clear will that David be king, by encouraging one of Saul’s surviving sons, Ishbosheth, to claim the kingship over the northern tribes comprising what was called “Israel”. You see, Ishbosheth was kind of a weak person and Abner used him as a puppet king while he, Abner, ruled behind the scenes.
Abner even instigated civil war against Judah and David and tried to defeat David to extend Israel’s rule over Judah. It failed because he was fighting against God’s will. My point is, Ishbosheth was crowned king of the people of Israel even though everyone knew that David was called by God to be king. Ishbosheth was rebelling, Abner was rebelling against God’s will. And, it cost them both dearly. Ishbosheth was not supposed to be king of anything - it was against the will of God. God allowed them to rebell, but it did not thwart His ulimate will to make David King over all Israel and Judah - which did occur but only after many people suffered and died because of Abner’s rebellion.
So, I’ve said all this to say that I think we need to be very careful before subscribing God’s will as to why things happen as they do. Also, I think we must be careful when we tell people that “God’s in control” because we might be ascribing some evil act of rebellion to God, when in reality, it was a bad, free moral choice by man. I know that is NOT what you meant, but some people might misunderstand and think you are saying that whatever happens is God’s will and Obama must be the one God wanted us to have as our president. Am I making sense or am I just chasing after nothing?
Borderline,
First, I want to say that I completely understand what you are saying in your cynicism. I vacilate every day since the election between despair and hope. We are all deeply hurting because we are in mourning over the loss of our great nation - like a death of a loved one.
I think Jeff’s point is that giving up is not an option for the true patriot.
Think about what it must have been like at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777. Gen. Washington had no supplies - no food, no warm clothes, no ammunition, and no money to even pay the troops. It is said that you could follow the American army by the blood from their frostbit and frozen feet in the snow. His army was melting away faster than he could replace them through sickness and desertion. The British army was the best trained, the best equipped - literally the super power of the day. There was no hope that we could win.
This was when Thomas Paine coined the phrase “fair-weather” patriot and the phrase, “this was the hour that tried men’s soul’s”.
Borderline, no one is calling you a quiter - you have just been wounded, deeply. I think if you will keep coming back to FR, praying, read your Bible, listen to Rush or Mark Levin, that day by day, slowly maybe, you’ll begin to regain your heart for the republic once again. And, when push comes to shove, you’ll do the right thing.
Tomorrow I may be joining you and digging holes in the basement of despair again, but for today, I’m not going to do that. Hang in there my fellow American. There may be hope yet.
A reminder.
Jeff, both your kindness and thoughtfulness, as always, shows through. The importance of preserving a future for our kids is preeminent. I have preteen kids. And their outlook is grimmer than ever I experienced growing up.
My wife and I own a small business and volunteer at all levels of local services, from assisting in the classroom to sheriff’s SAR, to volunteer EMTs on the local ambulance - all the way down to coaching baseball.
I can do something about things locally. Looks to me like American’s voted to undo America. How do you fight that? In the short term, I personally cannot. I will be part of the force behind renewal, when the day comes. For now, I must *do* positive things. Beating the head on the national wall just left me bloody. Not to mention sick at heart.
Thank you my friend, for your wisdom and heart.
Rick
Sorry, but I won’t vote for another republican for president. Matter of fact I won’t be voting anymore. I live in california. Everything I voted for lost. By a lot!
LOL. That is about his will against evil. Voters who vote for santa will not change for a pep talk.
60 million voted against him but there are 320 million people here. That means about 200 million accept him. About 60 million can’t vote being children, felons and all.
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